The live-action remake brought in nearly $100m over the Memorial Day weekend, knocking Fast X out of the top spotThe Little Mermaid live-action remake of Disney’s 1989 animated classic made a splash at the box office on Memorial Day weekend, bringing in almost $100m in North America, according to studio estimates released on Sunday.The film starr

Pink Floyd co-founder rejects accusations before his Sunday night concert in former Nazi siteSeveral Jewish groups, politicians and an alliance of civil society groups gathered for a memorial ceremony and a protest rally against a concert by Roger Waters in Frankfurt on Sunday evening.They accuse the Pink Floyd co-founder of antisemitism – an all

Leeds Grand theatreA double bill from Phoenix Dance Theatre and Opera North contrasts Mozart’s wretched souls with Neo Muyanga’s After Party – two very different ways of dealing with deathThe “after tears” party is a new way of mourning the dead in South Africa, young people gathering to drink, dance, play loud music, celebrate lost frien

A reshuffle of Tate Britain’s collections has led to it being accused of reducing art to social historyEveryone has a favourite. For some it might be John Singer Sargent’s luminous 1885-6 image of two young girls hanging paper lanterns in a summer evening garden. Well, don’t worry, despite all the fuss about Tate Britain’s radical reorganis

A documentary exploring the ethical dilemmas surrounding Son Doong cave in Vietnam is well meaning if a bit convolutedSon Doong cave, located in an impoverished region of Vietnam near the border with Laos, is not only thought...

Royal Exchange, ManchesterDario Fo and Franca Rama’s bitterly comic 1974 satire is a timely fit for today’s cost of living crisis, here impeded by a cartoonishly bright setAn everyday situation ratchets into surreal mayhem....

Barkham conjures the life of the wild swimming champion and author of Waterlog in a bravura act of creative memoirNot long after my first novel was published, I was invited to a writers’ symposium at UEA in Norwich. The...

Laure Calamy is superb in Eric Gravel’s compelling Paris-set film about the perils of suburban commutingEach night, Julie (Call My Agent!’s Laure Calamy) dreams that she’s drowning. Water fills her ears and presses down...

Young Vic; @sohoplace; Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonRuth Wilson mesmerises in a 24-hour breakup with 100 different actors; tender moments illuminate a faithful yet distanced adaptation of Annie Proulx’s cowboy love...

In an age of safe-bet franchises, reboots and sequels, young talent is being squeezed out of the limelightThe movie star is dead. At least according to the group of disgruntled sales agents, production executives and Hollywood...