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Rare sale of David Hockney painting of beloved dog Stanley could fetch £2.5m
Exclusive: Dog Painting 17 is believed to be one of only six of works from Dog Series in private hands and first to be auctioned
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Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve review – brilliant aerial combat game fulfils the Top Gun fantasy
The game generates blood-pumping moments as you twist, turn and weave through the skies, while your locked-on missiles speed away to…
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‘And you will be the People’s Earl’ – Charles Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, digested by John Crace
The earl on his globally lauded eulogy for Diana, King Charles’s sausage fingers and toxic Raine, topped off with a lavish sprinkling of…
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Fancy a pint … at Lidl? The bizarre battle over Northern Ireland’s stifled nightlife
The country’s licensing laws mean the supermarket has opened a pub so it can sell alcohol, while campaigners are fighting to help other…
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The Turn of the Screw review – Henry James’s classic ghost story with added jump scares
This slick production of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s adaptation is hampered by its own cleverness
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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky review – the bell tolls for Patrick Hamilton’s lost Londoners
The sequence of richly atmospheric novels about lonely souls in the capital is condensed into an engrossing play that could be more…
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Phil Lord and Chris Miller to Deliver Keynote Conversation at IndieWire’s Future of Filmmaking Summit
'Project Hail Mary' directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller will present a keynote conversation at IndieWire's Future of Filmmaking Summit.
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Letter to Brezhnev review – terrific return for Merseysiders’ romance with Russian sailors
Ellie Clayton and Angela Simms are superb in a funny, passionate yet still tender adaptation that hugs close to the 1985 film
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Quentin Bell and Olivia Sterling review – two artists with a magic touch
Bell’s strange and charming ceramics celebrate a life dedicated to creativity, while next door Sterling’s bawdier, weirder paintings form…
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‘Up Against It’ Review: An Uneven Medical Dramedy Relies on Sincerity to Mask Its Flaws
Broad beats and narrative contrivances nearly bury the glimmers of emotional truth in this ludicrous but well-meaning blended-family…
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Ireland to boycott Eurovision again over Israeli participation and ongoing Gaza deaths
Ireland joins joins Dutch broadcaster in refusing to take part in 2027 song contest, in second consecutive year of protests
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Million Dollar Quartet review – jumping jukebox show reignites rock’n’roll classics
Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis’s 1956 get-together is respun with an unsubtle script but some vigorous…
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As the ‘Digger’ Awards Campaign Launches, Will Tom Cruise Do What it Takes to Win an Oscar?
Will Tom Cruise play ball to get an Oscar? Warners is going all in to promote him in 'Digger,' but the $160 million film faces box office…
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Girls creator Lena Dunham welcomes baby girl delivered via surrogate
Writer and actor, 40, had long struggled with endometriosis before undergoing total hysterectomy at age 31
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Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutrality
By standing behind support act Macklemore, who was removed from the tour for his vocal support of Palestine, these artists are…
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‘Faith’ Review: Erin Doherty’s Grieving Mother Approaches Sublimation in a Drama with Otherworldly Overtones
Paul Andrew Williams’ direction refuses to exploit the script’s genre trappings beyond the realm of its characters’ interiority. Read our…
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‘This should be condemned by any thinking human’: film industry rallies behind NAZA directors
Backing comes after Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor were threatened with having their citizenship revoked and accused of treason
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‘Every magazine cover needs to seduce’: designers pick their favourites
From a timeless portrait of Lana Del Rey to an alternative guide to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, experts unpick what makes an enduring,…
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Rhea Seehorn Wins Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Rhea Seehorn won the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series for 'Pluribus.'
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Jean Smart Wins the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for ‘Hacks’
Jean Smart wins her fifth Emmy for ‘Hacks,’ making history as the first performer to win for every season of a series and tying an acting…
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‘A double entendre in every crevice’: what, beyond near-naked tennis, is Sydney Sweeney’s game?
With her new, semi-nude advert for sports site Novig, the actor cements her reputation as the anti-woke poster girl. But is it real – or…
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‘How We Stand’ Review: Amber Midthunder Stars in a Richly Drawn, Magical-Realist Indigenous Tale
Amber Midthunder stars in 'How We Stand,' directed by Marie Clements and featuring an Indigenous cast. Movie review.
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Burning Man at 40: the once anarchic desert festival faces a midlife crisis
The subversive bacchanal for San Francisco’s eccentric underground is ageing out amid an influx of the super-rich
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‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived
Dedicated to the boy whose lynching partially ignited the US civil rights movement, the new exhibition celebrates Black creativity and…