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Parental guilt springs from an inexhaustible source. Even if your kids go to sleep every night safe, clean and fed, there’s still plenty to beat yourself up about. Are they creative enough? Excelling enough? Getting enough Vitamin D to stop their bones from crumbling like Oxo Cubes and their adult teeth from coming in like a splayed hand of playing cards?

Are you, in short, doing everything you can to give them The Best Possible Childhood?

In online parenting circles, The Best Possible Childhood has recently had a rebrand. Bloggers have looked with concern at the device-blue light illuminating the faces of kids who hiss like a pointy-toothed Bilbo Baggins hissing for the One True Ring whenever an attempt is made to separate them from their phone. They’ve decided that what today’s kids need is what they had: the 1990s.

In an act of collective amnesia, or...

We have the first trailer for Max Minghella’s debut as a writer-director, Teen Spirit, and I am here for it. I mean, I have questions, for sure. Like, why is the marketing push so heavily focussed on the fact that Elle Fanning will be singing covers of very mainstream pop hits? Is that a thing the world has been clamoring for? And if this is a spin on Cinderella, does that make Rebecca Hall the fairy godmother? Also, I have this (probably totally misbegotten) idea that debut films from writer-directors are intensely personal, so why is Minghella’s first film a retelling of Cinderella in which Elle Fanning sings a lot of covers of mainstream pop hits? I would like to sit down and talk to him about that for seven to twelve hours.

All of that aside, from the trailer this looks like pretty much my platonic ideal of a film,...

Charli Xcx and Troye Sivan relive the Nineties in their reference-packed video for collaboration “1999.” Xcx recently joined Sivan at his sold out Radio City Music Hall show in NYC to perform the song together for the first time.

The video opens with Xcx in 2018, getting into a Lyft and texting with a friend. As she’s in the car, she’s fully transported to the year 1999, embodying various pop culture moments of that year. She’s seen dressed as the Spice Girls, TLC’s Left Eye and Steve Jobs while Sivan appears as Justin Timberlake,...

Den Of Geek Dec 22, 2017

Doctor Who, Game Of Thrones, The Handmaid’s Tale, Twin Peaks… Did your favourite TV episode of 2017 make the cut?

Earlier this month, thirty of Den Of Geek's writers nominated up to five of their favourite television episodes of the year, ranked in order of preference. Points were allocated. Favourites emerged. And the sanity of the site's TV editor was offered once again as a festive sacrifice to the God of Microsoft Excel worksheets.

See related The Den of Geek Christmas 2017 UK TV and radio guide Amazon Prime UK: what’s new in January 2018? New on Netflix UK: what's added in January 2018?

Proof if ever it was needed that there’s a great deal of excellent TV out there, over eighty individual episodes were nominated in 2017—a record high since we've een polling writers. (Anecdotally, this is also the first year not a single episode of...

Eight-piece boybands, middle-aged men dressed as Egyptians getting honey rubbed on their chests, Louis Walsh being... Louis Walsh. Yes, this series of X Factor might not have been the most thrilling, but even in a non-vintage year, there has been plenty to laugh at and enjoy.

This evening's final features Fleur East, Ben Haenow and Andrea Faustini battling for the prize of a record contract and the chance to hit the charts in time for Christmas. All the betting and polls seem to suggest that it's a one-horse race with Fleur running away with it, but The X Factor has thrown up surprises in the past, so nothing can be ruled out.

The X Factor: Find out Andrea, Ben and Fleur's final songs

The X Factor: 10 things we learned from the final press conference

The live final is always a spectacular affair, with hordes of special guests over the weekend (Sheeran!

Eight-piece boybands, middle-aged men dressed as Egyptians getting honey rubbed on their chests, Louis Walsh being... Louis Walsh. Yes, this series of X Factor might not have been the most thrilling, but even in a non-vintage year, there has been plenty to laugh at and enjoy.

This evening's final features Fleur East, Ben Haenow and Andrea Faustini battling for the prize of a record contract and the chance to hit the charts in time for Christmas. All the betting and polls seem to suggest that it's a one-horse race with Fleur running away with it, but The X Factor has thrown up surprises in the past, so nothing can be ruled out.

The X Factor: Find out Andrea, Ben and Fleur's final songs

The X Factor: 10 things we learned from the final press conference

The live final is always a spectacular affair, with hordes of special guests over the weekend (Sheeran!