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TV tonight: the season finale of the bleak Welsh drama | television

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,The Trip,Jack Thorne,Millie Bobby Brown 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Light in the hall: still water9pm on Channel 4As the second season of this bleak Welsh drama comes to an end, the tone seems more elegiac than explosive as events surrounding the controversial reservoir expansion continue. Budding journalist Karel Hoss (Sian Rhys Williams) investigates Lear's death, but this sets her on a collision course with Robert (Robert Glenister), who wants the past to remain undisturbed. It was a bleak study in small town boredom. Phil HarrisonLocation,…

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“Get away from there – run away!” The stunning film about the love that blossoms amidst the massacre of Aleppo | Documentaries

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Documentary films,Film,Syria,Middle East and north Africa,Journalist safety,Media,Culture,Aleppo 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe air is full of smoke and dust, and the ground is littered with the remains of burned-out vehicles. Children scream and sirens sound as activist and videographer Abdelkader Habak rushes to help the wounded after an evacuated convoy was bombed in Aleppo at the height of the Syrian civil war in 2017. A voice note bubble appears on Habak's phone screen. “Bird, are you okay?” BBC journalist Janai Boulos says: "Get away from there, run…

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Best theater streaming this month: Rosamund Pike’s All Rise’s Inter Alia | platform

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Culture,Theatre,Rosamund Pike,Film,Audio drama,National Theatre,Orange Tree theatre,West End,Musicals 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Inter OlyaRosamund Pike rightly won an Olivier Award for her troubled turn in playwright Susie Miller's searing legal drama – now a court judge, now with her karaoke pals, now pounding the ironing board in front of a party, now facing a family crisis. It's a breathtaking performance on both counts, and Justin Martin, a master of tension building, directs with familiar flair. On the NT at home from July 7.SummerfolkAlso from NT at Home: Sister…

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It’s a love story – or is it? Conflict and sudden chaos in Taylor Swift’s songs about commitment | Taylor Swift

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Taylor Swift,Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Marriage,Celebrity,Relationships 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen she was 19 and already had her second album under her belt, Taylor Swift made sure to tell a would-be lover he was mistaken for her: “I'm not your princess, this ain't our fairy tale... It's too late for you and your white horse to catch me now,” she sang in her 2008 song “White Horse.” Then, as now, Swift loved a happy ending: she had no objection to rewriting Romeo and Juliet to end with the marriage…

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Chris Martin’s Lost James Bond Theme Goes Up for Auction with Unheard Coldplay Tapes | Coldplay

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Coldplay,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,The Wedding Present,UK news,Indie,James Bond ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A lost demo recording of Coldplay's Chris Martin song, said to have been intended for the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, is going up for auction, along with other recordings from the band's early years.For the auction held by Wax Poetics, British producer Chris Allison will provide an archive of recordings made by the band prior to Allison's second EP The Blue Room, released in October 1999."The World Ain't Enough" is…

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Elon Musk promotes ‘anti-immigrant’ Armie Hammer film with free download on X | film

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Thrillers,Armie Hammer,Elon Musk,Germany,Immigration and asylum,Culture,Europe,Technology,UK news,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The German film starring Armie Hammer, which was allegedly refused certification by the German classification board for "incitement to violence against immigrants", has achieved global distribution and an explosion in its viewing figures after a bizarre intervention from Elon Musk.Citizen Vigilante, a thriller starring Hammer and written and directed by Uwe Boll, was posted for free on Musk's X account from Thursday to Sunday, significantly boosting his marketing and business profile. The film was released in…

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Enola Holmes 3 review – Netflix’s mystery franchise is losing steam | film

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Millie Bobby Brown,Helena Bonham Carter,Henry Cavill,Culture,Action and adventure films,Netflix 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: DDespite Netflix's ever-increasing size and dominance, the streaming device has continued to struggle to achieve its most obvious goal. While viewers may flock there to watch slick dating shows, flashy true crimes, Harlan Coben thrillers and addictive romantic comedies, the platform has yet to be known for creating original movie franchises, the bread and butter of most legacy Hollywood studios, for better or worse.The problem Netflix often faces is that turning a big-budget…

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Citizen Vigilante Review – Armie Hammer returns to obliterate the imaginary piñata in Europe Stan | film

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Armie Hammer,Thrillers,Elon Musk,Culture,Technology,Migration,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyH, Armie Hammer! Has it come to this? It doesn't seem like it's been that long since you appeared in the Oscar-winning film "Call Me By Your Name," where you gave a sensitive, liberal performance opposite Timothée Chalamet. Now here you are, roaming the streets and parks of Zagreb, gunning down Muslims, gunning down teenagers, and topping the complicit Deep State judges, to protest what your character forcefully describes as “an unfriendly takeover by Islamic extremists and the awakening…

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What We’re Reading: Writers and readers about the books they enjoyed in June | books

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Tessa Hadley,James Joyce,Candice Carty-Williams,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Ollie, Guardian readerYou have just finished reading Wemmy Road Boys By Sufyan Salam. I absolutely loved this book, a wonderful mixture of violence and vulnerability set on Manchester's Cary Mile. I became quite attached to the three main boys, and loved all the perspective shifts to the different characters throughout the book. I absolutely cried at the end, it was an unexpected but completely understandable ending. 10/10, everyone should read this.Candace Carty Williams, writer“It's rare that I make use…

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Ania Magliano: Peach Fuzz review – Body and soul comedy from the gorgeous SNL UK star | comedy

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Comedy,Culture,Stage,Edinburgh festival 2026,Edinburgh festival,Soho theatre 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AHaving spent an eye-catching apprenticeship in live comedy, Ania Magliano's profile has now risen as co-host of SNL UK's Weekend Update, a satirical newscast that reminds viewers of my family of the great Two Ronnies' work. Would Messrs. Corbett and Parker have capitalized on television success by presenting my position on learning to love their genitals? They wouldn't, but times have changed. Magliano's new take on living a more embodied life has all the makings – great…

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