Film
Everything Daisy Edgar-Jones is wearing to promote Sense and Sensibility
Vogue has gathered every look from the Sense and Sensibility press run, from Vivienne Westwood corsetry to a white Stella McCartney.
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The Folio · No. 15Saturday 19 September 2026Jess Entwistle
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Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie review: Alex Gibney profiles the author in hospital
Gibney’s documentary follows Rushdie through the weeks after the August 2022 attack. Variety calls the closeups of his wounded body the hardest thing in it.
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Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek Pinault on their new film Without Blood
Jolie writes and directs, Hayek plays a woman hunting the three men who murdered her father in wartime. The pair talk about the losses they brought to it.
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Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom was inspired by Universal monsters and Hammer horror
Aardman’s third Shaun feature is in cinemas now, and its makers explain the Hammer and Universal monster references stitched through it.
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Resident Evil director says he was not prepared for the fan backlash
Zach Cregger’s video game adaptation has strong reviews, but he tells the BBC the response from fans of the games caught him out.
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Strictly Come Dancing unveils first look at new hosts Emma Willis, Johannes Radebe and Josh Widdicombe
The BBC has released first pictures of the 2026 presenting line-up before tonight’s launch show.
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First looks at Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew
Netflix has shown the first images from Gerwig’s Narnia, which brings a rock and roll streak to the origin story. Comparisons with the earlier versions start here.
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HBO’s Harry Potter music will be as far from the films as possible, says Hans Zimmer
Zimmer, scoring the HBO series, says he cannot write like John Williams and is not going to try. The trailers have otherwise stayed close to the films.
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Netflix cancels Sweet Magnolias after five seasons and orders Ladies of the House
Season five is the last for the romantic drama. Creator Sheryl J. Anderson and star JoAnna Garcia Swisher go straight into a new Netflix series together.
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Tenko and Coronation Street actress Stephanie Cole dies aged 84
Cole played Dr Beatrice Mason in the BBC’s 1980s wartime drama Tenko, and later worked across Coronation Street and Doc Martin.
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Charli XCX adds an extra London date to her 2027 Music, Fashion, Film UK tour
A second London night goes on sale after what the promoters call phenomenal demand for the first.
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Shakira opens a 12-date Madrid residency
The first night drew on three decades of songs and added Te Dejo Madrid to the setlist, a nod to her first visit to Spain.
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Madonna and Charli xcx announce Danceteria (Afterhours)
The two have confirmed a remix collaboration, Danceteria (Afterhours).
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Rosé releases new trick
A new solo single from the Blackpink singer, and Stereogum rates this one worth stopping for.
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Talking Heads to reunite for a SiriusXM channel launch with Este Haim
The band will appear together for a Q and A hosted by Este Haim at the launch of a new SiriusXM channel.
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Duncan Sheik, singer and composer of Spring Awakening, dies at 56
Sheik died of cardiac arrest. He wrote the 90s hit Barely Breathing and then the score for Spring Awakening, which won him two Tony awards.
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New production images as The Phantom of the Opera turns 40 in the West End
Cameron Mackintosh’s production releases fresh images before its 40th anniversary at His Majesty’s Theatre.
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Rent announces £20 preview tickets and front row day seats for its West End run
The revival at the Tom Stoppard Theatre will hold back day seats and preview tickets from £20.
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Kristin Chenoweth, Whitney Leavitt and Cody Simpson join The Traitors season six
The Wicked and Glee star takes her turn at the round table in the next American series.
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Watch Maisie Smith perform Somewhere That’s Green ahead of the Little Shop of Horrors revival
The revival opens in Manchester before moving to Liverpool, and Smith has released a first taste of her Audrey.
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Books
Emily St. John Mandel has a new novel, Exit Party
The Station Eleven author returns with a book set in Los Angeles in 2031, the first spring after the collapse of the United States.
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The best books to read in September: new paperbacks from Margaret Atwood, Kiran Desai and Richard Holmes
The Guardian’s pick of the month’s paperbacks, from a Booker winner’s multigenerational saga to a life of a Victorian poet.
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What if a woman had written the Beatles’ greatest hits?
French thriller writer Michel Bussi explains the premise of his new novel Code Yesterday, and why he wanted to give women revenge.
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Isabel Allende on finding the freedom to write
Allende traces her career back to the letter she began to her dying grandfather in January 1981, which became The House of the Spirits.
