Film
Olivia Colman is now a Miu Miu runway model
The Oscar winner made her catwalk debut at 52, walking Miu Miu’s spring/summer 2027 show in Paris on Sunday as part of a line-up of other familiar faces.
Culture
The Folio · No. 31Monday 5 October 2026Jess Entwistle
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Digger flops with $8 million opening, becoming the biggest bomb of Tom Cruise’s career
The expensive satire took $8 million on its opening weekend, and studio sources tell IndieWire it is on course to lose $150 million or more. That would be the worst result of Cruise’s career.
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Film
Pedro Pascal in Behemoth!: the Oscar-worthy role that he, and Latinos, have been waiting for
Tony Gilroy’s first feature as director since The Bourne Legacy in 2012 premiered at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, with Pascal playing a cellist. Variety makes the best actor case.
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Avengers: Endgame surpasses Avatar to reclaim the all-time box office record
Disney says the 2019 Marvel film has passed Avatar once more to take back the all-time box office record.
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All the best celebrity looks at Paris Fashion Week
Heidi Klum and Jennifer Lopez were among the names out for the spring/summer 2027 collections, and Vanity Fair has gathered the looks from the front rows as well as the runways.
1 / 8Swipe · Vanity Fair
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Lanterns finale review: episode 8 makes the hard choices and leaves a light on for season 2
Showrunner Chris Mundy wrote the HBO finale with co-creators Damon Lindelof and Tom King. IndieWire says it chooses character over spectacle and leaves room for a second season.
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East of Eden boss Zoe Kazan on that devastating ending and Florence Pugh’s Cathy
Kazan talks through the close of her Steinbeck adaptation, now streaming on Netflix, why Pugh’s Cathy is both murderer and survivor, and why she made Lee a central character. Spoilers throughout.
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Reacher author explains why he vetoed a third Tom Cruise movie
Lee Child says the Prime Video series gives him freedom the films did not, calling it a fabulous luxury, as Reacher prepares a fifth and sixth season.
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TV
The Reluctant Vampire review: Lenny Rush comedy stakes its claim to be the new Ghosts
The BBC has adapted Eric Morecambe’s children’s books with a cast of British comedy regulars. Radio Times reckons it is a credible heir to Ghosts.
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Sheryl Lee Ralph imagines Abbott Elementary running as long as Grey’s Anatomy
The ABC sitcom begins its sixth season on Wednesday 7 October. Ralph says she would happily stay for a run of that length.
Music
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Music
Kings of Leon announce a London O2 show for 2027
The band will play the O2 in London in 2027. Their tenth album, O My Beloved, is out in November.
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Music
Glastonbury 2027 tickets sell out in 42 minutes
General sale tickets for Worthy Farm went in 42 minutes, with thousands of people joining the queue for them.
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Music
Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl returns to No. 1 after Encore reissue
The Encore reissue puts the album back on top of the Billboard 200. Tinashe and Kenny Chesney both arrive in the top 10.
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Music
Shakira’s Madrid concert sets an Amazon Music livestreaming record
Her Madrid residency show, with Dua Lipa as a surprise guest, set a platform record for a livestreamed performance by a female artist.
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Dave Grohl joins AC/DC for Highway to Hell at the final Power Up tour show
Grohl came on for the song at the closing night of AC/DC’s Power Up tour, saying he was living a childhood dream again. Foo Fighters were standing in as support.
Theatre
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Theatre
The Phantom at 40
The Phantom of the Opera reaches 40 years at His Majesty’s Theatre this Friday. Official London Theatre marks the run and what the show has meant to the West End.
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Theatre
Once Upon a Time in Sokoto review: exuberant history lesson on intra-African slavery
Inua Ellams’s new play is at Royal and Derngate in Northampton. The Guardian credits him with a Stoppardian relish for turning difficult history into enjoyable theatre.
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Theatre
Antigone Exits review: emotions run high in an experimental reworking of Greek tragedy
Nina Segal’s revisiting of Sophocles is at the Minerva in Chichester, directed by Jeff James. The Guardian finds it pleasingly experimental, though not every idea lands.
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Theatre
Take a seat: the ritzy glamour of Australia’s historic theatres and cinemas
Gavin John’s new book, Australian Theatres and Cinemas, photographs the country’s grandest stages and picture palaces, Italian Renaissance interiors included.
1 / 7Swipe · The Guardian
Books
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Books
Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid reveals more about her upcoming book Unrivaled
Reid is part way through writing Unrivaled, the seventh book in her Game Changers series, and has said which other characters will be involved.
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Books
Do humans really have a lizard brain lurking beneath our rational minds?
The Guardian takes apart a powerful analogy that captured the popular imagination, and explains why the biology does not work the way the phrase suggests.
