Robert CohanThe charismatic choreographer and beloved teacher was an inspirational figure as he shared the secrets of movement Sir Robert Cohan, modern dance legend, dies aged 95 In the 1970s, Robert Cohan would arrive at the studios of London Contemporary Dance Theatre in silver platforms and sunglasses, the dashingly handsome and charismatic New Yorker a galvanising director who inspired great dedication from his dancers. The last time I met him, in 2019, he was 93 and still an inspirational presence.

GamesReviewWii U; Nintendo; £27.99-£34.85 In Splatoon, Nintendo’s uniquely family-friendly take on multiplayer shooting games, paint replaces live ammunition, charming tentacle-headed skater-types replace heavily armed Americans, and rather than simply shooting your foes, you win by spattering as much of the arena as possible in your paint’s colour. Arenas are designed like multi-level skate parks, with jumps and smooth transitions you can glide over before popping out and giving the opposition a damn good painting.

‘The police came because of the sea of red gore’: unseen photos from the set of The Shining Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining has legions of admirers the world over – not the least Lee Unkrich, director of Pixar classics including Toy Story 3 and Coco. Unkrich spent years collecting pictures, artefacts and stories about the making of the film, uncovering deleted scenes and getting to grips with its most obscure details.

The ObserverFictionReviewPast and present collide in Hermione Eyre's audacious historical fantasy debutHermione Eyre's audacious debut novel Viper Wine takes the real events of England in 1632 – a country heading for civil war, the minds of its great men torn between magic and science, and its famous women, well they're no different from those plastered over the covers of today's magazines, obsessed with the latest beauty regime – transmuting them into a heady historical fiction fantasy mash-up.

Weather trackerYemenAnalysisWeather tracker: Tropical Cyclone Tej approaches YemenMatt Hills (Metdesk)Al Ghaydah area could get 500-750mm of rainfall, compared with annual average of 50mm Tropical Cyclone Tej is forecast to make landfall in Yemen this week, bringing significant rainfall and a flooding threat across the eastern half of the country and western parts of Oman. At the time of writing, Tej is centred about 250 miles south of Salalah, Oman. The system is moving north-west at 10 knots, with maximum sustained winds of 100 knots, making Tej an extremely severe cyclone storm on the Indian meteorological department’s tropical cyclone intensity scale.