Variety

Busan’s Asian Contents & Film Market Names Japan 2026 Focus Country for Producer Hub

The Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) has selected Japan as the 2026 Focus Country for its Producer Hub, a co-production networking platform tied to the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF(. Japan will send 10 producers to Busan in October for project pitching, speed meetings and case-study sessions. Now in its third year, Producer Hub […]

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: the tragic story of Britain’s ‘schoolgirl terrorist’

A sensitive documentary looking at the complicated case of Rhianan Rudd. Plus: David Olusoga’s back with A House Through Time. Here’s what to watch this evening10pm, Channel 4What makes a teenage girl threaten to bomb a synagogue? In 2020, Rhianan Rudd, then 15, became the youngest girl to be charged with terror offences in the UK. She took her own life two years later, five months after the charges were dropped. This sensitive documentary hears from her family to learn more about her vulnerable

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

The Guardian Culture

My Brilliant Career review – a joyous heroine lights up this rare and beautiful period drama

Phillipa Northeast is brilliant as a young woman rebelling against society’s expectations in 1890s Australia. It is witty, intelligent and absolutely glorious to watch“I’m hot headed, with a snub nose, and that’s why I prefer a direct gaze.”So speaks Sybylla, the charmingly irrepressible and irrepressibly charming heroine of My Brilliant Career, played utterly convincingly and with vim, vigour and joy by Philippa Northeast in the new adaptation of Miles Franklin’s 1901 Australian classic of the

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘I wanted to capture the range of British culture at the time’: the photographer who documented late nights on the 90s London tube

In the 1990s, the photographer took portraits of punks, partiers and late-night lovers on the underground. His images show city life before smartphones – when people still had to rush to make the final trainMark McEvoy’s tube photographs, taken in London Underground carriages at around 11pm on Friday and Saturday nights from 1992 to 1995, capture moments that may seem superficially frivolous, but might be the most significant of our lives. These are the golden hours of t

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

The Guardian Culture

As Far As We Know review – strange solo goes full pelt down the mean streets

Summerhall, EdinburghWith increasing speed, Sam Ward tells the story of a woman who finds holes in her garden – but is it just a shaggy dog story?And there is a man sitting at a desk, welcoming us to the theatre and opening a folder. And the folder contains a sheaf of paper that the man proceeds to read. And the more the man reads, the faster he goes. And the man hits such a speed we realise why he did not learn this script: it would be too prodigious a feat of memory.And as if to emphasise the

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Hellcat review – woman imprisoned in camper van in nasty survival horror

A woman wakes up in a trailer as it speeds along in this effective and icky thriller, though you do end up wondering when you (and she) will ever get outThis survival thriller-horror starts in “what would you do?” mode, as a young woman wakes up in the back of a moving camper van with some sort of hideous wound on her arm. Well, what would you do? Lena (Dakota Gorman) approaches things fairly logically, first checking out her surroundings: under other circumstances the trailer would be quite cha

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Sailors, shadows and a dog in a dress: heroes of the street – in pictures

From dazzling shifts in perspective to astounding tricks using shade, reflections and rain, these winning images from the Pure Street Photography awards all capture ‘marvellous moments of fleeting serendipity’ Continue reading...

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Can Nothing Save Us? by Irvine Welsh review – US family saga is a late-career triumph

The Scottish author focuses on gun culture and generational conflict in this darkly satirical tale about a great power in decline“Why expect unconditional love from somebody you’ve brought into a fucked, dying planet, who then has to sit around and watch you screw it up even more?” So muses twentysomething college dropout Luke Ayrton on his parental lineage as he works the Las Vegas Strip, “comping girls for clubs” in Sin City. His job is to trawl the “plankton” of bacherlorette partie

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

Variety

‘Far From the Trees’ Director Meritxell Colell on Turning Exile and Endangered Languages Into a ‘Body of Memory’

In “Far From the Trees,” (“Lejos de los árboles”) Meritxell Colell asks viewers to listen before they try to understand. Premiering in Locarno’s international competition, the Spain-Italy-Peru production from Allegra Films follows Adela, a 50-year-old Mexican sound artist who travels from the Peruvian jungle to the Andes recording endangered languages. Accompanied by a guide and […]

