The Folio · No. 5Wednesday 9 September 2026Jess Entwistle
Film
Florian Zeller’s thriller premiered in Venice to the festival’s longest standing ovation, with Cruz in tears beside her husband and co-star. The reviews are cooler than the applause was long.
Film
Vogue revisits the couple’s red carpets, premiere by premiere, on the day Bunker had its Venice bow.
Film
The Owens sisters are back. The Guardian finds the return to the witchy 90s comedy as strange and messy as the first, with warm seasonal pleasures to be had.
Film
Affleck’s third film as director, a gothic anthology, took a four-minute standing ovation. Critics are split: the Guardian calls it diverting, IndieWire directionless.
Film
The directors of Don’t Look Back in Anger, in cinemas today, on filming the 2025 reunion tour: a vicar preaching brotherly forgiveness, police briefings that borrowed the lyrics.
Film
Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI drama, dropped by Amazon over the studio’s partnership with the company, will now be released by Neon.
TV
Carr took the Special Recognition award and Celebrity Traitors won big at the 26th NTAs. The BBC has the full list of winners and nominees.
TV
Her first red carpet since speaking publicly about her weight loss, at the O2 Arena.
TV
The series took the award for the second year running, as the long-running BBC One drama approaches the end of its run.
TV
The East of Eden co-showrunners will adapt Larry McMurtry’s western, last filmed as the 1989 CBS miniseries with Robert Duvall.
TV
The See actor becomes a series regular in the James Marsden action thriller, whose cast is still growing.
Music
Tickets will cost £408 when the festival returns next June after its fallow year, up from £378.50 in 2025. Sale dates are now confirmed.
Music
The band hinted at a return to the city where they broke up, on the eve of the documentary reaching UK cinemas.
Music
Her first record since Chilombo in March 2020, and arriving sooner than expected.
Music
Demand for the outdoor and stadium run has brought a second Heaton Park date. Tickets go on general sale later this week.
Theatre
Roger Bart extends his run as Doc Brown for the first UK tour, which opens at the Bristol Hippodrome.
Theatre
Jeanine Tesori on the award-winning show as it reaches the UK, and on writing it in the shadow of the Aids crisis.
Theatre
Power plays Eliza Doolittle to Cumming’s Henry Higgins in a new chamber production at Pitlochry Festival Theatre.
Theatre
The comedy is now booking until 30 January 2028.
Theatre
First look at Swinton in Manfred Karge’s monologue, now running at the Royal Court.
Books
The third in Barry’s loose American trilogy follows a formerly enslaved man on an epic journey after the civil war.
Books
Lit Hub’s run through the week’s releases, led by Cline’s Switzy, with a new Alice Hoffman landing as Practical Magic 2 reaches cinemas.
Books
Ronson follows a wild goose chase that may or may not be informative about the male condition.
