The Guardian Culture

Landship review – soldiers yearn for tinned pies in muddy first world war drama that stays inside the tank

It’s too murky to distinguish one stiff upper lip from another in Callum Burn’s drama about a real-life mission that came unstuckBased loosely on a true story, this British first world war drama deploys a few cunning stratagems to keep the budget down – starting with setting almost the entire story inside a tank; this one is nicknamed the Fray Bentos after the popular tinned pie. In addition, whenever the British soldier characters venture outside this extremely confined space, it’s almost alway

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Whoosh! Jacques Henri Lartigue’s world of colour – in pictures

The French artist is best known for his black-and-white images of high society, but a new exhibition shows us that he was also a bold and brilliant colour pioneer Continue reading...

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Self-doubt, burnout … and Taylor Swift: why Toy Story 5 is the ultimate millennial girl movie

Nostalgia hits hard for anyone who has grown up with the franchise. But little could prepare me for the emotional punch of this latest film – and the very specific vulnerabilities it tapsEmily named her daughter Jessie. Any millennial woman watching Toy Story 5 over the weekend just about held it together before finally letting the sobs roll at this discovery. The film takes our yarn-haired cowgirl back to her first kid’s home, where she ends up at the tree they used to play in. An unearthed mem

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Variety

Walmart’s New TV Shows, ‘Join the Club,’ ‘Backyard Escapes’ Spur Vizio Users to Go Shop

Walmart hopes to get customers shopping before they arrive at the company’s stores or visit its website. The retailing giant is launching its own series of programs that feature goods viewers can buy in store or online and are distributed to users of Vizio, the TV manufacturer that Walmart acquired in 2024. In “Backyard Escapes,” […]

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Can Brands’ Cultural Impact Be Measured? UTA Says Yes and Launches The Culture Index

“Culture has always been a business driver," the talent and brand advisory firm says at Cannes Lions. "For decades – even centuries – it has influenced how time and money are spent."

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Variety

Amazon Teams With Papa Johns, Beck, Jill Scott, Omar Courtz For New Alexa Ads Using Agentic AI

Alexa, buy me the pizza I just saw in that commercial. Amazon will harness agentic AI, which can determine the steps needed to solve a problem or come up with a solution, to create a new ad format for its Alexa digital assistant that lets customers to from seeing an ad to making a purchase […]

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Carly Rae Jepsen to Release New Double Album ‘Day and Night’ With New Single Out This Week

The first track from the 24-track double album “On Wires” is set to be released on June 26.

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Variety

Jon Stewart Dives Into Reflecting Pool Algae Infestation: ‘Did They Replace the Water With Mountain Dew?’

On Monday night’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart covered the fiasco that is President Donald Trump’s renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which is now infested with algae. Stewart opened the show with CNN soundbites, which explained that the pool’s high phosphate levels invited a “significant algae bloom” that turned the monument […]

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Piglet, it’s a purple, psychedelic shapeshifter! The wild new creature prowling Winnie-the-Pooh’s wood

Is it an alien? A dinosaur? Is it going to kill us all? Our writer hits Ashdown Forest for the Big One Hundred celebrations – and finds its magic enchanting new generationsThe rolling idyll of heath and forest, spinney and stream that gave us the Heffalump, the Woozle and, most famously of all, Winnie-the-Pooh, has a new fantastical resident. Creeping through the bracken, making strange cooing and purring noises, is a shapeshifting creature with a huge tubular nose and eyes inspired by adders. I

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Hannah Byczkowski: ‘The Traitors helped me become a better comedian’

The Traitors-winning standup talks about quitting palliative care work for the stage and the dangers of mistaking a cockatoo for a cocktailHow did you go from a career in palliative care to standup comedy?I had a bit of a midlife crisis. I was being with people while they were dying, and I kind of lost all sensitivity for it. That’s when I realised that I’d come to the end of that career. I always wanted to do something creative, but wasn’t really sure how. I tried writing a book, then standup –

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Stephen Chow’s ‘Shaolin Soccer’ Spin-Off ‘Kung Fu Soccer’ Lands Worldwide Rights and Distribution Deal

Singapore distributor Encore Films has acquired worldwide rights outside China to the 'Shaolin Soccer' follow-up, which is Chow's first film as director since 2019 and stars Zhang Xiaofei, Dilraba Dilmurat and Lay Zhang.

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Stephen Chow’s ‘Shaolin Soccer’ Spinoff ‘Kung Fu Soccer’ Lands Worldwide Rights and Distribution Deal

Singapore distributor Encore Films has acquired worldwide rights outside China to the 'Shaolin Soccer' follow-up, which is Chow's first film as director since 2019 and stars Zhang Xiaofei, Dilraba Dilmurat and Lay Zhang.

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Banned on Broadway, a new generation of music software is shrinking musical theatre orchestras

Musicians are losing jobs, or stretched further in the gigs they can get, as KeyComp and other technologies replace human players in the pitFew fans of Disney’s The Lion King would think to peer over the railing of Sydney’s Capitol Theatre orchestra pit. But if they did, they would find the musicians have plenty of elbow room.During The Lion King’s Australian debut season in 2003, there would have been 17 players. Now there are just 11. Continue reading...

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Second Note Sent to Media Claimed Nancy Guthrie Died Following Her Abduction

In the days following the disappearance of 'Today' host Savannah Guthrie's mother, local news stations received two very different letters regarding her fate.

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Best Buy’s Tech Fest Takes on Prime Day With Savings on Sony’s Brand-New Bravia TVs

Released just a few weeks back, Sony's True RGB TV get an unexpected price drop thanks to Best Buy's sitewide savings event.

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

China Lion Takes Feng Xiaogang’s ‘I Know Who You Are’ for North America

The cat-and-mouse drama, starring Lei Jiayin and Hu Ge, reaches theaters in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand in early July, days after its China debut.

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Diane Warren Pays Tribute to Clive Davis: “We Lost the Greatest Music Man of All Time Today”

"Just seeing him be so moved by hearing a song and having tears in his eyes, there's nobody like that anymore," Warren told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview paying tribute to the legendary executive who died Monday at 94.

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Shanghai: Three Things We Learned From the 2026 Festival

A first-time director takes the Golden Goblet, AI dominates every conversation and a 1961 classic leaves a packed house breathless.

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

How Shanghai Is Reinventing the Movie Theater to Strengthen Its Position as “China’s City of Film”

Cinemas themed around anime and live sports are luring younger crowds — and their spending — as Shanghai works to contend with China's box-office downturn.

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Why a Brazilian Soap Star Is Beloved by Hundreds of Millions in China

Forty years after 'Escrava Isaura' swept the country, Lucélia Santos — the first foreign actress to win China's Golden Eagle Award — has returned to Shanghai.

entertainment  Jun 23, 2026