Variety

Iranian Director Mohsen Gharaei, in Venice With ‘Fallen House,’ Set to Shoot ‘Centrifugal Force’ (EXCLUSIVE) 

Iranian director Mohsen Gharaei, who is at the Venice Film Festival with well-received drama “Falling House,” is set to shoot a new film titled “Centrifugal Force” that will capture “the impossible choices facing a generation of Iranians today,” as the synopsis puts it. “Falling House,” which world-premiered on Wed. in Venice’s Orizzonti sidebar, follows a […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

‘Boys of Tommen’ Adds Jonathan Forbes, Cobhan O’brien, Harvey Moloney and More to Cast (EXCLUSIVE)

Prime Video’s “The Boys of Tommen” has added Jonathan Forbes, Cobhan O’brien, Harvey Moloney, Tristan Heanue and Lewis Brophy to its cast. Forbes (“Catastrophe,” “The Rainmaker”) joins as Johnny Kavanagh’s father John Senior, O’brien (“Foundation”) and Moloney (“Krimi”) as Shannon Lynch’s younger brothers Tadhg and Ollie, Heanue (“Clean Sweep”) as Aoife Molloy’s father Tony Molloy […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

The ‘Holy Wood Dust’ Director Wants You to Know Your Christmas Tree Is a Living Being With 20 Senses

Victor Kossakovsky discusses his new sensory doc, premiering at Venice, his desire to cultivate empathy for plant life, how the film is like a Christmas carol and looks like 'War and Peace,' and his tribute to Fellini.

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

George Clooney Says the Government Shouldn’t Regulate AI: ‘These Are Not the People You Want to Entrust the Holy Grail With’

George Clooney has said he doesn’t trust the government to regulate AI. “I don’t know that you want government to be regulating this either, because I sit and watch when Zuckerberg is testifying in front of, you know, a 94-year-old Chuck Grassley, and they’re like, ‘Well, how do you turn that computer on?’” he joked, […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

An Indigenous Man Navigates Identity and Desire in ‘Nosotros’ (Exclusive TIFF Trailer)

Guatemalan producer Joaquín Ruano's feature directorial debut about two people finding connection "in a world not yet ready to make space for them" world-premieres at Toronto.

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘I didn’t know if I’d ever have sex again’: inside Sharon Horgan’s excruciating post-divorce comedy

Horgan’s hilarious new show probes the perils of ageing and the horror of being single again – and it has sex scenes so wild you’ll be laughing for weeks. The creator and her co-stars open up about YouthWhen Sharon Horgan walked into HBO to pitch her new series, Youth, she basically just said “sandwich generation” to them. Alex, the protagonist, is squished between a teenage son and two elderly parents. That’s the classic; the rest of it – the recent divorce, the dating hell, the busy, creative

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Queer Edward II review – funny, touching time capsule of Derek Jarman at work

Venice film festival: Filmed during the making of his queer royal feature, while the director was living with HIV, the candid footage includes uproarious scenes at a Cliff Richard rehearsalThere could hardly be a more vivid time-capsule film about the publicly funded British arts scene in the early 1990s than this engrossing fly-on-the-wall documentary about Derek Jarman and his movie Edward II. Based on the play by Christopher Marlowe, it is about the 14th-century English king and his love affa

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Men calling us woke need our show more than most’: punks Piss on finding strength in visceral confrontations of sexual violence

The Vancouver band earned a cult fandom for their uncompromising gigs. As they ready their brutal debut album, they discuss subverting audience expectations and the nightly toll of excavating trauma onstageYou’d be hard pressed to find a band with fewer airs and graces than Piss. First, there’s the unavoidable matter of their name, which they style in all caps, no nonsense; a word that scans as vulgar and combative but also somewhat facetious when displayed on their merch in loopy cursive, somet

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Many of us in Israel live in a state of shock at the savagery’: veteran director Amos Gitai returns to Gaza

The writer-director once called Israel’s ‘one-man New Wave’ is in Venice with The Road to Jericho, a new and poetic attempt to highlight the plight of those in the occupied West BankThe Palestinian village of Khan al-Ahmar sits off dust-blown Highway-1, between Jerusalem and Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. At the village centre is the “school of tires”, a fragile construction of rubber, wood and adobe which is attended by around 300 Bedouin boys and girls. The Israeli authorities deni

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Venice Film Festival Style

From red carpets for her award-winning directorial debut 'The Lost Daughter' to a current run as jury president, take a look at the actress and filmmaker's fashion choices in Venice over the years.

