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Cairn est un jeu vidéo au sommet de son art

Voilà bien longtemps que Cairn nous avait tapé dans l'œil avec sa sublime direction artistique. Après une démo durant l'été 2025, ce coup de cœur initial se mua en curiosité prudente à la découverte d'un gameplay aussi singulier qu'exigeant. Maintenant que j'ai planté mon drapeau au sommet de cette montagne de créativité, je peux l'écrire sans détour : Cairn est une aventure hors norme.

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Cairn est un jeu vidéo au sommet de son art

Voilà bien longtemps que Cairn nous avait tapé dans l'œil avec sa sublime direction artistique. Après une démo durant l'été 2025, ce coup de cœur initial se mua en curiosité prudente à la découverte d'un gameplay aussi singulier qu'exigeant. Maintenant que j'ai planté mon drapeau au sommet de cette montagne de créativité, je peux l'écrire sans détour : Cairn est une aventure hors norme.

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Blood, butter and boys in luv: BTS’s 20 best songs – ranked!

As the superstar K-pop boyband prepare for their first album in three years – after its members completed their military service – we count down the best of their toothsome pop

At the start of their career, BTS were marketed as a cross between a Korean idol band and a blinged-out rap act: “Our life is hip-hop,” offered band member Suga early on. No More Dream is actually far tougher-sounding than you might expect: the vocals growl, the backing blares, the double-bass sample that drives the intro is great.

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© Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

© Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

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Why US cinemagoers are dressing as Jimmy Savile to see 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

The disgraced and despised British entertainer’s distinctive look is trending among some film fans on TikTok. Should somebody tell them what he did?

When British people think of Jimmy Savile, it isn’t typically as someone whose style to admire. But at screenings of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the latest film in the 28 Days Later franchise which was released this month, that does seem to be what some US filmgoers are thinking.

In the film, a murderous cult known as “the Jimmies” stalk the ruins of post‑apocalyptic Britain. Led by Sir Jimmy Crystal, played by Jack O’Connell, the sect are instantly recognisable for their cheap tracksuits, bleached blonde wigs and particular mannerisms.

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© Photograph: Miya Mizuno/2025 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **ALL IMAGES ARE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC.

© Photograph: Miya Mizuno/2025 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **ALL IMAGES ARE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC.

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Tyler Ballgame: For the First Time, Again review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Rough Trade)
The much-hyped LA singer – who has been compared to Tim Buckley, Elvis and more – certainly has a beautiful voice, though he can lean too eagerly on his influences

Scrolling back through Tyler Ballgame’s Instagram posts is a striking experience. Barely a year ago, they largely comprised flyers for – and cameraphone footage from – gigs in tiny Los Angeles bars, the kind that make as much virtue out of the fact that entry is free as of who’s playing: one bills his performance alongside a vintage clothes market and “tarot readings”. A support slot with a minor jam band called Eggy is a very big deal indeed; the news that he’s playing a show in London is greeted with disbelief: “What,” asks one baffled correspondent, “does London know of Ballgame?”

Things changed dramatically over the ensuing 12 months. Not long after his first trip to London, a video of him performing live at a Los Angeles bar called the Fable began circulating online. By the time he came back to the UK to perform at Brighton industry showcase the Great Escape, he had signed to Rough Trade. Critical hosannas began raining down on Ballgame: he has variously been compared to Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, Jim Morrison and Tim Buckley.

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© Photograph: Rough Trade Records

© Photograph: Rough Trade Records

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Don McCullin review – shattered stone heads and severed limbs echo the horrors he saw in war

Holburne Museum, Bath
The feted photographer’s latest exhibition starts with images of ancient scultures depicting devotion and violence, before moving to war pictures and brooding Somerset landscapes

Few people have seen as much horror as Don McCullin. The feted photographer, now 90, witnessed major conflicts and disasters up close for decades. You can only imagine, through his widely published black and white pictures, how that might have affected him.

McCullin’s latest exhibition, Broken Beauty at the Holburne Museum in Bath, begins with four recent pictures of ruined Roman sculptures. These images – the white ruins photographed against black backgrounds so they float – are reminiscent at first of museum postcards, representations of representations that refer to ancient history and myths of fatal ambition, desire and domination. There’s a crouching Venus, her arms missing and head half-shattered. A hermaphrodite struggles to get away from a lascivious satyr. A headless Amazon and the Roman emperor Commodus, known for his uninhibited cruelty, are fighting on horseback. Their pockmarked surfaces and broken limbs suggest the collapse of the great empires, the fragility of ideals that are obliterated by time, like marble.

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© Photograph: Don McCullin/courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

© Photograph: Don McCullin/courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

© Photograph: Don McCullin/courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth

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Beckham: Family at War review – 30 breathlessly ridiculous minutes

Channel 4’s baffling documentary consists of a lorryload of content creators flapping their hands while providing no new information or insight. A triumph of noise for noise’s sake

By now, the fallout from Brooklyn Beckham’s Instagram broadside against his parents has reached a point of total saturation. There have been news reports, memes, obsessive TikTok deep dives and newspaper thinkpieces covering the story from every conceivable angle. “Brooklyn Beckham is doing his best” said the New York Times. “It’s time to believe adult children when they speak out against their toxic parents,” said BuzzFeed. “The Beckham family feud is every mother’s worst nightmare,” said the Independent. And on it went.

So you have to respect Channel 4 for gazing out across this exhausting event horizon of a story and identifying a gap in the market. Until now, nobody has managed to turn the Beckham family drama into a shrill 30-minute primetime documentary where a lorryload of content creators flap their hands while providing no new information or insight. Thanks to Beckham: Family at War, that gap has been filled. Congratulations, everyone.

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