The Guardian Culture

‘It’s like Dunkirk for the construction industry!’ The small team rescuing London’s precious building materials

Joel de Mowbray’s salvage scheme began as a small milk float converted into a logging vehicle – now he’s part of Tipping Point East, a massive site designed to divert valuable waste materials to builders that need itJoel de Mowbray reached breaking point with UK construction in south London in 2020. He was working on a lovely building project, part of Lambeth council’s scheme to make streets more pedestrian-friendly. De Mowbray was installing a public wooden seating area in an underused stretch

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Cannes Palme d’Or Winner ‘Fjord,’ Grand Prix Pick ‘Minotaur’ Head to India With Impact Films (EXCLUSIVE)

India’s Impact Films has pulled off a rare double at Cannes, with both the Palme d’Or winner and the Grand Prix winner – Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord” and Andrei Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur” – having been acquired for South Asian distribution before the festival opened. “Fjord,” acquired from Goodfellas, is Mungiu’s first film shot outside Romania and follows […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 to Open Italy’s Taormina Film Festival With Stars Steve Toussaint, Bethany Antonia and More Attending (EXCLUSIVE)

The Italian premiere of the first episode of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” Season 3 has been set as opener of Italy’s upcoming Taormina Film Festival that will run June 10-14 in the Sicilian sea resort. “House of the Dragon” stars Steve Toussaint (Lord Corlys Velaryon), Harry Collett (Jacaerys Velaryon), Bethany Antonia (Baela Targaryen) and […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Obama’s former speechwriter Ben Rhodes examines America through its 15 most defining speeches

From Frederick Douglass to Obama, Ben Rhodes shares the speeches that explain America in his new book, All We SayDonald Trump “has proven Jeremiah Wright correct about a lot of things”, said Ben Rhodes, a former speechwriter and deputy national security adviser to Barack Obama and still a close aide to the ex-president.“If you look at the things that Jeremiah Wright was kind of canceled for, it was saying America was a nation founded on racism. Well, it’s a fairly common view these days. 9/11 wa

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Sherlock Nemesis Moriarty Set for Drama Series from Fremantle, Archery Pictures

Sherlock Holmes remains a prime source of inspiration for TV execs so what to do when series about the iconic private detective have become almost ubiquitous? Elementary, my dear reader; turn to his arch nemesis, Professor James Moriarty. The criminal mastermind, created by author Arthur Conan Doyle to torment his famously observant protagonist, is set […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Moriarty’: Fremantle, Archery Pictures Team on Crime Drama Inspired by Sherlock Holmes Nemesis

Written by Chris Cornwell (‘A Discovery of Witches’) and Oliver Lansley (‘Where’s Wanda?’), the “modern reinvention of the crime procedural” casts the protagonist as a criminal psychology professor who leads a double life and becomes a police consultant.

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Coke can hair rollers and Puerto Rican pride: the street photography of Janette Beckman – in pictures

Four decades of Janette Beckman’s images will be on view until 18 April 2027 at Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP). The exhibit Rebels + Icons: The Photography of Janette Beckman will feature 700-plus archival and newly taken images. Among many iconic photographs, Beckman is known for photographing musical legends like Salt-N-Pepa and Run-DMC, and her striking approach to street photography Continue reading...

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

SXSW London’s Head of Screen on Picking From Thousands of Films With an Int’l and Genre Lens and That ‘Get Jiro!’ Get

Anna Bogutskaya discusses serving up an intriguing balance, a lineup throughline, the importance of stars, and how the Screen Festival showcases a Brazilian series just in time for the soccer World Cup.

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Derek Yee, Keane T.K. Wong’s ‘Afterpiece’ to Open Shanghai Film Festival

“Afterpiece,” a Hong Kong drama produced by Derek Yee and directed by debut filmmaker Keane T.K. Wong, will world premiere as the opening film of the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival, which runs June 12-21. The film centers on Owen, a once-celebrated stage director who has spent more than a decade in creative paralysis. When […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly review – lust at first sight

Shortlisted for the Women’s prize, this story of a writer’s infatuation with an older woman begins with bracing verveRozie Kelly’s frank and feisty debut novel, which has been shortlisted for this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, begins with a case of lust at first sight. Our unnamed narrator is a “beautiful” 35-year-old writer in a complicated but loving relationship with the equally beautiful but somewhat boring Michael. The object of his attentions is a famous poet, 17 years his senior, runn

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Gersh Buys U.K. Soccer Agency PLG to Form Gersh Football in Sports Expansion

Just before the FIFA World Cup, the talent firm expands the reach of its soccer representation business across the "big five" leagues, buying the company repping the likes of Scotland captain Andy Robertson.

