The Folio · No. 45Monday 19 October 2026Jess Entwistle
Film
Eisenberg wrote and directed the film, which played the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday night to close the festival. Julianne Moore, who stars, called it one of the best scripts she has read.
Film
The project has been in development since 2020. Waititi confirmed it is on hold while promoting his new film, Klara and the Sun.
Film
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s film arrived with almost no advance publicity and audiences went anyway, giving A24 its loudest weekend of the year.
Film
Little White Lies calls Morley’s chronicle of youth in revolt, lifted from the pages of her own memoir, one of the finest British films of the year.
Film
Shooting has started on the follow up to the hit thriller, with Off Campus star Stephen Kalyn joining the cast.
TV
Apu spoke for the first time in nearly a decade in Sunday’s episode on Fox. Azaria had voiced him for close to 30 years before a 2017 documentary prompted a rethink.
TV
Sudeikis, who expected the Apple TV series to end at season three, talked about where it goes next on the podcast Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso.
TV
The Korean drama is in production on both runs, with Ju Ji-hoon and Choo Young-woo back in the emergency room.
TV
Wood calls the last run of the BBC comedy complicated and moving, with her character’s grip on everything slipping.
TV
With the BBC looking for who makes the series next, Baker told Radio Times what whoever takes the part should do with it.
Music
Swift got some of the old band back together for a black tie audience in Los Angeles on Saturday night, her first full band performance since the tour ended.
Music
Styles played the new song on the second anniversary of Payne’s death, telling the room he lost one of the friends who made his work possible.
Music
Criss’s one night concert in London turned into a reunion when he brought Colfer out to sing Baby It’s Cold Outside.
Music
The band had planned to take next year off. Instead they have added a final run of shows to their 50th anniversary tour.
Theatre
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Joe Keery and Lily Rabe star at the Hudson Theatre. Playbill has the first night verdicts in one place.
Theatre
The three were photographed together in New York on opening night. Hello! has the pictures.
Theatre
Jackson, who originated George Washington, has returned to the Broadway production a decade later and says he is experiencing it in an entirely new way.
Theatre
The Guardian found the yellow stockings as funny as ever, with a haunting folk score casting a dream like uncertainty over the romance.
Theatre
Kate O’Flynn returns to the stage in Churchill’s new micro play in London. WhatsOnStage calls its prescience pitch perfect.
Books
Critics mock the genre as raunchy trash. The Guardian traces it back through centuries of fairy haunted romance and finds it older and wilder than it looks.
