Variety

‘Supporting Role’ Review: Dato Bakhtadze Captivates in a Nocturnal Odyssey Through Tbilisi

A nocturnal odyssey through the spectral streets of Tbilisi is conjured with mesmerizing effect in Georgian writer-director Ana Urushadze’s “Supporting Role.” On the heavy heels of Niaz (Dato Bakhtadze), a lumbering Georgian movie star whose glory days are behind him, Urushadze’s second feature plays like an old-school Jim Jarmusch joint — all existential wandering and weird, […]

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Lanterns review – Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre’s alien-hunting superhero caper is a bust

Sure, it’s got evil extraterrestrials trying to detonate whole towns … but not even the almighty Green Lantern and his mesmerising protege can save this show from feeling a whole lot of mehIt is my personal belief that you are starting off on the back foot whenever you’re given a superhero who draws their powers from an extrinsic item. Captain America is nothing without his shield. Elon Musk could build a metal suit and proto-heart and become Iron Man, which tells you everything you need to know

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Diane Kruger, Tim Roth, Danny Boon join Netflix Nazi Hunter Drama ‘Project K’

Yvan Attal is directing the real-life drama about Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the German-Jewish couple that tracked down Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie.

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Chris Carter is mistaken if he thinks more gore will bring The X-Files: I Want to Believe back to life

The director’s cut includes a host more body parts but no more insight into the villains’ personalities. What could be a gothic masterstroke is turned into a dreary procedural in the snowWarning: this article contains spoilersEveryone loves a director’s cut. But unlike some, The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn, which debuted on Friday on Disney+, is not the kind of director’s cut that will radically alter critical perspectives on the original 2008 film. Much has been made, mainl

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Tether 인연 review – romantic ceilidh skips from Scotland to South Korea

Summerhall, EdinburghLove stories ring across the generations in this charming fusion of traditional dance and music from two culturesConnections are found in surprising places. You can get from Scotland to South Korea, for example, via the pentatonic scale. The same five-note structure lies behind Arirang, the ancient Korean folk song, and Celtic airs such as Auld Lang Syne.In an international collaboration that grew out of a chance meeting during a previous Edinburgh fringe, Robbie Gordon and

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Variety

Hayden Panettiere Remembered by Viola Davis, Bethany Joy Lenz, Melissa Barrera and More: ‘I Wish the World Had More Time With You’

Celebrities are paying tribute to “Nashville” and “Heroes” actress Hayden Panettiere, who died Sunday at 36. Though a cause of death has not been released, her father told ABC News on Sunday: “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force […]

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Vigil’ Season 3 Trailer: Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie Investigate a Murder at an Arctic Research Station – and They Can’t Trust Anybody

The six-episode new season of the BBC hit drama, produced by World Productions, was filmed in Svalbard, Norway and Scotland, with the BBC also revealing its launch date.

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Fröst review – dance, dynamism and a wild rumpus as maverick clarinettist-conductor takes charge

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe ferociously dynamic SCO help Fröst drill down to the rhythmic essence of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony as well as works by contemporary composersIt’s a Sunday morning, and as the Royal Albert Hall darkens and the stage is suddenly back-lit, spotlighting a charismatic figure speaking sibilantly at its centre, you’d almost swear you’d wandered into an American megachurch. But the gospel preached by maverick clarinettist-conductor Martin Fröst is altogether more ancient

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Fated to become a cult classic’: why Barcelona is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers detailing their most pleasurable comfort films is a trip to 1980s Spain courtesy of Whit StillmanAn hour into Whit Stillman’s 1994 film, Barcelona, the protagonist, Ted Boynton (Taylor Nichols), considers using “maneuver x” in his stalled romantic life. He’s an American working in the Spanish branch of an auto conglomerate, looking for love in the titular city’s post-Franco, sexually liberated nightlife. As Ted explains to his cousin Fred (Chris Eigeman) – vis

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Variety

Deluxe Media and Tohokushinsha Film Corporation Set Strategic Asia-Pacific Localization Partnership (EXCLUSIVE)

Deluxe Media Inc. and Tokyo-based Tohokushinsha Film Corporation have formed a strategic partnership to expand localization services across the Asia-Pacific region. The non-exclusive deal pairs Deluxe’s ties to top studios and streamers, its scale and its tech-driven localization workflows with Tohokushinsha’s creative and in-market strengths built up over decades in Japan. Both companies said the […]

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Ego Trip by Kimon de Greef review – a bizarre tale of psychedelic toads and hair-raising treatments

