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Another review – Pandemic-style horror makes bad guys crawl out of the woodwork, literally | film

Another review – Pandemic-style horror makes bad guys crawl out of the woodwork, literally | film

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Science fiction and fantasy films,Horror films,France,Romance films,Culture,Europe,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HEasily intoxicating films born of Covid claustrophobia are still coming out of the woodwork — exactly in the case of this visually arresting, expensive number, in which two shut-ins find themselves under attack by an entity that has grown from the wooden slats one of them has barricaded the apartment windows with. This is not your average pandemic thriller; Here, infected people mix with inorganic materials in their surroundings, until their external features and…
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Letterboxd’s most passionate reviewers change cinema etiquette: ‘I was excited to pull out my phone’ | film

Letterboxd’s most passionate reviewers change cinema etiquette: ‘I was excited to pull out my phone’ | film

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Social media,Culture,Digital media,US news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I Turn off my phone completely when I go to the movies. Not just in silent mode, but all the way. I say this not because I think I'm better than you, or that by doing so, the ghost of Billy Wilder will come back to shake my hand. I consider it one of life's little luxuries: for at least an hour and 45 minutes, I'm completely inaccessible. I keep my phone off throughout the credits too. It…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles Review – Sherlock’s boutique laughs but fails to solve the real mystery | stage

The Hound of the Baskervilles Review – Sherlock’s boutique laughs but fails to solve the real mystery | stage

✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Arthur Conan Doyle 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TTo get a sense of how exhausting this adaptation of Sherlock Holmes is, you only have to consider its predecessors. The joke is that there are only four actors representing the famous detective, his friend John Watson, several members of the Baskerville family, plus servants, neighbors and yoke, not to mention number 221B Baker Street, which is a windswept moor. The impossibility of achieving such a task comes at the expense of the theater itself: shaky props, hasty costume changes,…
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Move on stoicism! Why We Should All Embrace Nihilism – and Discover What Really Matters in Life | Friedrich Nietzsche

Move on stoicism! Why We Should All Embrace Nihilism – and Discover What Really Matters in Life | Friedrich Nietzsche

✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Friedrich Nietzsche,Books,Philosophy books,Culture,Australian books ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: One of the tricks I developed in the late stages of my first pregnancy to prevent inquiries, concerns, recommendations and advice about having a baby was to refer to her impending birth as “the end of the world.”“I don't know,” I'd shrug. “We'll see what things look like after the apocalypse.”It was an effective strategy. There's not a lot of advice you can give a woman who's openly planning to experience motherhood like nuclear fallout. I was skeptical, even…
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Neither saint nor sinner, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalene is evocatively alive | Art and design

Neither saint nor sinner, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalene is evocatively alive | Art and design

💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A Woman bangs her head back. Her eyes and mouth are closed but she is awake. With rosy cheeks, red lips, and long golden hair, she glows from a sharply lit flame in a room shrouded in darkness. Her fabrics range from a lace-trimmed shirt blouse — which slides down her right shoulder, exposing her porcelain skin — to a heavy yellow and purple material, and she appears to be alone. Unaware of our existence, they exist in a…
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Bath BachFest Review – Upbeat and uplifting music making | classical music

Bath BachFest Review – Upbeat and uplifting music making | classical music

🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,JS Bach,Festivals,Culture,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TTaking on the role of the late Amelia Freedman as Artistic Director of Bath Baqfest is no small task for Adrian Brindle, but his determination to breathe new life into the three-day festival is evident, not least in creating a Baqfest band that unites hugely talented players in the early stages of their outstanding careers.The energy and commitment of the young players was palpable, and in a concert of Handel, Purcell, Bach and Vivaldi, and their collaboration with an older…
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Obituary of Philippe Juliet | Clowns

Obituary of Philippe Juliet | Clowns

✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Clowns,Culture,France,Paris,Theatre,Comedy,London 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In 1980, the École Philippe Juliet opened its doors in Paris to help performers find and celebrate their “inner fool.” The school quickly became a major destination for clown training, attracting theater students, actors and other curious people from around the world.Philip, who died aged 82 after suffering a lung infection, came up with the idea The game - He plays - Central to his teaching. For him, comedy was not about jokes, but danger: the moment when a performer risks failure…
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‘Deeply moving’: Netflix’s posthumous celebrity interview series is a marvel | television

‘Deeply moving’: Netflix’s posthumous celebrity interview series is a marvel | television

🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Netflix,US television,Culture,Television & radio,Jane Goodall ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: eExactly one day after actor Eric Dane's death, a new show has hit Netflix. Titled "Famous Last Words", it consisted of an interview with Eric Dane himself. While the timing of the journalist's release may at first appear coincidental at best and exploitative at worst, the reality of the interview was something else entirely.It turns out that Dane recorded the interview knowing full well that he was dying. Moreover, he did so on the understanding that it would…
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‘There are so many images I’d like to forget’: Julia Kochetova’s astonishing photographs of war in Ukraine | Photography

‘There are so many images I’d like to forget’: Julia Kochetova’s astonishing photographs of war in Ukraine | Photography

🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Photography,Ukraine,Art and design,Culture,Europe,World news,War reporting 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Julia Kochetova is unlike most of the people who cover Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for the Guardian. The photographer lives in Kyiv; she is Ukrainian. It is her country that is being invaded, her friends who are being killed.The war that began in 2014 and brutally escalated on 24 February in 2022 has infused every part of her existence. It is fundamental to her life choices, her relationships, her friendships, her career (when she was younger she had…
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‘The musicians drank too much and slept on the floor of my barn’: Andrew Bird on producing cult album The Mysterious Production of Eggs | culture

‘The musicians drank too much and slept on the floor of my barn’: Andrew Bird on producing cult album The Mysterious Production of Eggs | culture

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Pop and rock,Music,Indie 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Andrew Bird, singer, songwriter, violin, guitar, instrument, whistleWe had a family farm three hours west of Chicago, and when I was looking at potential studio spaces, I remembered some of the barns where my brother and I used to make hay bale forts when we were kids. One of them was in rough shape and had raccoons living in it, but I got a local carpenter to do the handyman work and did the normal stuff like the roof shingles.…
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