Film producer Jeremy Thomas was a cross between a kindly Cambridge don and the movie world’s cool uncle
The man behind The Last Emperor had the confidence of an old-fashioned studio boss along with the soul of a cineaste To…
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The Trial of Romeo Oscar review – Ayckbourn goes back to the future with android accused of murder
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough The playwright explores our relationship with technology, asks if robots have souls…
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‘Danny Boyle, please make another film about drugs’: Venice film festival’s feedback wall takes no prisoners
The written forum allows members of the public to vent their fury at the movies they’ve seen – and the festival…
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100 years after John Coltrane’s birth, secret tapes are emerging. What can they tell us about jazz’s great rulebreaker?
The sax star turned his back on fame to embrace free jazz. Caught on a tape machine hidden in an overcoat, newly…
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TV tonight: Lenny Henry and Joanne McNally pop into the Lycett Arms
They join pub landlord Joe for more a night of more convivial chaos. Plus: cosy crime in Brooke Shields’ You’re Killing…
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‘People think fame is a magic wand’: Jarvis Cocker on old songs, young fans and his granny’s verdict on Pulp
Before the release of a joyful film on the history of the Sheffield band, frontman Cocker and director Garth Jennings…
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The Odyssey and Spider-Man propel record-breaking summer box office worldwide
The biggest May to September of all time was recorded in US cinemas, with the UK enjoying a 56% rise in audiences,…
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The Tubs: Hard Life review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week
(Merge) Britain’s best indie-rockers hold fast to their defiantly old-school sound, slipping wry sideways looks at…
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The 2026 Proms: tell us about your favourite concerts
Ahead of Saturday’s Last Night, we want to hear what you’ve enjoyed this year. Has any of the new music made it on to…
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‘That was all secret’: the ‘gay mole’ who fought the BBC to show the first queer kiss on kids’ TV
Everyone thinks Byker Grove broke the taboo in 1994, but another teen drama got there first. Here’s the astonishing…
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Pressure review – stormy weather in tense D-day forecast retelling
Andrew Scott finds levels of complexity in a stoic character based on meteorologist James Stagg, the man who persuaded…
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World Tango Championships finals in pictures
Tango is an art form which, as the competitors themselves described, serves as a deeply personal means of expression,…
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TV tonight: The Paper is back – with more hilarity from the US Office writers
Domhnall Gleeson and scene-stealing Sabrina Impacciatore lead the shenanigans in the newsroom mockumentary. Plus:…
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‘He goes to the dark side’: behind the scenes on the Shaun the Sheep horror movie
Aardman’s hero is back in The Beast of Mossy Bottom – a terrifying tale of frankenfood, pitchfork-wielding villagers…
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Streaming from the cloud was meant to change games forever – what happened?
Once hailed as the future, even the likes of Google, Sony and Microsoft have struggled to make streaming games fun,…
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East Is East review – the classic cross-cultural comedy is as sharp as ever
Bolton Octagon Thirty years on, Ayub Khan Din’s play about dual-heritage life in the 70s is revived for a tour with an…
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Even better than the Real Thing? The overlooked Black music scene of 1970s Liverpool
Despite the city’s backdrop of deprivation and racism, vibrant nightclubs and daring artists thrived – but after No 1…
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‘This is not sustainable’: London’s Gate theatre to close after nearly 50 years
Formerly based above a Notting Hill pub, the theatre earned a reputation for radical plays with new talent yet had a…
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Blue Film review – polarising sex worker drama is well-acted and deeply disturbing
A camboy meets up with a convicted paedophile who turns out to be his old English teacher in Elliot Tuttle’s…
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Strong, silent types? Meet the puesteros of Chile – in pictures
Pie Aerts’s striking images of horsemen who live an extremely solitary existence reveal hidden stories of loneliness,…
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TV tonight: Dispatches asks Tommy Robinson awkward finance questions
Matt Shea investigates the far-right activist. Plus: grooming gang victims tell their stories in an important…
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‘Would they fight or hug?’ The Oasis comeback film’s makers on shooting fans, vicars, police – and the Gallaghers
The crowds wept and prayed, police used their song lyrics for briefings and a vicar gave a sermon about brotherly…
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Mr T: I Pity the Fool review – a rare chance with an electrifying star … and they blew it
The former A-Team legend tells his extraordinary story with endless charisma, but this slight show feels rushed. No…
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Poetry in motion: Richard Alston’s spellbinding dances – in pictures
The work of celebrated British choreographer Richard Alston, who has died aged 77, has been photographed by the…
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Freiburg Baroque Orch/Rattle/Faust review – ‘problem’ Schumann works shine in exceptional evening
Royal Albert Hall, London Simon Rattle, guest conducting the period instrument ensemble, brought insights and detail to…
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Goodbye, Colin from Accounts: how TV’s loveliest comedy stuck the landing
For a show that started with a screech of car brakes and a wounded dog, Brammall and Dyer steer the finale home as if…
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Scarves, hijabs and a grand boubou: unmasking identity – in pictures
Souleymane Bachir Diaw’s photographs of textiles and bodies carry messages around patriarchy, domestic violence and the…
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‘It’s not good to walk through the world feeling like prey’: Thelma & Louise’s writer on turning a movie classic into a musical
It was her very first film and it won her an Oscar. But can Callie Khouri now make it work on stage with songs? She…
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‘Handsome, boyish – and he can cook!’ Richard O’Sullivan landed on TV like a lovable alien
It was taken as read in the 1970s that all women, given the chance, would go out with him. But the star wasn’t just a…
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Can breath be art? Liz Larner on sculpting with hair, lashes, leather – and international group exhalation
The Californian once cultivated petri dishes breathed on by artists that turned ‘murky and scary’. But now, in our…
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Chris Langham obituary
Actor and writer best known for his role in TV’s The Thick of It who was jailed in 2007 for downloading child…
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Boatbuilders review – a gentle study of craftsmen’s quiet expertise
Venice film festival: Luke Lorentzen’s light-touch documentary follows a team of Maine craftsmen constructing a…
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The Last Bath review – self-mortifying nun struggles with profoundly uneasy sexual awakening
Anabela Moreira is an impressively intense lead as the sister who finds herself in charge of her wayward teenage nephew…
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TV has never been so nerve-jangling: 10 years of the agonising Motherland
The rage, the wine, the power mums, the PTA horror – the BBC sitcom was a spot on send-up of life at the school gates.…
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Radiohead announce 2027 tour with shows in Australia and Japan
UK band will play 16 shows across Perth, Melbourne and Sydney, as well as five shows in Saitama Radiohead will return…
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Primetime review – Robert Pattinson’s preening TV host hunts paedophiles but real drama proves harder to target
Venice film festival: Lance Oppenheim’s drama about controversial US reality show To Catch a Predator is unsure what it…
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