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Arts

  • Céline Dion performs during the opening ceremony.

    Music
    Céline Dion returns to the stage to kick off Paris Olympics

  • Francis Ford Coppola at the 2024 Cannes film festival.

    Film
    Video emerges of Francis Ford Coppola kissing female extras on set

    The film-maker has been accused of acting inappropriately on the set of his self-funded sci-fi epic Megalopolis
  • Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Russell Tovey

    Television
    Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw to star in Doctor Who spin-off

    Writer Russell T Davies says drama The War Between the Land and the Sea ‘will shake the Whoniverse to its foundations’

Talking points

  • A total mosh-out … Ceremony’s Ross Farrar.

    Music
    Go hard or go home: why is hardcore punk enjoying a renaissance?

  • Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine.

    Film
    Deadpool’s obnoxious gay panic humour is a tiresome schoolyard taunt

    Guy Lodge
  • Don’t look now … Deadpool & Wolverine.

    Film
    Attack of the spoilers: are trailers giving away too much?

  • Crash Bandicoot

    Games
    Platformers are the most diabolical gaming genre. I should know

    Dominik Diamond

People

  • Harvey Weinstein in Manhattan criminal court in July, 2024.

    Film
    Harvey Weinstein hospitalised with Covid and pneumonia

  • Sean Wang, wearing a white T-shirt under a blue jumper, sits sideways on a chair, hands linked, facing the camera

    Film
    ‘In all those movies about childhood, I never saw someone who looked like me’: Sean Wang on his debut, Dìdi

    • David Lynch and Chrystabell.

      Music
      ‘Sublime eternal love exists within each one of us’: David Lynch on music, friendship and life’s biggest mystery

    • Interpol, press photo 2022

      Music
      Interpol: ‘I’m very glad we said yes to putting a song in Friends – it was a pretty hardcore moment’

    • George Lazenby in 2022.

      Film
      ‘It’s been a fun ride’: former Bond George Lazenby announces retirement at 84

The big picture

  • Close up of a saltwater crocodile's eye in the Mangroves

    Roots and refuge: the year’s best mangrove images – in pictures

    From an unexpected glimpse of a silky anteater to a tagged terrapin, here is a selection of this year’s winning, runner-up and commended images from the 2024 Mangrove photography awards, run by the Mangrove Action Project

Reviews

  • Empire of the Sun.

    Music
    Empire of the Sun: Ask That God – the magic’s still there

  • Close-up of Mustard, wearing sunglasses and rings

    Music
    Mustard: Faith of a Mustard Seed – lacking in spice

    • Divisive … Ice Spice.

      Music
      Ice Spice: Y2K! – wilfully trashy wordplay from wily new rap star

    • Block party … Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure.

      Games
      Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure – shifting expectations

    • This image released by Bleecker Street shows, from left, Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Bette Midler in a scene from "The Fabulous Four." (Bleecker Street via AP)

      Film
      The Fabulous Four – starry cast deserves better in silly, simplistic comedy

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Pictures & video

  • Lee Friedlander –  Topless Bridesmaid, 1967

    Photography
    Keep on Kicken! 50 years photographing Berlin and beyond – in pictures

    From cold war subcultures to topless bridesmaids, a new exhibition at Kicken Berlin features half a century of groundbreaking images
  • The Group for Mutual Improvement 6

    Photography
    ‘Our own dirtbag Narnia’: hanging out with the trash people – in pictures

  • Farming Family, Poland © Colin Robins and Oliver Udy

    Art and design
    Big in the country: rural life across Europe – in pictures

  • In pictures
    Road to ruins: Peter Mitchell’s crumbling Leeds

  • Photography
    ‘Some of the most shocking photographs ever taken’ – The Camera Never Lies review

  • My best shot
    A wild moment with date paste

  • Photography
    Feeling sheepish: Sergio Purtell’s American dream – in pictures

  • Photography
    ‘You never know what you’ll bump into’: a wander around Britain – in pictures

  • Photography
    Joy, trauma and identity: themes from Kuala Lumpur’s photography awards

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