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From The Wizard of Oz to Trainspotting: 25 films to watch before you turn 25 | Film

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Family films,Animation in film,Culture,Children,Young people,Family,Parents and parenting,Drama films,Life and style,Society,Walt Disney Company,Studio Ghibli,The Muppets,The Wizard Of Oz,Chicken Run,Ferris Bueller's Day Off,Run Lola Run,The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,Get Out,Documentary films,Do the Right Thing 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Screentime has a bad rep these days: it’s allegedly at the root of everything from the collapse of media literacy to the rise of the far right. For parents, and indeed anyone who cares about the future of the planet, the relationship children have to their screens is a particular hot potato.Orson…

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‘I had a really crippling break’: how author Michael Thomas lost 20 years to mania, depression and more | Autobiography and memoir

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Autobiography and memoir,Neurodiversity,Race,Books,Culture,Fiction,Mental health,Society 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It should be some kind of happy ending when, after years of poverty and graft, an aspiring writer publishes their debut novel and it is greeted with acclaim and awards – but that’s not how it happened for Michael Thomas. His 2006 novel Man Gone Down seemed to augur the arrival of a powerful new literary voice, the beginning of a brilliant career. He featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, he won the €100,000…

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The perfect books for the beach … picked by Freida McFadden, Mick Herron, Robert Harris and more | Fiction

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture,Biography books,Science fiction books,Thrillers,Horror books ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: It is important to follow a balanced diet on holiday. Too many “My Wife’s Sister’s Husband’s Psychopath”, and you’ll get confused and grumpy. Too much sugary romance and your teeth will fall out. Something too big and challenging you’ve been meaning to get round to for ages will make you feel guilty and more liable to give in to scrolling, and if you take too many supposedly upmarket “must reads” of the summer, you will simply prove to…

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‘Unbearably sexy in his rodenty way’: Benedict Cumberbatch’s 20 best films – ranked! | Film

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Benedict Cumberbatch,Comedy films,Romance films,Thrillers,Film adaptations,Books,Comedy,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Benedict Cumberbatch does his considerable best opposite the equally prestigious Olivia Colman in this souped-up marital-breakdown dramedy, essentially remade from the 1989 movie with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. This time, though, it’s all about the Britons – indicating the supposed classiness of the affair. But the film is overwrought and unconvincing; it never convinces us that the couple were once passionately in love and now passionately in hate. The below-par script has the effect of bringing out…

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A grief therapist told me I should live to honor my son. How would I do that? | Autobiography and memoir

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✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Autobiography and memoir,Books,Parents and parenting,Family,Culture,Children,Death and dying,Life and style,Bill Callahan,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The day Renzo had his aneurysm, in the afternoon before it happened, I distinctly remember telling him that it was going to be a pleasure to watch him grow up. It seems ridiculous to write that here, the foreshadowing so on the nose as to be unbelievable. But it’s true. To him and my wife Allegra, I said, “I love our little family.” After the struggles around his birth, job loss, the pandemic,…

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Top 30: from half a million World Cup photos, why I love these the most | World Cup 2026

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: World Cup 2026,World Cup,Football,Photography,Sport,England,Argentina,Spain 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: What makes a great World Cup photograph? Now there’s a question with myriad answers. Composition, newsworthiness, emotional resonance, expert timing and luck can all contribute to varying degrees. But one thing they all share is the power to capture attention.On the Guardian sport picture desk, we have received more than 500,000 World Cup photographs over the past six weeks, with so many gems among them. Here, with much applause to the photographers who created them and a slight bias…

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‘Out of Sight’ review – An idyllic mountain in the Austrian highlands is a gilded cage for distressed asylum seekers | film

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Culture,Austria,Migration,Europe,Switzerland 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: toLocated in the Austrian state of Tyrol, Bürglkopf is an idyllic alpine landscape, with its green fields and scenic trails. This peaceful place is a popular holiday spot, visited by thousands of tourists every year. However, some visitors are less welcoming than others. Nestled among the dense forests on the top of the mountain is the so-called deportation camp, where asylum seekers are detained for months, even years. In Lisa Polster's poignant documentary, one of our first glimpses of the facility…

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Acting wacky: Why have Hollywood press tours gotten so weird? | film

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,The Odyssey,Film industry,Culture,YouTube,Internet 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TIn his summer, we've been blessed with new films from legendary director Steven Spielberg and one of his greatest and beloved successors, Christopher Nolan. In both cases, the films sold heavily with the directors' names on them, and as befits two of the most famous filmmakers of all time, Spielberg and Nolan made the press tours. This means a wealth of interviews and insights – an added bonus that unfolds alongside the actual film sales that will delight film nerds…

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Mockbuster Review – How to Survive the Nightmare of Directing a Terrible, Low-Budget Horror Film | film

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Horror films,Film industry,Business,Culture,Australia news,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 'A “Better a bad movie than no movie” is the tagline for this behind-the-scenes documentary, which charts director Anthony Frith's quest to make his first feature film at the ultra-modern studio The Asylum; It's also a nice tribute to the skill of filmmaking.Stuck producing corporate videos to support his young family, Adelaide-based Freeth is in danger of letting his artistic ambitions fade away. So he chose professional shock therapy by cold-calling The Asylum (of Sharknado notoriety) in…

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Sex, Family and Horrific Executions: What Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Changed and Invented – and Then Was Axed | film

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,The Odyssey,Christopher Nolan,Homer,Film adaptations,Matt Damon,Anne Hathaway,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TTurning a 12,000-line poem that takes a day to read aloud into a three-hour movie has always required some trimming. This is proven by the movie “The Odyssey” by Christopher Nolan, which dispenses with a number of scenes and characters from Homer’s ancient Greek epic. The director also changed the focus on some of the story's most famous episodes and made some additions of his own. Here we make the most important adjustments.What Nolan left outGodsHomer's Odyssey…

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