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Culture23 Jul
Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' Trailer Puts Austin Abrams Alone in the Frame
Culture23 Jul
Pulp's new film asks the question a comeback usually avoids
Culture21 Jul
A joke about Trump and sex trafficking, cut from a Kennedy Center gala, exposes what streamers now decide audiences get to see
Culture21 Jul
Vijay's final bow opens with a Rs 15 crore advance, but the numbers say Tamil cinema's star economy is already rewriting itself
Culture21 Jul
Vince Staples turns a Tiny Desk into a memorial: Cry Baby, the Panthers, and the weight of an 'I'm sorry'
Culture21 Jul
Ukraine takes the Liutyi air-to-surface, putting a cruise-style punch on a drone airframe
Culture21 Jul
Simon Pegg's The Undeclared War returns to Channel 4 as British cyber-thriller genre crowds the schedules
Culture21 Jul
Universal parks Christopher Nolan at the summit. Hollywood takes the hint.
Culture21 Jul
London's culture ministry enters a quieter chapter: what Keir Starmer's reset means for arts funding
Culture21 Jul
Yash's 'Toxic' keeps selling itself: another teaser, another bet on star power alone
Culture21 Jul
"The Fires" turns Iceland into a disaster set, and the country's tourism board into its first investor
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's $250M 'Odyssey' was written off before a frame was shot. The receipts are uglier than the trolls.
Culture21 Jul
The scout who became the story: a Greenwich indie turns the location department inside out
Culture21 Jul
A teen's lie, a chatbot's odds: the soft geopolitics of attention in 2026
Culture21 Jul
Sylvan Esso bring it back home with Ow, their first record on Psychic Hotline
Culture21 Jul
Sphere bets on a marketing chief who speaks tech and travel
Culture21 Jul
Sony drops the third 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' trailer and puts Hulk in the frame
Culture21 Jul
Sony and Marvel drop the third trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, leaning on a console game for its visual grammar
Culture21 Jul
Spain lands in Madrid: a World Cup, a million supporters, and a coach who keeps his nerve
Culture21 Jul
Spain's parade and the BBC's rout: the day after the 2026 World Cup
Culture21 Jul
Baroque Routes and Festival Ecologies: Reading Spain's VI Music Festival as an Industrial-Scale Heritage Bet
Culture21 Jul
Spain's football déjà vu: what the 2026 triumph repeats, and what it doesn't
Culture21 Jul
Snoop Dogg gets the biopic treatment. Universal is betting the man outgrew his most polarizing years
Culture21 Jul
Smithsonian leadership faces Congress over patriotism, gender, and diversity
Culture21 Jul
The Micro-Influencer Has Entered the Theatre: How SGG Media Rewrote the Hollywood Ground Game
Culture21 Jul
Wayans horror, rebooted: how 'Scary Movie' ended up back on screen in 2026
Culture21 Jul
Robocop returns: Amazon Prime Video bets eight episodes on a Detroit cyborg in an age of algorithmic policing
Culture21 Jul
A Drilled Human Tooth, Worn on a String in Prehistoric Serbia
Culture21 Jul
Patel's planned Moscow trip puts the FBI inside Russia's frame
Culture21 Jul
NVIDIA's DLSS 5 push draws a sharper line between artist intent and machine inference
Culture21 Jul
NVIDIA's DLSS 5 lands as the first real test of whether "AI in games" stays a feature or becomes a filter
Culture21 Jul
The Odyssey Isn't Nolan's Yet: How 3,000 Years of Homer Keep Getting Rewritten
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's IMAX bet pays in week one
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' remake is doing what prestige cinema rarely does: pulling a generation back to the source text
Culture21 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey picks its fights with Homer, and leaves the rest off the page
Culture21 Jul
Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Meets the Homerist: Why the Epic That Invented the Hero Is Now a Culture-War Set Piece
Culture21 Jul
Moffat heads to Barcelona as ‘Number 10’ moves from rumour to schedule
Culture21 Jul
Merz, Merkel and the quiet politics of Bayreuth's 2026 opening
Culture21 Jul
Mainland publishers fill the floor as Hong Kong's indie booksellers are pushed out
Culture21 Jul
Russia's Mariinsky Closes Its 243rd Season With a Beethoven-Flavoured Bet on Cultural Continuity
Culture21 Jul
St. Petersburg's Ring Cycle returns: the Mariinsky bets on Wagner at the close of season 243
Culture21 Jul
Liam Neeson's 'The Fix' leans on a tired action template, with a trailer that tells you everything except the why
Culture21 Jul
Kyoto's blame game and Moomoo's Tokyo test: two faces of China's Japan play
Culture21 Jul
The five-year gap: why Kurosawa's last film crossed the Pacific in slow motion
Culture21 Jul
Kash Patel's planned Moscow trip puts the FBI inside a diplomatic lane it has rarely walked
Culture21 Jul
Kash Patel, the World Cup, and a 38% Bet: Reading the FBI Director's First Year Through a Prediction Market
Culture21 Jul
Patel's planned Moscow trip lands inside an awkward gap in US-Russia diplomacy
Culture21 Jul
Kaylee Hottle, the young star behind Jia in the MonsterVerse, dies at 18
Culture21 Jul
John Glacier returns to the club on "Bond Girl," the first single from her album "Lack of Joy is Death"
Culture21 Jul
Jordanian figures demand US troop withdrawal as regional pressure mounts
Culture21 Jul
Jake Johnson's late-career pivot: from New Girl to pickleball, with the actor still fighting to be taken seriously
Culture21 Jul
Statham's Bike Heist Picks Up Three More Riders
Culture21 Jul
A former Trump counter-terrorism chief says the US cannot defeat Iran. The statement is louder than the job title
Culture21 Jul
The citizenship question India keeps re-opening
Culture21 Jul
Horror in a single eye: the short film that shoots its entire story in a reflection
Culture21 Jul
Hong Kong's shrinking shelves: mainland muscle, local indie squeeze
Culture21 Jul
A canceled night in São Paulo, and what tour 'illness' actually signals
Culture21 Jul
Greg Freeman returns with a second album and the long road to it
Culture21 Jul
A Loom on the Lake Floor: How Italian Archaeologists Pulled an Ancient Textile from the Waters of Gran Carro
Culture21 Jul
Under Moscow's Sky Again: Gnesinka's Summer Festival and the Soft-Power Geometry of Russian Classical Music
Culture21 Jul
Two Bond Giants, One Owner: What the Film Finances–Media Guarantors Merger Means for Indie Production
Culture21 Jul
An FBI director in Moscow: why Kash Patel's planned October trip is rattling Washington
Culture21 Jul
‘Evil Dead Burn’ heads to Halloween Horror Nights, betting a 45-year horror brand can still move crowds
Culture21 Jul
The cult songwriter who built a cathedral nobody could see
Culture21 Jul
Dakota Gorman anchors a stripped-down Shudder survival horror in 'Hellcat' trailer
Culture21 Jul
Comic-Con's quiet power shift: Variety's Google-backed Interview Studio lands in San Diego
Culture21 Jul
Colson Whitehead closes the Harlem Trilogy with the gleeful hustler's novel New York deserved
Culture21 Jul
A Telegram channel turns a year old, and the classical music industry keeps asking how to count its audience
Culture21 Jul
Chloe Fineman lands her post-‘SNL’ footing at Netflix with a Harlan Coben adaptation
