Culture
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The 12 best books of 2025 so far
Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker Bloomsbury, Knopf, Penguin Random House From multigenerational family sagas to speculative dystopias – the very…
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Why Gen Z is so nostalgic about ‘indie sleaze’
Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images (Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images) Today’s youth are harking back to the messy hipster…
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Zombie-apocalypse horror is a ‘never-dull’ monster mash-up
Miya Mizuno Alex Garland and Danny Boyle have reunited for a follow-up to their 2002 classic. It has visual flair,…
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Did Ballerina’s title spell box-office disaster?
Lionsgate Action blockbuster From the World of John Wick: Ballerina has been one of the summer’s big flops so far…
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Motor-racing blockbuster is a non-starter
Apple TV+/ F1 (Credit: Apple TV+/ F1) Brad Pitt plays a long-in-the-tooth former Formula One star in a “slick and…
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How Return to Oz became one of the darkest children’s films ever made
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Back in the 1980s, Disney commissioned a sequel to The Wizard of Oz which was as scary…
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The mysterious murder of ‘God’s Banker’
Getty Images Forty-three years ago this week, the BBC reported on the death of Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker whose…
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Who was the real Andy Warhol?
Getty Images With his famous wig and shades, Warhol cultivated a mysterious, enigmatic persona. Now a new exhibition with unprecedented…
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The 70s rock band putting ‘Zamrock’ back on the map, 50 years on
Alamy Blending the style of The Rolling Stones with African beats and instruments, Zambian group Witch were revolutionary – then…
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How the heiresses dubbed the ‘dollar princesses’ brought US flair to the UK
National Trust Images, Matthew Hollow Viscountess Astor by John Singer Sargent, 1908 (Credit: National Trust Images, Matthew Hollow) The rich,…
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