Kendrick Lamar, who calls himself a ‘certified boogeyman’, is a contemporary Dracula guy, wending his way onto ...

Only two daughters of the Tudor dynasty in its three-generation tenure of the English crown experienced the full force of ...

All the little aliens in the Duane Barry episode are children wearing huge grey heads. Between takes they ran around, playing ...

Aimé Césaire can seem to be caught between worlds. For the politically minded, he is suspiciously literary and ...

Studio Ghibli was founded in Tokyo in 1985. Its moving spirit, the writer and director Hayao Miyazaki, is now in his eighties. His latest picture, The Boy and the Heron, won an Oscar this year for ...

There is no doubt of the success of the effect, this slapstick without ridicule, but how has Flaubert managed, throughout the ...

Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, better known as The Golden Ass, is the only ancient Roman novel to have survived in its entirety. Following the story of Lucius, forced to suffer as a donkey until the goddess ...

William Davies joins Tom to assess the efforts of the new Labour government in tackling the UK's many economic challenges. They consider whether Rachel Reeves’s first budget, with its substantial tax ...

‘Now you will see a film,’ says a close-up of a mouth with not much face to go with it.