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Culture16 Jul
Denshattack! and the strange commute of a dystopian Japan
Culture16 Jul
Will Ferrell lands on Netflix with a golf comedy that doesn’t know what it wants to be
Culture16 Jul
Zellners assemble an alien band, Morrison goes solo, Mahershala Ali takes a seat: TIFF Special Presentations set the festival's tonal tilt
Culture16 Jul
Impractical Jokers alumni bring creature-feature energy to a forest in 'Don't Move'
Culture16 Jul
Gray's 'Paper Tiger' to Open New York Film Festival as North American Premiere Lands at Lincoln Center
Culture16 Jul
Standing on the Corner double down on the difficult listen with SOTC (II)
Culture16 Jul
Washington moves to put foreign students and journalists on a leash
Culture16 Jul
Settlement ministry eyes Negev farms around IDF air bases, mirroring West Bank model
Culture16 Jul
Kyiv Reshuffles the Cabinet, Leaves Defence and Foreign Affairs Empty for Now
Culture16 Jul
Nia Archives rewrites the jungle from a Bradford bedroom
Culture16 Jul
A Colombian Star Lands in Santiago: How 'La Puta Vida' Fits Latin America's Streaming War
Culture16 Jul
Colombia's Below-the-Line Talent Is the Real Reason Production Is Decamping South
Culture16 Jul
Costa Rica's Festival of the Sea Bets on Afro-Caribbean Cinema and Female Filmmakers
Culture16 Jul
The wreckage of Vyshneve and the bodies at the border: two stories from a war that no longer makes front pages
Culture16 Jul
Raindance and Israeli AI platform IMGN put £10,000 on the indie filmmaker
Culture16 Jul
SBU detains defence-enterprise chiefs after Vyshneve depot blast
Culture16 Jul
Twenty years on, one policewoman's quiet vow: holding the line for a colleague's parents
Culture16 Jul
The Hudson River School’s Skeptical Heir: Reading Church Through a Climate-Era Lens
Culture16 Jul
Nightlife as a counter-archive: what Imogen Willetts gets right about the politics of going out
Culture16 Jul
Songs of the summer, by committee: how The Guardian’s annual picks flatten the season’s actual centre of gravity
Culture16 Jul
Raindance Veterans Launch Casa Leo PR, Betting Latin America's Film Boom Needs a Native Press Voice
Culture16 Jul
Krasnoyarsk stages a transnational violin festival while the city's cultural footprint grows
Culture16 Jul
Holden Caulfield at 75: why a 1951 novel about one bad weekend keeps getting read
Culture16 Jul
"It's called terrorism": RT tapes put a Ukrainian colonel at the centre of a Europe-wide sabotage campaign
Culture16 Jul
Arundhati Roy on AI, the Beatles and the limits of the indie auteur
Culture16 Jul
A film about staying arrives in Locarno: Autlook boards 'The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer'
Culture16 Jul
The set that ate a people: Nolan's Western Sahara gamble
Culture16 Jul
A chief engineer dies at Zaporizhzhia, and a wartime nuclear file thickens
Culture16 Jul
Watermelon Pictures Drops 'American Doctor' Trailer, Framing US Gun Violence as a Public Health Failure
Culture16 Jul
California's Film Fix Won't Be Found at the Permit Counter
Culture16 Jul
Nolan's The Odyssey arrives as a serious bet on the theatrical epic
Culture16 Jul
Watching without playing: how China built a World Cup audience Beijing couldn't deliver on the pitch
Culture16 Jul
The Odyssey lands in theatres, and on the same week, an AI studio announces it will remake the whole poem
Culture16 Jul
Taiwan bets on a local LLM to keep its language out of Beijing's mouth
Culture16 Jul
Strikes on Semnan airport test the seam between wartime Israel and a cornered Iranian republic
Culture16 Jul
HDFC Bank's first headcount drop in nine years tests India's private-sector growth story
Culture16 Jul
Lana Del Rey says a Stove companion album is a month out, and the rollout is the point
Culture16 Jul
Andy Serkis on the new ‘Lord of the Rings’: ‘I don’t think we’ll be doing a politically correct casting-for-the-sake-of-casting version’
Culture16 Jul
Potsy Ponciroli's 'Motor City' and the return of the dialogue-free crime film
Culture16 Jul
Dead Meat's 'Fresh Meat' is the latest proof that horror's grassroots is cannibalising the mainstream
Culture16 Jul
Tarantino's tenth and last: what the director's retirement pledge reveals about Hollywood's auteur problem
Culture16 Jul
The Odyssey bets on AI: a 56% market and a cinema experiment the studios didn't sanction
Culture16 Jul
Honda's electric gamble lands in Vietnam, and Asia's small-bike map redraws itself
Culture16 Jul
Dry Cleaning quietly expands Secret Love with two new tracks, six months on
Culture16 Jul
Ekko Astral Pull the Release, But the Politics Stay Loud
Culture16 Jul
Actress returns with 'Radical Frame,' his first solo LP since the pandemic-era hiatus
Culture16 Jul
Taiwan's local-AI push becomes a digital sovereignty question
Culture16 Jul
Nolan’s 'The Odyssey' tops his own critical record on Rotten Tomatoes
Culture15 Jul
Netflix bets on Las Vegas with 'The Roman,' a casino drama built for the streaming wars
Culture15 Jul
Hollywood Goes to the Élysée: Macron Confers the Legion of Honor on Lucas, Foster, Weaver, and Meledandri
Culture15 Jul
Paramount bets that a one-week theatrical window can rescue a streaming-first franchise launch
Culture15 Jul
Zelenskyy taps Naftogaz chief Koretsky to be Ukraine's next prime minister
Culture15 Jul
Tehran summons Britain's envoy over IRGC proscription
Culture15 Jul
Tehran summons UK envoy as IRGC terror designation lands
Culture15 Jul
Tehran reads the call: Trump's deal talk meets an Iranian audience that has heard this before
Culture15 Jul
Fedorov steps down as Ukraine's defence minister, citing team trust
Culture15 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' opens to a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score, his career best
Culture15 Jul
Moscow's human-rights envoy calls Iran a model of resistance to the West
Culture15 Jul
A Filipino caddie, a country club, and the class wall the trailer dares to name
Culture15 Jul
A strike, a name, a question: who killed the chief engineer of Zaporizhzhia NPP?
