The film that makes me cry: Up | The film that makes me cry

Film blogThe film that makes me cry This article is more than 8 years oldThe film that makes me cry: UpThis article is more than 8 years oldTess RileyNone can stand before Pixar’s pinnacle of animated tear-jerking, which starts with a deathbed scene and ends with you in a blubbering mess I first saw Up when I was 40,000 feet high in the sky. Unlike the lead character of the animation, however, who travels the world by helium-balloon-powered house, I was on a plane en route to my cousin’s wedding.

Wolves see off Chelsea as Pochettino defends Nicolas Jackson after boos | Premier League

Premier LeagueWolves see off Chelsea as Pochettino defends Nicolas Jackson after boosChelsea fans in the lower tier of the Steve Bull Stand jeered when Nicolas Jackson, their leading goalscorer, was substituted with 10 minutes of regulation time left to pay as Mauricio Pochettino’s side fell to their fourth consecutive away defeat in the Premier League. But their problems lie much deeper than the Senegal forward’s profligacy as they were undone by a Wolves squad who showed what team unity looks like.

Al Hunter Ashton | Media

MediaObituaryAl Hunter AshtonProlific scriptwriter with a constant yearning to actAlthough Al Ashton, who has died aged 49 of heart failure, wrote scripts and acted in television series and dramas for more than 20 years, he never set out to be a writer. He contributed to such series as The Bill, Casualty, EastEnders and Holby City, but seemed in no way destined for this path when, as a school-leaver, he started work at the Longbridge car plant.

Clueless: The Musical review teen movie stage show is a lazy retread

MusicalsReviewPershing Square Signature Center Amy Heckerling has brought her 1995 comedy classic to New York with lively choreography but a disappointing lack of charm The best thing about Clueless: The Musical is that it sometimes reminds you what a fresh, flip delight Clueless the movie was and is. Amy Heckerling’s 1995 comedy, a clever update of Jane Austen’s Emma, buzzes around a high school queen bee. This adaptation, also superintended by Heckerling, is all drone.

Great American Nudes artist Tom Wesselmann was no sexist, say the women in his life | Art

ArtInterviewGreat American Nudes artist Tom Wesselmann was no sexist, say the women in his lifeHermione Hoby in New YorkWarhol and Lichtenstein’s contemporary never saw himself as a pop artist, nor the nudes he painted alongside Coke bottles and bread as mere sex objects, insist his wife, daughter and former model as they meet at his old New York studio Sex is the thing that made the late Tom Wesselmann great, sometimes hated, and an oddity among his pop art peers.

Love in Idleness review Trevor Nunn reveals Rattigan's political divide

TheatreReviewMenier Chocolate Factory, London Eve Best and Helen George star in a production that merges the playwright’s Love in Idleness with its former iteration, Less Than Kind Between August and December 1944, Terence Rattigan radically revised his play Less Than Kind, retitling it Love in Idleness. The standard charge is that Rattigan diluted the earlier version’s politics at the behest of his stars, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Trevor Nunn has now had the bright idea of synthesising the two texts and the result, while undeniably fascinating, also exposes Rattigan’s curiously divided self.

Michael York's battle with amyloidosis

Health & wellbeingWhen actor Michael York found dark rings developing under his eyes it took three years to diagnose amyloidosis, a rare condition that can have fatal consequencesMichael York, the British-born film and stage actor and star of Cabaret, was blessed with youthful skin. He never needed eye makeup for his roles. So when dark rings began to develop, he knew it was something more than lack of sleep. "I wondered whether it was a virus or something innocuous,"

Succession recap: series three, episode eight now thats what you call a cliffhanger

Succession: episode by episodeTelevisionIn the most horrifying episode of the show so far, Shiv and Roman take things too far at the Tuscan wedding, Logan is left incandescent with rage … and then there’s Kendall Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Succession season three, which airs on HBO in the US and Sky Atlantic in the UK. Do not read on unless you have watched episode eight. Wedding bells were ringing.

Tony Rohr obituary | Stage

Tony Rohr in a Joint Stock Theatre Group production of the play The Speakers, 1974. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty ImagesTony Rohr in a Joint Stock Theatre Group production of the play The Speakers, 1974. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty ImagesStageObituaryTony Rohr obituaryActor known for screen roles in The Long Good Friday and Harry’s Game, and as a stalwart of the Joint Stock Theatre GroupThe character actor Tony Rohr, who has died of prostate cancer aged 84, was frequently cast as villains on screen.

Volcano erupts near town of Grindavk in Iceland video | World news

Iceland Volcano erupts near town of Grindavík in Iceland – video A volcano has erupted near the fishing town of Grindavík in south-west Iceland, spewing fountains of molten rock less than a month after a previous eruption in the area. The latest event began early on Sunday morning, hours after authorities evacuated the town. Work had begun to build barriers of earth and rock to prevent lava reaching Grindavík, but it did not appear to have worked