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Culture29 Jul
Kavinsky, the voice behind Drive's opening pulse, dies in Paris at 50
Culture28 Jul
King Gizzard go full EDM on 'Alien Metal'
Culture28 Jul
Purple Rain Lands on Broadway: Prince's 1984 Film Gets a 2027 Stage Run at the Majestic
Culture27 Jul
Three Indian Express items from one July day: a flooded village, a postponed Tripathi film, and a tea-timing note
Culture27 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey sets a second-weekend record while IMAX courts India
Culture26 Jul
When the headline is a quiz, a manhunt, and a pizza pan: three Indian Express dispatches from 26 July 2026
Culture26 Jul
Bolshoi closes the season with Madama Butterfly, as Sevastopol ballet corps
Culture26 Jul
A geisha in red: Bolshoi closes its season on a Madama Butterfly staged for the screen age
Culture26 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey, Musk's counter-Odyssey, and the streaming economy behind a 680% surge
Culture26 Jul
Polymarket Adds a Trump Approval Contract to Its Two-Day Slate
Culture25 Jul
Three X posts, three Odyssey claims, and a streaming number with no first-party source
Culture23 Jul
Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' Trailer Puts Austin Abrams Alone in the Frame
Culture23 Jul
Pulp's new film asks the question a comeback usually avoids
Culture21 Jul
Beijing's first-in-class approval, and what it actually proves about Chinese biotech
Culture21 Jul
Universal parks Christopher Nolan at the summit. Hollywood takes the hint.
Culture21 Jul
Jordanian figures demand US troop withdrawal as regional pressure mounts
Culture21 Jul
Chelsea Wolfe Returns with The Dark, a New Album and a 2026 Tour Built Around It
Culture21 Jul
Snoop Dogg gets the biopic treatment. Universal is betting the man outgrew his most polarizing years
Culture21 Jul
Under Moscow's Sky Again: Gnesinka's Summer Festival and the Soft-Power Geometry of Russian Classical Music
Culture21 Jul
"All Night Wrong" trailer: Voltage Pictures aims a Maria Bakalova vehicle at the indie-comedy middle
Culture21 Jul
The Odyssey Isn't Nolan's Yet: How 3,000 Years of Homer Keep Getting Rewritten
Culture21 Jul
Two Bond Giants, One Owner: What the Film Finances–Media Guarantors Merger Means for Indie Production
Culture21 Jul
The Micro-Influencer Has Entered the Theatre: How SGG Media Rewrote the Hollywood Ground Game
Culture21 Jul
Smithsonian leadership faces Congress over patriotism, gender, and diversity
Culture21 Jul
Liam Neeson's 'The Fix' leans on a tired action template, with a trailer that tells you everything except the why
Culture21 Jul
Ava DuVernay returns to nonfiction with a film about the 14th Amendment
Culture21 Jul
Thirty-Six Years Late: How 'After Dark, My Sweet' Finally Found Its Audience
Culture21 Jul
St. Petersburg's Ring Cycle returns: the Mariinsky bets on Wagner at the close of season 243
Culture21 Jul
Charli XCX hands Vincent Cassel the camera and steps behind it
Culture21 Jul
Vince Staples turns a Tiny Desk into a memorial: Cry Baby, the Panthers, and the weight of an 'I'm sorry'
Culture21 Jul
NVIDIA's DLSS 5 push draws a sharper line between artist intent and machine inference
Culture21 Jul
A Drilled Human Tooth, Worn on a String in Prehistoric Serbia
Culture21 Jul
Country music's quiet handover: Andy Schuon takes the ACM's top job
Culture21 Jul
Statham's Bike Heist Picks Up Three More Riders
Culture21 Jul
Ava DuVernay’s ‘14th’ Documentary to World Premiere at New York Film Festival
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' remake is doing what prestige cinema rarely does: pulling a generation back to the source text
Culture21 Jul
Robocop returns: Amazon Prime Video bets eight episodes on a Detroit cyborg in an age of algorithmic policing
Culture21 Jul
Charli XCX stages herself, and the camera, in the Vincent Cassel-led "Camera"
Culture21 Jul
When a tanker parks, a flight doesn't: the small visa row inside Ben-Gurion's bigger standoff
Culture21 Jul
Wayans horror, rebooted: how 'Scary Movie' ended up back on screen in 2026
Culture21 Jul
‘Evil Dead Burn’ heads to Halloween Horror Nights, betting a 45-year horror brand can still move crowds
Culture21 Jul
Sony drops the third 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' trailer and puts Hulk in the frame
Culture21 Jul
Greg Freeman returns with a second album and the long road to it
Culture21 Jul
Sony and Marvel drop the third trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, leaning on a console game for its visual grammar
Culture21 Jul
Ukraine takes the Liutyi air-to-surface, putting a cruise-style punch on a drone airframe
Culture21 Jul
Yash's 'Toxic' keeps selling itself: another teaser, another bet on star power alone
Culture21 Jul
Kaylee Hottle, the young star behind Jia in the MonsterVerse, dies at 18
Culture21 Jul
A joke about Trump and sex trafficking, cut from a Kennedy Center gala, exposes what streamers now decide audiences get to see
Culture21 Jul
Sphere bets on a marketing chief who speaks tech and travel
Culture21 Jul
A canceled night in São Paulo, and what tour 'illness' actually signals
