Up-and-down relationship … Sarah Polley as Elsa in Splice. As the late Kenny Everett would have said, “It’s all in the best possible taste.” Vincenzo Natali, director of the cult 1997 mystery Cube, has confected a bizarre black-comic horror, a cross-breed mutant Frankenfilm... 

Linda Stay joined forces with filmmaker Reed Cowan to detail the prominent role the Mormons played in the reinstatement of Prop 8 in the new documentary “8: The Mormon Proposition.” Following a lengthy investigation, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission ordered The Church of... 

Claire Lams as Ana in While You Lie. Photograph: Laurence Winram While You Lie, Edinburgh The Traverse has a habit of throwing up startling new talent during its annual festival season. Not that Sam Holcroft is an unknown. Nurtured through the Traverse’s young writer’s group, her... 

Clockwise from left: Julie Myerson, Lethal Bizzle, Grayson Perry, Maggi Hambling, Sara Cox. Photograph: Composite Stephen Fry, writer and actor They were monstrous, magnificent, traumatic, explosive, lyrical, emotionally sodden, eternal, shameful and fantastically alive. What I wish I’d...