Hollywood Reporter

Maggie Gyllenhaal Was Asked to Use AI to Recreate Marilyn Monroe. But it Flopped Compared to Dakota Johnson

The Venice Film Festival jury president said her AI experiment "fundamentally did not work. All the reasons we decided to make this project to begin with were killed off in the AI version."

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Jay-Z 30 tour review – the sheer profusion of nailed-on classics is dizzying

Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, LondonEven though Beyoncé rumours prove unfounded, there are plenty of guests, from Idris Elba to Lauryn Hill – but this show doesn’t need cameos to lift itJay-Z’s first solo tour in nine years bills itself as a celebration: it marks the 30th anniversary of his debut album, Reasonable Doubt. But it feels less concerned with nostalgic reverie than a show of strength in the present day. Hip-hop is a genre predicated on constant forward motion, in which careers tend to bu

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

‘Our Share of Sand’ Review: A Brooding Indian Social Drama Told Through the Eyes of a Young Girl

A keenly observed class drama shown through the eyes of a child, Shalini Adnani’s “Our Share of Sand” overcomes its characters’ narrow construction through its brooding intensity. Set against a sand-mining crisis in modern India, it tells of a 12-year-old British Asian girl, Maya (Maya Mehta), who returns to the country to join her industrialist […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

‘Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass’ Review: The Famous Cat-and-Mouse Duo Are Not Themselves In a Chaotic Chinese Cartoon

That title gives a first clue towards how misbegotten and compromised this new Tom and Jerry joint is. Everybody knows that Tom and Jerry shouldn’t be searching for a forbidden compass, whatever that might be: If the perma-warring pair are on a quest for something, it ought to be, say, some pickles for a big […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

Robert Pattinson Wants Chris Hansen to Like ‘Primetime’ Despite His Criticisms: ‘I Hope the Inspiration His Character Has Given Is Some Kind of Compliment’

Robert Pattinson hopes Chris Hansen is a fan “Primetime,” a tense thriller about the television journalist and “To Catch a Predator” host, which premieres on Saturday afternoon at the Venice Film Festival. The real-life Hansen has been vocal about his take on the movie, which he said he hasn’t seen because he declined to sign […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

Robert Pattinson Wants Chris Hansen to Like ‘Primetime’ Despite His Criticisms: ‘I Hope the Inspiration His Character Has Given Is Some Kind of Compliment’

Robert Pattinson wants Chris Hansen to like “Primetime,” a tense thriller about the television journalist and “To Catch a Predator” host, which premieres on Saturday afternoon at the Venice Film Festival. The real-life Hansen has been vocal in his skepticism of the movie, which he said he hasn’t seen because he declined to sign a […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

Marion Cotillard Praises Venice Biennale College Cinema Workshop: ‘Not all Films Are Destined to Draw Millions of Viewers and Turn a Profit’

Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose”) is at the Venice Film Festival in a new guise, as tutor of Biennale College Cinema, the workshop allowing emerging filmmakers to develop and produce micro-budget feature-length films, which is sponsored by Chanel. Biennale College Cinemas was conceived 15 years ago by Venice chief Alberto Barbera in tandem […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

‘Mr Nelson, Did You Kill People?’ Review: An Assaultive Yet Turgid and Outdated Vietnam PTSD Drama

If Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Mr Nelson, Did You Kill People?” were the first, or even the 51st, movie to litigate the atrocities committed by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, perhaps on a purely informational level some justification would exist for its crudely simplistic approach. Nuance is often a casualty of war, especially when that war […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

‘Everest: The Other Side’ Review: The ‘Free Solo’ Directors Return With Another Extreme Sports Doc, This Time Tainted by Tragedy

“Because it’s there” is the famous, possibly apocryphal, reply attributed to British mountaineer George Mallory when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest. Unlike present-day climber Jim Morrison, Mallory didn’t also want to ski down it. But doesn’t the same non-answer apply? Why are certain people compelled toward any of these reckless, perilous, barely […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Please find daddy’: the haunting missing posters of September 11

A collection of previously stored away posters will be displayed at a new exhibition to mark 25 years since the deadliest terrorist attack in US historyHe saw the first one on September 11 itself. “Missing”, said a hastily designed poster on the window of a bar in Tribeca providing food and water to first responders. It was a plea for information about a person who had vanished in the deadliest terrorist attack in US history.“I was like, ‘Wow, this is going to be …’” recalls Phil Buehler, an art

