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Quantum of Solace: a heartbroken James Bond is fuelled by rage in Daniel Craig’s most underrated 007 film
Published: June 23, 2026 15:00
The sequel to Casino Royale was plagued by a writers’ strike, but its shaky-cam style and erratic action aligns perfectly with our hero’s fractured state of mindIn the final moments of Casino Royale, a piercingly blue-eyed Daniel Craig holds the conniving…
‘There’s a way to fly mindfully. Like, I don’t have my own plane any more’: can DJ megastar Alok make dance music more sustainable?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/23/dj-alok-dance-music-sustainable-rave-the-world-tour
Published: June 23, 2026 14:45
The Brazilian musician, who collaborates with Indigenous artists and puts millions into philanthropy, explains his mission – and defends his jetsettingWhen Alok, the most successful Brazilian DJ of his generation, was brainstorming the concept for his new…
‘A new world has been opened up’: how a London street got filled with art – and brought the neighbours together
Published: June 23, 2026 13:59
From a mural in a baby’s bedroom to a sound sculpture designed to be played out of a convertible, top contemporary artists rose to the challenge of making work for one lucky communityIn 1986, an exhibition called Chambres d’Amis took contemporary art…
‘I’d pause then carry on’: Peter Marinker, star of Krapp’s Last Tape, on performing with Alzheimer’s
Published: June 23, 2026 13:53
The 84-year-old actor has spent decades bringing Samuel Beckett’s plays to life. Does his recent diagnosis give him new insights into playing ‘sad clown’ Krapp in a drama about age and the battlefield of memory?What a lot of Krapp. Pardon my French but…
You’re only supposed to blow the bloody hooves off: AI Michael Caine narrates Odyssey audiobook
Published: June 23, 2026 13:02
AI company ElevenLabs unveils its officially licensed replica of the iconic actor’s voice in a retelling of Homer’s epic poem, while director who previously recorded the star recalls real-life experienceNext month, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster version…
These boots were made for walking! But who wore them? Find out in the Art Fund museum of the year quiz
Published: June 23, 2026 12:57
In the third of five quizzes, curators at the Box Plymouth set 10 fiendish questions to test your knowledge of their collections Continue reading...
Sniffin’ Glue at 50! Do you make a music zine? If so, we want to see it
Published: June 23, 2026 12:54
To mark 50 years since the punk DIY publishing explosion, we want to compile a map of the UK’s contemporary zine sceneThis year marks what is officially considered the 50th anniversary of punk: five decades since the Sex Pistols played Manchester Lesser…
Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) review – Tyshawn Sorey’s meditations yield their mysteries slowly
Published: June 23, 2026 12:23
Sorey/BBC Singers/Tines/Gibson/GBSR DuoSt Giles’ Cripplegate, LondonThe Pulitzer-winner’s sprawling amalgam of Morton Feldman and African American spiritual felt meandering, but the GBSR duo, the BBC Singers and Ruth Gibson’s viola were luminous and…
How to Live on Earth review – Benedict Cumberbatch exudes positivity in response to the climate crisis
Published: June 23, 2026 12:00
An antithesis of the doom and gloom docs about environmental destruction, Cumberbatch and expert contributors look at how we can all help to protect itThere is value in a documentary about the environment and the climate crisis that does not simply indulge…
‘Sheer genius’: your best TV of 2026 so far
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/23/sheer-genius-your-best-tv-of-2026-so-far
Published: June 23, 2026 11:48
From gripping medical dramas to thrilling crime shows nearly impossible not to devour in one go, it’s already been a great year for television. Here are Guardian readers’ top shows of the yearThe best TV of 2026 so farI absolutely loved Legends. It was…
The experience that coloured everything Britten went on to write
Published: June 23, 2026 11:40
Three months after Bergen-Belsen was liberated, Britten and Yehudi Menuhin performed there. Survivor and cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was ‘transfixed’ – as she told the composer when they played together decades laterIn 1945, the violinist Yehudi Menuhin…
Childbirth room? It’s next to the period room … the astonishing Kerala homes designed for women’s bodies
