Amelia Tait    Great locations, experienced crews and juicy incentives have made UK studios increasingly attractive, and brought Hollywood stars to the unlikeliest locations. But with budgets falling and a lack of skills training, could the bubble be about to burst When Peter Vardy joined Calderdale council ...

Eva Wiseman    As the global bestseller One Day reduces a new generation to tears, it’s fair to say that no other author captures the bittersweet highs and lows of falling in love better than David Nicholls. He talks about nostalgia, self confidence and the rewards of solitudeThis is the year of David Nicholls....

Wendy Ide    Rachel Lambert’s perceptive tale of a l oner with a vividly imaginative inner life proves an unexpected showcase for the Star Wars actor ’s talentsSome people settle effortlessly into the business of living. Others find it a near impossible challenge. Fran a revelatory performance from Daisy...

Dalya Alberge    Half a century since the perfectionist director vowed to block it, a critique that dared to discuss flaws in his films is to be publishedStanley Kubrick, the relentless perfectionist who directed some of cinema’s greatest classics, was so sensitive to criticism that, in , he threatened legal...

Michael Segalov    An open marriage, dating sites, sex with strangers now the writer’s fearsomely frank and funny memoir about the joys of polyamory has become an instant bestsellerMolly Roden Winter wasn’t planning an extramarital affair. Certainly not a string of sexual encounters with multiple partners, each...

Andrew Rawnsley    The former PM’s whingeing, unintentionally hilarious and scapegoating rant about the economy crashing disaster of her time in No is best read as a cautionary tale of hubristic zealThree people, none of them the author, emerge from this book looking prophetic. One is her constituency agent in...

Keza MacDonald    The handheld console introduced millions to the joy of video games, and remains one of the best selling consoles everOn April , , Nintendo released a chunky grey game playing rectangle to stores in Japan. It’s fair to say that nobody expected much of it. Internally, at Nintendo’s Kyoto HQ,...

Rich Pelley    The Garbage singer talks about church in childhood, her need to enjoy life and her favourite arty amusement parkSundays growing up We’d go to Saint Bernard’s in Edinburgh, which had beautiful blue velvet carpets and wooden pews. Upstairs there were little wooden gates, which I found fascinating,...

Mark Brown    Musician had held top roles at Glyndebourne opera and in Chicago, Melbourne and Toronto orchestrasSir Andrew Davis, a conductor who performed with many of the world’s finest orchestras, has died at the age of .Throughout his long career Davis held many roles, including for more than a decade...

Aneesa Ahmed    New album The Tortured Poets Department flies off the shelves as Swift breaks record for most Spotify streams in a single dayTaylor Swift fans joined queues outside vinyl shops yesterday for the annual Record Store Day in the hope of securing a limited edition note from the desk of Taylor Swift ...

Sian Cain    Titled The Surprise, the new episode was deliberately hidden from TV guides to keep the fans thinking’, ABC saysGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA secret episode of Bluey that was hidden from television listings and streaming services around the world has suddenly dropped, amid a wider...

Sian Cain    Stephan Elliott says Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp are onboard’ and the sequel will be set partly in Australia but will also head overseasGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA sequel to The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is in the works, director Stephan Elliott...

Editorial    The Royal Academy is examining the part it has played in Britain’s history of slavery and empire and the usual carping suspects will not be pleasedVery recent visitors from Mars may not know of the regular attacks on the National Trust for being woke, but the rest of us have heard plenty. The...

Elizabeth Winkler    New research suggests some th century writers were confident Shakespeare was the pseudonym of Edward de Vere, th Earl of OxfordScholars often say that no one doubted Shakespeare’s authorship until the th century. The response is a rote way of brushing off persistent questions about the...

Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent    Production examines why Scottish poet’s The Living Mountain lay unpublished in a drawer for yearsNan Shepherd, the Scottish poet and nature writer whose vivid reflections on her treks through the Cairngorms have brought posthumous acclaim, is celebrated in a new play that aims to unravel the...

Lanre Bakare Arts and culture correspondent    Women in Theatre Lab will act as incubator for playwriting and acting talent and address gender inequalityGemma Arterton, Joanna Scanlan and Stella Kanu are some of the figures backing an initiative to promote women in the theatre, who are being overlooked across the industry, according to the...

Associated Press    Rock amp; Roll Hall of Famer who wrote the band’s biggest hit, Ramblin’ Man, dies at home in Florida surrounded by his whole family’Guitar legend Dickey Betts, who co founded the Allman Brothers Band and wrote their biggest hit, Ramblin’ Man, has died. He was .The Rock amp; Roll Hall of Famer...

Wendy Ide    Maïwenn directs and stars as an th century French courtesan in this lacklustre tale of scandal and sexual intrigue at VersaillesThe illegitimate daughter of, according to this version of events at least, a cook and a monk, Jeanne played by Maïwenn as an adult, and by model Loli Bahia as an...

Wendy Ide    There’s an earthy authenticity to Zoljargal Purevdash’s story of a gifted student from a poor familyIt’s the kind of story that crops up fairly regularly on the world cinema and film festival circuit: an academically gifted teenager from a desperately poor background must choose between his future...

Rachel Cooke    A painfully funny cartoon about a neurotic graphic artist deftly explores the themes of self obsession and ecological disasterEnter the Faber Observer Graphica graphic short story prize I’ve read Luke Healy’s new graphic novel twice: first, on screen last October which was long before we asked...