Culture15 Jul
The ‘no-makeup makeup’ premiere and the new economics of celebrity beauty
Culture15 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' lands as a career-defining epic, and a meditation on power
Culture15 Jul
Costa Rica's film crews stop chasing tax breaks and start chasing producers
Culture15 Jul
Cannes competition, Comic-Con floor: Na Hong-jin's 'Hope' lands in San Diego
Culture15 Jul
Rutgers's Zimmerli Museum Lands a 70-Work Gift, and a Quiet Argument About Who Pays for American Art
Culture15 Jul
Kevin Hart’s ‘Cold as Balls’ swims into Netflix, and the talk-show format keeps getting colder
Culture15 Jul
Meshell Ndegeocello's 'Synonym' brings a 30-year collaborator's network into one Blue Note frame
Culture15 Jul
Hamaguchi Returns: Neon's ‘All of a Sudden’ Sets a Thanksgiving Weekend Date With American Audiences
Culture15 Jul
How one animator tried to kill his own show over AI and ended up fielding death threats instead
Culture15 Jul
Two wires, two futures: an actress rewatches herself, a streamer teaches its app to listen
Culture15 Jul
Gotham waits again: 'The Batman: Part II' pushed to February 2028
Culture15 Jul
Beck Returns After Seven Years With 'Ride Lonesome' and a Familiar Crew
Culture15 Jul
Zombies, gore and creepy kids: why we cannot stop playing horror games
Culture15 Jul
'Drive it like you stole it' one more time: Lionsgate lines up a 4K revival for Sing Street
Culture15 Jul
Songs of exile, songs of home: Sulayman and Shibe build a programme of returns at Wigmore Hall
Culture15 Jul
Scary Movies returns to Lincoln Center, with Porter and McKee's most disturbing inheritances restored
Culture15 Jul
Spotify's AI assistant lands in the middle of India's streaming wars
Culture15 Jul
Damascus opens the IAEA door, and the diplomatic room behind it
Culture15 Jul
Ten AI-Native Shorts Land at Raindance. The Real Question Is Whether Festivals Are Ready to Judge Them
Culture15 Jul
Aeschylus in three parts: Stone's Bridge Oresteia pushes the epic form past its own seams
Culture15 Jul
George Lucas tells AI sceptics to get out of the way
Culture15 Jul
Koreeda's live-action 'Look Back' gets a second teaser. The harder question is who gets to read it.
Culture15 Jul
A 4K Mahabharata Returns to the Screen, and to a Longer Argument About Whose Stories Survive
Culture15 Jul
Bet the Farm, Then Shoot the Western: Nathan Grubbs and the Economics of 'Cowboy'
Culture15 Jul
Twenty-five injured in Pamplona as the bulls come home
Culture15 Jul
FSB 'bio-drone' arrests point to a quieter war of payloads and proxies
Culture15 Jul
Iran's mourning week for Khamenei: a managed public square, a regional signal
Culture15 Jul
Orwell, but with a happy ending: the new Animal Farm that strips the bite
Culture15 Jul
Iran moves to inscribe Khamenei's funeral on national heritage list, urging unity
Culture15 Jul
Meta accused of weaponising workplace AI to flag disability and medical leave for layoffs
Culture15 Jul
At a Madrid peace conference, Israeli and Palestinian activists share a stage the news cameras rarely visit
Culture15 Jul
In Tomsk, Siberia's oldest orchestra presses record on Rachmaninoff
Culture15 Jul
Wallace, Gromit and the quiet defiance of stop-motion
Culture15 Jul
A Singapore wuxia lands in Locarno: what Nelson Yeo's Moon says about where Asian genre cinema is heading
Culture15 Jul
Piss Christ at 40: what the 1989 culture war still gets wrong
Culture15 Jul
The $5.6 million settlement and the cultural-prescription study: two American stories that don't quite line up
Culture15 Jul
Locarno puts its 2026 jury in the hands of a Belgian genre-bender
Culture15 Jul
A transgender American's asylum bid collides with the Netherlands' culture war
Culture15 Jul
Peacemaker in the cross-hairs: how a missile deal reopened the Republican split over Ukraine
Culture15 Jul