The mid-autumn festival, also known as the moon festival, is a celebration of harvest and family in Chinese culture – a time to gather with relatives and friends under a full moon. During the festival, people eat mooncakes – a...
Read MoreToronto film festival: It’s Get Out meets the viral Shitty Media Men list in this hugely entertaining mix of dark comedy and stalker thriller with a brilliant alternating turn from Taron EgertonEveryone knows an Adam. He’s not...
Read MoreRachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killingOn a darkened rooftop in Tel...
Read MoreToronto film festival: Erin Doherty plays a happily single mother in a downbeat town courted by an enigmatic James McAvoy in this expertly taut dramaErin Doherty and James McAvoy both bring their A-game in this startling,...
Read MoreThe Gallagher brothers’ comeback concerts are given the full fan-worship treatment, but it’s impossible to begrudge the euphoria they have created“Hello … hello … It’s good to be back.” With these words – and the unfortunate...
Read MoreBramham Park, LeedsCharli xcx and Fontaines DC are spellbinding and there’s an awesome array of genres, but the biggest turnouts are for tech house names like Kettama and Josh Baker• Charli xcx, Reading festival review –...
Read MoreJ’ouvert marks the start of the Notting Hill carnival in west London, with revellers covered in oil, paint and powder Continue...
Read MoreReading FestivalThere’s not much time to dig into her deep catalogue of future-facing pop, but she satisfies the hardcore“Time itself is a circle,” as the rock’n’roll philosopher Nietzsche once said, accurately foreshadowing...
Read MoreThe great Argentinian’s Highlands holiday, a mischievous doc about Jack the Ripper, the hypnotic latest from Nicolas Winding Refn and a kinky noir romp are among the best of this year’s lineup• Edinburgh international film...
Read MoreFamed for playing loners, cranks and wayward angels, the Hollywood star is now a wolfish 90 – but he still jogs daily. As he takes his latest film to Edinburgh, we meet the man Hitchcock called ‘the golden calf’‘Can you take...
Read MoreVersions of Amy Winehouse and hundreds of other musicians are generating millions for beleaguered UK venues. But what is the emotional toll for the imitators, and are they pushing out original artists?As peak heatwave sun beams...
Read MoreYou hear the word ‘empathy’ a lot when people talk about our next prime minister. I can see whyMy contribution to this summer’s modest avalanche of Andy Burnham stories extends to only two. One is about Glastonbury, and the time...
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