Film
Academy Museum Gala 2026 red carpet: Taylor Swift, Kate Hudson and Jessica Lange
Hollywood’s most glamorous non-awards night returned for a sixth year in Los Angeles on Saturday. Variety’s gallery has the full carpet.
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The Folio · No. 44Sunday 18 October 2026Jess Entwistle
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Taylor Swift wears a Cinderella inspired Dior gown to the Academy Museum Gala
Swift chose a custom ice blue strapless Dior gown with a crystal bow, and performed at the gala after walking the carpet.
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Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus are reported to be engaged
Vanity Fair reports the actor and the country singer are engaged after a little over a year together. Neither has confirmed it.
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The Dirty Dancing sequel will honour Patrick Swayze, with Jennifer Grey writing Baby’s next chapter
Producer Nina Jacobson told IndieWire’s Future of Filmmaking summit that the sequel is being written with Grey and will pay tribute to Swayze.
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Jenna Ortega wears vintage Pierre Cardin and Roberto Cavalli at the Rome Film Festival
Ortega and director Taika Waititi presented Klara and the Sun in Rome, where she wore two vintage looks on the carpet.
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7 Miles Out review: Carol Morley’s funny and poignant Stockport self-portrait
The Guardian gives Carol Morley’s memoir adaptation a warm review, calling it a rich study of inventing yourself as a teenager.
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How to Kill Your Family starts filming, with a first look at Anya Taylor-Joy
Netflix’s adaptation of Bella Mackie’s bestseller is shooting in London, with Taylor-Joy as Grace Bernard.
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TV
It: Welcome to Derry returns bigger in season two, with a different kind of Pennywise
Showrunner Brad Caleb Kane tells Deadline the second season widens the story and reworks the clown for a new era.
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Kate Berlant on her HBO special Parmesan and her next project with John Early
Berlant’s new hour turns on her phone addiction. She tells Variety about the joke that got her a rude gesture from an audience member.
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How NBC brought live musicals back to television
Variety traces the run from The Sound of Music Live to Hairspray, and how a struggling network turned musicals into event television.
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Michael Forest, Star Trek’s Apollo, has died at 97
The character actor appeared in Roger Corman’s films and dozens of series, and voiced many anime roles. He died this week aged 97.
Music
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Miley Cyrus returns to the stage at the Hollywood Bowl
Billboard recaps the first of two sold out nights, her first full live shows in years, built around her own terms and her own catalogue.
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John Wilson is making a documentary about Harry Styles’ Together, Together tour
Universal Pictures Content Group will release the film, which follows Styles’ Madison Square Garden residency. Wilson made The History of Concrete.
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My Chemical Romance share an unreleased song before The Black Parade reissue
Someone Out There Loves You was recorded at a Hoboken show in 2007 and arrives ahead of the album’s 20th anniversary reissue and five Hollywood Bowl nights.
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Max Richter releases While The Flood Rages
The composer’s new album is out in full, and Clash calls it typically masterful. Good news if his scores are already on your working playlist.
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Grace Carter releases her debut album When Saturn Returns
The British singer’s first album arrives after years of work, closing a process that began with her early EPs.
Theatre
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Some Woman review: Anne-Marie Duff is believable, the plot less so
Helen Edmundson’s world premiere runs at the National’s Dorfman until 21 November. The Guardian finds the performance strong and the twists far fetched.
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The Penelopiad review: Margaret Atwood lets Penelope’s maids run riot
Atwood’s own adaptation is revived at York Theatre Royal with Amelia Bullmore as Penelope, and the eight strong chorus of maids stealing it.
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Theatre
Connor Carson will play Bram Stoker in the new musical Stoker Wilde
The musical is in development at Wilton’s Music Hall in London, where Carson joins the cast as Stoker.
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Jay Armstrong Johnson’s Hocus Pocus concert raised $375,000 and will stream at Halloween
This year’s edition, A Sanderson Sister Act, streams over Halloween weekend for anyone who could not get to New York.
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A Christmas Carol Continues brings Scrooge back at Oxford’s Old Fire Station
Jonny Donahoe, co-creator of Every Brilliant Thing, has written a festive comedy sequel about the housing crisis for the Old Fire Station.
Books
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Books
Isabel Allende wins Spain’s €1m Premio Planeta, entered under a pseudonym
The prize goes to a sequel to her 1982 debut The House of the Spirits. Allende submitted the manuscript without her name on it.
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Books
The British Library has acquired 68 boxes of AS Byatt’s papers
Notebooks, letters and diaries from the author of Possession show how she assembled her research. The archive opens her working method to readers.
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Elif Shafak on writing through a creative crisis
The novelist talks to the Guardian about her nomadic childhood, being targeted by the Turkish government, and the depression she wrote her latest novel through.
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Make Me Well by Xand van Tulleken review: a takedown of wellness myths
The television doctor goes through the science behind collagen, turmeric and the rest, and finds most of it wanting.
