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Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu: streaming, strikes and Baby Yoda – discuss with spoilers

Is the promotion to the big screen of Star Wars’ breakout Disney+ show just a delightful distraction – or exactly what the franchise needs? • This article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu Star Wars, with its fondness for grand emotional crescendos, mythic reversals and…

The Guardian Film·May 26

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‘Everyone is equal in this space’: the cosmic world of neurodivergent-friendly club night Robyn’s Rocket

Trumpeter Robyn Steward thought clubs weren’t for her until she encountered Fabric’s accessible upgrade – the new home for her radically inclusive, space-themed night Until May last year, trumpeter Robyn Steward had never been in a nightclub space, save for playing trumpet with Lancaster duo the…

The Guardian Music·May 26

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Ozzy Osbourne AI avatar will be ‘so tasteful’, Jack Osbourne says after fan backlash

Lifesize avatar of former Black Sabbath frontman will be created by tech companies Hyperreal and Proto Hologram A year after his death, Ozzy Osbourne is set to be recreated as a lifesized AI-powered avatar, his family have announced – but fans aren’t entirely happy.

The Guardian Music·May 26

Sugar review – Bob Mould’s reunited band still in a sweet spot between noise and melody

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Sugar review – Bob Mould’s reunited band still in a sweet spot between noise and melody

B ob Mould has never seemed to have much interest in looking back. The bridges to a Hüsker Dü reunion were burned long before drummer and songwriter Grant Hart died in 2017; the notion that Mould might revive Sugar, the band who scored three unlikely UK Top 10 albums of ferocious alt-rock in the…

The Guardian Music·May 25

No Winter Holidays review – haunting portrait of female companionship in Nepal’s frozen highlands

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No Winter Holidays review – haunting portrait of female companionship in Nepal’s frozen highlands

I n the valley of Dhorpatan in western Nepal , winter arrives with unforgiving intensity. Clouds of freezing mist gradually descend, making the rocky terrain look starkly barren, a lonesome void amid vertiginous mountain ranges.

The Guardian Film·May 25

‘Growing up, you couldn’t play Bon Jovi – that’s what our parents listened to’: Bebe Rexha’s honest playlist

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‘Growing up, you couldn’t play Bon Jovi – that’s what our parents listened to’: Bebe Rexha’s honest playlist

The first song I fell in love with When I was five or six, my mom got me the VHS of The Little Mermaid, and I would watch it over and over again. I was obsessed with the moment Ariel sings Part of Your World.

The Guardian Music·May 24

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Cannes got it wrong this year by awarding Palme d’Or to Cristian Mungiu’s very moderate Fjord

Film about a couple on trial for child abuse isn’t a patch on the director’s previous Palme winner, while other disappointing films seemed to grab the jury’s attention These were the prizes for a Cannes under pressure.

The Guardian Film·May 23

Boards of Canada: Inferno review – after 13 years away, their prodigal return is a big disappointment

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Boards of Canada: Inferno review – after 13 years away, their prodigal return is a big disappointment

T his is the first album in 13 years from Boards of Canada , and from the opening notes – an analogue synth rising and falling like a sound effect in a forgotten 1960s radio play – you’re thrust back into one of the most instantly recognisable worlds in electronic music. From 1995 debut EP Twoism…

The Guardian Music·May 23

Wuthering Heights director regrets not showing Margot Robbie’s ‘extremely hairy armpits’

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Wuthering Heights director regrets not showing Margot Robbie’s ‘extremely hairy armpits’

The Wuthering Heights director Emerald Fennell said it was “unfortunate” that a scene showing Margot Robbie’s hairy armpits did not make the final cut, because women in period adaptations are often shown with clean-shaven underarms. Robbie’s character, Cathy, had “extremely hairy armpits” in the…

The Guardian Film·May 22

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The Birthday Party review – grimly compulsive unhappy occasion in deepest France

Cannes film festival: This could be better paced but the crisis which descends on an up-against-it dairy farm is delivered by some very memorable goons There’s nothing like a home-invasion suspense thriller to provide a change of pace in the Cannes competition, and Léa Mysius’s film – adapted from…

The Guardian Film·May 22

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The Dreamed Adventure review – beautiful but opaque Bulgarian tale of digging up the past

Cannes film festival: Valeska Grisebach’s complex drama tracks an archaeologist whose mountain dig is interrupted by an old friend with rather dirtier hands The digging up of the past – and the hiding of secrets in the present – are the themes of Valeska Grisebach’s complex, subtle, opaque new…

The Guardian Film·May 22

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Coward review – soldiers find escapism and romance in wartime theatrical troupe

Cannes film festival: Lukas Dhont’s first world war-set gay romance is a heartfelt examination of cowardice and lives lived in secret amid the brutality of battle The word of the title is not used at any time in this film, but the relevance is clear.

