π Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Documentary films,Restaurants,France,Michelin Guide,Frederick Wiseman,World news,Food,Europe,Culture β
Main takeaway: AThe latest offering by Frederick Wiseman, the demigod of American cinema, is a 6,000-course tasting menu for a documentary, like one of those masterpieces that encapsulate all the delicious foods featured in Studio Ghibli films. Most of the 95-year-old's life has been devoted to chronicling American institutions, but here he returns to the French work in which he has been immersed since the mid-1990s (he lives in the country part-time). In this case, he sneaks into the three-Michelin-starred Le…
π Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Fiction,Books,Culture π‘ Main takeaway: AThe NdalucΓa region is famous for its diversity: high alpine mountains, snow-capped peaks, river plains, expansive olive groves, sunny coasts and arid deserts. It's the perfect setting for Neil Rawlinson's debut novel, which is its own kind of stunning mosaic. Built from short, seemingly disconnected chapters that take us between Spain in 2003 and the Northumberland coalfields of the 1970s and 1980s, The Dead Don't Bleed combines into an unusually tense and tender portrait of two brothers trying to escape their father's gangland…
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Main takeaway: When Night Owls' cameras spot a mercenary working for Roper setting up a new arms deal, Jonathan jumps into action, retracing a trail that leads him to Spain and then Colombia, through suspicious deaths and exploding bombs, and to the show's inspiring new villain. Diego Calva is magnetic as Teddy Dos Santos, an arms dealer with such strong ties to Roper that he calls himself βRichard Roperβs true discipleβ and who follows his mentorβs playbook. An ostensibly sophisticated philanthropist, he enjoys a lavish lifestyle (the better…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Documentary films,Chevy Chase,Saturday Night Live,Comedy,Culture,Television & radio π Key idea: FMovies and documentaries can sometimes struggle to hold viewers' attention if the central character isn't sympathetic, but perhaps we're more forgiving of non-fiction heroes because we accept warts and all in real life. But this film about actor and comedian Chevy Chase faces an uphill battle since not only does it tell the story of what a "fool" β as he's often called β was like in the past, we also witness some of the goofiness…
π Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture π‘ Main takeaway: Andor(Disney+) It's an embarrassing thing to say about a product released by Disney under the Star Wars brand, but it's by far the most painful and telling depiction of creeping totalitarianism I've seen on screen in years. A powerful character piece, a perfect movement, and the perfect moment to tell an inherently political story about hope for truth and resistance against an endless barrage of lies and atrocities. Ewen, LondonRehearsal(Sky/Now) I've always been a fan of Nathan Fielder's work but…
π₯ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Language,Culture,UK news,Books,Linguistics,Society β
Key idea: If you've seen a news story announcing the chosen "Word of the Year" for 2025 in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for asking yourself: What, another word?Depending on which dictionary you turn to, the term chosen this year was either Collins's "coding of emotions", Cambridge Dictionaries' "antisocial", or rival Oxford University Press's "taste of anger" β with many other choices besides.Since its origins 35 years ago, when the American Dialect Society tried to find a word capable of summing up the…
π₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Culture,Rob Reiner,US news,World news π Hereβs what youβll learn: More than two weeks after the deaths of film director Rob Reiner and his photographer wife, Michelle, friends and colleagues continue to pay tribute to the couple.Writing on Instagram, Cary Elwes, who starred in Reiner's 1987 classic The Princess Bride, said he only now felt able to post publicly about his loss.βEnough time has passed that I can finally put my grief into words,β Elwes wrote, saying that the first time he met Reiner, 24, he βfell…
β¨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Games,Culture,Roblox,Sega,Grand Theft Auto π Hereβs what youβll learn: WWith the best games of the year (yours and ours), I'd like to highlight some of the work we've done in covering them. Reviewing the best-performing articles we published in 2025, I see a picture of a mixed year: lots of great works and games that captured the imagination and the world's attention, but also growing anxiety about their place in the real world, and the political conditions they reflect. And a lot of (justified) anxiety about Roblox.But first:…
β¨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Podcasts,Television & radio,Culture π‘ Key idea: Bad advice by Bill NighyI found this podcast a few weeks ago and finished the first season in no time. My father recently passed away, and I often feel sad. Bad advice has helped me feel lighter. I laughed out loud at the questions and at Bill's dry answers. I love the taboo part of words (such as 'hub' and 'like', when used as fillers in sentences), while the book suggestions at the end are as close to perfect as…
β¨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: GB News,Ofcom,Regulators,Donald Trump,Television industry,US television,Television,Culture,US news,Media,Television & radio,UK news,World news π‘ Key idea: Britain's media regulator Ofcom is under pressure to investigate a GB News interview with Donald Trump after complaints that it contained misleading and inaccurate claims that the network failed to challenge.The right-wing channel claimed to have conducted a βglobal exclusive interviewβ with the US president in November, in which Trump asserted that human-caused climate change was a βhoax,β that London had no-police zones and that the capital had βsharia law.βTrump made other claims…
