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Gabi Butler: “I was basically cheering out of the womb”
Winning is everything for the break-out star of Netflix’s docuseries Cheer. The Navarro College champion weighs in on the dedication required to make it big in the high-risk, high-energy world of cheerleading.
Locke & Key star Connor Jessup has supernatural charm
The 25-year-old actor plays the lead in the new Netflix fantasy series. Here he discusses grief, magic, and coming out.
Sasha Lane: “You have to tell your inner voice to shut up”
The 24-year-old actress on horror, toxic masculinity and her role in psychological thriller Daniel Isn’t Real.
Cowpuncher My Ass lassos its way back onto centre stage
The gender-fluid stage tale featuring heroes, heroines, infidelity and obsession is a choreographed force from Holly Blakey.
Danger wanks! Masturbation in horror cinema
From Psycho to The Lighthouse, the horror genre is full of wankers. But the act of pole-stroking is far from just a punchline.
Queen & Slim: lovers on the run
Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith, the film’s British stars, interviewed together on filming together – and hitting Mardis Gras.
Global culture calendar: February
A month packed full of stuff worth getting out of bed for.
Charli and Dixie D’Amelio are the CEOs of TikTok
The story of how two teen girls came to dominate the video-sharing app by dancing the Renegade.
Joe Sweeney’s +44 Leave a Message for Europe gets the film treatment
Last year the London-based artist planted a phonebox in Dungeness, Kent for Brexiteers, Remainers and those in the foggy middle to leave anonymous messages for Europe. They’ve been collected and compiled into a film. Watch it here.
Floria Sigismondi and Lawrence Rothman on conquering Hollywood
One is a non-binary musician, songwriter and performer, the other is a boundary-pushing filmmaker working in male-dominated industry. Together they’re making creative history.
Makoto Shinkai releases his new anime blockbuster
Review: Fans of paperback teen fiction, Fall Out Boy and Conor Oberst will recognise the cloying tenor that characterises much of Weathering With You.
An exclusive look at Supreme’s new book
The photographic anthology featuring images from Larry Clark and BTS with Murakami, dropped on 29th January. Have a sneak peek of what’s inside here.
Lidia Yuknavitch’s peripheral worlds
Review: Yuknavitch’s debut short fiction collection, Verge, is a study of characters on the margins of society – and reality – as we know it.
Derek Jarman’s cottage is under threat
Help Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Deller, Wolfgang Tillmans and more in preserving the legacy of Britain’s influential gay artist.
Inside London’s first DragCon
Photographer Alexander Coggin gets up close and personal with RuPaul and your favourite on-screen queens.
Paris fashion week after hours
Forget the looks yo-yoing up and down the runway, this is what people were wearing in Paris after dark when the shows were done.
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re A Girl)
The inspiring Oscar-winning and BAFTA-nominated short film that shows what it says in the title.
The music-fashion hybrid zine putting a futuristic spin on nostalgia
Musician and producer Surkin discusses his new zine GENER8ION – with entries from Matthew Williams and Keizo Kitajima – and a forthcoming “optimistic dystopian sci-fi project” in collaboration with director Romain Gavras.
Taylor Russell: the indie-film breakout for 2020
Volume 4 Issue 2: The 25-year-old Canadian actor on making waves and making Waves.
Spilling the tea with the people behind the Love Island contestants’ Instagram accounts
The friends and family of Leanne Amaning, Paige Turley and Shaughna Phillips tell us who’s been hitting up their DMs (apart from us).
Comedians Cat and Pat get ready for fame, glory and the apocalypse
The stars of the beloved Seek Treatment podcast paid a premature visit to The Face House in Miami.
Sexcess all areas: how Laurie Nunn creates Sex Education
As it returns for a second season, the writer of Netflix’s hit comedy-drama explains how she brings her show – and her brilliant characters – to a climax on repeat.
Bong Joon Ho on his multi-Oscar nominated masterpiece Parasite
The movie has made Academy Awards history as the first-ever Korean nominee for best picture. As Beth Webb finds, a large contribution to the film’s success, it seems, is a love for the director himself.