The Guardian Culture

Chat Pile: Who Loves the Sun review – sludge metallers resurface with a slightly limiting alt-rock rebrand

(The Flenser)The Oklahoma band use hooky vocals to help their lyrics on desensitisation slip down easy, though their third album lacks the distinction of earlier releasesChat Pile’s 2022 debut album God’s Country was monstrously, miraculously fully formed. The Oklahoma sludge-metal quartet’s oily guitars and grunting mid-tempo percussion conjured their namesake, mining toxic waste mounds, while Raygun Busch’s throat-shredding vocals drew from the city’s real-world violence. But their releases si

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

Alix Earle’s Inane Netflix Reality Show ‘Earle Meets World’ Is Like Watching Paint Dry: TV Review

At the start of her eponymous reality show “Earle Meets World,” the influencer Alix Earle promises that while “there’s a whole other side” of the creator economy “people don’t get to see,” her viewers are “gonna see everything in this show.” I hope for Earle’s sake she isn’t telling the truth, because if “Earle Meets […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘The Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ Director Shares Insight Into Her Hybrid Movie That Revisits Her Filmmaker Father’s Arrest and Death

Norway's Lene Berg is attending the Venice Gap-Financing Market as she looks to finish her very personal film that explores such themes as the narratives that we create.

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Grand Tour review – a deeply strange rejection of Jeremy Clarkson and the gang

The petrol hijinks show is getting a total reset – with a relatively unknown new set of presenters. Still, there are signs this trio might turn out to be revolutionarily provocativeHave you heard the news? It’s all change at The Grand Tour. New hosts! New production team! New horizons! Think of everything they could accomplish with a fresh start like this.Actually, don’t think too hard, because the very first thing the new hosts do is visit Diddly Squat Farm to genuflect before Jeremy Clarkson.

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

Netflix Probes Trump’s Catering Truck Escape in ‘Instadocs: The Decoy Plane’

“In my more than 40-year career, I’ve never been put in the position of being a decoy,” says Alex Brandon, chief White House photographer for The Associated Press. “Wild. Just wild.” Brandon is one of several subjects who’ve lent their testimony to “Instadocs: The Decoy Plane,” a 28-minute mini-doc about Trump’s (and his curiously close […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘The End of Times’ Is an AI-Assisted Film Essay on Trauma That Wants to “Politicize Mental Illness” (Exclusive Venice Trailer)

Salomé searches through decades of family footage for the reasons for her mother’s sadness in Bibiana Rojas Gómez and Juan David Cárdenas Maldonado's film, premiering in the Venice Critics' Week.

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

Miike Takashi Shines an Intimate Spotlight on a Kabuki Legend in Debut Documentary ‘Shumei: The Living Legacy of Kabuki’

The most remarkable thing about Miike Takashi — whose filmography spans well over a hundred features in a smorgasbord of different genres and styles — is that he has never made a documentary. But now he’s at Venice with doc “Shumei: The Living Legacy of Kabuki.” The films screen out of competition. “I take on […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

Ekta Kapoor, Gunjan Soni Unpack Balaji’s Five-Show, 200-Episode YouTube India Deal (EXCLUSIVE)

India’s queen of television Ekta Kapoor is betting that Indian viewers walking away from appointment television will still watch long-running fiction, just on YouTube’s terms. In an interview with Variety, the Balaji Telefilms Ltd. joint MD, and Gunjan Soni, YouTube’s managing director for India, break down the partnership between the two companies, under which Balaji […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

AR Content, Vertigo, Blumhouse Atomic Monster Set Remake of Genre-Bending, Satirical French Horror ‘Vincent Must Die’ (EXCLUSIVE)

AR Content, Vertigo and Blumhouse Atomic Monster are teaming up to remake “Vincent Must Die,” the acclaimed French Belgian thriller directed by Stéphan Castang that premiered in the Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight sidebar in 2023.  Written and directed by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, the film will be produced by AR Content’s Alexander Rodnyansky alongside Roy Lee […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

In Venice Competition Film ‘Mr Nelson, Did You Kill People?’ Director Tsukamoto Shinya Asks Vital Questions

Independent filmmaker Tsukamoto Shinya was born 15 years after the end of World War II. “Neither my parents nor my grandparents ever spoke about the war, so I grew up believing, without question, that the world was a bright and peaceful place,” says Tsukamoto. “But beneath the surface, many people were suffering from the dark […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

Berlin Golden Bear Winner Lila Avilés Wraps Production on ‘Cábula,’ Releases First Look Ahead of Venice Gap-Financing Market (EXCLUSIVE)