John Self    A promising first novel takes a jazzy, improvised journey with a young woman who has a sudden loss of hearingA good test of a writer is to take a high concept and stretch it. In The Hearing Test, the debut novel by American Eliza Barry Callahan, a young woman loses her hearing or most of it ...

Clare Brennan    New Vic, Newcastle under LymeA first rate cast delight in controlled chaos of the highest order in Conrad Nelson’s seamless revival of Richard Bean’s hit playA couple on the stairs behind me, leaving the theatre. He: And a band What more could you ask She: I can’t remember the last time I...

Wendy Ide    Sofia Boutella’s dynamic star turn isn’t enough to redeem Netflix’s brash sci fi sequelThe concluding chapter of Zack Snyder’s cacophonous sci fi spectacular offers more of the same overbearing, underwhelming formula. Easily identifiable good guys the apple cheeked, flaxen haired, space Amish...

Susannah Clapp    Lyttelton; Almeida; Royal Court Upstairs, LondonAll of London life doesn’t quite materialise in an epic take on Dickens with music by PJ Harvey; a university reunion digs deep at the Almeida; and a th century witch hunt comes alive in an Edinburgh hitLondon theatre is going gargantuan. Is this a...

Killian Fox    The Irish musician on her favourite traditional pub, converting to the cult of baseball, and gigs in a western movie setCiara Mary Alice Thompson, who performs as CMAT, was born in Dublin in and grew up in nearby Dunboyne. She formed a band at but quit after three years and later reinvented...

As told to Dave Simpson    The Latin music legend back, at , with her first salsa album answers your questions on her star collaborations, screen chemistry, and what she and Stevie Wonder still can’t agree onWhen did you first know you were a drummer axolotlyI still don’t know if I’m a drummer Sometimes people...

Peter Bradshaw    Kooky kid sister, romantic lead, comic turn, cantankerous old dame ... we pick out her greatest rolesAn early Shirley in this epic Technicolor comedy adventure based on Jules Verne, overstuffed with superstar cameos and produced by the impresario Mike Todd. David Niven sauntered through the role of...

Interview by Charlotte Jansen    This was taken in Qaanaaq, one of the world’s most northern cities. It gets hour sun during the summer months. I went because my name originates there’In the summer of , I was living in Qaanaaq, Greenland, one of the most northern cities in the world. It’s a tundra: there are no plants, it...

Interviews by: Rich Pelley    In the s and s, you’d regularly see images of women in bikinis draped over car bonnets. I wanted to flip that and see how a male photographer would feel if he had to lie over a car in a thong’We’d released five lo fi albums that had got us noticed in NME and Sounds, but we were yet to be...

As told to Rich Pelley    The rapper would sing Bob Marley going to school and gets the party started with Black Eyed Peas, but which pop classic is he ashamed to admit liking The first song I remember hearingI don’t know if it’s the first song I remember hearing, but the first song I remember singing was No Woman, No Cry...

Kathryn Bromwich    The comedian on her favourite new painter, the downfall of Diddy, and wanting to save Britney SpearsBorn in Ontario, Canada in , comedian Katherine Ryan won the Funny Women award in . Since then she has appeared on numerous TV sitcoms and panel shows including Taskmaster and Out of ...

Hollie Richardson, Ali Catterall, Kayleigh Dray, Jack Seale and Simon Wardell    Good fun for anyone who enjoyed Idris Elba’s Hijack Plus, more strife in Steven Knight’s This Town. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...

Simon Wardell    Owen Kline’s coming of age tale is very funny and endlessly excruciating, and Al Pacino plays the music producer on trial for murder with relish Continue reading...

Phil Harrison    Teenagers who solve paranormal mysteries from beyond the grave yes really and a beautiful and psychedelic show about our fascinating deep sea friends Continue reading...

Mee-Lai Stone    Intricate spider’s webs, hornless rhinos and the world of Bavarian finger wrestling all feature in this year’s exhibition of mind blowing photographyJuliette Pavy: Sony World Photographer of the Year Continue reading...

Guardian Staff    The Spanish photographer Oriol Maspons is known for his reportage, portraiture, fashion and advertising work in the s and s. But from the late s to the late s he would holiday in Ibiza, where he took pictures for pleasure. His humorous and playful photographs of the island’s...

Mee-Lai Stone    When Mikko Takkunen relocated to Hong Kong from New York he felt the urge to capture its vanishing essence Continue reading...

Guardian Staff    Justine Kurland’s images capture her unique life raising a child on the road and offer up a joyous escape from the traditional family photo album Continue reading...

All photographs: Christian Sinibaldi    Guardian photographer Christian Sinibaldi attended the annual theatre bash to catch Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Snook and Cara Delevingne roaming around backstage at the Royal Albert Hall News: Sunset Boulevard wins big at Oliviers Continue reading...

Thalà­a Juárez    For the women who pick and prepare Maryland’s famous crab, the once profitable work is far more uncertain and the climate crisis has had a damaging impact In the evening light, Maribel Malag n stepped outside into a rain storm.It was late October and Malag n, , had worked all day picking crab...

Matt Fidler    A new collection of wildlife photography aims to help understand why people have photographed animals at different points in history and what it means in the present. Huw Lewis Jones explores the animal in photography through the work of more than photographers in Why We Photograph Animals,...

Guardian Staff    A new title in Simon Phipps’ bestselling brutalist series, this photographic exploration of Wales features over extraordinary buildings, including many lesser known examples of modernist architecture Continue reading...