Madonna, ‘looking preposterously beautiful’, says Churchwell, in Dolce & Gabbana’s advertising campaign. It seems that older women are being celebrated by our society at last – or so we’re being told. A raft of recent stories have assured women that it is no longer... 

© FayesVision/WENN After treating fans with “sensual” feel through first single “Ride” which features Ludacris, now Ciara takes her devotees to the dance floor with an up-tempo track “Gimme That”. She declares her return, “I’ve... 

Death by cuts … the UK Film Council backed films such as Gosford Park It was nothing short of a hammer blow. This morning, word came through of John Woodward’s email to UK Film Council staff informing them that the government was planning to shut them down. Then the Department for... 

Up-and-down relationship … Sarah Polley as Elsa in Splice. As the late Kenny Everett would have said, “It’s all in the best possible taste.” Vincenzo Natali, director of the cult 1997 mystery Cube, has confected a bizarre black-comic horror, a cross-breed mutant Frankenfilm... 

Ben Fogle… sunny, deep and, er, adventurous. Photograph: Nils Jorgensen / Rex Features It’s a very revealing programme, With Great Pleasure (Tuesdays, Radio 4, 11.30am) – or maybe Ben Fogle is just a very open person. He certainly has an honest complexion. The adventurer launched...