Entertainment

Seth Meyers on Charlie Kirk shooting: ‘Political violence is abhorrent to t...

Late-night hosts react to the killing of the rightwing activist and warn against the trend of political violence in the US Late-night hosts reacted to the assassination of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk and decried the rising tide of political violence in the US. Continue reading...

Friday, 12 September 2025

Ten Years: has the hit film’s dystopian vision of Hong Kong in 2025 become ...

In 2015, a scrappy group of film-makers tapped into the ‘anxiety of what the city would become’ under Beijing’s increasing influence. Now screening at the Hong Kong film festival UK, it resonates in new ways A taxi driver struggles to keep working as his native language of Cantonese is sidelined for Mandarin. Petty gan...

Friday, 12 September 2025

Add to playlist: the DIY no wave dub of Devon Rexi and the week’s best new ...

Amsterdam combo blend funky post-punk, turntablism and ‘miscellaneous objects’ in a giddy mix beguiling a growing cross-genre audience From Amsterdam Recommended if you like Adrian Sherwood, ESG, Hidden Operator Up next New charity single benefitting Plant een Olijfboom released 20 September Devon Rexi make tripped-out...

Friday, 12 September 2025

Dau director Ilya Khrzhanovsky: my ‘pornographic propaganda’ recreating the...

When Khrzhanovsky’s colossal immersive project on the horrors of the Soviet Union launched in 2019, it caused uproar in east and west alike. Now, he plans to release its ‘mother film’, to expose the ‘huge danger’ the world faces today In late July this year, a few days before his 50th birthday, the exiled Russian film-...

Friday, 12 September 2025

The Wrong Paris review – Netflix Bachelor romcom makes few right choices

Miranda Cosgrove plays a woman involved in some reality show drama in another of the streamer’s many low-grade background watches One could argue that The Bachelor, the ABC reality juggernaut that has reified Christian-lite dating norms for 27 seasons, should be considered scripted content. The connections can be genui...

Friday, 12 September 2025

‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Char...

As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to the ‘Hollywood machine’ Charlie Kaufman is in a funk. The genius screenwriter behind Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Ete...

Friday, 12 September 2025

Big Little Lies: third season of starry HBO drama series on the way

Mr and Mrs Smith writer Francesca Sloane reportedly tapped to bring back A-list cast of hit series A third season of the award-winning drama series Big Little Lies is now in development. According to Deadline, Francesca Sloane has been tapped to write the first episode and she will also act as executive producer alongs...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Eternity review – it’s a charming afterlife in high-concept love triangle c...

Toronto film festival: Elizabeth Olsen must choose who she spends eternity with in an often ingenious throwback that can’t quite stick the landing As we return to the 1990s, with Scream, Clueless, Buffy, Practical Magic, Happy Gilmore and My Best Friend’s Wedding having either returned or set for it, there’s also a bro...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Steven Spielberg reflects on Jaws at 50: ‘I thought my career was over’

Director, marking new exhibition in LA, tells of chaotic filming – and says he’s ‘never seen so much vomit in my life’ Before Jaws became a cinematic classic, and the very first American “summer blockbuster”, director Steven Spielberg thought the 1975 film would be the last one he would be allowed to make. Spielberg, w...

Friday, 12 September 2025

And if your head explodes: Pink Floyd’s 20 best songs – ranked!

Fifty years after the release of Wish You Were Here, we count down the best of the band’s Syd Barrett years, their difficult recovery and later reunion Low on memorable tunes, big on racked, strangulated lead vocals, possessed of a worldview that makes every other Pink Floyd album look like a gushing font of Pollyanna-...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

From lethal sex to gore-soaked dinners: Downton Abbey’s best and worst bits

Soap-based injuries, bleak festive deaths, Hugh Bonneville vomiting blood: we look back on 15 years of highs and lows as the frothy period drama comes to an end with its final spin-off film Prepare for stiff upper lips to wobble. Clutch monogrammed hankies for period-appropriate eye-dabbing. After 15 years on our scree...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

EA Sports FC 26 preview – new play styles aim to tackle Fifa challenge

After a lacklustre response to the 2025 edition, the game has gone all out to engage players and respond to user feedback In an open office space somewhere inside the vast Electronic Arts campus in Vancouver, dozens of people are gathered around multiple monitors playing EA Sports FC 26. Around them, as well as rows of...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

‘Nobody can occupy your imagination’: From Ground Zero’s producer on docume...

Rashid Masharawi, who produced the anthology of 22 short films that was Palestine’s official entry to the Academy Awards, has remarkable optimism about the future of Gaza Being a Palestinian under Israeli occupation will not help someone make a good film, according to Rashid Masharawi, but a good film-maker will help P...

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

‘Addiction teaches you a lot’: breakout pop star Lola Young on sex, substan...

The south Londoner’s honesty about her vices has made her a gen Z hero: she was in rehab when her biggest hit was blowing up. Singing about sex on her new album, she says, is a way to mask the pain Last November, Lola Young was finally having her moment. Messy, a track from her second album, This Wasn’t Meant for You A...

Friday, 12 September 2025

Jared Harris: ‘Dad knocked out an Irishman then brought him round by throwi...

