Film, music, books and creative life around the world.
Irish folk group the Mary Wallopers is touring behind its third album, Paddywhackery. A Guardian concert review describes a six-piece performance combining banjo, tin whistle and traditional stories with the intensity of a much rowdier live show.
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Mistura centres on Norma, a wealthy woman who tries to open a restaurant after her marriage breaks down. The Peruvian drama is set in the nineteen-sixties and stars Bárbara Mori as a figure whose polished appearance conceals financial and personal upheaval.
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Joni Mitchell has become a United States citizen, more than six decades after first moving there from Canada. The singer-songwriter shared footage of the ceremony and a photograph beside an American flag on social media.
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Hernan Diaz’s novel Ply turns from the financial and narrative puzzles of Trust to a speculative city far in the future. The setting is not explicitly named, but the Guardian’s review reads its clues as pointing towards a transformed New York.
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Wuthering Heights: The House of the Damned recasts Emily Brontë’s novel as a horror film. Becca Hirani’s version follows Lockwood’s visit to Heathcliff, but makes supernatural imagery more explicit than in the original gothic story.
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Sylvester Stallone’s The Steps recounts how Rocky emerged from a period of struggling to establish himself as an actor and writer. The memoir connects the fictional boxer’s unlikely opportunity with the author’s own account of persistence and eventual success.
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Kiri and Lou Go Raaa! expands the New Zealand children’s television series into an hour-long film. It introduces the lively yellow dinosaur and her gentler purple companion by showing how their friendship began.
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A two-year investigation reports disproportionate restrictions on Black and South Asian music events in London. Led by Black Lives in Music, the research examines cancellations, licensing decisions and events displaced or prevented from taking place.
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Kristin Scott Thomas plays Madame Ranevskaya in a new production of The Cherry Orchard directed by Ian Rickson. Conor McPherson supplies the adaptation, reuniting a creative partnership previously associated with a West End Uncle Vanya.
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Ian McKellen and Roger Allam return to Frank and Percy in a film adaptation of the stage play. Martin Sherman expands Ben Weatherill’s two-character work, with Sean Mathias again directing the story of two older men who meet while walking their dogs.
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Girls is set to return to HBO for a limited run, with production expected to begin in 2027. The five-episode extension brings creator Lena Dunham back as Hannah Horvath alongside Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke and Andrew Rannells.
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Netflix has released the first trailer for Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of The Magician’s Nephew. The film draws on CS Lewis’s story of Digory and Polly, two children who encounter gateways to other worlds and witness Narnia’s beginning.
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