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Meet the unlikely star of the stunning Wuthering Heights: Martin Clunes | Wuthering Heights

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Wuthering Heights,Martin Clunes,Film,Television,Emerald Fennell,Emily Brontë,Television & radio,Margot Robbie,Jacob Elordi,Culture,UK news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt has been described as the sexiest adaptation of Wuthering Heights, with bodies being ripped to shreds and BDSM flirting. However, the breakout star of Emerald Fennell's new film is not one of the film's flaming young lovers, played by Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, but rather the most affable person on British television - Martin Clunes.Clunes plays Mr. Earnshaw, the head of the Earnshaw family whose decision to bring the destitute young…

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Cees Nooteboom’s rough wit and melancholy came to me when I needed it most | books

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Netherlands,History books,Fiction,Travel writing 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn the opening of his famous book Roads to Santiago, Dutch author Cees Nooteboom wrote that “there are some places in the world where one's arrival or departure is mysteriously magnified by the feelings of all those who have arrived and departed before.” “Travellers have existed in all ages,” Nottebohm continues, “but only for some is there a special sadness: the sadness of one who leaves with no hope of returning.” For them, the trip abroad becomes life.Noteboom, who was…

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Fred’s Back Review – The guest-packed homecoming of UK dance’s golden boy is an eclectic triumph | Fred again

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fred Again,Dance music,Electronic music,Music,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Fred Again, also known as Fred Gibson, has had impressive success in recent months: a tour from Madrid to Mexico City, a six-night residency in New York, and the debut of dozens of songs that make up his new album USB002. He is now back home in the United Kingdom; Literally through his four-show residency at London's Alexandra Palace, but also through his opening night musical tribute.Respectively, Gibson plays Arctic Monkeys' "When the Sun Goes Down," a techno…

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‘It’s over for us’: Launch of new AI video generator Seedance 2.0 scares Hollywood | film

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,AI (artificial intelligence),Film industry,Business,Computing,Culture,Technology 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: “It's probably over for us,” a senior Hollywood figure has warned, after watching a widely shared AI-generated clip showing Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting.Rhett Reese, co-creator of Deadpool & Wolverine, Zombieland and Now You See Me: Now You Don't, was reacting to a 15-second video showing Cruise and Pitt being punched on a bridge filled with rubble, posted by Irish director Ruairi Robinson, the director of the 2013 sci-fi horror film The Last Days on Mars. Reposting the…

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Shadowlands Review – Hugh Bonneville’s Magic in a Screaming Cry Like an Old Library | platform

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Theatre,Culture,Hugh Bonneville,CS Lewis 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe drama of love and loss in Shadowlands has played an influential role in film and television. William Nicholson's view of C.S. Lewis's marriage to an American divorcee is one of the famous writer's belated passion, terminal illness, and crisis of Christian faith. In all its iterations, it's good old-fashioned crying. In this production, originally staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre, it feels very old-fashioned.It has charm and pulls you into its melancholy but it looks as creaky as the…

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Director says Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Jazz Hands’ at Oscars Luncheon is a remake of a bright picture | film

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,The Shining,Guillermo del Toro,Paul Thomas Anderson,Jack Nicholson,Stanley Kubrick,Oscars,Culture,Awards and prizes ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Frankenstein director Guillermo del Toro's "jazz hands" pose in the Oscar nominee's lunch photo was part of fellow director Paul Thomas Anderson's attempt to recreate the famous group shot, featuring Jack Nicholson, that appears at the end of The Shining.Del Toro responded to a post - in which he and Anderson were included in the photo from Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror film - by saying: “[Y]You got it! The PTA and I…

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Arundhati Roy withdraws from Berlin Film Festival over her ‘Stay away from politics’ comment | Berlin Film Festival

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Berlin film festival,Arundhati Roy,Wim Wenders,Books,Culture,Film,Gaza,Palestine,World news,Europe,Israel-Gaza war,Festivals 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Writer Arundhati Roy has withdrawn from the Berlin Film Festival after the festival's chief expert said filmmakers should stay out of politics.The festival got off to a shaky start on Thursday after the competition's jury, led by German director Wim Wenders, answered questions about the conflict in Gaza. Asked whether films could influence political change, Wenders said that "films can change the world" but "not in a political way."He added that filmmakers "have to stay away…

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The Shitheads review – Primal urges emerge in hilarious prehistoric oddity | stage

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Royal Court theatre ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toLove is expressed with a thumb licking down the forehead in Jack Nichols's dazzling, unpredictable debut play. Wild, gentle, and downright bizarre, The Shitheads take us back tens of thousands of years, to a time when survival required good aim with your hand axe, and being sensitive was no good.First humans Claire (Jacoba Williams, slippery and wild) and Greg (Johnny Kahn, puppyishly excited) meet up to hunt for the elk (a beautiful, tattered creature designed by Finn Caldwell and piloted…

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“People laughed at the TV jobs in Belfast!” How Northern Ireland’s capital became home to quality drama | television

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Derry Girls,Culture,Belfast,Television & radio,Line of Duty,Blue Lights,Game of Thrones 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 'I Love them! Minutes after I boarded a taxi at Belfast International Airport, the driver was beaming with Derry Girls. Many of the tourists he takes want to talk about the hit comedy, and as a fan himself, he's happy to oblige.We're stuck in traffic, which is strange for this small town on a rainy Tuesday morning. “That's because all the media is here,” he jokes. But there is some truth to that.…

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The Great Wave Review – Hokusai’s opera looks beautiful but skimps on the drama | Opera

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,Scottish Opera,Glasgow ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'I “May I become art myself,” sings artist Katsushika Hokusai in the new opera by composer Dai Fujikura and librettist Harry Ross. And here he is doing just that: played by baritone Daisuke Ohyama, with the powers of Scottish opera wrapped around him.Over five chapters, The Great Wave presents us with episodes from Hokusai's life and death, beginning with his funeral and then continuing in flashback, including a dream sequence in which he encounters the wave that inspired his most…

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