Ahead of his new film Brave the Dark, the star of Mad Men and The Terror (and the son of Richard Harris) answers your questions about his favourite pub, feeling seasick in Hamlet and playing John Lennon You seem to have a predilection to play real-life characters who die prematurely. Who would you like to play who live...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Daniel Day-Lewis says he ‘never intended to retire, really’

The three-time Oscar winner, whose forthcoming film Anemone is his first since 2017, says he feared he ‘didn’t have anything else to offer’ Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis has said he “never intended to retire” and “would have done well to just keep [his] mouth shut”. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, D...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Mikaela Strauss AKA US singer-songwriter King Princess: ‘I thought love was...

A viral debut made her the next big thing, but rather than repeat herself, she’s followed her heart. The New Yorker talks about the virtues of indie label life, and how her latest record takes on the ‘girl violence’ she sees in lesbian communities Mikaela Strauss, the songwriter and producer who records as King Princes...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Nudes, neighbours and napoles: a Mexican moves to New York – in pictures

Martha Naranjo Sandoval’s intimate images of family and friends document her first years in NYC – from fire hydrant rainbows to epic views of the skyline Continue reading...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Ed Sheeran: Play review – subcontinental sounds and shards of darkness – bu...

(Gingerbread Man/Atlantic) Despite embracing Indian and Persian sounds, Sheeran’s eighth album goes back to basics after two records of muted melancholy – albeit with some surprising undercurrents As he points out on the opening track of Play, Ed Sheeran has now been around a long time. It’s 20 years since he self-rele...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

The Man in My Basement review – Willem Dafoe is an unsettling guest in eeri...

Adapted for the screen from his own novel Walter Mosley examines power dynamics and racial tension with a deftly disquieting hand in this deeply strange parable Feature first-timer Nadia Latif here directs a deeply strange parable, almost unlocatable in meaning and tone, adapted for the screen by Walter Mosley from his...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review – rockers return for mockusequel of...

Enter the Tapocalypse as Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Rob Reiner return in a still-funny, cameo-studded telling of the hapless band’s final gig Legendary faux rockers Spinal Tap, with Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer as, respectively, lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel, lead singer D...

Thursday, 11 September 2025

The Fence review – Claire Denis stumbles with a grim and grating misfire

Toronto film festival: French director has made of one her least effective movies with this dull and clunkily adapted version of 1979 play with a miscast Matt Dillon at its centre After trips to space (2018’s High Life) and Nicaragua (2022’s Stars at Noon), the French director Claire Denis has returned to more familiar...

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

Sit, swim, sleep, cycle, skate: the sublime poetry of the everyday – in pic...

Floating teens at summer camp, sleeping students in Georgia, rollerskaters at Venice Beach … Mark Steinmetz’s stunning black and white shots capture kids across America Continue reading...

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

School, self-image and rebellion: what it feels like for a girl – in pictur...

Nancy Honey’s candid portraits capture girls between 11 and 14, when their bodies start to change and they begin challenging accepted codes of behaviour Continue reading...

Tuesday, 09 September 2025

Newspaper picture editors’ picks for Visa pour l’Image – in pictures

Images chosen by 24 international newspaper picture editors will compete at this year’s Visa pour l’Image, the festival of photojournalism in Perpignan, France, for the Gökşin Sipahioğlu by Sipa Press Daily Press Visa d’or award. The festival is on until 14 September War, wildfires and child workers: Visa Pour l’Image...

Monday, 08 September 2025

Catch a break: surf adventures in the California sun – in pictures

Surfer Todd Weaver takes magical pictures of the Golden State – from ombre skies reflected in the sea to crashing waves and rising full moons Continue reading...

Thursday, 04 September 2025

MTV VMAs 2025 red carpet: Sabrina Carpenter, Ariana Grande, Katseye and mor...

On this year’s Video Music awards red carpet, pop’s biggest stars opt for underwear as outerwear and a surprising amount of facial hair MTV VMAs 2025: Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter triumph at muted award ceremony Continue reading...

Monday, 08 September 2025

The best and worst of times: American advertisements of the 1930s – in pict...

It was a decade that saw the end of prohibition but also the start of the Great Depression and the looming threat of war, an unusual period for commerce, summed up in Taschen’s latest look at American ads from a certain era. In All-American Ads of the 30s, colorful advertisements for everything from alcohol to cereal s...

Tuesday, 02 September 2025

War, wildfires and child workers: Visa Pour l’Image highlights – in picture...

A selection of some of the best exhibited work from Visa Pour l’Image, the annual festival of photojournalism in Perpignan in the south of France Continue reading...

Monday, 01 September 2025

A deeper story: photography from Australia and New Zealand – in pictures

From identity to landscape, a new collection of images by 40 photographers captures revelatory moments in time on both sides of the ditch Exposure: Contemporary Photographers in Australia and New Zealand, edited by Amber Creswell Bell, is published by Thames & Hudson Continue reading...

Monday, 01 September 2025

‘The surfers were methodical and mesmerising’: Ed Templeton’s best phone pi...

The US photographer watched on enviously as young people enjoyed the artificial wave in the centre of Munich Ed Templeton had woken up in Zurich, Switzerland, that morning, but by the early afternoon he’d arrived by train in Germany. He was visiting the city of Munich, and after dropping his bags at a central hotel, he...

Saturday, 30 August 2025