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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review – Ralph Fiennes is exceptional in the best chapter yet of zombie horror | film

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Review – Ralph Fiennes is exceptional in the best chapter yet of zombie horror | film

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Horror films,28 Years Later,Ralph Fiennes,Jack O'Connell,Iron Maiden,Culture,Music,Drama films 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's very rare for a Fourquel film to be the best film in a franchise, but that's how things stand with the volatile 28 Days Later series. In this episode, which immediately follows the previous one, 28 years later, Ralph Fiennes and Jack O'Connell bring pure death metal madness. There's real energy and drama in this latest installment of the post-apocalyptic horror-thriller saga, conceived by director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland in 2003,…
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American Jewish columnist Thomas Friedman says he was not invited to 2024 Adelaide Book Week due to ‘timing’ | Adelaide Festival

American Jewish columnist Thomas Friedman says he was not invited to 2024 Adelaide Book Week due to ‘timing’ | Adelaide Festival

🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Adelaide festival,Culture,South Australian politics,Freedom of speech,Australia news,Media 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A New York Times columnist at the center of a second controversy sweeping Adelaide Writers Week says he has not been invited to the event in 2024.Thomas Friedman, who is Jewish, confirmed to Nine Newspapers on Thursday that after agreeing to appear in a videolink session, he was later notified "that the timing wouldn't work".Earlier this week, former festival board member Tony Berg, who is of Jewish descent, leveled an extraordinary accusation of "hypocrisy" against Adelaide…
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Out of Balance Review by Amy Donelan – Inside the Ozambian Revolution | books

Out of Balance Review by Amy Donelan – Inside the Ozambian Revolution | books

✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Science and nature books,Culture,Obesity,Society,Science ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: FNew aspects of being human have generated greater judgment, contempt and condemnation of a person's size, shape and weight – especially if you are female. In late 2022, The Times Columnist Matthew Parris published a column entitled "Fat-shaming is the only way to beat the obesity crisis", in which he attributed Britain's "losing battle with fat" to society's failure to encourage and stigmatize overweight people, eventually forcing them to shamefully eat less. The tendency to equate excess weight with…
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Commodore 64 Ultimate review – It’s like 1982 all over again! | games

Commodore 64 Ultimate review – It’s like 1982 all over again! | games

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Retro games 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe emotional hit was something I didn't expect, although I probably should have. The Commodore 64 Ultimate, a new version of the legendary 8-bit computer, comes in a box designed to resemble the original packaging – an image of the device itself on a dark blue background that fades to a series of white lines. Then when you open it, you find an uncannily accurate replica of what fans have lovingly referred to as a breadbox — a chunky, sloping…
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In Our Time review – Melvyn Bragg’s first show-less show will have BBC management pinching their buttocks | radio

In Our Time review – Melvyn Bragg’s first show-less show will have BBC management pinching their buttocks | radio

🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Radio,Culture,Television & radio ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: “When we get to the text, we will try to clarify the difference between utilitarianism and libertarianism...”This kind of thinking became normal after eating cornflakes on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday morning. The shock this time was the voice: not a mature, nasal Cumbrian sound, but a smoother, deeper, youthful North Oxford accent. This was Misha Glennie's first appearance, having replaced Melvyn Bragg as host of University of the Airwaves, in Our Time.Next week's edition is a deep dive into…
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American Queen Review – Ambition and Loyalty on the Eve of the American Election of 1864 | stage

American Queen Review – Ambition and Loyalty on the Eve of the American Election of 1864 | stage

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,US politics 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: “Sometimes she understands things better than I do,” Salmon P. Chase, Abraham Lincoln's treasury secretary, says of his daughter Kate, who has political savvy and social heft.Kate Chase has a lot on her plate. She helps Salmon prepare to challenge Lincoln in the 1864 election—managing coalitions and optics, planning a party to campaign for, as well as a lucrative marriage to finance, despite her deep connection to Lincoln's secretary, John Hay.But while this production from the Brooklyn-based company, American Actor,…
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From Anya Taylor-Joy to Jodie Comer: Who will star in the new TV version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? | television

From Anya Taylor-Joy to Jodie Comer: Who will star in the new TV version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? | television

💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Stieg Larsson,The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (US),Culture,Television & radio,Thrillers,Jodie Comer,Anya Taylor-Joy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TIn his week Sky announced that it would remake Stieg Larsson's 2005 novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo as an eight-part television series. All we know so far is that the film will be set in the present day and will be written by Steve Lightfoot and Angela Lamanna.What we don't know is who will play Lisbeth Salander, the aforementioned girl with the dragon tattoo. This will be important,…
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Igor Stravinsky: Late Works Album Review – Kudos to Ross for bringing this wonderful music to life | classical music

Igor Stravinsky: Late Works Album Review – Kudos to Ross for bringing this wonderful music to life | classical music

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Music,Culture,Igor Stravinsky 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn his later years, Igor Stravinsky became fascinated with serialism, both as a means of distilling musical thought and as an intellectual and stylistic challenge for the composer entering his seventies and eighties. The results struck some contemporary listeners as austere, but there is a self-effacing purity and beauty in this complex and intellectual music that deserves a wider audience than ever before. Kudos, then, to conductor Daniel Reuss, whose precise and lively interpretations are bursting with color and light.The…
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From Dylan to Disco, Beyoncé to Bob Marley: Ranking of the 30 Best Live Albums of All Time! | music

From Dylan to Disco, Beyoncé to Bob Marley: Ranking of the 30 Best Live Albums of All Time! | music

✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Jerry Lee Lewis,James Brown,Bob Dylan,Aretha Franklin,Van Morrison,The Who,Bob Marley,Bill Withers,Joni Mitchell,Motorhead,Elton John,Johnny Cash,Depeche Mode,Beyoncé,Iron Maiden,Talking Heads,Iggy Pop,Grateful Dead,Portishead 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 30. Maze Featuring Frankie Beverly – Live in New Orleans (1981)Already a star in Black America, Maze became the best band if you knew it among British underground soul fans thanks to Live in New Orleans. It summed up their appeal perfectly: smooth but not smooth, an amazingly tight band making relaxing, upbeat music, one great song after another.29. Hawkwind – Space Rites (1973)Live albums…
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Ian McKellen plays L.S. Lowry in a documentary that uncovers a collection of unheard tapes | Ian McKellen

Ian McKellen plays L.S. Lowry in a documentary that uncovers a collection of unheard tapes | Ian McKellen

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Ian McKellen,LS Lowry,Culture,Documentary,BBC Two,North of England,Greater Manchester,Manchester,Art and design,UK news,BBC,Art,Television ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Fifteen years ago, Sir Ian McKellen was among the leading arts figures who criticized the Tate for not displaying its collection of paintings by LS Lowry in its London galleries, and wondered whether the “Matchstick Men Painter” had been marginalized as too northern and provincial.Now, 50 years after Laurie's death, McKellen is starring in a BBC documentary that will reveal a trove of never-before-heard audio tapes recorded with Laurie in the 1970s…
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