Culture

In dog years, you’re dead

What dogs dying in movies tell us about our own mortality.

What ‘The Bachelorette’ has done for tourism

The show’s contestants often end up in some far-flung destination. But has Bimini, Latvia or that sex windmill in Greece received a boost in tourism since being featured? Tricia Gilbride investigates.

The Memory Police warns of dystopic policing and the loss of agency

Review: Yōko Ogawa’s novel is a terrifying story about memory, erasure and trauma.

How the art director of ‘The Doom Generation’ created its look

Art director Michael Krantz recalls the head-spinning days of putting together the sets for Gregg Araki’s Gen X road movie.

The definitive summer movies list

Sweat your way through the dog days of summer with these extremely seasonal movies.

Jeff Goldblum: “Be yourself, whatever that is”

The actor is in a new film called The Mountain, a slow burn about a doctor and his assistant who travel across the country and perform lobotomies.

Global art calendar: August

Curator, writer and art-lover Shonagh Marshall has edited a list of this month's must-see exhibitions.

Jeremy Deller: “It wasn’t all about drugs”

The Turner Prize-winning artist explores the cultural significance of rave and acid house in his documentary Everybody in the Place.

The Tez O’Clock Show sticks two fingers up at political correctness

A brown comedian fills Channel 4’s prime comedy slot! Could the next wave of British Asians since Bend It Like Beckham be hitting our screens?

The untold story of young Jeff Goldblum “playing piano for that ass”

The beloved actor and jazz musician reminisces on his teen years smashing… the ivories in Pittsburgh.

What Kiki’s Delivery Service tells us about burnout

The Studio Ghibli film turns 30 this week, but continues to reverberate with a relevant message of what happens when we overextend ourselves at work.

Superfan: Beth Ditto as Divine

Introducing Superfan, our new series in which a contemporary icon meets the classic, like a green tea-infused four-finger Kit Kat.

Ever watched ‘Britney Ever After’ and felt zero pangs of guilt?

Philippa Snow investigates the thrilling ingredients of Lifetime’s campy, celebrity downfall biopics.

Into the void with New York’s most talked about comedian

Catherine Cohen is the acid-smart cabaret comedian blowing-up every “one to watch” list.

Jamie Bell plays a neo-Nazi in ‘Skin’, his best performance to date

The actor is unrecognisable as a tatted up, tough-talking skinhead – trying to abandon a life of hatred – in this must-watch film.

The Big Mood: the ‘Cats’ trailer

One week, one mood: Moya Lothian-Mclean’s deep-dive into the feel of the week.

Death and the videogame

From the danse macabre to Charon the boatman, video games are reinventing myths about dying.

Revelations 002: Little Simz

In our second episode, the rapper busts a move, thinks about her favourite sandwich and attempts to tell us the meaning of life...

What was it like on the set of Trainspotting?

February, 1996: A first-hand scoop into the bleak world of the ’90s cult classic, taken from our archive.

Rhianne Barreto on her role as a teen struggling with the fallout of her sexual assault

The British actress makes the Sundance Grand Jury prize-winning film an uncomfortable, important watch.

How Skepta’s vision of a loved-up future rave came to life

For the past three nights Skeppy’s been offering up a utopia within a dystopia at Manchester International Festival. No phones, no socials. All love and AI.

Are you afraid of the light?

With Ari Aster’s fluoro-frightener Midsommar in cinemas, we explore the terrifying tradition of things that go bump in the day.

The Big Mood: FaceApp

One week, one mood: Moya Lothian-Mclean’s deep-dive into the feel of the week.

“Three Women feels like an erotic version of a Netflix true crime doc…”

Author Lisa Taddeo on her decade of research on desire and writing the year’s most talked-about book.