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Arts

  • ‘We did our stares when we went out to buy milkshakes’ … Danielle Keaton, centre front, in Village of the Damned, directed by John Carpenter.

    Film
    ‘After the shoot, we had a party in a slaughterhouse’: horror movies’ creepiest kids reveal all

  • two young women in a room with tools on the wall

    Film
    Time Cut – tinny time-travel Netflix slasher offers too much deja vu

    The streamer’s gimmicky and over-familiar Halloween offering sees a teen going back to 2003 to save her sister from a masked killer
  • Ryan Holiday,Arnold Schwarzenegger<br>Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, speaks with Ryan Holiday about his book "Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life," at The 92nd Street Y, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

    Film
    Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Kamala Harris: ‘I will always be an American before I am a Republican’

    The former Republican governor said that he was backing the Democrat because a Trump victory would mean ‘four more years of bullshit’
  • Jimmy Kimmel to Republican voters: “I do a lot of mocking and belittling, and it isn’t always productive. Am I biased against Donald Trump? Yes. Do I think I have good reasons for being biased against him? Yes. And I think when you hear some of those reasons, you might agree with me, even just a little bit.”

    Television
    Jimmy Kimmel: This election ‘is about sanity, security and democracy’

  • Juror #2 Press publicity film still

    Film
    Juror #2: Clint Eastwood puts Nicholas Hoult in court – and an unusual pickle

  • Gillian Anderson.

    Books
    ‘Sex writing feels less cringe now’: are we entering a new era of erotic literature?

  • Martha. Martha Stewart in Martha. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2024

    Film
    Martha – sharp if spotty Netflix retrospective on Martha Stewart

Talking points

  • The Cure pictured in 1984. L-R: Phil Thornalley, Porl Thompson, Robert Smith, Andy Anderson and Lol Tolhurst.

    Music
    A forest of questions: take our quiz on the Cure!

  • film still of man in large overcoat with arms outstretched

    Television
    Batman who? Why The Penguin is TV’s biggest surprise of the year

  • Knows every street … Lowrider cars cruising through Los Angeles.

    Music
    ‘These were tough dudes – and notoriously romantic’: why lowrider soul, LA’s music and car subculture, still thrives

  • Freaking out … behind bars at Shepton Mallet prison.

    Games
    ‘Our ghost meter went crazy’ : we played horror games all night in a haunted prison

People

  • Kanye West on the runway at the Adidas Originals x Kanye West Yeezy fashion show at New York fashion week fall in 2015.

    Music
    Kanye West and Adidas end ‘fight’ over decision to drop rapper over antisemitism

  • Man and woman kiss through bars.

    Film
    Quentin Tarantino praises flop Joker sequel: ‘I really, really liked it’

    • film still of woman looking down

      Film
      Teri Garr, actor from Tootsie and Friends, dies aged 79

    • Louis Fratino, You and your things, 2022 You and your things, 2022 Olio su tela / Oil on canvas 145 × 198 cm Collezione privata / Private collection Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neu, Berlin. Photo: Stefan Korte.

      Art and design
      ‘I can’t wait to paint myself when I’m old and knobbly’: the sensual world of Louis Fratino

    • 50 Cent performing

      Music
      50 Cent claims he turned down $3m to appear at Trump’s New York rally

The big picture

  • ‘Stage Fright’ from the Hollywood Nightmares series, self-portrait, 2022.

    Fright club! Hollywood’s golden age goes ghoulish – in pictures

    Spectres of real-life horrors haunt Raphaël Neal’s uncanny self-portraits – from a femme fatale covered in cockroaches to a leading man with blood-covered hands

Reviews

  • Hanif Kureshi at his home in London.

    Books
    Shattered by Hanif Kureishi – picking up the pieces

  • The Florida wetlands run wild in Absolution

    Books
    Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer – a thrilling coda to an otherworldly trilogy

    • Right, where’s the bowling alley? … Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

      Games
      Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – annual military shooter fixture hasn’t felt this fresh in years

    • Back to the odd future … Tyler, the Creator on the cover of Chromakopia.

      Music
      Tyler, the Creator: Chromakopia – early midlife crisis triggers a freaked-out psychodrama

    • Careful now … Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

      Games
      Dragon Age: The Veilguard – a good RPG, but an underwhelming Dragon Age game

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Pictures & video

  • What comes out at night … a four-armed monster costume

    Halloween
    Too scary for children! How Halloween used to be – in pictures

    Ghouls in Y-fronts and ghostly bums feature in Ken Werner’s vintage Halloween pictures, taken between 1976 and 1980 at San Francisco’s outrageous outdoor parties
  • ‘Stage Fright’ from the Hollywood Nightmares series, self-portrait, 2022.

    Fright club!
    Hollywood’s golden age goes ghoulish

  • The writing on the T-shirt … a Trump supporter.

    ‘Things are truly scary’
    The divided states of America

  • Film
    Cyclops, Martians and Myths: the art of Ray Harryhausen – in pictures

  • Photography
    Paul Lowe’s life in pictures

  • Awards
    One giant leap: Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist – in pictures

  • Sport
    Join the scrum! Tackling women’s rugby – in pictures

  • Face value: the masterly theatrical masks of Kitazawa Hideta

  • Scenes from the streets: international stories told on the ground

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