‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog

July 20, 2026July 20, 2026

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking In 2024, John Carpenter had a dream that sounds like one of his movies: it involved a ...

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Changing face of the Peloponnese: backdrop to The Odyssey braces for tourism surgeChanging face of the Peloponnese: backdrop to The Odyssey braces for tourism surge

July 20, 2026July 20, 2026

Tracing a journey across the Peloponnese, taking as its starting point the locations of Christopher Nolan’s new film. As the region faces mounting tourism and development pressures, the environment is becoming ever more fragile under the strain of recurring wildfires and demand for natural resources, particularly water Voidokilia Bay, in ...

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‘It’s total devastation’: inside the Amazonian war against illegal gold mining‘It’s total devastation’: inside the Amazonian war against illegal gold mining

July 20, 2026July 20, 2026

The Guardian goes on the ground with Brazilian forces fighting to eradicate mining that has destroyed protected areas of Indigenous land The jerry-built bordello at the foot of Vila Cururu, an illegal gold-mining settlement at the heart of Brazil’s most desecrated Indigenous territory, was a hive of depravity until just ...

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‘When I get home, my whole body aches’: extreme heat saps health and wages of India’s poorest workers‘When I get home, my whole body aches’: extreme heat saps health and wages of India’s poorest workers

July 20, 2026July 20, 2026

Exclusive: Outdoor workers losing up to 9% of income as weather becomes ‘poverty multiplier’, research says Extreme heat is pushing some of India’s poorest workers further into poverty, with income losses of up to 9% for outdoor workers, new research has found. Analysis done by the International Institute for Environment ...

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A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the moviesA Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies

July 20, 2026July 20, 2026

From the golden age of Hollywood to harder times today, this is a rapturous account of more than a century of cinema Film critic, historian and author of more than 40 books, David Thomson is back with another three-hour free jazz solo on the subject of the movies, though it’s ...

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