Category: 5. Entertainment

In a watershed move, Warner Bros. Discovery announced Friday it has agreed to sell its streaming and studios assets to Netflix in a deal valued at $82.7 billion, setting the stage for one of the most sweeping and consequential mergers in modern…

King Charles made an appearance at the finals of he 18th Donatella Flick London Symphony Orchestra Conducting competition.

On Friday, the monarch…

Exhibition of the week

Henry VIII’s Lost Dagger
A curious quest for the Tudor tyrant’s lost, highly phallic dagger in the house where modern gothic began.
Strawberry Hill House, London, until 15 February

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When HMS Pinafore premiered in 1878, audiences would have appreciated a particularly topical lampoon skewering the First Lord of the Admiralty, WH Smith, a man who, much like Gilbert’s Sir Joseph Porter, ascended the greasy pole of politics…

“Ghost:2568,” the third…

For being arguably the most influential storyteller in the English language, William Shakespeare is nearly absent in movies. Of course, there are endless adaptations of and riffs on his work — everything from Kenneth Branagh’s “Hamlet”…

Can someone be “due” an Oscar if they haven’t hit 30 and their go-to hoodie is pink? What if that someone has spent his career making one classic movie after another, seven of which have been Oscar-nominated for best picture?

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As 2025 comes to a close, I keep hearing the same thing: Good riddance. This year really messed with us. Los Angeles burned, immigration raids raged, Hollywood limped, AI slop exploded, arts institutions struggled.

If you found yourself turning…