Variety

Motherhood Horror Film ‘Vagina Dentata,’ ‘From The Eclipse’ Director Nataša Urban, Boarded by Romanian Partner Manifest Film (EXCLUSIVE)

“Vagina Dentata,” the new film from Norwegian filmmaker Nataša Urban, whose “The Eclipse” won top honors at CPH:DOX in 2022, has been boarded by Manifest Film. The Romanian outfit will co-produce “Vagina Dentata,” a genre-bending exploration of motherhood and postnatal depression that will be pitched at this week’s Nordic Co-Production Market in Haugesund. Produced by […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘It destroyed me’ – your top true crime TV shows of all time

From influencers gone (really, really) bad and the outrageous Joe Exotic to the greatest reveal in television history – here are Guardian readers’ favourite real-life documentaries and whodunnitsI watched the BBC’s Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared when it came out and Damien Nettles, its subject, still pops up in my mind sometimes. It’s a comprehensive, empathetic and gripping investigation into a case I had never heard of. The Serial/Making a Murderer-style approach of showing the investigatio

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

Vidio Teams With ReelShort for First Indonesian Short-Drama Partnership

Indonesian streaming platform Vidio has partnered with ReelShort, the microdrama platform owned by Crazy Maple Studio, marking ReelShort’s first entry into the Indonesian market. Hundreds of ReelShort titles will become available on Vidio starting Sept. 1. The content will stream through a dedicated Short Drama tab, accessible to subscribers on Vidio’s TV Extra, Platinum, Platinum […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

LevelK Boards Haugesund-Bound Norwegian Psycho Thriller ‘Anathema,’ About Repression, Denial and Collective Madness (EXCLUSIVE)

Copenhagen-based sales and aggregation outlet LevelK has boarded the Norwegian psycho-thriller “Anathema” by promising directing duo Ea Johanne Sandberg and Alpha Nord. One of 21 projects in development to be pitched today at the Nordic Co-Production Market in Haugesund, “Anathema” is being shepherded by the seasoned Janne Hjeltnes (Netflix’s “Royalteen,” “Midsummer Night”) and Anne Borgaard […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘An act of resistance’: Baltimore’s holdout homes – in pictures

Ben Marcin’s stunning photographs show lone houses, derelict homes and makeshift camps that stand as epitaphs to past lives and offer insight into how Americans on the margins live Continue reading...

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

From Jolene to Islands in the Stream: Dolly Parton’s 10 best recordings

The late star created some of the most beloved country and pop songs in American musicAlexis Petridis on Dolly Parton’s peerless career that turned country music cliches inside outDolly Parton – a life in picturesCountry music legend Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – latest updatesThe death of Dolly Parton today at age 80 has the world mourning one of America’s most beloved entertainers: a generation-spanning performer and country music icon who took as much pride in her music as she did her sparkling

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Passage by Colin Thubron review – mortality and memory in a gem of a novel

A terminally ill woman makes a final trip to Egypt in an exquisitely wrought portrait of end-of-life reckoningVirginia Woolf said of Middlemarch that it is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people. In the shallow and infantilising age through which we are living, Colin Thubron dares to assume that his readers are adults. Passage is a very beautiful, very moving, authentic work of art. Hardly more than a novella, it sits lightly in the hand, but its emotional and aesthetic w

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Hanging By a Wire review – cable car rescue documentary dangles viewers on the edge of disaster

The extraordinary fate of eight people trapped above a chasm in Pakistan makes for a tense, skilfully assembled survival story with unexpected flashes of comedySurvival documentaries are a weird little genre of nonfiction film-making that recount the stories of accidents and natural catastrophes – and more often than not, the daring rescues of people caught up in them. Eyewitnesses and the loved ones of those endangered are top of the interview list, to keep the sense of danger and emotional sta

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

Amanda Kernell Is More Interested in ‘Liberation Than a Curse’ as Her Third Feature ‘Brace Your Heart’ Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)

In her upcoming third feature “Brace Your Heart,” Amanda Kernell follows a survivor, not a victim.  “We’re all different, and some people who experience really difficult things can’t recover. But there are others who survive and find there’s light on the other side,” she told Variety.  Kernell, known for “Sámi Blood” and “Charter,” is also behind […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: the search for the murderer of Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee