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

‘The Liberation’ Review: Carrie Coon Is Breathtaking as a Woman Lured by a Cult in Guy Nattiv’s Deeply Personal Film

“You carry a lot of weight around, don’t you?” In Guy Nattiv’s observant, harrowing and unmistakably feminine “The Liberation,” this line marks the first time someone truly sees through fortysomething protagonist Rita Cooper. Based on Nattiv’s own grandmother (alongside various cult survivors) and played by Carrie Coon with extraordinary emotional presence and pent-up energy privately […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

Swiss Projects at the Venice Gap-Financing Market: Natural Disaster, Complicated Romance, Exploited Migrants, Murder Mystery in Montana

Both well-established and up-and-coming Swiss filmmakers are taking part in the Venice Film Festival’s Production Bridge industry strand, where Switzerland will be one of the country’s in focus at the Gap-Financing Market. Seven Swiss projects and co-productions are among the total of 38 fiction and documentary works featured in the Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Bold, brilliant, thrilling’: leading authors on the novels every school should teach

A new term, a new PM … time for a new English curriculum? We ask writers from Ben Okri to Samantha Harvey to pick books that will inspire a lifelong love of readingFor the first time ever, we have a British prime minister who studied for an English degree. Not all of his 58 predecessors went to university, but those who did favoured subjects such as history and classics and, more recently, philosophy, politics and economics. Yet reading fiction is a fantastic preparation for life, for understand

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Kate and Rooney Mara Talk ‘Bucking Fastard,’ Synchronized Sisterhood and Werner Herzog Life Lessons: “He Doesn’t Give a S***”

The real-life sisters play Irish siblings who speak, love and dream in unison in the new drama from the director of 'Grizzly Man' and 'Fritzcaraldo,' which premiered in competition in Venice.

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

Rubaiyat Hossain on Bodies, Beauty and Venice, Toronto and London-Bound ‘The Difficult Bride,’ Clip Unveiled (EXCLUSIVE)

The idea for “The Difficult Bride” traces back to a story Rubaiyat Hossain heard as a 7 year old, visiting a Dhaka beauty parlor with her mother. “There was a bride who died there,” Hossain says. “Everyone knew this story from our generation, and I remember being seven, and even at that time, I had […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Telluride Awards Analysis: Andrew Scott Leaps Into Top Tier of Best Actor Oscar Race for ‘Elsinore’

Never has an out gay actor or actress won an Oscar. Scott could become the first.

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

Mad Solutions and Haitham Dabbour’s Irth Platform Announce Strategic Pan-Arab Content Partnership in Venice

Pan-Arab distributor Mad Solutions and Egyptian multihyphenate Haitham Dabbour’s Irth platform dedicated to supporting standout writers across the Arab world announced a strategic partnership on Saturday at the Venice Film Festival that aims to boost quality content output from the region. Under the pact, Mad Solutions and Irth will jointly “develop, package and support film, television and […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Colin from Accounts: a show so fearless and hilarious that I want to get a tattoo of it

It’s deliciously satirical, fizzes with electric chemistry – and it’s snortingly funny too. If you haven’t watched the worst named show on TV yet, do so. Right now!Sometimes the best things in life have the worst names. The Beatles. Smeg fridges. Nintendo Wii. But top of the tree is Colin from Accounts (Monday 7 September, 10pm, BBC Two), a name so bland I almost slipped into medical unconsciousness upon hearing it. It’s worse than bland. There’s an aspect of comedy-tie zaniness to it, a “Look,

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

Variety

Lav Diaz Preps False Prophets Film and Jose Rizal’s ‘Noli Me Tangere’ Adaptation, Unpacks Venice Title ‘Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Lav Diaz is developing a film about false prophets and a screen adaptation of José Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere,” the Filipino auteur reveals, alongside details on “Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors” (“Makikiraan Po”), his Spanish colonization drama premiering in the Venice Open section of the Venice Film Festival. Diaz tells Variety, “Right now, I’m working […]

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: Gary Lineker makes Z-listers do silly things for his new show

Joey Essex and John Bercow are unlikely team mates in The Box. Plus, the inside story of Saturday Night Live. Here’s what to watch this evening8.15pm, ITV1 Continue reading...

entertainment  Sep 5, 2026