Film
Jon Watts to direct the next Star Wars movie
Lucasfilm has a new Star Wars film in development with Jon Watts directing, the filmmaker behind the three Tom Holland Spider-Man pictures. No cast or date yet.
Culture
The Folio · No. 23Sunday 27 September 2026Jess Entwistle
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‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ rocks its New York Film Festival premiere with the franchise’s first R rating
Takashi Yamazaki’s sequel to Godzilla Minus One premiered at Alice Tully Hall and carries the series’ first R rating, which he defended by saying censoring the action was not an option.
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Sabrina Carpenter and Margaret Qualley join Tom Holland’s Fred Astaire biopic
Sabrina Carpenter will play Ginger Rogers opposite Tom Holland’s Fred Astaire, with Margaret Qualley as Astaire’s older sister and stage partner Adele.
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Naomi Watts wears sheer white lace to The Housewife premiere in Zurich
Watts took the red carpet for her new film The Housewife at the Zurich Film Festival in a sheer white lace gown.
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‘My Sad Dead’ review: a superb modern gothic from Pablo Larraín
Variety calls Larraín’s macabre, absurdist story of a haunted urban community sprawling, peculiar and terrific, the kind of ghost story that keeps its heart.
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‘The Last of Us’ season three casts John Goodman
Goodman joins the HBO drama’s third season alongside video game stars Laura Bailey and Ian Alexander, who voiced characters in the games the series adapts.
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Celebrity Traitors returns Thursday with 21 stars playing for £100,000
The BBC game show is back on Thursday with 21 famous players competing for £100,000 for their chosen charities. The BBC runs through the favourites and the dark horses.
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Netflix gives its Emmy-winning thriller The Beast in Me a second season
Netflix has an update on the crime thriller that took an Emmy this month, after critics called the first run deeply absorbing.
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The Simpsons opens season 38 tonight with Emma Thompson and Colin Jost
Sunday’s opener, The Children’s Book Job, parodies children’s books with Emma Thompson as a beloved author. The showrunner also teases this year’s Treehouse of Horror and a film update.
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Ryan Murphy says original Glee cast members are enthusiastic about the reboot
Murphy has given a fresh update on the Glee revival and says some of the original cast are keen to return.
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Lacey Turner earns the first standing ovation of Strictly Come Dancing 2026
The EastEnders actor was the surprise of Strictly’s first live show, with the judges and the audience on their feet.
Music
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Olivia Rodrigo opens the Unraveled tour with a dissolving dress and no misses
Night one in Hartford ran two hours, hit after hit, with a rain-soaked transformation during The Cure. Billboard picks its five best moments.
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U2 mark 50 years with surprise shows at their old Dublin school and a cafe balcony
The band returned to Mount Temple, where they formed, and played an unannounced set from the balcony of Bewley’s on Grafton Street, with a tribute to busker Glen Hansard.
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Ed Sheeran’s Gillette Stadium shows cancelled as a nor’easter hits the east coast
Severe weather warnings have also taken out All Things Go NYC, Global Citizen, CBGB Festival, The Prodigy and Oceans Calling this weekend.
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How one Raye song helped a writer confront a lifetime of depression
A Guardian writer on hearing I Know You’re Hurting in the car and finally naming what CBT had not reached.
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Theatre
Rent begins West End performances with Gaten Matarazzo
The Stranger Things actor leads a new London season of Jonathan Larson’s musical, which started performances this weekend.
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Theatre
First Encounters: Julius Caesar review, so thrilling it kept a hall of teenagers silent
The RSC’s schools tour revives Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female, prison-set production led by Harriet Walter. Five stars from the Guardian in a Peterborough academy hall.
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The Broadway Flea Market moves indoors to the Hammerstein Ballroom today
The annual Broadway Cares fundraiser, usually spread around Shubert Alley, is under one roof this year.
Books
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Books
Trespasses author Louise Kennedy on leaving Ireland, and the follow-up
Kennedy’s Troubles-set debut became the TV series with Gillian Anderson. Her new novel returns to her teenage years, and she talks about going from chef to novelist.