A documentary series gains impressive access to the detectives who have been hunting for the killer since 2019. Plus: Mark Gatiss returns as a bookish postwar sleuth. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 4The 2019 murder of the journalist Lyra McKee in Derry was a grim reminder that, while the Troubles are in abeyance, it’s still a stretch to describe them as being over. Filmed across seven years, this three-part documentary gains impressive access to the detectives hunting for Lyra’s k

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Haim Saban, Lawrence Bender and Teddy Schwarzman Among Industry Group Accusing Mark Ruffalo of “Antisemitism” in Attack on Paramount Leadership

The group, calling itself The Brigade, also includes Ram Bergman, Matti Leshem, Anthony Bregman, Micah Green and Lynn Harris.

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

‘Heroes’ Stars Throw Reunion to ‘Celebrate the Life’ of Hayden Panettiere: ‘So Much Love, Gratitude and Warmth’

The cast of “Heroes” got together to celebrate the life of their co-star Hayden Panettiere, who died on Aug. 16 at 36 years old. “A ‘HEROES’ reunion to celebrate the life of HAYDEN was deeply emotional,” series star Jimmy Jean-Louis wrote on X, sharing photos of himself with his former castmates. “There was sadness in […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘We met Princess Margaret and she was paralytic!’ My wild life onboard the Adam and the Ants Antmania rollercoaster

With their twangy sound, madcap outfits, lusty yodelling and pirouetting pirate frontman, the band became global superstars almost overnight. But, as their guitarist Marco Pirroni recalls, the thrill ride soon hit the buffers‘The essence of pop is, one, brilliant fucking songs – and the rest is sex, subversion, style and humour. And that was us.” So Adam Ant told me in 1995, describing the reconstructed Adam and the Ants, which formed in early 1980 with the arrival of guitarist/songwriter Marco

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Jess Fuchs: Feral review – a debut with tremendous oomph from a future comedy star

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis motormouth Australian comic fires off tart remarks and home truths then explains why she over-identifies with the Titanic‘No hugging, no learning” was the writers’ rule on Seinfeld. Jess Fuchs decrees a similar stricture for Feral, in which she will learn nothing about herself whatsoever. “Really, I’m just here to talk shit.” That might get proceedings off to an underwhelming start, save that the Aussie’s cynical shtick is delivered with tremendous oomph: a bra

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

Taylor Swift Pays Tribute to Dolly Parton: ‘She Was True Grace and True Grit, All in One Dazzling Person’

Taylor Swift shared a touching tribute to the late Dolly Parton after the iconic singer-songwriter’s death on Tuesday. “A world without Dolly doesn’t feel possible, real, or right,” it reads. “But because of the eternally generous way she spent her time on this earth and the countless lives she changed for the better, her legacy […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Dolly Parton, a Hollywood Treasure Who Lit Up the Screen With Her Authentic Self

The country superstar was a luminous natural in a small but indelible body of much-loved feature films, chief among them '9 to 5,' 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas' and 'Steel Magnolias.'

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Taylor Swift Remembers Dolly Parton’s “True Grace and Grit”: “Her Legacy Will Be Everlasting”

The 13-time Grammy Award winner previously told The Hollywood Reporter that Parton was "a force of evolution and transformation in our industry."

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

The Best Tinted Sunscreens to Achieve Off-Duty (Skin-Safe) Beauty

These Hollywood-coveted, editor-tested formulas blend makeup, skin care and, of course, sun care.

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Jelly Roll Takes Jabs at Donald Trump While Guest Hosting ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

"In the last few years, I’ve lost 300 pounds. That means I’ve lost an entire Donald Trump," the country star quipped during the opening monologue.

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026

Variety

Jane Fonda Slams Paramount For Calling Mark Ruffalo’s Comments ‘Antisemitic’: ‘A Smear to Delegitimize Criticism of the Merger’

Jane Fonda has released a statement in support of Mark Ruffalo after Paramount slammed the four-time Oscar nominee as “antisemitic” for a recent post denouncing Larry Ellison’s ties to Israel and David Ellison’s planned merger with Warner Bros. “Especially as a Jewish American, I find it deeply troubling to see false accusations of antisemitism used […]

entertainment  Aug 26, 2026