The Folio · No. 37Sunday 11 October 2026Jess Entwistle
Film
Brad Bird’s long-gestating retro-futurist detective film has Sam Rockwell as the gumshoe and Scarlett Johansson as the femme fatale. The Guardian calls it big-hearted and beautifully designed; IndieWire found the message muddled.
Film
Pugh made her red carpet debut with Finn Cole at the festival in a plunging corseted gown in silver and lavender.
Film
Johansson and Adam Driver reunited on the red carpet in London, her open-backed red gown showing the tattoos across her shoulders.
Film
Blunt returns as FBI agent Kate Macer alongside Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro, more than a decade after Denis Villeneuve’s original.
Film
Pegah Ahangarani’s documentary about her life in exile and Iran’s political turmoil was already a leading Best Documentary contender, and now carries the UK’s submission too.
Film
Jasmine Jobson plays the British-Somali boxer fighting her family’s disapproval as well as her opponents. The Guardian calls it heavyweight, if a touch tick-the-boxes.
TV
Prime Video premiered the trailer at New York Comic Con. The series is set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049 in a reborn Los Angeles, with Yeoh and Schafer on the run.
TV
Paramount+ set the date at New York Comic Con and announced Bill Nighy and Rosemarie DeWitt as guest stars for the final run.
TV
Walker Scobell confirmed at New York Comic Con that the third season takes on Rick Riordan’s The Titan’s Curse, the first time that book has been filmed.
TV
Daniel Ryan says the new season brings something very different to Jimmy McGovern’s anthology. It lands on the BBC this weekend.
TV
The month brings the final season of The Empress and live NFL on Thanksgiving, with dates for the rest of the November slate.
Music
Rosalia was the musical guest on this weekend’s SNL and danced on pointe through Reliquia, a track from her album Lux, with an English translation of the lyrics alongside.
Music
The KPop Demon Hunters song took Best Song in Ghent, where Daniel Pemberton was named Film Composer of the Year and Jeff Russo also won.
Music
The pair performed two tracks from Tinashe’s Popstar album during Charli’s Friday set, a week after she brought out Troye Sivan at the same festival.
Music
Rosalia responded on The Tonight Show to U2’s forthcoming track The Mirror Maker (Rosalia), which is named after her.
Music
Saxophonist Courtney Pine says he has recently recorded with the band, the first sign of new Stones material since Hackney Diamonds.
Theatre
Joy Nesbitt’s play at the Royal Court follows a Black British woman tracing her family’s enslaved past. The Guardian calls it fantastically chilling.
Theatre
Both musical revivals close at New World Stages on 11 October after repeatedly extended runs.
Theatre
A new clip shows Butz as Hermes at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where he joined the cast of Hadestown this autumn.
Theatre
The Descendants actor is making her Broadway debut as Daisy in the Fitzgerald musical, and Playbill has released video of her big number.
Theatre
Francesca Moody Productions has added more names to Tim Crouch’s play, in which the second performer arrives on stage having never seen the script.
Books
Her debut sold millions and became a film and a BBC series. Niffenegger talks about impostor syndrome, screen adaptations and why the follow-up turned political.
Books
Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, Sarah Perry’s Death of an Ordinary Man and T. Geronimo Johnson’s The Occidental Book of the Dead lead this week’s critical round-up.
Books
Prince won the Somerset Maugham award and was best known for The Good Father, adapted into a film starring Anthony Hopkins.
