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Pokémon Pokopia Review – Collectible Creatures Creating Their Perfect World | games

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Pokémon,Nintendo,Nintendo Switch 2,Role playing games ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: forListen with me here: Pokémon has always had an environmental subtext. As you wander through its lush, creature-filled worlds, collecting species like David Attenborough, you're constantly shown that people and Pokémon should live in harmony. The villains in these stories, from Team Rocket to Bill Nighy in Detective Pikachu, are always the ones who want to exploit these creatures for personal gain. Otherwise it will show you that people should respect Pokemon; Both the creatures you hunt and…

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Stylish costume design, bio-horror, and the complete Mike Leigh Film Collection: The Best Films of Lesley Manville – Ranked! | film

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Lesley Manville,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 10. Queer (2024)Like an orc... Manville in Queer. Photo: Yannis DrakulidisAmong the bold choices in Luca Guadagnino's frenetic adaptation of William S Burroughs's novel is a late-20th-century pop and alternative soundtrack (Nirvana, Prince, New Order) for a 1950s story, and the casting of the unrecognizable, orc-like Manville in a fabricated cameo role as the shaman Dr. Cooter, who was male in the original book.9. Ms. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)In a vision of the French capital that makes Amelie look like…

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The mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros still has some hurdles to overcome | Paramount Pictures

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Paramount Pictures,Warner Bros,Media,Mergers and acquisitions,Business,US news,UK news,World news,US television industry,Europe 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Champagne was reportedly flowing at Paramount Skydance headquarters late last week after the media conglomerate beat out Netflix to acquire all of Warner Bros Discovery for $110 billion.In a call with analysts and investors Monday morning, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison said the company was “very confident” that the merger would quickly pass regulatory muster both in the U.S. and abroad.“We have dealt with regulatory agencies around the world and this combination has…

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How the Eagles’ greatest hits broke the US charts

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✨ Check out this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: According to biographer Mark Elliott, in To The Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles, pressure to release a "best of" came from Asylum's new president Joe Smith, who was seeking to raise money while the band itself (responsible for more than 50% of the label's revenue in the mid-1970s) delayed work on their fifth album in an attempt to renegotiate their royalty deal.Drummer Don Henley described the recording as "the forced, hideous marriage of art and commerce" and told Elliott that Asylum "didn't…

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Why Bugonia Should Win the Academy Award for Best Picture | Oscars 2026

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars 2026,Film,Culture,Oscars,Yorgos Lanthimos,Emma Stone,Jesse Plemons,Awards and prizes ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: eMma Stone as a kidnapped, shaven-headed CEO of a pharmaceutical company who may also be the ruler of a major alien race? It tells us a lot about director Yorgos Lanthimos that Bugonia was his most straightforward film to date.For this new version of the popular 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! We're invited into the unkempt home of beekeeper Teddy (Jesse Plemons), a paranoid conspiracy theorist whose Internet research leads him to believe…

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‘Fame is the worst thing for us as humans’: Naomi Scott on scream queens, Disney princesses and finding her own voice | culture

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Pop and rock,Film 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Naomi Scott was 27, she suffered what she now refers to as a “quarter-life crisis.” She had been working as an actress since she was a teenager, trading bit parts in advertisements for plum roles in high-profile Disney TV shows and big-budget Hollywood films including Aladdin (she played Princess Jasmine) and a remake of Charlie's Angels produced by Elizabeth Banks. She had also married young, having met her husband, former professional footballer Jordan Spence, at her local church in…

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Vladimir Review – Rachel Weisz is consistently great in a TV show you’ll love for years to come | television

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Rachel Weisz,Leo Woodall 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: VWladimir is that rare visitor to the screen, and it's television suitable for adults. The eight-part adaptation of Julia Mae Jonas's provocative 2022 novel of the same name has not shied away from the characteristics that made the book great—dark comedy, dark insight, and the evisceration of accepted piety—and fit them perfectly into the new form. Screenwriter Jenny Bergen, who has clearly digested the book to her bones, retains all of Jonas's intelligence, confidence, and, most importantly, her…

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TV Tonight: Alexander Armstrong sets off on Indian trip | television

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Alexander Armstrong in India8pm on Channel 5Mumbai is the first stop in Alexander Armstrong's Indian odyssey - from the 90s and 00s comedy duo Armstrong and Miller. Estate agent Ravi shows him around a multi-million pound apartment, and Raj takes him on a tour of the slum where he grew up. There's also time to sample the critically-approved 'Mumbai Burger' and visit the massive India Gate on Mumbai's waterfront where colonial rule ended in 1948. Holly RichardsonTonight: Cars – What's…

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Young Sherlock review – Guy Ritchie’s bizarre detective has the charm of a waiter | TV and radio

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,Guy Ritchie,Colin Firth 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: guy Ritchie has made a new TV series about Sherlock Holmes, and the long and short of it is... well. But first, some questions. Does the eight-part mystery drama include scenes in which moody young men in flat caps shout "Oi" while hurtling through the air in slow motion? It is. Are there bare-knuckle joints during which puffy cocks cheer on other puffy cocks and Irish folk music plays frantically in the background? there. Could there also…

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‘At First, She Couldn’t Get Off The Oxygen Long Enough’: The Film That Gives Marianne Faithfull One Last Thrilling Performance | film

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Marianne Faithfull,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Marianne Faithfull died in early 2025, at the age of 78, she left the world with one last musical performance. It comes at the end of a new film, Broken English, which celebrates her six-decade career. It's a very moving scene, and will almost certainly leave you in tears. You don't need to be a complete fan, up to that point, to enjoy Faithfull's candid looks at her amazing life - but this husky-voiced final number, accompanied by Nick Cave…

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