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TV tonight: Sally Wainwright’s furious drama about a menopausal punk band | Television & radio

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Riot WomenSunday, 9pm, BBC One“Do you think women of a certain age become, you know, invisible?” Teacher Beth (Joanna Scanlan) gave her best years to her family – and now both her husband and son have left her feeling disposable. She’s also caring for her mother, who has dementia. But Beth’s world is about to be shaken up by a group of fellow menopausal women who want to start a punk band for the local talent show: “And you thought the Clash were angry?” Sally Wainwright’s new comedy drama feels her most personal and urgent. It’s wonderfully warming and wickedly…

My cultural awakening: ‘Kate Bush helped me come out as a trans woman’ | Kate Bush

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It wasn’t safe for me to discover The Sensual World, the eponymous track on what Kate Bush described as her “most female album”. The song was intended to be a rejection of the masculine influence that had unwittingly shaped the artist’s previous work, and an ode to something taboo within the female experience. Based on Molly Bloom’s soliloquy in James Joyce’s Ulysses – a stream of consciousness in which the character reflects on her experiences of nature, sex and love – Bush wanted to celebrate the experience of life inside a woman’s body, and the ways it gives her spiritual and…

Triple Trouble: Fairey, Hirst, Invader review – the most revolting visual soup imaginable | Art

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You’ve heard of the best of both worlds, well get ready for the worst of three. Down in Vauxhall in London, three artists have mashed themselves together to create the most revolting visual soup imaginable, an exhibition that isn’t so much the sum of its parts as a total negation of anything good any of them has ever done.Whatever qualities YBA kingpin Damien Hirst and street artists Shepard Fairey and Invader might have, none of them are on display in this staggeringly vast exhibition – it just goes on and on, huge room after huge room filled with aesthetic crap.Triple…

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79 | Diane Keaton

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Diane Keaton, one of the best-loved film stars of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 79 in California.The news was confirmed by People magazine. Further details are not available at this time and her loved ones have asked for privacy, according to a family spokesperson.Keaton’s death came as a shock across Hollywood and the rest of the world. The actor had not been in the public eye for some months, but no illness had been announced.Bette Midler, Keaton’s co-star in The First Wives Club, said on Instagram: “The brilliant, beautiful, extraordinary Diane Keaton has died. I…

Exe Men review – entertaining rugby drama tackles triumph of underdogs Exeter Chiefs | Theatre

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Driving to this theatre, I passed signs to Sidmouth and Tiverton, more known for West Country charm than sporting supremacy. They are namechecked early in a play about the region’s recent rugby union history to make the point that, in the early 80s, Exeter used to lose to neighbourhood clubs considered minnows.Exe Men is adapted by Ashley Pharoah from Guardian rugby writer Robert Kitson’s 2020 book. It shows how an ambitious investor, Tony Rowe, and enterprising coach, Rob Baxter, renamed the club the Exeter Chiefs and made them the best in England and then Europe. The Chiefs were the Seabiscuit…

Emma Doran: ‘When I was growing up, a woman’s biggest compliment would be that she was immaculate’ | Stage

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How did you get into comedy?I was on maternity leave and, looking back, I may have been having a manic episode. I’d had a long string of admin jobs that I hated. Usually, it was the case that I didn’t know what my job was and nobody else did either. When I was 29, I thought: “I haven’t really done anything creative or put myself out there. Here I am with two kids, what am I doing?” So I signed up for an open mic night. I wasn’t going into comedy for the money – I wanted to see if…

‘I’m going to write about all of it’: author Chris Kraus on success, drugs and I Love Dick | Books

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Chris Kraus regards the late success of her first book, I Love Dick, with ambivalence. A work of autofiction, first published in 1997, it chronicles Kraus’s infatuation with a cultural theorist named Dick, a doomed, one-sided love affair that nonetheless pulls Kraus, a depressed, 39-year-old failing film-maker languishing in a sexless marriage, out of her personal and artistic rut. After a slow start, the book became a cult classic and in 2016 it was made into an Amazon Prime Video TV series, with Kraus played by Kathryn Hahn. “To me, success would have been like a long review in the…

‘Rock stars would be like, Yeah, bring the kid in’: Cameron Crowe on his wild years as a teenage music journalist | Cameron Crowe

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Cameron Crowe has a vivid memory of the day he began filming his own life story. It was the summer of 1999 and he was back in his home city of San Diego, on the same streets where he had spent his surreal teenage years, flitting between suburban domesticity and his new life as a prodigious music writer, spending long weeks in the company of such 1970s gods as David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, the Allman Brothers and Led Zeppelin.Shooting was about to begin on a scene in which his 15-year-old self – renamed “William Miller” and played by the unknown actor…

‘Verging on unwatchable’: Guardian writers on their most stressful movies | Film

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FallThe only movie I have literally had to take breaks from in order to give my sympathetic nervous system time to downshift out of flight or flight mode, Scott Mann’s 2022 psychological thriller Fall is brilliant in its simplicity. Thrill-seeking climbing influencer Hunter convinces her bestie Becky to do a little immersion therapy after her husband Dan’s sudden death during a climb leaves her fearful, depressed and suicidal. The goal: to climb a decommissioned TV transmission tower deep in the California desert that’s roughly twice the height of the Eiffel Tower. When the rickety ladder that gets them to a…

TV tonight: a French psychological thriller about a ‘perfect’ nanny | Television & radio

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The Intruder9pm, BBC FourA claustrophobic “don’t trust the perfect nanny!” psychological French thriller from the creators of Paris Police 1900. When wealthy mother of three Paula (Mélanie Doutey) returns to work, she and her husband hire Tess (Lucie Fagedet) to be a live-in au pair. But too-good-to-be-true Tess soon starts to unsettle Paula, who is left feeling – and looking – like she can’t handle being a working mother. Hollie RichardsonThe Celebrity Inner Circle5.20pm, BBC OneA gameshow in which celebrity-civilian pairings are put through convoluted rounds containing impossible-to-follow rules, while host Amanda Holden screams “You little shafters!” at them. This…