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‘Our bonds are private. Some things must stay between us’: Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo talk about smoking, cinema and secrets | film

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Paolo Sorrentino,Culture,Drama films,Italy,Europe,The Great Beauty,Il Divo ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'T“Hey, I like smoking,” the publicist said before my interview with Paolo Sorrentino and Tony Cervillo. That's why the table and chairs were hastily dragged outside. That is why today's audience will be held outdoors. We are on a narrow balcony on the sixth floor of a hotel in Venice, overlooking the sea, under a dark cloud of dark clouds. The publicist points to my tape recorder and asks, "Is it going to catch what they're saying,…

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Mother’s Pride review – Flat populism and weak beer in Martin Clunes’s post-Brexit pub comedy | film

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Comedy films,Comedy,Culture,Martin Clunes,Miles Jupp,Stage 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TFriends of the Hunters has found a modestly lucrative niche in the post-Brexit era: tales of culturally endangered Anglo-Saxon endeavours, nudged towards gentle uplift by a few songs and laughs, a bit of sentiment and some rabble-rousing populism. At first they were half-forgotten sea shanties; Now it is the dwindling pub trade, here represented by rival establishments in the West Country. Down one street lies the spit-and-sawdust enclave of the Drovers Arms, overseen by salt-of-the-earth (read: emotionally repressed)…

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Dave Review – Amazingly Skilled Rapper Conjures Sexy Intimacy on a Large Scale | Dave

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dave,Music,Rap,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AAs he recalled from tonight's stage, the first time London rapper Dave played in Glasgow he was a teenager, and there were 350 people in the audience. Now 27 years old, he has enough hits to fill arenas, and the charisma to thrill and move every one of the thousands here.It was his first UK tour in four years in support of last year's album The Boy Who Played the Harp, on which he perfected the technical skills and introspective complexity…

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Review of Soul to Soul – An exhilarating 1971 musical film depicting the emotional return of black American stars to Ghana | film

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Music documentary,Tina Turner,Ghana,Africa,Culture,Music,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThis lively and memorable documentary, now restored, comes from Oscar-winning but somewhat overlooked filmmaker Dennis Sanders, made just a year after his acclaimed 1970 film Elvis: That's the Way It Is, about Elvis Presley in Las Vegas. Soul to Soul is a recording of an epic Independence Day concert in Accra, Ghana, in 1971, by American and Ghanaian musicians. Ghana was chosen because it was the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence from Britain. The American band…

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10cc Review – 70s legends remake a dazzling series of pop classics | 10 cc

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: 10cc,Music,Pop and rock,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 10cc provided some of the most innovative pop music of the 1970s: melodic constructions that combined glam rock, art rock, rock 'n' roll, and doo-wop with surreal, Monty Pythonesque lyrics. Life was described as "minestrone", and death as "cold lasagna, served with parmesan cheese". Sadly, their golden career took a jolt when Kevin Godley and Lol Cream left in 1976 to become a hugely successful duo, with co-founder Eric Stewart heading for the exit almost two decades later.Today, all that…

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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Tommy Shelby returns for a muddy and bloody showdown on the big screen | film

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Crime films,Period and historical films,Peaky Blinders,Cillian Murphy,Rebecca Ferguson,Barry Keoghan,Birmingham,Roma, Gypsies and Travellers,Culture,Television & radio,UK news,World news,Second world war ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AAfter six TV series from 2013 to 2022, which caused an alarming rise in the wearing of flat caps among well-to-do men in country pubs, Peaky Blinders is now getting a huge independent feature film, a muscle picture drenched in mud and blood. This is the film version of Steven Knight's international small-screen hit, based on the real gangs who roamed Birmingham from the Victorian…

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Review of The Legend of Davy Mackenzie – Butch, Sundance and the Final Cinematic Farewell | stage

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Comedy,Comedy,Traverse theatre ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TIts title is ridiculous. There is nothing legendary about Davy Mackenzie. Barely out of prison after serving time for possession, the fictional hero of this lunchtime play ends up dead, having scored a batch of tainted drugs. It was three days before anyone noticed.This may seem like a spoiler, but it happens surprisingly early in a play that's not so much about a worthless death as it is about a meaningful life. Surviving is his cellmate and childhood friend Sean Molloy,…

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Ministry of Time Book Review by Kalyan Bradley – A time-travelling, thematic love story | Audio books

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💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Audiobooks,Books,Fiction 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe Ministry of Time opens in the middle of a job interview. The applicant, an unidentified Cambodian-British civil servant, is a candidate for a position that involves working with expatriates with “high profile and special needs”. When she asks where these expatriates come from, she is told: “History.” “We have time travel,” the interviewer adds casually.Listeners interested in the practicalities of this time-traveling tale will be reassured by the protagonist's observation that contemplating physics leads to a "trap of nonsense," so it's…

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The Manningtree Witches review – Ava Beckett’s engaging follow-up to Tudor hit 1536 | stage

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Fiction,Books 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'I“It doesn't matter what's true,” a teenager tells us after giving testimony about witchcraft against a group of women including her mother. What matters, she says, is “what is written.” It's advice passed down to Rebecca (Lucy Mangan) from her indomitable mother, Anne (Gina Isaacs), in this play by Ava Beckett from A. K. Blackmore's award-winning 2021 novel. What's been written about in the true case of the Manningtree witch trials of 1645 is minimal when it comes to the Essex women…

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Even in these depressing times, Love Is Blind is a very depressing TV show | Reality TV

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Reality TV,Netflix,Television,Television & radio,Culture,US television 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn this corrupt year, 2026, there is no shortage of things to frustrate us: domestic terrorism by federal agents, war, the dominance of artificial intelligence, and Super Bowl sports betting ads. The Epstein Files. FIFA Peace Prize. Six more weeks of winter. The need for escape, catharsis, or both is more urgent than ever. However, what frustrated me most, in the low-stakes “I can actually wrap my head around this” way, was the pinnacle of escapist entertainment: the…

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