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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...
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Imogen Wade’s The Time I Was Mugged in New York City impresses judges for ‘lyricism in the account of an abduction’• Scroll down to read the winning poemA poem inspired by the author’s experience of being mugged has won the first prize of £5,000 in...
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The Oscar nominee could follow in fellow Marvel star Chris Pratt’s footsteps with a starring role in new dinosaur adventureScarlett Johansson is reportedly in talks to lead a new Jurassic World movie.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the two-time...
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From underage performers in bikinis to facial squirting shots and 16-year-old Ariana Grande milking a potato, the crass sexualisation and creepy goings-on at children’s TV behemoth Nickelodeon are laid bare in this rage-inducing exposéDear God, not a...
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After years as the only Muslim woman on the comedy circuit, the standup is now making history with a female touring troupe. She relives the attacks she faced on the way, from ‘letterbox’ burqa taunts to Isis allegationsFor years, Muslim women have be...
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PC (version tested), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S/X, Nintendo Switch; Question/THQ NordicThe show’s trademark knack for satire staves off the sameness in this wintry brawlerThe snow’s falling hard over South Park, Colorado, and little Eric Cartman sp...
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‘Audiences hated the ending. They wanted to know who the Thing was. But I don’t care. That’s how I wanted it’One of my favourite films was The Thing From Another World. The idea of remaking it was daunting but exciting. This was also my first studio...
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The surviving members of the Texan psychedelic art rock noise band recall the drugs, fires, fights, scabies, dumpster-diving, naked dancing and primal screaming of their early daysNudity, raging fires, belching smoke, blinding strobes, nightmare-ind...
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Irish actor awarded prize for playing every role in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, following his win at Critics’ Circle film awardsAndrew Scott has been named best actor at the Critics’ Circle theatre awards for playing every role in Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a...
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Coliseum, LondonThe strangely ageless French chill-out duo deliver Moon Safari in an audiovisual spectacular that goes far beyond nostalgia The languid opening notes of La Femme d’Argent are a musical madeleine that elicits a collective gasp from the...
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Wisecracking penguins, helpful chickens, a frozen landscape – the latest instalment of the terrible Eggs series, which is just as bad as previous onesThere’s a slim possibility that this film’s title might tempt you to imagine it is part of the same...
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The found-footage film took a suspiciously satanic number on a spooky weekend at the US box office that saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire top the chartsLate Night With the Devil, a found footage horror about a 1977 live television broadcast which accid...
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Australian star names Baron Cohen as the ‘massive asshole’ referred to in her memoir, Rebel Rising, as representatives for the Borat actor reject ‘demonstrably false’ allegationsRebel Wilson has named Sacha Baron Cohen, who she worked with on the 201...
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A 50th-anniversary concert in London celebrates the unlikely show about the son of a holy Roman emperor that became one of Broadway’s biggest hitsIn the 2019 bio-series Fosse/Verdon, Sam Rockwell breaks out a vulpine smile in a rehearsal room scene,...
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Iranian critic Ehsan Khoshbakht’s personal essay about a man’s smizdat film print collection shows the lengths cinephiles will go to to protect the art formThe passion of cinephilia is the subject of this absorbing personal essay movie from Iranian c...