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TV tonight: final series of death-defying Hacks and Deborah | television

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Hacks9pm, Sky AtlanticTo paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of Deborah's death have been greatly exaggerated ("TMZ Got Bad Advice"), going into the fifth and final season. Determined to “change the narrative,” she works to score a Grammy and an Academy Award in this opening double bill. Will her “Mexican music album” strategy work? And could her autograph session be any worse? Ali CatterallAn unspoken world7.30pm on Channel 4The feature-length documentary traces Japan's cultural transformation. With the number of elderly people being…

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‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death | Prince

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Prince,Pop and rock,Music,Culture,George Clinton,Film 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: ‘To me, he was a new version of Sly Stone’George Clinton, singer and leader of Parliament-FunkadelicTight for years … George Clinton at the the 2025 Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Photograph: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Songwriters Hall Of FameIt feels deep that Prince has been gone 10 years. When he died, it felt like I couldn’t even move my mouth, but I’m able to talk about it now. I first met him when he came to my show…

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The Mummy Review – Classic Monster Excavated to Uncover Resurrection Mystery | Horror movies

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Horror films,Film,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WArner Bros likes to refer to its tough new take on The Mummy as Lee Cronin's The Mummy, a bafflingly grandiose assertion that has drawn some well-deserved ridicule online over the past few weeks. That's partly because it's separated from Universal's upcoming return to the '90s and '00s franchise (Blumhouse, the successful horror filmmaker behind the film, posted on It's also an attempt to capitalize on our pop auteurs' moment, one that Warners helped create with Ryan Coogler and Zach…

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The first trailer for the Western version of Val Kilmer’s AI-starring Western version has been released film

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Val Kilmer,AI (artificial intelligence),Technology,Film industry 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A trailer has been released for the first film starring an AI-certified version of a major Hollywood actor.Val Kilmer was cast in the Western film As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant that no scenes were ever filmed, but the creative team worked with UK-based company Sonantic to create an AI speaking voice based on his old recordings.His estate and daughter Mercedes collaborated with filmmakers on a visual deepfake of the…

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Big Mood season 2 review – Nicola Coughlan’s hugely ambitious comedy becomes a farce | television

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThe second part of the title of Camilla Whitehill's Channel 4 comedy-drama is a reference to mood disorders. Bipolar, to be precise—the condition her heroine Maggie was diagnosed with. The first part is a reference to almost everything else. Big Mood tackles big topics and chases big laughs. There are big adventures, big gestures, and big cameos. It's an undeniable ambition, but does it all add up to something truly meaningful? It may be difficult to know.The first series…

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Avenue Q Review – The Provocative Dolls Return for a Feast of Filth and Fun | stage

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Puppetry,West End,Comedy,Comedy,Culture,Stage ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: THe sounded a warning that "doll nudity" doesn't begin to cover it. You'll also see the dolls having sex, sing about being "a bit racist" and happily admit to having pornographic tendencies.The gentle subversion of Q Street, 20, is back Years after these once-feeling obscure Sesame Street wannabes stormed the West End. The Tony Award-winning musical from Robert Lopez and Jeff Marks is not exactly shocking now but it is very entertaining as these creatures (plus some humans) fall in love,…

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The power of the Dunst: Kirsten’s best film performances – ranked! | Kirsten Dunst

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Kirsten Dunst,Film,Lars von Trier,Culture,Jesse Plemons ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: An elegant, sun-soaked Patricia Highsmith adaptation with fine work from Viggo Mortensen as a con man and Dunst as his wife, holidaying in early 1960s Athens when they meet an American tour guide (Oscar Isaac). It seems tantalisingly unclear at first whether his designs are on the chirpy young bride or her shady older husband.The opening instalment in Sam Raimi’s trilogy featured that ingenious upside-down kiss, with MJ (Dunst) suggestively unpeeling the mask of Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) as…

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Samuel Haselhorn: Schubert Hoffnung Review – Tingular and Emotional Flexibility in Plenty | classical music

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Music,Culture,Franz Schubert 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: nGerman baritone Samuel Hasselhorn, in his mid-30s, is a key player in a veritable group of talented young singers. His growing recordings include an ongoing series with pianist Emil Puschakewicz, part of Harmonia Mundi's Schubert 200 project to record all of the composer's songs, from 1823 onwards, before the bicentenary of his death in 2028.The year 1826 found Schubert in a positive mood, a torrent of lies reflecting a new sense of optimism. Titled Hoffnung, the German word for hope,…

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Pooh in Pencil: Sketches for the Original Winnie the Pooh Book Shared for the First Time | fee

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Drawing,Children and teenagers,Books,Illustration,Culture,UK news,AA Milne,Exhibitions,Art and design,Art 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Previously unseen drawings of Winnie the Pooh have come to light, showing the honey-loving bear before he was introduced to generations of readers in the 1926 book.Two preliminary pencil drawings by E.H. Shepard have been shared for the first time by his family to mark the centenary of one of the most beloved books in children's literature.Having been abandoned in the early phase of the book's creation, the drawings provide a rare glimpse into Shepherd's working…

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Like a concrete aircraft carrier: Was Los Angeles’ giant new $724 million Expo really worth all the carbon emissions? | Build

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Architecture,Art and design,Culture,Los Angeles,US news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: DWalking along the palm-tree-lined strip of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, a stunning new crossing appears on the horizon. A ribbon of glass leaps over the road, sandwiched between two giant floors of concrete. As you get closer, the bridge bulges out in sinuous arcs, snapping in on itself to carve a shape-shifting amoeboid dot, spreading like an inkblot. From some angles, it has a retro-futuristic atmosphere, reminiscent of a Jetsons airport terminal, or one of those "Googie"-style…

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