Mid-air refuelling

Cinema / 24 September 2026 Film round-up: September 24, 2026 24 September 2026 MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Heart of the Beast, Sense and Sensibility, Babystar, and Boorman and the Devil

DAVID NICHOLSON thrills to the productions of two bruising operas

PAUL DONOVAN applauds a towering revival of a 1930s boxing drama, written by the US communist Cliff Odets

Chris Searle speaks to veteran US saxophonist GARY BARTZ

ANDY HEDGECOCK enjoys a novel for adults (by a writer of children’s fiction) that examines the fatal impact of a parent’s literary imaginings

ALISON DONNELL extols a virtuoso literary performance that primes the imagination for justice and transformation to come