Julia Roberts emerges unscathed but Luca Guadagnino’s tiring and muddled attempt to comment on trending topics doesn’t inspire the debates it so clearly wants

• Contains mild spoilers

In theory, After the Hunt, director Luca Guadagnino’s would-be psychological thriller tracing the fallout of a sexual-assault accusation at a cosseted Ivy League campus, hinges on a single early scene: Alma, the aloof and alluring philosophy professor made icily incandescent by Julia Roberts, arrives home to find Maggie, her doctoral student protege played by ascendant star Ayo Edebiri, waiting for her in the rain.

Crouched together in an apartment stairwell – Guadagnino, a slick and stylish film-maker, frames them facing each other as mirrored negatives in preppy neutrals, a generational yin-yang – Maggie tells Alma in clipped, digressive bits that something bad happened with Hank (Andrew Garfield), a fellow tenure-track professor who serves as Alma’s professional rival, friend and maybe lover. The two had left Alma’s the night before following an evening of drinking and tossing around airless provocations about how offending someone became “the pre-eminent cardinal sin”, or how “the common enemy has been chosen and it’s the straight, white, cis male”. After a nightcap at her apartment, Maggie says, Hank “crossed the line”.

Subscriptions dropped at an increased rate after backlash from late-night host’s temporary removal, new data shows

Disney’s short-lived suspension of Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration may have had a permanent impact on the company’s subscription numbers.

According to data released by Antenna, an analytics firm that tracks subscription and viewership data for major streaming services, cancellation rates for Disney+ and Hulu doubled from August to September – from 4 and 5% to 8 and 10%, respectively. So-called churn rates for Disney+ have hovered at 3-4% all year, with Hulu at 4-5%.

Cultish indie studio behind hits such as Moonlight, Uncut Gems and Materialists has taken over a New York theatre for $10m

On a recent Saturday night in downtown Manhattan, a sold-out crowd at the Cherry Lane Theatre delighted in one of the most bizarre sights in recent New York stage memory: comedian Natalie Palamides, dressed as if in split screen – her left side bedecked in Y2K girl signifiers (butterfly clips, low-rise jeans), her right in bro clothes (cargo pants, flannel) – barreling across the stage and tangling with … herself. In her one-woman show Weer, the Los Angeles-based clown plays two halves of a toxic relationship over three late-90s years, flipping between perspectives with the velocity of a spinning top.

The show is difficult to describe and perhaps more difficult to market, as well as gloriously unhinged and riotously funny – a bold gambit for a performer, as well as for the new Cherry Lane, the West Village staple recently renovated and reopened by A24. The film distribution company turned production studio turned cultural lodestar purchased the historic theater, billed as the “birthplace of Off-Broadway”, for $10m in 2023, as part of its expansion beyond the cultish, acclaimed arthouse films – Moonlight, Hereditary, Everything Everywhere All at Once, to name a few – that built their hip reputation for the cool and cutting edge. (Or, as some would argue, a certain loose but identifiable aesthetic – neon-drenched palette, buzzy cast, faces that have seen an iPhone – and provocative bent.) Following an interior overhaul – including new lighting and sound systems, redone upholstery, a screen and curtains for “cinema mode” and a restaurant (Wild Cherry) from hot Manhattan restaurant group Frenchette – Cherry Lane is reopened for business and aiming to attract high-minded, zeitgeist-oriented New Yorkers, whether or not they own an A24 hat.

Singer known for tracks such as Brown Sugar and Untitled (How Does It Feel) died at home from pancreatic cancer

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• D’Angelo radically redrew the boundaries of soul music

D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer who helped pioneer the sound of neo-soul, has died. He was 51.

The singer, born Michael Eugene Archer, died on Tuesday morning at his home in New York after privately suffering from pancreatic cancer, his family confirmed to Variety.