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Ryan Gosling plays a stunt double searching for a missing Hollywood star, while Britain’s biggest pop star offers some Glastonbury-ready bangersThe Fall GuyOut nowIt’s nearly two months since Ryan Gosling gave us that iconic slice of Ken at the Oscar...
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Spy/Master follows a dictator’s right-hand man on the run. Plus, the gripping finale of Traces. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, BBC Four Continue reading...
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This kids’ adventure story with a faux medievalist vibe has a cute conceit and some fun sequences but the inexperience of the cast and director showsIf you’ve ever tried to make a home movie with young children, you quickly come to appreciate how har...
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War in Gaza, US campus protests, missile strikes in Kharkiv and floods in Kenya: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalistsWarning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing Continue reading...
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The spooky comedy franchise may seem an unlikely place to find an ethnicity and faith adviser, but productions are increasingly aware of a duty to make sure communities are truthfully representedThe “sensitivity reader” is a well-established, if cont...
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The end of a marriage, the chaos of Covid and the death of her father hit the R&B auteur hard. But she says that she has found beauty in despair“My life has been a& whirlwind,” sighs Yaya Bey. Across a& turbulent near-decade, the R&B auteur h...
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Tom Baker’s scarf! Jodie Whittaker’s cupboard! David Tennant’s gifs! As Ncuti Gatwa picks up his sonic screwdriver for the new series of Doctor Who, we rate every two-hearted Time Lord so farIt is too soon to place the Fifteenth Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa,...
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Sara Davies hopes release of song and glitzy video will ‘drive the idea forward and get people talking about it’Musicians, language campaigners and pro-independence politicians have backed a campaign to win a place for the land of song in Eurovision....
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A widespread search has been sparked after Victoria Mary Clarke noticed a rifle owned by the late Pogues frontman was gone. She explains why this piece of history was one of the few possessions he cherishedOK, hands up – who’s nicked Shane MacGowan’s...
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The pair, whose final season of the hit horror-comedy will air on the BBC this month, say the West End production will feature familiar characters and fresh surprisesAs the ninth and final series of their BBC hit Inside No 9 begins this month, Steve...
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Man who emerges from German TV series is a far cry from myth of tortured artist alienated from his family and jobThe word “kafkaesque” has come to describe the sensation of powerlessness when dealing with bureaucratic systems; of getting lost in laby...
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Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, CardiffWilliams more than rose to the challenge of Schumann’s Kreisleriana and the Op 11 Sonata with playing of clarity and rigourThe Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams, so modest of demeanour, is not averse to settin...
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Matthew Dunster, who directed Allen in her West End debut 2:22: A Ghost Story, will write and direct the show for Bath’s Ustinov Studio next yearLily Allen is to play Hedda Gabler in a new version of Henrik Ibsen’s classic at Theatre Royal Bath’s Ust...
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Yard theatre, LondonEven in times of peace, the medical staff training to go into a war zone can’t avoid conflict in Sami Ibrahim’s engaging playQuestions of crisis spiral in Sami Ibrahim’s thoughtful but strangely paced play. There is the personal s...
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With subjects ranging from Elvis to bubble and squeak, the poet’s unmistakable delivery elevates his satirical verse to the realms of high artThe latest poetry collection from John Cooper Clarke, AKA the Bard of Salford, What comes with themes includ...