Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival lands in Glasgow next week, with a gorgeous programme of films. Elsewhere, Cosmo ...

This year's Samizdat Film Festival opens with a programme of animation made during the tail end of Soviet rule – we speak to ...

From the archives, our 2008 interview with The Fall director Tarsem Singh on the inspirations behind – and reaction to – his globe-spanning epic.

Capturing the kaleidoscopic array of feelings of queer love across a collection of earworms, Pale Waves’ fourth album may be ...

In her masterful fourth novel Intermezzo, Sally Rooney conveys the tangles of grief and desire through the relationship ...

Mountain Music represents a genre-shift for Nina Nesbitt, a record that showcases her vocals more than her previous ...

What does the music industry look like for a band whose closest thing to a hit came out in 2007? For most, the labels blowing smoke are long gone. Radio and journalists don’t want to know. The ...

The Last Dinner Party are a band that seem to inspire strong feelings. For some, they’re an inspiration to raid your nearest vintage shop and start dressing like a Jane Austen character. For others, ...

Laura Carreira’s workplace drama On Falling does Ken Loach better than Ken Loach – it's a deeply moving depiction of ...

Nora Fingscheidt does a fantastic job of bringing Amy Liptrot’s poetic memoir to the screen, helped in no small part by the transcendent Saoirse Ronan.

Xiu Xiu return with 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips, their most accessible and fun project to date.