β¨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Gerhard Richter,Art and design,Culture π Key idea: gAs a child, Erhard Richter remembers drawing with his finger on an empty, lightly greased dinner plate, tracing and tracing imaginary curves and spatial structures in endless modifications of china. Decades later, he would place dots of different colors on a canvas and then blend them using curved, slippery brush strokes, lubricated with oil and paint, until the entire surface was covered. A more or less pure color slipped between impure and frequently mixed passes of pigment. Other paintings…

π₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Horror films,Culture,Sinners,28 Years Later,Jordan Peele π Key idea: TWhat is the biggest, scariest jump the film industry has seen in 2025? Horror returns as a major player at the UK box office. As a genre, it has impressively outperformed previous years (22% year-on-year increase at UK and Irish box office: Β£83,766,086 in 2025, compared to Β£68,612,395 in 2024).βLast year, no horror film reached Β£10 million at the box office in the UK or Ireland,β says Charles Gant, box office editor at Screen International. βThis year, five films…

π₯ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Artificial intelligence (AI),Computing,Technology,Media π Hereβs what youβll learn: toLast night's correspondence was titled Will AI Take My Job? Usually when something like this uses a question mark in the title, it's because the answer is no. But not this time, because the absolute inevitability of AI taking our jobs is truly painful to think about.According to the film, 8 million jobs in the UK alone are at risk of being outsourced by artificial intelligence. Call center workers, translators, graphic designers β anyone who is not…

π Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Television,The Traitors,Culture,Television & radio,Alan Carr,Celia Imrie π‘ Key idea: I broke the wind and I broke the Internet. Last week on The Celebrity Traitors, the gothic drama of a creepy cabin mission was audibly interrupted. "What just happened?" asked host Claudia Winkelmann, struggling to maintain her composure. βI just farted,β actress Celia Imrie said sweetly. "I'm so sorry. It's nerves β but I always admit it."All around her, her fellow celebrities were bursting into fits of laughter. It was immediately hailed as a contender for TV moment…

π₯ Explore this must-read post from BBC Culture π π Category: π‘ Key idea: You can't risk this kind of long-term strategy unless your other films are profitable, of course, but fortunately for Warner, some of the biggest moneymakers of 2025 are on the company's slate: in addition to Sinners, these include Minecraft, Final Destination: Bloodlines, F1, Superman, Webs, and Conjuring: The Last Rites. If one battle after another wasn't winning, well, it still cemented Warner's reputation as an auteur-friendly studio, forged a relationship with Anderson, and gave them a well-respected film that would be an awards season favorite. Plus,…

π Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Harper Lee,Fiction,Short stories,Essays,Books,Culture β
Hereβs what youβll learn: WWhen a new book is published by a writer who has been dead for a decade, there is always some suspicion that the bottom of the barrel has been scraped. When the writer is Harper Lee, there's also the unpleasant aftertaste of the release of her second novel, 2015's Go Set a Watchman, which was promoted as a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, when in fact it was a shapeless early draft. The post was also surrounded by…

β¨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Comedy,Comedy,Culture,Stage,TV comedy,Television,Television & radio,Friday Night Dinner,Ricky Gervais,Simon Amstell,Arctic Monkeys,Soho theatre π Hereβs what youβll learn: How did you get into the world of comedy?I was in the public speaking club at school and competed internationally. I owe a lot to Reading Blue Coat School for giving me the confidence to express myself from a young age, especially to Mr. Holliley. When I left, I had an incredible confidence that I had something to offer the world, wrapped in a profound ignorance of what the world actually was.I…

π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Thrillers,Action and adventure films,Culture π Key idea: no βA Country for Old Menβ by Anton Chigurh was the scariest thing to come out of Latin America since the Argentine inflation. So, it took a surprisingly long time to see a live imitator: the dark-clad avenger El Corvo, played here by Marco Zaror. Not only does he have a wild hairstyle (bald on top this time), but he also has a philosophical bent, asking his near-victims if they've given themselves a gift recently. If Cormac McCarthy's heist…

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Key idea: Storyville: Sanitarium10pm, BBC4A wonderful film recorded during the summer at the Koyalnik Sanatorium in Odessa. Despite the conflict in Ukraine, war is a background presence. Instead, this looks like a Wes Anderson movie: a vast, sprawling, anachronistic Soviet relic, surrounded by allegedly life-giving clay, and boasting the kind of equipment that would have been state-of-the-art 100 years ago. A piece of air that will remain in the memory. Phil Harrisonambulance9pm, BBC OneA surprisingly good start to the new series of the…

β¨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Terry Gilliam,Heath Ledger,Monty Python,Culture π‘ Main takeaway: DDown an alley in Covent Garden, in a building that used to be a banana warehouse, there's a blue plaque. The inscription reads: "Monty Python, filmmaker, lived here, 1976-1987." It's easy to miss: the plaque is not at eye level as it usually is, but on the first floor, as if the Blue Plaque committee had lost confidence in their uncharacteristic joke. Or perhaps John Cleese put it forward.Terry Gilliam arrives. I love his jacket. They appear to have been…