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Arts

  • white man wearing cowboy hat points gun

    Film
    Kevin Costner’s Horizon sequel pulled from release after first film flops

  • ‘He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,’ George Clooney wrote.

    Film
    George Clooney implores Biden to step aside in opinion article

    The actor says he talked to Biden at LA fundraiser and concluded: ‘We are not going to win with this president’
  • This image released by Neon shows Maika Monroe in a scene from "Longlegs." (Neon via AP)

    Film
    Longlegs – Nicolas Cage is a miscast killer in misfiring hokum

    A distractingly outsized performance is one of many unsuccessful elements in Osgood Perkins’ stylish yet progressively silly horror

Talking points

  • “It’s a way of life, an identity” … Las Flores del Changüí.

    Music
    ‘If the world explodes, the only survivors will be cockroaches and Cubans!’: the Guantánamo musicians defying the island’s crisis

  • A Polly Pocket doll sits on a shelf in a store in Arlington<br>A "Polly Pocket" doll sits on a shelf in a store in Arlington, Virginia, August 14, 2007. Mattel Inc., the largest U.S. toy company, recalled millions more Chinese-made toys on Tuesday due to hazards from small, powerful magnets and lead paint, and warned it may recall additional products as it steps up testing on thousands of toys. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

    Film
    ‘I don’t think I have that in me’: what was Lena Dunham’s abandoned Polly Pocket movie actually going to involve?

    Stuart Heritage
  • woman with tattoos on her hands covers her face with her hands

    Film
    ‘How do we stop this?’ Inuit woman unpacks trauma of being twice colonized

  • Shrek and Donkey in Shrek 2

    Film
    We’re all feeling sequel fatigue – but Hollywood’s giving us Shrek 5

    Sian Cain

People

  • Queens of the Stone Age live in Rome, Italy - 04 Jul 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Stefano Costantino/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock (14573665e) Josh Homme of "Queens of the Stone Age" performs live on stage at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. Queens of the Stone Age live in Rome, Italy - 04 Jul 2024

    Music
    Queens of the Stone Age cancels European tour for Josh Homme’s surgery

  • Milan Kundera.

    Books
    Where to start with: Milan Kundera

    • Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

      Film
      Harvey Weinstein faces potential November retrial and possible new charges

    • MJ Lenderman.

      Music
      Pixar, Catholic shame, and urine-drinking podcast bros: the mixed-up rock of MJ Lenderman

    • Untitled #80 (1980).

      Art and design
      Cindy Sherman: ‘Little girls play dress-up – but I was always trying to be a monster instead of a fairy’

The big picture

  • Early morning, Lake Atitlán, Santiago Atitlán 2019

    Still waters run deep: Latin American Foto festival – in pictures

    From Quechua rappers to Peruvian ballet dancers, these images showcase the talents of emerging and established photographers from the region

Reviews

  • Miss Severance? This will scratch that itch … Rashida Jones and her robot in Sunny.

    Television
    Sunny – this robot-fuelled comedy thriller sounds crap … and is actually excellent

  • Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum in Fly Me To the Moon.

    Film
    Fly Me to the Moon – slinky Scarlett Johansson in cynical moon-landing conspiracy comedy

    • Black man wearing purple hoodie looks ahead as a Black man wearing button down sits behind him

      Film
      Sing Sing – powerful, deeply felt drama takes theatre behind bars

    • Usak in The Boyfriend.

      Television
      The Boyfriend - the gay Japanese dating show that will have you punching the air with joy

    • Franz Kafka in 1917.

      Books
      Kafka: Selected Stories, edited by Mark Harman – the master who never wasted a word

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Pictures & video

  • Early morning, Lake Atitlán, Santiago Atitlán 2019

    Photography
    Latin American Foto festival

    From Quechua rappers to Peruvian ballet dancers, these images showcase the talents of emerging and established photographers from the region
  • ‘Amazing and often drunk’ … Funny Sonny packing with Zipco, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1965

    Photography
    On the road with a 1960s biker gang

  • A blurred picture of people passing through a station with arrows pointing in different directions on the floor.

    Art and design
    Tokyo’s oldest train line – in pictures

  • Royal Shakespeare Company
    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC – in pictures

  • NHS
    ‘We all need a place to hide’: hospital workers take a breather

  • The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Like an island separate from England’: Black joy at Glastonbury

  • Drag
    ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’ Drag artists with Down’s Syndrome

  • Art and design
    Arles festival of photography

  • Photo essay
    Families behind the two-child limit to benefits

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