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/23/tharavad-kerala-womens-bodies-childbirth-period
Published: June 23, 2026 10:44
The tharavad is a traditional style of housing designed for and run by women. Our writer went on a pilgrimage to find her own family’s – and uncovered a way of life fast disappearingA chance conversation with a distant family member led me to Palayil, the…
Sizzle reels: nine films to watch in a heatwave
Published: June 23, 2026 10:19
Whether you fire up the outdoor projector or Netflix and chill in a cool, dark place – let the escapism of cinema be a balm amid the punishingly hot weatherAs you will no doubt have noticed, it is quite warm out. Historically warm, in fact. By the end of…
‘I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic was scrapped after ‘falling out’ with studio
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/23/madonna-biopic-scrapped-universal
Published: June 23, 2026 10:03
‘Maybe they just didn’t believe in me,’ the pop star said of Universal, which was set to make a film about her life starring Julia GarnerMadonna says that the long-gestating movie about her life that she was personally overseeing was cancelled after she…
500 Miles review – kids hit the road to visit Irish grandad Bill Nighy in YA tearjerker
Published: June 23, 2026 10:00
Nighy is the Dingle dwelling grandfather of a Sheffield family in strife in sentimental adaptation of Mark Lowery’s novel Charlie and MeThis, sadly, is not a biopic of the Proclaimers, but a family tearjerker adapted from Charlie and Me, Mark Lowery’s…
Noise, blood and confetti: how Industrial Coast built a radical arts scene in ‘dark, deprived’ Middlesbrough
Published: June 23, 2026 09:39
The Teesside town struggles with drugs and social discord, but inspired by its magical light and mercurial artistic spirit, some say it has the best cultural scene in the UKAt a gig in a Middlesbrough art gallery, the room smells of blood. Rainbow confetti…
Reader, I married him: couples tell us how books brought them together
Published: June 23, 2026 09:00
From book club meet-cutes to shared English Literature lectures, romance has blossomed beyond the page for these bibliophilesDua Lipa and Callum Turner have been honeymooning in Italy, after throwing a star-studded wedding in Palermo earlier this month.…
Artwork removed from National Portrait Gallery after row over Churchill’s role in Bengal famine
Published: June 23, 2026 08:30
Turner prize winner Helen Cammock withdraws piece after 50 peers criticise claim former PM ‘starved people’An artwork by a Turner prize-winning artist has been removed from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) after a row about the role Winston Churchill…
The Morrigan review – spirit of pagan demon queen unleashed in Irish burial chamber horror
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/23/the-morrigan-review-horror-saffron-burrows
Published: June 23, 2026 08:00
Archaeologists blunder into an ancient and unwittingly release a vengeful monster – with predictable and conventional resultsIn Irish folklore, the Morrígan is a powerful goddess of death and war. This horror movie imagines her as an actual historical…
Fantastic Kingdom by Helene von Bismarck review – an outsider’s guide to British politics
Published: June 23, 2026 08:00
This stranger’s-eye-view of an eccentric nation promises insight but delivers only conventional wisdom‘Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.” So observed Hungarian journalist George Mikes in How to Be an Alien (1946), one…
Awake Awake by Fiona Mozley review – in pursuit of false memories
Published: June 23, 2026 06:00
From the Booker-shortlisted author, a tantalisingly unreliable account of childhood, history and mental uncertaintyThe historian and novelist Fiona Mozley acknowledged in a 2018 piece for the Guardian that the city of York had a major influence on both her…
Landship review – soldiers yearn for tinned pies in muddy first world war drama that stays inside the tank
Published: June 23, 2026 06:00
It’s too murky to distinguish one stiff upper lip from another in Callum Burn’s drama about a real-life mission that came unstuckBased loosely on a true story, this British first world war drama deploys a few cunning stratagems to keep the budget down –…
Whoosh! Jacques Henri Lartigue’s world of colour – in pictures
Published: June 23, 2026 06:00
The French artist is best known for his black-and-white images of high society, but a new exhibition shows us that he was also a bold and brilliant colour pioneer Continue reading...
