Film
Martin McDonagh, John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell on Wild Horse Nine
McDonagh’s new film puts Malkovich and Rockwell on Easter Island in 1973 as CIA agents shooting the breeze. The three sat down together before release.
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The Folio · No. 35Friday 9 October 2026Jess Entwistle
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Lily Mo Sheen makes a rare red carpet appearance at the Sense and Sensibility premiere
Kate Beckinsale and Michael Sheen’s 27-year-old daughter joined the cast on the carpet in Los Angeles on Wednesday for the new Austen adaptation.
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Sense and Sensibility star Esmé Creed-Miles on playing Marianne Dashwood
Samantha Morton’s daughter takes on Austen’s wildest heroine, and explains why she skipped the 1995 film on purpose.
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Animals review: Ben Affleck’s dull Netflix thriller is lacking in bark and bite
Affleck directs and stars in an LA kidnapping thriller going straight to Netflix. The Guardian finds it a listless, anonymous effort, and Variety and IndieWire are no kinder.
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Mike Flanagan on teenage cruelty and telekinesis in his adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie
Flanagan’s Carrie has premiered on Prime Video. He talks to Letterboxd about the secret to adapting King and the anxiety under the story.
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Crazy Rich Asians HBO series sets cast: Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Ronny Chieng returning
HBO has ordered a one-hour drama following the 2018 film, with four of its stars back. Adele Lim, who co-wrote the film, will showrun.
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A new Bridgerton spin-off will centre on a young Lady Violet Bridgerton
Netflix’s second Bridgerton spin-off, after Queen Charlotte, turns to Violet and Viscount Edmund. No date has been set.
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Marvel’s VisionQuest surprise premieres at New York Comic Con to glowing first reactions
Marvel screened the first episode to close its NYCC panel. The Disney+ series premieres on 14 October, and early reactions call it a worthy successor to WandaVision.
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The Assassin season 2 release date confirmed as first-look trailer arrives
The thriller returns next month with Keeley Hawes back in the lead, and the first trailer is out.
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BBC unveils first look at Julia Donaldson Christmas animation The Baddies
Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman and Rob Brydon lead the voice cast of the BBC’s festive special. First images have been released.
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JENNIE joins The Weeknd in South Korea for the live debut of One of the Girls
The BLACKPINK member turned up unannounced at an After Hours Til Dawn show to sing the fan favourite live for the first time.
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Celine Dion falls mid-performance during Paris concert, then carries on
Dion lost her footing mid-song at her Paris residency on 7 October and finished the number anyway. Billboard has the video.
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Troye Sivan: She’s the Best
Clash hears the follow-up to Something to Give Each Other as the comedown rather than the euphoria: a record for after the lights come up.
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Sir Ian McKellen honours Pet Shop Boys at the 15th Attitude Awards
The duo were honoured at London’s Roundhouse on Wednesday night. Sugababes, Orville Peck and Jordan Stephens also went home with awards.
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Spiritland launches a new London listening bar at the Barbican
Opening later this month, with album playbacks, regular talks, tastings and supper clubs.
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Rent review: Jonathan Larson’s New York bohos move into the West End
Stranger Things’ Gaten Matarazzo makes his West End debut in Luke Sheppard’s revival at the Tom Stoppard theatre. WhatsOnStage called it uplifting too.
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Cynthia Erivo will perform a benefit concert at Lincoln Center
The Wicked star is singing in support of Lincoln Center’s accessible programming.
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Falsettos’ Broadway revival cast to reunite for West End concerts
The company from the hit Broadway revival will reunite in London for a run of concert performances.
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Joe Lycett and Olivia Cooke join extended West End run of White Rabbit Red Rabbit
Nassim Soleimanpour’s play, performed cold by a different actor each night, has extended in the West End with new names attached.
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New behind-the-scenes images released as My Neighbour Totoro enters its final 12 weeks
Joe Hisaishi and the RSC have released a new set of backstage photographs with 12 weeks of the West End run left.
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Anne Carson wins the Nobel prize in literature 2026
The Swedish Academy honoured the Canadian poet and translator for her bold and inventive work, best known for genre-crossing books such as Autobiography of Red.
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The 2026 Kirkus Prize winners have been announced
Fiction, non-fiction and young people’s literature prizes were handed out on Wednesday night.
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Book of Lives by Margaret Atwood audiobook review: a dryly funny memoir
Atwood had to be talked into writing a memoir. The Guardian finds wit and wisdom in her account of loves, losses and a long career.
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The Starving Bride by Catherine Chidgey review: a girl wastes away in a gothic near-future
The New Zealand author’s ninth novel is gorgeously written, says the Guardian, but feels almost quaint beside the world it is reaching for.
