Culture
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The new film about how Putin’s Russia was born
Featuring a much-anticipated performance by Jude Law as Vladimir Putin, this new drama looks to explore how the Russian president…
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Why female pop stars embracing sex is still controversial in 2025
Whereas Madonna’s overt sexuality felt radical, Carpenter’s has a more tongue-in-cheek feel – to the point where some have questioned…
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Why Jacob Elordi’s hunky Frankenstein’s monster is wrong
Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel features the “ridiculously good-looking” Jacob Elordi as the monster – which…
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‘Deliriously entertaining’ South Korean masterpiece is this year’s Parasite
Oldboy and The Handmaiden director Park Chan-wook has premiered a “bleakly hilarious” comedy about economic anxiety at the Venice Film…
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Julia Roberts is the ‘monumental centre’ of this provocative drama – and could win a second Oscar
The megastar plays a philosophy professor shaken by a student’s sexual assault allegation against a colleague in Luca Guadagnino’s new…
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George Clooney’s Jay Kelly shows it’s time film and TV stopped drooling over the super-rich
Co-written by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, Jay Kelly follows countless other US films and television series, many of them influenced…
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The six centuries-old art history rules hidden in their engagement photo
Alamy 5. Ceremony Lawrence Alma Tadema, A Foregone Conclusion, 1885 The sense of suspenseful ceremony is skilfully acknowledged and manipulated…
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The Soviet artwork that spied on the US
He describes the technology of The Thing in musical terms – as being composed of tubes like organ pipes and…
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12 of the best TV shows to watch this September
Wayward premieres 25 September on Netflix internationally Apple TV+(Credit: Apple TV+) 11. The Savant Jessica Chastain stars in this timely…
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The Roses review: ‘Smart, wild, entertaining’
But the film cleverly turns into a reverse rom-com when Theo’s career crashes while Ivy’s restaurant takes off. We watch…
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