Variety

Megan Rapinoe Is Launching Her Own Interview Podcast, ‘Why Are You Like This?’

Megan Rapinoe, soccer champion, activist and entrepreneur, is entering a new chapter with the forthcoming launch of weekly interview show “Why Are You Like This?” The show, produced and distributed by Vox Media, will feature Rapinoe’s conversations with artists, athletes, activists and “architects of culture.” On the podcast, Rapinoe will try to get at what […]

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Variety

ESPN Plunges Back Into Shohei Ohtani Money Transfer Scandal With New Tisha Thompson Podcast

Tisha Thompson in 2024 broke news about one of the biggest and most surprising scandals in sports — the transfer of large sums of money from baseball great Shohei Otani’s bank account to illegal bookmakers. Two years later, she just might have more to say on the subject. Thompson will lead a six-part podcast series, […]

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Variety

Liberty Mutual’s New Commercial Character Offers Insurance Against Ad-Avoiding Consumers

What’s yellow, fluffy and has a name that’s likely to get stuck in your head? The insurance sector’s newest TV star. Liberty Mutual worked its way into consumers’ brains over the past decade with a series of ads that feature a hard-to-forget slogan (Just repeat the first name of the company several times in sing-song […]

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘We didn’t want him to be punchable!’: Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

‘Alan and I have neat hair because we’d both just been in a military play. If we’d had crazy 1980s mullets, it wouldn’t have become a timeless classic’I’d done WarGames and Ladyhawke and was getting sent a lot of “young guy” parts. I was a little concerned at first because Ferris talks to the audience – I’d done that in two plays and didn’t want to it to seem like that’s all I can do. Meanwhile, my agent said: “You’ve been asked to do a John Hughes movie. You’re doing it.” I didn’t know much abo

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Variety

Jerusalem Film Festival Founder Urges Palestinian Filmmakers to Take Part: ‘The Cinemas Are Filled With Diverse Crowds — Jews and Arabs, Secular and Religious Citizens’

The boss of Israel’s Jerusalem Film Festival, Roni Mahadav-Levin, has written an open letter urging Palestinian filmmakers to take part in next year’s edition. “To artists around the world, and specifically to Palestinian filmmakers, my call to you is this: grab the opportunity to reach the public in our cinema halls,” Mahadav-Levin wrote in the […]

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out

From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poemTurning a 12,000-line poem that takes a day to read aloud into a three-hour film was always going to require some pruning. So it has proved with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which dispenses with a number of scenes and characters from Homer’s ancient Greek epic. The director has also changed the emphasis in some of the story’s most famous episodes and made a few of hi

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Variety

‘Satluj’ Review: A Moving Indian Activist Drama Pulled From Circulation

Honey Trehan’s “Satluj” — about a Sikh activist in the 1990s investigating extrajudicial killings — conjures heavy emotions despite its hagiographic hues. Just as intriguing as its provocations are the controversies surrounding its release, starting with its unexplained removal from the Toronto International Film Festival lineup in 2023, then under the title “Punjab ’95.” This […]

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Mockbuster review – how to survive the nightmare of directing a terrible low-budget horror film

Struggling to make it in Australia, aspiring director Anthony Frith cold-calls the team behind Sharknado and bites off more than he can chew in this making-of documentary‘A bad movie is better than no movie” is the motto of this behind-the-scenes documentary, which charts director Anthony Frith’s quest to make his debut feature for ultra-schlock studio The Asylum; it doubles up as an affable salute to film-making savoir-faire.Stuck making corporate videos to support his young family, Adelaide-ba

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Andy Burnham Is Officially U.K. Prime Minister

The left-wing politician and former mayor of Manchester — widely seen as "a man of the people" in Britain — takes over from Keir Starmer after being named Labour Party leader last week.

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘The Odyssey’ Smashes ‘Star Wars’ Record Over London’s BFI Imax Opening Weekend

The U.K.'s largest screen has become the number one Imax venue in the world thanks to Christopher Nolan's latest epic.

