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In a wholly original turn, writer-directors Craig Hinde and Marc Zammit spin out an atmospheric, but orthodox British horror into realms of multiverse-type mind expanding entanglementAfter kicking off with an atmospheric but orthodox piece of hoary B...
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Sivan shared the Apra award with music producer Styalz Fuego, who co-wrote RushGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTroye Sivan took home the top prize at the Australian Performing Rights Association (Apra) awards on Wednesday night, winning so...
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A visit to a delapidated London flat unlocks a treasure-trove of reminiscences across six decadesIn 1994, Hugo Greenhalgh was a& researcher on a television documentary about the history of& male sex workers and their clients. Dispatched to interview...
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Harry Potter star reveals in interview that he has had no contact with Rowling since the author’s gender-critical statements on trans womenHarry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has described his rupture with JK Rowling over trans rights as “really sad”,...
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A Jewish boy’s life splits in two and follows two different paths in this novel of trauma and enduring love in Nazi Europe‘Where did they all come from, Jens? All those Nazis … ” So& wonders 18-year-old Max& Spiegelman to his best friend Jens& Arnste...
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Told in the second person, this account of an everygirl growing up with the internet will be devastatingly familiarIt begins when she’s seven. Her father brings home a desktop computer; he shows her that if she types “cats” into a search engine she w...
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Duris stars as a father protecting his son, who may or may not be mutating, in Thomas Cailley’s well-crafted thrillerThomas Cailley’s sci-fi fantasy has too much sensitivity and good taste to be the proper horror-thriller or creature feature that it...
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Writer of Make Good: the Post Office Scandal says postal workers’ interviews helped describe ‘the power of the state coming down on you’The creators of a new musical about the Post Office Horizon scandal are appealing to postal workers to form part o...
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The Magnum photographer’s social media feed combines superb old images with modern reflections – on Brexit, bum thermometers and radical coffee shops Continue reading...
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Tensions are high on the Thai-Myanmar border. Plus, Andi Oliver goes all Welsh in her food odyssey. Here’s what to watch this eveningPoor Brydie and Sharon have been eliminated, while best pals Alfie and Owen take the lead as they leave Cambodia in s...
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The writer of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 – known for his stylised postmodernist fiction – has died from complications of lung cancerPaul Auster, the author of 34 books including the acclaimed New York Trilogy, has died aged 77.The au...
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Sean Bean channels his inner-Cromwell in this tale of a loner lawyer investigating a gruesome decapitation at a Tudor monastery. It’s mean, moody – and the perfect tribute to its author who died this week‘I know what it’s like to be stared at’: Shard...
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He was the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the RSC. As he appears as Shardlake, the star recalls the parts that made him – and explains why this latest character is like the Lone RangerArthur Hughes wants to go on adventures. “When I was...
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The Kristen Stewart / Robert Pattinson vampire romantasy is back and supported by rock and classical musicians – just the latest film to be granted the mysterious live concert treatmentThe first Twilight film was released 16 years ago and, for many o...
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George Georgiou gave British rave culture its smiley face. Now he’s placing plaques where hardcore clubbers sweated till dawn. Our writer joins the designer – and DJs Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway – on a face-melting trip‘I remember this street b...