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Football drama Dear England receives nine nominations in a year that featured a string of celebrity castings• Complete list of nominationsJames Norton, Andrew Scott, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sarah Snook and David Tennant are among the stars to have rece...
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The host of the ceremony also revealed backstage nervousness around the naked John Cena stunt, including discussions regarding envelope size• Oscars 2024: full list of winners• Full report: Oppenheimer wins best pictureOscars host Jimmy Kimmel has sa...
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This year’s festival promises to be a ‘civic platform’, with a new series of daily news analysis, a debate about the Israel-Gaza war and an appeal to the younger generationElif Shafak, Anne Enright, David Nicholls, Judi Dench, Gary Lineker and Theres...
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A compelling documentary on digital war-on-terror laws that centres on a programme that can mean prison for anyone who refuses UK police access to their smartphonesWe all know (and are largely complacent) about the limitless possibilities for digital...
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The American poet and musician’s new album The Great Bailout tracks the money given to British slaveowners – including David Cameron’s ancestors. She explains why she is pessimistic about getting true justice‘The aftermath of enslavement just doesn’t...
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A decade after his award-winning Dracula, Mark Bruce has pared down Mary Shelley’s gothic classic and taken a cue from its subtitle ‘The Modern Prometheus’‘The idea of a creature made of shreds of other people – well, that’s all of us, isn’t it? We’r...
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The author of The English Patient returns to poetry with a valedictory collection that is at home with the unknown and the romance of the incompleteMichael Ondaatje has always been a poet – it is how he began his career 50 years ago – although he is...
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Sensual study of Chengdu’s underground club scene follows unselfconscious clubbers, performers and musicians through their neon-detailed nightsBen Mullinkosson is a film-maker and skateboarder from Chicago who brings an effortless, freewheeling intim...
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Forty years on from the battle to save Britain’s pits, a revival of Boff Whalley’s drama We’re Not Going Back honours women’s contributionTen years ago, Boff Whalley created a play for Red Ladder theatre company about the role of women in the 1984-85...
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Reporting on the trial of a former SS camp guard, the author learns that his own grandfather was an early Nazi in this lucid, timely study of Germany’s fraught reckoning with its pastWhen, as it is now, the talk is all of genocide and the slide to th...
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Women with children have long struggled to be taken seriously as artists – but a new show addresses the problem, stretchmarks and all It’s a sunny morning in Bristol and I’m looking at a biological clock. Not my own metaphorical one, but an actual on...
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Bartender who found Caliban Shrieks in a library says chance encounters helped him get Jack Hilton’s story back in print“I thought the drawing was a skeleton touching a poo,” said Jack Chadwick about the cover of Jack Hilton’s 1934 book Caliban Shrie...
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While her son sleeps, Eleanor Macnair stays up painstakingly recreating her favourite images out of modelling clay – then photographing them Continue reading...
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A seven-year-old boy hits the trail of the bad guys with guns in this family movie which has lots for curious kids to pick up on, even if the PG jeopardy pulls no punchesAn unwritten rule of kids’ movies is that they should include a worthy message t...
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Bloody docu-drama Royal Kill List tells the vengeful tale of Charles II. Plus: the ever-loveable Mel Giedroyc hears more cringeworthy celebrity stories. Here’s what to watch tonight Continue reading...