The refurbishment of ancient stories with cutting edge visual effects projects current anxieties without thinking about futuristic storytelling - but Tom Duggins asks what might have changed in the last 14 years since the last big take on an Old English classic
David Stubbs looks back at the life and legacy of James Gandolfini, who in his role as Tony Soprano changed our perception of television, and showed us not that criminals are just like us, but we are like the criminals SPOILER ALERT if you've not seen the Sopranos
Jennifer Lucy Allan explains how a childhood love of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's avant-folk duo Mulligan & O'Hare opened her ears to the avant-garde, and realising that the most 'serious' music can often be a total hoot
Eric Obenauf, publisher and editor at the excellent Two Dollar Radio, talks to rightly-celebrated rock critic, writer and — as of this month — novelist, Carola Dibbell about being an out "women's libber" in the male-dominated 70s music-writing scene, the potential for stream-crossing in music criticism and fiction and, of course, her debut novel The Only Ones. (Artwork by Greg Skrtic)