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From The Beast in Me to John Fosse’s Vaim: A Week of Rave Reviews | culture

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music 📌 Main takeaway: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...The monster inside meNetflixSummarize in a sentence Claire Danes plays an author filled with rage and grief, whose life is thrown into flames by the arrival of a millionaire - brilliantly played by Matthew Rhys - who is suspected of murdering his wife. What our reviewer said “Danes and Rhys excite each other through beautifully written scenes designed to immerse you in the world of two people discovering what it means to find someone who truly sees…

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Taylor Swift’s silence on the Trump administration’s use of her music speaks volumes | Taylor Swift

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Taylor Swift,Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Donald Trump 💡 Main takeaway: IIn the past two weeks, the Trump administration has used music from Taylor Swift's latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, in three social media posts. The first, shared by the official White House TikTok account, was a patriotic slideshow of images set to the song The Fate of Ophelia. As Swift sings "Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your feelings," the video cuts to images of the American flag, President Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and…

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Post your questions for Peaches | Peaches

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Peaches,Electronic music,Pop and rock,Dance music,Music,Culture 💡 Main takeaway: WWhether she's navigating through crowds inside a giant condom or singing along with a pussy-headed dancer, Peaches has left us with some indelible stage images over the years — and there are set to be a few new ones as she tours and releases her first album in a decade. And while you're at it, you'll join us to answer your questions.Peaches, also known as Meryl Nesker, emerged from the Toronto underground in the late 1990s — her peers…

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‘He was quite a private person’: Expanded auction features Gene Hackman as actor and artist | Gene Hackman

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Gene Hackman,Art,Art and design,Culture,Film,Painting 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: He was the Lex Luthor to Christopher Reeve's Superman. But could he have been Hannibal Lecter to Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling?This intriguing possibility raises an unexpected 33-page screenplay draft for "The Silence of the Lambs" lying among a collection of the late actor Gene Hackman's belongings that will go up for auction later this month.The sale of more than 400 items from the belongings of Hackman - who won Oscars for his roles in The French Connection and…

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My cultural awakening: I moved around the world after watching Billy Connolly’s documentary | culture

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Billy Connolly,Documentary,Scotland,Television,Television & radio,Factual TV 💡 Main takeaway: I I was 23 years old and thought I had found my way in life. I've always wanted to work with animals and have just got a job as a veterinary nurse in Melbourne. I was still learning the ropes, but I imagined I would stay there for years, building a life around work. Five months later, the vet called me into his office and told me it wasn't going well. “Not you, I just hate coaching people,” he…

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Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis | Books

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Books,Social media,Internet,Digital media,Technology,Computing and the net books,Society,Data journalism,Culture,Smartphones,Social etiquette,Media ✅ Main takeaway: We all live in history. A lot of the problems that face us, and the opportunities that present themselves, are defined not by our own choices or even the specific place or government we’re living under, but by the particular epoch of human events that our lives happen to coincide with.The Industrial Revolution, for example, presented opportunities for certain kinds of business success – it made some people very rich while others were exploited. If…

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“The studio heads were like, ‘It looks nice.’ ‘We shall pass!’: Joel Edgerton and Clint Bentley on the Oscar-winning Woodsman’s Tragedy | film

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Culture,Joel Edgerton,Westerns 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: America was built by men like Robert Grenier, the brave woodsman at the heart of Train Dreams. Grenier cuts down trees, tames the forest, and paves the way for railways and cities. Technically, Train Dreams is a Western. But he never hitched a wheel, shot a bandit, or circled the wagons before the Comanche attacked the plains. The small print tells a different story.It was a difficult movie to get out, as actor Joel Edgerton admits: It's an uphill struggle;…

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TV Tonight: Nicole Leckey’s blood-soaked school drama special | TV and radio

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television & radio,Culture 📌 Key idea: Wild cherry9pm, BBC OneGossip Girl meets Boarders - with a splash of gore - in this dark private school from BAFTA award-winning writer Nicole Leckey. The film revolves around two wealthy schoolgirls in Richford Lake, Grace (Imogen Ferris) and Allegra (Amelia May), who are suspended by teachers for sharing a shocking video among the students. But when their mothers, Juliette (Eve Best) and Lorna (Carmen Ejogo), come over, it's clear there's drama at home, too. Holly RichardsonPhoto by Alan Carr SalamA…

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Repeated Review – This warped tale of sexual fantasies could be wilder | stage

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Sex,Life and style 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: AAt what point does infatuation turn into something darker and more destructive? There's actually a term for it — opulence — and that's the unsettling undercurrent of Tania Loretta Dee's promising first monologue, in which she also stars. There are very interesting ideas here, especially regarding the fine line between sexual desire and something wilder, more animalistic, and untamable. But production needs more fire and intensity. It unfolds at a slight distance and never pulls us into the depths…

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Malice review – You’ll enjoy David Duchovny’s new thriller until Christmas | television

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,David Duchovny,Jack Whitehall 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: I I can't say "Jack Whitehall stars with David "The X Files/Californication" Duchovny in a brilliant TV thriller" on my 2025 bingo card, but here we are, and everyone can have a good time with it. Besides, perhaps a little national pride in seeing the silly boy of fresh meat, bad education, and traveling with my father, all grown up and holding on to their place.The brilliant thriller in question is Malice, in which Whitehall plays Adam,…

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