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Arts

  • Artistic Gymnastics - Olympic Games Paris 2024: Day 2<br>PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 28: Tom Cruise on the Stands during day two of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at the Bercy Arena on July 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Tom Weller/VOIGT/GettyImages)

    Film
    Tom Cruise to appear in Olympics closing ceremony - report

  • A young Britney Spears smiles.

    Film
    Britney Spears memoir The Woman in Me headed to the big screen

    Universal has acquired the rights to the bestselling tell-all, with Wicked’s Jon M Chu set to direct
  • Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in Bill and Ted Face the Music.

    Stage
    Keanu Reeves to make Broadway debut opposite Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter

    The actors will star in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot from award-winning British director Jamie Lloyd
  • This image released by Apple TV shows Matt Damon, left, and Casey Affleck in a scene from "The Instigators." (Apple TV+ via AP)

    Film
    The Instigators – Matt Damon and Casey Affleck can’t save underpowered heist comedy

  • Odessa Rae (centre) with Alexei Navalny and his wife, Yulia Navalnaya.

    Film
    ‘I’m happy for everyone released, but there is also sadness’: film-maker Odessa Rae on today’s momentous prisoner swap

  • Ravyn Lenae

    Music
    Ravyn Lenae, genius of melody: ‘What’s left out of love songs is the growth on the other side of a breakup’

  • Closeup of a couple at the movies eating popcorn.

    Film
    A woman brought her own snacks to Despicable Me 4. Then the police arrived

    Stuart Heritage

Talking points

  • Minnie Riperton in California in 1977.

    Music
    Soul, psychedelia and sensuality: Minnie Riperton’s 20 best songs – ranked!

  • 2024 Comic-Con International: San Diego - Marvel Studios Panel<br>SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 27: Robert Downey Jr. speaks onstage at the Marvel Studios Panel during 2024 Comic-Con International at San Diego Convention Center on July 27, 2024 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)

    Film
    Breaking the bank: are Hollywood stars getting paid too much?

  • Words, words, words … a gallerygoer considers Rajasthan (Wall Painting), 2012, by Bridget Riley.

    Books
    Five of the best novels about art

  • Sasquatch Sunset.

    Film
    The silence is deafening: why this year’s environmental films are nonverbal

People

  • Adele performing in 2022.

    Music
    ‘A bit bloody exciting’: Adele welcomes tens of thousands to epic Munich concert series

  • Malcolm McDowell portrait.

    Film
    Malcolm McDowell: ‘Kubrick had stewed pears and sour chicken for lunch because Napoleon did’

    • Cheng Pei-pei , movie star of Shaw Brothers in Cultural Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui. 08 April 2003 (Photo by David Wong/South China Morning Post via Getty Images)

      Film
      Cheng Pei-pei obituary

    • Vybz Kartel performing in 2005.

      Music
      Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel released from prison after 13 years

    • 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Los Angeles Times, January 2024<br>PARK CITY, UT - JANUARY 19: Joan Chen of 'Didi' is photographed for Los Angeles Times on January 19, 2024 at the LA Times Studio at Sundance Film Festival presented by Chase Sapphire in Park City, Utah. PUBLISHED IMAGE. CREDIT MUST READ: Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times via Contour RA. (Photo by Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times via Contour RA by Getty Images)

      Film
      The comeback queen: actor Joan Chen on self-doubt, success, savagings – and a second chance at 63

The big picture

  • ‘Lost in music’ … reggae fan Ken

    Sound systems and struggle: community spirit in east London – in pictures

    After getting to know the domino-playing locals in Gillett Square, Roland Ramanan began photographing their world of music, romance and hardship

Reviews

  • Jane Stanley, pictured during recording sessions for Cerulean Orbits

    Music
    Jane Stanley: Cerulean Orbits – music with an ear for texture and economy

  • man in a patterned shirt draws in the air with a purple crayon

    Film
    Harold and the Purple Crayon – garish and charmless kids fantasy dud

    • The US Capitol Building Dome before sunrise, as seen from a taxi, in Washington DC

      Books
      Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu – haunting American dreams

    • Batman with Harley Quinn in Batman: Caped Crusader.

      Television
      Batman: Caped Crusader – this noirish reboot feels utterly refreshing

    • Jack White.

      Music
      Jack White: No Name – terrific surprise album is his most White Stripes-esque solo release

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Pictures & video

  • ‘Lost in music’ … reggae fan Ken

    Photography
    Sound systems and struggle: community spirit in east London – in pictures

    After getting to know the domino-playing locals in Gillett Square, Roland Ramanan began photographing their world of music, romance and hardship
  • Laura Alvarez, Venezuela, 1976

    Fashion photography
    Totally bananas! Gian Paolo Barbieri’s wild fashion shoots – in pictures

  • Lee Friedlander – Topless Bridesmaid, 1967

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

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

  • 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

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