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Awards battle after award: A-list stars face off at this year’s Golden Globes | Golden Globe 2026

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Golden Globes 2026,Golden Globes,Timothée Chalamet,Jessie Buckley,One Battle After Another,Culture,Awards and prizes,Film,US news,Sinners,Hamnet,Michael B Jordan,Ryan Coogler,Leonardo DiCaprio ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Hollywood's A-listers will gather this weekend for the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, a night that will reveal where this year's Oscars race is headed.Nominees for the film awards include stars including Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Michael B. Jordan and Ariana Grande, while small screen nominees include Helen Mirren, Jenna Ortega, Jude Law and Glen Powell.Paul Thomas Anderson's epic comedy-thriller One Battle After Another…

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Hero or brutal tyrant? The controversy surrounding the 16th century explorer Magellan

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💥 Explore this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Although established facts about Magellan's life are limited, the prevailing narrative often revolves around his heroism. Diaz's Magellan, on the other hand, takes an unflinching look at what we know about his treatment of his crew members aboard the Armada de Maluku, which included executing one of them for alleged sodomy, and as his paranoia grew, stranding the priest Pedro Sánchez de Reina. Mutinies repeated, and in November 1520, one of the fleet's five ships, the San Antonio, and its entire crew abandoned the mission.Magellan…

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Jade Franks on how her hit bid inspired cleaning toilets in Cambridge: ‘I don’t tone down the anger – I just sneak it in through the back door’ | comedy

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Comedy,Stage,Oxbridge and elitism,Access to university,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: CAide Franks cleaned the bathrooms while her peers played polo. A working-class student in Cambridge, living a double life as a cleaner alongside full-time studies, she parlayed her experience into her winning play Eat the Rich (But Maybe Not Me Mates x). The comedy was an early and roaring success on the Edinburgh Festival fringe, selling out initial tickets to Oxbridge's elite, adding additional performances and winning several awards, including the coveted Fringe First. With a run in…

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A Thousand Blows Season 2 Review – Erin Doherty is so good it’s hard to think of anything else | Historical drama (TV)

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Historical drama (TV),Television,Television & radio,Culture,Stephen Graham,Drama 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe problem with having Erin Doherty star in a TV drama is that it makes it very difficult to know whether she is good or not. The 33-year-old is more than just an impressive performer, she has an engaging presence, and is able to sell the idea that she In reality He is Her character in a way that few others can (a particularly impressive accomplishment given her breakthrough was playing Princess Anne in The Crown). As…

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“They’re all bad – but some are worse than others”: Every Harlan Coben show rated | television

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💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TAmerican novelist Harlan Coben is, by the standards of commercial fiction, one of the most successful writers working today. He's a New York Times bestselling author who writes the kind of thrilling novels you buy at the airport, frantically consume by the pool, and never take home.Coben has written 35 novels and 11 novel adaptations (eight of which are in English) in a nine-year, 14-book deal with Netflix. These series share a tone, tone and even actors – in multiple…

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TV Tonight: Previous slow-burning hit Mystery Road series returns | television

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✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Film 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Mysterious Path: Origin9pm on BBC TwoRobin Malcolm joins the second series of the hit drama about an Aboriginal police officer who begins his career in Western Australia. It's now the year 2000, but the remote timber town of Loch Eyres is still haunted by the events of its past. Jay Swan (Mark Coles Smith) moves here with his partner Mary (Tully Narkel) and finds himself in conflict with the ideals and operations of cynical Sergeant Paula "Simmo" Simmons (Malcolm). Holly…

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The strangest thing is: Is the future of cinema not new films? | Film industry

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film industry,Stranger Things,Film,Culture,Business,Television 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's been a profitable holiday stretch at the North American box office over the past couple of weeks, with titles like Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Housemaid, Marty Supreme, Anaconda, and Zootopia 2 bringing a welcome variety of blockbuster hits after crushing declines. But during that period, the highest single-day gross posted by any release wasn't actually a grosser — or a movie. This was the series finale of the Netflix TV show Stranger Things.Netflix has struck a deal…

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What we’re reading: Alan Hollinghurst, Samantha Harvey and Guardian readers talk about the books they enjoyed in December | books

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Alan Hollinghurst,Samantha Harvey,Seamus Heaney,Helen Garner,Iris Murdoch,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tomasz, Guardian readerEver since my father gifted me a copy of “The Unicorn,” beautifully translated into my native language, I have been a huge fan of Iris Murdoch’s book. She continued to read her novels, plays, and poetry with great enthusiasm. Before Christmas, I returned to her penultimate novel, Green KnightHe remembered only a little of it. However, from the first page, I was reminded of why I loved her work so much: the prose is rich,…

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Industry Season 4 Review – Truly Quirky, Top Notch TV | television

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Kit Harington 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MAny dramas - especially good ones - don't become an overnight hit. Think of series like Game of Thrones or Succession, which needed time to warm up, and some amazing episodes (like Red Wedding and Kendall bumping into a waiter, respectively) to really get going. Industry is one such show - the slow-burning HBO/BBC series that hit its stride in season three. Good news: Season 4 is the best, truly top-notch television and definitely destined for year-end lists,…

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Can you keep the secret? Review – Dawn French looks like the wild vicar of Dibley in this charming sitcom | television

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Dawn French ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: DIbi Findon is a force to be reckoned with. Fast-walking, recently widowed in the community, and mother of one (the easily overpowered Harry), Dawn French is played with a mixture of Dibley's indefatigable energy, with a hint of the scintillating brutality that accompanied her best work in the French and Saunders days. Debbie is the driving force in Simon Mayhew Archer's debut sitcom Can You Keep a Secret? - And this secret is that Debbie's husband, William, was mistakenly…

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