The Guardian Culture

‘I’ve never done anything like this in my life’: Marina Abramović on making art with balloons

The artist’s latest swerve sees her creating an alien inflatable landscape for New York’s Balloon MuseumOversized inflatable blades of grass graze my face as I wind a path through the glowing white gallery space. Little papery squares of snow blow, some sticking to my hair. The path through the room curves so that only what is right in front of me is visible: initially, it seemed like I would reach the far side of the room in mere seconds but still my journey, magically, continues. I am at Snowy

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Is Drawing Tourists to Milan Prompting an 18% Increase in Visitors to the Film’s Locations in Italy’s Fashion Capital

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” is making a heavenly impact on Milan. Just a few months after the theatrical release in May of the long-awaited sequel to “The Devil Wears Prada” – that was partly shot in Italy’s fashion capital that serves as a glitzy backdrop for the film’s third act – pedestrian traffic from […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

Nigel Farage Documentary ‘Where Does the Money Come From?’ Set at U.K. Broadcaster 5 as Parliamentary Standards Watchdog Reopens Finance Probe

ITN Productions has set “Nigel Farage: Where Does the Money Come From?”, a one-hour documentary examining the Reform U.K. leader’s finances, to air on 5, part of the Paramount Skydance Corporation, on Aug. 22. The documentary comes amid continuing scrutiny of Farage’s finances, following the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner’s investigation into gifts made to him and […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

How the mob took Hollywood: the story of organized crime and the movies

Hollywood Crime Story: The Mob Takes Over the Movies looks back at how criminals insinuated themselves in the film business“From the foundation of Hollywood, organized crime is there.” So claims Tom Patterson, producer and director of new three-part documentary series, Hollywood Crime Story: The Mob Takes Over the Movies.Organized crime’s connection to the film industry actually predates Tinseltown, being present for the foundation of the medium itself, when inventor Thomas Edison sicced his hir

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Rebecca Perry: ‘Lorca hit me like a bolt of lightning’

The poet and novelist on the power of fairytales, being inspired by Frank O’Hara and the joys of Doris LessingMy earliest reading memory Reading On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan, aged five or so, sitting on the floor of the bedroom I shared with my brother – who, in my memory, was sitting on the carpet next to me.My favourite book growing up I had a collection of fairytales in a big yellow hardback, which I was totally entranced by from around the age of seven to 10. I’ll neve

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Sarajevo Film Festival Boss Jovan Marjanović on Owning Its Powerful Origin Story: “We Connect This Legacy of War… and Build Bridges”

Marjanović, in his fifth year as the sole director of the Bosnian film festival, teases what's to come from the 32nd installment and why particular screenings "will be very emotional."

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

TV Academy Hall of Fame: Sheila Nevins, Absent Due to COVID, Thanks Dr. Fauci for the Vaccine; Bill Hader Pays Tribute to the ‘South Park’ Creators With a ‘Fish Dick’ Story and More

Documentary icon Sheila Nevins — who holds the all-time record for most Emmy wins by an individual (31), thanks to her long run as president of HBO Documentary Films — had to skip Thursday night’s Television Academy Hall of Fame event, after being diagnosed with COVID and pneumonia. Instead, Nevins sent her acceptance speech via […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Joseph Morpurgo: Highlander 70 review – a dork’s last day at school is one to remember

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThis one-man comic play, told at breakneck speed and featuring West Side Story-like dance-numbers, is highly entertainingIt’s as if Joseph Morpurgo had never been away. The Londoner made a splash on the fringe a decade ago with several high-concept comedy shows, of which thrift-shop source material and multimedia presentation were standout features. After a nine-year absence, the same is true of Highlander 70, a one-man comic play built exclusively around an America

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

‘You Don’t Belong Here’ Review: A Potentially Involving Story Is Weakened by Airless Dialogue and a Misguided Finale

Florin Şerban’s “You Don’t Belong Here” opens with great promise and finishes with a stupefyingly misguided coda: The lengthy minutes in between are rigorously filmed and sharply observed, but would have benefited enormously if the director wasn’t also the producer, writer and editor. Airless pauses between nearly every line of dialogue and a mostly fixed […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto: Fifteen review – Pulitzer winner stirs gorgeous improv patterns

(Nonesuch)By turns gleeful, sensitive, urgent and ruminative, this is a brilliant set that plays to the trio’s formidable strengthsThough the century-old Pulitzer prize – launched as a celebration of the craft and social necessity of good news reportage – was eventually expanded to include fiction and music by 1943, the US-born art of jazz has only been represented by Ornette Coleman and Wynton Marsalis in their lifetimes, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk posthumously – and most

