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Why Frankenstein Should Win the Academy Award for Best Picture | Oscars

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars,Oscars 2026,Guillermo del Toro,Mary Shelley,Jacob Elordi,Film,Awards and prizes,Culture,Oscar Isaac 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: gOilermo del Toro has spent his career humanizing monsters, once calling them "the patron saints of our happy imperfection," so his adaptation of Frankenstein was always going to be a match made in heaven. The Mexican director's passion project transforms Mary Shelley's famous novel about the dangers of arrogance and playing God into a poignant story about generational trauma, parental abandonment, and the healing power of forgiveness. It's a meticulously crafted, visually lavish and…

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Review of Becoming George by Fiona Sampson – the remarkable story of a cross-dressing 19th century novelist | books

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIf we're truly in a reading crisis — whether you blame TikTok or podcasts — it stands to reason that of all genres, literary biography might have a particular reason to fear for its life: Who wants the life story of someone whose books no one has read?Such anxiety, whether justified or not, can be heard echoing in the background amid some of the louder claims made by Fiona Sampson at the start of her new biography about the pseudonymous 19th-century author…

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TV Tonight: An extraordinary film about sex workers in Kolkata | television

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Storyville: Red light to lights10.20pm, BBC4Another extraordinary tale from the often revealing Storyville series. This film follows a group of sex workers in Kolkata's independent brothel district of Kalighat, who have formed a folk art collective - regularly creating visual stories reflecting the realities and challenges of their community that are uploaded to YouTube. It's a poignant journey during which the filmmakers confront their abusers, reclaim their personal power—and begin to envision a different future for themselves. Phil HarrisonDyers' Caravan…

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‘What’s under my pots?’ anger!’ Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield on the set of The Magic Faraway Tree | film

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Family films,Enid Blyton,Claire Foy,Andrew Garfield,Culture,Adventure books (children and teens),Books 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AAnyone who read Enid Blyton's The Distant Tree novels as a child imagines themselves wandering its magical landscape. Most of us have had a favorite game, whether it's the Land of Witches, nursery rhymes, or do as you please. Thirteen-year-old Billie Gadsdon, about to star in the upcoming film The Magic Faraway Tree, particularly loves the Land of Goodies – but that's because when she was last there, everything around her was made…

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Photophobia Review – In the Kharkiv Railway Tunnels with a 12-Year-Old While Bloodshed Rages in the Sky | film

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Ukraine,Culture,Europe,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WAs war rages, hope continues to take root underground in Ivan Ostrochowski and Pavol Pekarczyk's poignant documentary. Filmed in the Kharkiv metro in Ukraine, the film follows Nikita, an energetic 12-year-old boy, during his daily routine in what has become a cavernous bomb shelter. Seeking refuge from endless bombing and shelling, thousands call the metro their new home, bringing with them the barest of necessities. Lit by stark fluorescent lights, this underground bunker has no sunlight, yet it glows…

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‘I watched it endlessly as a teenager’: Why ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ is my happy movie | Robin Williams

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Robin Williams,Sally Field,Pierce Brosnan,Film,Comedy films,Comedy,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I I can't think of another movie that touches my heart while making me laugh as reliably as Mrs. Doubtfire does. It has that rare tonal flexibility: genuine sadness, even sadness, followed almost immediately by silliness and welcome comic relief. You may feel a tightness in your throat one minute, and then find yourself laughing out loud the next. Few films manage to do that without being emotionally traumatizing, but this one does so with warmth.I watched it…

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‘Do what you really want to do while you’re still alive’: Masayoshi Takanaka, Japanese guitar hero riding the second wave into his 70s | music

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Japan 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn November 2025, Masayoshi Takanaka announced his first ever solo concert in the United Kingdom. The show was originally scheduled to be held at Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, but was in such demand that it was upgraded to two nights at the Brixton Academy - where nearly 10,000 people will flock to see the 72-year-old Japanese jazz musician play a surfboard-shaped guitar in March. In the summer, he will headline an outdoor festival in London's Crystal Palace Park. “I…

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Handcuffed: The Last Pair of Standing Review – an insult to all involved, not least Jonathan Ross | television

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Jonathan Ross,Reality TV,Channel 4 ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AFollowing his brilliant Machiavellian performance in The Celebrity Traitors, Jonathan Ross is set to appear on our screens again soon. He celebrated his big post-Traitors party, hosting Channel 4's new six-part 'social experiment'. Ross explains that this series is about whether “Britain is divided or not.” [can] 'Settle their differences', by handcuffing two strangers from different walks of life together for 24 hours a day (including in the shower - ouch!) and seeing who can last the…

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DTF St Louis Review – An addictive tale of middle age, swinging, and murder | television

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Jason Bateman 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: nAlways trust the man who rides a recumbent bike. That seems to be the first lesson offered by DTF St Louis, a new seven-part black comedy starring Jason Bateman, David Harbor and Linda Cardellini, and who - frankly - could fail to back up such a message?Bateman plays Clark Forrest, a local meteorologist, celebrity and biker lounging around his little patch of St. Louis, Missouri. He becomes fast friends with a sign language interpreter, Floyd (Harbour), when they are…

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Rosa Garland: Primal Bog Review – A Slippery Dive into Desire with Tattoo Live | platform

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Comedy,Comedy,Culture,Gwyneth Paltrow,Soho theatre,Theatre,Clowns,Performance art 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'IIt's divisive." Well, you might think so, a "weird performance art" clown show with nudity, bodily fluids, maggots and Gwyneth Paltrow. However, Primal Bog left the Edinburgh fringe last year with praise ringing in the ears of its creator Rosa Garland. To the degree that Garland is a winning and fearlessly provocative performer, I'm happy to join the chorus. But - hey, it's divisive - I didn't find the show as divisive as some in the audience. It's…

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