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Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros review – Frederick Wiseman’s huge feast for the eyes | film

Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros review – Frederick Wiseman’s huge feast for the eyes | film

πŸš€ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Film,Documentary films,Restaurants,France,Michelin Guide,Frederick Wiseman,World news,Food,Europe,Culture βœ… 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…
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Review of The Dead Don’t Bleed by Neil Rawlinson – A poignant story about family and forbidden love | imaginary

Review of The Dead Don’t Bleed by Neil Rawlinson – A poignant story about family and forbidden love | imaginary

πŸš€ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Fiction,Books,Culture πŸ’‘ 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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The second series of the long-awaited thriller “Irresistible”

The second series of the long-awaited thriller “Irresistible”

πŸ’₯ Explore this awesome post from BBC Culture πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: βœ… 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 β€œRichard Roper’s true disciple” and who follows his mentor’s playbook. An ostensibly sophisticated philanthropist, he enjoys a lavish lifestyle (the better…
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I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not Reviewing – Abundant Talent Showcased in Profile of Disgraced SNL Sitcom Champion | film

I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not Reviewing – Abundant Talent Showcased in Profile of Disgraced SNL Sitcom Champion | film

πŸ’₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Film,Documentary films,Chevy Chase,Saturday Night Live,Comedy,Culture,Television & radio πŸ“Œ 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…
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“TV event of the decade!” It’s your best TV of 2025 | television

“TV event of the decade!” It’s your best TV of 2025 | television

πŸš€ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture πŸ’‘ 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…
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The taste of anger, the status of the goblin… Do the words of the year have any real value? | language

The taste of anger, the status of the goblin… Do the words of the year have any real value? | language

πŸ’₯ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Language,Culture,UK news,Books,Linguistics,Society βœ… 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" – 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…
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‘Life is painful without you’: Cary Elwes and Martin Scorsese pay tribute to Rob Reiner as autopsy reports conclude | film

‘Life is painful without you’: Cary Elwes and Martin Scorsese pay tribute to Rob Reiner as autopsy reports conclude | film

πŸ”₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Film,Culture,Rob Reiner,US news,World news πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll 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.β€œEnough time has passed that I can finally put my grief into words,” Elwes wrote, saying that the first time he met Reiner, 24, he β€œfell…
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Roblox, James Bond and a billion-dollar multiplayer – here are the most-read gaming stories of 2025 | games

Roblox, James Bond and a billion-dollar multiplayer – here are the most-read gaming stories of 2025 | games

✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Games,Culture,Roblox,Sega,Grand Theft Auto πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll 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:…
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“A hell of a lot of fun!” Your favorite podcasts of 2025 | Podcast

“A hell of a lot of fun!” Your favorite podcasts of 2025 | Podcast

✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Podcasts,Television & radio,Culture πŸ’‘ 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…
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Ofcom urged to investigate GB News interview with Trump over claims of inaccuracy | GB News

Ofcom urged to investigate GB News interview with Trump over claims of inaccuracy | GB News

✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: GB News,Ofcom,Regulators,Donald Trump,Television industry,US television,Television,Culture,US news,Media,Television & radio,UK news,World news πŸ’‘ 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 β€œglobal exclusive interview” with the US president in November, in which Trump asserted that human-caused climate change was a β€œhoax,” that London had no-police zones and that the capital had β€œsharia law.”Trump made other claims…
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