Film
London Film Festival’s surprise film was I Play Rocky
Peter Farrelly’s drama about how Sylvester Stallone got Rocky made was the festival’s surprise screening on Friday night, with Farrelly there in person.
Culture
The Folio · No. 43Saturday 17 October 2026Jess Entwistle
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Pedro Pascal and his sister Lux at the premiere of Behemoth!
Pedro and Lux Pascal walked the BFI London Film Festival carpet together for the screening of his new film.
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Masterplan review: Stanley Tucci is wasted in Amazon’s heist caper
A family of criminals try to lift the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. The Guardian finds the thriller pulpy and forgettable, and Tucci underused in it.
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Look Back review: Kore-eda’s ode to friendship, manga and artistic success
Hirokazu Kore-eda follows two obsessive young artists who chase the same dream until their ambitions pull apart. The Guardian calls it sad and beautiful.
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The costumes of Sense and Sensibility are a love letter to stealing your sister’s clothes
Costume designer Grace Snell tells IndieWire how she built the Dashwood sisters a shared wardrobe, mixing modern references with timeless ones.
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Antonio Banderas joins Nicolas Cage in True Detective season five
The pair will headline the next run of HBO’s anthology, which begins production in 2027.
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Fourth Wing casts Emilio Sakraya as Xaden Riorson
Prime Video’s adaptation of the Fourth Wing books has its male lead, opposite Esther McGregor as Violet Sorrengail.
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The Diplomat season four leads 41 new releases on Netflix UK this week
Keri Russell returns as Kate Wyler, in a week that also brings Doctor Sleep and Wicked to Netflix in the UK.
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Jude Law set to play Liverpool manager Bill Shankly
Law is lined up to lead an A24 series about the Anfield manager, written by Jack Thorne.
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ITV’s new crime drama Galway Bay Murders follows a former New York detective
The series is set on Ireland’s rugged west coast, with a detective returning from New York at its centre.
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Music
Harry Styles premieres an unreleased song for Liam Payne
Styles played What Is Enough, a song he has never released, on the second anniversary of his former One Direction bandmate’s death.
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Olivia Rodrigo teams up with Chappell Roan for an Expectations remix
The two share a new version of Expectations, with David Byrne and producer Dan Nigro appearing in the video.
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Twinnie announces the 2027 Gypsy Heart UK tour and a new single
The British country-pop singer plays Glasgow, London, Bristol and Leeds from 26 February 2027, with a single, Old Friends, on the way.
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Justice are scoring Grand Theft Auto VI
The French duo have written the official score, and the first single, Flower in a Hurricane, features Tame Impala, SZA and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
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Brandon Flowers plays his country roots at the Royal Albert Hall
The Killers frontman mixed solo country songs with the hits, telling London he spent a long time being embarrassed by that side of his music.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus makes her Broadway debut in Other Desert Cities
She leads Jon Robin Baitz’s play at the Hudson alongside Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe. Playbill has the first pictures.
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Sarah Hyland and Skylar Astin in a new trailer for London’s Cabaret
The West End revival at the Kit Kat Club releases a trailer with its current pair of leads.
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Back to the Future musical on tour review: the power of nostalgia
The WhatsOnStage Award-winning show has launched its UK tour at Bristol Hippodrome, and the review says the nostalgia does most of the driving.
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Mathew Baynton, Jack Holden and Melanie La Barrie join An Oak Tree
Tim Crouch’s play gives each guest actor the script for the first time on stage. The run continues at The Other Palace until 15 November.
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Theatre
New musical adaptation of Fat Boy Swim to tour next year
The show opens in January and tours Scotland, with dates in Aberdeen and Edinburgh.
Books
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Books
Paramount picks up Red Rising, with Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence
The rights to the Red Rising series have gone to Paramount, with Francis Lawrence attached to direct a film of the first novel. Time to read it first.
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Books
The best reviewed books of the week
Lit Hub’s weekly count includes Yiyun Li’s Music Against the Night and Bonnie Garmus’s Peck & Peck.
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The best recent crime and thrillers
The Guardian’s crime column covers Ian Rankin’s The Heights, AJ West’s The Deadly Inheritance of Everest Macdonald and Alys Cummings’s Murder Most Cryptic.
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John Green: I devoured the Sweet Valley High books in the 1980s
The author on learning to read, being shaped by Kurt Vonnegut, coming late to Jane Austen and the brilliance of Robert Penn Warren.
