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Lamar Odom on life support is the most tragic twist yet in the unending Kardashian drama
As Khloe Kardashian’s estranged husband lies comatose in hospital, America’s first family are forced to consider the boundary between reality and Reality
Comment & features p2
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Play naked if you really want to, Miley, but it’ll only end in tears
Miley Cyrus is bound to have fun on her forthcoming nude tour. But history shows that Disney wreaks a terrible revenge on its wayward sons and daughters
Comment & features p3
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Hair! Despair! Nightmares! What happened to 1980s metal also-rans?
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: the Metal Years is a tragicomic look at the late-80s ‘hair metal’ scene. Many acts in it were huge; others became so. But not everybody’s rock’n’roll dreams came true
Film and music p4
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Susanne Sundfør: ‘Making Ten Love Songs made me feel naked, without skin’
The punishing workload for her brilliant new album, along with its exploration of extreme love and violent hatred, left the baroque synthpop star physically and mentally ill
Film and music p7
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Director Cary Fukunaga: ‘I thought nothing could be as hard as True Detective, but Beasts of No Nation eclipsed it’
Shooting in Ghana involved malaria, extortion, and near-death experiences. But that paled in comparison with trying to win funding for a ‘black’ film, says the director
Film and music p9
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Hugh Jackman on Pan, Wolverine and his ‘hammy side’
His new film Pan has been panned but the star says he had ‘maybe too much’ fun playing the villain Blackbeard. He talks about reaching peak superhero and why it’s time to hang up his X-Men claws
Film and music p10
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Kevin Bacon on facial hair, strange things he’s found in the woods and Gogglebox
Learning about Towie, Take Me Out and Paul Daniels is all in a day’s work for the Cop Car star. Just don’t ask him about moustaches
Film and music p13
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Jean-Michel Jarre: ‘All the people on my new album are geeks’
Pete Townshend, M83 and Fuck Buttons appear on the electronica pioneer’s latest studio project. He explains how he was ‘vampirised’ by the epic outdoor shows that made him famous
Film and music p15
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The Lobster review – dating satire loses flavour at the tail end
This macabre drama, starring Rachel Weisz and Colin Farrell, about a hotel where single people must find a mate or be turned into a wild animal starts hilariously but loses its bite
Film and music p19
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The Program review – a workmanlike Lance Armstrong biopic
Ben Foster conjures up the disgraced Tour de France cycling champ’s pop-eyed fanaticism in this watchable offering from Stephen Frears
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Censored Voices review – a sombre oral history of the six-day war
In 1967, Amos Oz interviewed Israeli soldiers as they returned victorious from war. This documentary at last lets them explain why they were so depressed
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Pan review – a classic tale is flushed away
Joe Wright’s fantastically dull origin-myth reboot of the Peter Pan story resembles nothing so much as a John Lewis Christmas TV ad
Film and music p21
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SuperBob review – unfocused comedy about a superpowered postman
This silly British comedy concerns a Peckham postie with supernatural powers but no semblance of a love life
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North v South review – Romeo and Juliet caught up in gang war
Despite its semi-interesting premise, a new take on star-crossed lovers, Steven Nesbit’s low-budget Brit gangster flick fails to deliver
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Howl review – humourless werewolves on the loose
A fatal lack of levity spoils this tale of ravenous lycanthropes chewing their way through a train full of commuters
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Rough Cut review – cosmically inept shambles from the UK's Ed Wood
This mind-bogglingly amateurish mess sometimes seems like one big conceptual joke
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Hotel Transylvania 2 review – Adam Sandler returns with fangless sequel
Co-written by Sandler, this is staple, family-oriented cinema fare arriving just in time for Halloween
Film and music p22
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Deerhunter: Fading Frontier review – Bradford Cox's poppiest album yet
The Deerhunter mastermind’s latest musical whims take the band into more straightforward pop territory – but there’s still a deep disquiet to it all
Film and music p23
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Raury: All We Need review – brave but blatant hip-hop preacherman
Raury seems to think he might be able to usher in world peace with his grandstanding debut, but he’s more fun when he lightens up
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Real Lies: Real Life review – lovelorn electropoppers repackage the 90s
London’s Real Lies borrow heavily from 90s pop for metropolitan electro that prowls around the unfashionable edges of city life
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Mariza: Mundo review – relaxed, personal album from fado master
After her overwrought previous album, fado singer Mariza adopts a highly appealing new approach
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John Newman: Revolve review – chest-thumping soul with an inner emptiness
Young Yorkshireman John Newman doesn’t let enough of himself into his new album, resulting in an oddly blank experience
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Tori Kelly: Unbreakable Smile review – big-voiced, self-absorbed funk-pop
Tori Kelly’s incessant ‘be true to yourself’ exhortations start to sound oddly passive-aggressive over the course of her debut album
Film and music p24
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Majical Cloudz: Are You Alone? review – surreal and beguiling pop
Adding absurdist moments to the sadness of being alone in a crowd, Devon Welsh and Matthew Otto provide a bewitchingly awkward intensity
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Jean-Michel Jarre: Electronica 1: The Time Machine review – pop goes the master
Working in person with A-list electronic music guests including Massive Attack and Laurie Anderson brings a freshness to Jarre’s soaring washes of sound
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Brad Mehldau: 10 Years Solo Live review – virtuosity and ingenuity in five hours of solo piano
Organised according to mood, motive and structure, this formidable torrent of acoustic piano improvisation is full of gems – a collector’s piece
Film and music p25
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Music for Wimpole Hall CD review – stylish choral singing
Thomas Tudway is not in the same league as his contemporary Purcell, but his pieces here are given spirit by lively playing
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Arias for Benucci CD review – Matthew Rose's fine tribute to Mozart's star baritone
Baritone Matthew Rose is hugely impressive, capturing succinctly characters from Mozart, Salieri and Sarti operas
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Bach; Beethoven; Rzewski: CD review – Levit's collection of Variations is nervelessly accomplished
An impressive performance of three huge sets of variations that manages to seem deeply considered and carefully planned, yet still feels spontaneous
Film and music p27
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The Trip to Italy box set review: fabulous food, funny jokes, and a few middle-aged man worries
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon bring James Bond, Ronnie Corbett, Michael Caine and many more along for the ride on their open-top culinary tour of Italy
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Call Chelsea Peretti review: she welcomes her callers warmly – but beware, she’s easily bored
The Brooklyn Nine-Nine star drags her podcast out of the doldrums with songs, deadpan put-downs and news of a rabbit revolution
TV and radio in G2 p28
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Harvest 2015 review: a big thumbs-up to all that agricultural business
Thanks to the cabbage stem flea beetle, we had a real cliffhanger ending to the harvest season
TV and radio in G2 p29
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Friday’s best TV: TFI Friday, The Returned and Music for Misfits
Will Chris Evans still be cutting-edge in his Friday-night comeback? Who is plotting murder inside the Vatican? And why does Michael Portillo enjoy his trip on the Orient Express so much? Plus more French zombie action in The Returned and how the major labels hijacked indie music
