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Staying in with the old: the best films to watch on New Year’s Eve | Film

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Television,TV streaming,Billy Wilder,Rob Reiner,When Harry Met Sally,The Apartment,The Shining,Kathryn Bigelow,Lord of the Rings,Peter Jackson,Culture ✅ Key idea: The Apartment‘Shut up and deal’ … Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment. Photograph: Cinetext Bildarchiv/United Artists/AllstarAt the end of any especially troublesome year it’s always good to revisit The Apartment, Billy Wilder’s brilliantly bleak comedy of office politics and festive bad cheer. It memorably ends on the stroke of midnight as heartsick Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) abandons a drunken new year’s party to be with hapless, jobless CC…

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Lily Allen’s live return, Charli xcx’s Wuthering Heights and Simon Rattle’s Janáček: music to listen out for in 2026 | Music

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Music,2026 culture preview,Pop and rock,Classical music,Indie,Rap,Opera,Hip-hop,Culture,Metal,Soul,Florence + the Machine,Deftones,Charli xcx,Raye,Bill Callahan,Lily Allen,Dave,Thundercat,My Bloody Valentine,Nicki Minaj,Olivia Dean,Rosalía,Metallica,Ariana Grande,Wigmore Hall 💡 Main takeaway: Florence + the MachineSeventeen years on from the release of her debut single, Florence Welch finds herself in an intriguingly strong position: while most of her early 00s indie peers are forgotten or in reduced circumstances, she is a major influence on pop, from Ethel Cain to the Last Dinner Party to Chappell Roan. Her recent album Everybody Scream was a strong restatement of her theatrical…

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New Year’s Eve TV: Explosive fun in the hit family sitcom Here We Go | television

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture 💡 Main takeaway: Here we are8pm, BBC OneThe Jessup family is going to a beautiful place for New Year's Eve ("Dorset? Wales?" Leeds?").But once they arrive, they learn that the Airbnb guests they've booked to stay at their house are throwing a huge party. They report a lot of chaotic family fun that includes an emergency road trip from hell back home, a big box of unlicensed fireworks and a missing doll. Plus, Robin (Tom Basden) can't stop ripping off his shirt. Jim Howick,…

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Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros review – Frederick Wiseman’s huge feast for the eyes | film

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Documentary films,Restaurants,France,Michelin Guide,Frederick Wiseman,World news,Food,Europe,Culture ✅ Main takeaway: AThe latest offering by Frederick Wiseman, the demigod of American cinema, is a 6,000-course tasting menu for a documentary, like one of those masterpieces that encapsulate all the delicious foods featured in Studio Ghibli films. Most of the 95-year-old's life has been devoted to chronicling American institutions, but here he returns to the French work in which he has been immersed since the mid-1990s (he lives in the country part-time). In this case, he sneaks into the three-Michelin-starred Le…

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Review of The Dead Don’t Bleed by Neil Rawlinson – A poignant story about family and forbidden love | imaginary

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Fiction,Books,Culture 💡 Main takeaway: AThe Ndalucía region is famous for its diversity: high alpine mountains, snow-capped peaks, river plains, expansive olive groves, sunny coasts and arid deserts. It's the perfect setting for Neil Rawlinson's debut novel, which is its own kind of stunning mosaic. Built from short, seemingly disconnected chapters that take us between Spain in 2003 and the Northumberland coalfields of the 1970s and 1980s, The Dead Don't Bleed combines into an unusually tense and tender portrait of two brothers trying to escape their father's gangland…

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The second series of the long-awaited thriller “Irresistible”

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💥 Explore this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: When Night Owls' cameras spot a mercenary working for Roper setting up a new arms deal, Jonathan jumps into action, retracing a trail that leads him to Spain and then Colombia, through suspicious deaths and exploding bombs, and to the show's inspiring new villain. Diego Calva is magnetic as Teddy Dos Santos, an arms dealer with such strong ties to Roper that he calls himself “Richard Roper’s true disciple” and who follows his mentor’s playbook. An ostensibly sophisticated philanthropist, he enjoys a lavish lifestyle (the better…

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I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not Reviewing – Abundant Talent Showcased in Profile of Disgraced SNL Sitcom Champion | film

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Documentary films,Chevy Chase,Saturday Night Live,Comedy,Culture,Television & radio 📌 Key idea: FMovies and documentaries can sometimes struggle to hold viewers' attention if the central character isn't sympathetic, but perhaps we're more forgiving of non-fiction heroes because we accept warts and all in real life. But this film about actor and comedian Chevy Chase faces an uphill battle since not only does it tell the story of what a "fool" — as he's often called — was like in the past, we also witness some of the goofiness…

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“TV event of the decade!” It’s your best TV of 2025 | television

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture 💡 Main takeaway: Andor(Disney+) It's an embarrassing thing to say about a product released by Disney under the Star Wars brand, but it's by far the most painful and telling depiction of creeping totalitarianism I've seen on screen in years. A powerful character piece, a perfect movement, and the perfect moment to tell an inherently political story about hope for truth and resistance against an endless barrage of lies and atrocities. Ewen, LondonRehearsal(Sky/Now) I've always been a fan of Nathan Fielder's work but…

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The taste of anger, the status of the goblin… Do the words of the year have any real value? | language

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Language,Culture,UK news,Books,Linguistics,Society ✅ Key idea: If you've seen a news story announcing the chosen "Word of the Year" for 2025 in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for asking yourself: What, another word?Depending on which dictionary you turn to, the term chosen this year was either Collins's "coding of emotions", Cambridge Dictionaries' "antisocial", or rival Oxford University Press's "taste of anger" – with many other choices besides.Since its origins 35 years ago, when the American Dialect Society tried to find a word capable of summing up the…

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‘Life is painful without you’: Cary Elwes and Martin Scorsese pay tribute to Rob Reiner as autopsy reports conclude | film

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Culture,Rob Reiner,US news,World news 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: More than two weeks after the deaths of film director Rob Reiner and his photographer wife, Michelle, friends and colleagues continue to pay tribute to the couple.Writing on Instagram, Cary Elwes, who starred in Reiner's 1987 classic The Princess Bride, said he only now felt able to post publicly about his loss.“Enough time has passed that I can finally put my grief into words,” Elwes wrote, saying that the first time he met Reiner, 24, he “fell…

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