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‘A tipping point of ickiness’: Welsh star Tom Rhys Harries on playing eyelid-snipping DC supervillain Clayface
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/13/tom-rhys-harries-on-playing-dc-supervillain-clayface
Published: October 13, 2026 14:58
He cut his teeth playing rock stars and pretty posh boys. Speaking from his LA home, the actor talks about landing his first blockbuster lead in the grisly DC horror. Will it be too shocking for comic book fans?Exactly 13 years ago this month, Tom Rhys…
Larger Than Life review – Wallace, Gromit and the gang say cheeeese for hilarious Aardman origin story
Published: October 13, 2026 14:00
Lightroom, London From Shaun’s barn to Gromit’s box, these immersive behind-the-scenes renderings of the wide-grinned, cheeky characters are joyful, enormous – and a bit hard to followNothing is safe from the scourge of immersification. They’ve turned…
50 years on from Arts Britain Ignores: how much has changed for black and Asian artists?
Published: October 13, 2026 13:48
Conference to explore legacy of Naseem Khan’s seminal 1976 report about exclusion of minority ethnic artistsIt is 50 years since cultural historian Naseem Khan’s challenge to the British arts establishment was first published, and the question of who and…
The play that changed my life: ‘I was the badass queen in Titus Andronicus – we did it like A Nightmare on Elm Street’
Published: October 13, 2026 13:37
Shakespeare’s bloody revenge-fest is full of horror and grotesquerie but the camaraderie of performing it with a youth theatre had an upbeat effectTitus Andronicus has to be among William Shakespeare’s worst plays. In fact TS Eliot called it “one of the…
‘Wow, dude. You’re an idiot’: why Kelly Clarkson is fighting over a $15,000 bird on social media
Published: October 13, 2026 13:36
After having a Pretty Woman moment in a Brooklyn store, the singer-songwriter let rip on XName: Kelly Clarkson.Age: 44. Born in 1982. In Fort Worth, as it happens. Continue reading...
The Girl in the River review – forensic psychologist police procedural thriller plays like noir parody
Published: October 13, 2026 12:00
Ralph Macchio and Tiffany Haddish feature in a ropey and implausible manhunt thriller as cops search for the missing twin of a murdered teenagerThis small-town police thriller sets its stall out intriguingly, with a murder that seems actively begging to be…
Our Bodies Have Been Bridges review – riveting portraits and the story of the first woman on Earth
Published: October 13, 2026 11:12
Autograph, LondonThe three-person headline show looking at South American feminism is displayed alongside Charan Singh: Your Tongue in My Mouth, an intimate study of Indian trans communitiesIn the 1990s, the late Chicana artist Laura Aguilar was living…
Beth Orton review – battered optimism from an artist making the best music of her career
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/13/beth-orton-review-brighton-concorde-2
Published: October 13, 2026 11:04
Concorde 2, BrightonDrawing almost entirely from her last two albums, and backed by a band rooted in jazz and experimentation, Orton performed her emotionally fraught songs to a rapturous crowdThe audience at Brighton’s Concorde 2 largely look old enough…
Ian McKellen to star in UK premiere of ‘mixed reality’ play – but not in person
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/oct/13/mixed-reality-play-an-ark-ian-mckellen-manchester
Published: October 13, 2026 11:00
Audiences in Manchester will be asked to wear smart glasses for An Ark, which debuted in New York this yearIan McKellen will star in a groundbreaking new play that gets its UK premiere in Manchester next spring. But the veteran actor will not set foot on…
Devil in the detail: 100 years on, FW Murnau’s Faust scrapbook reveals the secrets of his silent masterpiece
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/13/how-fw-murnau-made-faust-bible-silent-film
Published: October 13, 2026 10:25
A rediscovered collection of drawings and on-set photos finally reveals the intricate on-set mysteries of one of early cinema’s most gifted pioneersFW Murnau was one of the greatest of all silent film-makers, with a rare genius for making beautiful images…
‘Girls aren’t supposed to be cocky’: Sophia Stel on the pressure of writing The Greatest Album Of All Time
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/13/sophia-stel-interview-greatest-album-of-all-time
Published: October 13, 2026 10:22
Raised as one of 11, the Vancouver artist (and model) is now signed by A24. She talks about her ultra-religious childhood and how – despite her album title – she still suffers from imposter syndromeThe first time Sophia Stel came to London, she slept…