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

Variety

Ritchie Blackmore Performs With Deep Purple for the First Time Since Acrimonious Split in Early ’90s, After Warning Fans: ‘I Have Not Played Rock Music in 25 Years’

Deep Purple fans had mostly given up any hopes of seeing the band ever share a stage with founding guitarist Ritchie Blackmore again, due to a well-known estrangement. But that’s exactly what took place near the end of the group’s show Wednesday night at Jones Beach in New York, as hatchets were buried and Blackmore […]

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘I ran away to Paris to be a writer and ended up begging’: Bill Nighy on dashed dreams, golf emojis and playing a cranky novelist

As his new film & Sons hits the screen, the actor turned podcast agony uncle relives his ‘cliched’ ambitions, deplores working lunches – and yearns to do the splits like PrinceA dying patriarch summons his brood for a dramatic announcement. It may not be the most original starting point for a movie, but & Sons adds an eccentric twist – one that it would be unfair to reveal here but which nudges the material into the realm of science fiction. The father in question is a revered novelist w

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Mrs Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library review – interrogating Hannah Arendt

Traverse theatre, EdinburghAn encounter in a police cell with a Nazi officer could have been the end of the political theorist, but Jenny Lyn Bader’s play has little feel for the dramaticThe Mrs Stern of the title is the married name of Hannah Arendt, the political theorist much remembered for her “banality of evil” insight. Jenny Lyn Bader sets her play not, as you might expect, in the Prussian state library, but in a police cell where Arendt has been hauled in for questioning not long after th

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

The Guardian Culture

An Amputation Obsession: the Monster and the Surgeon review – an engrossing story, if you can stomach it

This documentary follows the shocking case of Neil Hopper, a top surgeon who had his own legs removed due to a fetish. No fetish or obsession is unique, and the internet can always connect you with others whose minds work the same way. It’s one of the great blessings and curses of the digital age, and central to An Amputation Obsession: the Monster and the Surgeon, a two-part documentary on which the “contains material some viewers may find disturbing” disclaimer is no exaggeration.We begin at t

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

Variety

Andreas Dresen, Doris Dörrie Films to World Premiere at Zurich Film Festival

The world premieres of two major German films, Andreas Dresen’s “Love, After All” and Doris Dörrie’s “How Can I Help?,” are among 10 titles to feature in the Gala Premieres section of Zurich Film Festival. The selection also includes Oscar contenders “I Play Rocky” and “Josephine,” and Switzerland’s most anticipated film, “111 – Echoes From […]

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Zurich Film Fest Galas Set for Award Contenders ‘I Play Rocky,’ ‘Possible Love,’ ‘Josephine’

World premieres are planned for new features from German directors Andreas Dresen and Doris Dörrie.

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

Variety

Indian Freedom Fighter Bhagat Singh Series in Development at Collective Studios’ Historyverse (EXCLUSIVE)

A new original series exploring the life of Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh is in development at Collective Studios’ Historyverse. The project is being made in association with Hathiramani Commercial Ventures and co-produced with investor and entrepreneur Manish Hathiramani, who marks his producing debut with the show. The series is designed to move past the […]

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘The Matrix’ Director Lilly Wachowski Says Hollywood Won’t Finance New Film With Trans Cast

Despite her funding obstacles, the filmmaker says 'The Hunted' script "was extremely important for me to write."

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

Variety

Hollywood’s Top-Grossing Films of 2025 Show Limited Progress Toward Inclusion, Study Says: ‘The Pace of Change Has Been Slow’

After nearly 20 years of tracking representation metrics, the latest report from Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative reveals that Hollywood’s film industry has not made lasting progress towards inclusion. “While we’ve seen pockets of progress for women on screen, the pace of change has been slow. Year after year, many of […]

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Where to Watch 2026 FedEx St. Jude Championship Online

Held at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee, the annual tournament marks the first of three events in the PGA Tour FedEx Cup Playoffs.

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘The Traitors: New Blood’ Season 1 Cast: Meet the 22 Civilian Contestants

The NBC reality competition series, hosted by Alan Cumming, premieres Sept. 17.

entertainment  Aug 13, 2026