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

Fukada Koji, Jakrawal Nilthamrong, Boo Junfeng Films Win Busan Co-Production Fund

The Busan International Film Festival’s Asian Cinema Fund (ACF) has selected three international co-productions for its 2026 Co-Production Support Fund, backing films from directors Fukada Koji, Jakrawal Nilthamrong and Boo Junfeng with a combined KRW140 million ($100,000) in production funding. The three projects – “Grateful,” “Rhizome” and “Trinity” – were chosen from 15 submissions following […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal: Doomed! review – caustic, crushing breakup album flirts with catharsis

(Backwoodz)The rapper-producer duo muster a breakup record with glistening beats and lovelorn lyrics that mull over grievances without resolveTough as they may be, breakups make for good material. Doomed! is Open Mike Eagle’s entry into that wide canon – sitting alongside Tyler, the Creator’s Igor and Ye’s 808s & Heartbreak in the alt-rap subcategory – and finds the LA-via-Chicago rapper every bit as wide-eyed, caustic and, at-times, crushing as those who’ve Kübler-Rossed their way out of a

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

Rani Mukerji Receives La Trobe Honorary Doctorate, Wins IFFM Special Citation

Bollywood star Rani Mukerji has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Australia’s La Trobe University for three decades of work in Indian cinema and her contributions off screen, the university said. She is the second Indian film figure to receive the distinction, after superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s honor in 2019. “Receiving this honorary […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Something Wile E this way comes: how the Looney Toons reboot movie came back from the dead

Cartoon royalty were lined for a live-action toon hybrid Coyote vs Acme. Then it was shelved as a tax write-off. But its cast, crew and fans fought for its release. Three years later it’s set to be a surprise summer hitBack in 2020, Dave Green started making his new film, Coyote vs Acme. Mixing live action with animation, it would be an unconventional courtroom drama that pitched actor Will Forte against a host of 2D Looney Tunes characters – including cartoon royalty such as Foghorn Leghorn, Po

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Variety

COL AI Studios Launches to Expand Group’s Global Distribution Network (EXCLUSIVE)

COL Group has launched COL AI Studios, a new entertainment vertical designed to help platforms, studios and brands develop, test and scale content beyond traditional licensing deals. The studio builds on a distribution network that now counts over 5,000 live-action titles, up from a base of just over 1,000 when the network first launched, with […]

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘The Ones With the Tempered Flowers’ Documents a Woman Studying “Her Body’s Relationship to Self and Society” in Tanzania

Neema Ngelime's inspiration to make an essayistic and participatory doc, showcased during Locarno Open Doors, was driven by anger "at how little interest there is in understanding women's bodies."

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Post your questions for Robert Carlyle

Bond villain, Begbie, male stripper … the Trainspotting and Full Monty star has played everyone from Sherlock Holmes to Rumpelstiltskin. As his latest directorial project premieres in Edinburgh, he is here to answer your questionsYou’ll know Robert Carlyle for many things – getting his kit off in The Full Monty, being skewered through the heart with a plutonium rod as Bond villain Renard in The World Is Not Enough, playing Sherlock Holmes in Watson, joining Line of Duty as a gruff specialist fir

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Beverly Hills Housewife by James Cahill review – a trip inside Hockney’s world

Muse Betty Freeman sits at the centre of this sun-drenched book about art, eccentricity, and the spirit of Los AngelesDavid Hockney was 29 years old when he came to Betty Freeman’s house to photograph her swimming pool. Scouting locations for the pool paintings that would make him a household name, he took preparatory snaps of his partner, Peter Schlesinger, emerging naked from the water. And yet something about his aloof and quietly eccentric host, who dusted the hunting trophies while a h

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Busan Film Festival to Honor Its Founder Kim Dong-ho with Korean Cinema Award

The 88-year-old Korean industry luminary, who founded the festival in 1996 and made his own feature directorial debut last year, will accept the prize at the Oct. 6 opening ceremony.

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026

The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: Lydia West’s offbeat college campus murder mystery

She stars as a grungy student in Australian dramedy He Had It Coming. Plus: Frank Skinner’s very funny standup special. Here’s what to watch this evening11.15pm, BBC ThreeLydia West stars in this offbeat Australian comedy-drama about a murder on a university campus. It follows a grungy feminist art student, Elise (West), and her unlikely new influencer mate, Barbara (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), who get drunk and deface a statue – only to wake up and find that the institution’s star athlete was killed

entertainment  Aug 14, 2026