Georg Baselitz: The Heroes review – astonishing paintings take a savage swipe at history
Published: October 13, 2026 10:19
Thaddaeus Ropac, LondonThe artist captures horror, disgust and guilt over Germany’s Nazi past. The colossal results are so scathingly ironic it’s like being spat atWhen the German painter Georg Baselitz died this year a chunk of Europe’s rapidly…
Forever Is Now review – political study of former Irish Green leader is like The Thick of It but with morals
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/13/forever-is-now-review-documentary-eamon-ryan
Published: October 13, 2026 10:00
Eamon Ryan is shown to be principled, likable and hard working in a glowing portrait, filmed while serving in the country’s coalition governmentThis fly-on-the-wall documentary about the former Irish Green party leader and cabinet minister Eamon Ryan…
The Social Reckoning isn’t as angry or as potent as a Facebook drama should be
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/13/the-social-reckoning-aaron-sorkin
Published: October 13, 2026 09:00
Aaron Sorkin’s attempt to return to the success of The Social Network is a strangely dated and incomplete look at a world that needs a sharper eyeIn retrospect, David Fincher’s 2010 film The Social Network was a landmark for a quiet, even counterintuitive…
Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse review – every fantastical vampire-hunting vision is fulfilled
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/oct/13/castlevania-belmonts-curse-review-vampire-hunting
Published: October 13, 2026 09:00
Evil Empire/Konami; PC, PS5, Switch, XboxThere are buzzsaws and blood pits, bats burst into blood and demons burn to cinders. The series’ new emphasis on twitch-based action may annoy purists but you can’t call it dullA gorgeously gothic Paris swarming…
It’s My Time review – Michelle Yeoh excels in Rocky-style quest to be Rubik’s Cube champ
Published: October 13, 2026 08:00
True story about a former maths teacher who became a puzzle champion in retirement is squeezed into predictable sports-movie formulaIt’s not quite up there with Leonardo DiCaprio eating raw bison liver to get into character, but Michelle Yeoh reportedly…
Generation Maybe by Camilla Cavendish review – what’s really behind the fertility gap?
Published: October 13, 2026 08:00
An evidenced-based account of the difficult choices facing couples across the world – from America to Iran‘Don’t be weird about this,” representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez laughed into the camera as she prepared to jab a hormone-filled needle into her…
Tyson review – deeply icky … and that’s before Trump shows up
Published: October 13, 2026 07:01
This peculiar – some would say truly irresponsible – hagiography of boxing superstar Mike Tyson veers from psychedelics and sobbing to the inadvisable face tattoo via a cameo from the US presidentNetflix’s new four-parter on Mike Tyson is one of the…
Mag Mag review – giant female ghost loves people to death in Japanese comedy-horror
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/13/mag-mag-review-japanese-horror-yuriyan-retriever
Published: October 13, 2026 06:00
Sara Minami gives a wonderfully crazed performance in a twisted, fresh take on the genre as Yuriyan Retriever’s debut feature examines infatuation, bullying and beauty normsBack in the 90s and 00s, Japanese horror (or “J-horror” if you want to save on…
Home is where the jellyfish glows: Finland finally warms to nature-loving modernist Alvar Aalto
Published: October 13, 2026 06:00
His egalitarian homeland used to harbour reservation against the architecture star. But with 13 new Unesco listings and a new exhibition in Helsinki, Aalto’s work is finally getting the recognition it deservesIn the early 1950s, Alvar Aalto built a boat to…
Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus review – the zany follow-up to Lessons in Chemistry
Published: October 13, 2026 06:00
This offbeat tale of machinations at an eccentric poetry magazine in 80s New York is laugh-out-loud funny – and a paean to the power of poetryIf you have been into a bookshop since 2022, or perhaps even just breathed in and out, you could not have failed…
Fight the power! Protest and rebellion in America – in pictures
Published: October 13, 2026 06:00
French photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont spent two decades capturing demos, clashes and countercultural gatherings in America. ‘They dreamed of living in a better world,’ he says Continue reading...
