The Guardian Culture

De Gaulle: Résistance review – a galloping bromance for Churchill and France’s wartime hero

This biopic of the great Gallic general – which culminates at Bir Hakeim, in advance of a second film – is a fine, quietly amusing romp with a touch of classic 60s war filmsPerhaps because it is based on a biography by an Englishman – Julian Jackson’s A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle – this very enjoyable and gallopingly eventful biopic, directed by Antonin Baudry, has an element of amused detachment. The first of two parts, it offers a good-humoured, though naturally symp

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

‘Under Salt Marsh’ Renewed for Season 2 With Rafe Spall Returning

“Under Salt Marsh” is returning for a second season at Sky. The crime drama has been greenlit for an “as-yet-untitled second chapter” with Rafe Spall reprising his role as Detective Eric Bull, Sky announced on Wednesday. The six-episode season will pick up as Detective Bull “moves to a remote Scottish mining village sinking under the […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Oscars: Japan Picks Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘All of a Sudden’ as Best Int’l Feature Submission

The critically acclaimed drama will give the ‘Drive My Car’ director his second shot at the category after winning just five years ago, with Neon also planning a broader Oscars campaign for best picture, director, actress and supporting actress.

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Max Olesker: Making the Cut review – up close and personal account of comic’s religious conversion

Pleasance Dome, EdinburghThis show about Olesker’s lengthy journey to becoming an Orthodox Jew in order to marry his partner is both elegant and nuanced‘I would do anything for love,” Meat Loaf sang, “but I won’t do that.” Max Olesker would, if his solo show Making the Cut – based on his memoir – is any guide. It recounts the comic and writer’s conversion from liberal to Orthodox Judaism, a process required so he can marry his sweetheart – but which, in the meantime, forbids him from so much as

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Maserati: The Brothers’ Trailer: Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Alba and Andy Garcia Star in Motorsport Biopic

The Italian film comes from the producer of Robert Moresco's 'Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend' and Michael Mann's 'Ferrari.'

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

Italy’s RAI Cinema International Boards Edoardo De Angelis’ ‘The Fire Within You’ Ahead of Venice Launch, Reveals First Clip (EXCLUSIVE)

RAI Cinema International Distribution has acquired world rights to Italian director Edoardo De Angelis’ dark tragicomedy “The Fire Within You” ahead of its Venice competition launch. De Angelis, a native Neapolitan, broke out on the festival circuit at Venice in 2016 with the Naples-set conjoined twins drama “Indivisible” and subsequently opened the festival in 2023 with […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival – a game so grotesque it scares its own director

With oversight from Clive Barker himself, and a role reprisal as Pinhead from actor Doug Bradley, Revival aims to introduce new audiences to the discomfort of HellraiserIf a horror game gives its own director a physical reaction, it’s probably doing something right. While researching the images people find hardest to look at, game director Emil Esov discovered he has trypophobia – a fear of clusters of small holes. Rather than tone the scary images down, he fed them straight into Clive Barker’s

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The rise of ‘biogossip’: Rachel Cusk’s Natalie Portman novel is the latest in a delicious literary lineage

The much-discussed Life of M is the latest in a lineage of celebrity satire that spans from Virginia Woolf to The Devil Wears PradaIn Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Life of M, the famous actor protagonist participates in an event at a book store after hours. The actor, M, is joined by “a writer of some renown” and a fashion model who possesses “some vague self-absorption”. A brand sponsored the affair. I spent literal hours trying to find the real-world equivalent of the opaque fictional passage. I sc

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Sky Orders “Second Chapter” of Rafe Spall-Starring Crime Drama ‘Under Salt Marsh’

"Detective Eric Bull (Spall) moves to a remote Scottish mining village sinking under the weight of its own secrets, where a murder investigation brings him closer to the truth about his own past."

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

Stephen Colbert Urges Emmy Voters to Back Jimmy Kimmel: ‘Look How Cute He Is!’

