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Rabbit Hole Games; PC, MacOn this delightfully silly journey your challenge is to explore the supermarket aisles, meet the staff – and freezer goblin – and buy alcohol for teenage loiterers. Cheers!If challenged to design a game set in a supermarket,...
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Sandler plays a solo astronaut confronting the cracks in his marriage with help from an eight-legged alien voiced by Paul Dano in this disappointingly drab sci-fi dramaAn astronaut who is just over six months into a solo mission to investigate a myst...
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Birmingham RepA university bhangra dance team is torn apart by cultural differences, seamlessly expressed through music and movement, in this zinger of a showCouncillor Liz Clements cried last Tuesday as she talked about the prospect of Birmingham ci...
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Daniel Kaluuya thanked his parents for having sex and Will Smith referenced slapping the host. Academy awards bring out the best and worst in winners, but is there a right way to do it?If Da’Vine Joy Randolph is, as predicted, announced as winner of...
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The last days of French rule on the island play out though the eyes of a young boy in 100 Beats Per Minute director Robin Campillo’s autobiographically-inspired dramaAt the fraying tail end of French colonialism, at an army base in early 1970s Madaga...
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Two years ago, when the first displaced Ukrainians arrived in the UK, the photographer followed a small group of women and children as they settled in rural Devon. She, and two of the women involved, tell us about the projectThe remote village of Moo...
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Miller’s adaptation of her celebrated play about sexual assault and the legal system lacks the economy and tautness that made for such compelling theatreSuzie Miller’s 2022 play Prima Facie was one of those rare theatre events that garner headlines b...
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V&A, LondonModernist architecture’s arrival in India and colonial west Africa, and how, post-independence, a new generation of local architects made the style their own, is explored in an intriguing new exhibitionIn Chandigarh, northern India, in...
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Abbey theatre, DublinThe black humour gets grimmer in Marina Carr’s latest play as two parents grieve the sudden death of their baby and a disturbing family history emergesThere are three kinds of sorrow, one character explains in Marina Carr’s lates...
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Bush theatre; Donmar Warehouse; Young Vic, LondonBenedict Lombe’s new play about two almost-lovers is alive and unpredictable; Keeley Hawes and Jack Davenport have a glimmering brief encounter; and a Hitler painting causes a family rift in Patrick Ma...
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As the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter begins a sellout world tour, she talks about how a ‘21st-century girl’ is making young fans nostalgic for a crooning jazz era they never knewIt’s six hours before showtime and a queue of teenagers already lines...
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Plea to protect arts funding as a growing number of city and county councils face bankruptcySir Simon Rattle, the world-renowned British conductor, has urged the government not to slash crucial tax relief for orchestras, after the collapse of regiona...
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo star on playing an astronaut, the significance of her surname and the time Orlando Bloom broke her noseBorn Noomi Norén, the 44-year-old Swedish actor Noomi Rapace left home aged 15 to study acting in Stockholm. She br...
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From Kylie’s megamix to Rema’s maximalism, we rate and slate the performers at British music’s biggest night of the yearWomen dominate as Raye scores record-smashing six winsRaye’s wins defied the music industry’s limited imaginationsBrits 2024: full...
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(Secretly Canadian)The Atlanta twentysomething’s 70s-tinged alt-country is delicate and eclectic, complete with guest spots from Wilco’s Nels Cline and rapper Lil YachtyThanks to her keen eye, Atlanta singer-songwriter Faye Webster first made waves a...