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“If a film is good, it will travel” – James Gardiner

Ghanaian actor and Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Film Authority (NFA), James Gardiner, says the country’s population size should not be the main factor in assessing the commercial success of its films. The NFA has been pursuing initiatives to strengthen Ghana’s film industry, including the Film Development Fund, which is intended to support areas such as film development, production, distribution, marketing, training and cinema infrastructure.

LPO/Gardner review – Mark Simpson’s piano concerto leaves its audience panting

Royal festival hall, London Pianist Tamara Stefanovich gave the world premiere of Mark Simpson’s fearless and uncompromising new concerto, with Edward Gardner and the London Philharmonic mostly keeping up ‘Restless and impassioned.” Before a note of Mark Simpson’s new Piano Concerto has sounded, it’s clear from the movements that this is music with the volume dialled up: louder, faster, bigger, fiercer.

Elizabeth Holmes mania: how the buzziest film of the year has resurrected a gut-twisting TV drama

The Theranos fraudster is the subject of Nathan Fielder’s mind-bending You Can See Everything documentary. It is now driving audiences to watch Disney/Hulu’s 2022 series, The Dropout – and they’re seeing it in a whole new light There are surprise smash hits, and then there’s You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder’s documentary-cum-psychodrama about the disgraced US entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes.

John Anderson obituary

American country singer and songwriter who took the music genre back to its unvarnished roots John Anderson, who has died aged 71, reinvigorated country music in the 1980s by returning the genre to its unvarnished roots. By contrast, Anderson harked back to the simpler days of the 50s, purveying strong songs with feeling.

‘How on earth is this man not sweating?’ Director Brett Morgen’s painstaking 10-year remaser Bowie’s ‘greatest filmed performance’

Director Brett Morgen’s painstaking 10-year remaser Bowie’s ‘greatest filmed performance’. ‘You can feel the danger and excitement’, he says • ‘Lost’ 1978 David Bowie tour film to play arenas in 2027, remastered by Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgen In 2017, when Brett Morgen began work on his acclaimed 2022 David Bowie documentary, Moonage Daydream, he was given complete access to the late star’s entire, cavernous archive.

Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s ‘Agency for the Dead’ set for October 30 release

Ghanaian filmmaker Shirley Frimpong-Manso is set to release her latest film, Agency for the Dead, in cinemas on Friday, 30 October 2026. The film’s release adds to Shirley’s body of work, which includes The Perfect Picture, A Sting in a Tale, Adams Apples, 6 Hours to Christmas, Contract, Potomanto, Love or Something Like That, Rebecca and Potato Potahto.

Idris Elba launches free AI filmmaking programme for African creatives

African creatives in Ghana and four other countries can apply for a free artificial intelligence (AI) filmmaking programme launched by actor Idris Elba’s Akuna Group in partnership with Google. Through Akuna Learning, we’re partnering with Google and Curious Refuge on ‘From Script to Screen with AI’, a remarkable training and mentorship programme teaching African filmmakers to use AI tools.

Big Baby review – a screenwriter’s nightmares become reality in a meta-horror misfire

Spider One’s latest shocker has a few good ideas and a strong central performance, but it’s difficult to care about the gory misfortune inflicted upon these unlikable and thinly drawn characters In this slasher directed by Michael Cummings, AKA Powerman 5000 singer Spider One, Adam Lewis (Brandon Scott) is a screenwriter who spends too much time fretting about what the film reviewers he claims to despise think about his work, and not enough time writing.

Kofi Hayford shines as MC of M.anifest’s ‘Nowhere Cool’ at 10 celebration

Broadcaster Kofi Hayford has earned praise for hosting M.anifest’s 10th anniversary celebration of his acclaimed album Nowhere Cool at the Accra Polo Club on Saturday, 24th October 2026. He was joined by a line-up of guest performers, including highlife star Kwabena Kwabena, dancehall musician Samini, Worlasi, Ko-Jo Cue, Ria Boss, Kwarteng, Asiama and Cina Soul.

‘Magazine’: How Shubham Shevade turned a Maharashtra village into a dazzling Marathi indie

The debutant writer-director opens about returning from Los Angeles to India to tell his own stories, how the unconventional structure of ‘Magazine’ took shape, why he thinks he was delusional during production, and more

‘It’s not my pain. There’s a responsibility in that’: Thea Gilmore on writing songs from anonymous confessional voicemails

There’s a responsibility in that’: Thea Gilmore on writing songs from anonymous confessional voicemails. Community building has been key to the Oxford singer-songwriter’s work since debut Burning Dorothy, released when she was just 18, through to her 00s breakthrough albums Avalanche and Harpo’s Ghost all the way to her most recent studio album, 2023’s Thea Gilmore: a body of work that has won Gilmore admiration from Bruce Springsteen, Richard Thompson and collaborator Joan Baez.

