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

Variety

Former Costa Rican Film Commissioner Marysela Zamora: ‘I Believe That the Next Great Chapter in Audiovisual Media Will Be Written in Spanish’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Former Costa Rican Film Commissioner Marysela Zamora, who was instrumental in reviving the Costa Rica Media Market (CRMM) these past two years, will continue to serve on the Board of Directors of the Ibero-American Network of Film Commissions (Iberofic), where she will spearhead a regional agenda aimed at bolstering women’s leadership in the audiovisual sector […]

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Variety

China Box Office: ‘Once Upon a Time in the Middle East’ Dominates With $70 Million Weekend as Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Debuts Second

Dirty Monkeys’ war comedy-drama “Once Upon a Time in the Middle East” took command of the mainland China box office during the Aug. 14–16 weekend, grossing RMB477.9 million ($70.3 million) over the three-day frame, according to data from Artisan Gateway. Following its Tuesday, Aug. 11 rollout and earlier previews, the production has amassed a cumulative […]

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Paul McCartney asked for my autograph!’ Su Pollard on Hi-de-Hi! and her amazing celebrity encounters

Even after half a century in the limelight, the actor can still surprise. Who’d have guessed she went clubbing with Freddie Mercury? Or that she watched Blair and Brown strike their fateful deal at Granita?A quick run-through of some of the 20th-century icons that Su Pollard has met. Paul McCartney? “Absolutely fabulous,” Pollard says. “He was sat leaning against a wall, next to Linda.” She does a great impression of McCartney’s accent. “‘Hey Su, how are you? Love the show. Can I have your autog

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Variety

Hollywood Failed Hayden Panettiere

Hayden Panettiere, the former child actress who grew up onscreen before our very eyes, passed away Sunday at the age of 36. She died five days before her 37th birthday. “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden,” her father Alan said in a statement. “She was an […]

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

I Made You a Mixtape review – frothy fringe fun as dorm mates party like it’s 1999

TheSpace Triplex, EdinburghNine college students fall out and make up as they dance to punk-pop and alt-rock in this lively showThis is such a festival show: uncategorisable, buzzing, slightly chaotic and unlike anything else. As director Christie Lee Manning of Response Theatre Company tells us at the outset, I Made You a Mixtape is not a play, not a musical, not (really) a dance show, even though it is pretty much only dance all the way through, plus some hand-written captions. But it’s the ki

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

An Agatha Christie classic with an impressive cast: best podcasts of the week

Toni Collette heads a list of familiar voices playing out the village murder-mystery. Plus, Guz Khan and Kiell Smith-Bynoe go off on some rather wild tangentsToni Collette is an eagle-eyed amateur sleuth in this big adaptation of Agatha Christie’s first Miss Marple novel. When Colonel Protheroe is found dead in sleepy St Mary Mead, suspects include his spouse, Anne, and daughter, Lettice. But as false confessions and red herrings stack up, can Marple crack the case? Kit Harington, Lolly Adefope

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Conversations with an Executioner: a chilling classic reveals the mind of a Nazi mass murderer

Polish war hero Kazimierz Moczarski spent 255 days sharing a cell with an SS general. Nearly 50 years after it was published, an uncensored version of his account is appearing in English for the first timeIn 1949, Kazimierz Moczarski, a leading member of the Polish resistance, was in his fourth year of incarceration when he was moved into a cell with two Nazis at Warsaw’s Mokotów prison. One of them was Jürgen Stroop – a war criminal and SS general who had led the infamous destruction of the War

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

49 Miles More review – screwball East Anglian road caper makes a smart left turn

When sobersided Max agrees to chaperone zany childhood pal Doug to a big night with the lads, everything goes predictably wrong, but some real surprises awaitDoug, the incessant funster played by Gregory Fung in this jaunty but finally poignant buddy comedy, joins the likes of The Hangover’s Alan Garner as the nightmarish BFF most likely to give you an aneurysm. After losing a round of bagsy, childhood pal Max (Reece Henderson) is saddled with chaperoning Doug to their annual lads’ night out, ta

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Agrippa by Robert Harris review – persuasive portrait of rivalry in ancient Rome

This fictional memoir by Octavius’s right-hand man shows us bloodshed, betrayal and hectic jockeying for powerIf you’re one of those people who thinks about the Roman empire several times a week, Robert Harris has you covered. He follows his trilogy of novels about the life of Cicero and his one-off about the unpleasantness in Pompeii with a narrative that takes us from civil war through the assassination of Julius Caesar, with all the bickering and bloodshed that follows, on to t

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: Michael Sheen’s furious investigation into a pollution scandal

The actor’s anger grows as he seeks answers about toxic ‘forever’ chemicals in Wales. Plus: speed dating with the Gypsy Wives. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC TwoIncreasingly as much an activist as he is an actor, Michael Sheen draws attention to a grim pollution scandal several decades in the making in this enraging two-part TV take on the award-winning podcast he co-hosted. Are parts of Wales contaminated with the toxic “forever chemical” PCB? As Sheen speaks to reporters, visits the

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Jolly Fisherman review – last orders for an east London boozer in tense tale

Underbelly, George Square, EdinburghA real-life pub closure inspires a sensitive and subtle drama about friendship and community by John DinneenTwo years ago, it was reported that a pub in Barking called The Jolly Fisherman had found a buyer after five years of dereliction. The prospective owner was a Muslim charity, which planned to turn a former business based on alcohol into a place of abstinence.In one respect, a building that had been the focus of community life in this part of east London

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘His ache is real’: Bob Dylan and more on the wild genius of honky-tonk hellraiser Gary Stewart

Worshipped by everyone from Willie Nelson to Joe Strummer, the country star with the amazing voice imploded in a blaze of guns, knives, drugs and infidelities. What’s behind his astonishing posthumous rediscovery?‘He sings like a man arguing with destiny. It sounds like the ache is real, that the ruin is real,” Bob Dylan tells me. “There’s a cracked truth there. What’s unsettling about him is that he sounds like he’s already living in the aftermath.” Dylan is talking about the late US singer-son

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Bob Iger Takes Victory Lap As He’s Named a Disney Legend, Applauds New CEO Josh D’Amaro: “You’re Wearing That Title Really Well”

The former Disney boss was honored alongside Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jerry Bruckheimer at the D23 event.

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026

Variety

John Oliver Brutally Mocks Trump for Sacrificing Staff in Airplane-Swap Incident

On Sunday night, the summer’s hottest soap opera star, John Oliver, opened the latest edition of his Emmy-winning HBO series “Last Week Tonight” by addressing Trump’s controversial airplane switcheroo incident whilst leaving a NATO summit in Turkey. “The Iran War dragged on with a series of humiliating news headlines including this revelation about Trump’s trip […]

entertainment  Aug 17, 2026