TV tonight: the advice columnist who sued Donald Trump twice – and won
Published: October 13, 2026 05:20
A riveting documentary about the journalist who took the US president to the cleaners. Plus: John Simpson celebrates 60 years at the Beeb. Here’s what to watch this evening10pm, BBC Four Why did journalist and advice columnist E Jean Carroll decide to sue…
‘I knew I was being followed’: Keira Knightley on her hacking nightmare – and new Stasi spy play The Lives of Others
Published: October 13, 2026 04:00
As the Oscar-winning Stasi surveillance film hits the stage, Knightley and co-star Luke Thompson talk about the paranoia at its heart, the cost of theatre tickets nowadays – and their fury at ringtones in the stallsUnpacking assorted tubs of carrot sticks…
RJ Mitte, actor best known for Breaking Bad role, dies aged 34
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/12/rj-mitte-breaking-bad-actor-death
Published: October 12, 2026 21:10
Mitte, who played Walter White Jr on acclaimed show, had cerebral palsy and advocated for disability representationThe Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte died on Monday aged 34, his representatives confirmed.Mitte died in Brownsville, Texas. No cause of death was…
Being Muslim After 9/11 review – other journalists wouldn’t dare to air this
Published: October 12, 2026 21:00
Mobeen Azhar isn’t afraid to tackle hard topics in a brilliant documentary about the rise of Islamophobia – even when it involves hearing criticism about his own decisions In 2024, the journalist Mobeen Azhar made a documentary called Small Town, Big Riot…
Selma Blair arrested at JFK after she allegedly attacked flight attendants
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/12/selma-blair-arrested-jfk-plane-incident
Published: October 12, 2026 20:03
Several news outlets reported Blair allegedly punched a flight attendant, bit another and tried to open plane doorThe actor Selma Blair was arrested on Sunday at John F Kennedy (JFK) airport in New York on allegations that she attacked flight attendants on…
BBC to stop recording The Archers in Birmingham for first time in its 75-year history
Published: October 12, 2026 19:56
Plans for a new theatre for world’s longest-running soap in Digbeth scrapped as part of cost-cutting measuresThe BBC is set to stop recording The Archers in Birmingham for the first time in the show’s 75-year history, after scrapping plans for a radio…
Nina review – a riveting series of horribly invasive auditions for The Seagull
Published: October 12, 2026 19:00
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonWomen up for a role as Chekhov’s aspiring actor navigate their meetings with a needling director in a tense showSmile. Introduce yourself. Say you’re such a big fan. Now do whatever he tells you. These are the unspoken rules…
Tarek Atoui’s Turbine Hall review – hallelujah, it’s raining musical instruments!
Published: October 12, 2026 14:55
Tate Modern, LondonThe Lebanese artist has turned trumpets, drums, cones and voices into an ingenious, interconnected sonic beast with funny, sad and mystical results. Prepare to feel the earth move!On the floor of the Turbine Hall, there are wide water…
Celebrity Traitors’ Julie Hesmondhalgh: theatres should be 100% faithful to ‘local stories’
Published: October 12, 2026 14:42
As she leaves the Traitors castle to star in The Pelicot Trial and receive a lifetime achievement award, the actor has highlighted ‘a loss of regional identity’ caused by funding pressures on UK theatresThere has been “a loss of regional identity” in the…
Alex Gibney says Universal ‘wavered’ over releasing Elon Musk documentary
Published: October 12, 2026 14:38
The revelation comes after the four-hour film’s Venice premiere drew a string of criticisms and insults from the founder of SpaceXAIAlex Gibney, director of the new four-hour documentary about Elon Musk, said that Universal, owners of the film’s…
‘When it went double platinum, Andy Burnham gave us the award’: how Courteeners made Not Nineteen Forever
Published: October 12, 2026 14:11
‘In nightclubs, I’d be the dude scribbling lyrics in the corner while everyone else was dancing or copping off’I had the lyrics to Not Nineteen Forever before the band existed. They were in a little red book of poems and scribbles that got me a place on…
Prem Sahib: Chamber review – master of unease twists the city into terror and pleasure
Published: October 12, 2026 13:00
De La Warr Pavilion, BexhillThere’s an atmosphere of sickly discomfort throughout this weird, intense mid-career survey for this brilliant artistPrem Sahib turns the city inside out, twists it around and rips it apart. His show at the De La Warr Pavilion…
NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film’s interviewees
Published: October 12, 2026 12:59
Israeli PM calls for criminal investigation into soldiers and officers interviewed in Guardian-produced documentaryThe Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered the country’s attorney general and the head of the Shin Bet security service to…
Digger on course for $245m loss after box office collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/12/digger-loss-245m-box-office-collapse
Published: October 12, 2026 12:51
Estimates suggest the eco satire starring Tom Cruise could join the list of top turkeys, including Cutthroat Island and The MarvelsDigger, the ambitious eco-fable starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alejandro G Iñárritu, is heading for an even worse…
The Girl from Arles review – Bizet’s music for forgotten rustic tragedy has punch and poetry
Published: October 12, 2026 12:35
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonBizet’s incidental music for Daudet’s 1872 play The Girl from Arles was given its first UK complete performance by Sir Mark Elder, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and strong soloists in Jeremy Sams’ staging‘The…
The Influencer Project review – ick-inducing thriller exploits overexposed tropes
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/12/the-influencer-project-review-ick-thriller-chiara-king