Piglet, it’s a purple, psychedelic shapeshifter! The wild new creature prowling Winnie-the-Pooh’s wood
Published: June 23, 2026 04:00
Is it an alien? A dinosaur? Is it going to kill us all? Our writer hits Ashdown Forest for the Big One Hundred celebrations – and finds its magic enchanting new generationsThe rolling idyll of heath and forest, spinney and stream that gave us the…
Bad Bunny sparks UK’s Latino moment as 100,000 fans line up to see him perform
Published: June 22, 2026 14:57
Rapping in Spanish used to be a hard sell to Britons – but the Puerto Rican star is making the Latin American community visibleAt the Seven Sisters Latin Village in north London, construction is under way.The market, which has become a centre for the…
‘Guys would think I was a girl then get aggressive when they found out my name was Brian’: how Placebo made Nancy Boy
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jun/22/how-placebo-made-nancy-boy
Published: June 22, 2026 14:17
‘I thought I could regain some power by writing a celebration of debauchery that was so brazenly sexual it would infuriate the people who insulted me’Nancy Boy was about reclaiming the homophobic insults that were hurled at me every time I went out because…
Giulio Cesare review – nightmarish take on Handel has snakes, sadism and a mummy
Published: June 22, 2026 13:13
The Grange festival, Northington, HampshireDavid Alden’s blackly comic Kafkaesque production has a strong cast whose lively performances were not always matched by the Early Opera Company in the pitThe year 1724 found Handel at the very height of his…
Hayley Williams review – punk and R&B expertly intertwine on first solo tour for Paramore star
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/22/hayley-williams-review-roundhouse-london
Published: June 22, 2026 13:01
Roundhouse, LondonIn her first European jaunt outside of her headbanging band, the singer uses humour to turn angsty songs into rowdy collective catharsisHayley Williams swaggers on stage with a guitar and begins gleefully raging about her antidepressant…
Once Upon a Time in Holyhead: Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue shooting film in Porthcawl
Published: June 22, 2026 13:00
Pair pictured ‘laughing and singing’ at Welsh seaside town’s Saltwater Inn, for post-funeral scene in film by British film-maker Jamie AdamsQuentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue have been spotted in Welsh seaside town Porthcawl as they film a new movie for…
James Phelan: Showman review – an amazing pick’n’mix of telepathy and magic
Published: June 22, 2026 13:00
Underbelly Boulevard, LondonAudience members become unsuspecting mind-readers, and numbers disappear from their memory, in this hugely entertaining showAn audience member is on stage, their feet hypnotically glued to the floor. Under the influence of…
Johnny Marr to auction off dozens of guitars heard on Smiths classics such as This Charming Man
Published: June 22, 2026 12:30
Christie’s sale in London in September carries estimates up to £150,000, with some instruments also used by Noel Gallagher and Bernard SumnerJohnny Marr is preparing to auction off about 80 of his guitars, including the Rickenbacker heard on This Charming…
Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/22/pitfall-review-friends-deliverance-survival-horror
Published: June 22, 2026 12:00
Laborious and bombastic thriller set in a forest where a maniacal woodsman and a cast of irritating victims converge with gory resultsNo low-budget horror movie can apparently now be greenlighted without featuring the obligatory posse of supremely…
Aldeburgh festival roundup – Tansy Davies and Freya Waley-Cohen premieres, plus blistering Shostakovich
Published: June 22, 2026 11:16
Various venues, SuffolkThe second weekend boasted brand new music by Davies and Waley-Cohen, the premiere of Alex Ho and Rockey Sun Keting’s Chronicle, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Kevin Edusei on exhilarating formPercussionists are…
Jabs, human ash and a tapeworm: behind the appetite for a new kind of disordered eating movie
Published: June 22, 2026 11:15
Supernatural horror Saccharine and melodramatic comedy Maddie’s Secret are the latest films on body-image anxieties served up by HollywoodSaccharine is soundtracked by a rumbling stomach. Ping-ponging between binge eating and regimented workout routines,…
Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai review – staggering images of the aftermath of shattering violence
Published: June 22, 2026 11:00
Japan House, LondonThis darkly atmospheric exhibition pairs the revolutionary Hiroshima images of revered photographer Kikuji with Ai’s glittering but deeply melancholy visions of cherry blossomJapan House’s first, free photography exhibition,…
From Burma to Big Brother: George Orwell’s best books – ranked!
