Being on an expedition is about deprivation Whether its trekking through the jungles in Peru or hiking up Kilimanjaro, you really value the resources you have: one pair of pants, limited rations of food, limited battery power. My trips also remind me what I have left behind. Once I'm back home, I'll really value what I have, until I start to become complacent – then I'll go off around the world again.

The comic and self-confessed 'sack of potatoes on a mission' shows more than just a will to run

A century on, the battle for equality still rages, says the writer of a new sitcom

The director's new film, 'Venus in Fur', is one of the raciest on offer

Despite the title Something in the Air, the 1969 Thunderclap Newman hit of the same title doesn't feature in the new film from French writer-director Olivier Assayas.

There is more than one American dream. The first is the one America dreams about itself. The second is the one the world dreams about America. In this respect, Lana Del Rey – far more loved in Europe than at home in the States – is the ultimate dreamgirl, a pouting avatar of countless cinematic ideas of vintage Americana.

It's Palme d'Or weekend! But our critic on the Croisette has awards of his own to hand out

“But must my sons be slaughtered in the streets for valiant doings in their country’s cause?” asks Titus Andronicus, mourning a stage full of corpses as prelude to three hours of  gratuitous violence with knives, daggers and meat cleavers.

Clothed? I almost didn’t recognise her.

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After a downbeat and water-logged opening, fine films from the Coens, Clio Barnard and Hirokazu Kore-eda lifted the mood at this year's film festival

Near where victim was killed, an imam tells mosque-goers this act had nothing to do with their religion

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