The Folio · No. 1Saturday 5 September 2026Jess Entwistle
Film · 1 of 3
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.
Film · 2 of 3
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.
Film · 3 of 3
An evening out with George during the festival, in vintage Prada. Hello! has the pictures.
TV · 1 of 3
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.
TV · 2 of 3
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.
TV · 3 of 3
Filming is under way on the sixth series, and Prime Video says the stories never end on the farm.
Music · 1 of 2
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.
Music · 2 of 2
Demand has added more shows to next year’s run, with the band promising the hits and the deep cuts.
Theatre · 1 of 2
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.
Theatre · 2 of 2
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.
Books · 1 of 2
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.
Books · 2 of 2
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.
