Variety

Ana Vaz Discusses the Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, the Work of Yoko Hayasuke and Preferring to Be a Mother Rather than a Zombie

“When you begin again, you repeat everything,” reflects experimental filmmaker Ana Vaz, thinking of her home country Brazil and the setting of her new feature, “Hanabi,” in Japan. “There’s a normalization of the state of catastrophe and disaster necessary for the system to perpetrate itself. It needs catastrophe in order to exist.” In the wake […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Christine Vachon Jokes She Likes Pedro Pascal Better Than Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Haynes’ ‘De Noche’

The prolific indie producer spoke at an Edinburgh Film Festival session, where she also touched on the queer film landscape: "We have 'Heated Rivalry' which couldn't be a bigger hit, and we still have politicians campaigning on who gets to use what bathroom."

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

ABC and NBC to Add 11 More NBA Games This Season, Further Squeezing Hollywood

Another 33 hours or so of broadcast TV airtime will be handed over to live games, with original network programming and reruns losing out.

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

A critical mauling: Brian Logan on comedy critics being portrayed as horrible snobs

Two Edinburgh fringe shows feature savage send-ups of reviewers. Is this petty revenge or do they have a case? Our writer finds one ‘a hoot’ – and thinks the other let him off lightlyNo one ever built a statue to a critic, they say – but plenty of art gets made about them. There was Wild Bore at the Traverse a few Edinburgh fringes back, an eye-catching performance-art attack on the notion of critical authority. There was Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, Sheridan’s The Critic, and the 70

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

Busan Film Festival to Honor Founder Director Kim Dong-ho With Korean Cinema Award

Kim Dong-ho, founding festival director of the Busan International Film Festival, has been named the recipient of the 31st BIFF’s Korean Cinema Award. The honor goes to figures whose work has shaped Korean cinema and helped raise its profile abroad. Kim began his career at the Ministry of Culture and Information, now the Ministry of […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

BBCSO/Gaffigan review – all-American evening of sleek grooves and edge-of-seat Barber

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe UK premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s Concerto for Orchestra was playful and punchy, before elegant Gershwin and noirish BarberIt’s been a busy week for Wynton Marsalis. Fresh from opening the Edinburgh festival with his monumental 1999 jazz symphony All Rise, the Grammy-winning trumpeter and composer saw the UK premiere of his Concerto for Orchestra at the BBC Proms. And if the former is Marsalis at his most earnestly, sprawlingly ambitious, the latter finds him almost r

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Sentimental Value’ Screenwriter Gets Backing For Next Directorial Feature

Eskil Vogt, a dual Oscar nominee for for Best Original Screenplay for 'Sentimental Value' and 'The Worst Person in the World,' is prepping his next film as a director, the psychological thriller 'Untitled.'

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Accept My Plea for Burial’ Will Explore Moral Conflicts of Ordinary People Through a Somali Lens

Mohammed Sheikh, who brought the project to Locarno Open Doors, where it won one of the two main awards, discusses his cinematic story about such universal themes as "loss, grief, love, family, justice."

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Murakami saw his book come alive!’: the Japanese company bringing the author’s science fiction masterpiece to the stage

A play based on the writer’s dreamlike novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is touring the world, riding a wave of interest in Japanese culture. Its creators talk about how they adapted the famously cryptic taleTatsuya Fujiwara is no stranger to London’s Barbican theatre. It was here nearly 30 years ago that one of Japan’s biggest film stars, now 44, made his stage debut. He was just 15, plucked out of an audition of more than 5,000 hopeful youngsters by the revered theatre

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Alien: Isolation 2 – another strong female protagonist stalked in a terrifying new world

Creative Assembly could strike gold again with this follow-up to their fan-favourite, film-inspired game … if you’re brave enough to venture outdoorsAlien: Isolation redefined Alien games on its release in 2014, bringing the original taut, haunted house theme of the first movie to fans who had mostly been fed action-packed shooters. Cowering under desks and inside lockers wasn’t a new thing; being hunted by an intelligent and lethal xenomorph that could spring down from a duct at any moment was.