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The must-see Bayeux masterpiece, Colombia’s chronicler and a Manchester odyssey – the week in art

The Bayeux tapestry arrives, the Americas go mainstream and modern, and Manchester threads its way to Korea and India – all in your weekly dispatchThe Bayeux tapestryBlood and thunder, friendship and betrayal, marginal monsters and raw sex – all human life and more is depicted in this medieval artistic masterpiece that tells an epic national story with unrivalled punch and power. • British Museum, London, from 10 September until 11 July 2027 Continue reading...

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

‘Spider-Man’ and ‘The Odyssey’ Propel U.K. Box Office to Best August Since 2018

The U.K. may have just had the hottest August since records began but, in more positive news, it also had the hottest August at the box office in almost a decade. Thanks to the incredible performances of both “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” and “The Odyssey” a total of $161.3 million was earned at the box […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Berlin Philharmonic/ Petrenko/ Hadelich review – flawless musical beauty

Royal Albert Hall, LondonIn their second Proms concert, the Berlin Phil brought Beethoven’s Violin Concerto (with Augustin Hadelich the virtuosic and breathtaking soloist), and a detailed and compelling take on Scriabin’s third symphonyIt’s the clarity that hits you first. The soft thuds of timpani that open Beethoven’s Violin Concerto landed from the back of the stage with the immediacy of taps on the shoulder, quietly urgent. The string sound was simultaneously luminous and translucent. Pizzic

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Fetch by Colin Bramwell; Girling by Eve Esfandiari-Denney; The Dead One, The Unconscious One, Thundering in Your Ear, Thriving Slumber by Jay Gao; Belling the Leopard by Clementine Ewokolo Burnley; The Matter by Padraig ReganFetch by Colin Bramwell (And Other Stories, £14.99)Bramwell’s translation of Fernando Pessoa’s work into Scots won him considerable recognition: it took the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation prize and the Highland Book Prize. Between source and target language, there is always

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Add to playlist: the churning darkness of Barcelona producer Nueen and the week’s best new tracks

Nacho Pezzati’s new album Swerved taps into the moody ambience of the UK north-west underground, ratcheting a tangible and thrilling sense of uneaseFrom Barcelona, SpainRecommend if you like Space Afrika, Shackleton, PurelinkUp next Swerved out nowSwerved, by Barcelona-based producer Nueen (Nacho Pezzati) is a bassy, moody, darkly ambient album that travels through R&B, drill, cloud rap and dub without any obvious changes in its grey-black weather. But this is slowly churning music, on the b

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Balcanica’: When Music Is Outlawed in Afghanistan, a Conductor and His Son Must Leave All Behind (Exclusive Venice Trailer)

Matilda De Angelis ('The Undoing') and Babak Karimi ('A Separation') star in Nicola Sorcinelli's directorial feature debut, premiering at Venice Days, which is "rooted in a lifelong anger at the ways freedom can be withheld, controlled or silenced."

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Jane Fonda Slams “Tech Bros, Oligarchs and Billionaires” for Wanting to Live Forever With Robots: “That’ll Be Their Babies”

Fonda opened up about a range of pressing subjects from politics to Hollywood at Diane von Furstenberg's DVF Awards, which took place during the Venice Film Festival on Thursday night.

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was one of DC’s few successes. It’s a mystery why she got the chop

James Gunn and Peter Safran’s regime had good reasons to ditch Ben Affleck’s Batman and Henry Cavill’s Superman. Other choices have been much harder to fathomThere was never going to be a completely painless way to break up the old DC gang. Warner Bros’ DC Extended Universe probably needed to be ruthlessly ripped apart in order to create space for James Gunn and Peter Safran’s brand-new DCU. We almost certainly did need a clean break from the likes of Ben Affleck (Batman) and Henry Cavill (Super

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

Maggie Gyllenhaal Says She Tried Using AI to Turn Dakota Johnson Into Marilyn Monroe — Then Scrapped It: ‘It Fundamentally Did Not Work’

Venice jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal revealed that she experimented with artificial intelligence to transform Dakota Johnson into Marilyn Monroe for her short film Flesh Impact which plays on the Lido. But she ended up scrapping it because she felt that it stripped Johnson’s performance of the very humanity that made it compelling. Speaking at the […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

Bendita Film Sales Snags Norma Vila’s Sitges Competition Title ‘Carapace’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Bendita Film Sales has acquired international rights to Norma Vila’s psychological horror thriller “Salitre” (“Carapace”) ahead of its premiere at the Sitges Film Festival’s Fantàstic In-Competition Selection. Vila’s debut feature stars Nagore Aranburu, star of Series Mania top laureate “Querer” and winner of this year’s supporting actress Goya Award for “Sundays,” and Haizea Carneros (“Sacamantecas”) […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026