Published: June 22, 2026 11:00
From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?Imagination was not George Orwell’s forte. In each novel the protagonist is to some extent an Orwell surrogate doing things that Orwell…
Benita review – Alan Berliner puts new spin on late film-maker’s work in entrancing tribute
Published: June 22, 2026 10:00
After Benita Raphan took her own life in 2021, director and friend Berliner spent years poring over her unfinished work to create a documentary unlike anything elseThis is a one-of-a-kind documentary that has been coaxed and cut together by veteran…
‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/22/writers-on-their-favourite-lgbtq-movie-characters
Published: June 22, 2026 10:00
From gritty criminals to teens coming to terms with their identity, pride month sees Guardian writers on their most beloved queer charactersForget about dimly lit period dramas where miserable women with no access to electricity gently sob in their heaving…
Frida: The Making of an Icon review – forget her iconic status, just show us more of her art
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/22/frida-the-making-of-an-icon-review-tate-modern
Published: June 22, 2026 09:54
Tate Modern, LondonFrida Kahlo took self-portraiture to new levels of interior revelation and her work takes you deep into her mystery. So why is this show padded out with responses by lesser artists?Charisma is something you can’t fake and Frida Kahlo had…
Barack Obama’s gripping new show: best podcasts of the week
Published: June 22, 2026 06:00
The 44th president’s latest podcast is a slick, excellently researched look at the post-slavery period in the US. Plus, a troubling foray into the world of swingingWho would have thought, back in 2008, that Barack Obama (pictured above) would become one of…
Nailed it! What was Thor’s hammer called? Find out in our great British museum quiz
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/22/thors-hammer-great-british-museum-quiz-art-fund
Published: June 22, 2026 06:00
In the second of our five museum quizzes, curators at Norwich castle set 10 fiendish questions to test your knowledge of their collections. So what do they have the biggest collection in the world of? Continue reading...
A to B review – relentless mishaps as nothing goes to plan on blind date
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jun/21/a-to-b-review-blind-date-soho-theatre-london
Published: June 21, 2026 13:07
Soho theatre, LondonTold through two overlapping monologues, Brianna and Armani prepare for a night that could change the course of their livesAll the nerves, hope and anticipation of getting ready for a date melt together in Tia-Renee Mullings’s…
Much Ado About Nothing review – a riot of romcom energy
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jun/21/much-ado-about-nothing-review-shakespeare-globe-london
Published: June 21, 2026 12:16
Globe theatre, LondonWith its gorgeous music, dance and costumes, this production is a sure summer blockbuster that avoids the problematic elements of Shakespeare’s playThis elegant, effervescent production of Shakespeare’s problem play has all the…
David Hockney’s funeral held in private with just two mourners
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/21/david-hockney-funeral-private-two-mourners
Published: June 21, 2026 12:06
Artist had requested only his partner and great-nephew attend, with memorial services planned in places he livedOnly two people attended David Hockney’s funeral last week – in line with the British artist’s final wishes.The two mourners at the private…
‘My mum says I’m not working class any more!’: Olivia Cooke on power, privilege, and dividing audiences in House of Dragon
Published: June 21, 2026 09:00
The actor has a knack for playing characters that test viewers’ loyalties. As the Game of Thrones prequel returns, she talks problem fans, ‘boy mums’ and why the arts should be for everyoneHouse of the Dragon is a massive television series. Over two…
‘Beyoncé’s Crazy in Love makes you move your body’: Gloria Gaynor’s honest playlist
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/21/gloria-gaynor-honest-playlist-marvin-gaye-beyonce
Published: June 21, 2026 08:00
The disco-pop great salutes the sexiness of Marvin Gaye and the spirituality of Amazing Grace. But which of her own hits does she sing at karaoke?The first song I fell in love with I grew up in Newark, New Jersey, with five brothers and one sister, so…
One Van Gogh is never enough! So how many Sunflowers did he paint? Find out in our great British museum quiz
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/21/van-gogh-sunflowers-national-gallery-art-fund
Published: June 21, 2026 06:00
What’s Britain’s best museum? We asked the five shortlisted for the Art Fund’s £120,000 prize to pose questions about their collections. Here, National Gallery curators get the ball rolling … so do you know the story of their cut-up Manet? Continue…
‘Once my tummy stopped shaking, I was absorbed by the scale, spectacle and wonder’: your Steven Spielberg film favourites
Published: June 20, 2026 12:00
