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.

  • ‘Twin Peaks’ Officially Returns With Its Original Cast in a Big Way

    A celebration marking what would be David Lynch’s birthday will reunite several original cast members of Twin Peaks in Los Angeles in January 2027, marking the latest chapter in the cult series’ long afterlife. More than three decades after the show first aired, the event underscores how Twin Peaks has become less a finished television…

  • Pokémon Pokopia ‘Bubbly Basin’ DLC Preview Reveals New Update Details

    Pokémon Pokopia’s first paid Expansion Pass, “Bubbly Basin,” launches on Nintendo Switch 2 on 5th August 2026 alongside a free Version 2.0.0 update, with Japanese outlet Famitsu previewing what players can expect. The DLC introduces a largely underwater world as “Part 1” of a planned three-part expansion, expanding the game’s Pokédex and adding new mechanics…

  • Can you tell if someone is filming you with Meta glasses? – video

    A Guardian Australia video discusses whether it’s possible to tell when someone is filming or photographing you using Meta’s smart glasses, amid growing public concern about the devices’ covert recording capabilities. Presenter Rafqa Touma speaks with technology reporter Josh Taylor, lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman, and Lauren Perry, a responsible technology policy specialist at the Human…

  • ‘True Detective’ Meets ‘Supernatural’ in This 33-Year-Old Classic Sci-Fi Thriller Series

    A Collider feature argues that The X-Files, which first aired more than 30 years ago, remains essential viewing for fans of modern prestige television, describing it as a blend of the moody, noir-style investigations of True Detective and the paranormal, monster-of-the-week storytelling of Supernatural. The piece contends the series, which helped launch the careers of…

  • This Is the Greatest Epic Fantasy Book of the Last 10 Years

    Collider senior editor David Caballero has named James Islington’s “The Will of the Many” the greatest epic fantasy novel published in the past decade. The Australian author’s book draws on the structure of the real-world Roman Republic to build a dystopian world, and the piece argues its combination of inventive worldbuilding, atmospheric prose and a…

  • Ice Cream Man fails to deliver genuine scares, critic warns

    Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman has panned Eli Roth’s new horror film “Ice Cream Man,” calling it a shamelessly derivative and ham-handed piece of shock cinema rather than genuine horror. The review argues that while Roth has previously delivered effective transgressive horror in films such as “Hostel: Part II” and “Thanksgiving,” this latest effort…

  • ‘Ice Cream Man’ Review: Eli Roth’s Small-Town Horror Flick Is for Diehard Slasher Fans, and Absolutely No One Else

    The Hollywood Reporter’s Frank Scheck reviews “Ice Cream Man,” Eli Roth’s new gore-drenched horror film about children in an idyllic small town who are transformed into murderous killers after eating from a sinister ice cream truck. The critic argues the film’s real achievement lies in its practical make-up and prosthetics work rather than Roth’s direction…

  • John Paul Jones only truly respected one 1960s rock musician

    Very unusual. The post John Paul Jones only truly respected one 1960s rock musician first appeared on Far Out Magazine.

  • Ice Cream Man Review

    IGN’s review of Eli Roth’s new horror film Ice Cream Man, released in cinemas from 7 August, finds the film falls well short of its clear inspirations, Terrifier and Weapons. Critic Chase Hutchinson argues the film borrows heavily from both — combining a mysterious silent killer with a group of possessed, murderous children — without…

  • Disney+ confirms writer and director for Made in Korea’s final season

    Disney+ has confirmed the writer and director returning for the second and final season of “Made in Korea”, its prestige Korean crime thriller starring Hyun Bin and Jung Woo-sung, alongside the previously set 9 September premiere date for the six-episode conclusion. Writer Park Eun-kyo, co-writer of Bong Joon Ho’s “Mother”, has scripted every episode, while…