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  • Video game still of a character wearing glasses and a woollen hat looking at a screen in a dark and gloomy town street

    Games
    Summer Game Fest highlights: 34 new video games to look out for, from Alien Isolation to Crazy Taxi

    Hundreds of video games were shown at June’s annual bonanza. After watching more than 15 hours of showcases, our video games editor picks the highlights
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, 7 June 2026.

    Television
    John Oliver on New College’s Maga takeover: ‘More about political posturing than students’ lives’

  • David Byrne performing in his show American Utopia.

    Music
    Post your questions for David Byrne

  • Widow's Bay S01WidowsBay 103 00257F (e0bb331005ffc85ff53a45515bd07da087ecb3e2)

    Television
    ‘Absolutely wonderful’: why everyone should be watching Widow’s Bay

  • A couple in sparkly costumes embrace, looking at something off-camera, in what appears to be a ballroom setting. Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice in Strictly Ballroom.

    Film
    ‘Screaming girls chased me down the street’: how we made Strictly Ballroom

  • Sean Penn, pictured at a Cannes film festival press conference in 2023

    Film
    How much does Sean Penn hate selfies? Enough to invoke the Holocaust

  • 1999, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECTHEATHER DONAHUE Character(s): Heather Donahue Film 'THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT' (1999) Directed By DANIEL MYRICK, EDUARDO SANCHEZ 25 January 1999 CTE15236 Allstar/PATHE (USA 1999) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of PATHE and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company & can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To PATHE is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Film
    ‘It soothes me’: why The Blair Witch Project is my feelgood movie

Talking points

  • Illustration features Rivals character Rupert, and Harper from Industry

    Television
    The best TV of 2026 so far

  • Spyro: Realms Beyond video game screenshot

    Games
    Spyro the Dragon returns with a new game after almost two decades

  • Album cover featuring five men's faces emerging from rabbit bodies including one emerging from a top hat

    Music
    Hilarious or a nightmare? Exhibition displays the worst album covers ever

  • A soldier in military uniform stands at a table with books and a pink sign in Cyrillic text

    Books
    Air-raid alerts and frontline memoirs: Kyiv hosts literary festival amid war

People

  • David Gray

    Music
    ‘At my funeral I want people dancing in the aisles to Madness’: David Gray’s honest playlist

  • Jodie Foster, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader attend the Taxi Driver screening at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, 5 June 2026.

    Film
    ‘People are still isolated and obsessive’: De Niro, Scorsese, Foster and Schrader reunite for Taxi Driver at 50

  • Man looks ahead

    Film
    Man charged with murder of veteran US character actor James Handy

  • an autonomous drone in the water

    Television
    Anthony Head, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso actor, dies aged 72

The big picture

  • Woman sitting on orange leather chair, through fragmented pieces of mirror

    Art
    Lesbian rebels, exotic dancing and domesticity: New York’s Upstate Photography Biennial – in pictures

    The Center for Photography at Woodstock (in Kingston, New York) recently opened the first-ever New York Upstate Photography Biennial, featuring the work of 39 artists who live and work across the Hudson valley and beyond. The show, co-curated by Marina Chao and Adam Giles Ryan, highlights the diverse work of photographers in the upstate region. Their images will be on view until 6 September 2026
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Reviews

  • Antoni Porowski in a yellow jacket sits on a boat on the River Thames looking upward thoughtfully

    Television
    Best of the World With Antoni Porowski – the Queer Eye host’s travel show is daftly pointless

  • Alice and Steve sit on a wall by a river, talking and smiling

    Television
    Alice and Steve – Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker’s icky comedy is dated and wrong

  • LIzzo posing in a feather-lined black gown

    Music
    Lizzo: Bitch – a spirited star who just can’t rediscover her groove

  • Ta’Rea Campbell, Juliana Canfield and Lauren Jeanne Thomas in Girl, Interrupted.

    Stage
    Girl, Interrupted – mental health memoir reborn as patchy Aimee Mann-soundtracked musical

Pictures & video

  • A man blows a trumpet, cheeks puffed, in a dark stage atmosphere.

    Art
    ‘It’ll never be like that again’: Sonny Rollins and Steve Schapiro on jazz’s golden age – in pictures

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  • A woman in a headscarf pours tea from a white teapot at a table set with bread and fruit

    Art
    Pot shot takes top spot in World Food Photography awards 2026 – in pictures

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  • A person wearing glasses leans out reflected in the door of a car.

    Art
    ‘A new way to express myself’: Harlem teens share their lives through photography – in pictures

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  • HIGH RES Provincetown, 1976 © Joel Meyerowitz, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery and Huxley-Parlour

    ‘I wasn’t expecting that!’: Joel Meyerowitz and the art of surprise – in pictures

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