Culture

The Folio · No. 6Jess Entwistle

Film

  1. Film

    Pamela Anderson goes glam in yellow with ‘Place to Be’ co-stars Taika Waititi and Murray Bartlett at Venice

    Anderson walked the Venice carpet in a bold off the shoulder yellow gown for the screening of Place to Be, alongside Taika Waititi and Murray Bartlett.

  2. Film

    Stephen Graham thriller Bunker earns a 16 minute standing ovation at its world premiere

    Graham appears with Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem in the marital drama, which drew one of the longer ovations of the Venice festival.

  3. Film

    Digger trailer: a nearly unrecognisable Tom Cruise tries to save the world

    Warner Bros released the final trailer on Wednesday. Cruise is under heavy prosthetics, a long way from the last twenty years of his casting.

  4. Film

    Avengers: Doomsday has already made $50 million in pre-sales, three months before release

    Disney reports $50 million in tickets sold for the next Marvel film a quarter of a year before it opens.

  5. Film

    George Clooney remembers his late sister Ada: ‘Time goes fast, so we have to find nothing but joy’

    Clooney collected the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement in Venice, then spoke about his sister Ada, who died last year aged 65.

TV

  1. TV

    Charlie’s Angels reunion, Zendaya and Buffy alumni among the first Emmys presenters

    The 78th Emmys go out on Monday night on NBC and Peacock with Mariska Hargitay hosting. Kate Jackson, Sarah Michelle Gellar and David Boreanaz are on the first list of presenters.

  2. TV

    RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: All Stars sets an autumn 2027 premiere on WOW Presents Plus

    The show leaves the BBC after eight series for World of Wonder’s own platform, which has ordered a first UK All Stars edition.

  3. TV

    BBC confirms the air date for The Split spin-off

    The Manchester set spin-off follows a different legal family from the original, and now has its place in the BBC One schedule.

  4. TV

    Haunted Hotel season 2 sets a Halloween release date at Netflix

    Matt Roller’s adult animated comedy returns for eight episodes in October, timed for the season.

  5. TV

    Baby Reindeer’s Jessica Gunning returns to Netflix for the thriller series Feral

    Gunning’s first series since Baby Reindeer is another darkly comic thriller, again for Netflix.

Music

  1. Music

    Harry Styles confirms 2027 Together, Together tour dates are coming, and these are the final cities

    Styles told fans in an email that more dates are on the way, and that these will be the last cities of the run. ‘I can’t wait for us to keep dancing with all our friends.’

  2. Music

    Glastonbury reveals ticket prices and sale dates for 2027

    Worthy Farm has set out what next year’s tickets cost and when they go on sale, so the alarm can be set now.

  3. Music

    Brandi Carlile is releasing Alanis Morissette’s ‘Uninvited’ after a viral Newport Folk performance

    Carlile has been playing the song at shows for a year. One Newport rendition travelled far enough that she is putting out a studio version.

  4. Music

    Max Richter announces new album While the Flood Rages

    Out 16 October, made once again with the choreographer Wayne McGregor, from a co-commission involving the National Ballet.

  5. Music

    The War on Drugs return with ‘Who’s That’, their first new single in five years

    ‘It’s a song about trying to love yourself despite things we can’t always control,’ the band said of the surprise release.

Theatre

  1. Theatre

    National Theatre announces its 2027 season, including West Side Story, Emma Corrin, Uzo Aduba and a Joan Armatrading musical

    Eighteen productions in the National’s new year of programming, with Paul Mescal in repertory and Tracy Letts, Monica Dolan and Ciarán Hinds joining him.

  2. Theatre

    West Side Story revival, co-directed by Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell, set at London’s National

    The musical returns to London in 2027, co-directed by Elliott and Cromwell, as the centrepiece of the National’s newly unveiled slate.

  3. Theatre

    Emma Corrin, Harriet Walter and Arty Froushan to star in Suddenly Last Summer at the National Theatre

    Michael Grandage directs the Tennessee Williams revival, part of the same 2027 season.

  4. Theatre

    National Theatre’s Ballet Shoes to tour with Anton Du Beke

    The five star Christmas production goes on the road, with Du Beke joining it.

  5. Theatre

    Kimberly Akimbo at Hampstead Theatre, reviewed

    Maria Friedman stars in the European premiere of the five time Tony winning musical by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori.

Books

  1. Books

    All About My Mother by Rachael Stirling, reviewed: a joyous love letter to Diana Rigg

    Rigg’s daughter writes a funny, intimate eulogy for the actor who went from The Avengers to a career of fierce, complicated women.

  2. Books

    R.F. Kuang on diaspora, language and writing young protagonists

    The novelist on learning from shame, and on the careful thought and sharp style that link books set worlds apart.

  3. Books

    What Should My Children Do? by Daniel Susskind, reviewed: the case for embracing tech in the classroom

    A refreshingly optimistic argument that schools should grasp what AI can do for education rather than shrink from it.