Culture21 Jul
Chelsea Wolfe Returns with The Dark, a New Album and a 2026 Tour Built Around It
Culture21 Jul
Charli XCX stages herself, and the camera, in the Vincent Cassel-led "Camera"
Culture21 Jul
Charli XCX hands Vincent Cassel the camera and steps behind it
Culture21 Jul
Burnham's first reshuffle keeps Nandy at Culture, hands Narayan a new AI portfolio
Culture21 Jul
Beijing's first-in-class approval, and what it actually proves about Chinese biotech
Culture21 Jul
When a tanker parks, a flight doesn't: the small visa row inside Ben-Gurion's bigger standoff
Culture21 Jul
Ava DuVernay returns to nonfiction with a film about the 14th Amendment
Culture21 Jul
Ava DuVernay’s ‘14th’ Documentary to World Premiere at New York Film Festival
Culture21 Jul
The Airbender problem: why Paramount's sequel film is a test of nostalgia economics
Culture21 Jul
Avengers: Doomsday opens the betting market at 67%, and the studios are watching
Culture21 Jul
Arca's XXXXX lands as the artist tightens the distance between album and event
Culture21 Jul
Anurag Kashyap at MIFFest: a jury president hunting for a cinematic language that hasn't been colonised
Culture21 Jul
Apple Crumble is a murder mystery you solve by reading grandma's texts
Culture21 Jul
A.R. Rahman bets the headset is the next concert hall: ARR Immersive lands on Apple Vision Pro
Culture21 Jul
"All Night Wrong" trailer: Voltage Pictures aims a Maria Bakalova vehicle at the indie-comedy middle
Culture21 Jul
Thirty-Six Years Late: How 'After Dark, My Sweet' Finally Found Its Audience
Culture21 Jul
Country music's quiet handover: Andy Schuon takes the ACM's top job
Culture20 Jul
Venice Critics' Week bets on debut voices and a Colombian AI experiment
Culture20 Jul
US strikes hit Iranian provincial capitals Tabriz and Urmia at dawn
Culture20 Jul
AI-made cinema hits a new register: a fart joke, with budget behind it
Culture20 Jul
A festival inside a war: how Ukraine's classical-music circuit is programming around the long night
Culture20 Jul
TIFF leans on star power and a Rocky biopic to anchor a turbulent 2026 lineup
Culture20 Jul
TIFF 2026 Adds Cannes Heavyweights to Galas and Special Presentations Lineup
Culture20 Jul
The professional lurker in the executive suite: Todd Howard, Reddit, and the new studio feedback loop
Culture20 Jul
The Director's Cut Industrial Complex: How 'Manhunter' Became the Case Study
Culture20 Jul
Reading Schöningen again: new pollen and fauna data reopen a 300,000-year-old argument about Europe’s first hunters
Culture20 Jul
Samantha Morton's Circe Steals Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' in a Single Scene
Culture20 Jul
‘Satluj’ and the Film That Punjab Could Not Finish Watching
Culture20 Jul
Regev's airport huddle, and the flight-cancellation question hanging over Ben-Gurion
Culture20 Jul
A pirate yarn shot for the cost of a used car: 'The Peril at Pincer Point' and the micro-budget frontier
Culture20 Jul
'Point Break' Returns to Theaters for Its 35th Anniversary, and the Timing Says Something
Culture20 Jul
The Peplum Is Back: How Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Is Dragging the Sandal-and-Sword Genre Out of Retirement
Culture20 Jul
A mountain idyll that turns into a cage: Lisa Polster's Out of Sight and the architecture of European deportation
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's $264 million Odyssey: what the director kept, cut, and invented
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey crosses a Rotten Tomatoes threshold the boycott never dented
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Two Decades on Screen: Who Carries the Films Now
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey opens to $264m and lands its first fight: AI as a 'Trojan horse'
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey opens to $51m Friday as IMAX and premium formats carry the load
Culture20 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey and the Cost of Squeezing Homer into Three Hours
Culture20 Jul
Netflix writes a $587 million cheque for Affleck's AI studio, and Hollywood's room reads the room
Culture20 Jul
Natalie Imbruglia, the accidental icon who stopped apologising for being a pop star
Culture20 Jul
A library reopens in Moadamiyat al-Sham, and the question of what Syria is rebuilding
Culture20 Jul
Moland Returns to Hamsun: What Beta Cinema's Toronto Bet Says About Slow Cinema's Market
Culture20 Jul
Rapinoe's next play: a podcast built on the question athletes rarely get to ask
Culture20 Jul
Kung Fu Soccer Rules China's Box Office as Animation Steps Into Second
Culture20 Jul
Ten injured, no fatalities reported in Kermanshah earthquake as Iran tallies midday toll
Culture20 Jul
Patel's planned Russia trip lands in a Washington already running the tape on his tenure
Culture20 Jul
Kelsey Grammer Walks a Sci-Fi Tightrope with 'Lars Shrike Walks the Night'
Culture20 Jul
Jerusalem's Festival Director Asks Palestinian Filmmakers Back to the Room
Culture20 Jul
Jingye's last stand: a Chinese steelmaker tests the limits of UK industrial sovereignty
Culture20 Jul
James Gray's Locarno honor caps a decade of auteur drift from New York mythmaking
Culture20 Jul
An Iranian film about martyrdom wins at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation festival, and the gesture travels with it
Culture20 Jul
Iranian cinema takes the SCO stage, and points the award at home
Culture20 Jul
Iran's oil calculus: Tehran signals a strategic-reserve lever against Washington
Culture20 Jul
Iran's southeast takes the second hit: earthquake in Kermanshah follows attacks in Sistan and Baluchistan
Culture20 Jul
The bus is still leaving: what the 'Into the Wild' cult gets wrong about escape
Culture20 Jul
A police band, a press gag, and a statehood chorus
Culture20 Jul
When the uniform is the brand: Himachal police orchestra mired in misconduct claims, and a Gurugram 'doctor' on bail for a Rs 30-crore Ponzi
Culture20 Jul
‘Hope’ storms the Korean box office, and the local survival-thriller engine keeps running
Culture20 Jul
Hellboy's afterlife: Mignola and Sniegoski's supernatural podcast 'Grim Death and Bill' heads to television
Culture20 Jul
A century on, the Grand Ole Opry still owns the broadcast week
Culture20 Jul
A Spanish title and a Palestinian sketch: how Gaza received a World Cup final it never watched
Culture20 Jul
Flavours of Iraq review: an exiled French-Iraqi journalist turns memory into animation
Culture20 Jul
The $5 chip and the 75 million bot tracks: a week in platform power
Culture20 Jul
Ernest Alaverdyan's Myaskovsky Mission: A Moscow-Trained Clarinetist Steps Onto the Conductor's Podium
Culture20 Jul
4DX, the Premium Format Quietly Winning the Multiplex
Culture20 Jul
David Thomson's century-long argument for cinema
Culture20 Jul
Deon Taylor to Direct Biopic on Streetball Legend Grayson ‘The Professor’ Boucher
Culture20 Jul
A tutor-free gaokao admission and a 29% Polymarket line land on the same week
Culture20 Jul
China's consumer slowdown meets a thicket of small dramas, and a plastic-to-jet-fuel breakthrough
Culture20 Jul
China's culture wars: a 2,000-year-old board game, a plagiarism scandal, and the AI race at the top of Polymarket
Culture20 Jul
Brunello Cucinelli Docufilm Crosses Borders Before It Reaches the U.S.