The Guardian Film·May 22

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Little glitz and underperforming auteurs: how Cannes 2026 went – and who will win

As this year’s Cannes ordinaire draws to a close, our chief critic examines what went wrong and predicts the who’ll take home the prizes – including the fabled Braddies The 2026 Cannes film festival comes to an end with an uneasy consensus that this has very much not been a vintage year.

The Guardian Film·May 22

Post your questions for Sister Sledge’s Kathy Sledge

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Post your questions for Sister Sledge’s Kathy Sledge

Lost in Music, He’s the Greatest Dancer, Thinking of You and We Are Family – many artists would long for just one of these songs at any time in their career, but for Sister Sledge they all appeared on a single side of one of their albums.

The Guardian Music·May 22

The Mandalorian and Grogu shows Star Wars is a cursed franchise – on the big screen at least

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The Mandalorian and Grogu shows Star Wars is a cursed franchise – on the big screen at least

W hen Disney bought Lucasfilm for roughly $4bn in 2012, it must have felt like an obvious piece of business: who wouldn’t throw wads of cash at a saga boasting an entire galaxy in a box? For a while, it seemed too good to be true. The Force Awakens made more than $2bn worldwide.

The Guardian Film·May 22

Add to playlist: the virtuoso prog-metal-folk of Brazil’s Papangu and the week’s best new tracks

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Add to playlist: the virtuoso prog-metal-folk of Brazil’s Papangu and the week’s best new tracks

From João Pessoa, BrazilRecommended if you like Hermeto Pascoal, Mr Bungle, King CrimsonUp next Celestial album released 7 August, touring the UK and Europe from 15 August Thanks in part to its famed music department at the local Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa – the easternmost city in…

The Guardian Music·May 22

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Doja Cat review – pop superstar or true freak? US iconoclast plays the tension to perfection

OVO Hydro, Glasgow Moving seamlessly through extravagant choreography between bubblegum–rap and darker, rockier material, the singer is always in full command Since her breakout almost a decade ago, singer and rapper Doja Cat has been musically restless: bouncing between the pop-rap of her first…

The Guardian Music·May 22

Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt: Almost Waking review – cellist and guitarist unite for tender harmonies and torrid tangles

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Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt: Almost Waking review – cellist and guitarist unite for tender harmonies and torrid tangles

T his dreamlike, intimate album unites one of experimental music’s current stars with one of its most prolific veterans. During an interview promoting 2024’s acclaimed Sentir Que No Sabes , 34-year-old Guatemalan cellist Mabe Fratti praised Bill Orcutt, the 64-year-old US guitarist whose…

The Guardian Music·May 22

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Miles Davis: Ascenseur pour l’Échafaud review – harmonic openness for Louis Malle’s haunting noir thriller

(Decca France) The trumpeter’s improvised soundtrack for the new wave director’s 1957 film still glows with sensuality, tension and nocturnal beauty in this lavish reissue When Miles Davis was dying in September 1991, an invisible, neighbouring trumpet player, who this writer would frequently hear…

The Guardian Music·May 22

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Ladies First review – Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike come last in one-joke Netflix comedy

A misogynist is made to learn the error of his ways in this painfully dated and embarrassingly star-packed sexism comedy In its attempt to become a one-stop shop for just about every form of nostalgia possible, Netflix has now decided to revive the dreadful British comedy of the 2000s.

The Guardian Film·May 22

Trash hits! Why a wave of hedonistic, feral female pop stars are rejecting respectability

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Trash hits! Why a wave of hedonistic, feral female pop stars are rejecting respectability

I f any year demanded a soundtrack of self-aggrandising female mayhem, it’s 2026. Amid the terrors of war, AI and the climate crisis, women are expected to be symbolic vessels of order and stability: thin, beautiful and perpetually 25 – a state of perfection newly available for purchase thanks to…

The Guardian Music·May 22

Lupita Nyong’o responds to rightwing criticism of The Odyssey: ‘Our cast is representative of the world’

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Lupita Nyong’o responds to rightwing criticism of The Odyssey: ‘Our cast is representative of the world’

Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o has responded to far-right criticism of her role in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey. In the big-budget film, out in July, the star plays Helen of Troy alongside cast members including Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland and Zendaya. In a new…

The Guardian Film·May 21

Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon wins big at Ivor Novello awards

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Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon wins big at Ivor Novello awards

Scottish singer-songwriter Jacob Alon was the big winner at the 2026 Ivor Novello awards , which acknowledge the best in British and Irish songwriting and screen composition. Alon, 25, has captivated audiences with their swooping voice and imaginative alt-folk arrangements, showcased on debut…

The Guardian Music·May 21

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Passenger review – generic jumpscare horror offers bumpy journey to nowhere

A demonic entity attaches itself to travellers on the road in this competently directed but hopelessly indistinctive scare-free misfire As Obsession , a micro-budget horror made by a YouTuber , continues to overperform with critics and audiences, and as another twentysomething content creator…

The Guardian Film·May 21

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