Pam Tanowitz: Pastoral review – Beethoven explodes into bright bursts of gorgeous dance
Spinning off from the classic symphony with composer Caroline Shaw and artist Sarah Crowner, Tanowitz’s dancers find fresh thinking space
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‘It’s radical to release a film called Girls Like Girls in this climate’: hitmaker turned director Hayley Kiyoko on sexuality, safety and becoming ‘Lesbian Jesus’
The singer’s hit 2015 single Girls Like Girls was her breakthrough moment and also the first time she felt confident in her sexuality. Now she has directed a film based on the...
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No one could terrify like Cronos, the black metal innovator who reignited rock’s hellraising attitude
As frontman of Venom, Conrad Lant made an impact on metal to rival Black Sabbath, inspiring a whole new subgenre with his diabolical grandstanding, unruly spirit and heretic noise
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Parsifal review – bunkers, CCTV and fembots in elusive vision of Wagner’s mystical masterpiece
Evgeny Titov’s brutal and powerful new staging of Wagner’s final opera explains as little as possible. Christian Gerhaher is a compelling and wild-eyed Amfortas and Jakub Hrůša...
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Look of the Week: Florence Pugh assumes her villainous final form
The “East of Eden” star wrapped up her press tour in a chartreuse gown befitting of the beautiful but manipulative antagonist she plays.
‘It’s rational to fear the music industry’: Grouper’s Liz Harris on virality, streaming scammers and her ‘restorative’ dream-pop trio
When a rarity blew up on TikTok, the solitary ambient artist had fraudsters trying to steal her royalties. It reinforced her DIY mentality – until reforming her band Helen...
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A new Skywalker trilogy for Star Wars? Going back to the same family-saga well is a waste of time
Reports that Jon Watts could make a new trilogy about a clan who have already saved and destroyed the galaxy several times over leaves you wishing for a newer world
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Horror films like Obsession are shut out of the Golden Globes – unless they pretend to be comedies
Obsession is a terrifying, violent nightmare of lovestruck madness – but the Globes’ rigid awards categories have forced it into an absurd choice
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The ICE documentary as chilling as a horror movie: ‘We’re trying to put the audience in a position of terror’
Film-makers Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller’s new short is an unvarnished portrait of ICE-occupied Minneapolis Get Out . The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . The Purge . All...
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Trá Pháidín: Cloch’s Claí review – giddy Galway gang burst the boundaries of folk music
With musical ideas spanning mariachi and motorik beats, and lyrics with Kneecap-grade rage, this brilliant collective evolve tradition with stinging, joyful songs
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Thailand’s soft power play: Culture as global currency
Thailand’s “T-wave” or soft power influence has recently grown, fueled by government initiatives supporting industries including film, food and tourism.
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Greg Freeman: All Set the Bone review – ambitious alt-country double album spreads its talents a touch thin
The Maryland singer-songwriter’s third album has an impressive sense of scale compared to last year’s breakout Burnover, but is less immediately appealing
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‘I look at the footage to convince myself that you were alive’: how Ross McElwee made a film about unimaginable loss, grief and guilt
When his son died aged 27, the director could barely bring himself to watch his old clips of the boy. When at last he did, it was the genesis of an extraordinary project
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Geneva Lewis: Barber, Zorn, Glass album review – virtuosity and warmth
The young New Zealand violinist has chosen an all-American programme for her label debut, and impresses with works by Barber, Zorn and Glass
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Get Jiro to Below: the seven best shows to stream this week
A sushi master seeks bloody revenge in Anthony Bourdain’s hilariously gory dystopian animation, while Josh Hartnett’s Jaws-esque horror about a mystery sea creature terrorising...
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Take It or Leave It review – vividly atmospheric formative adventures of future pop princes Madness
Docufictional 1981 comedy captures the working-class ska-pop pranksters in their hungry years with an almost Loachian authenticity
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TV tonight: Sienna Miller’s slick and seriously nasty divorce drama
Dominic West co-stars as the scheming tech-mogul husband in War on Sky Atlantic. Plus: Sly Stallone and Catherine Zeta-Jones join Graham Norton on the sofa. Here’s what to...
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‘It’s a deep soul connection’: Erasure on how 40 years of friendship got them through grief – and why Vince Clarke has quit touring
Returning for a 20th album of sumptuous synthpop, Andy Bell and Clarke open up about supporting one another through bereavement, being happily uncool and battling the...