Category: 5. Entertainment

Hugh Cutting is still sometimes described as a rising countertenor. That should surely now be unconditional. Cutting has risen, almost to the top, and 2025 has been a stellar year. This enthusiastically performed and received recital, a world…

If you listen closely to the start of Wizzard’s yuletide standard I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday, you’ll hear the kerching of a cash register.

The sound might have been “a winning speck of cynicism in the tinselly facade” of 70s…

Emma Truscott

“What I love about this is the simplicity of the premise paired with the sophistication of the execution. The writer turns a border-crossing bike path into a vivid story about the joy of travelling at human…

The midwinter solstice was celebrated with misrule on Sunday 21 December as thousands came together in Penzance to ‘turn the world upside down’. The longest night of the year saw fire, beasts and masked revellers filling the…

“Anything I can do to help?” If ever a line was guaranteed to incense the person in charge of cooking for a crowd, it is this one: uttered in seeming innocence by a guest roused by the sound of clattering pans, and who wants to seem polite…

In no particular order, here are The Conversation’s top five films of 2025 as reviewed by our experts.

1. One Battle After Another

The latest film from director Paul Thomas Anderson follows Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), an ageing hippie…

Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third outing in James Cameron’s blockbuster sci-fi adventure series, has topped the US and Canada box office on its opening weekend.

The latest in the franchise took an estimated $88m (£65.5m), but that was significantly…