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Arts

  • Two young men smiling

    Film
    Lurker – deviously entertaining Hollywood hanger-on thriller

  • Living legend … Harrison Ford promoting Captain America: Brave New World.

    Film
    Grumpy Harrison Ford, a mystery asterisk and AI gone wild: everything from Disney’s new slate presentation

    Few sights are as majestic as an 82-year-old legend being nonplussed at promoting Captain America: Brave New World. Plus: is Thunderbolts* Marvel’s answer to The Suicide Squad and will Tron: Ares be as good as it looks?
  • The New York offices of Simon & Schuster.

    Books
    Simon & Schuster imprint will no longer ask authors to obtain blurbs for their books

    Publisher says expecting authors, agents and editors to secure blurbs can create ‘an incestuous and unmeritocratic literary ecosystem that often rewards connections over talent’
  • Photo of Marianne FAITHFULL<br>UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 08: DOMINION THEATRE Photo of Marianne FAITHFULL, Marianne Faithful performing at The Dominion, London on 8 June 1982 (Photo by David Corio/Redferns)

    Music
    ‘There was a little bit of the devil in her’: Damon Albarn and Rufus Wainwright remember Marianne Faithfull

  • a woman wearing a striped shirt and a man in a leather jacket stand on stage

    Music
    ‘We will be OK’: Lady Gaga and Billie Eilish among headliners for LA wildfire benefit concert

  • Stephen Colbert

    Television
    Colbert on Trump’s second week: ‘America is having some second thoughts’

  • Abel Tesfaye, AKA the Weeknd

    Music
    The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow – a record that will floor you … and drive you up the wall

Talking points

  • several Grammy awards displayed on a table

    Music
    2025 Grammys will celebrate music but also raise money for LA fire relief

  • Bear Grylls with Sam Wollaston.

    Television
    ‘Do you want a little experience of stalking?’: what happened when Bear Grylls offered to ‘hunt’ me in a jungle

  • A true ham … Madonna performing in London in 2023.

    Music
    Madonna trying standup is no joke: she’s a natural comedian and genuine kook

    Shaad D'Souza
  • Marianne Faithfull pictured in 1994.

    Music
    Melancholy, morphine and the Baader-Meinhof group: Marianne Faithfull’s 10 best recordings

People

  • NAO

    Music
    Nao on fame, motherhood and living with ME: ‘I’ve had to work a lot on what my idea of success is’

  • Neko Case in 2018.

    Music
    ‘Women’s rage is real. Mostly we turn it on ourselves’: Neko Case on songwriting, survival – and her mother’s faked death

    • Press shot of the three actors standing together.

      Film
      Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones

    • person wearing black holds microphone and smiles

      Film
      Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón faces backlash over offensive tweets

    • Marianne Faithfull, who has died aged 78.

      Music
      Marianne Faithfull, singular icon of British pop, dies aged 78

The big picture

  • Ke Huy Quan.

    Film
    Post your questions for Ke Huy Quan

    As the Oscar-winning Indiana Jones, Goonies and Everything Everywhere All at Once actor takes his first leading role in decades, he will answer your questions on an extraordinary life and comeback

Reviews

  • a woman in a pink dress tied to a chair and a man sitting opposite her

    Film
    Companion – empty sci-fi thriller short-circuits too quickly

  • Teddy Swims, in pinkish-mauve hat and T-shirt, looking straight to camera.

    Music
    Teddy Swims: I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) – extra-size emotion

    • Bill Gates in 1984

      Books
      Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates – refreshingly frank

    • a woman wearing a black dress dances with a man in a white suit at an event

      Film
      You’re Cordially Invited – Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell carry fun comedy

    • a woman in a grey jumper

      Film
      Opus – John Malkovich plays an evil pop star in a silly horror dud

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Pictures & video

  • The face of a man holding a flower to his lips

    The Guardian picture essay
    AI takes centre stage at Photo Brussels 2025

    A review of this year’s Photo Brussels festival, where the theme of artificial intelligence and its impact and potential were examined by the curated work
  • People looking at reproductions of Banksy's work.

    Art and design
    New Banksy museum opens in Madrid

  • ‘I took photos purely for the colours’ … Quiet Sleep motel, California, 1983

    Wim Wenders
    Light fantastic: the road trip that inspired Paris, Texas – in pictures

  • Architecture
    Radical statement or eyesore? Japan’s divisive brutalist buildings – in pictures

  • Conflict
    ‘Devastated by war’: Ukraine’s battle scars – in pictures

  • Photos of the day
    Lunar new year preparations and a rage room: photos of the weekend

  • Photography
    Let it glow: fireflies illuminating Japanese woodlands – in pictures

  • Road trip
    This is not ‘flyover country’: A journey down America’s spine – in pictures

  • Photography
    Dream states: the Lynchian imagery of Henry Roy – in pictures

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