8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (111+ words) Guardian critics Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Catherine Shoard and Hannah J Davies look back at some of the best (and worst) of the year Looking for some culture to get you through the holiday season? Join our music editor, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, film…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (144+ words) Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has opened in Australia to much hype and intense interest. The first film ever to be shot entirely on Imax film has prompted fans to go on their own epic journey – crossing oceans to see it…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago   (89+ words) When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs. But is there a happy ending?By Phil Hoad. Read by Adam Sims Continue reading......

9+ mon, 3+ day ago   (121+ words) The battle to buy Warner Bros Discovery has captured Donald Trump’s attention. The US president has said he will be involved in the decision on the company’s sale as Netflix and Paramount fight to take over the entertainment company. Lucy…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (288+ words) Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.From April:…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (91+ words) The UK government’s long-awaited strategy to tackle violence against women and girls has been published today. Alexandra Topping joins Lucy Hough to explain what it will change, amid concerns that ‘toxic ideas’ are going unchallenged in schools Continue reading... Deepfakes…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (141+ words) A blockbuster film about the controversial singer could make US$1bn worldwide. Owen Myers, the deputy arts editor for Guardian US, tells Nosheen Iqbal about the biopic’s troubled history and why it is being made now. Lanre Bakare, the Guardian’s arts…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (91+ words) Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at work?By Philip Oltermann. Read by Daniela Denby Ashe Continue reading......

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (120+ words) In 2011, a Chicago police officer is murdered. Police find four suspects. Three confess. But the fourth refuses to break. He’ll embark on a 12-year battle to prove his innocence, against a system that refuses to admit it might be wrong....

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (120+ words) Guardian senior reporter Ben Quinn on the shocking knife attack on a train from Doncaster to London On Saturday night, a train from Doncaster to London was packed with people heading out for the night when a horrifying mass stabbing…...