We’ve already listed our writers’ all-timers, now Guardian readers get their say on the seminal director’s best blockbustersET is my favourite Spielberg film. It was the first I ever saw at the cinema, when I was eight years old, at Bolton Odeon in 1982.…
‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/20/sandra-oh-interview-killing-eve-theatre
Published: June 20, 2026 11:00
It took a long time for the actor to find her groove – then the smash TV spy thriller changed everything. She talks about getting advice from A-listers, speaking her mind, and why she’s switching to theatreSandra Oh bursts into a back room at the National…
Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/20/granta-magazine-commonwealth-short-story-prize-ai
Published: June 20, 2026 09:00
Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furoreThe prominent literary magazine Granta will no longer publish the winning entries of the annual Commonwealth short story prize after one of this…
Candice Carty-Williams: ‘People feel very attached to Queenie’
Published: June 20, 2026 08:00
The breakout success of her debut created a publishing scramble for Black writers, but has that appetite for diversity endured? Carty-Williams talks about wanting to quit the TV adaptation, why now is the perfect time for her sequel One of the questions…
David Guetta and Sia’s song Titanium got me through my fertility treatment
Published: June 20, 2026 06:00
Hearing their in-your-face banger was a turning point for me – and I’ve never looked backAt the end of 2011, party season was under way but I was in no mood for festivities. Two years into fertility treatment, my body was pumped full of synthetic hormones…
Would You Rather: Decide to Survive – Romesh Ranganathan’s gameshow is so low-effort it’s almost avant garde
Published: June 20, 2026 06:00
In a modern twist on It’s a Knockout, the comedian makes online stars do ludicrous tasks. The whole thing looks like it cost £420 to cobble together – and it will make you feel 100 years oldI felt 100 years old this week, watching a new gameshow on Prime…
TV tonight: Jon Snow defies Alzheimer’s in the most moving way imaginable
Published: June 20, 2026 05:15
A Last Big Story is a stirring exploration of the journalist’s condition and his news instincts. Plus, a wholesome telling of the story of Indigenous Australian tennis legend Evonne Goolagong. Here’s what to watch this evening8pm, Channel 4This documentary…
From Funboys to Olivia Rodrigo: the week in rave reviews
Published: June 20, 2026 05:01
Steve Coogan drops in on the lovably daft Northern Irish comedy, and the alt-pop superstar teases some relationship mysteries. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the Guardian’s best-rated reviews Continue reading...
From Toy Story 5 to The Bear: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Published: June 20, 2026 05:00
Pixar’s enduring animated favourites battle a rogue tablet, and Disney’s anxiety-inducing kitchen drama returns for a final seriesToy Story 5Out nowThe toys are back in town for a fifth instalment in Pixar’s long-running signature franchise, with people…
Inexperience review – this ‘no-contact’ romance is incredibly touching
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jun/20/inexperience-review-pitlochry-festival-theatre
Published: June 20, 2026 05:00
Pitlochry Festival theatreWriter Douglas Maxwell’s playful conceit sparks a funny and superbly acted exploration of messy relationships There is a clever conceit underlying Douglas Maxwell’s sparky romantic comedy. It imagines the possibility of a sexually…
Ron review – bumbling standup swerves into Tarantino-esque odyssey
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jun/19/ron-review-riverside-studios-london-ted-walliker
Published: June 19, 2026 19:00
Riverside Studios, LondonTed Walliker’s one-man play about a night gone spectacularly wrong is boldly ambitious but we need to know more about the man at the micWatching a comedian crumble onstage is hellish. In Ted Walliker’s new play, the performer’s…
Camdenwalla review – one long night of fear and defiance in 90s London
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jun/19/camdenwalla-review-camden-peoples-theatre-london
Published: June 19, 2026 15:16
Camden People’s theatre, London Jonny Khan’s debut play, about an uncle and niece manning phones at a rescue service during racist attacks, is well acted yet lacks tensionThis theatre’s address was once the headquarters of the Camden Monitoring Project, a…
45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
Published: June 19, 2026 14:30
Minerva theatre, Chichester Memories of an ex-girlfriend are rekindled as a couple prepare to celebrate in this adaptation of the filmThis story spans a week in the life of a couple approaching their 45th wedding anniversary. As Kate (Geraldine James)…
Il Ritorno d’Ulisse review – a sensuous slice of opulence and luxury
Published: June 19, 2026 14:11
Garsington Opera, Wormsley Estate, StokenchurchDirector John Caird and conductor Laurence Cummings bring Monteverdi back to the Chiltern Hills with polished, festive inclusivityLightning, it would appear, can strike twice in the Chiltern Hills. In 2022,…
Reports of the blockbuster exhibition’s death are premature as Tate’s Kahlo show breaks ticket record
Published: June 19, 2026 14:00