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

Young MC Follows Morris Day in Exiting D.C. ‘Freedom 250’ Festival Over Trump Connection, as C+C Music Factory Weighs Options: ‘The Artists Were Never Told About Any Political Involvement’

On the very day the “Freedom 250” concert series was announced, rapper Young MC became the second artist to publicly back out of the government-sponsored festival taking place on the National Lawn in Washington, D.C.. His exit following Morris Day’s statement earlier Wednesday that he and the Time would have nothing to do with the […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Four Seasons season two review – Tina Fey’s brilliant follow-up is up there with 30 Rock

Poignant, hilarious, loaded with a super-sharp script … the second outing for this midlife comedy is even more fantastic than the firstMiddle age is a brutal time of life. As those of us mired in it know, it’s perfectly suited to being mined for laughs (the unhinged type of laughs that are bound up with tears, crisis, and, inevitably, death.) But still too few comedy series take this pressured segment of time and squeeze it for all its acidic worth. Enter middle-aged joke machine Tina Fey, who w

entertainment  May 28, 2026

Variety

‘The Four Seasons’ Season 2 Is Sadder and More Subdued: TV Review

Netflix’s “The Four Seasons,” an adaptation of Alan Alda’s 1981 film of the same name, has returned for a second season, and this time, grief, mid-life crises, babies and depression are on the menu. Created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, the first season followed three couples, all-decades-long friends, who vacation together throughout […]

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Impossible, exhausting, horrifying’: how a chilling supernatural play explains the terror of life in Iran

Hit Iranian horror Under the Shadow conjured scares from the aftermath of the 1979 revolution. With Tehran once again under siege, a new theatrical version makes that story feel more relevant than everNadia Latif’s grandmother warned her about djinn. “If angels are good and devils are evil,” the theatre and film director remembers learning, “then the djinn is something in between.” As a child, she asked her grandmother what that really meant. “It means,” she was told, “that bad things happen to

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Escaping Babylon by Jesse Bernard review – an intimate history of Black British music

A personal exploration of the sounds that defined a community, from Soul II Soul to Dizzee RascalThe year 1989 was a landmark in Black British music: Soul II Soul were on their way to conquering America and Sade had already become a global sensation, while A Guy Called Gerald and Nightmares on Wax had the entire Hacienda dancing to their tunes. It’s a fitting moment for Jesse Bernard (who was born in that year) to start his excellent memoir-cum-cultural history, Escaping Babylon. Structured

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Milking it: inside America’s lactation rooms – in pictures

Some are bright and cosy, others are starkly depressing – these images of rooms used to pump breast milk expose the sometimes grim reality of being a new mum in the US Continue reading...

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: turning absurd movie dreams into a strange reality

Sam Campbell’s show-within-a-show is like Changing Rooms but for would-be film directors. Plus, the transformation of Vladimir Putin. Here’s what to watch this evening10pm, Channel 4 Created and written by Last One Laughing’s breakout star Sam Campbell, and directed by Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’s Joe Pelling, this new comedy about a director who turns ordinary people’s movie ideas into reality is inevitably absurdist fun. First up is Mick, who pitches a man and a woman who can turn into snakes. Cu

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Not many people had gay dads who died of Aids’: Andrew Durham and Sofia Coppola on movie memoir Fairyland

Fairyland is a bittersweet film about a girl brought up by her gay father in a blizzard of glitter and feather boas in 1970s San Francisco. Its makers discuss its resonance, its tragedies – and their own boho childhoodsWhen Sofia Coppola logs on to our video call, her friend and fellow film-maker Andrew Durham – whose directorial debut, Fairyland, she has produced – is telling me about being nine or 10 years old, and accidentally outing his father as gay.“Have you heard this story, Sofia?” he as

entertainment  May 28, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘We’re waiting for the plan to find us’: Mouse on Mars on working with Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and 30 years of oblique adventures in sound

The German duo are returning with the results of their whirlwind session with the late dub legend, best heard in a ‘spatial audio’ installation. They explain why such an unexpected move is par for their artistic courseInterviewing Mouse on Mars is no easy feat. Not because the duo are hard to find, even though their current studio is hidden in a courtyard deep in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. Nor because they continue to be notoriously busy, particularly since one half of the band, Jan St Werner

entertainment  May 28, 2026