After alternate English histories and wrestlers' inner monologues, the insanely prolific and prolifically insane Auteur turns to children's fables.

Plight of the band has drawn international attention

Maria Alyokhina forced to appear at parole decision appeal by video link despite hunger strike over right to attend in person

Deus Ex: The Fall

Members of the punk group Pussy Riot  have released  a new song and video where, wearing bright-coloured ski masks, they dance on an oil tanker.

Take a smart director, a global audience and a terrified Hollywood, and you get… a huge mess

Ah, the magic of the marginalia. Because regardless of what the history books tell us about The Clash and the Sex Pistols, for anyone growing up in the suburbs towards the end of the 1970s, the group most responsible for politically awakening the nation’s sixth-formers, one skinny tie at a time, was the Tom Robinson Band.

Ben Wheatley’s 17th-century freak-out is a cinematic rarity: a truly strange British film

Buddhist monks have put a new spin on sporting chants after blessing the playing field at Lord's ahead of the Ashes.

Jennifer Lopez performed one of the most unusual – and controversial – concerts of her career this weekend, when she crooned “Happy Birthday Mr President” at a lavish ceremony to mark the 56th birthday of Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, the leader of Turkmenistan and one of the world’s most repressive dictators.

Hard-boiled detection with modern angst

Kawakubo leads the way with raw edges, rumpled fabrics and exposed seams

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