Bombay High Court stays “Leave India Notice” against actor Imran Khan till November 2

In his petition, Imran Khan denied participating in the protest and challenged the notice because he was not allowed to be heard

Arnie & Barney review – dimwit ant double-act from Maya the Bee are on mission to entertain

From the ugly design to the lacklustre script, this is one parents might want to skip this half-term holiday In 1912 in Germany, antisemitic writer Waldemar Bonsels published The Adventures of Maya the Bee, which later became a 1970s anime series in Japan called Maya the Honey Bee, and was later dubbed into English a couple of times, including for kids TV channel Nickelodeon in the 1990s and a bunch of films between 2014 and 2021. Recurring characters from the show include Arnie and Barney, a pair of dimwit ants, and now, at long last, they have their own spin-off movie.

Mac DeMarco review – glowing melodies and shirtless antics at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall, New York After winning over gen Z, the cult indie rocker makes the historic venue swoon with introspective anthems and a Michael Jackson cover More than 68 years after Leonard Bernstein’s first-ever Young People’s Concert, Carnegie Hall was yet again overrun with youthful energy on Sunday night. There was many a parental chaperone next to their beaming teens, while a group of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed post-adolescents sitting behind me – having travelled all the way from Wisconsin for the occasion – audibly Googled: “Where to find Mac DeMarco after the concert” and quizzed…

Burna Boy makes history at Ballon d’Or awards

The Grammy-award-winning singer presented the Sócrates Award to Arsenal forward Bukayo Saka.

We, the Hated review – standing up to be abused: behind the scenes with Just Stop Oil

The strength of feeling against Just Stop Oil, as caught by this documentary, is really disturbing. Film-maker Rich Felgate could not be closer to the action; his girlfriend, Indigo Rumbelow, is an activist.

Vijay Deverakonda-Rashmika team files complaint over alleged false online narratives about actors

Jay-Z To Perform At Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show — NFL

Rapper Jay-Z will perform at the Super Bowl LXI halftime show this February in Los Angeles, the NFL announced Monday. In an indication of the level of star power Jay-Z could potentially bring with him to the halftime spectacular, he was joined on-stage in Los Angeles by John Legend, DJ Khaled, Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Prabhu Deva, Simran reunite for ‘Kamal Sridevi’, produced by Soundarya Rajinikanth

The film, directed by Krishnanand Kottarapattu, also stars Mithun Jai Shankar and Smeha in pivotal roles

The One About Matthew Perry review – the star of one of TV’s biggest ever shows gets a loving tribute

So prayed Matthew Perry when he was a young unknown actor auditioning in LA, enjoying the partying and the friendships but struggling to find work. The latter include his half-sister Mia and his best friends since his first days in LA, Roger Castillo and David Pressman.

Kane’s Ballon d’Or triumph a glorious riposte to celebrity fawning of ceremony

The England captain spoke movingly on night of deserving winners and unintentional hilarity in London Well, there’s something new. There was a lovely moment at London’s Palladium theatre, with the clock creeping towards 11pm at the end of a startlingly shrill and bloated evening of never-ending awards and never ending award-related excitement.

Never After Dark review – ghostbuster-for-hire meets her match in Japanese exorcism horror

Shogun’s Moeka Hoshi stars as a travelling caster-out of ghosts who confronts a wounded and recalcitrant spirit in this inventive chiller If you watched this Japanese-language ghost-story horror thriller cold, you might be a little surprised that the credits reveal that the director is one Dave Boyle – and not someone from Japan, so steeped is it in Japanese lore and culture. More recently, Boyle was a key director-producer for the Netflix series House of Ninjas, and Never After Dark seems to have evolved as a spun-off side hustle between Boyle and Ninjas star Kento Kaku, who produced it and…

‘The view from the Mournes was CS Lewis’s idea of Narnia’: how Northern Ireland inspired a magical kingdom

Ahead of Netflix’s Chronicles of Narnia dropping early next year, we discover the fantastical landscapes that fired the Belfast-born author’s imagination On the gable walls of the tough, working-class streets of east Belfast, the mystical beasts of Narnia vie for brick space with balaclava-wearing loyalists. CS Lewis Square is in the Holywood Arches neighbourhood and has a short walking trail featuring metal sculptures of Mr and Mrs Beaver, Mr Tumnus and other beloved characters from The Chronicles of Narnia.

‘Lost’ 1978 David Bowie tour film to play arenas in 2027, remastered by Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgen

David Hemmings’ never-released concert film from Bowie’s 1978 world tour will be presented in a multimedia show that aims to ‘create the illusion’ that he is present on stage Almost 50 years after its original run, David Bowie’s 1978 Isolar II tour will return to arenas in 2027, billed as Stage, thanks to Moonage Daydream director Brett Morgen’s painstaking remaster of never-before-seen footage. Bowie originally commissioned David Hemmings, the Blow-Up star turned director, to film two shows centred on the “Heroes” and Low albums at London’s Earls Court arena that summer.