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  • Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni

    Film
    ‘It’s the misogyny slop ecosystem!’ How Candace Owens and the American right declared war on Blake Lively

    Remember Johnny Depp v Amber Heard? If you thought that was ugly, wait till you see Blake Lively v Justin Baldoni. As the stars of It Ends With Us swap lawsuits over claims of sexual harassment, the conservative media has picked its side – and it’s not pulling any punches
  • Hotel Festa Qugiela, Okayama.

    Architecture
    We’re having sex inside Moby Dick! The wild world of Japan’s love hotels

    From cruise ships to UFOs, from King Kong to a giant whale, half the sex in Japan may take place in its dazzlingly imaginative love hotels. But have some become just too seedy? Our writer checks in
  • Film-Summer Preview<br>This image released by Paramount Pictures and Skydance shows Tom Cruise, left and Christopher McQuarrie on the set of "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning." (Paramount Pictures and Skydance via AP)

    Analysis
    Trump’s movie tariffs are designed to destroy the international film industry

    Vague and grandstanding as the US president’s messaging may be, it has serious ramifications which could wipe out large sections of the film business
  • Kula Shaker in 1996.

    How we made
    Kula Shaker on Govinda: ‘Crowds would sing the lyrics as, “Go cash your giro giro”’

    ‘It was great to get a song that’s entirely in Sanskrit on Radio 1. It has a power that’s beyond us. We’re just the vessels’
    • Katherine Ryan holding a pomeranian dog in her arms in Silence is Golden, with Dermot O'Leary blurred out in the background

      TV review
      Silence is Golden – Katherine Ryan would definitely kill your dog for cash

    • E.A. Hanks with her mother Susan Dillingham, at Disneyland circa 1997

      The G2 interview
      A child on thin ice: EA Hanks on life with her abusive mother – and world-famous father

    • TicketMaster (08c602d19fc5935922f9f9334e3b8b44956bc0e2)

      Ticket prices
      Who is behind the great rock’n’roll ripoff? How Ticketmaster swallowed the live entertainment scene

    • Mick Jagger, Shaun Ryder and Kiss’s Paul Stanley.

      Pop and rock
      ‘I’m burping? At least I didn’t fart!’ Ten things I’ve learned about ageing rockers

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News

  • sketch of man in court turning his head around

    Music
    Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s sex-trafficking trial begins with jury selection in New York

    Several dozen prospective jurors got brief description of charges as hip-hop entrepreneur sat with lawyers
  • People dressed as Storm Troopers in front of a Pinewood Studios sign

    Film
    Trump’s foreign film tariffs could ‘wipe out’ UK movie industry, ministers told

  • a winding river in a landscape with autumn foliage

    Wales
    Publisher behind hit bilingual poetry book on A470 turns to Welsh rivers

  • Film
    Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’

  • Music
    Two arrested over bomb plot targeting Lady Gaga concert in Rio attended by millions

  • Art
    Exhibition of original Bob Dylan paintings to open in London

  • Music
    Lewis Capaldi makes surprise return to live performance at charity gig

  • Art and design
    LS Lowry painting bought for £10 in 1926 sells at auction for £800,000

  • Games
    Grand Theft Auto VI delayed until May 2026

Reviews

  • Peg o' My Heart

    Film
    Peg o’ My Heart – Hong Kong’s disordered dream life is focus of Lynchian thriller

  • Ashley Greene in It Feeds.

    Film
    It Feeds – spooky supernatural chiller that loads up on tasty jump-scares

    A psychic psychiatrist perceives a wraith latching on to people in this neatly-realised, if somewhat familiar, beastie-horror
  • A still from The Hamlet Syndrome

    Film
    The Hamlet Syndrome – soldiers turn to Shakespeare as Ukrainians deal with the war

    A searingly intimate observation of an alternative production of Hamlet, where many of the actors are soldiers from the frontline
  • Michael Maloney as Sebastian in Ride the Snake

    Film
    Ride the Snake – low-budget home-invasion horror offers transgressive free-for-all

  • A female about to take a swim in a cool lake

    Book of the day
    Dream State by Eric Puchner – an epic tale of paradise lost

  • Has he done enough? … Hannah McClean as Rosie and Tom Hughes as Dr James Ford in Malpractice.