Culture20 Jul
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced sells 3 million in a week, then asks fans to clear space on the calendar
Culture20 Jul
Bong Joon Ho’s animated gamble: a director known for austerity takes ‘Ally’ to global buyers
Culture20 Jul
Anders Danielsen Lie steps into Bill Evans's shoes in a trailer that treats silence like a horn line
Culture20 Jul
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch turns 101: the last Auschwitz orchestra cellist, and what the surviving instruments remember
Culture20 Jul
Forty years on, Aliens is still the sequel that wrote the rules
Culture20 Jul
Alabama Shakes come back swinging: Brittany Howard on quitting, Trump, and the album that took a decade
Culture20 Jul
Netflix hands ‘A Different World’ sequel its first frame
Culture19 Jul
Ukraine's Drone Industrial Base Hits a Production Dispute It Can't Ignore
Culture19 Jul
Spotify's 75 million-track purge and the new shape of streaming fraud
Culture19 Jul
A six-minute trash planet, and the slow economics of independent sci-fi
Culture19 Jul
Shapiro's 'Odyssey' reversal exposes the porous border between outrage and endorsement in right-wing film criticism
Culture19 Jul
How a single Russian milblogger post became a Western headline, and what that says about the war's information layer
Culture19 Jul
Two visions of scale: Packham's prehistoric canvas and Nolan's turn at Homer
Culture19 Jul
Olivia Dean graduates to arenas, and the industry has to keep up
Culture19 Jul
Nolan's Trojan Horse: an ancient siege, a modern special-ops film, and the AI line the director couldn't resist
Culture19 Jul
Nolan's box-office gravity bends the July calendar around him
Culture19 Jul
Netflix's $587 Million Bet on Ben Affleck's AI Startup, and What It Signals About Hollywood's Next Merger Wave
Culture19 Jul
A festival finds its moment: MIFFest opens in Kuala Lumpur with ASEAN record in hand
Culture19 Jul
Mariinsky brings St Petersburg to Sirius as Russia’s cultural diplomacy courts a new audience
Culture19 Jul
Matt Damon at 50: A Career Built on Restraint
Culture19 Jul
A 35-crore Malayalam actioner and a patriarch's exit: what the wire says about Mollywood's mid-2026 moment
Culture19 Jul
A Kyiv factory, a Russian missile, and the civilian cost of striking at Ukraine's drone supply line
Culture19 Jul
Kyiv overnight strike kills one and injures seventeen as Russia returns to the capital's skyline
Culture19 Jul
Kyiv wakes to fire after Russia's overnight barrage hits Lukianivka
Culture19 Jul
Tehran turns a memorial into a stage: foreign students gather at Qom to mourn Khamenei
Culture19 Jul
Magnitude 5 Quake Shakes Khuzestan Village as Tehran Seismology Centre Reports Tremor
Culture19 Jul
IAEA weighs in on Darkhovin strike, Tehran reads the restraint
Culture19 Jul
Brazil's Export Pipeline: Gramado Hands the Headlines to Mello and Cândido
Culture19 Jul
Hannah Waddingham's late, loud arrival at the top of Hollywood
Culture19 Jul
Gaza's graveyards are running out of ground
Culture19 Jul
FIFA's anti-discrimination arm warns against transgender ban at 2031 Women's World Cup
Culture19 Jul
Kurdish opposition HQ in Erbil comes under attack as Tehran-Baghdad phone diplomacy tries to draw a line
Culture19 Jul
Ajay Devgn's Dhamaal 4 crosses Rs 125 crore as Pentagon's testosterone-testing plan draws medical pushback
Culture19 Jul
Black Flag Resynced sells three million in a week, and its missing combat mechanics tell a bigger story
Culture19 Jul
The two stories about AI this week: table tennis in Shanghai, water bills in Virginia
Culture18 Jul
Trumps World Cup joke, RatifCliff's warning, and the case for treating 2026 as a polite war
Culture18 Jul
Strikes on Hormozgan: what Tehran's own wires say, and what they leave out
Culture18 Jul
Southern giant cuscus: a one-kilo marsupial that flutters, rather than flies
Culture18 Jul
Sheridan's Call of Duty puts a screenwriter-turned-showrunner at the centre of the franchise's next phase
Culture18 Jul
Shiraz reopens to Dubai as Fars province widens its Gulf aviation bridge
Culture18 Jul
A Bollywood Hit Walks Into Wembley: What the ‘Saiyaara’ Anniversary Tour Says About India’s Soft-Power Play
Culture18 Jul
Twenty minutes on the line: how cheap autonomy is rewriting the cost of an infantry assault
Culture18 Jul
Daniel Radcliffe turns up on a comedian's album. Why it says something about the collapsing middle of pop.
Culture18 Jul
Raghav Juyal steps into the leading-man frame, and a city asks its mayor to sleep on the heat
Culture18 Jul
Ratcliffe's 20-minute recruit and the reshaping of the frontline
Culture18 Jul
Ratcliffe puts a number on the China–Russia gap, and the West is still arguing about the wrong one
Culture18 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey gambles on a hero who already knew the way home
Culture18 Jul
Netflix's 17-minute AI experiment and the 11% plunge that followed
Culture18 Jul
'Mortal Kombat 2' Lands on HBO Max as the Game-to-Screen Bet Keeps Paying
Culture18 Jul
Lorde vs the Algorithm: When Spotify’s AI Starts Writing the Liner Notes
Culture18 Jul
Leon Bridges Hands the Reins to Two Strangers, and Gets a Quieter Kind of Joy
Culture18 Jul
Khamenei's gratitude note to the 'epic creation' is a closing of ranks, not a victory lap
Culture18 Jul
Josh Fox's new climate doc bets that human stories can outrun the political weather
Culture18 Jul
A million on the streets of Baghdad: reading Iran's martyr-funeral frame
Culture18 Jul
Million-Strong Baghdad Funeral Re-stages Iran's Regional Script
Culture18 Jul
A gold-coin lottery and the quiet infrastructure of Iranian household debt
Culture18 Jul
Iran and Iraq try to keep their conversation above the noise
Culture18 Jul
One tunnel back open on Iran's Bandar Abbas–Sirjan axis, but the other is still dark
Culture18 Jul
A Sydney Winner Heads to Paris: What Inwave's Pickup of 'Time and Tide' Signals About Hybrid Documentary's Sales Future
Culture18 Jul
India's National Film Awards at 72: who actually wins, and what the jury picks tell us
Culture18 Jul
India's 72nd National Film Awards arrive under a weather cloud, with the ceremony still set for 5:30 pm IST
Culture18 Jul
Article 370 and Amaran take the night as India's 72nd National Film Awards choose the political and the procedural
Culture18 Jul
Article 370 and a Savarkar biopic take top honours at India's 72nd National Film Awards
Culture18 Jul
Hormozgan knocked offline: 116 telecom towers lost in US strikes, repairs under way
Culture18 Jul
Federal judge says warrantless phone seizure of Palestinian activist crossed the constitutional line
Culture18 Jul
Emile Hirsch returns to indie horror with 'Woozy,' a gross-out supernatural title that knows its market
Culture18 Jul
Detroit's air tops the world's polluted-cities list, and a Netflix slide puts a culture-sector week on edge
Culture18 Jul
Colman Domingo and Robert O'Hara set sights on Disney's Princess Tiana
Culture18 Jul
CPAC London stages the new conservative international, with One Nation's Pauline Hanson as guest of honour
Culture18 Jul
Biren’s silicon-photonics play and the 9% Polymarket line on Chinese frontier models
Culture18 Jul
Apple TV's 'Cape Fear' Reopens a Scorsese Case File, This Time as Serial
Culture18 Jul
Tehran reaches for Baghdad: Araqchi's call frames a regional choreography
Culture18 Jul
'Article 370' takes best feature as India's National Film Awards reset the conversation about Bollywood and the state
Culture18 Jul
Ankara's Drone Diplomat Lays Out the Case Against Europe's Waning Edge
Culture18 Jul
Ankara's Defender-in-Chief Says Europe Has Stopped Being the West
Culture17 Jul
Virginia rebuffs a school‑board drug‑testing push, and Netflix quietly inks AI into 300 productions: two votes on where the boundaries are being drawn
Culture17 Jul
Irish and U.K. acting schools are planting flags in U.S. cities. The flow of talent is going the other way.
Culture17 Jul
Tinashe Announces New Album 'Popstar,' Leans Into Crunk on Lead Single 'Crash Out'
Culture17 Jul
Tinashe Bets on a Popstar Moment, and on Crunk
Culture17 Jul
Suncatcher picks up Tessa Blake's 'If I Tell You,' giving Carol Kane her latest quiet stage
Culture17 Jul
Svetlanov Orchestra Closes a Season in Moscow, and a Question Hangs Over Russian Classical Music's International Future
Culture17 Jul
Standing on the Corner return with a second, slightly altered version of themselves
Culture17 Jul
Sitges looks south: a Spanish genre festival plants a flag in Latin America
Culture17 Jul
The 20-minute soldier: what Ratcliffe's casualty claim says about Russia's war economy
Culture17 Jul
Two hundred and fifty years on, the Proms lets America set its own terms
Culture17 Jul
Nolan's 'The Odyssey' opens with a $17.6M preview, but the road to Homer took a year
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's AI bet lands. The question is who's training the model.
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's live play is no longer a sideshow. It's the story.