Published: October 12, 2026 12:00
When influencer/singer/content creator Chiara King visits Copenhagen all the trips to trendy shops and fancy restaurants soon take a turn for the worseBritish influencer/singer/content creator Chiara King stars as influencer/singer/content creator Chiara…
Mort la révolution! Why UK film loves a failed rebellion
Published: October 12, 2026 11:14
Paul Greengrass’s Peasants’ Revolt epic, The Uprising, is just the latest in a long line of movies depicting an unsuccessful attempt at remaking the nationThe British are perverse. We fetishise our failures, even if they are essentially tangential to a…
Gabrielle Goliath: Elegy review – devastating lament is a furious, single-note call to action
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/12/gabrielle-goliath-elegy-review-ibraaz-london
Published: October 12, 2026 11:13
Ibraaz, LondonToo controversial for the Venice Biennale, this haunting video and audio work commemorates murders and genocides with an angry act of mourningThe sound of mourning spills out into the streets. A single, endless wailing note echoes out of the…
The missed opportunity of Jay-Z’s documentary series
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/12/jay-z-in-8-hbo-documentary-series
Published: October 12, 2026 11:00
Jay-Z in 8, the rap mogul’s HBO docuseries, covers his life and career in effort to mend his image – with no pushback. Why is he so fixated on the court of public opinion?During the finale of Jay-Z’s Jay-Z in 8, the recent eight-part HBO documentary series…
Hallowarrior review – apocalyptic Home Alone-style survival horror delivers inventive shocks
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/12/hallowarrior-review-horror-milly-shapiro-shudder-amc
Published: October 12, 2026 10:00
Debut feature from Ben Sottak provides outlandish Halloween-based scares, with Milly Shapiro superb as the naive yet resilient home-defender, Pumpkin Home Alone meets Mad Max in this atmospheric seasonal chiller, named for Halloween and not a cheery…
Sindhu Vee: Swanky review – from the perils of parenting to the glories of self-pleasure
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/oct/12/sindhu-vee-swanky-review-uk-tour
Published: October 12, 2026 09:56
Reading Town HallThe standup’s new tour covers cross-cultural identity, Hollywood mix-ups and exactly how honest to be about your children’s arts and crafts outputHow British is Sindhu Vee? And how Indian? That’s what her new standup show Swanky addresses…
‘A rare indulgence’: why Black Swan is my feelgood movie
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/12/black-swan-feelgood-movie
Published: October 12, 2026 09:00
The latest in our series of writers explaining their go-to comfort films is a tribute to Darren Aronofsky’s dark and unusually satisfying ballet nightmareIn early 2011, sometime after the film was released on home video, I sat down with mum to watch what…
The Weight of Angels by John Boyne review – what if Oscar Wilde had lived?
Published: October 12, 2026 08:00
The great Irish writer died, a broken man, at only 46. Imagining a second act for him is a great idea – but the results are sentimental and unconvincingIn 1895, four days after the opening of The Importance of Being Earnest, the Marquess of Queensberry…
A Fidai Film review – Palestinian collage film transforms suppressed footage into works of art
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/12/a-fidai-film-review-palestinian-collage-true-story
Published: October 12, 2026 08:00
Using archive material of destroyed houses, terrorised children and dead bodies, Kamal Aljafari adds humanity to the reels by overlaying poems by Palestinian authorsIn Arabic, “fidai” means someone willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.…
‘Corruption has only got worse’: can a new version of Our Friends in the North still shock audiences 30 years on?
Published: October 12, 2026 07:00
Peter Flannery’s 90s TV drama classic is getting a theatre reworking in Newcastle. The director and cast talk about doing justice to its themes of scandal and decay – and emulating its star-making actorsIn a small room at the top of Newcastle upon Tyne’s…
Fontaines DC: Dopamine Chamber review – gloomy, gorgeous and a gargantuan triumph
Published: October 12, 2026 06:00
(XL)This is a beguiling, endlessly inventive and frequently astonishing fifth LP from a group at increasing ease with being the best band of their generationFifteen centuries ago, the Byzantine archbishop Theophilus of Adana did first-hand business with…
Deadline review – shocking threat sends tremors through authoritarian school
Published: October 12, 2026 06:00
Set in a dystopian private academy rife with surveillance and cut-throat competition, Kiwi Chow’s gripping drama cements his status as an important film-makerFilmed in Taiwan and set entirely inside a prestigious high school, Kiwi Chow’s gripping drama…
Peasants by Maryam Aslany review – why an ancient way of life may hold the key to our future
Published: October 12, 2026 06:00
Modernity means cities – or so we’re told. This bold new study of those who make their living from the land argues otherwiseThe word “peasant” has a negative edge: it has come to mean someone ignorant, unsophisticated, lowborn. Such an attitude, writes…
‘We’re in a brotherhood now’: the Bill Pickett rodeo – photo essay
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/12/the-bill-pickett-rodeo-photo-essay
Published: October 12, 2026 06:00
For several years, Chloe Kerleroux has been photographing African American cowboy communities in the southern US. Her work has mainly focused on trail rides: large gatherings where horses, music, dancing, family and community life come together. This year,…
Kerry Washington takes A-listers back to the streets they grew up on: best podcasts of the week
Published: October 12, 2026 06:00
The Scandal star talks to Ben Affleck about his childhood in Massachusetts. Plus, the Eras strand returns with the story of 90s pop phenomenon the Spice Girls Continue reading...
