Under the blanket of refined repression, food is everything in the culinary wonderland of I Am Love.

The Edinburgh Film Festival is now billed as an opportunity for discovery. Geoffrey Macnab takes the temperature

Prize-winning author Lionel Shriver hits out at publishers and says latest accolade is a waste

It feels like every week a new all-girl guitar band emerges, each heavily influenced by 1980s indie; all distortion, guitar jangles and hazy vocals, with some swift punky riffs from the 1970s thrown in for good measure.

Tilda Swinton stars in this visually magnificent story of a wealthy Italian family whose comfortable existence comes under threat

An Italian affair to remember

It's freezing when I meet Tilda Swinton, in a hotel overlooking London's Leicester Square. The country is still in the grip of the grimmest winter in 30 years, not that it has dented her mood. "We were snowed in for seven days!" she says, with glee. "In the north of Scotland, it's been extraordinary. It's been like Siberia. Just to show you..."

This Mexican 'Badlands' is a joy, until the bloody ending leaves a sour taste

A man with no name in a film with no point ... hardly a thriller

Jim Jarmusch comes from an earlier generation of American hipsters, and his Bill Murray-starring film Broken Flowers (2005) may have offered encouragement to those (like me) who were previously agnostic about his affectless cool (Dead Man, Night on Earth, et al).

Four pupils have been expelled from one of Britain's top public schools after being caught with drugs, it was disclosed today.

The new generation of austerity-chic designs may be unadorned, but they are never, ever plain and simple

It may lack the showbiz glitz of Cannes, but the world's most northerly festival draws all the big-hitters. By Geoffrey Macnab

His next role sees him playing the toy-boy next door. But is Keanu Reeves really the guitar-strumming, eternal teenager of popular repute? Kaleem Aftab finds out