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The Odyssey by Homer audiobook review – a truly fantastic journey
The Guardian has reviewed the audiobook of Homer’s The Odyssey, narrated by Game of Thrones actor Anton Lesser, praising it as a “truly fantastic journey” and awarding it Audiobook of the Week. The review notes that the epic — often considered unfilmable because of its gods, monsters and vast scale — lends itself well to…
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Mohanad Yaqubi’s Feature Documentary ‘Revolutionaries Never Die’ Lands Sales Rep Ahead Of Locarno Debut
EXCLUSIVE: Vienna-based sales agency Square Eyes has acquired world sales rights to Revolutionaries Never Die, the latest feature from Palestinian filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi, set to debut in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente competition at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. The film’s synopsis reads: “In 2018, veteran Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab reached out to filmmaker and…
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Hooded Horse’s new strategy game Rogue Carrier has you captaining a research ship on a planet where the seas boil with violent squid
Games publisher Hooded Horse, working with developer Wild Fields, has announced Rogue Carrier, a roguelite colony-management strategy game. Players captain a stranded science ship on an alien planet, piloting it across a hostile ocean while trying to survive, learn about the world and ultimately escape. The announcement, covered by Rock Paper Shotgun, matters as a…
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Reda Elazouar Joins Alex Pettyfer & Clive Owen In Action-Thriller ‘Scorpion’ With Filming Underway In Europe
British actor Reda Elazouar, known for The Family Plan 2 and Sex Education, has been cast in the lead role of the action-thriller Scorpion, joining Alex Pettyfer and Clive Owen. Principal photography is already underway, having begun in Cyprus on 6 July 2026 under director Richard Hughes, with the shoot due to move to Bulgaria…
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LGBTQ+ inclusion in film at a three-year low, Glaad survey suggests
A new annual study by the LGBTQ+ advocacy group Glaad, titled Where We Are In Film, has found that inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters in cinema has fallen to a three-year low. Of the 225 films released in 2025, only 46 — or 20.4% — featured LGBTQ+ characters, marking the third consecutive year of decline since…
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Salman Rushdie Says America Is ‘Having a Very Difficult Moment’ With Free Speech as He Accepts Liberatum Award: ‘The Burden of Proof Must Always Lie on the Censor’
Accepting the Liberatum Cultural Honor at Camden Town Hall in London, novelist Salman Rushdie warned that free expression in the United States is under sustained pressure from the Trump administration, which he accused of championing free speech abroad while working to suppress it at home. His remarks matter because Rushdie, long a global figurehead for…
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LGBTQ Characters in Film Decline for Third Year
LGBTQ representation in feature films has fallen for the third consecutive year, according to the 14th edition of GLAAD’s annual report, now retitled Where We Are in Film. Based on 2025 releases from the 10 largest studio distributors, the study found that 46 of 225 films (20.4 per cent) featured LGBTQ characters, down from 23.6…
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Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein launch Portlandia rewatch podcast in July
Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are reuniting to host a rewatch podcast revisiting their cult sketch comedy series Portlandia. Titled Podlandia: A-O Rewatch and produced by Will Ferrell’s Big Money Players, the show launches across podcast platforms on 16 July, with new episodes released weekly. The project marks a return to the beloved IFC series…
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‘An Icon Is Here’: Juliette Binoche Takes Over Karlovy Vary, Talks Directorial Debut ‘In-I in Motion’ and Explains Why ‘We’re All Creators’
French actress Juliette Binoche was the centre of attention at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where she received the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema. Introduced by the festival’s artistic director Karel Och with the words “an icon is here”, she also presented her directorial debut, “In-I in Motion”, a documentary…
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From Greek epics to biblical blockbusters: the 20 best mythological movies – ranked!
Ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, the Guardian counts down its 20 best films drawn from myths, legends and fables, spanning Greek epics, Norse sagas, biblical tales and Chinese folklore. Here is the lower half of the ranking (positions 20 to 10). – 20. Immortals (2011) — Henry Cavill’s Theseus in a visually…