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘We get 200 tourists a day’: when your house becomes a TV star

What’s it like to live on the set of a soap opera? Or above Ted Lasso’s favourite pub? The residents of the homes made famous by hit TV shows tell allHalf the world recognises the apartment that Carrie Bradshaw lives in. Or the New Jersey mansion where Tony Soprano ate, slept and obsessed over the ducks in his swimming pool. In the 1990s, if you asked a good chunk of the global population where Will Smith lived, they would instantly picture a huge, white abode in Bel Air.For the real people who

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Come With Me,’ Psychological Thriller Starring Theo Rossi and Ron Perlman, Sells to Vertical and Gets First Trailer (Exclusive)

The firm acquired the film, about a working-class man whose life unravels after traumatic experiences that lead him to fall under the influence of "a rhetoric-spewing radio host," for North America.

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

San Sebastian Adds Jesse Eisenberg, Fred Cavayé, Amanda Kernell Films to Golden Shell Race

The San Sebastián Film Festival has added six films to its 2026 Official Selection, including new works from Jesse Eisenberg, Fred Cavayé, Amanda Kernell and Gabriel Martins, alongside feature debuts from Ah Biao and Tony Vahl. The titles join 10 previously announced contenders and will compete for the Golden Shell at the festival’s 74th edition. […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Midsummer! review – Suri Noelle sparkles in a frisky Dream at the Edinburgh fringe

Assembly @ St Andrew Square, EdinburghA lusty adaptation by Avenue Q’s co-creator is performed with verve by Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise’s daughter and her fellow studentsNot every undergraduate Shakespeare show at the Edinburgh fringe makes headlines but this one brings stardust by association. Suri Noelle, the 20-year-old daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, appears with her fellow drama students from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University. However, it’s a bit of an event regardless – the

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

Golden Lion Winner Milcho Manchevski Talks ‘Giving a Voice’ to Pulse Nightclub Survivors With ‘Good People’: ‘Our Job Was to Stay Out of the Way’

It took over three decades for Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski — whose debut feature “Before the Rain” won the top award in Venice in 1994 and was Oscar nominated — to direct his first documentary. But when he first heard about the nightclub fire that took dozens of lives in North Macedonia in 2025, he […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Add to playlist: the heartbreak post-mortems of Cape Town’s Rowlene and the week’s best new tracks

The South African singer has been a memorable guest artist, but the unhurried, emotional tracks on new album Some Strings Attached show she’s ready for the spotlightFrom Cape Town, South AfricaRecommended if you like Summer Walker, SZA, ShekhinahUp next Some Strings Attached out nowRowlene Bosman learned to sing in a Cape Town school choir, and the discipline never left her: she is a precision vocalist in a scene that rewards volume. Most South Africans first heard her in 2018, delivering the ho

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The Amateur by Chris Bohjalian; Claws Out! by Bella Mackie; Plant Lady by Minyoung Kang; Children of Wolves by Lawrence Osborne; Mad Mabel by Sally HepworthThe Amateur by Chris Bohjalian (Hutchinson Heinemann, £18.99) American bestseller Bohjalian deserves to be far better known in the UK, although, as the first line of his 26th novel points out, “It is neither virtue nor might that rules the world; it’s luck”. Mira Winston’s luck began early, as she was born into a rich family, clever enough t

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Michael Sheen and Director Simon Ryninks Reveal Their Personal Connections to Welsh Sci-Fi Caper ‘Out There’: “This Really Pushed Buttons for Me”

"I spent a year praying he would say yes, like a UFO believer," said Ryninks on tempting the Hollywood star aboard his Edinburgh-premiering feature. "I just had faith that he was out there, waiting for contact."

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Real Kyle McCarren review – musical eulogy to lost bandmate strikes a chord

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghAndy Roninson’s tribute to a friend who died aged 21 combines original rock, soul and folk songs in a considered exploration of griefThey say don’t speak ill of the dead – how about singing instead? Based on real events, this new US musical is designed as a loving but warts-and-all eulogy. His friend and bandmate Kyle, who died out of the blue at the age of 21, was a rock for him, says creator Andy Roninson. “But in a Sisyphus way.”Roninson narrates and plays the ke

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Hillborg: Lost Landscapes album review – sonic imagination and luminous colours

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Kuusisto/Lubman/Falk Winland(Alpha)Unconventional instrumentation adds to the filmic feeling of these three works by the Swedish composer, played on this recording by a powerhouse orchestra on top formAnders Hillborg’s stylistically eclectic work resists easy categorisation as these three rewarding works, performed by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, demonstrate. Lost Landscapes opens with signature glissandi, features a filmic, jazz-inflected chase and ends in an

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026