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The country & roots-focused festival returns to Chelmsford, Essex, next summer.

On the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast , Katie & Keith are talking about the pop singer bringing her aerial stage show to the state-of-the-art venue.

Film producer and Anti-Recidivism Coalition founder Scott Budnick has tapped a young, fresh face to help launch the latest vocational program in California state prisons: celebrity barber Victor Fontanez. Known on the internet as VicBlends, Fontanez has recently backed the first two barber programs in the history of the state’s prison system. After starting with […]

The 81-year-old’s postapocalyptic novel The End of Everything takes home the £50,000 award Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan on M John Harrison’s win: A visionary writer gets the recognition he deserves Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker prize for The End of Everything , a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history. Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, said that while plenty of previous winners had dabbled in science fiction, Harrison’s was “the first Booker winner to have emerged from the bona fide SF world”. She called it “a historic win, for a writer whose decades of work are lightly worn on every page”. The End of Everything by M. John Harrison (Profile, £16.99). To support the Guardian, order your copy at guardianbookshop.com . Delivery charges may apply. Continue reading...

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off his first two sold-out arena headlining shows and the No. 1 U.S. debut of his first stand-up special, Netflix’s I Know You Lying, comedian Dyon “Mojo” Brooks has added 25 dates to his 2027 Outta Pocket Tour. This includes arena headlining performances at Houston’s Toyota Center on March 27, Atlanta’s State Farm […]

Taiwanese telco Chunghwa Telecom announced a slate of film and series investments at Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF), including police crime drama Gunshot, starring Kent Tsai, and Call Of Lobster, starring Choi Siwon and Chang Chen. Chunghwa is one of three Taiwanese telcos that are investing in film and TV content through funds launched in […]

On Tuesday night, Keisha Lance Bottoms won the 2026 Georgia gubernatorial election, making history as the first Black woman to be elected governor of any U.S. state and Georgia’s first Black governor. One of the first moves made by Bottoms, who’d previously served as the mayor of Atlanta, a member of Atlanta City Council and […]

Three tech giants — Google, Meta and TikTok — sued the state of California over a recently passed law designed to restrict social media platforms from offering “addictive” features to children under 16. In its lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, Google claimed that the law would ban features like YouTube’s recommendation system and autoplay feature, even […]

“The state of the theater industry is perhaps on the up,” Ken Ziffren told a ballroom of entertainment lawyers after a recent strong box office. In his annual look at the industry, the Hollywood legal mandarin today put AI, tax credits, the creator economy, M&A, YouTube, the NFL and more in the spotlight along with […]

Heartfelt real-life drama follows the late activist whose groundbreaking struggle helped build a rainbow alliance with gay action groups and the Black Panthers The remarkable story of the late US disability rights campaigner and wheelchair user Judy Heumann – pronounced “human” – is the subject of this heartfelt if Hollywoodised story from director and co-writer Sian Heder, based on Heumann’s own 2020 memoir of the same title. In the lead is British actor Ruth Madeley , who has spina bifida and is herself a disability rights activist; she gives a forthright, smart, sympathetic performance. Heumann’s finest hour was to get the federal government to sign into law Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act , whose accessibility provisions had been resisted by Nixon, Ford and then Carter. In 1977, Heumann led a guerrilla sit-in occupation of the San Francisco Health, Education and Welfare offices, her group being a rainbow alliance including gay action groups and the Black Panthers. Secretary of State for Health Joseph Califano sensationally conceded and signed the bill that he and the political establishment had obstructed for years. He is played by Mark Ruffalo, whose nice-guy persona and one-note performance of exasperated detachment does however rather obscure the fact that in real life, Califano at first personally authorised moves to starve the protesters out. In the movie, this grim political decision is not explicitly dramatised. Continue reading...

