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  • Elizabeth Holmes is quizzed by Nathan Fielder in You Can See Everything.

    Film
    You Can See Everything review – Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceit

    No spoilers here – TV’s grand illusionist meets his match when he moves in with Theranos founder and her family
  • Film Title: Henri-Georges Clouzot's InfernoFilm Title: Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

    Film
    Sex, drugs and amoebic dysentery: the 20 best making-of documentaries – ranked!

  • Man on stage sings into microphone with one hand in pocket

    Music
    Rick Ross arrested on domestic battery and strangulation charges

  • Undated film still from The Last First: Winter K2. Pictured: A mountaineer. See PA Feature SHOWBIZ Download Reviews. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Download Reviews. PA Photo. Picture credit should read: Apple TV+. All Rights Reserved. NOTE TO EDITORS: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature SHOWBIZ Download Reviews.

    Film
    The Last First: Winter K2 review – race up second highest mountain reveals fatal cost of human ambition

  • Marcus, in armour, raises a rifle with a chainsaw blade attachment; another soldier stands behind

    Games
    Gears of War: E-Day review – an alien invasion shouldn’t be this boring

  • The huddle around a staircase at the venue, posing for the camera

    Music
    ‘Shane was rascality personified’: the Pogues on their late frontman, anti-Irish prejudice and the feud over Fairytale of New York

  • Book covers of Ruins, Child by Giada Scodellaro, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, and Beloved by Toni Morrison

    Books
    What we’re reading: China Miéville, Sebastian Barry, Derek Owusu and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in September

  • GuardianBookClub-Hori-Final

    Books
    ‘I will see you in the parking lot after this’: when book clubs get dramatic

  • Meshell Ndegeocello rests her chin on her hand, wearing rings, in a dark jacket indoors

    Music
    Meshell Ndegeocello: Synonym review – vivid all-star reinventions of everyone from Bob Dylan to J-Lo

Talking points

  • The Surfer - Photocall - 77th Cannes Film Festivalepa11348013 Actor Nicolas Cage attends the photocall for 'The Surfer' during the 77th annual Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes, France, 17 May 2024. The movie is presented out of competition of the festival which runs from 14 to 25 May 2024. EPA/GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO

    Film
    Nicolas Cage calls Marvel movies ‘a glorified WWE’ with over-50s in ‘ridiculous outfits’

  • Woman wearing black shirt and jeans standing on rocks at the beach in photographed in Folkestone, September 23 2026

    Books
    Inside the undersea kingdom: the secret, sinister battle to control what lies beneath the waves

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Film
    Don’t hate the movie, hate the critic! Digger’s new PR push is a risky bet for film that was never meant to be divisive

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Ray Materson. Sirens and Fishes, 1993. Sock threads. 3¼x5 inches.

    Art
    ‘A saving gesture’: the art exhibition spotlighting US prisoners’ creations

People

  • A publicity image for 2004 TV show The Swan.

    Documentary
    The Swan contestants on the ‘sadistic’ pageant reality show: ‘Ultimately, we were just a job’

  • Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher at the UK premiere of Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger in London in September.

    Music
    Oasis take legal action to stop sale of unheard recordings valued at more than £1m

  • Tom Cruise lowers his sunglasses with both hands at a film premiere

    Film
    The cure for doomscrolling? Why Tom Cruise stopped a woman mid-scroll

  • Illustration of fantasy creatures - skeletons and wolves - coming out of the pages of an open book

    Books
    The secret lives of men who read romance books: ‘My life is full of love, so I’m drawn to them’

The big picture

  • A US Navy airship flies above boats in New York Harbour near the skyline

    Blimps, burlesque and brass bands: America takes flight – in pictures

    A new Taschen book comprising 700 images from the National Geographic’s archives charts a dramatic century of dizzying change in the US
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Reviews

  • Charles and Adam Trask stand near seated Cathy Ames in a lace wedding gown, East of Eden

    Television
    East of Eden review – Florence Pugh in soapy Steinbeck adaptation is brilliant, compelling TV

  • Salman Rushdie, wearing glasses and a grey beard

    Film
    Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie review – terrifying and inspiring story of survival

  • Anne Hathaway as Verity in a red dress stands close to Josh Hartnett's Jeremy at an evening event

    Film
    Verity review – Dakota Johnson leaves teethmarks as she goes back to Fifty Shades erotic thriller territory

  • DIGGER, Tom Cruise, 2026. © Warner Bros. /Courtesy Everett Collection3F4A77C DIGGER, Tom Cruise, 2026. © Warner Bros. /Courtesy Everett Collection film still

    Film
    Digger review – Tom Cruise’s loudmouth oil tycoon goes hard in Alejandro G Iñárritu’s eco-satire

Pictures & video

  • Members of the "Savage Skulls" gang pose on and around a fence in the street, by photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont

    Art
    ‘The Savage Skulls were the most dangerous gang in the Bronx’: Jean-Pierre Laffont’s best photograph

  • Painting of a large blossoming chestnut tree over a sunlit path, with people walking beneath it

    Art
    Van Gogh to go on display before sale of ‘almost mythical’ private collection

  • A streamlined low roofed gas station emits a neon glow in a purple-skied landscape

    Art
    Structural decline: what happened to Japan’s iconic buildings? – in pictures

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  • San Francisco's Salesforce Tower peeks above a thick marine layer over the bay

    Art
    ‘I was mesmerised by how the fog turned the tower into a monolith’: Derek Zhao’s best phone picture

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