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Too sharp to touch • A supercar classic roars back, now available as a hybrid

Laughter in the dark • The comedies of Adam McKay have become bleaker as the world has gone the same way. His next film, a climate-crisis satire, is his most absurd, and frightening, so far

It’s (still) hip to be square • Bell & Ross covers all the angles

Soft furnishings • Fred Rigby’s designs are inspired by the gentle beauty of his native Dorset

Modern nature • Erdem’s first menswear collection makes the case for elegant understatement

Cool wash • A British ‘lifestyle care’ company is here to make laundry day more stylish

Raising the bar • A gang of irreverent young chefs is bringing refinement — and fun — back to pub grub

Taking flight • For Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story revival, choreographer Justin Peck steps into the slippers of the legendary Jerome Robbins, to make an American classic his own

Setting the tone • Bang & Olufsen makes white products (not white noise)

Winning formula • Isn’t the phrase ‘classic trainers’ an oxymoron? Not if you’re wearing the Air Jordan 1

Vest in show • The once donnish tank top is suddenly a high-style staple

Bonsai scissors! • Gardening tools don’t come any more raref ied, or beautiful, than those on sale at a new London shop

Sleeper hit • This winter, submit to the cosy elegance of the robe

Big time • In Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright’s new chiller, Thomasin McKenzie enters the dark side of 1960s Soho

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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH NEEDS TO WORK ON HIS BANJO GAME • But he does know how to whittle. And stack hay. And paint cats. And if you ask nicely, he might make a shoe for your horse. With four new films ready for release, from Marvel spectaculars to intense dramas, cinema’s most distinctive — and best prepared—leading man has had a productive pandemic

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I DON’T WANT TO BE RIGHT • Twenty years after his era-defining masterpiece, The Corrections, the author’s latest novel, Crossroads, the first in a trilogy about the travails of a white middle-class family in the American Midwest, might be the least fashionable book of the year. So how come it’s so hard to resist?

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