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Culture18 Jul
Ankara's Drone Diplomat Lays Out the Case Against Europe's Waning Edge
Culture18 Jul
Trumps World Cup joke, RatifCliff's warning, and the case for treating 2026 as a polite war
Culture18 Jul
India's National Film Awards at 72: who actually wins, and what the jury picks tell us
Culture18 Jul
Hormozgan knocked offline: 116 telecom towers lost in US strikes, repairs under way
Culture18 Jul
One tunnel back open on Iran's Bandar Abbas–Sirjan axis, but the other is still dark
Culture18 Jul
Strikes on Hormozgan: what Tehran's own wires say, and what they leave out
Culture18 Jul
Federal judge says warrantless phone seizure of Palestinian activist crossed the constitutional line
Culture18 Jul
A gold-coin lottery and the quiet infrastructure of Iranian household debt
Culture18 Jul
India's 72nd National Film Awards arrive under a weather cloud, with the ceremony still set for 5:30 pm IST
Culture18 Jul
Biren’s silicon-photonics play and the 9% Polymarket line on Chinese frontier models
Culture18 Jul
Shiraz reopens to Dubai as Fars province widens its Gulf aviation bridge
Culture18 Jul
Ratcliffe puts a number on the China–Russia gap, and the West is still arguing about the wrong one
Culture18 Jul
Ratcliffe's 20-minute recruit and the reshaping of the frontline
Culture18 Jul
Apple TV's 'Cape Fear' Reopens a Scorsese Case File, This Time as Serial
Culture18 Jul
A Sydney Winner Heads to Paris: What Inwave's Pickup of 'Time and Tide' Signals About Hybrid Documentary's Sales Future
Culture18 Jul
'Mortal Kombat 2' Lands on HBO Max as the Game-to-Screen Bet Keeps Paying
Culture18 Jul
Southern giant cuscus: a one-kilo marsupial that flutters, rather than flies
Culture18 Jul
Emile Hirsch returns to indie horror with 'Woozy,' a gross-out supernatural title that knows its market
Culture18 Jul
Raghav Juyal steps into the leading-man frame, and a city asks its mayor to sleep on the heat
Culture18 Jul
A Bollywood Hit Walks Into Wembley: What the ‘Saiyaara’ Anniversary Tour Says About India’s Soft-Power Play
Culture18 Jul
Daniel Radcliffe turns up on a comedian's album. Why it says something about the collapsing middle of pop.
Culture18 Jul
Josh Fox's new climate doc bets that human stories can outrun the political weather
Culture18 Jul
Colman Domingo and Robert O'Hara set sights on Disney's Princess Tiana
Culture18 Jul
Detroit's air tops the world's polluted-cities list, and a Netflix slide puts a culture-sector week on edge
Culture18 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey gambles on a hero who already knew the way home
Culture18 Jul
Lorde vs the Algorithm: When Spotify’s AI Starts Writing the Liner Notes
Culture18 Jul
Leon Bridges Hands the Reins to Two Strangers, and Gets a Quieter Kind of Joy
Culture17 Jul
Two hundred and fifty years on, the Proms lets America set its own terms
Culture17 Jul
The two Chinas that crossed the wire on 17 July
Culture17 Jul
Janus Films revives a forgotten French sci-fi parable: why 'Gandahar' matters again
Culture17 Jul
Khibla Gerzmava's two-night stand in Moscow, and the question Luca Debargue keeps asking
Culture17 Jul
Svetlanov Orchestra Closes a Season in Moscow, and a Question Hangs Over Russian Classical Music's International Future
Culture17 Jul
The Emmys Just Trimmed Their Own Mirror: Five Categories Cut From the NBC Telecast
Culture17 Jul
Suncatcher picks up Tessa Blake's 'If I Tell You,' giving Carol Kane her latest quiet stage
Culture17 Jul
Anatomically correct Barbies, Swedish puppetry, and the erotics of audience complicity
Culture17 Jul
Armenia gets the Cannes treatment: Critics' Week turns its Next Step lens on a country at a crossroads
Culture17 Jul
Netflix returns to Macondo: a second pass at a hundred years
Culture17 Jul
Whitewashed Middle-earth? The Hunt for Gollum casting row and the limits of Tolkien's text
Culture17 Jul
The Fertility Convergence: How Family Size Stopped Tracking Culture
Culture17 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' opens with a $17.6M preview, but the road to Homer took a year
Culture17 Jul
Irish and U.K. acting schools are planting flags in U.S. cities. The flow of talent is going the other way.
Culture17 Jul
Animation carries Hollywood's box office. The industry still treats it like a side project
Culture17 Jul
Sitges looks south: a Spanish genre festival plants a flag in Latin America
Culture17 Jul
Virginia rebuffs a school‑board drug‑testing push, and Netflix quietly inks AI into 300 productions: two votes on where the boundaries are being drawn
Culture17 Jul
Two India Cyber-Fraud Cases, One Worrying Pattern: Ex-Servicemen in the Crosshairs
Culture17 Jul
The mayor who stayed: Mykolaiv's wartime exit after five and a half years
Culture17 Jul
Iko Uwais heads to ‘Jakarta’: Alcon bets on a multi-generational Indonesian crime saga
Culture17 Jul
A rupee in plastic: what India's polymer note trial really tests
Culture17 Jul
DHS tightens the clock on foreign students and journalists, and opens welfare data to visa reviewers
Culture17 Jul
Hormuz in the crosshairs: Birol's warning and the choreography of global energy risk
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's AI documentary bet lands on a choppy tape
Culture17 Jul
Bethesda bets the next decade on Elder Scrolls, with Fallout 5 waiting in the wings
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's live play is no longer a sideshow. It's the story.