TV tonight: how did 9/11 affect the experience of being Muslim in Britain?
Published: October 12, 2026 05:20
Mobeen Azhar and Masood Khan look at life after the terror attacks. Plus: investigating Roman Abramovich. Here’s what to watch tonight9pm, BBC Two “There was a time, 25 years ago, when being a British Muslim was OK,” says journalist Mobeen Azhar. “We were…
Pine cones, glitter and a hip-hop head for sale: red-hot artists reveal their Frieze stunners
Published: October 12, 2026 04:00
As the sprawling art jamboree hits London, eight of the most exciting exhibitors share what their work means to them – and who they hope will buy itFirst held in 2003, the Frieze art fair is a giant art supermarket that descends on Regent’s Park, London,…
Wildwood review – Laika’s pleasingly old fashioned stop-motion magic-forest odyssey
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/11/wildwood-review-carey-mulligan-laika
Published: October 11, 2026 13:21
The makers of Coraline return with their distinctive animation style in a magical tale of a secret world of strange beasts, talking animals and evil governessesHere is an engaging family movie from the Portland-based Laika studio that created Coraline. It…
Richard E Grant admits Traitors mistakes: ‘I never thought they would take me seriously’
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/11/richard-e-grant-celebrity-traitors-mistakes
Published: October 11, 2026 12:15
Actor says he should have made a joke of his admission, he felt institutionalised there and he is not watching the seriesRichard E Grant has said his early exit from The Celebrity Traitors was due to his failure to realise his fellow contestants would take…
There’s more to our music than Oasis, says Manchester mayor
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/11/bev-craig-manchester-music-oasis
Published: October 11, 2026 12:00
Bev Craig pledges £2m in funding to nurture local artists by improving access to rehearsal and production spaceThe Manchester mayor, Bev Craig, has said the city’s music scene is about more than just Oasis, as she announced funding to nurture a diverse…
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie review – Muriel Spark’s extraordinary heroine made more extraordinary still
Published: October 11, 2026 11:45
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghGayle Rankin is funny, sharp-tongued and sexually forthright as Vicky Featherstone’s production ditches 1930s starchiness for the bohemian avant gardeJean Brodie has entered the classroom of Mr Lowther (Brian Ferguson). She tells the…
‘I didn’t expect to be portrayed as a cannibal’: Rachael Stirling on eating her mother Diana Rigg’s ashes
Published: October 11, 2026 11:00
When the actor confessed to ingesting a few flakes of her mother’s ashes on opening nights, reactions ranged from recognition to disgust. But, she says, grief makes animals of us allThere have been headlines of late that make me out to be an ash-guzzling…
‘The crime fiction I’m interested in is political’: Ian Rankin on his new novel about the super-rich
Published: October 11, 2026 11:00
The bestselling writer talks about leaving Edinburgh for London in his latest mystery, and what the future holds for RebusSir Ian Rankin rarely watches television. Certainly, there’s no gleaming flatscreen in the corner of the apartment in Edinburgh where…
The Haunting of Hill House review – a slick and spooky fright night
Published: October 11, 2026 10:10
Richmond theatre, LondonJump scares, flying furniture and psychological unravelling hurtle towards a climax as a trio of guests investigate supernatural goings on at an abandoned mansionThere aren’t many productions that have the audience screaming within…
‘What could be discovered? What is new there?’: blockbuster exhibition celebrates Roy Lichtenstein
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/oct/11/roy-lichtenstein-exhibition-whitney-museum
Published: October 11, 2026 09:00
The often-criticised pop artist is the focus of a monumental new survey including rarely seen pieces and ambitious new restagings at New York’s Whitney Museum When the American artist Roy Lichtenstein created his monumental Greene Street Mural in 1983, he…
‘We look like soft, made-up blokes, but we’re really tough’: Duran Duran on 80s excess, tabloid scrutiny and their Halloween glow-up
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/11/duran-duran-interview-pop-music-halloween-free-to-love
Published: October 11, 2026 09:00
They spent their heyday on yachts, then rolled up their sleeves in the wilderness years. Ahead of a Halloween show at the O2, pop’s great survivors explain their staying powerIn 2022, Duran Duran were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It felt…
‘I’d wander through the park all angsty listening to Arctic Monkeys’: Arlo Parks’ honest playlist
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/11/arlo-parks-honest-playlist-prince-janet-jackson
Published: October 11, 2026 08:00
The singer shamelessly blasts Lady Gaga in the car and is brought to tears by Portishead – but which song does she have to be careful listening to?The first song I fell in love with I remember listening to Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics…
Animals and their people: country shows across the UK – in pictures
Published: October 11, 2026 06:00
Photographer Irina Werning, who grew up in rural Argentina surrounded by animals, has spent the summer photographing animals and their people at county and agricultural shows across the UK, from Essex and Kent to Surrey, Gloucestershire and…
TV tonight: David Tennant stars in a brutally brilliant prison drama
Published: October 11, 2026 05:15
Jimmy McGovern’s incredible series Time returns. Plus: The Party is a moreish new thriller based on Elizabeth Day’s hit novel. Here’s what to watch this eveningSunday, 9pm, BBC One Continue reading...
