Variety

Ed Gamble on His New Panel Show ‘Unacceptable’ and the State of U.K. Comedy: ‘There Are Hard Jobs Out There and Being a Comedian Is Absolutely Not One of Them’

Ed Gamble is the host of brand new comedy show “Unacceptable,” where he oversees a gaggle of comedians as they battle to sway the studio audience to side with their most outrageous opinions. The comedian and podcaster who is perhaps best-known for hosting “The Traitors” official companion podcast “Uncloaked,” is joined by familiar faces such […]

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

Variety

‘Elle’ Director Jason Moore on Reese Witherspoon’s Set Visit, Season 2’s Archival-Only Wardrobe and What ‘Hardcore’ Fans Can Expect From ‘Murder, She Wrote’ Movie

Film, television and Broadway director Jason Moore knows what’s old is new again. The Tony-nominee not only directed the first two episodes of the Prime Video “Legally Blonde” prequel series “Elle,” but he is also helming the upcoming feature film adaptation of “Murder, She Wrote,” which stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Jessica Fletcher, the role […]

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

Variety

Harvey Keitel Shooting Film Written by Wife Daphna Kastner, Calls Out ‘Danger’ of AI When Mentioning Michael Caine AI-Narrated ‘The Odyssey’ Audiobook

Harvey Keitel, who is at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival for the third time to present a screening of Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets,” has revealed he is shooting a new film written by his wife, actor Daphna Kastner. Speaking with Variety at the festival, the actor said he is working on something that “really excites […]

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Donna Kelce Reacts to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Wedding

The Grammy winner and NFL star tied the knot at New York City's Madison Square Garden on Friday.

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Last Goal Wins review – challenging and funny debut asks important questions about the beautiful game

Broadway, CatfordJustice Ezi tackles racism, belonging and the sometimes-shadowy business of sport in this well-paced and plotted drama with a genuinely nail-biting final shootoutEntering the small studio tasked with containing this ambitious livewire of a football drama, the action is already in full swing. Charlton Athletic’s Victory and Youssef, in Nigeria to try out for the last two spots on the country’s World Cup squad, are doing drills, while their coach (a buoyant Jerome Ngonadi) collars

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

Variety

Box Office: ‘Obsession’ Surpasses $400 Million Globally

“Obsession” has notched another major box office milestone, clearing $400 million in global ticket sales. After two months in theaters, the indie horror breakout has grossed a remarkable $403 million, including $245 million domestically and $157 million overseas. The twisted romantic fantasy, directed by YouTuber Curry Barker, was produced for a mere $750,000 and acquired […]

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Harvey Keitel Sees Film as a Force of “Change” and Tool to “Cure Our Biases” — and Quotes Aristotle

The legendary actor, in an interview during his third trip to the Karlovy Vary film festival, also shares why he never directed a movie, tips for actors, discusses life in L.A. and New York and mentions a film he's working on with his wife.

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

Variety

Box Office: ‘Minions & Monsters’ Nears $100 Million Overseas, ‘Toy Story 5’ Climbs to $764 Million Globally

Minions fatigue? Not at the international box office, where “Minions & Monsters” earned $85 million from 71 markets over the weekend and $98 million to date. That’s in stark contrast to the domestic turnout, where the “Despicable Me” spinoff notched a franchise-low $61 million debut over five days, including $39 million over the traditional weekend. […]

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

Variety

Anime Expo in Los Angeles Bookends a Boom Year for the Sector and a Growth Spurt for Crunchyroll

The cosplay was typically intense and wildly creative among the tens of thousands of anime fans who turned out over the holiday weekend for the four-day Anime Expo in downtown Los Angeles. But there was one unmissable trend evident in the sea of characters that stood out like a neon sign to executives at Crunchyroll, […]

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

Variety

Box Office: ‘Minions & Monsters’ Fizzles Over July 4th Weekend With Franchise-Low $61 Million Debut, ‘Supergirl’ Suffers Brutal 74% Drop

Are the Minions losing their star power? Although “Minions & Monsters,” a 1920s Hollywood-set prequel in the animated “Despicable Me” universe, led the box office over the Fourth of July weekend, the well-reviewed family film opened way behind projections with $36 million from 4,243 North American locations between Friday and Monday and $64.5 million since […]

