The Folio · No. 8Saturday 12 September 2026Jess Entwistle
Film
Crowe premiered the documentary about his long held ambition to be a rock star on Friday night, and was visibly moved as the audience shouted their support.
Film
Variety’s critic says Infiniti plays a numbers genius by wearing the virtuosity lightly, as though it were second nature.
Film
Erin Doherty plays a happily single mother in a downbeat town, courted by an enigmatic James McAvoy, in a Toronto premiere the Guardian calls expertly taut.
Film
Madden read Paul Mayhew-Archer’s script, drawn from the writer’s own life with Parkinson’s disease, saw its potential, and has now brought the finished film to the festival.
Film
Pamela Anderson, Dakota Johnson, Rita Ora, Colman Domingo, Karlie Kloss and Julianne Moore were among the guests at the New York fundraiser.
TV
They replace Emma Willis, who has fronted the show since 2014 and is leaving to present Strictly.
TV
A modern update of the 1991 film has been ordered for AMC and AMC+, with the French broadcaster on board and Alcon producing.
TV
It is the third Netflix show from Molly Smith Metzler, who created Maid and Sirens, with the Birdman actor cast opposite its lead.
TV
Digital Spy has first look pictures from the Umbria set detective drama and the date it comes back to UK screens.
TV
The actor who played Sirius Black points to one key difference in the adaptation that he thinks fans will prefer.
Music
Hello! reports that the singer and Polansky, engaged since 2024, have had their first child, after she called becoming a mother her next starring role.
Music
Timberlake sang Holy Grail and Until the End of Time, and Williams stayed on stage for four songs.
Music
The track sits on Aiko’s fourth album, Westside Whimsy, which arrived on Friday.
Music
A new single from the UK songwriter, who recently appeared at Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain show.
Music
Recordings caught in August 1965 on a machine hidden in an overcoat show how the saxophonist turned from fame towards free jazz.
Theatre
Manfred Karge’s play, which begins in 1930s Germany and addresses the renaissance of Nazi ideology, has opened at the Royal Court in London.
Theatre
Darren Raymond’s update drops Rylance’s impostor into a Jamaican-Nigerian wedding, with clever rhyming couplets but less political sting, at the Marylebone theatre.
Theatre
The renaming was marked this week, in tribute to the playwright.
Theatre
Disney’s North American tour has played 97 cities and welcomed more than 28 million theatregoers, and a reworked version is planned to follow it.
Theatre
Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters and Betty Buckley are among those recalling the days after the attacks, 25 years on.
Books
Three horror novels reaching screens this season, for anyone who likes to read the book before watching it.
Books
Garth Nix’s Massif, a collection of stories inspired by Ursula K Le Guin edited by Jonathan Strahan, Isabela Livino’s An Immaculate Deception and CJ Tudor’s Serenity Falls.
Books
A novel with a character inspired by Wittgenstein, drawing on several philosophical traditions to look at the mysteries of the universe.