On the ground at the scene of the biggest electoral coup in the history of the Lone Star State

The state's Senate race was one of the ugliest in recent memory. In the end, "the bad guys lost," as the progressive put it on Wednesday

Texas made history Tuesday night when James Talarico became the state’s first Democratic Senator since 1988, defeating Republican Ken Paxton. The flip may have come as a shock for many, but Red, White & Royal Blue fans saw it as a prophecy coming to life. In author Casey McQuiston’s popular 2019 novel and Prime Video’s […]

The WNBA Finals was the most watched since 1999 with an average of 1.88 million people viewing the seven-game series that Golden State won over Atlanta in a decisive Game 7

The people have passed the baton to Democrats, who must return the nation to a state of normalcy

Based on the ancient classical poem about Rama, the avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, this three-hour blockbuster is highly enjoyable Here is a thoroughly engaging, rousing and spectacular Indian epic melodrama from director Nitesh Tiwari, with music by Hans Zimmer and AR Rahman, based on the ancient classical poem about Rama, the avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu. It has often been adapted for live-action and animated movies in the past, though surely not on this scale, the current three-hour blockbuster being only the first half. (There are no musical numbers though.) The idea of aristocrats submitting stoically and yet playfully to exile in the forest has something Shakespearean about it, and if you are suffering from Homer-withdrawal after Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey , a story about the noble Prince Rama finally vowing to wage war on a distant city where his wife has been abducted might just fit the bill. Ranbir Kapoor plays the mythical Rama, a noble warrior and statesman who has been brought into being in the city state of Ayodhya as a bodily representative of Vishnu, and from the first his sense of destiny is overwhelming. But what exactly is that destiny? In broad terms, his fate is to face off with Ravana (Naveen “Yash” Kumar), king of far-off Lanka, a figure whose former slave status once triggered in him such a cosmically intense prayer for justice that Lord Brahma offered him the superpower of athletic strength and indifference to pain. Continue reading...

Hannah Einbinder made good on her promise to debut an impression of Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens if Abdul El-Sayed won the state’s Senate race on Tuesday night. Watching the midterm results roll in from a bar, the “Hacks” star promptly posted a video of her Stevens impression following El-Sayed’s victory. “We’re gonna give ’em a […]

Twenty years on from her husband’s murder, an extraordinary woman reflects on love and resilience Among the many images of violence that might be used to define Putin’s chilly reign, one stands out. The photo of the Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko – gaze defiant, lying in intensive care – taken in November 2006. Litvinenko had met with visitors from Moscow: they poisoned his tea with radioactive polonium. A public inquiry concluded that Putin had “probably” approved the hit, sending two clownish assassins to carry it out . The London deathbed picture featured in newspapers across the world. It was a powerful symbol of what post-millennial Russia had become: a cruel and vindictive place, ruled by a paranoid KGB tsar. Litvinenko was its ill-fated prophet. He was the target, he told British detectives, of a vengeful mafia state. If unchecked, Putin would start a war in which millions would die, he warned presciently. Continue reading...

Adam Hamilton has ousted Republican Roger Marshall in the conservative state, part of a huge night for Democrats nationwide

Xavier Becerra was elected the next governor of California today, the first Latino to win the state’s highest office. In a race just called by the AP, Becerra, a Democrat, was long projected to easily defeat Republican Steve Hilton. Still the win to replace term-limited Gavin Newsom comes on a deep blue night with Democrats […]

Hot Springs, Arkansas is known for many things – as the childhood home of Bill Clinton, as the former site of Major League Baseball’s spring training (in the era of Babe Ruth), for its beautiful national park, and for its mineral springs and the splendid early 20th century bathhouses built to accommodate legions of spa-goers. […]

Refresh for latest… Networks got their first glimpse at the sentiment of the electorate, with a batch of preliminary voter poll information showing dismal approval ratings for Donald Trump and the state of the country. Per CNN, Trump’s approval rating was at 38% with 62% disapproving. The top issue for voters was the economy, at […]

The party has a generational opportunity to pick up seats as Donald Trump’s abysmal polling hamstrings Republican candidates

It’s Election Day in America, which means that pundits were falling over each other to discuss the day’s results as soon as the polls opened. At stake: all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 Senate seats and plenty of high-profile state races. Here’s what some of the country’s loudest and most influential talkers […]

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $1 billion proposal to save Hollywood includes so-called "above-the-line” costs (a.k.a. big salaries) as qualified expenditures for a tax credit. That’s been a controversial idea in the state for a long time.

