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Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some brilliant new paperbacks, from a festive mystery to a kaleidoscopic ode to the animal kingdom Continue reading...
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The unlikely story of an English girl catapulted to French fame – and a relationship with Serge Gainsbourg that resembled a piece of deranged performance artBoarding a flight in 1983, Jane Birkin found herself wrestling with the open straw basket into which she habitually crammed everything from pla...
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A gripping film captures the fraught contests, lonely outposts and human toll of the Philippines’ struggle to assert sovereignty against ChinaDirector Baby Ruth Villarama and her crew board an assortment of maritime vessels to record the ongoing strife and its consequences between the Philippines an...
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Brilliant biopics, daring documentaries and a host of chillers and thrillers – our critics pick the best from another sensational year of cinema• Read the US version of this list• More on the best culture of 2025*** Continue reading...
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Ahead of James Cameron’s latest Avatar sequel hitting the big screen, we look at how studios aim for ‘theatricality’ to get streaming film fans from sofa to cinemaIf anyone still knows how to fill a movie theatre, it’s James Cameron. Having broken the all-time worldwide box office record in 1997 wit...
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The hypnotic third novel in the hit Danish series grapples with the philosophical realities of being stuck on repeat in 18 NovemberThe time loop story, in which characters repeatedly relive the same span of time, has become synonymous with the 1993 film Groundhog Day, but the idea has much older roo...
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This overwhelmingly sad documentary focuses on the girls as they were during their short lives. Plus, What’s the Monarchy For? Here’s what to watch this evening8pm, BBC One“We sent her there as a treat,” says the mother of Elsie Dot Stancombe, remembering the day in July 2024 when her daughter went...
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Villagers opposing plans for Horsley Road, Kilburn say “cows not concrete” and “fields not floods”
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Hayes Theater, New YorkThe return of the 2014 play, now starring June Squibb as an octogenarian using a tech program to speak to her dead husband, veers between poetry and clicheWhen Jordan Harrison’s play Marjorie Prime first premiered in 2014, its vision of synthetic sentience may have felt pretty...