Craig McLean

Life

The Dry January taste test

From Italian premium lager to a jazzy Norwegian IPA, from Brewdog to Brooklyn, from drinkables to edibles… presenting The Face’s superbowl of no-alcohol beers.

Culture

1917: anthem for doomed youth

Forget Firth and Cumberbatch. Sam Mendes’s award-winning First World War blockbuster is all about the young actors on a life-or-death mission between the trenches – and Dean-Charles Chapman is the Essex lad leading from the front.

Culture

Making a murderer: Freddie Fox on his new role as Jeremy Bamber

The White House Farm killings – which saw Bamber convicted of shooting dead his family at the age of 24 – were one of the most notorious British crimes of the Eighties. How does an actor prepare for that kind of role – especially when, 34 years later, the murderer still insists he’s innocent?

Life

Inside Hackney’s secret CCTV bunker

Volume 4 Issue 002: The Face spent a night in the hub where the London borough’s dealers, flashers and murderers are caught on camera. But is CCTV really “Caring for the Community Through Vigilance”?

Society

Crisis at Christmas

Hundreds of turkey crowns, buckets of cranberry sauce, bacon sarnies, football tournaments, haircuts, eye tests, showers, tellies and a warm, dry bed for a night or two: how the homelessness charity is helping thousands of rough sleepers this festive season.

Music

The Tao of Pharrell

The Face met with legendary hitman Pharrell Williams and Beats by Dre president Luke Wood for a special recording studio sit-down in Miami.

Music

Who the hell is Gerry Cinnamon?

He’s the biggest, most secretive British musician you’ve possibly never heard of. And, after breaking records, he’s now breaking his interview silence here.

Culture

Heeeere’s Ewan!

Starring in a sequel to The Shining, one of the greatest horror films of all time? Or going back to Scotland to shoot the follow-up to Trainspotting? Ewan McGregor reveals which scared him most. (Clue: it was the one with all the drugs.)

Music

An encounter with Mr Noel Gallagher

On the agenda: his spacey new direction, the need for a live scissors player, the importance of Vossi Bop, milking dry the Oasis cash cow and no questions about Liam (but we asked anyway).

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