Film
Greta Gerwig’s Narnia unveils Aslan and the White Witch in its first trailer
Netflix released the first trailer for The Magician’s Nephew on Tuesday, Gerwig’s adaptation of the C.S. Lewis book, with the first look at Aslan and the White Witch.
Culture
The Folio · No. 40Wednesday 14 October 2026Jess Entwistle
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Sense and Sensibility review: Daisy Edgar-Jones and George MacKay in an unfussy Austen
Georgia Oakley sticks closely to the text, and IndieWire says the result is swoony and sensual, with fresh things to say even if it does not match Ang Lee’s 1995 version.
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The Odyssey confirms its digital release date after a record cinema run
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation finally has a date to watch at home, following a record-breaking run in cinemas.
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I Play Rocky and Ceremony take the audience awards at Vancouver
Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky won the audience award in the galas and special presentations strand at the 2026 Vancouver International Film Festival.
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Ben Affleck breaks down the most memorable films of his career
With his political thriller Animals now out, Affleck talks Letterboxd through the moments that stuck, from Dazed and Confused to The Town.
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How Breaking Bad’s RJ Mitte changed the way we see cerebral palsy
Mitte, who played Walter White Jr, has died at 34. The BBC looks back at his campaigning for better disability representation on screen.
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Girls is coming back: HBO orders five episodes with most of the original cast
HBO has ordered a five-episode limited run of Lena Dunham’s comedy, with the majority of the original cast confirmed to return. The announcement came with a video.
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Below takes a record debut for a Netflix Canadian series
The limited series, with Josh Hartnett as a Newfoundland fisherman facing a sea creature, drew the biggest opening weekend Netflix has had for a Canadian title.
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Waterloo Road returns for season 18 in January 2027
The BBC has confirmed the school drama’s future and dated the next season for January 2027, with a fan favourite coming back through the gates.
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TV
How Elizabeth Day adapted her bestseller into ITV’s The Party
Day talks through turning her novel into a five-part ITV thriller, now airing, and the themes she wanted the adaptation to keep.
Music
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Music
Blue Planet 3 is getting a 2027 orchestral tour
The tour will pair Hans Zimmer’s score with specially curated footage from the series, with dates and tickets announced for 2027.
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Music
Raye says scalpers with AI bots overwhelmed her Royal Albert Hall sale
Nearly two million people signed up for the show. Raye says the experience has opened her eyes to what ticketing has become.
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Music
How Greta Gerwig got Led Zeppelin to say yes to Stairway to Heaven
Robert Plant and Jimmy Page gave Gerwig their blessing to use the song in the first Narnia trailer, which rarely happens.
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Music
Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan confirm an expectations remix
The two confirmed the collaboration on Tuesday, putting two of pop’s biggest current names on the same track.
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The Chicks review: exquisite harmonies and hard-won vindication
Twenty years after country radio dropped them, the trio played Taking the Long Way in full at New York’s Beacon Theatre.
Theatre
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Theatre
Hamilton’s cast album makes Billboard history with 500 weeks at No. 1
The original Broadway recording is the only title ever to spend 500 weeks at No. 1 on any of Billboard’s current charts.
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Theatre
Kristin Scott Thomas makes a modern matriarch in a trad, earthy Cherry Orchard
At the Harold Pinter theatre, Conor McPherson’s plain-speaking Chekhov puts Scott Thomas and Stephen Mangan on stage together. The Guardian finds it smart but not always moving.
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First look at the UK and Ireland tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats
Production photographs are out for the tour, which opened at Theatre Royal Plymouth on 6 October.
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Inside rehearsals for Tom Hiddleston and Hayley Atwell’s Much Ado About Nothing
Playbill has rehearsal pictures from the Broadway transfer of Jamie Lloyd’s production, which begins performances later this month.
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A Mog the Forgetful Cat musical will premiere next year
Judith Kerr’s picture books are being staged as a family musical, with a London premiere announced for next year.
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Theatre
Lea Salonga takes on Lorca’s headstrong matriarch in Sinaunang Tagalog
Salonga will play Bernarda Alba in Chay Yew’s adaptation of Lorca, translated into Sinaunang Tagalog by Guelan Varela-Luarca.
Books
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Books
Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus review: the zany follow-up to Lessons in Chemistry
Garmus sets her second novel at an eccentric poetry magazine in 1980s New York. The Guardian calls it laugh-out-loud funny and a case for poetry.
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Bonnie Garmus on writing a coming-of-age novel about poets
The author of Lessons in Chemistry explains how she moved from Elizabeth Zott to a novel built around poetry and youth.
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Generation Maybe by Camilla Cavendish review: what is behind the fertility gap?
An evidence-based account of the choices facing couples from America to Iran, and why so many are having fewer children than they planned.
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Bonnie Jo Campbell recommends her favourite literary ghost stories
A reading list for the end of October, picked by a novelist who grew up next to swampy woods and a mother who sang murder ballads.