Recent Van Gogh show was National Gallery’s most popular ever and British Museum gears up for arrival of Bayeux tapestryWhen Tate Modern announced a major exhibition devoted to Frida Kahlo, few doubted it would be popular. The Mexican artist has become one…
Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
Published: June 19, 2026 13:21
The web giant announced that Artificial, a biopic about the controversial tech executive, ‘will be better served if it were released by a different studio’Artificial, Luca Guadagnino’s controversial Sam Altman biopic, which is poised for an awards run next…
Post your questions for Vini Reilly of the Durutti Column
Published: June 19, 2026 12:46
Ahead of the band’s first new album in 16 years, the hugely influential guitarist will be taking your questions for the Guardian Film & Music reader interviewAt the end of July, the Durutti Column will release their first new music in 16 years: the…
Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
Published: June 19, 2026 12:00
Over 40 years, Italy’s Il Cinema Ritrovato – or ‘rediscovered cinema’ – has evolved into an influential international gatheringBologna will be transformed into an open-air museum of cinema on Saturday as a nine-day festival dedicated to restored,…
St Kilda pier wins peak Victorian architecture award as judges praise playful and ‘deeply civic’ design
Published: June 19, 2026 12:00
State government project among range of works celebrated for community-centred design that goes beyond utilityThe reimagined St Kilda pier has added more accolades to its burgeoning trophy cabinet, taking out some of the top gongs at the 2026 Australian…
‘People like me needed Sinéad O’Connor’: how the singer and activist inspired a new dance work
Published: June 19, 2026 12:00
Tony-winning choreographer Sonya Tayeh was ‘broken up’ when she heard about the Irish singer-songwriter’s death three years ago. Now she and a group of over-40s female dancers are paying homage: ‘People love her, people need her’Sonya Tayeh remembers…
‘It’s time for it to end’: Ebon Moss-Bachrach on the final, delicious season of The Bear
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/19/ebon-moss-bachrach-final-season-the-bear
Published: June 19, 2026 12:00
It turned its cast into global stars, triggered fashion crazes and even made an omelette go viral. As The Bear bows out, ‘cousin’ Ebon Moss-Bachrach talks obsessive fans, fork tattoos and why he’s ‘dumbly proud’Ebon Moss-Bachrach is currently starring in…
Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
Published: June 19, 2026 11:01
Andy Serkis has picked the perfect actor for the next iteration of the Lord of the Rings franchise. But if Tolkien didn’t linger over this subplot, should we?Let’s be honest: Anya Taylor-Joy would make a great elf. If any human being could flit from tree…
Add to playlist: the wild club-pop of Zara Larsson cowriter Helena Gao and the week’s best new tracks
Published: June 19, 2026 11:00
The Chinese-Danish artist wrote nine 10ths of Larsson’s breakout album then got a Grammy nod. It’s a fine springboard for her own revelatory popFrom Aarhus, DenmarkRecommended if you like Caroline Polachek, Zara Larsson, GrimesUp next Debut project coming…
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/19/the-best-recent-and-thrillers-review-roundup
Published: June 19, 2026 11:00
The Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee; A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper; Murder on the Red River by Marcie R Rendon; The Devoted by Catherine Cho; The Repentants by Kate FosterThe Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee (Harvill, £16.99)In the eponymous Mumbai apartment…
Fabulous Frida, classic Constable and a Cornish welcome for Kasuba – the week in art
Published: June 19, 2026 11:00
Tate Modern celebrates everything Kahlo, the British Museum marks John Constable’s 250th birthday, while Claydon prepares for an invasion – all in your weekly dispatchFrida: The Making of an IconThe great surrealist and self-explorer Frida Kahlo gets a…
10 museums to visit for America’s 250th anniversary
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jun/19/10-museums-to-visit-america-250
Published: June 19, 2026 11:00
From Arkansas to Washington DC, museums across the US are grappling with what it means to celebrate the countryAs the United States of America reaches its semiquincentennial this 4 July, museums across the country are grappling with what being American and…
How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
Published: June 19, 2026 09:29
From one hostile environment to another, the documentaries and dramas ranging from Nigeria and Syria to British immigration give vivid life to an experience that can feel very remoteAs World Refugee Day approaches on Saturday, this year’s Refugee Week…
Joe Lovano: Paramount Quartet review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/19/joe-lovano-paramount-quartet-review
Published: June 19, 2026 07:30
(ECM)Lovano and his spirited quartet make his instrument glow in all its pliable eloquence, with rattling originals amid the Charlie Haden and Wayne Shorter coversThe saxophone’s 19th-century inventor, the Belgian Adolphe Sax, imagined hybrid horns that…
