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(Mute)The 13th album from the Manchester pioneers blends familiarity with no shortage of new ideas, spanning introspection to jubilanceBack when they were Joy Division’s Factory Records label mates, ACR’s pioneering punk-funk barely troubled the char...
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Owen Kline’s coming-of-age tale is very funny and endlessly excruciating, and Al Pacino plays the music producer on trial for murder with relish Continue reading...
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(Haekalu)With doom-laden growls and falsetto screams, the Kenyan metaller’s indefatigable vocals cut through a thunderous onslaught of headbanging soundOver the past decade vocalist Martin Kanja, AKA Lord Spikeheart, has become a figurehead of the bu...
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The divisive director’s sci-fi follow-up is both original and derivative and will be unlikely to convert anyone, but there’s something charming about its sincerityIs there a contemporary Hollywood film-maker who better epitomizes the modern commerce-...
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An unexpected twist on the grief memoir sees the Guardian writer chart the five stages of male-pattern baldnessIt takes Stuart Heritage almost 30 pages to summon the courage to write about his comb-over days. There are hints of it on the way as he de...
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Intricate spider’s webs, hornless rhinos and the world of Bavarian finger wrestling all feature in this year’s exhibition of mind-blowing photography Continue reading...
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Teenagers who solve paranormal mysteries from beyond the grave – yes really – and a beautiful and psychedelic show about our fascinating deep-sea friends Continue reading...
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Myles Bonnar investigates the wild story of a California busker who fled Scotland. Plus: how Gaza divides American campuses. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
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What are the big takeaways from Swift’s new album? She’s refining her sound, confronting elements of her fanbase and done with romantic idealisation• Read Alexis Petridis’s four-star review of the albumSwift named an entire album after the concept of...
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Women in Theatre Lab will act as incubator for playwriting and acting talent and address gender inequalityGemma Arterton, Joanna Scanlan and Stella Kanu are some of the figures backing an initiative to promote women in the theatre, who are being over...
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Vidya Balan shines in this witty remake that sees a married couple, both cheating on each other, on the verge of breaking upThe algebra of love is a multiple-choice conundrum in Shirsha Guha Thakurta’s debut, a witty remake of Azazel Jacobs’ romance...
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This super cute show about an animal hospital will have you crying happy tears from the off. And just wait till you meet the seal pups!The late great critic Roger Ebert once said that “movies are like a machine that generates empathy” – the idea bein...
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There’s some low-stakes pleasure to be had in the first half of the gory new film from the team behind Ready or Not and Scream but things fall apart disastrouslyLast year’s handsome gothic horror The Last Voyage of the Demeter and bombastic Nic Cage...
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Rock & Roll Hall of Famer who wrote the band’s biggest hit, Ramblin’ Man, dies at home in Florida ‘surrounded by his whole family’Guitar legend Dickey Betts, who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band and wrote their biggest hit, Ramblin’ Man, has d...
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Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisation Thirty-one authors and translators have withdrawn their work from consid...