Culture and Entertainment

With a near-total re-imagining of its source material, Michelle Garza Cervera’s “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle” layers contemporary political themes atop Curtis Hanson’s original 1992 domestic thriller, about an uncanny nanny invading the sanctity of the American home.

There are some smart updates to the psycho-nanny hit, but without the searing presence of Rebecca De Mornay, this one is unlikely to stick around for quite so long.

One couple was changed for good during “Dancing With the Stars” Wicked Night.

Kevin O’Leary delivered one of his first promotional plugs for A24’s “Marty Supreme” in typically business-minded fashion.

Before Ben Stiller made his mark on film, television and comedy, his parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, were an unstoppably uproarious duo.

In the wake of the Trump administration’s defunding of public broadcasting, local stations PBS SoCal (KOCE and KCET) are planning a telethon next week from the PBS outfit’s Burbank Studios home.

The Tokyo International Film Festival has revealed that veteran Japanese director Yamada Yoji will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at its 38th edition, recognizing a career spanning more than 60 years and 91 films.

Mariska Hargitay appeared on Amy Poehler’s “Good Hang” podcast and revealed she auditioned and screen tested many times for “Friends” a few years before landing the role of Olivia Benson on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” Both shows are NBC staples.

Julia Roberts emerges unscathed but Luca Guadagnino’s tiring and muddled attempt to comment on trending topics doesn’t inspire the debates it so clearly wants.

ABC News Live will premiere “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere – A Conversation with the Cast,” hosted by Good Morning co-anchor George Stephanopoulos, on Oct.

Joe Hill’s ambitious new novel — the 900-page killer dragon epic “King Sorrow” — is inspired by love.

Freestyle Digital Media has acquired the North American rights to “Yes Repeat No,” a drama exploring Israeli-Palestinian identity.

This season has seen underwhelming results from stars such as Margot Robbie, Dwayne Johnson, Julia Roberts and Keanu Reeves.

Late-night hosts discuss the record-breaking turnout for anti-Trump No Kings rallies and Trump’s AI video response.

The Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan has let slip that an alarming number of actors go commando to fittings. The profession has rarely felt more alien.

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Arriving more than two decades after the original, this sequel was mired in development disaster – resulting in an interesting almost-failure
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The number of solo festivalgoers has jumped since the pandemic, and even safety concerns aren’t dissuading lone ravers. We speak to some to find out why.

The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translation.

If we regard this book as literature, it is an unqualified failure. But these juvenile stories and essays shed fascinating light on the repression of Lee’s early life.

Subscriptions dropped at an increased rate after backlash from late-night host’s temporary removal, new data shows.

The philistine thieves skipped the museum’s real treasures in favour of dull royal knick-knacks. Was the French interior minister serious when he talked about their ‘immeasurable heritage value’?

Even if it ends up another multiversal tangle of familiar faces and recycled heartstrings, a film with the old Spider-Men might be Sony’s best hope of a box office hit.

Kleber Mendonça Filho’s gripping thriller The Secret Agent is set in the 70s but casts light on present-day politics.

The studio where he crashed the Life of Brian spaceship, the stage where he put on a Faust that caused fights, the pub where he last spoke to Heath Ledger … the ex-Python takes a hilarious and evocative meander down memory lane.

In first interview since Glastonbury, frontman Bobby Vylan tells Louis Theroux the backlash was ‘minimal’ compared to the plight of Palestinians.

Star-studded work from Simpson, whose instincts also led to success in jewelry design, is assembled in a new photo book.

As the 86-year-old music legend prepares to release a new album, she will take on your questions.

Magnum partners with Aperture for its square print sale titled Youth. Capturing the electric charge of growing up, from Dennis Stock’s portrait of James Dean, and Danny Clinch’s shot of Bruce Springsteen, to Philippe Halsman’s image of Brigitte Bardot, Martin Parr’s Friday nighters, Robert Capa’s teenagers on a film set, and Raymond Depardon’s bubble-gum blowers.

London film festival: Gender, sexuality, status and power are all in flux in Julia Jackman’s playful medieval fairytale, adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel, also starring Maika Monroe and Charli xcx.

From shadowing a cocaine-addled David Bowie to winning over Joni Mitchell, deliciously readable tales by the director of Almost Famous.

Giuffre’s posthumously published memoir lays bare the life-wrecking impact of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes – but it is also the story of how a young woman becomes a hero.

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After an apocalyptic supernatural fog descends, school girl Hinako wakes up in a town populated by psychosexual beasts and gaslighting men in masks.

Tyler Mitchell takes inspiration from skateboarding, art history and British style mags to show how beauty, intimacy and empowerment are at the heart of the Black experience.

Inspired by Gustav Klimt’s ‘golden phase’ and the religious icons of medieval Europe, US photographer Tawny Chatmon reimagines Black identity by upturning art history.

In the 1870s, a civil engineer devised early handheld cameras able to capture scenes with more detail than ever. He used the technology to document people on New York streets, from musicians to beggars to paperboys. The work of the innovator, often referred to as the ‘father of instantaneous photography’, has been compiled into a book by Erik Hesselberg called Candid New York: The Pioneering Photography of George Bradford Brainerd, out on 21 October.

From an eye-opening shot of David Byrne to footballers from a bygone era, a new exhibition focuses on portraits taken before the digital age.