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The year’s finest LPs as decided by 30 Guardian music writers – from a slip’n’slide through British club culture to a UK rapper like none before her • More on the best culture of 2025*** Continue reading...
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Crisis-hit Paris institution still reeling from jewel heist is in dispute over staffing, renovations and ticket price risesThe crisis-hit Louvre museum in Paris was closed on Monday as workers began a strike to demand urgent renovations and staffing...
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In his pomp there was no genre or story this director couldn’t turn to gold – despite never being nominated for an Oscar• Meeting Rob Reiner was like a visit from Santa• Rob Reiner’s five best films• Hollywood in shock: ‘One of the greatest’Consumpti...
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He rewrote the rule book with Rockstar then left it all behind. Now Dan Houser is back with a storytelling-focused studio to take on AI-obsessed tech bros and Mexican beauty queensThere are only a handful of video game makers who have had as profound...
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The Age of Disclosure was granted a Capitol Hill screening and has broken digital rental records but does it really offer proof of alien life?It has been hailed as a game changer in public attitudes towards UFOs, ending a culture of silence around cl...
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The French fashion designer’s lavish Mediterranean villa was frequented by everyone from Dalí to Garbo to Stravinsky to Churchill. It has now been lovingly restored – with a thrillingly bolstered libraryIt is the place where Salvador Dalí painted The...
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San San F Young’s passionate documentary records a vibrant creative scene that continues to resist Beijing’s repression Dotted with towering corporate skyscrapers, the skyline of Hong Kong attests to its global reputation as a financial hub; this ima...
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Spectacular sci-fi, comedy gold and a cracking series about chairs … it’s been another standout year of television. Our countdown of the best continues• More on the best culture of 2025*** Continue reading...
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Outside the lavish event, workers called out the ‘greed’ in the industry that has left games ‘being sold for parts to make a few people a lot of money’It’s the night of the 2025 Game Awards, a major industry event where the best games of the year are...
The Welsh author vividly captures the solitude, hard labour, dramas and dangers of rural lifeIn these six stories of human frailty and responsibility, Welsh writer Cynan Jones explores the imperatives of love and the labour of making and sustaining l...
The storytelling is brittle, but there is still enjoyment to be had from this story of a mother and child and rescue from a catastrophic flood in SeoulKim Byung-woo’s chimeric but not unenjoyable sixth feature begins like a normal apocalypse movie, w...
Singer, 85, says disease has ‘gone at the moment’ and hopes to join forces with King Charles to raise awarenessCliff Richard has revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer for the past year. The 85-year-old singer said his cancer had “gone at t...
Culture is not immune from the advances of the hard right – but it isn’t too late for resistanceInto the pale stone wall of the Kennedy Center, above its elegant terrace on the edge of the Potomac river, are carved bold and idealistic sentiments. “Th...
Who’s that daring young farmyard animal on the flying trapeze? The creatures of Mossy Bottom have been put on stage by ‘edgy’ circus stars Circa – but the burlesque shearing had to go‘It’s a family drama,” says Yaron Lifschitz. “It’s kind of a minor...
Dance Centre Kenya, one of the leading performing arts schools in east Africa providing opportunities for talented young dancers from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, has staged The Nutcracker for its 10th-anniversary annual ballet production, at...