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PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox One, PC; CapcomThis gloriously messy, medieval-flavoured silliness will give you the best adventure you’ve had in years. There’s nothing quite like itLet me tell you about my pawn, Bowie. He is, as the name might...
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From a long overdue nod for the Good Omens star to high praise for a Netflix show that deserves ‘bad content’ awards for its writing – here are the highs and lows of this year’s picksBafta TV awards 2024: full list of nominationsThe Crown leads in 20...
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Idris Elba has been waiting in the wings for years but perhaps the time has come for Matt Smith, Henry Golding … or a certain TV chefJust as the runners and riders were parading around the paddock, Aaron Taylor-Johnson has sensationally dismounted an...
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Eight known components of artwork were housed in five different museums in Europe and the US before being reunited in MilanEight surviving panels of Piero della Francesca’s Augustinian altarpiece have been reassembled after 450 years, possibly solvin...
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Despite some decent gags there’s very little life left in the tired franchise – it feels like it’s run its course and it’s time to think of something newThe ice age of intellectual property dullness shivers on … and on. The franchise frostbite is set...
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Banksy claimed mural in Finsbury Park as his own on Monday and artwork has now been damagedA mural of a tree painted by Banksy on a residential building in north London has been defaced with white paint two days after it first appeared.The artwork in...
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The Nigerian author of Second Class Citizen wrote from real-life experience about the universal problems of poverty and oppression that could be the burdens of women everywhere Buchi Emecheta’s journey – from orphaned child, through marital oppressio...
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Turner Sims, SouthamptonPianist is a wonderfully unfussy and straightforwardly lucid interpreter of sonatas completed months before composer’s deathOver the last two years Paul Lewis has been working his way through Schubert’s piano sonatas, and he h...
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Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette’s night of farce and coincidence is a tale in which strangeness and anxiety loom large, leading to a woozy punchlineMartin Scorsese’s 1985 screwball noir is now on rerelease. It felt at the time – and feels now – li...
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This pitch-black debut, lurching from comedy of manners to grand guignol, will be catnip to fans of SaltburnIt’s sometimes said that all war movies, whatever their stance, end& up being propaganda for war. In The Kellerby Code, a version of the& argu...
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She has played Janine in Ghostbusters since the franchise started, not to mention her star turn as Bo Peep. But, as Potts says, her life and career were almost over before they had really begunThe hallowed beige flight suit was not in the plan. “It w...
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Seen by many as the first Chinese American star in Hollywood, the highs and lows of a life battling for space in the limelight are explored in a detailed new bookWidely considered the first Chinese American Hollywood star, Anna May Wong has only rece...
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The life and legacy of the British diplomat and Irish rebel executed for high treasonThe champion of Arabia never got to& write the book, but gave Roland Phillips a title for his, a valuable but flawed study of a man whose actions and fate continue t...
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The Euphoria breakout goes all-in with a fun, nasty slab of nunsploitation that also acts as commentary on female bodily autonomySome movie stars disappear behind their roles. Not Sydney Sweeney. The Euphoria and Anyone But You actor is the kind of f...
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The Native American story is painfully alive in an impressive second novel that moves from 19th-century massacres to present-day OaklandThe Cheyenne and Arapaho author Tommy Orange’s astonishing 2018 debut novel, There There, offered a kaleidoscopic...