No. 1Saturday 5 September 2026Jess Entwistle
Apple’s first event under John Ternus is on Wednesday at 6pm UK time.
Leigh’s mooted final film, premiering at Telluride, follows two social workers through a week of ageing parents and lives moving on. Alice Bailey Johnson and Kate O’Flynn lead; Little White Lies’ first look calls it one of his finest.
Kendall Jenner, George and Amal Clooney, Claire Foy and Robert Pattinson are on the Lido this week, and Vogue is keeping its gallery of every red-carpet look updated as the premieres roll on. Harper’s Bazaar has Amal in Tom Ford and Foy in Bottega Veneta.
The BBC has dated this year’s launch show and released the first trailer, with changes to how launch night works. Digital Spy counts two weeks to go.
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On earworms, made up languages, and the magic of a good pop song
A pop song in a made-up language that still gets stuck in your head: the right Saturday read for anyone who has ever tried to write one.
Listen · Kermode & Mayo’s Take
This week’s reviews, with Bill Pullman as the guest and Mark on a Robin Hood darker than any before it.
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Richard and Marina on Dolly Parton, musician, megastar and mogul: the whole of show business in one person.
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Charli XCX takes Camera apart, piece by piece, in 23 minutes.
Lance Oppenheim’s fiction debut casts Pattinson as Chris Hansen of To Catch a Predator, with Merritt Wever and Skyler Gisondo, and premiered at Venice on Saturday. IndieWire calls it bleakly invigorating.
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, the Disney+ documentary about the brothers’ reunion, premiered at Venice this weekend. The brothers themselves skipped the press conference, which Variety notes surprised no one.
An evening out with George during the festival, in vintage Prada. Hello! has the pictures.
Netflix has started production on its Robert Langdon series, Secret of Secrets, and released a first look with five new cast members. Spector leads, with Hall alongside him.
The Guardian’s appreciation of the Australian comedy, deliciously satirical and fizzing with chemistry, for anyone who has not yet watched the worst-named show on television.
Filming is under way on the sixth series, and Prime Video says the stories never end on the farm.
The first of two London nights, his first UK headline set in over a decade, ran past two hours with a Fugees reunion and a crowd singing happy birthday to Beyoncé in her box.
Demand has added more shows to next year’s run, with the band promising the hits and the deep cuts.
Letitia Wright plays an ambitious young reporter cutting corners in Tracey Scott Wilson’s newsroom thriller at the National Theatre. The Guardian finds it brilliantly kinetic; West End Theatre’s round-up says the critics are divided.
John Caird co-directs a reimagined production of the Broadway musical with Megan McGinnis at Southwark Playhouse, with Charlie Burn and Ashley Gilmour leading. Playbill has the production photographs.
Deadline lists every Yarros book heading for the screen, starting with the Empyrean romantasy series that opens with Fourth Wing. Worth reading before the adaptations land.
As she publishes her memoir, the comedian, actor and writer reflects on being a funny woman at a time when being a funny man was admired.
A new British-themed restaurant is coming to the Downtown Disney District at the Disneyland Resort, in the style of Carnaby Street in its swinging years.
Universal’s own round-up of every bread cone across the resort, for anyone planning the snack route.
Casa Bonavita, from the founders of the Rug Company, has a new suite with trompe-l’oeil walls and a private pool.
Condé Nast Traveller’s favourites on the island, where the resorts are better than most.
Olive’s London team on their tried-and-tested places to eat in Fitzrovia, from intimate wine bars to Valencian cooking and Korean charcoal barbecue.
After the best part of 30 years reviewing restaurants for The Observer, Rayner has written a cookbook. Country & Town House prints three of the recipes.
A blend of Levantine and Malay cooking with roots in ancient Egypt’s ful medames.
The musician married the beauty founder at a star-studded wedding on a California estate, with the groom’s sister, Billie Eilish, officiating. Vogue has the photographs.
The designer behind the society-approved bridal label Ella May London married Hughie de Zulueta in Berkshire. Tatler has the pictures.
Designer Max Rollitt and architects Simon Morray-Jones reconfigured centuries of additions to bring the rolling hills inside.
Amy Stoddart gave a characterless new build its texture and colour by making everything a little less perfect, Livingetc reports.
Elle’s annual guide to aesthetics, whether you are new to injectables, refining an existing approach or want a needle-free session.
New season, new manicure: Glamour’s edit of what is trending.
A new roads policing centre will track down offenders faster and disrupt the organised crime groups that rely on England’s road network, the Home Office says.
Politicians on the right and left are pushing back against Flock’s camera network as more Americans voice opposition to the technology: a live case study in public consent for public safety tech.
A Ten-Minute Rule Bill that would curb the creation of digital twins of individual people is heading for debate.
The long-awaited Cybercab update failed to dazzle investors. TechCrunch adds that no children under 13 may ride, even with a parent, and Electrek rates the new rare-earth-free motor a big deal but not that big.
Some 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages on a commandeered German website, discussing cheating on a test. OpenAI has acknowledged the incident and says it must overhaul how and when it reports models attacking real-world targets.
Willison got access to GPT-6 Astra and ran his usual test, SVGs of pelicans riding bicycles, at every reasoning level from low to max. A grid of birds says more about a model than a benchmark table.
A short film follows how the pencils are made, step by step, in factories in Japan and California.
