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The new Spanish drama seeks to be a queer-cinema monument for the ages, weaving together three stories about gay men living through times of Fascism and freedom.

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist says he honed his skills while working as a songwriter. Now, Ishiguro's 2021 novel Klara and the Sun has been adapted to film. Originally broadcast March 17, 2021.

Late-night hosts criticised ‘cosplaying as everyday folks’ and mocked the president’s latest attack on a reporter Late-night hosts ridiculed Donald Trump and JD Vance for their hollow attempts to appeal to working-class voters while also detailing the president’s latest unhinged attack on a reporter. Continue reading...

Sampa Tembo’s genre-hopping third album meets the moment with charisma and cheek In 2019, as Sampa the Great, Sampa Tembo became the first woman to win an Australian Recording Industry Association award for hip-hop or rap; she’s also the first (and only) person to win the Australian music prize twice. But she’s said consistently over the past decade that, while her music career began in Australia – when she was based here between 2013 and 2019 – she is still Zambian-born, Botswana-raised. Having returned to Africa to live and record, she told the Guardian in 2022 : “I was constantly being called Australian. I felt that I really had to defend Zambia and Zambian music and culture. The fact I was raised in Botswana and heard this music as I was being raised there fell to the wayside.” Continue reading...

Once the victim of paparazzi stalking and tabloid phone hacks, the actress is starring in two projects that deal explicitly with surveillance.

The star takes on her biggest challenge yet: resurrecting her family’s Cantonese restaurant. She discusses the stress of rewatching her sitcom, nearly becoming a meat inspector … and her beloved matriarch, who passed away after filming I’m embarrassed I didn’t bring anything. It’s 10-something in the morning, and I’m meeting Nora Lum, 38 – best known as rapper, comic actor and writer Awkwafina – the morning after the Bafta TV awards. I feel that I should have brought her a pastry pick-me-up. Yet here I am empty-handed. “It could have been Chinese buns,” she playfully suggests. Yes, it could have been. Especially because we are meeting to discuss her new series on Apple TV, Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook. It sees the star of box-office hits Crazy Rich Asians and Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings travel across the US to learn from a new generation of Asian American chefs, in the hope that she might revive her own family’s long-closed Cantonese restaurant. But there’s one problem: she can’t cook. Continue reading...

Kim Kardashian's White House meetings, Kanye West coparenting struggles and Kris Jenner's affair are explored in "Citizen Kim" by Jonathan Van Meter.

The actor died in Los Angeles following a "a brief and poignant journey" with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia.

Why is he not made of willow? Why is he plaited and not woven? World’s basket makers have plenty of questions Hollywood heart-throbs are known for their good looks and charisma. But in a classic plot twist, the latest big-screen dreamboat causing viewers to get hot and bothered isn’t even human. Alexander Skarsgård’s Wicker Husband character in the romcom Wicker has sent the internet into a frenzy. Continue reading...

The Rotterdam band are a riot of sound, look and attitude led by Eva Kah, who is as much a living artwork as she is a phenomenal live performer From Rotterdam, the Netherlands Recommended if you like Gnod, Discharge, Gwar Up next Debut album Big Enemy out now via Tartarus, playing Le Guess Who festival Rotterdam’s Bombstrap are a riotous and theatrical fusion of sound, look and attitude. An embodied version of John Milton’s Pandæmonium with the amp turned up to 11, the band revel in hardcore alternative living, internet wormholes, art-school pretensions and a gungy form of hardcore. Based in and drawing succour from one of the most famous squatted centres in the city, Het Poortgebouw, Bombstrap are a noisy counterblast to the increasing and overwhelmingly witless “circuses-and-bread” gentrification of Rotterdam. Continue reading...

The internet can't stop talking about Jennifer Lawrence's face, and Vlad and Kelly want to know why. Joined by Dr. David Cangello, Vlad and Kelly are breaking down the rise of the bleph and the "Instagram face." When does self-improvement become self-erasure? And perhaps the bigger question: Is any of this actually our business?

Bereaved families say they were appalled to see footage of the Itaewon disaster included in Modern Warfare 4.

Scantily-clad A.I.-generated avatars are stealing jokes from female comedians and retelling them to massive online audiences. The critic Jason Zinoman examines this new social media phenomenon, why female comics are particularly vulnerable and what it means for the state of stand-up comedy.

Candlelit corridors, eerie old portraits and other tropes aren’t exclusive to horror and romance this year — they’re everywhere.

The winner of the 2026 Ian Parry photojournalism grant , which spotlights new talent in photojournalism, is Maddie McCuddy , 23, from the US. She receives £10,000, Canon equipment and mentorship from Giles Duley (Legacy of War Foundation). Jospin Mwisha , 22, from DRC was highly commended, and Ike Wood , 23, from the US was commended. The recipient of the 2026 Save The Children x IPPG Commission is Fin J Kerr , 21, from the UK, and the recipient of 2026 Gentex Corp personal safety award is Louis Lemaire-Sicre , 23, from France. We take a look at a selection of their work Continue reading...

Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.

The Atlanta superstar rapper is back with a new hit and more expansive sound but, he says, the same hunger to dominate.

The film by Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans examines the 1985 pipe-bombing of a Palestinian activist in California, tracing the case to suspects in Israel.

Fight carnival bears bent on hugging you to death. Flee Scottish monsters. And view the frightening Antarctic through penguin eyes.

The motley mix of roles that won the British actor acclaim includes a Shakespearean hero, a “Star Trek” captain and an “X-Men” mutant.