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

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entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Kazuki conducts Harmonium review – John Adams’ wild ride centres an elegant showcase of US composers

Symphony Hall, BirminghamAdams’ maximal minimalism was framed by Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Joan Tower’s parallel feminist statement, with Florence Price’s The Heart of A Woman adding a Broadway flourishOrchestras have thrown themselves on this year’s anniversary of American Independence (or “Freedom 250” as the marketers are catchily dubbing it) with an eagerness born of a repertoire of big names and broad appeal. A year of Gershwin, Barber and Bernstein, Adams and Glass? Full hal

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

“The White Devil” Takes Karlovy Vary: Robert Richardson Receives Honor From a Paper-Ripping Harvey Keitel

The actor lauded the fellow legend, known for his work with the likes of Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone, as "one of the world's greatest cinematographers."

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Story of Documentary Film (The 1980s) review – Mark Cousins educates and intrigues once more

Karlovy Vary film festivalThe film-maker and critic traces a decade of documentaries, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Michael Moore, via Klaus Barbie and The WomblesThe unmistakable film-making voice of documentary-maker and critic Mark Cousins is raised again, to educate, to intrigue, to challenge. His histories of the movies are invitations to a seance, a chance to participate in the kind of ecstatic trance or dream-state that Cousins himself goes into, almost free-associating from film to

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The Night of the Werewolves Live review – Traitors-esque immersive theatre is a lot of bawdy fun

Fruit Market, HullAssigned roles as the unlucky inhabitants of a remote village audience members must avoid ending up on the pyre in this high-camp game of smut and survival‘But is it theatre?” you might keep asking as you experience the latest offering from Silent Uproar. It’s theatrical; there’s a set and lighting design. There’s an atmospheric sound design by Eddi Pickard and a singular central performance. There’s a script and a director.The question arises from the form: The Night of the We

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

Variety

‘Chica Checa’ Review: Šimon Holý’s Karlovy Vary Competition Entry Is Worthy but Clumsy

Momentous events such as the sale of the family home, a young man coming out to his family, or the staging of a drag performance in a small town would seem like perfect ingredients for an intensely dramatic, conflict-ridden film. But in his fourth feature “Chica Checa” — premiering in the Crystal Globe competition at […]

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Feeling stuck? Try ‘productivity snacking’

Whether you’re learning guitar or trying to get fit, short bursts of effort can work wondersYou could call it the tamest of mid-life crises, but as I turned 40 last year, I decided to devote myself to a long-neglected ambition – learning the guitar. I dutifully set myself the task of practising for 30 minutes a day, with the aim of strumming my way through the Bob Dylan songbook by my 41st birthday.What stood in the way, of course, was life. With work and family commitments, I was lucky to find

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Susanna Clarke: ‘I had been ill for 11 years. I felt like I was about to fall off the world’

One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sicknessIn October 2016 I was in hospital. I had been ill for 11 years with something I called chronic fatigue syndrome, but in the previous six weeks I had been overtaken by a strange, sudden crisis. I was unable to eat – a day when I managed a couple of biscuits was a good day; at times I trembled so violently tha

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

Variety

Jesse Eisenberg on Why It Would Be ‘Silly’ to Leave U.S. Because of Trump, Says ‘The Debut’ Is ‘The Opposite of AI’ Following A24 DeepMind Partnership

Despite recently obtaining his Polish citizenship, “A Real Pain” director Jesse Eisenberg is not thinking about leaving the U.S. anytime soon. Speaking at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where he is the recipient of this year’s President’s Award, the actor-turned-director said he feels a “responsibility” to stay in New York City as his home country […]

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Life Out There review – astronauts search for meaning in atmospheric space oddity

Lowry, SalfordThese lonely travellers overlap with Bowie’s Maj Tom, Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary or Spielberg’s Disclosure Day as they contemplate our place in the vastness of the voidFrom David Bowie’s Maj Tom and Elton John’s Rocketman via Capt Oates in Tom Stoppard’s Jumpers to this summer’s Ryan Gosling movie Project Hail Mary, the astronaut who may be unable to come home has been a recurrent cultural character since Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth in 1961.Another lonely floater is the pivot

entertainment  Jul 5, 2026