π₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Avatar,James Cameron,Science fiction and fantasy films,Action and adventure films,Zoe SaldaΓ±a,Edie Falco,Culture π Hereβs what youβll learn: Heyn and on it goes. The planet-sized Avatar continues to orbit wildly in the universe - but without affecting the tides of any other world. Maybe an avatar He is The universe and its creator James Cameron is the new L. Ron Hubbard; The creator, or rather prophet, of a new belief system that includes large blue creatures with pointy ears that flap and twitch when they speak, and to whom…
β¨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Art and design,Culture,Exhibitions,Drawing,Art,Yorkshire,Ageing β
Hereβs what youβll learn: IDuring his four decades as a curator, publisher and gallerist, Matthew Higgs supported the careers of many artists, including his contemporaries Jeremy Deller, Martin Creed and Peter Doig when they emerged in the early 1990s.Higgs also supports artists from alternative backgrounds β those who are self-taught, or who have developmental or cognitive impairment β ββand his latest discovery is one of these people. Christine Hazel is 88 years old, suffers from progressive memory loss, and had never practiced…
β¨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Theatre,David Ireland,Soho theatre,Stage,Culture,Comedy,Comedy π Main takeaway: IThe film is set on a summer morning in Edinburgh during a festival, but David Ireland's play Two Hands, which was first performed as a sideline reading in 2012, has a strange kind of Christmas spirit heightened by the timing of its London premiere.The explanation requires some spoilers about the strange twists, but the setup couldn't be clearer. In a Travelodge hotel room, a couple wakes up after a one-night stand. She's in the bathroom. He devours a bucket of KFC…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Books,Culture,Hay festival π‘ Main takeaway: Hay Festival chairman Stephen Fry is backing the organisation's new campaign to collect recommendations for the most interesting books to attract new readers, in a bid to combat low literacy rates in the UK.The Pleasure List campaign, run in partnership with the government's National Year of Reading 2026, will share the "most ignorable" reads in the hope of helping to reverse the downward trend of adults reading for pleasure.The National Year of Reading is βgreat news for book lovers, but the statistics…
π₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Christmas π‘ Key idea: Cockayne Soul - Death ChristmasI'm always fascinated by the ways my generation is able to participate in the circulation of music. Amateur TikTok edits are reviving forgotten gems and turning obscure stars into sensations; Local producers make entire albums if their favorite rapper doesn't release enough. Such is the case with Doom Xmas, the brainchild of Grammy Award-winning Spanish producer Cookin' Soul, which remakes the work of the late rapper MF Doom into Christmas music. There are scruffy Grinch soundtracks, frenetic…
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Key idea: At the center of the horrific news of the death of Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle Singer Reiner over the weekend is their 32-year-old son, Nick.The screenwriter was arrested and charged with first-degree murder after his 28-year-old sister Romy found their parents dead at home with injuries consistent with a knife attack.Nick had dealt with drug addiction and homelessness, and entered rehab for the first time when he was fifteen years old. He referred to his struggle during the βdark…
π Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: US television,Television industry,US news,Television,Culture,Television & radio,Race,Trump administration,Gender,Women β
Main takeaway: A new UCLA study shows that popular scripted series on streaming services have shown a marked decline in cultural diversity behind and in front of the camera in the past year as inclusion programming dwindles in Hollywood.The latest edition of the school's Hollywood Diversity Report, published Tuesday, found that of the top 250 most-watched current scripted and office series in 2024, more than 91.7% were created by a white person, and white men account for 79% of…
β¨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Thrillers,Sydney Sweeney,Paul Feig,Amanda Seyfried,Film adaptations,Books,Culture π‘ Key idea: DDirector Paul Feig is known for his broad comedies. Now he turns the serious schlock dial for a highly entertaining - or at any rate very entertaining - psychological thriller in the spirit of 1990s noir thriller, adapted by screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenschein from the 2022 bestselling book by Frieda McFadden. We're back in the glossy, sleazy world of Curtis Hanson's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle or Joe Eszterhas's Basic Instinct, but we're much closer to satire, if not…
π Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Steven Spielberg,Emily Blunt,Colin Firth,Josh O'Connor,Science fiction and fantasy films,US news,Culture,Film π Hereβs what youβll learn: The first trailer for Steven Spielberg's mysterious UFO thriller has provided more details about what audiences can expect.Revealing Day, written by Jurassic Park's David Koepp and based on Spielberg's story, sees a star-studded take on the discovery of aliens. βWhy does He create such a vast universe and save it only for us?β says Elizabeth Marvel's character at the end of the teaser.The film stars Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Colman…
π₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Arts Council England,Arts funding,Margaret Hodge,England,Opera,Classical music,UK news β
Key idea: Underfunded, the arts in England have been hit by Covid-19 from which many organizations have yet to recover. But that was only part of the story. The enormous burden of filling out the required forms, the endless bureaucracy, and the simply unwieldy long time it takes He is Funded by Arts Council England (ACE) it has caused global frustration among those working in the arts. There is a lot of talk about burnout and burnout.Many organizations have…
