Hollywood Reporter
ZDF's decision to pull Danger Dan and Igor Levit from prime time backfired spectacularly, with critics calling the move "cowardly" and warning of a chilling effect on free expression.
Variety
Elon Munk has — finally — broken his silence on “The Odyssey” (well, at least since Christopher Nolan’s epic was released and started breaking various box office records). The tech mogul and recently-crowned trillionaire — who spent some time before the film’s launch rallying against various casting decisions — wrote on his social media platform X that his AI […]
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Difficult new Hulu documentary follows a 26-year-old woman’s startling discovery that she’s related to the notorious, murderous cult leaderSophia Maddox spent her life hearing from her father about how he had never met his father. He would tuck her into bed as a child, she said, and tell her about how much he wanted to know him.Four years ago, following a match on a genealogy website, they finally learned the shocking truth: her father’s father – her grandfather – was Charles Manson, the notorio
Hollywood Reporter
An Australian court ruled against actress Charlotte MacInnes over claims her 'The Deb' co-star and director had made defamatory statements on Instagram.
Variety
Han Chae Young, the actor behind some of K-drama’s most recognized titles, has scored a hit with “Raising His Mistress’s Child,” a Korean-language remake of a global microdrama that generated more than $15 million in revenue. The series premiered July 10 on mobile-first platform FlareFlow and has already cleared 10 million cumulative views. The original […]
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Ivy Meeropol’s engrossing film follows former star columnist E Jean Carroll, now in her 80s, battles through an unfinished series of legal disputesDonald Trump has almost succeeded in an insidiously sneaky trick of auto-uncancelling on the #MeToo issue, implying that he is above and beyond and constitutionally exempt, despite being caught on tape boasting of sexual violence. Through a combination of bluster, bad faith, threats, abuse and the simple fact of being US president and flooding the zon
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This portrait of a Jewish painter in bohemian Berlin is filled with insightful observationsIn the summer of 1937, two exhibitions sponsored by the Nazis opened in Munich. For the Degenerate Art exhibition, hundreds of confiscated works by banned modern artists – including Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso – were gathered: a derisive demonstration of the supposedly anti-German spirit of contemporary culture. The show was also meant as a counterpoint to the first Great German Art Exhibit
Variety
Rebel Wilson has prevailed in a defamation case brought by Charlotte MacInnes, the lead actor in Wilson’s feature directorial debut, “The Deb.” Justice Elizabeth Raper of the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney dismissed MacInnes’ defamation and breach-of-confidence claims on Wednesday and ordered her to pay Wilson’s legal costs. MacInnes sued over four sets of […]
The Guardian Culture
The popular presenter is by no means the first to have come a cropper hosting a talkshow. But new formats provide new opportunitiesYou might think the TV chatshow is an easy format to get right. Hire a well-liked host with comic chops and some successful shows under their belt. Build a cheerful set with a big sofa in the middle. Book some A-list celebs plus the obligatory comedian, invite a live audience et voilà! A prime-time hit is surely born.Except that time and time again, it has proved not
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In a jaw-dropping return to true-crime form, Netflix’s new documentary delves into the Anaheim Craigslist case – and it’s a horrifying monster indeedThe sound of barrel-scraping during true-crime documentaries is becoming more and more frequent at Netflix these days (the dismal Worst Neighbor Ever being the most recent case in point). Such are the perils of being the pioneer of a form; you run out of material first but must keep trying to recapture past glories while you search desperately for a
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Swan Theatre, Stratford-Upon-AvonTamara Harvey’s production of Chekhov’s final play can seem woolly in meaning and soft-edged tone mutes its forceLaura Wade’s reworking of Anton Chekhov’s final, plaintive play brings a dazzle of big names. Helen Hunt is the aristocratic matriarch Madame Ranyevskaya, Bill Pullman her brother, and Kenneth Branagh (so soon after his lead role in the Royal Shakespeare’s production of The Tempest) their nemesis, Lopakhin, a shopkeeper’s son here who takes over the re
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Moments of beauty and horror punctuate this account of an ill-timed sub-zero camping trip In late February 2022, Charlie Walker set off on a hiking holiday in northern Siberia. In temperatures as low as -50C, he intended to trek a thousand miles north along the frozen surface of the river Lena, then out across the solid Laptev Sea to the port town of Tiksi, before finally flying home to London. “The plan,” he writes, “was simple in concept.” A sub-zero camping trip through a region populate
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Away from the disapproval of their Welsh fishing community, two men embark on a passionate affair in Helen Walsh’s poignant dramaBarry Ward brings sincerity and force to this well-intended, well-acted Brokeback drama of forbidden love in a remote north Wales fishing community. It comes from writer-director Helen Walsh, who is that rare and valuable figure in the arts world: a novelist who is of equal status as an original film-maker. (Her debut feature The Violators came out 11 years ago.)Ward p
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João Linneu’s raw and intimate photographs capture his partner and child as they navigate isolation, lumbar punctures and even a lightning storm Continue reading...
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The model tells all in her highly entertaining, eyebrow-raising documentary. Plus, revisiting a classic Play for Today. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Sky DocumentariesTwenty years before Taylor and Travis’s stadium wedding bonanza, there was Katie Price and Peter Andre’s fairytale ceremony – or, as Kerry Katona puts it, “like Cinderella on coke and speed on a seven-day bender”. The third episode of Price’s documentary focuses on the marriage she says provided the best years of her life
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Ray Exworth spent his life filling Cornish sheds with breathtaking sculptures – but wouldn’t let anyone in to view them. Now, after his death, his secret body of work has been revealedRay Exworth spent six decades creating one of Britain’s most extraordinary bodies of sculpture – and almost nobody has seen it. Hidden inside a labyrinth of sheds on a remote Cornish smallholding, his vast, obsessive constructions have remained locked away from the world, visited only by a fortunate few. Even his w
Variety
Jennifer Garner recently told the “Shut Up Evan” podcast that paparazzi would go to dangerous lengths to get photos of her and her children. “If I went through a yellow light, 15 cars would go through the red behind me,” Garner said. “They would drive up onto people’s lawns, even on a hillside. We were […]
Hollywood Reporter
"You're gonna need about 15 more apologies to any mom in the entire world," Lindsay Hubbard said to Whitney Fransway in the 'Summer House' spinoff's first-ever reunion — part one.
Variety
The nonprofit organization Games for Change announced the winners of the 2026 Games for Change Awards at the G4C Awards Ceremony. The ceremony was held during the annual Games for Change Festival in New York, hosted by actors Anjali Bhimani (“Overwatch,” “Ms. Marvel”) and Osric Chau (“Supernatural,” “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”). “It has been […]
Variety
Sony Music Entertainment has once again sued the AI music generator Udio, alleging the startup illegally copied more than 30,000 songs from the likes of Beyoncé, Harry Styles and Elvis Presley to train its models. Sony first brought lawsuits against Udio and its competitor Suno in June 2024 alongside labels Universal Music Group and Warner […]