The Guardian Culture

‘She’ll outdo herself’: Céline Dion fans camp out for glimpse of star before sold-out Paris comeback

Singer has rewarded patience of hundreds waiting outside hotel with regular appearances and even some dancingNoëlla Lamy, 52, who described herself as one of Céline Dion’s biggest fans, was preparing to spend all night on a Paris pavement without a tent but wearing a sweatshirt printed with the singer’s face for comfort.“Céline Dion is a force of bravery and an inspiration,” she said. Continue reading...

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Telluride Awards Analysis: Nathan Fielder’s Off-the-Wall Elizabeth Holmes Doc Could Click with Academy — and Land Picture and Acting Noms

Festivalgoers promised a "surprise screening" were met with the world premiere of 'You Can See Everything,' a one-of-a-kind documentary/acting hybrid that Lance Oppenheim co-directed.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Padel Spanks Pickleball: Inside the Rise of the New Celebrity Sports Obsession

Eva Longoria is hooked. So are David Beckham and Tom Holland. Now the race is on to turn the fast-growing game with a booming elite social scene into a bona fide American business.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Look Back’ Review: Hirokazu Koreeda’s Lovingly Crafted Manga Adaptation Is a Delicate Charmer About Teen Friendship and Art, Joy and Sorrow

Based on the celebrated standalone manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, the tender story was previously translated to the screen in a 2024 medium-length anime retelling.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Can breath be art? Liz Larner on sculpting with hair, lashes, leather – and international group exhalation

The Californian once cultivated petri dishes breathed on by artists that turned ‘murky and scary’. But now, in our dystopian age of space technocrats, she’s taking inspiration from Nasa shots of asteroids‘I had artists from all over the world breathe over petri dishes,” says Liz Larner. “It was a piece of international art made from breath bacteria.” The American sculptor is reminiscing about her 1988 work Every Artist Gave a Breath, a fragile and strangely evolving work of art grown on agar. Ex

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

BBC News Anchor Maryam Moshiri Reveals Blood Cancer Diagnosis

BBC News anchor Maryam Moshiri has revealed she has been diagnosed with incurable blood cancer. The anchor, who joined the BBC in 2003, has covered events ranging from the Pope’s funeral to the Iran war since being diagnosed with Polycythaemia vera (PV) two years ago. Moshiri went public with her diagnosis Monday in an interview […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Tokyo Film Festival Adds New Initiatives, Kashiko Kawakita Award to Honor Women in Cinema

Famed critic Sahoko Hata will be the inaugural honoree of the Kashiko Kawakita Award.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘You Can See Everything’ Review: Elizabeth Holmes Doc From Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim Is Fascinatingly Slippery, Dizzyingly Clever

The film — a surprise world premiere at Telluride — picks up the story of the disgraced Theranos founder in the weeks leading up to her prison sentence, and then again two years into her incarceration.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Chris Langham obituary

Actor and writer best known for his role in TV’s The Thick of It who was jailed in 2007 for downloading child pornographyThe actor and writer Chris Langham, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 77, starred as the inept government minister Hugh Abbot in The Thick of It, the BBC television political satire created by Armando Iannucci. During its first two series, he was at the centre of chaos as the secretary of state in the fictional Department of Social Affairs, finding himself outmanoeuvred b

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Primetime,’ Chris Rock’s ‘Misty Green’ and Latest Paul Thomas Anderson Movie Join London Film Festival Lineup

'Bunker' star Javier Bardem and 'Werwulf' director Robert Eggers will sit down for in-depth career conversations as part of LFF's Screen Talks program.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Ellen Burstyn Cries as She Gets Venice Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: ‘It’s One Thing to Win an Oscar, Tony or Emmy — All of Which I’ve Won. But This Is a Lot’

Maggie Gyllenhaal delivered a message on behalf of Ellen Burstyn before the 93-year-old acting legend took the stage at the Venice Film Festival to receive the prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. “Ellen asked me to let you know that she recently took a fall,” Gyllenhaal said from the podium. “She’s OK, but she is […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘The more famous I got, the bigger my beehive got’: how Mari Wilson made Just What I Always Wanted

‘I was trying to bring back some glamour. The backcombed hair was like architecture really. It took more than 45 minutes to style’Just What I Always Wanted had already been in our live set, but with different verses. When we’d gone on David Essex’s Showcase earlier in 1982, in the middle eight I sang “A wink from Wilbur, a kiss from Kurt, don’t tell Hank, he might get hurt” – all names of my backing band the Wilsations. But when it came to recording, I said to Tot Taylor, who wrote most of my ea

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Streaming Is Raising Prices Faster Than Cable Ever Did

Congrats, you cut the cord. Now you have six more cords. Streaming prices are rising three times as fast as inflation, making escaping cable company greed now seem quaint.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

How a Sweet, Horny Hockey Show Rewrote the Rules of Independent TV

Accent Aigu Entertainment turned a $200,000 lowball offer and a rabid BookTok fandom into the game-changing global hit ‘Heated Rivalry.'

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Ciara Miller Gets a Reality Check

The former ICU nurse has conquered Bravo, survived a shocking public betrayal and landed on her feet with 'Dancing With the Stars.'

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Boatbuilders review – a gentle study of craftsmen’s quiet expertise

Venice film festival: Luke Lorentzen’s light-touch documentary follows a team of Maine craftsmen constructing a high-spec sailboat for a super-rich guy who seems kind of niceThe Brooklin Boat Yard stands in a quiet harbour on the coast of Maine and makes high-spec yachts for rich men and women to sail. Its latest client is Graham Green, a millionaire financier who has commissioned the team to build him a 56ft cruising sailboat, the Kiandra, complete with maple worktops and a Sonos sound system.

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

‘Imperium’ Review: Sergei Loznitsa Brings Together Nearly Three Hours of Italian Footage From the Early 1970s Covering the Vastness of the USSR

In the early 1970s, Italian film crews spread out across the USSR, capturing a vast, multicultural empire few had ever seen in such diversity. From urban commuters to village fêtes, Baku trawlers to Siberian reindeer herders, the cameramen aimed to capture the Soviet polity at a time when Westerners had a gray, monolithic image of […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

Festival Leaders Confront Growing Political Pressure at Lumiere Summit: ‘We Don’t Judge Artists by Their Passport’

Political pressure on film and television festivals emerged as a defining theme of a panel discussion Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, with Séries Mania general director Laurence Herszberg issuing the session’s most direct call for protection of programming autonomy. “We don’t judge artists by their passport, we judge them by their works,” […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Last Bath review – self-mortifying nun struggles with profoundly uneasy sexual awakening

Anabela Moreira is an impressively intense lead as the sister who finds herself in charge of her wayward teenage nephewA sharp, self-abnegating performance from Anabela Moreira elevates this passionate – largely in the religious sense – Portuguese debut, which is only now arriving in the UK after festival screenings dating back to 2020. As senior nun Josefina, she wears a permanent cowl of careworn melancholy, suggesting a woman for whom, even after she is summoned to look after her bereaved 15-

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026

Variety

‘Plaza Catedral’ Director Abner Benaim, Chile’s Daniela Vega and Alfredo Castro Board Fiction Series ‘School of the Americas’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Panama’s Abner Benaim has boarded as a co-director of the fiction series “School of the Americas” (“Escuela de las Américas”), which will star two of Chile’s most internationally renowned thespians: Daniela Vega, who headed the Oscar-winning “A Fantastic Woman,) and Alfredo Castro, a Pablo Larrain regular who’s also starred in a slew of Latin American […]

entertainment  Sep 7, 2026