You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
Published: June 19, 2026 07:00
From Disclosure Day to Backrooms, a new wave of films promote stories of paranoia, alienation and mistrust. What are they trying to tell us?Thank heavens for cinema, that light in the darkness and the source of all shocking scoops. It tells us to wake up…
The changing face of Mongolia as, beneath the grass, permafrost thaws
Published: June 19, 2026 06:00
The warming caused by climate breakdown in the landlocked east Asian country is transforming its fragile ecosystemAs the climate crisis accelerates, Mongolia is warming rapidly, transforming the country’s cryosphere, including some of the most southerly…
Grammy-nominated music producer Tay Keith, who worked with Drake and Travis Scott, dies aged 29
Published: June 19, 2026 04:46
Hip-hop producer behind Travis Scott’s Sicko Mode and Drake’s Nonstop has been found dead at home during a police welfare checkThe Grammy-nominated producer Tay Keith, who worked with Drake, Travis Scott and Beyoncé, has been found dead at his apartment in…
Toe-to-toe boxers, a moving maze and comedy flamenco: Edinburgh festival 2026’s hottest dance and circus
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jun/19/edinburgh-festival-2026-dance-circus-picks
Published: June 19, 2026 04:00
This year brings world-renowned choreographers, ballet cabaret and fluffy clowns for toddlersThis was San Francisco Ballet’s big new commission in 2024, now getting its European premiere at Edinburgh international festival. An ambitious production with…
‘I’d listen to my body before it screamed for help’: Keith Richards on life as an 82-year-old great-grandad – and jousting with Mick Jagger
Published: June 19, 2026 04:00
He did every substance imaginable – and got punched by Chuck Berry – but Keef’s still going strong. As the Stones knock out another new album, he explains why he’s rejecting AI in favour of ‘the old ways’Keith Richards has just become a great-grandfather.…
Sugar review – Colin Farrell’s detective show is a luxurious labyrinth of noir
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/19/sugar-review-colin-farrell-apple-tv-drama
Published: June 19, 2026 04:00
Each episode of this PI drama’s second season is a half-hour haze suffused with melancholy and distressed urban beauty. It’s the kind of show that could only exist on Apple TVGetting a TV show made isn’t easy. OK, so you’ve got an interesting idea and some…
Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/18/voicemails-for-isabelle-review-netflix-romcom
Published: June 18, 2026 23:00
Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson stumble in this mushy, overlong story of a woman leaving voicemails for her dead sisterThere’s a fine line between romantic comedy and creepy thriller, and while redefining the genre’s lovelorn leads as often incredibly…
Queen James review – a fabulous documentary about the male lovers of Britain’s first king
Published: June 18, 2026 21:00
Historian Gareth Russell has a gift. He’s entertaining and endlessly amusing in this confident TV transfer of his book about James I’s intimate companionsThat James I let his reign be shaped by his male lovers is both old news and not. Nobody was too shy…
Dancing to artefacts: London Museum will be ‘democratic’ space for all, says director
Published: June 18, 2026 14:52
A decade in the making, the museum will reopen in November in two restored market halls with displays and late-night DJ setsThe new London Museum will be “a social space for the city”, its director has said, hosting afternoon tea events, monthly dinner…
‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/18/marc-isaacs-synthetic-sincerity-ai
Published: June 18, 2026 14:33
Marc Isaacs’ film Synthetic Sincerity may look like a documentary, but its fictional premise – a lab that scrapes movies to harvest human emotions – shines a hard light on just how far AI can goIn Marc Isaacs’ latest film, the subversive documentary maker…
Post your questions for Martha Reeves of Martha and the Vandellas
Published: June 18, 2026 14:10
The voice behind Dancing in the Street, Heat Wave and many more is releasing her first album in 22 years – and will take on your questionsMartha Reeves is one of the defining voices of 1960s pop, someone who embodied the romance and euphoria of Motown…
Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
Published: June 18, 2026 14:00
Show features characters and sets from likes of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep and celebrates roots in cityAardman’s most famous characters, Wallace and Gromit, may be denizens of northern England but the studio’s deep-rooted connection to the…
Brahms: Violin Sonatas album review – Ehnes and Armstrong’s performances exude an effortless rightness
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/18/brahms-violin-sonatas-album-review
Published: June 18, 2026 14:00
Ehnes/Armstrong(Seattle Chamber Music Society)The Canadian violinist and American pianist – musical partners for over three decades – bring assurance and grace to these three violin sonatas written by Brahms in his creative prime. Written between 1879 and…
Soul classics and stepmother celebrations: Alicia Keys’ 20 best songs – ranked!
