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Entertainment News brief 16 Oct 2026
Two decades of work from producers JLZ, VHOOR, Mu540 and DJ RaMeMes strips the Brazilian genre to its essential parts until it chimes with grime and drill
By NewsJaws News Feed · 1 min read Entertainment Calling the shots: what NAZA says about perpetrator cinema The documentary detailing Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza is the latest film to give a voice to those who carry out atrocities – confronting viewers with some of the...
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Entertainment Dogmatic Nordic liberals v eastern family values: culture-clash drama Fjord touches nerves in Norway and Romania Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes winner echoes the news story of a Romanian couple whose children were taken by the Norwegian government. As it heads to London film festival, two...
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Entertainment The Face of Horror review – a future cult classic delights with playful spin on Hammer horror Anna Biller’s intricate tribute to the British 1960s genre plays melodrama for laughs and pulls it off wonderfully in a medieval tale based on a Japanese ghost story
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Entertainment ‘I need to prove my family’s sacrifice was worth it’: how pop auteur Shygirl slogged her way to the top Adored by Madonna and Charli xcx and buoyed by finding true love, the Londoner is branching out into rock and breaking the mainstream. She explains how her working class...
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Entertainment Wynonna Judd on being ‘broken and blessed’ with grief Wynonna Judd is a country music superstar who got her first record contract at 18 singing with her mother Naomi. In this moving conversation, she talks with Anderson Cooper...
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Entertainment Klara and the Sun review – Taika Waititi’s manic pixie dream robot sci-fi is a sentimental mess The director of Hunt for the Wilderpeople and Jojo Rabbit turns Kazuo Ishiguro’s AI fable into a twee, tiresome tale of love and grief
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Entertainment Balloon Girl review – tech tycoon swirls with tragic teen parachutist in a crackling, time-travelling climate romp Hannah McPake’s high-wire drama pokes fun at tech bro machismo, reality TV and Musk-style Martian escapes – think A Christmas Carol in space
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Entertainment Street Fighter review – nostalgia only goes so far in junky fighting game movie There are brief, simple pleasures in the inevitable new big screen take on the classic game but like the recent Mortal Kombat movies, it’s a largely incoherent mess
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Entertainment Cult venue Prince Charles cinema ‘saved’ after lease renewal signed The much-loved central London institution, which has been threatened with closure since January 2025, secures 25-year lease without break clause with current landlords
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Entertainment ‘Stranger than stranger-than-fiction’: how Lance Oppenheim made the year’s two buzziest films Primetime and You Can See Everything are both clammy, audacious awards contenders that challenge our sense of reality. Ahead of the release of his drama starring Robert...
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Entertainment ‘Musk’ documentary examines the world’s richest man Oscar winner Alex Gibney's nearly four-hour film explores the controversial billionaire's life and influence. David Daniel has a preview.
Entertainment Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s AI-generated social media content: ‘I guess maybe he’s bored?’ The host discussed the president’s focus on AI-generated social media videos and cognitive tests in the countdown to the US midterm elections
Entertainment Hollywood Minute: Celine Dion ‘will go on’ as Barbie The new Barbie is Celine Dion in her 'Titanic' era, and Jaalen Best is Muhammad Ali in 'The Greatest.' David Daniel reports.
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Entertainment ‘Don’t do this!’ Why Paul McCartney cares about looking shorter than John Lennon in Sam Mendes’ Beatles films You’re Paul McCartney. So how come you’re still getting het up at a fictional version of you being marginally smaller than a fictional version of John Lennon?
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Entertainment ‘A guy held a knife to my throat and said: play something normal!’ Richard Thompson on crazy crowds, his beloved beret and Sandy Denny’s driving skills As he releases new album Hippies, Thugs and Heroes, the 77-year-old British folk legend answers your questions about Billy Connolly, Californian fish and chips and whether he...
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Entertainment Angèle: Instinct review – Belgium’s biggest star is determined to do pop differently Massive in her home nation but less so outside, Angèle is aided by Justice, Soulwax and Caroline Polachek in a bold bid for broader appeal – but her resultant album can be...
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Entertainment Your full attention: Jesse Eisenberg’s 10 best film performances – ranked! As his new movie The Debut closes the London film festival, we count down the best of the actor’s shy, sly and sometimes hairy outings