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Cosmic Princess Kaguya! Review – Anime based on Japanese folk music that immerses itself in the world of virtual reality pop | film

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Animation in film,Anime,AI (artificial intelligence),Virtual reality,Japan,Musicals,World news,Technology,Culture,Computing,Asia Pacific 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: nThere has never been a film more deserving of the exclamation mark at the end of the title than this Japanese film. Cosmic Princess Kaguya! It is an adaptation of a Japanese folk tale, the story of a princess from the moon who was discovered inside a stalk of bamboo in a poor rural village. A decade ago, Studio Ghibli turned the story into a gorgeous animated film with a traditional, lovingly hand-drawn feel.…

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After intense rivalry, the women have created an exciting gay boom on screen

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💥 Explore this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It may well have been expected that there would be a positive response from this fan base, but what was more surprising to some was the show's other core demographic: women, specifically straight women. From Cosmopolitan to NPR, many media outlets have wondered why the show's male sex scenes make the women so sexy under the collar. However, this shouldn't be surprising at all – given the long history of women dealing with this kind of material, on the page if not on the screen.History…

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Poem Review for Kids – Ukraine’s War with Russia Through the Eyes of an Emergency Evacuation Team | film

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Ukraine,Culture,Europe,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: THere's a scene in this Ukrainian documentary in which a woman rudely ignores an offer to evacuate from her property on the front line. Her son submitted a request to the volunteer humanitarian team that transports civilians to safety in the east of the country. But she's taking care of her paralyzed brother, and the woman protests - what about her dachshund? As the explosions sound terrifyingly close, a volunteer patiently explains that his team will carry her brother to…

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Review of Rob Doyle’s Cameo – Literary Celebrity Fiction in the Age of Culture War | imaginary

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ROp Doyle's previous novel, Threshold, took the form of a darkly comic travelogue narrated by an Irish writer called Rob. In one episode before Rob becomes an author, we see a sexually repressed teacher on the outside, masturbating to an essay he's grading. That this scene echoes a scene in Michel Houellebecq's Atomized (which Doyle once called the best book of the last forty years) does not make us any less disturbed, and it is hard not to feel that our anxiety…

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TV Tonight: The hit sitcom returns – with the addition of Bridget Christie | television

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Things you should have done10pm on BBC ThreeLucia Keskin returns with her brand of deadpan comedy in the award-winning sitcom. Going through the list of things to do with her life, left by her dead parents, an aimless Chi feels relieved - until the police return to her doorstep with news of her aunt's death. It's a good time to cross therapy off the list with questionable grief counselor Ruth, played by the always welcome Bridget Christie. Holly RichardsonWaterloo…

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Aryan Papers Review – Holocaust-themed thriller meant well but turns out to be a shockingly weak effort | film

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Drama films,War films,Second world war,Holocaust,Culture,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThe drama set in World War II should not be confused with a popular unrealized film project with a similar name. This is the Holocaust-themed film based on Louis Begley's novel Wartime Lies, which Stanley Kubrick tinkered with for years before finally abandoning it; Suspiria director Luca Guadagnino is now rumored to be trying to get it off the ground. Like the Kubrick/Guadagnino film, These Aryan Papers, written and directed by ultra-low-budget director Danny Patrick (The…

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Beatriz Gonzalez obituary | art

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Painting,Art and design,Culture,Colombia 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In the middle of Bogotá's Central Cemetery stands the columbarium, built in 1943 to house the bodies of the poor and unknown. After it had been abandoned and neglected, Colombian artist Beatriz Gonzalez, who has died aged 93, transformed the deteriorating shrine in 2009. On each of the 8,957 tombstones, she silkscreened one of eight shaded ornaments, each featuring two figures pulling a body between them. Auras Anónimas (Anonymous Auras) is González's poignant memorial to the unsung victims of a…

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Sheila Burnett obituary | TV comedy

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: TV comedy,Television,Stage,Theatre,West End,Pop and rock,Musicals,London,Coronation Street 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sheila Burnett, who has died aged 94, had a long acting and singing career that began when she was a child. She embraced the West End, regional theater and summer seasons, as well as television, appearing in light entertainment shows as a foil to comedy stars such as Leslie Crowther, Tommy Cooper, Dick Emery and Morecambe Wise.With her love of variety, she also continued to return to the Players Theater Club in London to entertain at the…

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After the second review of the Flood series – Sophie Randall shines in the return of this dark police drama | television

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💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MMost crime dramas don't even try to raise themselves above their genre. Someone is murdered, suspects abound, investigators wander around for a bit, then the perpetrator is arrested and everyone forgets what they just witnessed. There is no harm in that. However, a select few are so good that they fall out of their category: the likes of Happy Valley and Line of Duty have cops gathering evidence to try and catch the villain, but they're so good that they…

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Roger Allers, Disney director and co-director of The Lion King, dies at 76 The Walt Disney Company

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Walt Disney Company,Film,The Lion King,Culture,Animation in film,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Roger Allers, the Disney film director who co-directed The Lion King and worked on films such as Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid, has died at the age of 76.Allers' colleague at the Walt Disney Company, Dave Bossert, announced his death on social media Sunday morning, remembering him as "an incredibly talented artist and filmmaker, and a true pillar of the renaissance of Disney animation."“I had the honor of being part…

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