Culture

The Folio · No. 25Jess Entwistle

Film

  1. Film

    Tom Cruise and the Digger cast walk the Los Angeles premiere carpet ahead of Friday’s release

    Cruise, 64, led the cast on the carpet with co-stars including Riz Ahmed. The film reaches cinemas on Friday.

  2. Film

    Avengers: Endgame Encore tops the UK and Ireland box office

    Disney’s extended cut opened at number one with £4.1 million across its first weekend, ahead of Sony’s Resident Evil.

  3. Film

    Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger confirms its Disney+ release date

    The documentary about the brothers’ reunion arrives on the streamer next month. Steven Knight collaborated on it.

  4. Film

    Elsinore releases its first trailer, with Andrew Scott as the dying Hamlet of 1989

    Scott plays Ian Charleson, who starred as Hamlet at the National while dying of AIDS. Simon Stone’s film won at TIFF.

  5. Film

    Barry Jenkins revisits Moonlight, ten years on

    Ahead of the film’s return to cinemas on 2 October, Jenkins talks about the best picture mix-up that sent him to therapy and the film’s hold on him.

TV

  1. TV

    First look at Matthew Macfadyen as George Smiley in the BBC and MGM+’s Legacy of Spies

    Macfadyen takes on John le Carré’s spymaster, last seen on screen played by Gary Oldman. Charlie Hunnam also stars.

  2. TV

    Apple TV records its largest weekly viewership yet after 28 Emmy wins

    Mayday and Ted Lasso led the week, with a post-Emmys lift for Widow’s Bay and Pluribus. It was the streamer’s best Emmys night.

  3. TV

    Blue Lights season 4 review: another explosive run of this BBC drama

    Siân Brooke and Martin McCann are back on duty in Belfast, and Radio Times says the fuse is lit again from the first episode.

  4. TV

    Love Is Blind returns for an eleventh season on Netflix from 14 October

    Netflix has revealed the new cast and the episode release schedule, with Nick and Vanessa Lachey hosting again.

  5. TV

    ESPN Jeopardy! is renewed on Disney+ and Hulu, and opens up to sports fans

    The first season used celebrities. For the second, members of the public can apply to play.

Music

  1. Music

    Rod Stewart announces his final tour for 2027: ‘most definitely my last’

    The 81-year-old will close out a touring career that began in his mid-teens in the early 1960s, with dates planned across the UK and Europe.

  2. Music

    Stevie Wonder releases four unheard songs from the Songs in the Key of Life sessions

    The album turned 50 yesterday. The previously unreleased material arrives as Wonder marks the anniversary with an arena tour.

  3. Music

    Slipknot announce a 2027 stadium tour opening at Wembley

    Marilyn Manson and Bring Me The Horizon join the bill, with further dates confirmed in Brazil, Argentina and the US.

  4. Music

    U2 go deep on Carnaval de Luz, their first album since Songs of Experience

    Rolling Stone UK’s cover feature covers Brian Eno’s return, the late Dolly Parton, a song about Rosalía and Larry Mullen Jr’s neck surgery.

  5. Music

    KATSEYE on the Wildworld tour, changing, and choosing joy

    The group talk to Billboard about growing as individuals and about ‘Pinky Up’, the song behind their Hershey campaign.

Theatre

  1. Theatre

    Rachel Zegler announces a West End concert residency at @sohoplace in January 2027

    Rachel Zegler: Live in London brings her back to the West End after Evita, in a small-house residency at @sohoplace.

  2. Theatre

    Hadestown adds five more venues to its first UK and Ireland tour

    Birmingham, Leeds, Leicester, Nottingham and Southampton join the 2027 tour of the Tony and Grammy-winning best musical.

  3. Theatre

    First look at Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant in Hay Fever

    Baranski makes her West End debut in the revival of Noël Coward’s comedy, now playing a strictly limited season.

  4. Theatre

    Wild Rose becomes a country jukebox musical at New York Theatre Workshop, with Brandi Carlile producing

    Mare Winningham and Joe Carroll join the stage version of the 2018 film. Carlile has joined the producing team.

  5. Theatre

    Lee Mead returns to the West End for an Adelphi concert, 20 years after Joseph

    The solo concert at the Adelphi marks two decades since the Joseph role that made his name.

Books

  1. Books

    Range by Dorthe Nors review: an astrophysicist at odds with reality

    In the Danish writer’s new novel, an eminent professor leaves an urban university for rural Denmark and finds it does not settle her.

  2. Books

    Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965-66 by David Kynaston review: a tour de force of popular history

    The latest instalment of Kynaston’s series runs from the Beatles and the World Cup to racism and homophobia, catching a society mid-change.