Culture17 Jul
Netflix returns to Macondo: a second pass at a hundred years
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's AI documentary bet lands on a choppy tape
Culture17 Jul
Netflix's 300-title AI bet arrives before the contract fight
Culture17 Jul
A missionary, a Pacific island, and the camera: how 'Mussau' is rewriting who gets to tell Pacific stories
Culture17 Jul
The mayor who stayed: Mykolaiv's wartime exit after five and a half years
Culture17 Jul
Moscow detains ex-Ministry of Industry official in import-substitution fraud case
Culture17 Jul
Anatomically correct Barbies, Swedish puppetry, and the erotics of audience complicity
Culture17 Jul
Khibla Gerzmava's two-night stand in Moscow, and the question Luca Debargue keeps asking
Culture17 Jul
Iran and Iraq Move to Smooth the Arbaeen Crossing at Mehran
Culture17 Jul
A rupee in plastic: what India's polymer note trial really tests
Culture17 Jul
Modi flags off India's first hydrogen train as a culture of cleanliness gets the speechwriter treatment
Culture17 Jul
Whitewashed Middle-earth? The Hunt for Gollum casting row and the limits of Tolkien's text
Culture17 Jul
Iko Uwais heads to ‘Jakarta’: Alcon bets on a multi-generational Indonesian crime saga
Culture17 Jul
Hormuz in the crosshairs: Birol's warning and the choreography of global energy risk
Culture17 Jul
Two India Cyber-Fraud Cases, One Worrying Pattern: Ex-Servicemen in the Crosshairs
Culture17 Jul
Homer's women: what the male critical class missed in Nolan's Odyssey
Culture17 Jul
Janus Films revives a forgotten French sci-fi parable: why 'Gandahar' matters again
Culture17 Jul
The Fertility Convergence: How Family Size Stopped Tracking Culture
Culture17 Jul
The Emmys Just Trimmed Their Own Mirror: Five Categories Cut From the NBC Telecast
Culture17 Jul
Echo and the Bunnymen announce first album in 12 years, a memorial to Clem Burke
Culture17 Jul
DHS tightens the clock on foreign students and journalists, and opens welfare data to visa reviewers
Culture17 Jul
Coachella's Parent Firm Plants a New Flag on Santa Monica Sand
Culture17 Jul
The two Chinas that crossed the wire on 17 July
Culture17 Jul
Armenia gets the Cannes treatment: Critics' Week turns its Next Step lens on a country at a crossroads
Culture17 Jul
Carly Rae Jepsen's Long Goodbye Arrives Early
Culture17 Jul
Bethesda bets the next decade on Elder Scrolls, with Fallout 5 waiting in the wings
Culture17 Jul
Animation carries Hollywood's box office. The industry still treats it like a side project
Culture16 Jul
A chief engineer dies at Zaporizhzhia, and a wartime nuclear file thickens
Culture16 Jul
EA and X Games turn a fictional skate city into a four-day sponsorship bazaar
Culture16 Jul
Watermelon Pictures Drops 'American Doctor' Trailer, Framing US Gun Violence as a Public Health Failure
Culture16 Jul
The wreckage of Vyshneve and the bodies at the border: two stories from a war that no longer makes front pages
Culture16 Jul
Washington moves to put foreign students and journalists on a leash
Culture16 Jul
Nightlife as a counter-archive: what Imogen Willetts gets right about the politics of going out
Culture16 Jul
Ukraine's Drone Math Forces a Reckoning in Washington
Culture16 Jul
Kyiv Reshuffles the Cabinet, Leaves Defence and Foreign Affairs Empty for Now
Culture16 Jul
Will Ferrell lands on Netflix with a golf comedy that doesn’t know what it wants to be
Culture16 Jul
The Odyssey bets on AI: a 56% market and a cinema experiment the studios didn't sanction
Culture16 Jul
The Odyssey lands in theatres, and on the same week, an AI studio announces it will remake the whole poem
Culture16 Jul
Zellners assemble an alien band, Morrison goes solo, Mahershala Ali takes a seat: TIFF Special Presentations set the festival's tonal tilt
Culture16 Jul
Taiwan's local-AI push becomes a digital sovereignty question
Culture16 Jul
Taiwan bets on a local LLM to keep its language out of Beijing's mouth
Culture16 Jul
Tarantino's tenth and last: what the director's retirement pledge reveals about Hollywood's auteur problem
Culture16 Jul
Standing on the Corner double down on the difficult listen with SOTC (II)
Culture16 Jul
Songs of the summer, by committee: how The Guardian’s annual picks flatten the season’s actual centre of gravity
Culture16 Jul
Shia LaBeouf, still in pieces: what 'The Rooster Prince' tells us about the cost of staying visible
Culture16 Jul
Strikes on Semnan airport test the seam between wartime Israel and a cornered Iranian republic
Culture16 Jul
Sameera Reddy’s skin-lightening remark lands in a Bollywood reckoning that was already underway
Culture16 Jul
SBU detains defence-enterprise chiefs after Vyshneve depot blast
Culture16 Jul
Rose Byrne and Jenna Ortega to star in Mary Bronstein's 'Nasty' for Warner Bros.' Clockwork banner
Culture16 Jul
"It's called terrorism": RT tapes put a Ukrainian colonel at the centre of a Europe-wide sabotage campaign
Culture16 Jul
Russell Tovey gives grief a feathered shape in Max Porter's audiobook oddity
Culture16 Jul
Raindance and Israeli AI platform IMGN put £10,000 on the indie filmmaker
Culture16 Jul
Pergolesi's Lost Opera Surfaces in a Jesi Theatre, and Refuses to Sound Like a Museum Piece
Culture16 Jul
Petraeus sounds the alarm on a drone gap Ukraine never asked the West to win
Culture16 Jul
Gray's 'Paper Tiger' to Open New York Film Festival as North American Premiere Lands at Lincoln Center
Culture16 Jul
A boy, a stove, a Vespa: 'Olmo' and the gentle radicalism of coming-of-age cinema
Culture16 Jul
'Our Effed Up World' teaser lands: indie sci-fi comedy asks what an alien invasion would actually cost
Culture16 Jul
Nolan’s 'The Odyssey' tops his own critical record on Rotten Tomatoes
Culture16 Jul
Nolan wanted the biggest canvas. IMAX had already moved on.
Culture16 Jul
Nolan's The Odyssey arrives as a serious bet on the theatrical epic
Culture16 Jul
Nolan's Odyssey sails into critical harbour: five stars from the broadsheets, one question over the runtime
Culture16 Jul
The set that ate a people: Nolan's Western Sahara gamble
Culture16 Jul
Netflix takes another swing at gaming with a Stranger Things-tinged minigolf title
Culture16 Jul
Netflix hits its Q2 numbers and still can't catch a bid
Culture16 Jul
Nia Archives rewrites the jungle from a Bradford bedroom
Culture16 Jul
Netflix crosses 300 generative-AI productions, and quietly redraws the line on craft
Culture16 Jul
Netflix pulls back the curtain, once a year
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Denshattack! and the strange commute of a dystopian Japan
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Box Office 2026: The Hits That Put People Back in Seats
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Ava DuVernay's return to documentary, with birthright citizenship in the frame
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Andrew Garfield's Peasants' Revolt: How Paul Greengrass's 'The Uprising' Aims to Convert England's Deadliest Insurgency Into a Modern Warning
Culture16 Jul
Andy Serkis on the new ‘Lord of the Rings’: ‘I don’t think we’ll be doing a politically correct casting-for-the-sake-of-casting version’
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Actress returns with 'Radical Frame,' his first solo LP since the pandemic-era hiatus
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The ‘no-makeup makeup’ premiere and the new economics of celebrity beauty
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Rutgers's Zimmerli Museum Lands a 70-Work Gift, and a Quiet Argument About Who Pays for American Art
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Zelenskyy taps Naftogaz chief Koretsky to be Ukraine's next prime minister
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Wallace, Gromit and the quiet defiance of stop-motion
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Tehran reads the call: Trump's deal talk meets an Iranian audience that has heard this before
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A decade after 'Train to Busan', Korea's zombie film still leads a global genre
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A transgender American's asylum bid collides with the Netherlands' culture war
Culture15 Jul
Tehran Book Garden offers a window onto Iran's culture of reading, and its contest with the West
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An Israeli lawmaker walked into a Jerusalem school. What he said there is now the story
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Songs of exile, songs of home: Sulayman and Shibe build a programme of returns at Wigmore Hall
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Spotify's AI assistant lands in the middle of India's streaming wars
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Scary Movies returns to Lincoln Center, with Porter and McKee's most disturbing inheritances restored
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Sam Neill's last interview: Gillian Armstrong on the man who ran off with her film
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Rooftop Films widens its 2026 summer map across New York's parks
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At a Madrid peace conference, Israeli and Palestinian activists share a stage the news cameras rarely visit
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Paramount bets on TikTok-era sketch sensibility with Almost Friday's Tyler Falbo
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Peacemaker in the cross-hairs: how a missile deal reopened the Republican split over Ukraine
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Nolan's 'The Odyssey' lands as a career-defining epic, and a meditation on power
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Nolan's 'The Odyssey' opens to a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score, his career best
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Netflix bets on Las Vegas with 'The Roman,' a casino drama built for the streaming wars
Culture15 Jul
A $50,000 film fund, and the question it dodges
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Meta accused of weaponising workplace AI to flag disability and medical leave for layoffs
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Locarno puts its 2026 jury in the hands of a Belgian genre-bender
Culture15 Jul
Ten AI-Native Shorts Land at Raindance. The Real Question Is Whether Festivals Are Ready to Judge Them
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Hollywood Goes to the Élysée: Macron Confers the Legion of Honor on Lucas, Foster, Weaver, and Meledandri
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A 4K Mahabharata Returns to the Screen, and to a Longer Argument About Whose Stories Survive
Culture15 Jul
Kevin Hart’s ‘Cold as Balls’ swims into Netflix, and the talk-show format keeps getting colder
Culture15 Jul
Koreeda's live-action 'Look Back' gets a second teaser. The harder question is who gets to read it.
