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Growing numbers of hobbyists are attempting to emulate the artist and capture the truths of the human body at life drawing classes David Hockney draws better than anyone else alive today. There may be other fine painters around, but on paper, with ch...
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It’s that horror film time of year, but Halloween scenes cast their spell in classics as diverse as Meet Me in St Louis, Mean Girls and ETIt’s a curious celebration, Halloween: a night ostensibly dedicated to death and haunting that has somehow becom...
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A timely reissue for this gem from the archives, in which an ex-public schoolboy makes a gruesome fall from graceLord Jim at Home probably wasn’t aimed at the faint-hearted even in its year of original publication, 1973, when alarming the audience wa...
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Two tribes go to war in a bid to win £100k. Plus, a shocking documentary about human zoos. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
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No time for trick or treat? Try pizza with a side order of murder in Josh Hutcherson’s new film, or go into your dark place in the company of Matthew Holness’s awful horror authorFive Nights at Freddy’sOut nowJosh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) stars...
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Collins’s notes on his collaborator’s ‘weakest book’ and ‘astonishingly bad’ work were sold at auction in 1890Charles Dickens may be lauded by many as the greatest Victorian novelist, but one close friend did not demur from fierce criticism after the...
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Doclisboa festival of cinemaRecovered memories of abuse are alluded to but not explored in this often painful look back at the sensational life and career of a true icon of countercultureThe folk singer and counterculture veteran Joan Baez is the sub...
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Grand theatre, LeedsSet in the 1920s, James Hurley’s staging – the third of the company’s Green Season – is blessed with perfectly mismatched lovers. Under conductor Kerem Hasan the score sighs and swoonsPuccini’s La Rondine (the swallow) is, true to...
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PC (version tested), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S; Free Range Games/North Beach GamesPicking up after the defeat of Sauron, in Tolkien-world terms, this survival game traps you in the dwarven mines, fighting green-skins and crafting weapons as you...
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Who’s never off The Crown group chat? Who sings whole songs in the Game of Thrones one? And who dropped a bombshell on the Bridgerton bunch? TV talent tell all about their WhatsApp groupsBehind every big TV series there is now a buzzing WhatsApp grou...
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Northern Stage, NewcastleStories from across the world intertwine through activism in an ambitious production, but the delicate threads never quite meshThe title of Open Clasp’s new show refers to underground networks of fungi, invisibly connecting p...
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Sheila Atim and Arinzé Kene narrate this powerful tale about a couple torn apart by allegations of sexual assault circulated on social mediaThe debut novel from Yomi Adegoke, author of 2018’s bestselling Slay in Your Lane, finds an Insta-obsessed cou...
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Hockney’s life and art, the crises of modern Myanmar, new works by Yinka Shonibare, and a celebration of the many worlds of fantasy – all in your weekly dispatchDavid Hockney: Drawing from Life This exhibition, returning after its original run was cu...
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The actor’s turn as a 16-year-old pressured to lose her virginity on a boozy trip to Malia was a hit at Cannes. She talks about toxic teenage memories and the film’s surprising admirersMia McKenna-Bruce had watched How to Have Sex just once before it...
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They were the most hyped band of lockdown – but no one had a clue who they were. Now, in one of their first interviews, the trio say they’re ready to reveal allBar Italia are tired of being a mystery. The trio – who have spent their brief existence...