Ask E Jean review – Trump survivor turns out to be tougher than he thought as she fights on
Ivy Meeropol’s engrossing film follows former star columnist E Jean Carroll, now in her 80s, battles through an…
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On the Sea review – tender fishermen’s boat-based tale of forbidden love far from prying eyes
Away from the disapproval of their Welsh fishing community, two men embark on a passionate affair in Helen Walsh’s…
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TV tonight: Katie Price on her wild wedding and life with Peter Andre
The model tells all in her highly entertaining, eyebrow-raising documentary. Plus, revisiting a classic Play for Today.…
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The Undeclared War review – Simon Pegg’s cyber-attack thriller fails to push any of the right buttons
The rebooted GCHQ digital warfare series has more zip than its predecessor – but people bashing away on computers in a…
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Saxophonist Plas Johnson, known for solo on The Pink Panther Theme, dies aged 94
Jazz saxophonist – who recorded with artists Frank Sinatra, BB King and more – died in Los Angeles, reports say The US…
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Brunello: The Gracious Visionary review – fawning portrait of the king of cashmere
Giuseppe Tornatore traces Italian fashion designer Brunello Cucinelli’s life from poor farming family to billion-dollar…
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‘The Kardashian era is over’: TikTok’s ‘povvo king’ takes on the billionaires
Shabaz Ali stormed to TikTok fame mocking the designer ice cubes of the privileged. Now he’s on the BBC stoking revolt…
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Entangled and Woven review – exquisitely spun textiles that cross borders, culture and time
The Whitworth, Manchester Manchester’s past as a centre of textile production forms the starting point of this seamless…
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The Odyssey: jaw-dropping action, dark magic and dolphin cameos – discuss with spoilers
Inside all the blink-and-you-miss-it moments, subtle easter eggs and poignant takeaways from Christopher Nolan’s…
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‘Witty, engaging and absurd’: LensCulture critics’ choice award winners – in pictures
Is that a rooftop crocodilian? Can you cause a forest fire in a matchbox? Things are not always as they seem with the…
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Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead review – final part of the Harlem Trilogy is freewheeling fun
The grit and grandeur of 80s New York drive this rollicking story of an underground wheeler-dealer In the summer of…
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Gruel and graft: museum asks if you could survive a Victorian workhouse
Revamped Ripon attraction reopens as a more immersive experience telling ‘national story’ of poverty and welfare…
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‘New Girl was so scary I had to stop smoking pot’: Jake Johnson on perseverance, pickleball and Prince
As Nick in the blockbuster TV comedy, the actor was adored by millions. So will his new comedy The Dink, which he jokes…
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Richard Dadd review – can his mental illness help explain these arresting, bizarre images?
Royal Academy, London Dadd was already a remarkable artist – with fairies as his hit theme – before he was locked up…
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Secret Lives of Gypsy Wives review – Trewley Precious and her glorious family are a gift to reality TV
The TikTok star describes them as a broke version of the Kardashians, but they are far too funny and charismatic for…
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Judge orders pause on Paramount-Warner merger after challenge from 12 states
$81bn merger halted for at least two weeks after US states sued to block deal, saying it would ‘extinguish competition’…
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Trent Park House of Secrets review – the bugged stately home where German prisoners blabbed their secrets
Trent Park, London A new museum in this redeveloped country house relives its fascinating period as a palatial prison…
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Ariadne auf Naxos review – Laurent Pelly’s staging has plenty of wit but lacks weight
Glyndebourne, East Sussex The director hits perfectly all the comic marks of Strauss’s opera about an opera, but…
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Avengers: Doomsday trailer reveals star-packed Marvel adventure
The first full look at the big-budget December tentpole features returning heroes such as Chris Hemsworth, Patrick…
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‘We didn’t want him to be punchable!’: Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
‘Alan and I have neat hair because we’d both just been in a military play. If we’d had crazy 1980s mullets, it wouldn’t…
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‘Being American feels helpless and scary’: actor Ben Platt on nerves, queer songs and why he couldn’t do it without his husband
The star of Dear Evan Hansen plays a 1960s Greenwich Village crooner in hit queer musical Midnight at the Never Get.…
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A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies
From the golden age of Hollywood to harder times today, this is a rapturous account of more than a century of cinema…
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A Ruhr treat: can a giant pigeon and a pink basketball revive Germany’s depressed industrial heartland?
The Manifesta biennale is taking over a dozen tiny churches in German towns ravaged by division and decline – and…
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Hole! review – filthy musical fable enchants … and makes you blush
Soho theatre, London Jake Brasch and Nadja Leonhard-Hooper are vivid storytellers and fine musicians and foley artists…
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Sphinxes, movie stars and 3m books: inside Los Angeles’s beloved art deco library
The showcase library’s centenary was celebrated by thousands who filled the still-relevant public institution The…
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Here Comes J Edgar! A Musical Comedy review – show tunes, Mel Brooks zing and real human anguish
King’s Head theatre, London Camp comedy from The Simpsons’ Harry Shearer and Seinfeld writer Tom Leopold explores the…
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Bruno Mars review – half seedy club, half church service as diminutive singer answers fans’ prayers
Wembley Stadium, London Mars sings every line like it’s his big solo in a show that leans more on his stage presence…
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For Dolores review – dependency and desire in portrait of obsessive friendship
Mick Lally theatre, Galway Eva O’Connor’s intense new play explores the lives of spiky Glaswegian Mo and naive Dubliner…
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‘They car-bombed my house – there’s not much more they can do’: the astonishing podcast taking on illegal bloodsports
After 20 mutilated animal corpses were left outside a rural primary school, the creators of award-winning podcast…
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First Night of the Proms review – 250th anniversary of US independence takes centre stage
From Copland to Gershwin and a new Emily Dickinson-based commission it was America’s evening – but with a surprise…
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Amadigi di Gaula review – inflatables and appoggiaturas as Handel takes a trip to Love Island
Buxton Opera House Olivia Fuchs’ delirious spin on the baroque opera comes with TV trickery, more hearts than a…
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Andrew Motion: ‘Wilfred Owen became a kind of sacred text for me’
The former poet laureate on growing up with Lawrence Durrell, rereading Henry James and getting to grips with the…
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‘I’m not into leather at all!’: John Wood on privately photographing Glasgow’s gay underground, and the comparisons with Robert Mapplethorpe
He was a telecoms engineer by day – and documented the Scottish city’s leather scene by night. Now the 79-year-old has…
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Norma Winstone and NDR Radio Orchestra: A Timeless Place review | John Fordham's jazz album of the month
(Enodoc) The emotive lyricist and surefooted improvisor sounds lustrous in a 1990 recording featuring an exquisite I…
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Loathe: A Stranger to You review
(SharpTone) Granite-hard riffola collides with balm-like electronics and tinkling jazz piano in a thrilling fourth…
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Robert Laidlow: Reality Eaters album review
BBC Philharmonic/Havlat/Kaziboni/Piatti Quartet (NMC) Einstein’s field equations, Newton’s universal law and artificial…
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