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Lover, You Should Have Come Over enters charts at No 97, after becoming popular on social media platformJeff Buckley has achieved his first US Hot 100 hit single, 29 years after his death, with Lover, You Should Have Come Over at No 97 this week.TikTok virality is behind the success, as a new genera...
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Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic with an awestruck tastefulness that smooths over any disruptivenessBreathless, deathless … and pointless? Here is Richard Linklater’s impeccably submissive, tastefully cinephile period drama about the making of Godard’s debut 196...
Focus / Culture - 21 hours ago
When it comes to origin stories, comedians have some of the strangest – from performing for a £5 bet to getting back at their boss to making an unlikely pact with a friendNot all standup comedians wake up one day and decide to be funny for a living. That wasn’t the case for John Bishop, anyway. He t...
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The top categories are stacked with quality, from Bad Bunny to Kendrick Lamar, Chappell Roan and K-pop hits – but here are the artists who most deserve to triumphBad Bunny – DTMF Sabrina Carpenter – Manchild Doechii – Anxiety Billie Eilish – Wildflower Kendrick Lamar & SZA – Luther Lady Gag...
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A father and son move to the Patagonian woods – but intensity wanes when a search for home becomes an obsessive quest for revengeWhen the protagonist of Daniel Wiles’s debut novel Mercia’s Take, set in a mining community during the industrial revolution, left a bag of gold downstairs unprotected and...
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The 70s musicians who choose to lay down some tracks in remote Welsh countryside may not really surprise, but one young local is startlingly memorableThere’s an oscillation of weirdness in this feature debut from Bryn Chainey, who takes us deep into the traditional folk-horror thicket with a fervent...
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A silent-era classic has been reframed for the vertical scroll of phone screens. Is this innovation, sacrilege, or just another way to repackage cinema history?‘Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake,” said Alfred Hitchcock. Who knew that anyone would take the knife to one of his mos...
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This warm, inoffensive but undeniably mawkish comedy about a therapist is cosy but preposterous. Sometimes it’s like the excellent Ford is in a totally different programmeSuch is the surfeit of TV offered up to us in the streaming age that there are whole shows featuring A-list actors that only two...
An exhilarating account of Bowie’s spirituality and the quasi-religious nature of his work, from Space Oddity to BlackstarIt has become a tired cliche among fans to say that everything went wrong in the world after Bowie died in 2016. It also misses the point: rather than being one of the last avata...
Asafe Ghalib photographs his friends and fellow artists with one aim – to transform them into their ‘rawest, most beautiful and most empowered’ form Continue reading...
A gang of bank robbers return to the scene of their crime to free the two employees they imprisoned in a vault in this suspenseful British thriller from 1962Vernon Sewell’s outstanding British crime picture from 1962, co-scripted by veteran screenwriter Richard Harris, is now re-released. It is a ta...
The property duo help homeowners decide what to do with their dated dwelling. Plus: more chaos in Black Ops. Here’s what to watch this evening8pm, Channel 4Wheelchair user Andy is fed up with his family’s dated bungalow and its narrow corridors. He’s ready to move but his partner Sam thinks they sho...
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Alt-rockers will score Hitler allegory The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, with Mark Gatiss in the title roleAlt-rockers Placebo are set to collaborate with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) by scoring a new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.Written in 1941, the play is...