    TV
    Malpractice season two – relentlessly tense TV that will leave you terrified

  • Grisha Martirosyan and Isabela Díaz in Pimpinone.

    Opera
    Pimpinone – hot-to-trot comic opera from the underperformed Telemann

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Regulars

  • Anoushka Shankar

    Honest playlist
    ‘I was the only person who didn’t know the words to Coldplay’: Anoushka Shankar’s honest playlist

    The musician on her love of cheesy R&B, hating karaoke ‘with a fiery passion’, and the people who have sex to her sister Norah Jones’s music
  • Bonnie Raitt

    Bonnie Raitt
    ‘Do something with your actions. Don’t just write a cheque’: Bonnie Raitt on activism, making men cry and 38 years of sobriety

  • He glares intensely into the camera, wearing a leather vest and a lion’s head as a helmet

    Film
    Rock’n’roles: Dwayne Johnson films – ranked!

  • How we made
    Mark Knopfler on Dire Straits’ Money for Nothing: ‘I wrote it in the window display of a New York appliance store’

  • Lorde
    Girl, so inspiring! Lorde’s 20 best songs – ranked

  • Film
    ‘I hum the Chariots of Fire theme all day, every day’: Nigel Havers on beach-running, playing Michael Caine’s son and hating his name

Staying in

  • Dermot O’Leary (left) in Silence Is Golden

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: no laughter allowed in Dermot O’Leary’s new comedy show

  • Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander and Himesh Patel in The Assessment.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    The Assessment to The Dark Knight: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Alicia Vikander stars as a tantrumming parent-tester in a creepy dystopian thriller, and Heath Ledger is magnetic in Christopher Nolan’s terrific Batman epic
  • Octopus, a documentary exploring the Charismatic creature.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Octopus to Long Way Home: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Phoebe Waller-Bridge gives us an oddball love letter to the charming creatures, while Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman jump on their motorbikes and head out on the open road for another grand tour
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Pictures & video

  • Airborne … a Mexican Charro executes a rope drill on top of his horse.

    Photography
    Cliff-divers, floating drinkers and billion-dollar flies: everyday moments on Earth

    From daredevil swimmers in Tunisia to a rope-tricking Mexican horseman and a family get-together at a Californian river bar, the magic of everyday moments is celebrated in LensCulture’s New Visions awards
  • ‘It could be a self portrait’ … Arlene Gottfried’s photographer of a gospel singer

    Photography
    Sing for your snapper: a life-affirming view of New York

  • Red Crown Crane Feeding, Tsurui, Hokkaido, Japan. 2005

    Black and white
    ‘A form of meditation’: a photographic haiku to Japan

  • Street photography
    Shot from the hip! A street level view of 1970s New York

  • Music
    ‘Filling in these gaps’: Paul McCartney’s recently rediscovered photographs

  • New York
    Keith Haring, Kanagawa and Georgia O’Keeffe: highlights from NYC’s Photography Show – in pictures

  • Travel
    ‘Monks, politicians, drag queens – all life is here’: a trip to Japan’s Kyotographie festival

  • Stage
    Puttin’ on the Fitz! The Great Gatsby: A New Musical – in pictures

  • Magnum sale
    Braying donkeys, kissing clowns and Marilyn’s dress mishap – in pictures

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    Television
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    This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh eyes
  • Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cellist. Photographed at the Barbican. London. Photograph by David Levene 21/4/25

    Classical music
    ‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’

  • Gary Oldman and Stephen Rea in Krapp's Last Tape.

    Stage
    Holy Krapp! Gary Oldman and Stephen Rea unspool Beckett’s masterpiece about memory

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    Film
    ‘I wish I’d never written that damn movie’: Rust director Joel Souza on finishing his film after the fatal on-set shooting

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    Music
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    The great women's art bulletin
    Joyous junkyard beauties: how Leilah Babirye fled death to create towering works of togetherness

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