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Rob Delaney and Bel Powley star in a knotty rehab drama: best podcasts of the week
Sharon Horgan executive produced this moreish road trip story about addiction, mishaps and revelations. Plus, the new one from Serial’s…
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‘We freed Patrick Stewart!’ Star Trek’s Marina Sirtis on breaking in her beloved but very serious co-star
She was scared of him but soon loosened the Shakespearean up – then watched him give Star Trek depth, even insisting scenes be rewritten…
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Attention Seeking Behaviour by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo review – a slippery liar’s tale
Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths prize, this compelling interrogation of memory, justice and truth offers no easy answers
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Peter Medak, veteran director of The Krays and The Changeling, dies aged 88
The film-maker enjoyed a long and varied film and TV career, from horror movies and true-crime thrillers to Cannibal and Breaking Bad
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Is that a lion driving the car? Alluring images to buy in the Magnum Square Print Sale – in pictures
From roarsome motorists to indoor beaches, these fascinating images blur fact and fiction – and are available to buy in the Magnum store
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‘He’s not going to punk me. I’ll trick him’: Ali G: Who Iz I? stooge says he was in on joke but didn’t tell Sacha Baron Cohen
Exclusive: Joshua Loudermilk says suspicions first raised during filming by gun shaped like wearable plastic bottom: ‘You’re gonna put a…
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TV tonight: a starry celebration of the great Amy Winehouse
Corinne Bailey Rae and Jorja Smith are among the performers at a Back to Black tribute show. Plus, Cynthia Erivo completes SNL UK’s…
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Cinema Eye Honors Unveil Nominees for 2027’s Best Documentary Films and Series
2027 Cinema Eye Honors reveal its Audience Choice Prize Longlist, its Unforgettables Honorees, its Broadcast nominees, and its Shorts List.
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Light, camera … razor blades?! How photography became an art form – in pictures
A new exhibition – which the Guardian gave five stars – tells the story of the birth of art photography. Here are some of the most…
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‘They pulled a guy’s face off. It’s my favourite bit!’ Linda Cardellini on Freaks and Geeks, Mad Men and slasher horror Crystal Lake
She got to torment Don Draper in Mad Men and has just won an Emmy for DTF St Louis. But nothing prepared the star for all the gore as she…
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TV tonight: a very moreish drama about a hellish birthday party
Luke Evans and Sarah Solemani star in ITV’s top autumn thriller. Plus, an epic trip through Mongolia with Simon Reeve. Here’s what to…
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Some Woman review – Anne-Marie Duff is wholly believable but this twisty drama is not
The far-fetched plot turns and some underdeveloped characters undermine the powerful messages about prejudice in Helen Edmundson’s play
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Netflix Is Finally Reporting Box Office Data. Why Is It Starting with ‘La Bola Negra’?
Netflix is entering uncharted territory by reporting box office figures for the first time on its awards hopeful 'La Bola Negra.'
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‘A tipping point of ickiness’: Welsh star Tom Rhys Harries on playing eyelid-snipping DC supervillain Clayface
He cut his teeth playing rock stars and pretty posh boys. Speaking from his LA home, the actor talks about landing his first blockbuster…
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TV tonight: how did 9/11 affect the experience of being Muslim in Britain?
Mobeen Azhar and Masood Khan look at life after the terror attacks. Plus: investigating Roman Abramovich. Here’s what to watch tonight
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Edge Control: the art exhibition using hidden camera images to explore race and beauty
Artist Deana Lawson uses beauty supply store surveillance images to analyze power and personhood in her exhibition at the Gagosian in New…
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‘Old-timey fascism was kept secret. Now you don’t have to hide it’: Martin McDonagh, John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell on Wild Horse Nine
McDonagh’s latest film has Malkovich and Rockwell shooting the breeze as CIA agents in 1973 on Easter Island. They discuss grandchildren,…
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Choral evensong has been on our airwaves for 100 years today. Long may this vibrant, thriving art form continue | Jonathan Davies
One hundred years since the BBC first broadcast choral evensong, MP and former chorister Jonathan Davies hymns a beautiful and empowering…
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‘I call them erotic landscapes’: fashion photographer Tim Walker on his powerful tapestry of queer Britain
He has shot everyone from Madonna to Rihanna, Kate Moss and Frank Ocean. Now Walker has turned his lens on the activists, artists,…
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The Undertones review – silver-haired fans get Teenage Kicks once more
Derry’s answer to the Ramones play 30 songs in a breakneck and breathless ride through the punk humour and new-wave surrealism of their…
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‘I thought Brassed Off might be popular within a 10 mile radius of Barnsley’: the director of Andy Burnham’s favourite film on its 30 year anniversary
Ahead of a live performance in the Royal Albert Hall, the writer Mark Herman explains why he’s not surprised it’s one of the new Prime…
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Sex, drugs and amoebic dysentery: the 20 best making-of documentaries – ranked!
From tropical disasters and doomed sci-fi epics to bribing Orson Welles and fending off a puma, we rate cinema’s most revealing glimpses…
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Digger review – Tom Cruise’s loudmouth oil tycoon goes hard in Alejandro G Iñárritu’s eco-satire
One man’s irresponsible drilling causes a global crisis in Iñárritu’s exasperatingly laborious, self-congratulatory film
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‘We wanted it to be a battlecry’: how Republica made 90s anthem Ready to Go
‘The day Saff came into the studio with red hair, I said, “We’re gonna be massive!” It was the missing link’