Culture17 Jul
Moscow detains ex-Ministry of Industry official in import-substitution fraud case
Culture17 Jul
Homer's women: what the male critical class missed in Nolan's Odyssey
Culture17 Jul
A missionary, a Pacific island, and the camera: how 'Mussau' is rewriting who gets to tell Pacific stories
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's AI bet lands. The question is who's training the model.
Culture17 Jul
Tinashe Bets on a Popstar Moment, and on Crunk
Culture17 Jul
The 20-minute soldier: what Ratcliffe's casualty claim says about Russia's war economy
Culture17 Jul
Standing on the Corner return with a second, slightly altered version of themselves
Culture17 Jul
Tinashe Announces New Album 'Popstar,' Leans Into Crunk on Lead Single 'Crash Out'
Culture17 Jul
Echo and the Bunnymen announce first album in 12 years, a memorial to Clem Burke
Culture17 Jul
Coachella's Parent Firm Plants a New Flag on Santa Monica Sand
Culture17 Jul
Carly Rae Jepsen's Long Goodbye Arrives Early
Culture17 Jul
Modi flags off India's first hydrogen train as a culture of cleanliness gets the speechwriter treatment
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's 300-title AI bet arrives before the contract fight
Culture17 Jul
Iran and Iraq Move to Smooth the Arbaeen Crossing at Mehran
Culture16 Jul
Lorde pushes back on Spotify’s AI song summaries. The fight over interpretation has begun.
Culture16 Jul
Iran strikes a US base in Kuwait: what two state channels put on the record, and what they didn't
Culture16 Jul
Tehran pushes back on rumour of US strike on Kish Island as regional temperature climbs
Culture16 Jul
Netflix hits its Q2 numbers and still can't catch a bid
Culture16 Jul
Netflix pulls back the curtain, once a year
Culture16 Jul
Netflix crosses 300 generative-AI productions, and quietly redraws the line on craft
Culture16 Jul
Cable, Helmet, Camera: How a Pakistani Rescue Crew Became the Documentary Year's Strangest Hero
Culture16 Jul
Luca Debargue and the long, slow case for being heard
Culture16 Jul
Nolan wanted the biggest canvas. IMAX had already moved on.
Culture16 Jul
Hollywood's Mid-Summer Rebound Runs on Fewer Screens and Quieter Audiences
Culture16 Jul
'Our Effed Up World' teaser lands: indie sci-fi comedy asks what an alien invasion would actually cost
Culture16 Jul
Shia LaBeouf, still in pieces: what 'The Rooster Prince' tells us about the cost of staying visible
Culture16 Jul
Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic book the World Cup final: a cultural export with a flag still to be chosen
Culture16 Jul
Doctors' Lounge podcast bets on a healthcare-policy bench for its summer run
Culture16 Jul
A boy, a stove, a Vespa: 'Olmo' and the gentle radicalism of coming-of-age cinema
Culture16 Jul
Ava DuVernay's return to documentary, with birthright citizenship in the frame
Culture16 Jul
'La Bola Negra': Spain's Movistar rolls out a triptych that treats memory as a three-room house
Culture16 Jul
EA and X Games turn a fictional skate city into a four-day sponsorship bazaar
Culture16 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey sails into critical harbour: five stars from the broadsheets, one question over the runtime
Culture16 Jul
The Invisible Gatekeeper: How Casting Director Nancy Nayor Shapes Modern Horror
Culture16 Jul
Terrence Howard, Kate Bosworth join legal thriller built on a lawyer's memoir
Culture16 Jul
Box Office 2026: The Hits That Put People Back in Seats
Culture16 Jul
Sameera Reddy’s skin-lightening remark lands in a Bollywood reckoning that was already underway
Culture16 Jul
Rose Byrne and Jenna Ortega to star in Mary Bronstein's 'Nasty' for Warner Bros.' Clockwork banner
Culture16 Jul
'American Pachuco' and the Long Apprenticeship of Luis Valdez
Culture16 Jul
Petraeus sounds the alarm on a drone gap Ukraine never asked the West to win
Culture16 Jul
Ukraine's Drone Math Forces a Reckoning in Washington
Culture16 Jul
Pergolesi's Lost Opera Surfaces in a Jesi Theatre, and Refuses to Sound Like a Museum Piece
Culture16 Jul
Russell Tovey gives grief a feathered shape in Max Porter's audiobook oddity
Culture16 Jul
Hungary lifts brake on film-production rebates as Magyar government doubles down on Hollywood-friendly industrial policy
Culture16 Jul
Netflix's 'I Suck at Girls' lands Konkle and Burns as series regulars, signalling a quieter sort of star vehicle
Culture16 Jul
Netflix takes another swing at gaming with a Stranger Things-tinged minigolf title
Culture16 Jul