The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: the season finale of a gloomily gripping Welsh drama

Has reporter Sian Reese-Williams uncovered the truth about Llŷr’s death? Plus Jack Thorne-penned Enola Holmes returns. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 4As the second season of this gloomily gripping Welsh drama concludes, the tone is more elegy than explosion as the events around the controversial reservoir expansion continue to unfold. Budding journalist Caryl Huws (Siân Reese-Williams) is probing Llŷr’s demise but this puts her on a collision course with Robert (Robert Glenister)

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

The Guardian Culture

The best theatre to stream this month: all rise for Rosamund Pike’s Inter Alia

The star delivers a breathtaking performance in Suzie Miller’s play about a judge under pressure, while Paddington gets everyone singing and Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy is backRosamund Pike rightly won an Olivier award for her restless turn in Prima Facie playwright Suzie Miller’s blistering legal drama – now a judge in court, now with mates at karaoke, now whipping out the ironing board before a party, now facing a family crisis. It’s a breathtaking performance in both senses and Justin Martin

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘I thought of her as a volcano’: the triumphant art and very troubling death of Ana Mendieta

Her shocking performances and stunning images made Mendieta the talk of the art world in the 1970s and 80s. Then she fell from a New York apartment block in 1985 – and her husband was charged with murder. As a major exhibition comes to London, her friends discuss her genius and their search for answersIn the summer of 1985, Ana Mendieta was playing with gunpowder and a chainsaw. Just 5ft tall, the Cuban American artist worked outside her studio in Rome, trying to figure out the scale of a new co

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Get away from there – run!’ The stunning film about love blossoming amid the carnage of Aleppo

Birds of War is an award-winning docudrama in which its own directors fall in love while reporting the horrors in Syria. They explain why they needed a psychotherapist to complete itThe air is thick with smoke and dust, the ground littered with the twisted remains of burning vehicles. Children scream and sirens blare as activist and videographer Abd Alkader Habak rushes to help the injured after the bombing of an evacuee convoy in Aleppo at the height of Syria’s civil war in 2017. A voice note b

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

Variety

Kathy Griffin Claims She Was ‘Banned’ From ‘The Tonight Show’ for Being ‘Too Controversial’ and Slams Jimmy Fallon for Hosting Conor McGregor

Kathy Griffin took to Instagram on Tuesday to claim that she’s been banned from Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show.” She also slammed Fallon for hosting UFC legend Conor McGregor, who was found liable in a sexual assault case in 2024 and ordered to pay $257,000 to a woman who accused him of rape. “I have not […]

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

Variety

Aamir Khan to Celebrate 25 Years of ‘Lagaan’ at Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Curtain Raiser (EXCLUSIVE)

Actor and producer Aamir Khan will attend a special Melbourne screening of “Lagaan” on July 9 to mark the film’s 25th anniversary, kicking off the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne’s (IFFM) 17th edition a month ahead of the festival’s main dates. The 17th edition of IFFM will run from Aug. 13-23. The curtain raiser will […]

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

Variety

Jury Says Chris Brown Owes Housekeeper $13 Million for Disfigurement in Dog Mauling Attack

Chris Brown was found liable by a Los Angeles jury Tuesday for $13 million in the gruesome case of a dog that mauled and disfigured his housekeeper at his home in 2020. At the end of a two-week trial, the verdict went strongly in favor of Maria Avila, who was viciously attacked by Hades, a […]

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

Variety

Jury Says Chris Brown Owes Housekeeper $13 Million for Disfigurement in Dog Mauling Attack

Chris Brown was found liable by a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday for $13 million in the gruesome case of a dog that mauled and disfigured his housekeeper at his home in 2020. At the end of a two-week trial, the verdict went strongly in favor of Maria Avila, who was viciously attacked by Hades, […]

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

Variety

Paula Reid, CNN’s Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent, Will Exit Ahead of Paramount Takeover

Paula Reid is laying down the law at CNN. The Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet’s chief legal affairs correspondent has decided to leave ahead of an expected takeover of the news giant by Paramount Skydance, according to a person familiar with the matter. Reid had the option to renew her contract, but chose to depart, this […]

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Getty Images Abandons $3.7 Billion Merger With Shutterstock

The photo giant chalks up the scuttling of the deal to a U.K. regulator requiring a divestiture of its rival's editorial business, a non-starter for the company.