EXCLUSIVE: New York State-based production, sales and distribution company The Dazey Phase has boarded Americanish creator and star Aizzah Fatima’s feature directorial debut Miss Christian Babe as a coproducer. Set against the backdrop of Mississippi-set, coming-of-age tale Miss Christian Babe explores the experience of growing up Muslim in the American South, navigating questions of identity, […]

How Jill Magid made the government her publisher and her artistic collaborator.

Donald Trump’s 11th hour Hail Mary attempt to muddy the midterm waters in blue California has failed. The Supreme Court just rejected the Justice Department’s request for an emergency intervention in the administration’s move to have 20,000 Golden State mail-in ballots cast aside for the time being. Even thought the list contained names that aren’t […]

The leaders of the major Hollywood unions are glad to hear outgoing California Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposal Monday to expand the state’s Film & TV Tax Credit program yet again, but they won’t be declaring victory until his successor makes it a cornerstone of their tenure, too. “We thank the Governor for his commitment to […]

The state is hoping to curb production flight.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, on the eve of the 2026 midterm elections, is calling for another major expansion of the state’s Film and TV Tax Credit Program. Newsom is proposing an increase to California’s entertainment production incentive program from $750 million in annual tax credits to at least $1 billion, expanding what the governor’s office […]

Palestinian-Jordanian filmmaker Darin J. Sallam has no regrets about making “Farha,” her debut feature about a Palestinian girl coming of age during the Nakba, the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians surrounding the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The film sparked controversy that Sallam was warned could derail her career before it […]

Selma Blair issued a video apology on Friday for the Oct. 11 incident in which she allegedly injured a flight attendant and kicked a nurse after being removed from a plane at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Blair, 54, is facing two state charges of 2nd-degree assault for the alleged attacks on the nurse and […]

More than a decade after the Sony hack shook Hollywood, Martin Scorsese is still reeling from the fallout of the North Korean state-sponsored digital attack. The Oscar-winning director recalled how the wide-reaching hack, which was a response to Seth Rogen’s 2014 film The Interview, “ruined everything” for Scorsese’s planned Cleopatra feature, which would have starred […]

EXCLUSIVE: FilmNation Entertainment will launch AFM sales on thriller State Of Emergency under its genre production label Infrared Pictures. Starring Brittany O’Grady (The White Lotus), Golden Globe and Emmy-winning director Greg Yaitanes, known for his work on hit series including House of the Dragon, Presumed Innocent, and House, will direct. Infrared Pictures, Sam Brown and […]

Texas officials feared the casting in “Little Shop of Horrors” violated a state law limiting diversity efforts. The student has sued for gender discrimination.

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.

Vivian Beaumont theater, New York City Unconvincing performances and an ill-fitting big stage make a retooled version of the classic courtroom drama feel like a missed opportunity Given the current state of the US military brass, it makes some sense that audiences would want to drift back to an older, nobler idea of the armed services, in which bad actors exist but are rooted out by the good guys in uniform. That perhaps explains the Broadway revival of A Few Good Men, Aaron Sorkin’s 1989 courtroom drama about a cocky military attorney defending two young marines who followed an illegal order with fatal results. The play is at once sharp and misty-eyed, critiquing a hallowed institution while reverently imbuing it with a certain dignity – in some ways, it does for the military what Sorkin’s The West Wing did for the Oval Office. A Few Good Men was turned into a hit Oscar-nominated film in 1992, starring a then boyish Tom Cruise in the role of recalcitrant navy lawyer Daniel Kaffee and a frightening Jack Nicholson as Kaffee’s ultimate enemy, Colonel Jessep, the hardliner in command of the US military base at Guantánamo Bay, where a marine has died under troubling circumstances. Directed by Rob Reiner, the film is a clever, old-fashioned crowd pleaser, culminating in a classic trial scene punctuated by the line. “You can’t handle the truth!”, Jessep memorably bellows at Kaffee just before confessing to his misdeeds. Those in search of crackling drama and sentimentality about the military should just watch that film, rather than plunking down a considerable sum of money to see the play in its current form at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont theater. Continue reading...

Actor Josh Duhamel shared an Instagram video urging Minnesota voters to hit the polls for midterm elections, calling the state "worth saving."