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Wuthering Heights Review: Overheated and Greedy Adaptation Guarantees Bad Dreams at Night | film

Wuthering Heights Review: Overheated and Greedy Adaptation Guarantees Bad Dreams at Night | film

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Margot Robbie,Emerald Fennell,Jacob Elordi,Martin Clunes,Film adaptations,Emily Brontë,Books,Culture,Romance films,Romance books,Drama films,Charli xcx,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: eMerald Fennell revitalizes camp as she reinvents Emily Brontë's tale of Cathy and Heathcliff on a windswept Yorkshire moor in a fashionable 20-page spread of relentless silliness, with shells being ripped to shreds and a smack of raunchy BDSM. Margot Robbie's Cathy at one point secretly heads to the moor for a hilarious amount of self-indulgence – although, sadly, there are no boldly intercut scenes of Heathcliff, played by Jacob Elordi, in…
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This bold revamp of Emily Brontë’s novel is “sexy, dramatic, and swoon-worthy romantic.”

This bold revamp of Emily Brontë’s novel is “sexy, dramatic, and swoon-worthy romantic.”

🚀 Check out this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ruby appears in the first of many red and white dresses, and her performance is sublime, portraying Cathy as unruly and selfish but with a conscience and innocence beneath her sense of entitlement. And she forgets her age. Vinyl simply makes the characters older. Mr. Earnshaw even says, "I'm already over spinsterhood." Elordi embodies Heathcliff's dashing, bad-boy energy, even when he's stuck with a scraggly wig. Heathcliff is more than just a shirtless, sweaty man, although he often is. Elordi reveals how defensive and…
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‘He made me proud of America’: Stars react to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show | Bad bunny

‘He made me proud of America’: Stars react to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show | Bad bunny

💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Bad Bunny,US news,Super Bowl,Music,Culture,Puerto Rico,Donald Trump,Piers Morgan,Kacey Musgraves,Doechii,Gavin Newsom,Tom Brady,Super Bowl LX 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: As blue, red and white fireworks filled the sky at the end of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show, a message filled the screen in all capitals: "The only thing stronger than hate is love."It was the lasting statement from the 13-minute scene that invited an estimated 135.4 million viewers into Bad Bunny's world, with rich references to Puerto Rican politics, history and culture. Artist born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio has…
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GOAT Review – Loud, fast basketball animations do it for kids | film

GOAT Review – Loud, fast basketball animations do it for kids | film

✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Animation in film,Family films,Comedy films,Basketball,Stephen Curry,Comedy,Culture,Golden State Warriors,NBA,Sport,US sports ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: gLatest of all time? No, maybe not even the greatest half term. This loud, chaotic, and unlikeable animated comedy feels verging on artificial intelligence, algorithmically generated and instantly familiar from Zootropolis, Sing, and other films featuring talking animals. It's a shame, because he takes inspiration from real life: basketball star Stephen Curry, who was repeatedly told early in his career that he was too skinny and too small to be a pro. Carrey is…
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Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood call for Phantom Thread music to be removed from Melania | Melania

Paul Thomas Anderson and Jonny Greenwood call for Phantom Thread music to be removed from Melania | Melania

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Melania,Phantom Thread,Melania Trump,Paul Thomas Anderson,Jonny Greenwood,Music,Culture,Film,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Paul Thomas Anderson and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, the director and composer, respectively, of Phantom Thread, have asked for music from the 2017 film to be removed from the controversial new documentary about Melania Trump.“We have learned that a piece of music from Phantom Thread was used in Melania's documentary,” the couple said in a statement to Variety. "While Jonny Greenwood does not own the copyright in the score, Universal failed to consult Jonny regarding this…
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‘A Statement on Shifting Power’: Why Bad Bunny Wore Zara to His Super Bowl Parade | Bad bunny

‘A Statement on Shifting Power’: Why Bad Bunny Wore Zara to His Super Bowl Parade | Bad bunny

💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Bad Bunny,Super Bowl,Super Bowl LX,Fashion,Life and style,Music,NFL,Culture,Sport,Zara ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HeyAmong the many cultural flashpoints of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance on Sunday, one that few observers expected was his decision to wear not one but two outfits from the Spanish brand Zara.As the most-watched event on American television, the halftime performance represents a marketing moment for the stars. From Rihanna's pregnancy reveal to Kendrick Lamar's show-stealing jeans, the 13-minute show was often filled with luxurious fashion.Bad Bunny performs during Apple Music's halftime show at…
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Review of Ann Lee’s Testament with Danielle Bloomberg and Amanda Seyfried – Screams, Bells and Bruised Beauty | Experimental music

Review of Ann Lee’s Testament with Danielle Bloomberg and Amanda Seyfried – Screams, Bells and Bruised Beauty | Experimental music

💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Experimental music,Jazz,Classical music,Music,Culture,Film 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A A few days ago, Amanda Seyfried was on Graham Norton's sofa alongside Strictly's Margot Robbie and Johannes Radebe. Tonight, the Mean Girls, Les Misérables and Mamma Mia star sits among a different group of superstars: key figures from London's avant-garde jazz scene.The link here is to composer Daniel Blomberg. When he accepted an Oscar last year for his extraordinary score for The Brutalist, Blomberg chose the name Otto's Café, the Dalston venue whose impromptu musicians have long been…
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Melania drops 67% at US box office as Rotten Tomatoes defends record audience scores | Melania

Melania drops 67% at US box office as Rotten Tomatoes defends record audience scores | Melania

💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Melania,Film industry,Amazon,Business,US news,Melania Trump,Film,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Melania, Brett Ratner's authorized documentary that follows the First Lady in the 20 days leading up to Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2025, fell 67% in its second week of US release.The film exceeded expectations during its first weekend, earning $7.2 million domestically and leading Amazon to expand its rollout from about 1,500 venues to just over 2,000. But indications are that appetite has already diminished, with Sunday's forecast standing at $2.3 million, meaning a drop from third to…
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Sony Pictures CEO calls Trump’s racist video “despicable” in rare intervention | film

Sony Pictures CEO calls Trump’s racist video “despicable” in rare intervention | film

🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Sony Pictures,Culture,Donald Trump,Barack Obama,Michelle Obama,Awards and prizes,Race,US news,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In an unusual intervention, Hollywood studio boss Tom Rothman has described Donald Trump's posting of a racist video featuring former US President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as "despicable".The comments were reported by The Hollywood Reporter and were made as Rothman was speaking at the African American Film Critics Association Awards, where he accepted an IMPACT Award on behalf of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, of which Rothman serves as president…
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The amazing discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb

The amazing discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb

✨ Explore this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Listen to a 1939 BBC recording of Tutankhamun's trumpets found in his tomb.Tutmania was reborn in the 1970s with the international success of the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition. Its most important attraction, the Golden Mask, attracted more than 1.6 million visitors to the British Museum in 1972, and remains the most popular exhibition of all time. The show then traveled to the Soviet Union for two years. It then toured six US cities between 1976 and 1979, where it created such a sensation that it…
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