Culture15 Jul
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Jess Williamson Heads South with A Mile South of Heaven
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How one animator tried to kill his own show over AI and ended up fielding death threats instead
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Tehran summons Britain's envoy over IRGC proscription
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Tehran summons UK envoy as IRGC terror designation lands
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Iran moves to inscribe Khamenei's funeral on national heritage list, urging unity
Culture15 Jul
Iran's mourning week for Khamenei: a managed public square, a regional signal
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Hamaguchi Returns: Neon's ‘All of a Sudden’ Sets a Thanksgiving Weekend Date With American Audiences
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George Lucas tells AI sceptics to get out of the way
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Moscow's human-rights envoy calls Iran a model of resistance to the West
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Fedorov steps down as Ukraine's defence minister, citing team trust
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Ecosexuality's Longest Pitch: Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens Want the Planet in Bed
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Costa Rica's film crews stop chasing tax breaks and start chasing producers
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Paramount bets that a one-week theatrical window can rescue a streaming-first franchise launch
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Variety's Actors on Actors earns two Daytime Emmy nods, and a quiet structural shift in celebrity journalism
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A third Odyssey lands this month, and this one wasn't made by humans
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The Producer Who Opened Hong Kong Cinema: Shi Nansun’s Quiet Industry Legacy
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Sam Neill, the actor who made New Zealand cinema visible to the world, has died at 78
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Sam Neill's final bow: Jane Campion and a career that outgrew its frame
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Memorial squares for Russia’s war dead move from TV screens to city streets
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Netflix's $2 million Monopoly: a streaming giant plays a board game the rest of the industry is already losing
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De Niro, Adam Scott and the algorithm: what Netflix's 'The Whisper Man' trailer tells us about streaming's true-crime bet
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Netflix bets on a true-crime veteran for its next big autumn swing
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Hong Sang-soo's quiet pilgrimage lands at Cinema Guild
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FX's 'The Shards' trailer bets on Bret Easton Ellis nostalgia, and on Ryan Murphy's appetite for excess
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Refn's comeback and the politics of festival taste: Fantasia turns 30
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Culture14 Jul
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The BBC closed a record year arguing it can no longer fund itself
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Andy Serkis returns to Middle-earth as cameras roll on 'The Hunt for Gollum'
Culture14 Jul
Albanese bets a single office can keep Australia's AI boom from blowing back on the country that paid for it
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The Album Art Music Left Behind: Two New Books on How Sleeves Shape the Ear
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Culture13 Jul
A medal before the meeting: Zelensky decorates Macron on the eve of the Coalition of the Willing
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Wai Ching Ho, the steady presence behind Marvel's Chinatown, dies at 82
Culture13 Jul
Twelve arrests, one country estate: the UK’s right-wing terror case that cut a Muslim gathering short
Culture13 Jul
Bogotá bets on the soundstage: TIS Studios opens Stage 7 in push for Latin American production share
Culture13 Jul
Tom Cruise goes absurdist: reading the trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's 'Digger'
Culture13 Jul
The Odyssey is having another moment, and Hollywood keeps reaching for the same poem
Culture13 Jul
The meme that outran the market: how a Telegram graphic became the internet's favourite case for buy-and-hold
Culture13 Jul
Sam Neill, 78, leaves a screen career measured in decades and continents
Culture13 Jul
Sam Neill, 78, leaves a screen career calibrated to the long take
Culture13 Jul
San José Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Central America's Young Directors
Culture13 Jul
Sam Neill, screen diplomat: a career that outlasted the roles
Culture13 Jul
Sam Neill dies at 78: the New Zealand actor who turned a herpetologist's khakis into a global uniform
Culture13 Jul
Sam Neill, who carried a generation's idea of danger into a calmer register, dies at 78
Culture13 Jul
Russia Says It Stopped More Drone Sabotage Plots. The Pattern Is the News.
Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
Paramount Calls States' Antitrust Suit a 'Shield' for Netflix and Big Tech
Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
A Norwegian island, two realities, and the indie film that wants you to notice
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Culture13 Jul
New York Comedy Festival Returns, With a Lineup That Reads Like the City's Itself
Culture13 Jul
MGASO closes an 83rd season with a Tchaikovsky centenary at the centre
Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
Mariinsky's summer calendar leans on premieres as Stars of the White Nights lights up St. Petersburg
Culture13 Jul
Mastodon return with Marrow Deep, a first album written without Brent Hinds
Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
London Pride 2026 brings record turnout and a familiar fight over the audience
Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
The pen as pulpit: how PressTV frames Khamenei as architect of Iran's intellectual and construction revolutions
Culture13 Jul
Detention of US lawmaker becomes a US-Israel credibility test
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A four-hour delay at Yankee Stadium and the question of who actually runs a live-music night
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Culture13 Jul
Jack White’s ‘Frozen Charlotte’ leans hard into the riff, and refuses the second-album truce
Culture13 Jul
Side gigs, second wives, and the long paper trail of Indian political muscle
Culture13 Jul
Costa Rica’s Incendio Cine lands new co-production backing for Fantastic Lab winner ‘We Won’t Let the Goat Die’
Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
Hilda Hidalgo turns inward: Costa Rica's most-admared woman director eyes a third feature on sexual abuse
Culture13 Jul
Gergiev, a Russian youth orchestra, and a Tchaikovsky concerto the West can no longer ignore
Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
Alison Bechdel's queer memoir musical returns to Manchester, and the room is doing the crying
Culture13 Jul
Flanagan's long road to Carrie: what Amazon's first-look really tells us
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Disney's live-action Moana hits the rocks: a $200m question for the remake machine
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Daytime Emmys 2026: Clarkson, Sherri and the End of an Era
Culture13 Jul
De Niro Returns to Rome for the 50th Birthday of a Film Italy Hasn’t Fully Reconciled With
Culture13 Jul
Dead channels: what Netflix's always-on pivot and Lagos's phantom council have in common
Culture13 Jul
Costa Rica bets a Netflix of podcasts and a MrBeast producer can reset its media export economy
Culture13 Jul
A recall and a streaming rumour, in one weekend: what Cuisinart's 1.7 million-brush withdrawal and Netflix's live-channel plans say about consumer trust in 2026
Culture13 Jul
China's upside-down meritocracy: where smart graduates go to government, not the garage
Culture13 Jul
A nine-year manhunt, a Beijing-to-Houston pipeline, and the new face of Chinese cross-border fraud cases
Culture13 Jul
BlackStar at 15: Philadelphia bets on a cinema of the global majority
Culture13 Jul
Andrea Bajani's 'The Anniversary' lands in English: a measured Italian family saga that dares to be dull
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Culture13 Jul
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Culture13 Jul
"A Year in London" leans into old-school lesbian romance, and arrives just as the genre is going soft
Culture12 Jul
Zelenskyy moves to renew the Cabinet and reassign diplomacy by portfolio
Culture12 Jul
UAE on maximum alert as Qatar presses for a U.S.–Iran halt, and a Gaza strike is caught on camera
Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
Two dead in Toronto street shooting as Spain's wildfire belt counts its losses
Culture12 Jul
Two killed as gunfire erupts at a Toronto music festival
Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
Two dead in Toronto festival shooting as police hunt for active gunman
Culture12 Jul
Two dead, three injured as shooter opens fire at Toronto's Salsa on St. Clair festival
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In Sri Ganganagar, a probe finds a hotel that set rates for a trafficked child, and a film argues Indian cinemas still have a future
Culture12 Jul
South Korea turns up the volume on ticket touts as new penalties near
Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
