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The cult art magazine returns for its fifth year, just in time for the witching season. Spooky!
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The role of posters in video game worldbuilding
Symbolic of a larger universe, video game posters provide the gateway to a more expansive world.
Gerry’s Pompeii needs your help! ‘Outsider art’ collection left in social housing flat faces council takeover.
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TikTok maestros weigh in on celebrity accounts
Lewis Capaldi, Cardi B, Will Smith and Ed Sheeran have all joined TikTok. We ask three pro-creators to review their viral dance challenges.
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.)
Lessons in love with André Aciman
We fell in love with the pages of Call Me by Your Name back in 2007, and with it again on-screen in 2017. Now, Aciman reunites Elio and Oliver in Find Me, which begs the question: does true love ever die?
‘Nearness’ is a visual celebration of colour, identity and culture
Bianca Saunders’ first collaborative exhibition brings Black History Month to a close in style.
‘Beanpole’: giving queer desire a voice in Soviet Russia
Review: Russia's Cannes winner is a moving exploration of forbidden love.
The show always goes on at Sylvia Young
The Face went backstage to meet the rising stars at the institution renowned for its ability to churn out A* A-listers on repeat.
Tense, mad, surreal, beautiful: is ‘Monos’ the film of the year?
Review: Alejandro Landes’ survivalist thriller follows a group of teenage soldiers guarding a hostage in the South American wilderness.
‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ is a love letter to a changing city
Starring Jimmie Fails, as a fictionalised version of himself, the film chronicles the gentrification of the city through the eyes of those who have felt it the most.
‘Fallout 76’: the video game saved by its community of fans
Fallout 76 looked to be dead in the water until a group of roleplayers got together to create the experience they wanted all along. In doing so, they saved the game itself.
“The culture of the age is temporary, casual, job-to-job for working class kids”
Director Ken Loach on the crisis – and the kids – at the heart of his brilliant, vital new film, Sorry We Missed You.
Ken Loach’s new teen talent
Volume 4 Issue 001: Sorry We Missed You stars Katie Proctor and Rhys Stone take it from Tyneside to the Cannes Croisette.
Industrial light and magic
The work of Los Angeles’ artist Sterling Ruby is informed by the city’s manufacturing past and the potential of “the best waste and scrap” he finds on his workshop doorstep.
What went down at Frank Ocean’s club night, PrEP+
If you like a lot of grinding on your Thursday, join Frank’s club.
Extreme celebrity stalking in the digital age
In a novel new case, a man was arrested after discerning his idol’s location by zooming into high-res photos of her eyes. But is this the new normal?
Shooting from the hip
How Corinne Day captured the uninhibited spirit of ’90s London from her Soho flat.
The red and the black: exploring the leather jacket in video games
Two different jacket hues. Two distinct flavours of video game protagonist.
Cloud gaming: will it ever catch on?
With the launch of Google Stadia and Microsoft's xCloud on the horizon, is a Netflix-style gaming service the future for gamers?
An acting star is born in ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’
Review: Newcomer Zack Gottsagen demonstrates that disability needn’t stop you from fulfilling your dreams and the Shia LaBeouf comeback continues apace.
“We were just celebrating people being people”
Preston is my Paris zine is transforming its decade-long work into a book, for your viewing pleasure.
Maleficent Man, King’s Man, Tomorrow’s Man
From Beach Rat to Disney Prince: the remarkable rise of Harris Dickinson, east London’s next acting star.