Edge Control: the art exhibition using hidden camera images to explore race and beauty
Published: October 10, 2026 12:00
Artist Deana Lawson uses beauty supply store surveillance images to analyze power and personhood in her exhibition at the Gagosian in New York CityIn her essay The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators, writer and philosopher bell hooks explains that…
‘Jelliness is my life motto’: jackpot theatre prize winner Jaha Koo on kimchi, K-pop and his robotic eel
Published: October 10, 2026 12:00
Feted for cooking up shows that can be mouthwatering as well as thought-provoking, the artist discusses his fusion of South Korean and European cultureWhen I meet Jaha Koo in Oslo, where he has just been honoured with the prestigious International Ibsen…
Amélie allowed me to embrace my neurodivergence
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/10/my-cultural-awakening-amelie-autism-neurodivergence
Published: October 10, 2026 11:00
Watching a DVD of the French film alone in my room, I saw for the first time a character who moved through the world like I doAmélie likes the sound of cracking creme brulee with a teaspoon, plunging her hand into a sack of grain, and turning around in the…
‘I just wasn’t going to give up’: the fight to free the longest-serving political prisoner in the US
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/10/free-leonard-peltier-netflix-documentary
Published: October 10, 2026 09:00
Leonard Peltier was imprisoned for 49 years before his sentence was commuted. A new Netflix documentary exposes the ‘corrupt’ system that allowed it to happenOn 20 January 2025, with 14 minutes remaining in his term as president, Joe Biden commuted the…
‘People forgot I existed’: Audrey Niffenegger on taking 14 years to write a sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife
Published: October 10, 2026 08:00
Her debut made her a global star. Now she has finally written a follow-up – and this time, it’s political. She talks about impostor syndrome, screen adaptations and becoming radicalisedThe artist and novelist Audrey Niffenegger began writing the…
Time: David Tennant and Siobhan Finneran are stellar in this horrifying and exceptional TV drama
Published: October 10, 2026 06:00
Jimmy McGovern’s grab-you-by-the-throat prison show is back and it could hardly be more urgent, prescient or excellent. Brace yourself though … Bake Off it is notIt takes a lot to drag me away from comfort TV in the autumn. Blame the shrinking hours of…
TV tonight: Richard Ayoade and Hannah Waddingham’s cartoon comedy
Published: October 10, 2026 05:15
Rick and Morty fans will love ancient Greece animation Krapopolis. Plus, Danny Dyer takes the SNL UK hosting reins. Here’s what to watch this evening11.40pm, BBC Three Continue reading...
Mao’s Last Dancer Li Cunxin on his long-awaited follow-up: ‘I don’t think my publisher expected it to take 14 years!’
