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From Love Me Tender to Kevin Bridges: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
The Guardian’s weekly entertainment guide highlights forthcoming cinema, music, art, stage, streaming, games and albums, with a particular focus on events around the Edinburgh international film festival and major UK tours. – Love Me Tender: Vicky Krieps stars in a French drama about a writer whose new relationship leads to a custody battle. – Edinburgh…
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From The Shards to Phoebe Bridgers: the week in rave reviews
This week’s highest-rated Guardian culture reviews range across television, film, music, theatre and books, with Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s The Shards and Phoebe Bridgers’s new album among the standout recommendations. – The Shards (Disney+) is praised as a slick serial-killer drama set among Los Angeles private-school pupils. – Sterling Point (Prime Video)…
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Filmmaker Elham Ehsas Wants You to Know Afghanistan Sent a Man to Space in 1988
Afghan filmmaker Elham Ehsas’s new short film, *Forgotten Spaceman*, revisits the largely overlooked story of Abdul Ahad Momand, Afghanistan’s first and only cosmonaut, who travelled to space in 1988. Ehsas argues that Momand’s achievement and the optimism it inspired were overshadowed by the civil war and displacement that followed, reflecting how conflict has marginalised Afghan…
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I’m 35, my mates in investment banking are at risk of losing their jobs … but I’m in an AI-proof industry that will always be needed
Construction business owner Brenden Morrissey has encouraged young Australians to consider apprenticeships rather than university, arguing that skilled trades offer more secure long-term work as artificial intelligence changes white-collar employment. He said construction would remain necessary and was less likely to be automated, contrasting it with roles such as investment banking that he believes could…
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Sheffield University nursing student takes part in military training exercise
A University of Sheffield nursing student took part in a military training exercise. The article highlights the student’s involvement in an activity combining healthcare training with a military environment. The available article text does not provide further details about the exercise, the student’s role, location or dates. Its significance appears to be the practical experience…
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From Avenged Sevenfold to Neurosis and Stray From The Path, why more and more metal bands are surprise-releasing albums: “At what point do people critique success on sales rather than how big your balls are?”
Avenged Sevenfold’s 2016 release of The Stage is presented as an early example of metal bands issuing albums without the usual lengthy promotional campaign. The approach is becoming more common among acts including Neurosis and Stray From The Path, reflecting frustration with conventional roll-outs, label pressures and the expectation that musicians must continually market themselves…
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Gina Rinehart’s company responds to ABC’s ‘belated’ apology over disgusting joke that ‘normalised torture against a woman till death’
Hancock Prospecting has criticised the ABC’s apology over a short film depicting graphic violence towards Gina Rinehart, calling the response belated and arguing the broadcast normalised violence against women. The dispute matters because it has renewed scrutiny of the public broadcaster’s editorial standards and the limits of satire. The four-minute film, made by Race Around…
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Trump rages at ‘national disgrace’ after judges slap down beloved ballroom remodel, setting up a Supreme Court showdown
A US federal appeals court has ordered Donald Trump to halt construction of his controversial White House ballroom, prompting an furious response from the president, who has vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 on Friday that work must stop, siding with the National Trust…
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Outraged woman says she left her car at a Kia dealership for new tire… only for mechanic to strip it of parts to fix another vehicle
A Louisiana woman has accused a Kia dealership of stripping parts from her car without permission after she took it in for tyre repairs, prompting the company to sack the employee involved following an internal review. Shirley Poullard’s SUV was towed to Kia of Lake Charles after a tyre blew out on the interstate, and…
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Pete Buttigieg: Everyone’s ‘watching the state of Michigan right now’
Pete Buttigieg joined Michigan Democrats at a unity rally in Detroit, urging supporters to unite behind Abdul El-Sayed and the party’s statewide candidates after a divisive Senate primary. He said Michigan was being watched nationally and internationally to see whether Democrats could build the coalition needed to win, highlighting the state’s importance in the fight…