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Shock therapy: Why scary movies keep getting better – and making money Horror movies

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Horror films,Film,Culture,Hereditary,Sinners,Midsommar,M3gan,The Babadook,The Blair Witch Project,Get Out,The Witch 💡 Main takeaway: Every week at your local movie theater, there's a new horror movie. If a movie isn't a reboot (I Know What You Did Last Summer) or a sequel (Final Destination Strains), it's a prequel (The First Omen; A Quiet Place: Day One), the return of a beloved gothic icon (Luc Besson's Dracula: A Love Story; Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein), or a horror movie (Dangerous Animals) in which the psycho killer's weapon of choice is not.…

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A statue of Renee Zellweger as Bridget Jones unveiled in London | film

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Bridget Jones' Diary,Bridget Jones's Baby,Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy,Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason,Culture,Renée Zellweger,Helen Fielding,Eric Fellner,Film industry,London,Books 💡 Main takeaway: Bridget Jones, the character created by Helen Fielding and played by Renée Zellweger in four films, will be immortalized in bronze in central London.The new statue will be unveiled on November 17, and will join a number of others depicting major cinema icons in Leicester Square, home to four cinemas and numerous red carpet premieres.This news was first reported by Deadline's Baz Bamigboye, who spoke…

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This Isn’t the Show You’re Looking For: Why Disney Was Right to Dump Adam Driver’s Ben Solo Movie | film

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Star Wars,Adam Driver,Steven Soderbergh,Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,Culture ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: Disney gets a lot of stick when it comes to Star Wars. Ever since the Mouse House bought Lucasfilm for $4 billion in 2012, there have been those who blame the studio for turning George Lucas's legendary space opera into an endless content farm.But let's give them credit where it's due: According to a new Associated Press interview with Adam Driver, Disney at least had the presence of mind to politely decline a…

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What’s in a name? West End casting directors raise concerns about direction of big stars | stage

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,West End,Culture,Stage,Ncuti Gatwa,Alicia Vikander,Susan Sarandon,Paul Mescal,Nicola Coughlan,London,UK news 💡 Main takeaway: From Ncuti Gatwa in Born With Teeth to Alicia Vikander in The Lady From the Sea and Susan Sarandon in Mary Page Marlowe, there is no shortage of star celebrities being cast for the West End at the moment.It's a phenomenon that's happening in subsidized theater too: Indhu Rupasingham's inaugural season at the National Theater features the likes of screen favorites Paul Mescal and Nicola Coughlan.But over the past few years, the tendency to cast film…

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Dave: The Boy Who Played the Ukulele Review – It’s Clearer Than Ever What an Amazingly Skilled Rapper He Is | Dave

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Dave,Rap,Hip-hop,Music,Culture 💡 Main takeaway: ADave notes that just minutes into his third album, it was clear he'd been gone "for a couple of summers." Four years separated The Boy Who Played the Harp and his final solo album, the platinum-selling We're All Alone in This Together. Perhaps most surprisingly, it's been two years since he released Split Decision, the collaborative EP with Central Cee that produced Sprinter: not only the longest-running UK rap No. 1 in history, but a track that finally did the thing it…

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It will not be: Hamlet rages in Stockholm against the political closure of a cultural institution | platform

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Stage,Culture,Sweden,Europe,Arts funding,William Shakespeare,Hamlet ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: There is something rotten in Swedish theatre. In front of Elverket Station - a former power station that for much of the past 30 years has been a center for experimental dramatic production in Stockholm - posters proclaim that theater is dead. Inside the former Turbine Hall, on either side of a red chandelier-lit platform surrounded by contorted bodies, Hamlet and Ophelia, played brilliantly by Gustav Lind and Gizem Erdogan, channel the wrath of an entire generation, loudly…

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Solve the mystery of Picasso’s still life painting Pablo Picasso

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Pablo Picasso,Art theft,Art and design,Spain,Art,Europe ✅ Key idea: A small Picasso painting that sparked a police investigation after it apparently disappeared while en route from Madrid to Granada for an exhibition earlier this month may have never moved from its pick-up point, long enough for a still life.Officers from the Spanish National Police began searching for the gouache and pencil works Naturaleza muerta with guitar (Still Life with Guitar) after failing to arrive on a truck transporting a shipment of exhibits on loan from the capital…

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“I Don’t Make It Easy on Myself”: Divorce and the Power of Desire Lily Allen’s Spontaneous Return | Lily Allen

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Lily Allen,Music,Culture,Pop and rock 📌 Key idea: When Lily Allen released her fifth album on Friday morning, there were as many headlines explaining the record's contents as there were actual reviews of the music.The West End Girl storyline, which was surprisingly announced on Monday, appears to relate to the 40-year-old British pop star's divorce from American actor David Harbour, who stars in Netflix's sci-fi series Stranger Things.In interviews, Allen has been careful to liken the album to a work of autofiction, telling British Vogue that it refers…

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The Assembled Party review – Christmas comes early in a raucous family comedy | stage

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Tracy-Ann Oberman ✅ Key idea: forIng Crosby is singing, the goose is resting, and the loud aunt is commenting on everyone's weight: it's enough to make you double check your calendar. It may be October, but there's already a giant Christmas tree in the middle of the Hampstead Playhouse, which James Cottrell's elegant design transformed into an Upper West Side apartment for a non-religious Jewish family gathering for the holidays.Christmas may come early every year, but it may take a while for this one to arrive: this…

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“I hate that they showed my ass in the first scene!” David Duchovny on poems, podcasts – and his TV comeback | television

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Drama,David Duchovny 💡 Main takeaway: HIn the middle of our hour-long conversation, David Duchovny slumps back in his seat a little and then gently rebukes me. “I'm tired while you're talking,” he said with a groan. Honestly, I've been talking a lot, but only because I've been trying to list everything he's been able to do in the past year.There's his podcast, Fail Better, in which he conducts incredibly candid interviews with conservative stars like Alec Baldwin and Robert Downey Jr., more on that later.…

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