How can Barry Humphries support freedom of speech for Barry Spurr when censorship is just fine for his international cabaret festival? Maeve Marsden withdraws her application
Justin Simien’s satire offers up familiar stereotypes: black separatists, white-wannabes and liberals in denial. It’s when we don’t fit into any of them that the real race confusion starts
Despite Kickstarter’s year of controversy and criticism, its first London event offers hope that the crowdfunding site doesn’t just greenlight safe bets
From screening shark films on boats to campaigning for local libraries, film groups are on the march … offering alternative experiences as well as raising funds for local causes, writes Kerry Flint
22 Oct 2014:
Jonathan Kent’s production of Britten’s ghost story is revived to haunting effect, with standout central performances from the children, writes Tim Ashley
20 Oct 2014:
The actor credits a lack of self-confidence in his abilities to his recent extreme behaviour and details the boot camp he and his co-stars endured for Fury
20 Oct 2014:
This pilgrimage has taken place since 1894 in the town of Dos Hermanas near the Andalucían capital of Seville in southern Spain. Pilgrims wearing traditional Andalucían dresses accompany the Virgin on horseback, on foot or in carts in an atmosphere of religious fervour
19 Oct 2014:
From urban grasslands sprouting on the state library steps to Carsten Höller’s golden mirror carousel at NGV, the best of the art at Melbourne festival
19 Oct 2014:
Actor Sameena Jabeen Ahmed and documentary Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait also honoured as director Stephen Frears given BFI fellowship
17 Oct 2014:
A new student is inducted into a secret world of teenage gangs and crime in this compelling and explicit film – which unfolds without subtitles, in eerie near-silence, writes Peter Bradshaw
17 Oct 2014:
When its long-term sponsor pulled out the film festival faced a fight for existence - until a crowdfunding campaign went viral on social media
16 Oct 2014:
Taking place next May, the Sabbath frontman and his wife, Sharon, will host an event that includes a golf tournament, a dinner party, music, movie nights and comedy sets
15 Oct 2014:
Think of Dylan Thomas and you think of Milk Wood and the endless green of Carmarthenshire. But was he as much a London writer as a Welsh one? Fellow Fitzrovian Griff Rhys Jones raises a glass to the poet’s bohemian drinking days
15 Oct 2014:
The festival, which saw headline sets from Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys and Mumford & Sons, has donated millions to local and international causes
15 Oct 2014:
Three offerings from the Midlands festival promoting new work range from the neat to the chaotic, producing a disjointed evening’s entertainment, writes Lyn Gardner
15 Oct 2014:
The threads of a concentration camp survivor’s return to postwar Germany are woven into a masterful web by Christian Petzold, writes Ryan Gilbey