Published: October 9, 2026 14:00
As The Lucky Son picks up where Cunxin’s 2003 memoir left off, the renowned Chinese Australian ballet dancer reflects on sacrifices made by his wife, his years at a stockbroker, and his success leading the Queensland Ballet Get our weekend culture and…
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland review – Murakami’s marvel brilliantly brought to life
Published: October 9, 2026 13:53
Barbican theatre, LondonWith a dual narrative set in Tokyo and a world of dreams, Philippe Decouflé’s epic production is as bewitching as its balletic unicornsHow to stage Haruki Murakami’s epic, dual-narrative novel without leaving the audience in a…
Lightsaber Darth Vader used in ‘I am your father’ Star Wars duel up for auction
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/09/lightsaber-darth-vader-star-wars-auction
Published: October 9, 2026 13:36
Saber is expected to fetch at least $1m and is one of more than two dozen props that will be up for saleA lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the duel where he tells Luke Skywalker “I am your father” is going up for sale at Heritage Auctions next month.The…
Post your questions for Richard Thompson
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/09/post-your-questions-for-richard-thompson
Published: October 9, 2026 12:48
Ahead of new album Hippies, Thugs and Heroes, the British folk music legend will join us to answer your questionsFrom Fairport Convention to his musical partnership with then-wife Linda and on to solo albums that still trouble the UK charts, Richard…
‘I’m lovingly making fun of everyone I’ve ever met’: on the set of Leo Reich’s gen Z sitcom
Published: October 9, 2026 12:00
The comedy wunderkind shot to fame with his show Literally, Who Cares?! and a role in Lena Dunham’s Too Much. Now he’s bringing his take on self-involved zoomers to the TV screen. Just don’t call him the voice of a generationLeo Reich’s new Channel 4…
‘I’ve hit my midlife sexpot era!’ Romola Garai on marital misery, cheating … and sex scenes in cars
Published: October 9, 2026 12:00
Layby hookups are all in a day’s work for Romola Garai in her steamy new drama Adultery. She talks faking orgasms, keeping secrets – and making audiences pass outIn a raging storm in the Peak District last winter, a blue Toyota Yaris was parked in a remote…
Winning the Nobel prize in literature only underlines Anne Carson’s infinite genius | Yiyun Li
Published: October 9, 2026 11:12
When her sons died, the Book of Goose author turned to Grief Lessons, Carson’s translation of four plays by Euripides. She reflects on the ‘life sustaining’ work of an extraordinary writer • Where to start with: Anne Carson• ‘Delights await!’: Margaret…
The new Darth Vader: how tech execs became the film villains of our age
Published: October 9, 2026 11:05
Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning shows how public opinion has changed around billionaire CEOs since The Social Network’s releaseWhen The Social Network came out, Mark Zuckerberg organised a staff viewing of a film he…
Tate sounds eerie, Frieze returns and Cindy Sherman takes surreal selfies – the week in art
Published: October 9, 2026 11:00
The Turbine Hall gets haunted by sound art and the colossal air fair opens its doors, while Sherman champions the fantastic and the grotesque – all in your weekly dispatchTarek AtouiSound art inspired by everyday objects and the eerie harmonies of history…
Gromit finally gets a voice … and it’s Martin Freeman
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/09/gromit-autobiography-martin-freeman-voice
Published: October 9, 2026 11:00
After 37 years, the staunchly silent dog will speak for the first time in the audiobook of his autobiography – and it turns out he sounds like a hobbitHe has been on screen for 37 years, but he has never uttered a word. Now, Gromit will speak for the first…
End Of Abyss review – a creepy dollhouse take on Resident Evil and The Thing
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/oct/09/end-of-abyss-review-playstation-5-xbox-pc
Published: October 9, 2026 09:00
PlayStation 5 (version played), Xbox, PC; Epic Games PublishingThis fetchingly presented horror game brings style and scares, but overextends itself with repetitionA small band of soldiers enters an abandoned facility, where puckered flesh sprouts from…
AK Blakemore: ‘The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt was extremely silly and bad’
Published: October 9, 2026 09:00
The poet and author on F Scott Fitzgerald’s perfect novel, losing faith in Ernest Hemingway – and the recent debut that blew her awayMy earliest reading memory Lynley Dodd’s Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy – where an assortment of differently shaped…
Branford Marsalis Quartet and Dianne Reeves: Dedicated to You review – eloquent Coltrane tribute
Published: October 9, 2026 08:30
(Blue Note)This elegant contemporary reinvention of 1963 album John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman pairs Marsalis’s post-bop sax with Reeves’ agile vocals, to time-stopping effectIn the early 1960s, the Impulse! label tried to steer its star saxophonist John…
‘Is death necessary?’: why Peter Greenaway’s assisted dying drama is stuck in post-production hell
Published: October 9, 2026 08:00
Exclusive: Three years after filming began on the contentious Lucca Mortis, starring Dustin Hoffman, the British director is still in dispute with producers over which version to release, and a battle over rights rumbles on Peter Greenaway’s new movie was…