Berlin Golden Bear winner Lila Avilés (“Totém”) has wrapped production on her next feature film, “Cábula,” and shared an exclusive first-look image with Variety. The director will present the film during the Venice Gap-Financing Market, which takes place from Sept. 4 – 6. Set in the fictional Mexican town of Mexicalpan, “Cábula” follows Toña, a […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

‘The Truffle Hunters’ Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw Look for the Perfect Wine in ‘Burgundy’: ‘A Great Glass of Wine Changes How You Perceive the World’

“The Truffle Hunters” directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw look for the perfect wine in their new doc “Burgundy.” So do their characters, from winemakers to sommeliers and wine critic Guillaume, who dreams he’s literally drowning in it.  “He tastes over 100 wines — a day! For him, wine has a spiritual component. It’s the […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Lego Advent Calendars Are Live for 2026 With Disney, Marvel and ‘Star Wars’ Among Lineup

Each seasonal set holds 24 surprise figures and festive Lego builds.

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Faces of Death review – rework of notorious video nasty turns horror voyeurism into moral panic fable

A retelling of the 1978 ‘video nasty’ follows an online content moderator faced with steadily more appalling footage but reverts to generic bloodlettingEmerging amid the original 1970s home-rental boom, John Alan Schwartz’s 1978 film Faces of Death was an ultra-morbid extension of the so-called “mondo” genre. Mashing up gruesome footage – much of it faked, some of it legit enough to provoke ghoulish chatter – it achieved sleepover notoriety and then received a further publicity boost upon making

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Vista, Saarikoski Songs, Three Preludes album review – Saariaho’s iridescent visions evocatively rendered

Komsi/Nyman/BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo(Ondine)Three works by the idiosyncratic Finnish composer who died in 2023 are recorded for the first timeKaija Saariaho died in 2023, leaving behind a significant body of unrecorded music. The three works here, all premiere recordings, span 40 years, yet each bears the Finnish composer’s idiosyncratic fingerprints.The most substantial is Vista (2019), a tone poem inspired by a drive along the scenic Interstate 5 highway to San Diego. The first part, Horiz

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

Oasis Documentary Directors on Filming the Brothers’ First Reunion in 15 Years and Why There Wasn’t Much Emotion in the Room: ‘It’s the Gallaghers, It’s Not ‘Dawson’s Creek”

Liam and Noel Gallagher, to perhaps nobody’s surprise, aren’t ones for getting teary-eyed, even when reconciling after well over a decade apart. So say Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, directors of the upcoming Disney+ documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger,” speaking to Variety ahead of the film’s world premiere in Venice. In early 2025, […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

Édgar Ramírez and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart to Star in ‘Land of the Savages’ by Venice-Winning ‘Blanquita’ Director Fernando Guzzoni

Four years after “Blanquita” won the Silver Lion for best screenplay, Chilean director Fernando Guzzoni returns to Venice. The filmmaker is set to present his latest project, “Land of the Savages,” at the Venice Gap-Financing Market, eyeing a return to the festival’s prestigious red carpet soon.  “Land of the Savages” takes place in 1850 and […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

‘Everest: The Other Side’ Directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin Talk Grief, Loss and Their Most Personal Film Yet: ‘You Don’t Get to Choose Your Calling’

“Free Solo” directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin return with their most personal film to date.  In “Everest: The Other Side” — screening in Venice and Toronto — they follow ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson as they attempt to do something that has never been done before: ski down the North Face […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

Rodrigo Moreno and Santiago Mitre AD Felipe Solari Yrigoyen Set to Make Directorial Debut With ‘The Amateurs’

Over the last decade, Felipe Solari Yrigoyen has worked as an assistant director to some of the most lauded filmmakers in South America. His credits include Rodrigo Moreno’s “The Delinquents,” Martín Rejtman’s “The Practice” and Santiago Mitre’s upcoming “Villaflor.” After learning from the best, Solari Yrigoyen is finally claiming the director’s chair for himself with […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026

Variety

‘Jupiter’ Director Alexandre Smia on Making a Nuclear Thriller That Suddenly Feels Terrifyingly Real: ‘We’ve Entered the Third Nuclear Age’

When Alexandre Smia began writing “Jupiter,” his gripping feature directing debut about a newly elected French president confronted with the possibility of nuclear war with Russia, Joe Biden was still in the White House. A year and a half later, as the film prepares to world premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, […]

entertainment  Sep 4, 2026