The emir who stepped aside: Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Qatar he reshaped
Culture12 Jul
S Janaki and the State Called Akashvani: Two Indian-Express Obituaries, One Listening Republic
Culture12 Jul
Salsa on St. Clair festival shooting leaves two dead as Toronto confronts a familiar pattern
Culture12 Jul
Armed car in Sarcelles: how a suburb became the test site for France's newest threat
Culture12 Jul
A Punjabi film, a river, and the vote: why 'Satluj' is rattling Punjab's politics
Culture12 Jul
Moscow opens the door, narrowly, to NATO talks
Culture12 Jul
A Strait, a Metaphor, and the Currency of Threat: Rezaei's Hormuz Warning
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Culture12 Jul
A peace festival asks whether music can carry what diplomacy cannot
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A Memoir Reopens in Reel: The Quiet Politics of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" on Screen
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Hollywood Stopped Owning Its Own Past: Why Physical Media Is Now a Cultural Survival Question
Culture12 Jul
Armed vehicle found outside Paris prompts 300-person evacuation
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The one-sitting revival: a Booker judge's reading list and what it tells us about a stretched-reading public
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Nolan's Odyssey lands amid a YouTube pile-on and a culture-war defence
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New York’s summer of friction: a city legislates against the subscription machine while its young push back against the AI one
Culture12 Jul
Three signs of friction in New York: subscriptions, Luddites, and a waterborne outbreak
Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
A Moscow chamber recital in a Lopukhin manor: the political patience of Russian concert life
Culture12 Jul
Milan assault and the fractures inside Italian public television
Culture12 Jul
Moana's live-action turn tests whether representation can survive the remake economy
Culture12 Jul
Marvel's Doomsday draws Doom: the mask that quietly reorders the superhero economics
Culture12 Jul
Lizzo and the limits of pop-star apologetics: what three years of legal and public exposure did to a career built on body-positive affirmation
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Culture12 Jul
Marco Bellocchio and Sally Wainwright Take Top Honors at an Italian Festival That Could Not Quite Hide the Industry Crisis Underneath
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Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
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Culture12 Jul
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Alia Bhatt's Alpha clears Rs 50 crore in India while New Delhi tracks a maritime attack off Oman
Culture12 Jul
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Netflix's 'Little House' reboot makes room for the original — and a horror cameo nobody saw coming
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A German fantasy novel, a Hollywood voice, and a push-me-pull-you over who gets to remake children's classics
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Meg Mason on grittiness, and a Delhi University admissions logjam
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Kashmir's syllabus police: from school desk to lecture hall
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What the ceasefire didn't save: inside Iran's cultural sites after the war
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India's new FCRA rules and Nolan's India moment: a country rewrites the rules of civil society while courting the world's filmmakers
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A film, a panel, and a proposed rule change: India rewrites its censorship script
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A US$2.9m will, a Bay Area sign, and the quiet bargaining inside the Chinese diaspora
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Belgium's golden generation exits the stage: what the trophy drought actually says about modern football
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Vertical Video Comes of Age: How Short-Form Aesthetics Are Rewriting the Visual Language of Film and Television
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At the UN Security Council, Moscow runs interference for Tehran
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"The Invite" and the rise of the unscripted drama
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'Sterling Point' and the streaming bet on a quieter kind of young-adult drama
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Indie horror and the two-headed doll: 'She Saw Us' and the economics of low-budget genre cinema
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Hollywood's Runaway Production Fight Returns to the Capitol — and to the States
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Culture10 Jul
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Culture10 Jul
Psychic Fever Refuse the Box: Inside the Boy Band's Second Album and Its Anti-Conformity Pitch
Culture10 Jul
A King Lear at Pitlochry that keeps the throne room out of the frame
Culture10 Jul
Patrushev revives the 'bin Laden was an American asset' claim — and the timing is the story
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Nicholas Meyer looks back on the long shadow of 'Wrath of Khan'
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Why Christopher Nolan dedicated ‘The Odyssey’ to the man who taught Hollywood to think in IMAX
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Netflix's 'Little House' reboot hands the prairie back to the people who were there first
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Culture10 Jul
Na Hong-jin's 'Hope' Lands a US Trailer: What Neon Is Betting on with Korea's Loudest Sci-Fi Return
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A Moscow Festival Tries to Reframe Russia's Wartime Cultural Story
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Disney's Live-Action 'Moana' Bets That Scale Travels Without a Songbook
Culture10 Jul
Disney's live-action "Moana" opens with $4.5 million in Thursday previews — a deliberately modest launch ahead of a holiday weekend
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Mashhad reopens its shrine courtyards: a quiet test of Iran's managed-revival politics
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Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell Take the Sisterhood on the Road
Culture10 Jul
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Culture10 Jul
Locarno bets on curated eccentricity as a smaller festival fights for relevance
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Notes on a small hall: Schubert and Brahms in the Lopukhin estate
Culture10 Jul
Louis Theroux's 'Life Support' premieres in London, a rare Western gaze at Gaza's medical collapse
Culture10 Jul
A young man's Mahler: Signum's early-song collection finds the future symphonist hiding in plain sight
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Letterboxd at a quarter-billion: what Netflix actually thinks it is buying
Culture10 Jul
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Culture10 Jul
Latin American Foto Festival lands in the Bronx, pointing the lens at the periphery
Culture10 Jul
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Culture10 Jul
A young pianist carries a Russian repertoire into the Moscow Conservatory's grand hall
Culture10 Jul
Israel and Egypt hold rare security talks in Cairo as World Cup detente plays out on the sidelines
Culture10 Jul
Iraq's medical association sends a thank-you to the government — and the message lands differently than it reads
Culture10 Jul
A shrine, a film, a feed: how Iranian state media staged the visual language of mourning
Culture10 Jul
India's OTT censor and the film Punjab tried not to forget
Culture10 Jul
India's FEMA net tightens around a Mumbai trader as Europe's migration fight stops being about passport queues
Culture10 Jul
Honolulu Museum of Art Taps David Odo as Director, Drawing a Southeast Asia Curator Into the Pacific Conversation
Culture10 Jul
Horror Inc.'s Jason Voorhees revival: a franchise factory testing how much IP a streaming market can absorb
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Heartstopper's final frame: what Netflix's queer teen drama got right about growing up on camera
Culture10 Jul
Guy Ritchie returns to the country estate: Netflix's 'The Gentlemen' season two teaser leans into the chaos
Culture10 Jul
France returns 23 Syrian antiquities after 15-year Paris sojourn: a small restitution, a larger argument about provenance
Culture10 Jul
France Télévisions bets on prestige adaptation and a MeToo drama to anchor 2026–27 season
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Jennifer Garner's Grief Vacation: What 'The Five-Star Weekend' Reveals About the Limits of Rich-Woman Therapy
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The Last Casting Director Who Vetoed a Black Bond
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Reports of Bolshoi chief's hospitalisation expose the fragility of Russian cultural rumour
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Baby Rose turns the wreckage inward on 'Yearnalism'
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Arles 2026: why the world's most prestigious photography festival is betting on the unknown
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Anthony Hopkins, Composer: A Late-Career Turn From Screen to Score
Culture09 Jul
Israel's Culture Minister Goes to War With the Country's Filmmakers
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Valeria Sarmiento’s Late-Career Turn: A Chilean Filmmaker Confronts Her Own Silences
