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Culture20 Jul
Moland Returns to Hamsun: What Beta Cinema's Toronto Bet Says About Slow Cinema's Market
Culture20 Jul
TIFF leans on star power and a Rocky biopic to anchor a turbulent 2026 lineup
Culture20 Jul
Hellboy's afterlife: Mignola and Sniegoski's supernatural podcast 'Grim Death and Bill' heads to television
Culture20 Jul
'Point Break' Returns to Theaters for Its 35th Anniversary, and the Timing Says Something
Culture20 Jul
AI-made cinema hits a new register: a fart joke, with budget behind it
Culture20 Jul
Bong Joon Ho’s animated gamble: a director known for austerity takes ‘Ally’ to global buyers
Culture20 Jul
Netflix hands ‘A Different World’ sequel its first frame
Culture20 Jul
Deon Taylor to Direct Biopic on Streetball Legend Grayson ‘The Professor’ Boucher
Culture20 Jul
Brunello Cucinelli Docufilm Crosses Borders Before It Reaches the U.S.
Culture20 Jul
A pirate yarn shot for the cost of a used car: 'The Peril at Pincer Point' and the micro-budget frontier
Culture20 Jul
Rapinoe's next play: a podcast built on the question athletes rarely get to ask
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's $264 million Odyssey: what the director kept, cut, and invented
Culture20 Jul
Jerusalem's Festival Director Asks Palestinian Filmmakers Back to the Room
Culture20 Jul
A mountain idyll that turns into a cage: Lisa Polster's Out of Sight and the architecture of European deportation
Culture20 Jul
‘Satluj’ and the Film That Punjab Could Not Finish Watching
Culture20 Jul
Ten injured, no fatalities reported in Kermanshah earthquake as Iran tallies midday toll
Culture20 Jul
Iran's southeast takes the second hit: earthquake in Kermanshah follows attacks in Sistan and Baluchistan
Culture20 Jul
The professional lurker in the executive suite: Todd Howard, Reddit, and the new studio feedback loop
Culture20 Jul
An Iranian film about martyrdom wins at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation festival, and the gesture travels with it
Culture20 Jul
A tutor-free gaokao admission and a 29% Polymarket line land on the same week
Culture20 Jul
Ernest Alaverdyan's Myaskovsky Mission: A Moscow-Trained Clarinetist Steps Onto the Conductor's Podium
Culture20 Jul
Iranian cinema takes the SCO stage, and points the award at home
Culture20 Jul
Reading Schöningen again: new pollen and fauna data reopen a 300,000-year-old argument about Europe’s first hunters
Culture20 Jul
Venice Critics' Week bets on debut voices and a Colombian AI experiment
Culture20 Jul
James Gray's Locarno honor caps a decade of auteur drift from New York mythmaking
Culture20 Jul
China's consumer slowdown meets a thicket of small dramas, and a plastic-to-jet-fuel breakthrough
Culture20 Jul
Flavours of Iraq review: an exiled French-Iraqi journalist turns memory into animation
Culture20 Jul
David Thomson's century-long argument for cinema
Culture20 Jul
Iran's oil calculus: Tehran signals a strategic-reserve lever against Washington
Culture20 Jul
Kung Fu Soccer Rules China's Box Office as Animation Steps Into Second
Culture20 Jul
‘Hope’ storms the Korean box office, and the local survival-thriller engine keeps running
Culture20 Jul
A library reopens in Moadamiyat al-Sham, and the question of what Syria is rebuilding
Culture20 Jul
Regev's airport huddle, and the flight-cancellation question hanging over Ben-Gurion
Culture20 Jul
US strikes hit Iranian provincial capitals Tabriz and Urmia at dawn
Culture20 Jul
A Spanish title and a Palestinian sketch: how Gaza received a World Cup final it never watched
Culture20 Jul
A festival inside a war: how Ukraine's classical-music circuit is programming around the long night
Culture20 Jul
Natalie Imbruglia, the accidental icon who stopped apologising for being a pop star
Culture20 Jul
Forty years on, Aliens is still the sequel that wrote the rules
Culture20 Jul
The bus is still leaving: what the 'Into the Wild' cult gets wrong about escape
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey opens to $51m Friday as IMAX and premium formats carry the load
Culture20 Jul
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch turns 101: the last Auschwitz orchestra cellist, and what the surviving instruments remember
Culture20 Jul
The $5 chip and the 75 million bot tracks: a week in platform power
Culture20 Jul
Samantha Morton's Circe Steals Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' in a Single Scene
Culture20 Jul
The Director's Cut Industrial Complex: How 'Manhunter' Became the Case Study
Culture20 Jul
A century on, the Grand Ole Opry still owns the broadcast week
Culture20 Jul
Alabama Shakes come back swinging: Brittany Howard on quitting, Trump, and the album that took a decade
Culture20 Jul
Anders Danielsen Lie steps into Bill Evans's shoes in a trailer that treats silence like a horn line
Culture20 Jul
A police band, a press gag, and a statehood chorus
Culture20 Jul
The Peplum Is Back: How Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Is Dragging the Sandal-and-Sword Genre Out of Retirement
Culture20 Jul