Published: June 18, 2026 13:15
Twenty-five years after she released her debut album, we pick the best of an artist pairing Chopin-inspired piano with pop, soul and powerful emotionTwo different takes on the same album – one traditional, the other more beat-heavy – packaged together,…
Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/18/post-your-questions-for-minions-supremo-pierre-coffin
Published: June 18, 2026 12:32
As the cute, yellow, gibberish-spouting creatures return in Minions & Monsters, the animator who voices them and has directed five of the films in the franchise will be taking your questionsBello! Next month sees the return of everyone’s favourite small,…
Dazzling, delightful – and unfairly dismissed: Stephen Hough on the art of the transcription
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/18/stephen-hough-the-art-of-the-piano-transcription
Published: June 18, 2026 11:27
Bach, Beethoven and Brahms did it. Liszt took it to such virtuosic heights that the entire genre almost collapsed. Ahead of his own album of transcriptions, the pianist and composer looks at the history of reworking existing musicThey have long been the…
Myles Smith: My Mess, My Heart, My Life review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/18/myles-smith-my-mess-my-heart-my-life-review
Published: June 18, 2026 11:00
(RCA)He can write a decent rousing chorus, but the Stargazing hitmaker’s influences couldn’t be more obvious if he tried – right down to a ghastly Galway Girl sequelYou know what you’re getting with Myles Smith, an artist who set his musical stall out…
‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/18/the-female-editors-behind-cinema-biggest-film-directors
Published: June 18, 2026 09:29
In an industry dominated by men, many women dedicate themselves to the craft of editing – as well as managing directors’ egos – to create some of the most celebrated and memorable big-screen classicsBehind every great director, to coin a phrase, is a great…
‘A sacred kind of sound’: inside a solar-powered journey to preserve the music of church organs
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/18/michael-cloud-duguay-album-church-organs
Published: June 18, 2026 09:00
Musician Michael Cloud Duguay’s new album was born from a mission to capture the sound of the majestic yet increasingly rare instrumentsMichael Cloud Duguay and his band of collaborators were nearing the end of their pipe organ tour of Newfoundland when…
Bongeziwe Mabandla faced addiction, illness and ‘backstabbers’. How has the South African singer stayed so upbeat?
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jun/18/bongeziwe-mabandla-south-african-singer
Published: June 18, 2026 08:30
An indie star in his homeland, Mabandla’s fame is growing abroad – and his uplifting new album is full of existential insight after some of the toughest years of his lifeAs the camera pulls back from Bongeziwe Mabandla in the video for his recent single…
‘You learn how to be idiotic artists’: Gilbert & George on fame, rebellion and their mystery new collaborator
Published: June 18, 2026 07:00
The Britart mavericks have now teamed up with an unlikely artist. Is their odd throuple an elaborate prank – or are the duo passing down their legacy?‘Hello girls,” greets 82-year-old Gilbert Prousch, one half of art duo Gilbert & George, as he shakes my…
As Spielberg confirms whether ET was ‘slimy or dry’, we enter a new age of the celebrity interview
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/18/steven-spielberg-et-was-moist-but-never-slimy
Published: June 18, 2026 06:00
Veteran interviewees are forever trotting out the same anecdotes in response to unoriginal questions – until one fearless disruptor dared ask if ET had moist skinFor the most part, Steven Spielberg has avoided most of the indignities of the modern day…
La Cabina/El Televisor review – horror and anxiety on the air and down the line in Franco’s Spain
Published: June 18, 2026 06:00
José Luis López Vázquez’s phone box nightmare is short and sharp but Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s TV fever dream overplays its handTwo macabre Spanish TV plays from the 1970s are being released as a double bill: Antonio Mercero’s La Cabina (★★★★★) is a cult…
Fotofestiwal: the international festival of photography in Łódź – in pictures
Published: June 18, 2026 06:00
Now in it’s 25th year, the Polish city’s Fotofestiwal opens on 18 June with a series of exhibitions reflecting on the concept of a collective experience rather than a binary world of “us” and “them” Continue reading...
A Little Bit Bad by Cassandra Neyenesch review – a sparkling, subversive debut
Published: June 18, 2026 06:00
With its echoes of Miranda July’s All Fours, this tragicomic tale of an American woman’s illicit romance is also a gripping murder mysteryThe plot of A Little Bit Bad sounds like the setup for a joke: “Like, this white lady lusting after her hot Chicano…
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