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Stanley Tucci and Victor Belmondo team up for a family-run art heist in 'Masterplan'
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'3 Weeks After' and the Long Serbian Shadow Over Schoolyard Cruelty
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Hollywood's bankability gamble: why the John Travolta-Quavo pairing in 'The Gentleman Thief' matters less than the maths behind it
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Tehran summons British envoy as diplomatic rift over 'terror networks' charge widens
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The long shadow of myth: why Hollywood keeps returning to the epics
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Syd's solo turn and the quiet arithmetic of leaving Odd Future
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A Claw Grabber at the Door: How a Trash Souvenir Became the Strangest Side-Show of the Swift Wedding
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Small Talk: a Swiss finishing school, its alumnae, and a documentary that lets the camera do the talking
Culture09 Jul
Smithsonian's Bunch pushes back on White House report as culture-war battle over the national museum heads into public view
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Rushdie, in London, says America is having 'a very difficult moment' with free speech
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The West's Russia squeeze is hardening the very class it hoped to peel off
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Jane Schoenbrun reunites cast from upcoming film for a one-night ‘Secretary’ reading
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A century on, the Schomburg Center reframes who gets to tell Black history
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Set, sting, courtroom: Indian entertainment's two crises land on the same day
Culture09 Jul
Punjab's gurdwara cinemas and a singer's confession: two stories about who gets to tell their own story
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Richard Malone's Brussels takeover puts Irish craft textile on a political stage
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A Polish festival sets out to chart the romantic piano from Schubert to Skrzyb…wait, end of Chopin
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Netflix's 'Little House on the Prairie' leans into warmth — but asks a 21st-century audience to sit with the discomfort
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Netflix's 'The Gentlemen' returns Sept. 3, betting that Guy Ritchie's criminal-class comedy still travels
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Netflix Doubles Down on Audio With Exclusive Vox Media Podcast Deal
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Tony-Nominated Lila Neugebauer Tapped to Direct and EP Netflix's 'The Retrievals' Pilot
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NFTS bets on craft: Angels Costumes and John Gore Studios underwrite a new two-year costume design course
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Netflix's 'Jupiter Island' bets that elite golf, A24 polish, and a JFK Jr.-adjacent creator can keep prestige TV's middle alive
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Murugan, NTR Jr, and the Online War Over Whose Cinema Owns a God
Culture09 Jul
Mastodon releases short film honouring Brent Hinds, reframing how a metal institution mourns a single member
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Mashhad's silent sway: the shrine at the centre of Iran's soft-power footprint
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King Gizzard's Studio as a Closed Loop: What the Alien Metal Pivot Actually Says
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A new Little House, an old America: what the reboot is really selling
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Lyndon Barrois's gum-wrapper World Cup: how a New Orleans sculptor turned football's contested history into protest art
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Karol G's cocktail contest and the new economics of fan access
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Italy Moves on Nazi-Looted Art, but Heirs Say Two Decades of Delay Have Cost the Conversation
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Jack White's Frozen Charlotte and the diminishing returns of the lo-fi comeback
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Juliette Binoche in Karlovy Vary: a festival hands its Crystal Globe to a French actor who keeps refusing to settle into nostalgia
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Tehran summons British envoy over 'baseless accusations' as Iran–UK rhetoric hardens
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Tehran's cameras roll: state cinema mobilised to record the Supreme Leader's funeral procession
Culture09 Jul
Even in death, a woman is rarely her own: an Indian essay on funerals and inheritance
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One Frame at a Time: The Obsessive Hunt to Save an IMAX 'Star Wars' Trailer
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July's horror slate leans on legacy IP — and a few audacious debuts
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A fellowship at Karlovy Vary gives a Swiss-Korean director room to write — and a venue's quiet bid to court global cinema
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Four musicals, one TV show: the race to parody 'Heated Rivalry'
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Henry Taylor and James Jarvaise Reunited at Hauser & Wirth — A Show That Reframes Two Eras of Black Figuration
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Hezbollah-aligned bloc rejects Beirut's US-brokered framework as unconstitutional
Culture09 Jul
Greek cinema finds an export lane through an old taboo: trauma between two women on an island
Culture09 Jul
Hollywood's queer footprint shrinks for a third year, GLAAD finds
Culture09 Jul
Toho doubles down on the franchise: a second teaser for Yamazaki's 'Godzilla Minus Zero' lands ahead of November release
Culture09 Jul
'Godzilla Minus Zero' trailer drops with a nuclear payload — and a franchise reckoning baked in
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George Condo's Quick Return to Hauser & Wirth Says More About the Market Than the Artist
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Inside the Abercrombie Circle: How a Chicago 'Queen of the Looney Hearts' Kept a Generation of Magic Realists Alive
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Gertrude Abercrombie and the Midwestern Surrealists Who Built Their Own Scene
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Yervant Gianikian, Valerie Brathwaite, Jerry Moriarty: a week of three quiet departures
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Four Tet's Wingdings Project Lands a Streaming Release After a Quiet Vinyl Debut
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Ezra Collective say musicians must be ‘pillars of the community’ as Love Supreme set looms
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Ankara's gift that keeps on giving: why Erdogan handed NATO leaders engraved revolvers
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Denis Villeneuve's 'Dune: Part Three' Trailer Drops, Closing the Director's Arrakis Cycle
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Chile’s León & Cociña return with ‘Donkey Princess’ as Bendita takes global sales
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Three Veterans, One New Project: Hug Is the Band Devendra Banhart Says He Has Wanted to Make for Years
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Covid's long shadow on the eye, and a 35-and-over fertility reckoning: two slow-burn health stories converging on the next decade
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Dakota Fanning Returns to Indie Roots in Joe Swanberg's Alaska-Set 'The Sun Never Sets'
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David Byrne at the cinema: a 1977 stage entrance that explains why American Utopia still draws a crowd
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Fifteen years on, China's South Sudan footprint becomes a study in staying power
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Cinema of the half-year: what readers say pulled them back to the theatres
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Cinetic Media Acquires North American Rights to Locarno-Bound 'Manhunt' as Aspect Ratio Picks Up International Sales
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Colman Domingo returns to the Bay Area as Frameline opens its 50th edition, with the actor-producer framing the festival as a homecoming
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Catalog Deals Quietly Reshape Who Owns the Money in Popular Music
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Carney's Saudi courtship and the architecture of Canadian diversification
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Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh belter who outlasted her peers
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Justin Baldoni Breaks His Silence on the Blake Lively Fight — and the Video Era of Celebrity Litigation
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Automattic's 'Code for the People' makes the case for an open internet before the walled gardens close
Culture09 Jul
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Culture09 Jul
'AI is colonisation 2.0': Indian documentary director puts Western AI labs on trial
Culture09 Jul
Arrakis Returns: Abu Dhabi Doubles Down on Dune and the Stakes of Becoming Hollywood's Desert
Culture08 Jul
Yashasvi Juyal Brings a Highway That Disappears to Karlovy Vary