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

AMC Theatres Sees Revenue Rise As Hollywood Box Office Bounces Back

The exhibition giant saw its net loss grow as overall revenue jumped 14 percent to $1.59 billion during the second quarter.

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Variety

Andy Burnham Becomes U.K. Prime Minister, Succeeding Keir Starmer

Andy Burnham became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on Monday, taking over from Keir Starmer in a handover choreographed around a visit to Buckingham Palace, where Starmer formally resigned and King Charles III then invited Burnham to form a government. Before heading to the Palace, Starmer delivered a farewell address outside 10 Downing Street, […]

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Spanish National Orchestra/Afkham review – Proms debut sees orchestra’s celebrations kick off early

Royal Albert Hall, LondonOutgoing chief conductor David Afkham brought Spanish repertoire, castanets and a certain team’s football scarf in a programme heavy with national treasuresWhat a night for Spain. No, not because of sporting happenings in New Jersey, but because – nearly 90 years since their founding – their National Orchestra finally made their Proms debut under chief conductor David Afkham to a packed Royal Albert Hall. It was a beginning, but also a celebratory end: Afkham hands over

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Variety

Former ‘This Morning’ Host Holly Willoughby Heads to YouTube for New Lifestyle Series

Holly Willoughby, best known until recently as the host of ITV’s daytime show “This Morning,” is set to make a comeback. Rather than return to ITV, however, she has opted to launch her new lifestyle series “Holly Willoughby Together” on YouTube. Premiering July 28, the show is described as a “multi-platform lifestyle series built around […]

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Venice Critics’ Week Unveils Political, Experimental Lineup

An AI-assisted video essay from Colombia, a Tunisian sci-fi dystopia, and an Italian coming-of-age musical are among this year's Critics' Week selections.

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Acting the fool: why have Hollywood press tours become so gimmicky?

From playing would you rather to ranking snacks, A-listers navigating the promo trail are now forced on a set schedule of sillinessThis summer, we’ve been blessed with new movies from the legendary director Steven Spielberg and one of his biggest and most beloved successors, Christopher Nolan. In both cases, the movies have been heavily sold on the directors’ names, and, befitting two of the most famous film-makers to ever do it, Spielberg and Nolan have been making the press rounds. This has me

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Out of Sight review – mountain idyll on the Swiss border is a gilded cage for distressed asylum seekers

Young men share their heartbreaking experiences of an Alpine ‘deportation camp’ in Lisa Polster’s impactful, gentle documentaryLocated on the Swiss-Austrian border, the Bürglkopf mountain is a picture-perfect Alpine landscape, with its verdant fields and scenic trails. The tranquil idyll is a popular holiday spot, with thousands of tourists each year. Some visitors, however, are less welcome than others. Nestled among the lush forest on the mountaintop is a so-called deportation camp, where asyl

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Variety

Venice Critics’ Week Lineup: Shalini Adnani’s Family Drama ‘Our Share of Sand,’ AI-Assisted Colombian Doc ‘The End of Times’ and More

London-based Chilean-Indian director Shalini Adnani’s debut feature “Our Share of Sand,” about a 12-year-old girl named Maya who returns to rural India to reconnect with her estranged father, is among standout entries in the upcoming Venice Film Festival Critics’ Week. The section, dedicated to first works from around the world, also comprises two titles from Colombia: […]

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Daniel Ings, Jessica Brown Findlay to Star in Olivia Grant’s Directorial Debut, ‘The Two Week Wait’ (Exclusive)

The personal project, chronicling a woman's painstaking experience navigating IVF and infertility, will have its world premiere at the Indy Shorts Film Festival.

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026

Variety

James Gray to Be Honored With Locarno Film Festival Career Award

The Locarno Film Festival will honor James Gray with a lifetime career award at this year’s edition, where the U.S. auteur’s most recent work, “Paper Tiger,” will screen. Gray will receive the Pardo alla Carriera award on Aug. 9 and will present “Paper Tiger” — which launched in May from Cannes — at the fest’s […]

entertainment  Jul 20, 2026