Japans biggest film is a kooky, cross-cultural time-travel yarn. What does it say about the countrys hugely influential cinema?Viewed from nine time zones away, Japans current No 1 film, Thermae Roma...
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced an additional run of its co-production of Troilus and Cressida at the RiversideLondon theatregoers will get only their second chance in a decade to see ren...
Steven Soderberghs drama sees Channing Tatum play "Magic" Mike, a male stripper with money, fans and an urge to get out of the business to become a carpenter
The multi award-winning graduates of Berklee College in the US have expanded the scope of rock, jazz and popRoger Brown, 55, has presided over the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, s...
Hundreds of authors are reviving the ethos of the great writers of pulp fiction such as Jack Vance, Philip K Dick and Harlan Ellison. But its a brave new world of blogs and ebooksImagine a scale of l...
President by day, kick-ass slayer of the undead by night, its Abraham Lincolns duty to save the USA from vampire attack
Unesco expresses "concern" after Iraqi oil ministry digs 1,500-metre tunnel under archaeological siteBabylon was probably founded in the 23rd century BC. It was sacked countless times and reb...
Rupert Sanders directs Kristen Stewart as Snow White, who unites with the huntsman appointed to murder her in a battle against her wicked step-mother, Ravenna
Barbican, LondonFor fans of jangly, emotionally acute indie-rock, Big Star are an ur-band, although their third album, variously dubbed Third and Sister Lovers, is apt to separate the mere admirers f...
To mark the diamond jubilee, wed like to hear your thoughts on the Sex Pistols and the spirit of 77What better time than the diamond jubilee to reflect on the achievements of the Sex Pistols?Thirty-f...
They may be fans of creative spatial choreography, but this Nottingham band are a lot more fun than they seemNottingham-based five-piece Swimming dont do normal gigs. Well, Im sure they do from time ...
We think of Picasso as a mans man, a sensualist; but his work is fiercely intellectual. And the British Museums exhibition of his Vollard Suite prints proves that he is all about brain workPablo Pica...
Its never been a better time to be a young playwright – but are we missing out on older voices?Its a great time to be a young dramatist. Theatres are hungry for your work. The media love to run featu...
Celebrated depiction of Suffolk life, owned by Spanish family, is expected to fetch £20-25m at Christies in JulyJohn Constables celebrated depiction of Suffolk rural life, The Lock, is to be offered ...
Listen to Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker reading from Oliver Jefferss new picture book, The Hueys in the New Jumper, about how being different is catching, then download your very own Huey to customise....
Inspired by new picture book, The Hueys in the New Jumper, download your own Oliver Jefferss drawing to colour in and send back to appear in a gallery
Shakespeares Globe, LondonThe final image of this production by Israeli company Habima is a stark one. Small and crushed, as if weighed down by history itself, Jacob Cohens broken Shylock – a man who...
To mark this weekends jubilee celebrations, we visit Rocks Backpages – the worlds leading archive of vintage music journalism – for this classic account of the Sex Pistols boat trip down the Thames o...
The actor will attend a Foreign Office screening of her Bosnia war film as part of her support for a team of experts who will gather evidence about sexual violence in conflict areasAngelina Jolies de...
In pictures: Works by David Hockney, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, R B Kitaj and Rachel Whiteread are among nine paintings and sculptures being gifted by philanthropists Mercedes and Ian Stoutzker
If this two-dimensional text thrills people who wouldnt usually access such material to enrich their sex lives, then all the betterBilled variously as a self-publishing sensation, a fanfiction phenom...
Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
Lego Batman returns – and this time hes got Lego Superman, Lego Wonder Woman and more to back him up in his battle against evilBy now, the rubric for Lego games feels as expected as it is comfortingl...
By James SmartPart one of a proposed series, this runs through the relationship between the US and the Middle East touching on Gilgamesh, the medieval Mediterranean and Abu Ghraib. It is essentially ...
By Ian PindarDavis, a presenter on the Today programme, comes across as a soothing economic agony uncle in this engaging TV tie-in. Britain can still be a world player, he argues. We just need more c...
By Keith BrookeYoung, rootless, hitching rides from nowhere to nowhere, Miriam Black is a woman with a special talent: whenever she touches someone for the first time she gets a vision of when they w...
This little gem is the best thing about the jubileeLet this column – a republican, ever since the usurpation of the enlightened elective monarchy of the Anglo-Saxons by those thugs, the Normans – at ...
Every David Bowie album from the 70s has a Desert Island track – this is the one from Space OddityDavid Bowie recorded a fair amount of bland pop in his time. And Im not just talking about Absolute B...
Alberto Barbera, the festivals new director, has said he wants a less glitzy event this yearThe new director of the Venice film festival has promised a "more sober, less glitzy" event for the...
EL Jamess bestselling erotic novel is returning to library shelves in Brevard County after public outcry over its banFloridian erotica fans, rejoice: EL Jamess steamy novel Fifty Shades of Grey is be...
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