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A Year Without Summer review – Florentina Holzinger’s all-nude, orgy-filled, poo-pocalypse musical

Arts Centre Melbourne, Rising festival Exploring medical science, nature and humanity, the Austrian artist’s show is chaotic and not always coherent – and a thrilling vision of what theatre can be

The Guardian - AU · May 29

Mary Shelley is often underestimated on screen – does The Bride! finally get her right?

Ostensibly, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s second film, The Bride! offers a reimagining of the 1936 film The Bride of Frankenstein, in which the bride appears only briefly and does not say a single word.

The Conversation · Mar 23

How Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi made the horror movie of the year

IN FOCUS: The Oscar-winning filmmaker behind ‘The Shape of Water’ spent decades attempting to bring Mary Shelley’s masterpiece to the screen. As it arrives on Netflix, he, as well as his stars Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, speak to Clarisse Loughrey about its long gestation, its surprise easter eggs, and…

The Independent UK · Nov 4, 2025

Watch Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz team with Charlotte Wessels (ex-Delain) in video for brand-new single Ode To The West Wind

The team-up is taken from Wessels’ upcoming solo album, The Obsession

Metal Hammer · Sep 18, 2024

Ranjan Kaul’s hybrid identities

New Delhi-based artist Ranjan Kaul thinks of his paintings as “self-sufficient short stories”, and in ‘Within, Without’, he crafts a tale around an Indian socio-political theme

The Hindu · Mar 30, 2024

Best short novels for a classic quick read in 2024

Ingenious storytelling in 300 pages or less

Evening Standard · Jan 28, 2024

‘We get braver as we get older’: Maxine Peake on her daring dystopia play performed in a library

Kay Dick’s novel They was almost forgotten – but its dark predictions are eerily prescient. Perfect fodder for Peake and her new company to bring to life in Manchester

The Guardian - UK · Jun 30, 2023

Frankenstein’s warning: the too-familiar hubris of today’s technoscience

Technology presuming to recreate humanity is central to Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. It is more relevant today than ever

The Guardian - AU · Apr 30, 2023

Two West Country villages so beautiful that they've been dubbed ‘Little Switzerland’

Devon’s coastal towns of Lynton and Lynmouth have been repeatedly named among the most beautiful spots in the area

Bristol Post · Sep 24, 2022

100 Years of Mavis Gallant

Her stories are about the cost of living and the cost of love. It’s why they still endure

The Walrus · Sep 15, 2022