With Emmy voting drawing to a close, Stephen Colbert has thrown his support behind Jimmy Kimmel in the newly revamped outstanding cariety series race, even though Colbert’s own late-night show is competing in the same category. In a video posted on social media, a bearded Colbert appears sitting outdoors on a windswept coastline with a […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

‘Tall Tales & Murder’ First Look: Ella Lily Hyland and Aidan Gillen Star in Wild Comedic Crime Drama From ‘Veep’ Director and ‘Love/Hate’ Creator (EXCLUSIVE)

The BBC has lifted the chaotic lid on “Tall Tales and Murder,” its upcoming dark comedic drama from “Love/Hate” creator Stuart Carolan and co-created with Emmy and DGA award winning “Veep” director Chris Addison. First announced last year and shot in Ireland, the wild-sounding six-part series mixes what the synopsis describes as a “Bonnie and […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

Korea’s DRX Signs Strategic Partnership With Indonesia’s Nuon to Expand Gaming and Entertainment Ties (EXCLUSIVE)

Korea’s DRX Corp. and PT Nuon Digital Indonesia signed a strategic partnership in Jakarta to expand gaming and entertainment ties between Indonesia and Korea, starting with an entertainment festival called DRX Homefront Indonesia and a joint game publishing initiative between the two countries. The agreement pairs DRX’s esports, content production and fan engagement experience with […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Adam Riches: The Captain review – the extraordinary glory of a ‘half man, half fish’ Victorian hero

Summerhall, Edinburgh An endurance test for a standup already starring in a fringe hit, this show resurrects the man who drilled the first ever cross-Channel swimmer‘Who are these people that do what [the rest of us] cannot?” Adam Riches’ solo play The Captain teases at the daredevil spirit, incarnate here in Capt Matthew Webb, the first man to swim the Channel unaided. Riches plays Fred Beckwith, a swimming coach who trains the young Webb for his tilt at greatness. The show takes the form of a

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘I just give from my heart’: how Dolly Parton’s philanthropy focused most on helping children

Parton put her millions behind causes she believed in – from Covid vaccines to the Imagination Library, which sends children around the world a free book every monthDolly Parton dies aged 80 | Celebrity tributes | A life in picturesParton’s peerless career turned country music cliches inside outShare your tributes and memories of Dolly PartonIn 1991, Dolly Parton made an startling offer to every seventh and eighth-grade student in Sevier County, Tennessee where she grew up: the world-famous sing

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

Netflix’ Latest Marketing Mash-Up Pairs Stella Artois With ‘The Gentlemen’

Netflix has what looks to be a great show set to launch, but you can’t see the program on its flagship streaming service. The company plans to take over the history Marlborough Pub in London between September 3 and September 5, when it will outfit the place much like its comedic action series “The Gentlemen,” […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Sky U.K.’s Meghan Lyvers Discusses IP, Original Content Mix and “Increasing the Emotional Stakes”

The Comcast company's scripted originals exec talks about 'War,' 'The Day of the Jackal,' working with partners, championing auteurs and British stories, and that 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' adaptation.

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Dominic West and Sienna Miller Star in Image From Sky and HBO Legal Thriller ‘War’ (Exclusive)

The drama from 'Hijack' creator George Kay, which received a two-season commitment and is set in the elite world of London law, stars the duo as a tech titan and his estranged film star wife.

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

Oscars: Japan Selects ‘All of a Sudden’ for International Feature Race

Hamaguchi Ryusuke’s “All of a Sudden” has been selected as Japan’s entry in the international feature category at the 99th Academy Awards, the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren) has revealed. The selection marks the second time a Hamaguchi film has represented Japan in the category, five years after “Drive My Car” won the […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Last Sunrise review – Amazon’s soapy YA romance is thankless and bland

Another familiar concoction fails to make use of its sunny location and chooses cheap melodrama over romantic charmA titular sunrise, a summer fling fantasy, exorbitant wealth, impossibly sculpted bodies: such are the profitable story ingredients that make up The Last Sunrise, the latest offering in Amazon’s endless catalogue of “romance content”. I wouldn’t ordinarily use that term to describe a film, but it fits The Last Sunrise (indifferently directed by Carlson Young) like a glove. The movie

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

Google DeepMind, Amazon Web Services, Kling AI Join Busan Market Tech Program InnoAsia

The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), the market of the Busan International Film Festival, will present InnoAsia 2026, its program built around the intersection of film and emerging technology. This year’s participants include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kling AI, Google DeepMind and Alibaba Group, alongside a range of other technology and content companies and […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026