The Guardian Culture

‘Beyoncé’s Crazy in Love makes you move your body’: Gloria Gaynor’s honest playlist

The disco-pop great salutes the sexiness of Marvin Gaye and the spirituality of Amazing Grace. But which of her own hits does she sing at karaoke?The first song I fell in love with I grew up in Newark, New Jersey, with five brothers and one sister, so there was always music in the house. I remember my mom singing Willow Weep for Me when I was five or six. There was something about the sadness in it that really moved me.The first single I bought I heard Why Do Fools Fall in Love by Frankie Lymo

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

Variety

Zhang Songwen’s ‘Secret in the Box’ Brings Infamous Hong Kong Murder Case to Shanghai Competition

“Secret in the Box,” a period thriller revisiting Hong Kong’s 1974 Happy Valley Box Murder, held its press conference at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival, with director Frankie Tam Kwong-yuen and lead actor Zhang Songwen discussing the real cold case at the heart of the Golden Goblet Awards main competition entry. Directed by Hong […]

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

Variety

Cinepolis Picks Up Australian Documentary ‘Shared Table: Regional Heroes’ for India Theatrical Release (EXCLUSIVE)

Australian documentary “Shared Table: Regional Heroes” has been acquired by Cinepolis India for a limited theatrical release later this year, following the film’s world premiere in the international competition section of the 19th Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF). Directed by Melbourne-based Indian-Australian filmmaker Nandita Chakraborty, the documentary follows a group of filmmakers on an improvised […]

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

Variety

Lisa Lu, Centenarian Actor and Shanghai Lifetime Achievement Honoree, Reunites With Fans at Screening of Restored ‘The Arch’

Lisa Lu, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 28th Shanghai International Film Festival, joined a packed audience for a post-screening event celebrating “The Arch,” the 1968 landmark of Chinese-language arthouse cinema in which she starred. Turning 100 this year by traditional Chinese age reckoning, she made a surprise appearance following the screening that […]

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

The Guardian Culture

One Van Gogh is never enough! So how many Sunflowers did he paint? Find out in our great British museum quiz

What’s Britain’s best museum? We asked the five shortlisted for the Art Fund’s £120,000 prize to pose questions about their collections. Here, National Gallery curators get the ball rolling … so do you know the story of their cut-up Manet? Continue reading...

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

The Guardian Culture

TV tonight: Free Nelson Mandela is unmissable TV

The excellent anti-apartheid documentary continues with protest songs for the ages and governments trying to stop civil war. Plus, a touching finale for Timothy Spall cosy crime Death Valley. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 4The second episode of this excellent series exploring the struggle against apartheid tracks the turbulent 1980s. As Nelson Mandela’s health deteriorates, the South African government begins to see that allowing him to die in custody could lead to civil war. Mea

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

Variety

How Duncan Jones Made ‘Rogue Trooper’ Look Like a Studio Epic on an Indie Budget

“There’s AI — the film has no AI,” says director-writer Duncan Jones emphatically about his latest feature, “Rogue Trooper.” The subject comes up as producer Stuart Fennegan talks about how they got the stellar voice cast for the film: Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, Hayley Atwell, Daryl McCormack, Reece Shearsmith, Sean Bean, Diane Morgan, Matt Berry […]

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Dua Lipa Shares First Photos of Her Custom Chanel Wedding Dress

The Grammy Award winner and Callum Turner had a three-day wedding celebration in Palermo, Sicily, separate from their May 31 nuptials.

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

World Lens: How the Shanghai Film Festival Puts Its Faith in a New Generation

Major awards go to first-time filmmakers, reflecting a commitment to finding Asia's rising stars, while industry initiatives continue to help young directors get films made.

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Atlantic Rhapsody’ Takes Top Prize at Shanghai Film Festival

The first feature from China's Zhong Kaifeng won over a jury led by Hong Kong icon Tony Leung Chiu-wai, which had set out in search of "surprises."

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘Atlantic Rhapsody’ Takes Top Prize at Shanghai Film Festival

The first feature from China's Zhong Kaifeng won over a jury led by Hong Kong icon Tony Leung Chiu-wai, which had set out in search of "surprises."

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

How the Shanghai Film Festival Is Embracing Cinema’s Future: From AI to iPhone Moviemaking

As the line between film festival and tech expo continues to blur in China, SIFF ran filmmaking labs for work created by artificial intelligence, iPhone or virtual reality.

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Tony Leung Reflects on the Rise of AI and His Hopes for the Future of Film

In Shanghai to head the Golden Goblet jury, the Hong Kong icon explains AI's threat to creativity, how to keep young audiences in movie theaters, and his late-career swerve into European arthouse cinema.

entertainment  Jun 21, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Netflix Wins ‘Sesame Street’ Movie Rights

Rideback, the production company behind the billion-dollar live-action Lilo & Stitch and Aladdin movies, brought it to the studio and will produce.

entertainment  Jun 20, 2026

Variety

‘Minions & Monsters’ Director Pierre Coffin on His Tribute to Hollywood, the Exhausting Work of Voicing the Yellow Creatures and Crafting Comedy That’s ‘More Irreverent Than Some of the Competition’

Pierre Coffin thought he was done with the Minions. After nearly two decades inside the “Despicable Me” universe — the highest-grossing animated franchise of all time, with more than $5.5 billion worldwide across six films — the French animator had earned the right to feel worn out. Coffin co-directed four of those movies and voices […]

entertainment  Jun 20, 2026

Variety

How to Watch Oscar Collazo vs. Joey Canoy Boxing Title Bout Live Online

In a title bout for the championship, Puerto Rican Oscar Collazo takes on Filipino boxer Joey Canoy in a 12-round match. What’s on the line? Collazo’s WBA and WBO strawweight title belts. At the end of the contest, one of these fighters will have the title — or it will end with a draw. On […]

entertainment  Jun 20, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

James Burrows Appreciation: Warren Littlefield Says “There Would Have Been No ‘Must See TV’ on NBC Without Jimmy” (Exclusive)

The NBC exec who first met Burrows in 1979 and presided over NBC Entertainment from 1991 through 1998 describes the legendary TV director, who died Friday, as "America’s greatest and most prolific exporter of the world of laughter and joy."

entertainment  Jun 20, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Jon Snow: A Last Big Story review – the finest swan song you could hope for

This documentary about the journalist’s Alzheimer’s soon takes a turn, as he hears of an unreported mining disaster and goes on the hunt for truth. It’s a dignified tale of a courageous, compassionate manJon Snow: A Last Big Story is a valediction that forbids mourning. The hour-long documentary follows the 78-year-old investigative journalist and former Channel 4 news anchor in the wake of his diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease. During the course of one of his visits with his wife, Dr Precious

entertainment  Jun 20, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

George Lucas Cast in ‘Minions & Monsters’ After Revealing Love for Minions

The 'Star Wars' creator will lend his voice for a role in the upcoming animated feature from Illumination and Universal Pictures.

entertainment  Jun 20, 2026

Variety

Jennifer Aniston Posts Heartfelt Tribute to ‘Friends’ Director James Burrows: ‘He Was a Father Figure to Me’

Jennifer Aniston posted a heartfelt tribute to her longtime “Friends” director James Burrows, who died on Friday at 85 years old. “Papa Burrows. The hardest thing about writing this is that you spent a lifetime making people feel loved, and now it feels impossible to put all of that love into a few paragraphs,” Aniston […]

entertainment  Jun 20, 2026