π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Horror films,Culture π **What Youβll Learn**: VSometimes a movie just doesn't work, and unfortunately this low budget horror movie is one of those movies. The premise isn't the problem: A sexy young woman lures six eligible young men to her family's country pile for a romantic weekend, only to reveal to the men that they are now trapped in a reality TV-meets-Saw farce where they will struggle to survive. On paper, a bachelorette-meets-female game of jigsaw might sound like fun.The biggest problem is that the film never…
β¨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Games,Digital media,Game culture,Culture,Women,Feminism,Gender,Life and style,Media β
**What Youβll Learn**: WWhether you're reading about the impending bursting of the AI ββbubble or about mass layoffs and canceled projects in the video game industry, 2026 doesn't seem like a hopeful time for gaming. Furthermore, gaming journalists β as well as all kinds of other journalists β have been losing their jobs at alarming rates, making it difficult to adequately cover these crises. Meanwhile, Donald Trump's White House is using video game memes as recruiting tools for ICE, and game…
π Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Opera,Awards and prizes π **What Youβll Learn**: When did you last read a good news story about classical music?Think of the stories that have made headlines in recent years: funding cuts to national opera companies, threats to close university music departments, councils eliminating the provision of local music, and the decline of classroom music production.The reported successes tend only to serve as a reprieve or rescue in the face of such crises, for which a sector running out of fuel struggles to continue fending for…
β¨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music β
**What Youβll Learn**: IIn this clever juxtaposition of old and new, the luncheon concert by trumpeter Ben Goldscheider and pianist Richard Utley could not have been more resonant or satisfying. They opened with Schumann's Three FantasiestΓΌcke, Op 73, which is often the purview of clarinetists or cellists, but the full lyrical outpouring of Schumann's romanticism proved better suited to the century. It also immediately demonstrated the boundless musical sensibilities of this duo, as they are equally attuned to each other and matched in virtuosity.Simon…
β¨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Sundance 2026,Sundance film festival,Natalie Portman,Olivia Wilde,ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement),US news,Culture,Festivals,World news,Minnesota ICE shooting π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: The Sundance Film Festival, currently being held in Park City, Utah, witnessed a massive protest against two deadly shootings in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday, along with high-profile interventions from prominent figures in the film industry.Actress Natasha Lyonne was among those who posted on social media about the protest, dubbed βSundancers Melt ICE,β which was called for Sunday afternoon. Organizers requested a "respectful" 10-minute event at sunset on Main…
π₯ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Picture books,Culture,Australian books,Books,Children and teenagers π **What Youβll Learn**: βChildren become readers in the lap of their parents.β - Emily Buchwald I can't think of a better way to start the year than to have one of my books selected in The Guardian's readers' poll of the best Australian picture books of all time. Come Over to My House, co-written with musician Eliza Hall and illustrated by Daniel Gray Barnett, is a rhyming picture book that explores the home lives of children and parents who are deaf…
β¨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Jason Momoa,Action and adventure films,Thrillers,Hawaii,Culture β
**What Youβll Learn**: HIt's a live-action suspense comedy that's a throwback to the kind of money-minting dumb fun of the 80s and 90s. It is said that a member of Phil Collins' band is on the soundtrack and a reference is made to Jean-Claude Van Damme. One assumes that the target audience is males of all ages bloodthirsty for finely choreographed casual violence and stunts interspersed with pranks. As such, it gets the job done, plus it adds the bells…
π Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: UK news,Holocaust,Second world war,Judaism,Czech Republic,Czechoslovakia,Europe,World news,Art,Art and design,Culture π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: TIt has survived the Nazis, been confiscated by the Communists, and for the past three decades has been closely guarded, bound by red tape, by a museum in the Czech Republic. Given the attention of overzealous Czech customs guards and the vagaries of the British weather, a happy outcome was in doubt until the end.But last Thursday, a small suitcase filled with 681 drawings, love letters, poems and manuscripts created by Jewish artist and poet…
π Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Clive Myrie,Africa π **What Youβll Learn**: AAfter decades as a BBC journalist, and more recently one of the corporation's most popular news presenters, you might associate Clive Merry with more serious endeavours. In fact, it was a little disturbing to see him β just a few hours before presenting his latest Trump-flavored bulletin last Tuesday β reclining on the One Show sofa to promote his latest travel writing, declaring himself a βwarrior god.β Although this last pivot may seem unlikely (he previously presented Clive Myrie's…
π₯ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Kanye West,Music,Culture,Rap,Antisemitism,Bipolar disorder,Mental health π **What Youβll Learn**: Kanye West took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal apologizing for his anti-Semitic behavior. βI am not a Nazi or an anti-Semite,β he wrote. "I love the Jewish people."In a letter titled βTo Those I Have Hurt,β he attributed his inflammatory actions, including making highly offensive statements and selling T-shirts bearing swastikas, to bipolar-1 disorder, which he said developed as a result of medical oversight failing to diagnose a frontal lobe injury he suffered in a…
