The Guardian Culture

Hepworth in Colour review – salty Cornish seascapes compressed into immaculate sculptures

Courtauld, LondonBarbara Hepworth’s elegant works, with their harp-like strings and splashes of blue, evoke the foamy breakers of St Ives. But should we really be surprised she used colour?They say in St Ives that if you put your ear to a Barbara Hepworth sculpture, you can hear the waves breaking on Porthmeor beach. Well, maybe they do say that and maybe they don’t. But the sea definitely roars in the ravishing sculptures at the heart of this small survey of just one aspect of her work: her use

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Variety

‘Slow Horses’ Season 6 Sets Fall Release Date, First Glimpse of Lenny Rush Alongside Slough House Team

The Slow Horses are galloping towards their sixth season. Apple TV has confirmed the hit TV series, which follows a group of misfit MI5 agents demoted to the Gary Oldman-governed Slough House, is set to return to the streamer on Sept. 16. The six-episode season will drop once-weekly on Wednesdays through Oct. 21. Season 6, […]

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The Guardian Culture

‘We give kids this thing to make them antisocial beasts’: Tom Hanks and Tim Allen on tech peril, Toy Story 5 and the joy of rusty nails

Pixar’s new film tells young viewers that technology has stolen their childhood and that parents need to wise up fast. Its stars answer your questions on the series’ radical new messageWhat is the thing you’ve learned most from this new film? SecretmissionTim Allen [the voice of Buzz Lightyear]: It sounds really self-gratifying, but it’s taking about 20% less time to make a better product. I know now how to focus and isolate my voice. I don’t do as many takes. Sometimes they’ll even say to me: “

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Variety

Fernanda Torres on Jennifer Lopez’s ‘Moving’ Testimony About Watching ‘I’m Still Here’ Amid Ben Affleck Divorce and Returning to Her Italian Roots at Taormina

Sitting at a beautiful rooftop overlooking the sprawling streets of Italy’s Taormina, Oscar-nominated Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres still can’t quite believe she has finally made it to Sicily. Torres, who is in town to receive the Taormina Film Festival Achievement Award, tells Variety that visiting the region has been a “longtime dream” of hers.  “I […]

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The Guardian Culture

‘Dangerous for being free’: Mon Laferte on calling out injustice as Chile’s biggest star

The musician opens up about her mental health, government corruption and why conservative backlash won’t stop her speaking her mindMon Laferte has a sore throat. Halfway through our conversation, in a studio with no windows at the Sony offices above New York’s Madison Square Park, singer Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte meekly asks her manager for a latte without lactose, or coconut milk, if they have it. It’s the first truly hot day of spring. She’s in between arena dates across Latin America

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Variety

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Champion Jinkx Monsoon to Make London West End Debut, Reprising Mary Todd Lincoln in ‘Oh, Mary!’

Jinkx Monsoon will make her London West End debut this summer, stepping into the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in “Oh, Mary!” at Trafalgar Theatre for a six-week run from Aug. 17 to Sept. 26. Monsoon, the first and only drag queen to win “RuPaul’s Drag Race” twice, previously played the role on Broadway, where […]

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The Guardian Culture

‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down twice to direct Bond

Film-maker says he approached producer ‘Cubby’ Broccoli after Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind were hits, but was knocked back both timesSteven Spielberg said that he was turned down twice by the producers of the James Bond movies – and now they couldn’t afford him.Spielberg was speaking to The Rest Is Entertainment podcast and was asked if he had any “regrets” about not directing a 007 movie. Spielberg said that he had approached Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, the legendary Bond producer w

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Variety

Australian Screen Producers Call for Fairness Rules to Counter Streaming Giants’ Market Power

Screen Producers Australia has lodged a 22-recommendation submission to the Australian government’s National Cultural Policy consultation, putting the market power of streaming platforms over independent producers at the center of its push for structural reform. The body’s submission argues that the shift to digital streaming has fundamentally altered commissioning practices, leaving small and medium-sized production […]

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The Guardian Culture

From Vecna to Mr Burns: TV’s greatest ever villains

Violent drug barons, brutal monarchs, interdimensional murderers … television has no shortage of horrifying baddies. Here’s our pick of the worstJavier Bardem biting off toes in Cape Fear. Richard Gadd stomping on heads in Half Man. Nightmare neighbour David Morrissey whipping up mob violence in Tip Toe. Yes, TV villainy is everywhere. Which got us thinking about the biggest baddies in small-screen history.When compiling our list, we discounted children’s TV, which is a whole separate category.