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

Variety

‘Young Washington’ Review: George Washington Goes to War in an Angel Studios Film That’s Like the Great-Man Biographies You Read in Grade School

"Young Washington" is like one of those great-man biographies you read in grade school. Released by Angel Studios for the Fourth of July, the movie is intended as a bit of likably square, neo-traditional, right-wing-adjacent counterprogramming. But say this much for it: In its slightly stodgy life-of-an-American-plaster-saint way, Jon Erwin’s coming-of-age military adventure film doesn’t make being George Washington look any easier than it was.

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

Variety

Hit Korean Thriller ‘A Shop for Killers’ Sets July Season 2 Premiere on Disney+, Hulu With ‘Pachinko’ and ‘Drive My Car’ Stars Joining Cast

Hit Korean thriller “A Shop for Killers” will return for its second season July 22 on Disney+ and Hulu. The eight-episode sequel picks up with Jian now running the weapons shop and Jinman back from the dead, as the pair work to fend off a humiliated Babylon, which recruits overseas reinforcements to rebuild its ranks […]

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Disney+’s Hit Korean Series ‘A Shop for Killers’ Sets Season 2 Premiere Date

Lee Dong-wook and Kim Hye-jun return July 22 in the hit Korean action series, joined by Japanese stars Hyunri and Masaki Okada as a new pair of assassins.

entertainment  Jul 1, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Inside Lauryn Hill’s BET Awards Afterparty

The Living Legend Award recipient performed, as did Common, at L.A. restaurant Lucia, at the event where she also celebrated son John Nesta Marley's 23rd birthday.

entertainment  Jun 30, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Zorro’ Review: Jean Dujardin Delivers Throwback Charm in MHz’s Farce-Forward French-Language Swashbuckler

Benjamin Charbit and Noé Debré's take on Johnston McCulley's masked hero co-stars Audrey Dana, Eric Elmosnino and André Dussollier.

entertainment  Jun 30, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Ocean’s Eleven’ Prequel: Monica Barbaro in Talks to Join Margot Robbie, Bradley Cooper

Wagner Moura is set to play the villain in the Warner Bros. feature.

entertainment  Jun 30, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Saxophones, song charts and a rejected Simpsons script: David Bowie archive to tour the UK

V&A takes exhibition of more than 100 pieces by ‘artist in constant motion’ around Britain, from Dundee to BristolKansai Yamamoto’s costumes for Ziggy Stardust, Bowie’s Berlin apartment house keys and his childhood saxophone are just some of the artefacts that visitors around the UK will be able to see when the V&A’s David Bowie archive goes on its first national tour this winter.More than 100 pieces from the 90,000-item Bowie Centre at the V&A East Storehouse in London – some of whi

entertainment  Jun 30, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Enola Holmes 3 review: Netflix mystery franchise is starting to lose steam

Millie Bobby Brown returns, along with the creative team behind Adolescence, for an often thoughtful yet ultimately lesser threequelDespite the ever-increasing size and dominance of Netflix, the streamer has continued to struggle with its most obvious aim. While viewers might flock there for smooth-brained dating shows, tawdry true crime, Harlan Coben thrillers and junky romcoms, the platform is yet to be known for creating original movie franchises, the bread and butter of most old-fashioned Ho

entertainment  Jun 30, 2026

Variety

‘Enola Holmes 3’ Review: Millie Bobby Brown Returns in a Frisky and Grown-Up Installment from ‘Adolescence’ Helmer Philip Barantini

It’s been a decent summer so far for plucky British gumshoes. After the cozily pastoral charms of the delightful whodunit “Sheep Detectives” and its unusual crime-stoppers, we get the winsome “Enola Holmes 3,” the latest installment of the Netflix mystery franchise that follows the sleuthing escapades of Sherlock’s little sister. Enola is no longer a […]

entertainment  Jun 30, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Enola Holmes 3’ Review: Millie Bobby Brown’s Sleuth Tackles Nuptials and a New Case in Fun, Forgettable Netflix Threequel

Henry Cavill and Helena Bonham Carter also appear in the latest installment of the popular film franchise about Sherlock Holmes' crime-solving younger sister.

entertainment  Jun 30, 2026