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No Ordinary Heist review – Eddie Marsan stars in this Belfast true crime thriller about a massive bank robbery | film

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Thrillers,Eddie Marsan,Crime films,Belfast,Culture,Northern Ireland,UK news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: gAlthough this true-crime thriller set in Belfast is based on real-life events from 2004, it feels like something that might have made an exhilarating, first-rate thriller. But instead it feels weak and apologetic, clumsily put together and blandly directed by Colin McIvor, whose TV movies and low-budget comedies do not suggest a special aptitude for the territory. The two leads, Eddie Marsan and Ianna Hardwicke, are good, although you have to wonder why Marsan, a well-known actor,…

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Give It Up Review – An insufferable group of actors reconnect for a weekend of pain and comedy | film

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Drama films,Comedy films,Comedy,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WDirector Tim Brain Smith clearly never got the memo, coined directly after the waves of derision that greeted Peter's Friends in 1992, that any movie about a group of friends who are or have been former actors getting together is fair game for ridicule, sniping, and all manner of startling disdain. Because no one really likes to watch actors play actors, even though he recently won an Oscar for Sentimental Value. But Brain Smith and company clearly haven't read The…

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Transforming the Beautiful Game: Clyde’s Best Story Review – A Fitting Tribute to Pioneer Sparrow | film

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,West Ham United,Race,Culture,Football,Sport,World news,US sports 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt may seem as if every conceivable football story has already been told in the age of live streaming. But clearly that's not the case: here's a heartwarming film that has important things to say about racism and empowerment in the game through the life story of Clyde Best, the West Ham striker from the early 1970s. Best's pioneering status as one of the first black players in elite English football is fairly well known -…

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Married at First Sight star Mel Schilling dies at 54 | Australian media

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Australian media,Television,Married at First Sight Australia ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Mel Schilling, the relationship coach on The Married at First Sight, has died at the age of 54, just weeks after declaring that doctors could no longer cure cancer.Schilling - known for dishing out relationship advice on the Australian and British versions of the hit reality dating show - died on Tuesday "surrounded by love", according to a family statement.The Australian TV star announced earlier in March that her cancer had spread, including to the left…

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Hugh Edwards hates the television representation of his life. Maybe he should have thought of that before… you know | Marina Hyde

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Huw Edwards,Television & radio,UK news,Media,Crime 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I See Hugh Edwards is still not the subject of any of his actions. The popular former BBC newsreader (brand: Hugh Edwards) has emerged from a mini break in the wilderness to criticize Channel 5's upcoming dramatization of his downfall. “Mental illness is misunderstood by many, but it cannot be an excuse for criminality,” Hugh told the audience, the overwhelming majority of whom had already made that very point. “However, it could at least help explain why people…

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Schiaparelli Review – It’s Cocktail Hour with the Surrealist Fashion Gods Who Outdid Dali and Turned the Polar Bear Pink | fashion

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fashion,Museums,Culture,V&A,Salvador Dalí ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: nMermaids and prancing horses, silk carrots and unshelled peanuts, gilded elephant boxes, drums and masks – these are just a few examples of the buttons. The Victoria and Albert Museum's lavish spring show is a weird and wonderful take on the rabbit hole called Schiaparelli, the surrealist fashion house.Elsa Schiaparelli designed clothes to be subtle, not just pretty, and that lively spirit runs through this show. A shoe turns into a hat, bones grow on the outside of a dress, and…

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Heartbreak High Final Season Review – A Colorful But Contrived Farewell to Hartley High | television

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💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Australian television,Culture,Television & radio,Netflix,Drama ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen it comes to remaking an old TV show, where do you draw the line between paying homage to the original and coming up with your own tone and style? I'll admit that Netflix's remake of Heartbreak High has its virtues, like its lively energy and engaging, fresh-faced cast, but I'm not sure I can ever forgive the producers for taking such a dazzling shift away from what made the long-running original so compelling.The first Heartbreak High, which aired…

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? At 60: Elizabeth Taylor still oozes wild energy | Elizabeth Taylor

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Elizabeth Taylor,Edward Albee,Mike Nichols,Culture,Film,Stage,Richard Burton ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AAfter a long day at work, we may not instinctively jump into movies about toxic marriages and relationship breakdowns — but by God, they can make good drama. Blue Valentine, The Squid and the Whale, and A Separation are some of the great pictures of love turned rotten. But perhaps greatest of all is Mike Nichols' directorial debut – a stunning adaptation of Edward Albee's legendary novel Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which came out in 1966, four…

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Review by Michaelina Wautier – a stunning lost artist emerging from the shadows of her male contemporaries | Art and design

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Exhibitions,Painting,Royal Academy of Arts,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ART History is currently revising the accepted white male canon by revealing overlooked female artists. We have witnessed the recent explosion of interest in the extraordinary work of Artemisia Gentileschi, whom major galleries such as the National Gallery have done their best to extricate from the violent sexual assault that tends to cast a shadow over her CV. By contrast, we have little documentary evidence of her immediate contemporary Michaelina Wautier (c. 1614–1689) other than that she…

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Imeneo Review – Handel in a Mischievous Mood Handled with Intelligence and Care | Opera

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AA New York opera featuring a pair of young lovers is inevitably compared to Così fan tutte. But in the case of Handel's mid-career novel, Eminio, A Midsummer Night's Dream is a better reference point. There may be unexpected Mozartian depths in this intimate comedy of duty and desire, but there is none of Cosi's cynicism or cruelty in a piece whose games are played strictly at the opera's own expense.As the vogue for Italian opera in the 1740s was ended…

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