A journalist investigates the unsettling world of a charismatic shaman and the people who trusted himWhich, in your opinion, is the worst current cultural trend: social media influencers; unregulated wellness practitioners; macho manosphere posturers; psychedelic bores; cultural appropriators? The good news is that, with Octavio Rettig, the central character in Kimon de Greef’s The Ego Trip, you don’t have to choose between them. He’s all five wrapped into one objectionable package, an

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

A Rimbaud review – legendary poet’s unlikely transformation into entrepreneur is as odd as ever

Australian actor Blake Draper delivers a committed one-man performance tracking the writer as he morphs from enfant terrible to merchantUS experimentalist Patrick Wang here curates an intriguing if very austere experience, a theatrical-style one-man show about the eventful life of the poet Arthur Rimbaud, presented as a microbudget epic of nearly three hours, an episodic piece taking place entirely within a “black box” stage space, ventilated occasionally by back-projection videos of the great o

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Variety

‘Heartstopper’ Star Rhea Norwood, ‘Enola Holmes’ Actor Susan Wokoma, ‘Dear England’ Writer James Graham Join U.K. National Youth Theatre’s 70th Anniversary Show (EXCLUSIVE)

The U.K.’s National Youth Theatre has announced a further wave of star names for “Letters to My Younger Future Self,” the one-night performance marking the organization’s 70th anniversary. The show, supported by Netflix, is set for Sept. 20 at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London. The new names joining the lineup include chart-topper […]

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

In ‘Oasis,’ a School Spirals Into Violence – and Three Outcasts Take Refuge in a Forest (Exclusive Trailer)

Also check out the poster for Jannis Lenz’s feature debut, which premieres at Venice and reveals the "quiet brutality of human relationships, while echoing the violence that shapes our contemporary world.”

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Variety

‘Snapshot’ Review: A Nifty Calling-Card Debut Refashions the Jack the Ripper Story as Found-Footage Horror

Found footage may be a fairly stale gimmick in horror these days, but the low-budget British indie “Snapshot” finds a way to freshen up the idea — and if that largely amounts to layering another technical gimmick over it, the results are nonetheless striking. Emulating the look of 19th-century pinhole photography, with the entire film […]

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Variety

Mexico’s Madrefoca Boards ‘Isabel Hernández’ as Zoe Films Builds Festival Momentum (EXCLUSIVE)

Mexico’s Madrefoca Cine has boarded “Isabel Hernández,” Italian filmmaker Giorgio Giampà’s feature debut, joining Zoe Films, LaDoc and Fiasco on the Italy-Mexico co-production. The project is among the 15 titles selected for the 2026 Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Its San Sebastián berth comes as Zoe Films builds a growing […]

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Skintown review – Northern Irish scamps rave their Troubles away

Catholics and Protestants find E-fuelled common ground at a hallowed Portrush club in Ciarán McMenamin’s adaptation of his own 2018 novelDerry Girls meets Human Traffic in this spirited, larky and at times poignant period piece about raving and drug dealing scamps in Northern Ireland in the 1990s. It doesn’t go quite so far as to suggest that the social revolution that MDMA engendered in youth culture and spread to the rest of the UK in that decade played a causal role in the Northern Irish peac

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Taiwan Season: The Wall review – close encounters in a city that never sleeps

Summerhall, EdinburghSeed Dance Company deliver a show that builds in intensity as it riffs on imprisonment and estrangementTaiwan’s Seed Dance Company visited the fringe in 2024 with a rather literal yet haunting show about smartphone addiction, Lost Connection. This similarly coolly executed piece could share the same title as its predecessor but is more enigmatic. It makes use of two box-like, occasionally illuminated apparatus which are modified during the show to resemble apartments and var

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Brandon Flowers: Thrasher review – Killers frontman’s country pivot is a rootin’ tootin’ cowboy-bootin’ hoot!

(Island)Even a couple of bafflingly misguided social commentary songs can’t detract from the joys of Flowers’ classically full-throated commitment to the Nashville bitHere are three immutable facts about Brandon Richard Flowers: he was born just outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He is 45 years old. And he never does anything by halves. When he and his band the Killers debuted in the early 2000s, as disaffected New York cool was on the rise, he was writing scream-along choruses sung in his upper registe

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Variety

Korea Box Office: Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Outpaces ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Again in Strong Second Weekend

“The Odyssey” ruled the South Korean box office during the weekend of Aug. 14–16. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the Christopher Nolan-directed tentpole generated $13.2 million from 1,691,744 admissions over the three-day frame across 2,114 screens, capturing 59.07% of the total weekend market. The film grew […]

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026