4DX, the Premium Format Quietly Winning the Multiplex
Culture20 Jul
Kelsey Grammer Walks a Sci-Fi Tightrope with 'Lars Shrike Walks the Night'
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Two Decades on Screen: Who Carries the Films Now
Culture20 Jul
When the uniform is the brand: Himachal police orchestra mired in misconduct claims, and a Gurugram 'doctor' on bail for a Rs 30-crore Ponzi
Culture20 Jul
Jingye's last stand: a Chinese steelmaker tests the limits of UK industrial sovereignty
Culture20 Jul
China's culture wars: a 2,000-year-old board game, a plagiarism scandal, and the AI race at the top of Polymarket
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey crosses a Rotten Tomatoes threshold the boycott never dented
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey opens to $264m and lands its first fight: AI as a 'Trojan horse'
Culture20 Jul
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced sells 3 million in a week, then asks fans to clear space on the calendar
Culture20 Jul
Netflix writes a $587 million cheque for Affleck's AI studio, and Hollywood's room reads the room
Culture19 Jul
Black Flag Resynced sells three million in a week, and its missing combat mechanics tell a bigger story
Culture19 Jul
Shapiro's 'Odyssey' reversal exposes the porous border between outrage and endorsement in right-wing film criticism
Culture19 Jul
Nolan's Trojan Horse: an ancient siege, a modern special-ops film, and the AI line the director couldn't resist
Culture19 Jul
FIFA's anti-discrimination arm warns against transgender ban at 2031 Women's World Cup
Culture19 Jul
How a single Russian milblogger post became a Western headline, and what that says about the war's information layer
Culture19 Jul
A 35-crore Malayalam actioner and a patriarch's exit: what the wire says about Mollywood's mid-2026 moment
Culture19 Jul
Kyiv overnight strike kills one and injures seventeen as Russia returns to the capital's skyline
Culture19 Jul
IAEA weighs in on Darkhovin strike, Tehran reads the restraint
Culture19 Jul
Brazil's Export Pipeline: Gramado Hands the Headlines to Mello and Cândido
Culture19 Jul
Ukraine's Drone Industrial Base Hits a Production Dispute It Can't Ignore
Culture19 Jul
Spotify's 75 million-track purge and the new shape of streaming fraud
Culture19 Jul
Ajay Devgn's Dhamaal 4 crosses Rs 125 crore as Pentagon's testosterone-testing plan draws medical pushback
Culture19 Jul
A Kyiv factory, a Russian missile, and the civilian cost of striking at Ukraine's drone supply line
Culture19 Jul
The two stories about AI this week: table tennis in Shanghai, water bills in Virginia
Culture19 Jul
Gaza's graveyards are running out of ground
Culture19 Jul
A festival finds its moment: MIFFest opens in Kuala Lumpur with ASEAN record in hand
Culture19 Jul
Tehran turns a memorial into a stage: foreign students gather at Qom to mourn Khamenei
Culture19 Jul
A six-minute trash planet, and the slow economics of independent sci-fi
Culture19 Jul
Netflix's $587 Million Bet on Ben Affleck's AI Startup, and What It Signals About Hollywood's Next Merger Wave
Culture19 Jul
Matt Damon at 50: A Career Built on Restraint
Culture19 Jul
Olivia Dean graduates to arenas, and the industry has to keep up
Culture19 Jul
Two visions of scale: Packham's prehistoric canvas and Nolan's turn at Homer
Culture19 Jul
Magnitude 5 Quake Shakes Khuzestan Village as Tehran Seismology Centre Reports Tremor
Culture19 Jul
Hannah Waddingham's late, loud arrival at the top of Hollywood
Culture19 Jul
Nolan's box-office gravity bends the July calendar around him
Culture19 Jul
Mariinsky brings St Petersburg to Sirius as Russia’s cultural diplomacy courts a new audience
Culture19 Jul
Kurdish opposition HQ in Erbil comes under attack as Tehran-Baghdad phone diplomacy tries to draw a line
Culture19 Jul
Kyiv wakes to fire after Russia's overnight barrage hits Lukianivka
Culture18 Jul
CPAC London stages the new conservative international, with One Nation's Pauline Hanson as guest of honour
Culture18 Jul
A million on the streets of Baghdad: reading Iran's martyr-funeral frame
Culture18 Jul
Tehran reaches for Baghdad: Araqchi's call frames a regional choreography
Culture18 Jul
Iran and Iraq try to keep their conversation above the noise
Culture18 Jul
Million-Strong Baghdad Funeral Re-stages Iran's Regional Script
Culture18 Jul
Sheridan's Call of Duty puts a screenwriter-turned-showrunner at the centre of the franchise's next phase
Culture18 Jul
Article 370 and Amaran take the night as India's 72nd National Film Awards choose the political and the procedural
Culture18 Jul
Khamenei's gratitude note to the 'epic creation' is a closing of ranks, not a victory lap
Culture18 Jul
Article 370 and a Savarkar biopic take top honours at India's 72nd National Film Awards
Culture18 Jul
Ankara's Defender-in-Chief Says Europe Has Stopped Being the West
Culture18 Jul
Netflix's 17-minute AI experiment and the 11% plunge that followed
Culture18 Jul
Twenty minutes on the line: how cheap autonomy is rewriting the cost of an infantry assault
Culture18 Jul