Topic: Entertainment

Entertainment brings together the latest from film, television, music and gaming, tracking everything from big studio releases and streaming hits to the smaller stories behind the scenes. Expect a mix of reviews, interviews and features that look at how films and shows come together, the choices actors and musicians make along the way, and how decisions by studios and networks play out once viewers get involved.

The topic also keeps an eye on the business and cultural side of the industry: how streaming services are reshaping what gets made and watched, the sometimes tangled relationship between entertainment and technology, and the moments when a franchise, format or platform doesn't go the way its backers hoped. Older films, shows and songs feature too, revisited with the benefit of hindsight on decisions that looked different at the time.

For readers, it's a way to keep up with what's actually worth watching or listening to, understand the reasoning behind the projects that shape popular culture, and see how the industry's bigger shifts affect the entertainment on offer day to day.

  • The men who fled these socialist regimes have a terrifying warning

    Three men who fled socialist and communist governments in Venezuela, Cuba and the Soviet Union have spoken to Fox News Digital about the hardships they endured, framing their accounts as a warning to Americans about socialism. Emmanuel Rincón, Eliécer Ávila and Gene Maine each described severe shortages, repression and censorship in their home countries, arguing…

  • 10 Essential Comedy Shows You Need To Watch Before You Die

    Collider lists ten influential television comedies regarded as essential viewing, arguing that enduring series succeed through sharp writing, distinctive characters and formats that reshape audience expectations. The selections span different eras and styles, from ensemble sitcoms to observational humour, showing how comedy can address everyday life as well as social issues. – ‘The Golden Girls’…

  • Neil Young announces new album with the Chrome Hearts, shares soothing title track ‘Second Song’

    Neil Young has announced ‘Second Song’, a new album with the Chrome Hearts, and released its title track ahead of the record’s arrival on 18 September via Reprise Records. The release follows 2025’s ‘Talkin To The Trees’ and continues Young’s recent period of writing that has combined political unease with more hopeful reflections on life,…

  • Obsession Star Inde Navarrette Wants to Voice a Resident Evil Character

    Inde Navarrette has said she wants to voice a character in Capcom’s Resident Evil franchise as she begins exploring voice acting. The Obsession actor’s interest matters because she is an established gaming fan with growing industry attention, although no Resident Evil role or other project has been confirmed. Speaking to Variety in late July, Navarrette…

  • Maria Usbeck Announces New EP Canciones De Amor: Hear “Luz”

    Maria Usbeck has announced a new EP, Canciones De Amor, following her 2025 album Naturaleza, her first full-length release in six years. The Ecuadorian-born, Brooklyn-based dream-pop artist has shared the EP’s opening track, “Luz”, which blends soft jazz textures with polished synth-pop. The five-track EP was recorded with a group of musicians including Wild Nothing’s…

  • The Best Sci-Fi Series of the ’90s Is Officially Getting a Disney+ Reboot

    Disney+ is developing a new adaptation of the 1990s young-adult science-fiction series *Animorphs*, with Ryan Coogler attached as an executive producer. The reboot brings back a franchise known for combining an alien invasion story with unusually dark themes, including body horror, war and loss, for its intended younger readership. Bayan Wolcott will write and serve…

  • The 1974 song Joe Elliott called one of the greatest ever written: “An amazing record”

    Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott has singled out Queen’s 1974 song ‘Now I’m Here’ as one of the greatest rock songs ever written, describing it as “an amazing record”. His praise underlines the song’s lasting influence and Queen’s reputation for combining ambitious songwriting with a distinctive hard-rock sound. ‘Now I’m Here’, written by guitarist Brian…

  • Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough

    Roku has launched Fairground AI Creator TV, a 24-hour free, advertising-supported channel carrying AI-generated videos from startup Fairground. The move gives Fairground a much larger distribution platform, but The Verge’s review argues that the channel’s uneven, low-polish programming offers little of the discovery value usually associated with FAST channels. Roku added the channel alongside feeds…

  • Grand Theft Auto 6 Parent Company Doubles Down on No Physical Edition, Calls Digital ‘Much More Convenient’

    Take-Two Interactive chief executive Strauss Zelnick has defended the reported decision not to release Grand Theft Auto 6 on physical disc, arguing that game discs no longer make sense for consumers in a market that is overwhelmingly digital. The comments matter because GTA 6 is one of the industry’s most anticipated releases, and its distribution…

  • The Chinese Philosopher Americans Can’t Stop Fighting About

    Chinese political-philosophy PhD candidate Yiyang Zhuge has become the focus of intense online debate after her unusually philosophical interview with director Christopher Nolan went viral. The attention has highlighted both her established influence among Chinese audiences and the sharply contrasting ways English-speaking commentators interpreted her manner, questions and apparent politics. Zhuge, known online in China…