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The latest round of cultural investment will enable local councils to upgrade their services and help ‘libraries play an increasingly important role in our communities’Forty-three library services and 26 museums will be given funding in the latest ro...
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From his childhood job in Disneyland and huge standup success to movie stardom and later life career as a dry humorist this is a fascinating insight into a wild and crazy careerComedian Steve Martin now comes as close as he’s ever going to get to ope...
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While the musician faces several lawsuits alleging sexual assault, it was not clear if he was the target of the investigationThe Department of Homeland Security confirmed on Monday that agents have raided properties in Los Angeles, Miami and New York...
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Lundgren directs and stars, alongside Kelsey Grammer, in an action movie about a Californian cop who clashes with a drug cartel while recovering from injuryWith seven films under his belt since 2000, Dolph Lundgren has quietly amassed a sizeable dir...
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Schindler’s List director says in speech marking 30th anniversary of the USC Shoah Foundation that he is alarmed that ‘we may … once again have to fight for the very right to be Jewish’Steven Spielberg has denounced the global upsurge of antisemitism...
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The much-debated door from the 1997 film, which only had room to save Kate Winslet’s Rose but not Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack, has sold at auctionEver since the release of Titanic in 1997, debate has raged over whether the piece of wood which keeps Kate...
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Footage of green-fingered BBC presenter obscured from waist down to hide ‘symbol of US imperialism’His calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regimes in the world. But there is something ab...
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This compelling study of 1930s journalist Sefton Delmer reveals how he used ‘grotesque cabaret’ as propaganda to undermine the Germans’ faith in nazism – and how such methods could be used against today’s tyrantsIn 1941 a secret British radio station...
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A new exhibition contrasts the experience of those enduring the second world war in London with Ukrainians currently taking cover from Russian bombs Continue reading...
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Robert Hloz’s debut is a competent copy of Hollywood sci-fi, but it’s too heavily indebted to its influences to develop its own philosophyApparently the first sci-fi film from the Czech Republic in 40 years, this so-called Czech Blade Runner is actua...
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The late psychotherapist and his wife, Kate Garraway, provide an insight into terminal illness. Plus: nocturnal trouble on the mean streets of Brighton. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...
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From expensive rent to efforts to keep up with fashion, a young man’s missives on display in Cumbria are relatable to todayWhen Ben Browne set off on horseback from his small village in the north of England for the bright lights of London in 1719, hi...
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Here at Outernet, LondonThe 90s movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is celebrated in a chaotic night that’s played for fun I look forward to the day when jukebox musicals have lost their grip on our stages, but if other people’s so...
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Nick Grimshaw and his celebrity pals need to make sure an ‘underdog’ wins a fake reality competition. It’s a fun, canny spectacle that completely shakes up the genreLast year, a new series on Amazon Freevee& – a free, ad-supported streaming service&...
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In this distressingly intimate film, Ukrainian soldiers as young as 19 carry their dying comrades through a freezing forest as the sky turns red with gunfire. Their horror and humanity will never leave youUkraine: Enemy in the Woods is a surgically p...