Culture21 Jul
Dakota Gorman anchors a stripped-down Shudder survival horror in 'Hellcat' trailer
Culture21 Jul
Sylvan Esso bring it back home with Ow, their first record on Psychic Hotline
Culture21 Jul
London's culture ministry enters a quieter chapter: what Keir Starmer's reset means for arts funding
Culture21 Jul
Hong Kong's shrinking shelves: mainland muscle, local indie squeeze
Culture21 Jul
NVIDIA's DLSS 5 lands as the first real test of whether "AI in games" stays a feature or becomes a filter
Culture21 Jul
A Loom on the Lake Floor: How Italian Archaeologists Pulled an Ancient Textile from the Waters of Gran Carro
Culture21 Jul
The cult songwriter who built a cathedral nobody could see
Culture21 Jul
Burnham's first reshuffle keeps Nandy at Culture, hands Narayan a new AI portfolio
Culture21 Jul
The citizenship question India keeps re-opening
Culture21 Jul
Anurag Kashyap at MIFFest: a jury president hunting for a cinematic language that hasn't been colonised
Culture21 Jul
Mainland publishers fill the floor as Hong Kong's indie booksellers are pushed out
Culture21 Jul
Kash Patel's planned Moscow trip puts the FBI inside a diplomatic lane it has rarely walked
Culture21 Jul
Russia's Mariinsky Closes Its 243rd Season With a Beethoven-Flavoured Bet on Cultural Continuity
Culture21 Jul
Merz, Merkel and the quiet politics of Bayreuth's 2026 opening
Culture21 Jul
"The Fires" turns Iceland into a disaster set, and the country's tourism board into its first investor
Culture21 Jul
Patel's planned Moscow trip lands inside an awkward gap in US-Russia diplomacy
Culture21 Jul
Jake Johnson's late-career pivot: from New Girl to pickleball, with the actor still fighting to be taken seriously
Culture21 Jul
Colson Whitehead closes the Harlem Trilogy with the gleeful hustler's novel New York deserved
Culture21 Jul
A Telegram channel turns a year old, and the classical music industry keeps asking how to count its audience
Culture21 Jul
Baroque Routes and Festival Ecologies: Reading Spain's VI Music Festival as an Industrial-Scale Heritage Bet
Culture21 Jul
Patel's planned Moscow trip puts the FBI inside Russia's frame
Culture21 Jul
A.R. Rahman bets the headset is the next concert hall: ARR Immersive lands on Apple Vision Pro
Culture21 Jul
Spain's parade and the BBC's rout: the day after the 2026 World Cup
Culture21 Jul
Spain lands in Madrid: a World Cup, a million supporters, and a coach who keeps his nerve
Culture21 Jul
Simon Pegg's The Undeclared War returns to Channel 4 as British cyber-thriller genre crowds the schedules
Culture21 Jul
Vijay's final bow opens with a Rs 15 crore advance, but the numbers say Tamil cinema's star economy is already rewriting itself
Culture21 Jul
A teen's lie, a chatbot's odds: the soft geopolitics of attention in 2026
Culture21 Jul
Kyoto's blame game and Moomoo's Tokyo test: two faces of China's Japan play
Culture21 Jul
Moffat heads to Barcelona as ‘Number 10’ moves from rumour to schedule
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's $250M 'Odyssey' was written off before a frame was shot. The receipts are uglier than the trolls.
Culture21 Jul
The Airbender problem: why Paramount's sequel film is a test of nostalgia economics
Culture21 Jul
Apple Crumble is a murder mystery you solve by reading grandma's texts
Culture21 Jul
Chloe Fineman lands her post-‘SNL’ footing at Netflix with a Harlan Coben adaptation
Culture21 Jul
An FBI director in Moscow: why Kash Patel's planned October trip is rattling Washington
Culture21 Jul
The scout who became the story: a Greenwich indie turns the location department inside out
Culture21 Jul
Comic-Con's quiet power shift: Variety's Google-backed Interview Studio lands in San Diego
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's IMAX bet pays in week one
Culture21 Jul
Horror in a single eye: the short film that shoots its entire story in a reflection
Culture21 Jul
The five-year gap: why Kurosawa's last film crossed the Pacific in slow motion
Culture21 Jul
Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Meets the Homerist: Why the Epic That Invented the Hero Is Now a Culture-War Set Piece
Culture21 Jul
Avengers: Doomsday opens the betting market at 67%, and the studios are watching
Culture21 Jul
A former Trump counter-terrorism chief says the US cannot defeat Iran. The statement is louder than the job title
Culture21 Jul
Spain's football déjà vu: what the 2026 triumph repeats, and what it doesn't
Culture21 Jul
Arca's XXXXX lands as the artist tightens the distance between album and event
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey picks its fights with Homer, and leaves the rest off the page
Culture21 Jul
John Glacier returns to the club on "Bond Girl," the first single from her album "Lack of Joy is Death"
Culture21 Jul
Kash Patel, the World Cup, and a 38% Bet: Reading the FBI Director's First Year Through a Prediction Market
Culture20 Jul
Patel's planned Russia trip lands in a Washington already running the tape on his tenure
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey and the Cost of Squeezing Homer into Three Hours
Culture20 Jul