The Folio · No. 32Tuesday 6 October 2026Jess Entwistle
Film
Variety calls Guadagnino’s OpenAI docudrama a brilliant, playful and meticulously researched film, with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman. It premiered at the New York Film Festival on Monday night.
Film
Fenton scored dozens of nature films and received five Oscar nominations across a career that ran from Gandhi to the Blue Planet series.
Film
At the New York Film Festival, Scorsese hosted a screening of Gone to Earth, the almost lost British film restored by his nonprofit The Film Foundation.
Film
Padraic McKinley, who directed The Weight, takes on the franchise that began in 2015. Blunt, Brolin and Del Toro all return.
Film
Biel’s new film is out this week and Timberlake joined her on the carpet in New York. Pictures from the premiere.
TV
Michael Hirst and Horatio Hirst follow the rise of Erik Bloodaxe in a new Prime Video original. First look images are out.
TV
Radio Times calls the new Channel 4 drama a cut above, praising a canny script and Harewood’s finely underplayed lead.
TV
Karpman explains the themes she wrote for Florence Pugh’s Cathy in Netflix’s coming adaptation of the Steinbeck novel.
TV
The Disney+ boarding school witch series is streaming now. Weissman talks through the love triangle and where Briar could go next. Contains spoilers.
TV
DiMarco takes a recurring role in the legal drama, one originally written as a hearing character.
Music
The girl group’s 22-date run includes London, Paris, New York and Toronto.
Music
The Swedish duo promise stripped-back, intimate shows running from their first 2008 EP through to unheard new songs.
Music
Lipa appeared as a surprise guest at Shakira’s Madrid show to duet on the 1995 ballad.
Music
May told The Times that Queen + Adam Lambert is finished as a touring act, and that he has reservations about an avatar residency.
Music
Clash sent an illustrator rather than a photographer to Oladokun’s London date. The drawings are the review.
Theatre
Rowan Live opens at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in February, his first West End run in four decades. It mixes the famous sketches with new material written with Richard Curtis, Ben Elton and Howard Goodall.
Theatre
Cameron Mackintosh and cast members from across four decades on why audiences keep coming back to Lloyd Webber’s gothic melodrama.
Theatre
The stage revival plays Wembley Park and Manchester, and the first trailer is out.
Theatre
Adefope has taken over as Mary Todd Lincoln at the Trafalgar Theatre, and stays with the production until 5 December.
Theatre
The revue runs from 10 December to 17 January, fifty years after it first premiered in London. Amanda Noar directs.
Books
Archer sold more than 300 million books across five decades. His last novel, Adam and Eve, is published later this month.
Books
Tremain expands her 2014 short story about an imagined affair between Daphne du Maurier and a fictional Polish-Jewish housekeeper. The Guardian is not convinced.
Books
Andrew Motion is among ten poets shortlisted for the £25,000 prize.
Books
The Talking Heads frontman collects dormant ideas that came back, from Indian irrigation to Kafka.
