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Arsenal agree £75m fee with Newcastle for Bruno Guimarães as clubs reach compromise
Arsenal have agreed a £75m fee with Newcastle United for Brazil midfielder Bruno Guimarães, ending a tense negotiation between the two clubs. The Newcastle captain is set to leave the club’s pre-season training camp in southern Spain to fly to London for a medical, with the move marking a significant blow for Newcastle, who had…
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DC Casts ‘Little House on The Prairie’ Star in Upcoming ‘Superman’ Spin-off
DC Studios has cast Mary Holland, star of Netflix’s “Little House on the Prairie” reboot, in an unspecified role in the upcoming Jimmy Olsen television series, part of the studio’s expanding slate of projects set in the “Superman” universe. The casting news, first reported by Deadline, comes as DC continues to build out its rebooted…
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Ted Lasso’s fourth season splits critics with soft reboot approach
Ted Lasso’s fourth season landed on Apple TV+ after a three-year gap, adopting a soft-reboot approach that opens with Ted working a modest grocery store job in Kansas City before circumstances draw him back to football and London. New showrunner Jack Burditt sought to tighten the show’s pacing and trim its previous excesses, but critical…
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Nazi masseur’s rescue claims dismantled by new film
A psychological thriller titled “I Is Another,” directed by Felix Randau and premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, re-examines the celebrated postwar reputation of Felix Kersten, Heinrich Himmler’s personal masseur. Kersten had long been credited with using his unusual proximity to Nazi leadership to save Jewish prisoners and concentration camp inmates from death, a narrative…
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Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie review – plucky pups do their thing on Jurassic-style island
The Guardian’s review of Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie delivers a sharply critical verdict on the latest big-screen outing for the popular children’s animated franchise. The film sends the pup rescue team – Chase, Marshall, Skye, Rocky, Rubble and Zuma – on a mission to save a yacht-bound family before a storm strands them on…
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Netflix’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ Delivers an Epic Conclusion for Its Most Ambitious Adaptation | Review
Netflix has released the second part of its adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, continuing the story of the Buendía family and the fictional town of Macondo. Where the first instalment, which premiered in 2024, focused on the hope and promise surrounding Macondo’s founding, this second chapter confirms the family’s inescapable,…
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Ted Lasso season four repeats old pacing problems, review finds
Consequence’s review of Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” Season 4 finds the revival repeating the pacing problems that dogged earlier seasons, despite a promising new premise. Ted (Jason Sudeikis) returns to coach AFC Richmond’s newly formed women’s team, the Lady Greyhounds, who face the underinvestment and scepticism common in women’s football, while familiar faces including Rebecca…
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Ted Lasso returns for season 4, focused on women’s football
A review of Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” confirms the sitcom has returned for a full 10-episode fourth season, more than three years after Jason Sudeikis’ relentlessly upbeat coach appeared to walk away from AFC Richmond. The revival shifts its central focus onto the club’s women’s football team, reframing the show’s usual message about self-belief into…
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Which footballer made the biggest leap in competitive levels between games? | The Knowledge
This instalment of the Guardian’s long-running Knowledge column answers a reader’s question about which footballer has made the biggest jump in competitive standard between two consecutive club matches, prompted by Malachi Fagan-Walcott’s move from National League football to Champions League qualifying action within days. Readers respond with the story of Gary Plumley, a retired goalkeeper…