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The Guardian Culture

Stop! That! Train! review - RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot

With a whip-smart drag queen cast and celebrity cameos, Adam Shankman’s film is a refreshingly kooky twist on the summer movie caperGiven the grip it exerts on the drag world in the US and beyond, it’s almost quaint to remember the janky beginnings of RuPaul’s Drag Race, which debuted in 2009 with cheap plywood sets, a “lounge” sponsored by Absolut Vodka and special guests including Michelle Williams (the less famous one). Now, it’s a high-gloss spectacle that has won 14 Emmy awards, is credited

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The Guardian Culture

Kelsey Lu: So Help Me God review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Dirty Hit)Aided by Jack Antonoff, Kim Gordon, Sampha and more, the cello-playing singer-songwriter’s abstracted yet tuneful second album is worth the seven year waitSeven years separate the release of cello-playing singer-songwriter Kelsey Lu’s debut album, Blood, from its follow-up. Lu has suggested the long gap was an act of artistic rebellion against a music industry obsessed with providing a constant stream of new product – “tuning into my intuition, trusting myself and building a team to s

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The Guardian Culture

‘She slept in the hallway on a lawn chair’: how Bettina’s astonishing art outgrew her Chelsea Hotel room

The reclusive figure spent decades filling every surface of her apartment at the legendary New York hotel with artworks that rose in teetering piles. Some are now on display for the first time in GlasgowWhen the artist Yto Barrada stepped through the door of room 503, up on the fifth floor of New York’s Chelsea Hotel, she was overwhelmed by what she saw. Every inch of the walls was plastered with Xeroxed word art, graphic reproductions of geometric sculptures, hundreds of photographs of passersb

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Variety

Emily Watson to Serve as Jury President at 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival, and Receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo

British actress Emily Watson will serve as president of the jury for the Feature Film Competition Program at the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival. She will also receive the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at the festival, in recognition of her contribution to world cinema. Jovan Marjanović, director of the festival said Watson was an actress “whose […]

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Variety

‘Jane Eyre’ Musical Sets U.K. Stage Debut With West End Stars Charlie Burn and Ashley Gilmour (EXCLUSIVE)

Charlie Burn and Ashley Gilmour are set to lead the cast of “Jane Eyre,” the musical by John Caird and Paul Gordon, when the show makes its U.K. premiere at Southwark Playhouse Elephant in London. The play opens Aug. 28 and plays through Oct. 24. Burn, who recently starred as Cady Heron in “Mean Girls” […]

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Hollywood Reporter

At Tribeca, an All-AI Iran Movie Shows Film’s Future (Or at Least Its Messy Present)

'Dreams of Violets' premieres at the festival, as an industry watches nervously.

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Variety

‘The Struggle for Mother Water’ Director Michael Zelniker on His Taormina Film Festival Prize: ‘It’s Validation for Those Who Are on the Front Lines’

Canadian filmmaker Michael Zelniker, who will receive the Taormina Film Festival’s Special Sustainability Award on Thursday evening, is on a mission to try and heal the damages humanity is inflicting on planet Earth. Zelniker, who previously helmed the acclaimed 2022 deforestation docuseries “The Issue With Tissue — a Boreal Love Story” — which will soon […]

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Variety

DR Sales Closes With WDR/Arte, VRT, NRK in Multi Buyers Pact on Norwegian Wildlife Doc ‘Frost Without Snow and Ice’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Copenhagen-based DR Sales, sales rep of the Oscar-winning “Mr Nobody Against Putin” and Sundance hit “A New Kind of Wilderness,” has closed a raft of deals on the Norwegian wildlife documentary “Frost Without Snow and Ice” (“Frost uten Snø og Is”) on the heels of its world premiere at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Broadcasters and […]

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Variety

DR Sales Closes With WDR/Arte, VRT, NRK in Multi Buyers Pact on Norwegian Wildlife Doc ‘Frost Without Snow and Ice’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Copenhagen-based DR Sales, sales rep of the Oscar-winning “Mr Nobody Against Putin” and Sundance hit “A New Kind of Wilderness,” has closed a raft of deals on the Norwegian wildlife documentary “Frost Without Snow and Ice” (“Frost uten Snø og Is”) on the heels of its world premiere at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival. Broadcasters and […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Emily Watson Named Sarajevo Film Festival Jury President and Honorary Heart Recipient

Watson, who most recently starred in Chloé Zhao's 'Hamnet,' has left "a profound mark on contemporary cinema," according to Sarajevo director Jovan Marjanović.

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The Guardian Culture

The best games of 2026 so far

If you fancy roaring around Japan’s open roads, scaling impossible mountains and playing with post-apocalyptic Pokémon, this year’s highlights mean you can do so without leaving your chair Continue reading...

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