Culture08 Jul
Warhol Foundation Puts $5.2 Million Behind 78 Arts Groups, With a Third of Recipients Receiving Grants for the First Time
Culture08 Jul
Wes Anderson's Elevator at the Academy Museum: A 30-Year Reunion in One Hundred Square Feet
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A Whitney Intervention and the Question of Where a Museum's Authority Ends
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Culture08 Jul
Indie Producers Tell Variety the Money Math Has Changed — and Festivals Are Now Part of the Equation
Culture08 Jul
Venice Biennale Becomes the Stage for a US–Italy Diplomatic Confrontation Over Gaza
Culture08 Jul
Universal's Britney Spears biopic lands a writer — and the timing is the news
Culture08 Jul
U2's "Street of Dreams" Trades Stadium Spectacle for Apartment-Block Crash
Culture08 Jul
Twisted Teens Return With 'Florida Water Blues' as New Orleans Duo Doubles Down on a Prodigious 2026
Culture08 Jul
Trump's name stays off the Kennedy Center: a court tells the president his own brand is not a fact
Culture08 Jul
Trump declares Iran ceasefire 'over,' drawing warning from Madrid
Culture08 Jul
‘The Guest’ and the Danish Art of Letting Tragedy Be Ordinary
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Told Slant's Felix Walworth Returns to New York With 'What's Up'
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Tony Rayns, the British Critic Who Reframed East Asian Cinema for Western Audiences, Dies at 78
Culture08 Jul
Sumitra Peries' 1978 'The Girls' returns to view — a quiet Sri Lankan gem the global canon forgot
Culture08 Jul
Sundance and FIPRESCI Launch a New Jury for First-Time Foreign Directors — and the Timing Says Something
Culture08 Jul
Spain's 'business as usual' reply to Trump's trade threat exposes a transatlantic asymmetry
Culture08 Jul
Sterling Betancourt and the steelpan road the UK never quite paved
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The Smithsonian Report and the New Vocabulary of Cultural Warfare
Culture08 Jul
Sotheby's Stages a Late-Summer Botero Show as the Latin American Market Resets
Culture08 Jul
M3GAN Spinoff Soulm8te Bypasses Theaters for Digital Release, Marking a Quiet Recalibration at Universal
Culture08 Jul
Sarajevo bets on the audience: a new audience-voted prize joins Europe's mid-summer film calendar
Culture08 Jul
A film, a censor's clipboard, and three years: the strange afterlife of Satluj
Culture08 Jul
'Rose of Nevada' and the Quiet Math of the Indie Specialized Box Office
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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A painting, a removed work, and a copyright fight: Kelly Reemtsen sues David Salle over 'Hatchet'
Culture08 Jul
Andrij Parekh Directs Netflix's 'The Retrievals': What the IVF Scandal Series Signals About Streaming's Long Bet on Procedural Prestige
Culture08 Jul
Pawlikowski Returns to Sarajevo: 'Fatherland' Opens a Festival That Refuses to Pick Sides
Culture08 Jul
'Pipes' and the Question of Who Sees a War: Karim Kassem's Lebanon at Karlovy Vary
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Pirates, again: how a 2013 video game became the surprise hit of the 2026 summer slate
Culture08 Jul
Pitchfork's Mexico City debut leans on legacy acts and local openers — and asks a city to grow with it
Culture08 Jul
Netflix's gaming play, the console retreat, and the slow consolidation of interactive entertainment
Culture08 Jul
New Museum Taps Massimiliano Gioni to Succeed Lisa Phillips
Culture08 Jul
Zendaya, Anne Hathaway and the New Geography of the Blockbuster Premiere
Culture08 Jul
Netflix taps a Colombian veteran to lead its content push in Bogotá
Culture08 Jul
Mubi acquires Eleanor Coppola's Marie Antoinette documentary, marking a 20-year anniversary of Sofia Coppola's original
Culture08 Jul
Mariinsky brings La Gioconda back into rotation as Russian opera courts its home audience
Culture08 Jul
Mastodon Marks a Year Without Hinds with a Short Film Built Around the Music
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Matt Brittin, the licence fee and the future of the BBC: what the parliamentary grilling actually settles
Culture08 Jul
Louisiana Museum Lines Up a Major Remedios Varo Show for Autumn 2026
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
How a Former Chief Minister's Bungalow Became Delhi's New Cultural Wedge
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The Bridge: How a PinkPantheress–Kelela Link-Up Quietly Reset the 2026 Pop Conversation
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John Slattery, Groin Kicks, and the Curious Endurance of the Frat-Pack Comedy
Culture08 Jul
Jon Erwin's AI Playbook for Biblical Epics: Collaboration, Cost, and a Production Crisis Hollywood Isn't Naming
Culture08 Jul
Janus Films Revives 'Unzipped' — and the 1990s Fashion Documentary Finally Catches Up to Itself
Culture08 Jul
Japan's autism rates and the limits of Western diagnostic culture: a paper that won't sit still
Culture08 Jul
Netflix's 'I'm Not Afraid' turns a rural Mexican mystery into a study of how childhood ends
Culture08 Jul
Henry Taylor and James Jarvaise, reunited: Hauser & Wirth opens a two-anchor show that asks what the LA painter still owes the New York gallery that first showed him
Culture08 Jul
HBO Max's Emmy Bet Pays Off as 'The Pitt' and 'Hacks' Reshape the Streaming Race
Culture08 Jul
Hema Malini, a borrowed suit, and a Rs 15,000 verdict: three small stories from a noisy Indian news week
Culture08 Jul
High Line Art opens public consultation on 62 plinth proposals — including Kelly Akashi, Anicka Yi, Kevin Beasley, and Anthea Hamilton
Culture08 Jul
A dark comedy's theatrical run becomes the summer's unlikely date-night fixture
Culture08 Jul
'Finding Mojo' and the Southeast Asian Rom-Com Bid for a Global Footprint
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France's culture wars go streaming: quotas, theatrical windows, and a French content exception at war with itself
Culture08 Jul
Gaga's 'Dead Dance' lands an Emmy nod — and a fifth career nomination for a singer who keeps collecting TV rooms
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
The FDA's antidepressant data, and a European Union that has lost the plot on packaging
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
Dune: Part Three trailer lands — Villeneuve closes the Arrakis cycle on his own terms
Culture08 Jul
Nashville's Next Power Broker: A Belmont Dean Steps Into the Country Music Association's Top Seat
Culture08 Jul
Constable's Four Seasons, a New Museum Director, and the Surrealist on a Soccer Jersey
Culture08 Jul
Alaska, jealousy, and the indie-trailer economy: what the Dakota Fanning drama says about the post-studio pivot
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A Quiet Frame in the Pamirs: Daniel Malikyar's Best Photograph
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David Chase Looks Past New Jersey: What an Italian-American Migration Story Says About a Saturated TV Landscape
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David Howard Thornton Steps Into a Slasher Heritage With ‘Behind the Mask II’
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Dinosaurs, cowboys and the limits of creature-feature ambition: a first look at 'Dinosaurs of the Wild West'
Culture08 Jul
Cheetah Girls reboot confirms Raven-Symoné, and a Generation Now Has to Decide Who Its Sequels Belong To
Culture08 Jul
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Cement Their Place on Hollywood Boulevard as the West Coast Catches Up to Its Own History
Culture08 Jul
Brussels's Kanal museum suffers rooftop fire months before opening
Culture08 Jul
A Czarina's Libretto Returns: Catherine II's Opera Stages Its First Modern Hearing at Regensburg
Culture08 Jul
Cemre Paksoy on 'Night Nurse' and the Limits of Turkish Erotic Cinema
Culture08 Jul
Belgium’s Magritte-Backed World Cup Shirt Plays the Long Game Between Art and Spectacle
Culture08 Jul
A Moscow stage, a Russian pianist, and the question of who still listens
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
Beckham and U2 join Street Child United for a World Cup final short film — and a quiet test of celebrity philanthropy
Culture08 Jul
Bela Bajaria's Mipcom Vanguard Award Quietly Confirms Where Global Content Gravity Now Sits
Culture08 Jul
Belgium's World Cup jersey finds a new audience — and a 1938 painting is doing the talking
Culture08 Jul
Sea of Azov shadow-fleet strikes: 19 tankers hit in 72 hours reshape Black Sea sanctions calculus
Culture08 Jul
Iran's top diplomat turns a Trump insult into a civilisational statement — and a diplomatic opening
Culture08 Jul
Iran's foreign minister draws the line: 'vulgarity with action, not words'
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
A disposable camera, a Ukrainian fighter, and the slow turn toward presence over production
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Culture08 Jul
New York's Natural History Museum Returns 2,700 Hair Samples Taken From Native American Cadavers in the 19th Century
Culture08 Jul
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Culture08 Jul
Academy Museum Bets Big on Horror for Its Next Blockbuster Blockbuster
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Airbnb's Lollapalooza Backstage Bet: When Live Music Becomes an Inventory Class
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Culture07 Jul
Soccer, ratings, and the soft-power arithmetic of a North American World Cup
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Culture07 Jul
Yervant Gianikian, the Italian-Armenian Filmmaker Who Gave Armenia Its Venice Golden Lion, Dies at 84
Culture07 Jul
Soft and Hairy House at V&A Dundee: how a Japan-Britain partnership rebuilt the architectural vocabulary of touch
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