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Actors Rei Hance, Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams – who improvised most of horror film’s dialogue – claim they didn’t have proper union representation in 1999 and seek residualsThe stars of The Blair Witch Project have called for more compensatio...
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The shocking case of Robert Durst continues in a sequel documentary. Plus: life and death in Pompeii. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
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He joined rebel convoys in Africa and turned his time with GIs in Afghanistan into an Oscar-nominated film. But his subject wasn’t war – it was people. Ahead of a major show, our writer remembers his former colleagueTim Hetherington used to get so hu...
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David Beckham shares video of former girl group singing their hit Stop at private club Oswald’s in London, as Mel B hints at a tourThe Spice Girls have reunited for a rare performance featuring all five members – at Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday p...
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Instead of Idris Elba cranking it up to 11, we have the serviceable Richard Armitage downing G&Ts while handcuffed to his plane seat. Then the bodies start to pile up …If it’s Sunday – or Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday –...
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Author also discusses prospect of second Trump presidency and writing about his stabbing in launch event for his book KnifeSalman Rushdie has warned young people against forgetting the value of free speech and discussed the “very big and negative” im...
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Musician had held top roles at Glyndebourne opera and in Chicago, Melbourne and Toronto orchestrasSir Andrew Davis, a conductor who performed with many of the world’s finest orchestras, has died at the age of 80.Throughout his long career Davis held...
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A painfully funny cartoon about a neurotic graphic artist deftly explores the themes of self-obsession and ecological disasterEnter the Faber/Observer/Graphica graphic short story prize 2024I’ve read Luke Healy’s new graphic novel twice: first, on sc...
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Stone Nest, LondonDante or Die’s intriguing but underdeveloped story is based on the case of two men, each convicted of a homophobic murder, who became the first same-sex couple to marry in a UK prisonBasing a play on real events offers a safety blan...
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Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonTalk of street parties, barbecues and book clubs gives way to politics in this work about authoritarianism, colonialism and how history gets rewrittenThe historical significance of the year 1884 is not explained at the beg...
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As the global bestseller One Day reduces a new generation to tears, it’s fair to say that no other author captures the bittersweet highs and lows of falling in love better than David Nicholls. He talks about nostalgia, self-confidence and the rewards...
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A promising first novel takes a jazzy, improvised journey with a young woman who has a sudden loss of hearingA good test of a writer is to take a high concept and stretch it. In The Hearing Test, the debut novel by American Eliza Barry Callahan, a yo...
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Soho theatre, LondonSet entirely within the stained walls of a men’s public toilet, Sam Grabiner’s award-winning play is an ambitious, hallucinatory series of vignettes dramatising the gamut of male neurosesRecent plays set in toilets have dwelt on t...
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There’s an earthy authenticity to Zoljargal Purevdash’s story of a gifted student from a poor familyIt’s the kind of story that crops up fairly regularly on the world cinema and film festival circuit: an academically gifted teenager from a desperatel...
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New Vic, Newcastle-under-LymeA first-rate cast delight in controlled chaos of the highest order in Conrad Nelson’s seamless revival of Richard Bean’s hit playA couple on the stairs behind me, leaving the theatre. He: “And a band! What more could you...