The Guardian Culture

‘An endless silent scream feeling’: artist Roni Horn on horror, hope and landing in a lake in Iceland

She’s famous for sculptures that seem both solid and liquid. Now she has created a show amidst the ‘downfall of America’ inspired by a phrase from a comedy routine that came to obsess herA few weeks ago, Roni Horn, 70, was removed from her flight, just before takeoff from the US to Germany. A male steward was so irritated when he asked her to adjust her seat – and she politely refused to move it any further, since it was already as upright as she could get it – that he had the flight stopped and

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘The face doesn’t move’: Hollywood’s obsession with cosmetic surgeries has led to stiffer looks – and performances

With procedures like filler and Botox becoming commonplace, audiences are lamenting the smoothed-out, uncanny faces now rampant in major picturesA few years ago, New York dermatologist Dr David A Colbert received an unexpected call from a Hollywood director. The director was shooting a film starring a high-profile actor who had plumped his face with so much filler it wouldn’t move.The director proceeded to berate Colbert, whose practice has treated famous faces such as Sienna Miller, Naomi Watts

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

‘Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Star Iona Bell Signs With Paradigm (EXCLUSIVE)

Iona Bell, the young British actress who’s set to appear in “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” later this year, has signed with Paradigm. Paradigm will collaborate with Bell’s long-term U.K representative Mark Jermin Management. Bell landed the coveted role of Lou Lou in Lionsgate’s upcoming franchise instalment, which serves as both a sequel […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

Madeleine Thien, Sufiyaan Salam and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsLately I have loved Dorothy Tse’s City Like Water, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce. It is an unclassifiable, sharp, ingenious, passionate novel in which the city that is dissolving is also one’s only home. I have been telling everyone to read Karen Hao’s Empire of AI so that we can understand the cost of the tools we’ve been told that we need.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Rosamund Pike Calls Out Audience Member for Texting During Performance of Legal Drama ‘Inter Alia’

Rosamund Pike has called out a member of the audience for texting during the climatic scene of “Inter Alia,” for which the actress won an Olivier award in April. The play follows Jessica Parks, a crown court judge dedicated to challenging the legal system’s approach to sexual violence, who is forced to contend with her […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan Changes Tune on Freedom 250 Concerts, Says He Too Is Quitting the ‘Circus,’ After Trump’s Tirade Against Artists

And then there was… one? Going into this past weekend, there were two out of nine artists booked for the “Freedom 250” concerts in Washington, D.C. that were still proclaiming an eagerness to do the gig: Vanilla Ice and Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan. Now that number has been halved, as Morvan, who said he was […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘All the girls were in there for shit that is pretty normal’: the show reinventing Girl, Interrupted for a new generation

Susanna Kaysen’s cult memoir sparked a wave of 90s novels about young women in crisis. After 10 years in the making, stars Juliana Canfield and King Princess are bringing it to the stageGirl, Interrupted may seem like unlikely material for a musical. Based on a 1993 best-selling memoir by Susanna Kaysen, the slim volume chronicles the author’s approximately two-year stay inside a psychiatric facility in the late 1960s. After a decade of effort, the book’s adaptation is finally premiering off Bro

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Planet Israel review – valuable personal documentary about Israel/Palestine conflict

Gillian Mosely’s film argues that Israelis are asked to accept a ‘forever war’ in part motivated by Netanyahu’s desire to defer investigation into corruption allegationsGillian Mosely has produced a follow-up film to her earlier documentary The Tinderbox, about the Israel/Palestine conflict and about how, as a Jewish person, she came to sympathise with the Palestinians. This film returns to the same subject, reiterating her argument that, since the grotesque antisemitic pogrom of 7 October, Isra

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

‘The Apologist’ Director Was Bullied as a Kid, Never Got a Sorry, So Made a Doc About Apologies. One of His Key Lessons: “It Didn’t Start With You”

Kristof Bilsen's film, premiering at Sheffield DocFest with a meditation, explores trauma, political and other forms of atonement, what makes a good apology and how it can change victims and wrongdoers.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘Pure, unyielding torture pornography’: is Half Man too unpleasant to be good TV?

Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer is a relentlessly punishing look at characters being crushed by the unending horror of their lives. At times, it feels like it was made by emo teensIf you look up Baby Reindeer on Netflix, you’ll find it categorised as a comedy series. This may come as news to anyone who has actually seen it, because they might have been labouring under the delusion that it was a terror-filled rolling panic attack of a show, sitting somewhere between psychological thrill

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

‘A new way to express myself’: Harlem teens share their lives through photography – in pictures

For the past 25 years, Expanding the Walls program has allowed teenagers to express their identities and their lives via photography. In Expanding the Walls: Making Connections Between Photography, History, and Community on view until 8 June at the Studio Museum in Harlem, a survey contrasts the past and the now with a selection of images for an insight into the world and minds of teens in New York City Continue reading...

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

Karlovy Vary Film Festival Artistic Director Karel Och Unveils Lineup for 60th Edition: ‘The Program Boasts Extraordinary Geographical Diversity’

Karel Och, artistic director of Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, has unveiled a lineup of almost 40 titles in the main program, premiering at the 60th edition of the event in the Czech spa town at the beginning of July. Och said, “One of the defining characteristics of the films in this year’s main program […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Karlovy Vary Unveils Lineup, Including Competition Film ‘Hijamat’ From Nader Saeivar, Jafar Panahi

Jurors, such as 'Sentimental Value' co-writer Eskil Vogt, and cineasts can look forward to titles from around the world, including KVIFF's first-ever Burmese, Colombian and Swiss competition titles and "a relentless search for the relationship between the artistic and the political, the intimate and the societal."

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

My Only Boy by Rosa Rankin-Gee review – a darkly funny near-future dystopia

A surprising romance is set against a backdrop of climate crisis, political instability and corporate corruption in this bleak but witty novelRosa Rankin-Gee follows her 2021 near-future climate-crisis dystopia, Dreamland, with a similar but more politically focused work. As I read My Only Boy, I kept having to remind myself that the nation it describes is not (yet) real, because, for a reader living abroad, the novel’s England seems unnervingly close to what might come next. Any political

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Acting review – Cheek by Jowl masterclass in how to strut and fret upon the Shakesperian stage

Sophie Fiennes’s thoughtful documentary follows director Declan Donnellan as he helps actors find their way through Macbeth’s linesDocumentary film-maker Sophie Fiennes returns with another palate-cleansingly meditative, unhurried and intelligent movie about artistic process; in this case, the process of acting – or to be more specific, rehearsing and workshopping ideas. Actors are shown developing approaches to Macbeth under the cool eye of Cheek by Jowl director Declan Donnellan.This is the pa

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Variety

‘Backrooms’ Smashes A24 Record With Dominant Debut at U.K. and Ireland Box Office

The U.K. and Ireland box office witnessed a historic opening weekend as A24’s psychological horror “Backrooms” seized the top spot, grossing £4.2 million ($5.7 million). The film delivered the biggest opening weekend in A24’s history for the territory. Disney’s “The Mandalorian and Grogu” moved to second place in its sophomore frame, earning $3.5 million. The […]

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

“My Grandmother Told Me Not to Bring Home a Blue-Eyed Wife. But I’m a Gay Guy”

Greek director Thanasis Neofotistos on 'The Boy With the Light-Blue Eyes,' his SXSW London debut — a folk horror allegory about otherness, queer identity and the randomness of being born different.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult review – wildly juicy TV about the guru possessed by an alien

This tale of the Studio 54 stunner-turned-extraterrestrial who lured models to his Manhattan apartment for sex, money – or to give them mint face masks – is fascinating … yet fails to explain quite why so many believed his baloneyDocumentaries about cults all have the same task, at which they nearly all fail: explaining exactly how so many people fell under the spell of a man (it’s always a man) who was, to outside observers, so obviously a damaged charlatan. None of it makes sense; it wouldn’t

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

Hollywood Reporter

Netflix’s New Releases Coming in June 2026

Take a look at the movies and TV shows that are hitting the streaming service this month.

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026

The Guardian Culture

Tonight the Music Seems So Loud by Sathnam Sanghera review – a heartbreaking portrait of George Michael

This affecting exploration of the troubled genius’s impact is packed with anecdote, sharp analysis and social contextIn 1998, George Michael was arrested for public lewdness in an LA lavatory, an incident that finally led the singer to publicly come out. The following day, Sathnam Sanghera found himself unable to leave his room at university: the doorway had been mockingly plastered with tabloid newspaper headlines – “ZIP ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO!” – by fellow students aware of his longstanding fa

entertainment  Jun 2, 2026