Jess Williamson: A Mile South of Heaven review – alt-country singer’s love-hate affair with LA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/09/jess-williamson-a-mile-south-of-heaven-review
Published: October 9, 2026 07:30
(New West)Following 2023 breakout Time Ain’t Accidental, the best songs here are when Williamson strips back country music, rebuilding it as something familiar yet differentIn her essay Goodbye to All That, Joan Didion writes that she left New York City…
‘It gave me a superpower – question everything’: as punk turns 50, bands from China to Greenland explain how it fires up their lives
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/09/global-bands-on-how-punk-fires-up-their-lives
Published: October 9, 2026 07:00
Whether on the frontline in Ukraine or skate parks in Soweto, the genre is still a vital outlet for disaffected people everywhere. Here, musicians explain how they rage against the machineAndriy Zholob, vocalist/guitarist, Beton: When MTV arrived in…
Please, sir, can I have a walk? Dickens biographer finds likely inspiration for Oliver Twist
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/09/dickens-book-oliver-twist-inspiration
Published: October 9, 2026 07:00
Exclusive: Theresa Musgrove unearths newspaper archives showing one Alice Shepherd was severely punished in 1836 for similarly innocent requestCould a consumptive young woman called Alice Shepherd have been the inspiration for Oliver Twist? That is a…
The Queerest of Folk by Russell T Davies review – the groundbreaking screenwriter tells it like it is
Published: October 9, 2026 06:00
From Coronation Street to It’s a Sin, Davies’ memoir of a career in TV is also a rallying cry for creativityTelevision is an intimate art form, once beamed into living rooms, now on devices right in front of our faces. The screenwriter Russell T Davies…
TV tonight: things get nasty in War’s blockbuster divorce
Published: October 9, 2026 05:20
One of the lawyers is a mole in Sienna Miller and Dominic West’s soapy drama. Plus: the Lionesses shoot for the World Cup. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Sky AtlanticThe naughty divorce drama – made even juicier by its casting of two huge stars,…
‘Me and the lads would not survive a day in here’: inside TV’s utterly stunning, Bafta-winning prison drama
Published: October 9, 2026 04:00
The third series of Jimmy McGovern’s breathtaking series Time stars David Tennant – and just be its best ever. We go behind the scenes“I don’t think you would find a young offender institution (YOI) in which stories like these haven’t happened. Seventeen…
‘Old-timey fascism was kept secret. Now you don’t have to hide it’: Martin McDonagh, John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell on Wild Horse Nine
Published: October 9, 2026 04:00
McDonagh’s latest film has Malkovich and Rockwell shooting the breeze as CIA agents in 1973 on Easter Island. They discuss grandchildren, swimming with turtles and who shot JFK‘Earmuffs!” says Sam Rockwell, pausing his gushing tribute mid-flow and turning…
Animals review – Ben Affleck’s dull Netflix thriller is lacking in bark and bite
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/08/animals-movie-review-ben-affleck
Published: October 8, 2026 23:00
Actor-director’s listless LA-set crime thriller makes for a surprisingly anonymous effort and one that feels very similar to many other, better filmsBen Affleck has pushed through multiple Hollywood comebacks, at least one predicated on his facility behind…
Franz & Marie review – Woyzeck folk musical finds heart amid the horror
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/oct/08/franz-marie-review-woyzeck
Published: October 8, 2026 14:57
Charing Cross theatre, LondonBüchner’s jagged masterpiece about a soldier’s descent is told with enchanting and stirring songs that occasionally defuse its stark terrorWhen Georg Büchner died aged 23 in 1837, he left behind Woyzeck as a bundle of papers…
Willem de Kooning review – the artist’s lifelong rebellion against himself is thrilling to watch
Published: October 8, 2026 14:35
Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamMarking a century since the Dutch artist stowed away to New York, this vast retrospective gloriously showcases the abstract expressionist’s fierce boundary-pushingWillem de Kooning was the last great artist who really knew how to…
The woman with the mattress: the radical, rage-fuelled history of anti-rape art
Published: October 8, 2026 14:19
A performance piece from 2014 has gone viral in response to an allegation of rape at Cornell University. But with such defiant pieces stretching back hundreds of years, will things ever change?In September 2014, Emma Sulkowicz began to carry a blue…
Anne Carson wins Nobel prize in literature 2026
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/08/wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature-2026
Published: October 8, 2026 14:03
Most prestigious literature prize goes to Canadian known for genre-crossing works such as Autobiography of RedThe Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to the Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson, the Swedish Academy has announced.The academy cited…
Fierce, frantic and loaded with menace: Fontaines DC’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
Published: October 8, 2026 14:01
Ahead of the Irish alt-rockers’ highly anticipated fifth album, Dopamine Chamber, we count down their potent, occasionally political, catalogueA single inspired by the birth of bassist Conor Deegan’s daughter, It’s Amazing to Be Young is a lovely example…
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