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I’ll also be back as Conan: Arnold Schwarzenegger to direct third barbarian movie 44 years after the original | Arnold Schwarzenegger

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Arnold Schwarzenegger,Film,Culture,US news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to the role that launched him as a movie star in the belated third installment of the Conan the Barbarian film series. The original film, released in 1982 and adapted from the novels by Robert E. Howard, saw the then-bodybuilder play the chivalrous sword-wielder on his quest for revenge on James Earl Jones' cult leader, Thulsa Doom.Spoiling the fight scenes... Schwarzenegger in 2024. Photography: Lisa Johansen - ReutersSchwarzenegger (78 years old), whose acting work has slowed…

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Ryan Gosling’s space epic is ‘mind-stretching sci-fi’ ★★★★☆

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Fortunately, he's not completely alone. It turns out that another spacecraft on the same mission is from a different planet, and also has only one living occupant, a crab-like alien made of blocks of stone (a puppet, with some digital tweaking). Playful Rocky, as Grace calls him, builds a passage between the two ships, and Grace learns to talk to her through his computer, which can translate his R2D2-ish voice into English (master puppeteer, James Ortiz, provides his hilarious voice). Interplanetary chat is a…

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‘It’s a big hairy epic’: a brilliant remake of one of the biggest TV dramas of all time | television

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Books,Barbara Taylor Bradford,Culture,Television & radio,Channel 4 ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SSomewhere in the moors of West Yorkshire is what the team behind Woman of Substance has dubbed a 'sex cave'. Here the heroine, Emma Hart, loses her virginity in the new film adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford. “It's hidden and beautiful,” says show host Katherine Jeckways. "The lighting there almost looks like artificial intelligence, but it's real. Strangely enough, it's about a mile from my mother-in-law's house. And I haven't told her yet that it's a…

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Twisted Yoga: How the Search for Enlightenment Turned into a Dangerous Cult | documentary

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Documentary,Factual TV,Television,Culture,Television & radio,Yoga,Rape and sexual assault,Apple TV 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: pPracticing yoga has its benefits: meditative calm, stability, and balance. Devotees pursue transformative spiritual journeys, through poses, chants and breathwork. Some followers of Tantra Yoga take things further, using sensuality to channel their energy and reach beyond themselves, seeking bodily liberation and enlightenment.But it is this very endeavor that has left hundreds vulnerable to alleged rape and trafficking.These crimes are chronicled and explored in Apple's new Twisted Yoga series. Former followers of the Movement for…

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You Learn Review – Drama A faith-filled autism journey sets out to find a connection between father and son | film

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Drama films,Autism,Comedy films,Comedy,Culture,Society 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AAnyone with autism or close to someone with the condition may feel inclined to tolerate this family drama about a father and his autistic son, given its call for acceptance and love. But this is very bad, ill-considered and full of contradictory religious messages, and it is a difficult thing to go through. However, if you feel that watching it is almost a charity in itself (obviously some of the proceeds will go to support caregivers), admire this if…

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Why Battle After Battle Should Win the Best Picture Oscar | Oscars 2026

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars 2026,Film,Culture,Oscars,Paul Thomas Anderson,Leonardo DiCaprio,Teyana Taylor,Sean Penn,Awards and prizes 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Viva la Revolution And don't forget your password, your pronouns, your plaid, and your gun. "Battle After Battle," from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, is the rebellious rebel insider in this year's Oscar race; A stunning Hollywood spectacle of the state of the nation that feels as disjointed and unstable as the country it depicts. The film both hates America and loves it. He is on the side of the angels even when they are…

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Capture Review – This thrilling return of the deepfake conspiracy thriller is packed with truly outrageous twists | television

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Indira Varma,Paapa Essiedu ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toLast month, The Guardian reported on a police arrest in Southampton. Automated facial recognition software has identified the likely perpetrator of a robbery 100 miles away in Milton Keynes; The cops had a photo of the thief, and now they've found a match. The problem was not only that the arrested man was not the real culprit, but that apart from being of South Asian descent, the two men did not look alike. Only one had a beard,…

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TV TONIGHT: Sharon D. Clarke returns as the formidable DCI Ellis | television

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✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Sharon D Clarke,I Swear,Robert Aramayo 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ellis9pm on Channel 5“It's all about hiding evidence in plain sight – it's the Godfather move.” Sharon De Clarke returns as the formidable DCI Ellis, who parachutes into rural northern England to solve botched cases, accompanied by DS Chet Harper (Andrew Gower). Their first murder is that of a respected village businessman, but it turns out that many of the locals hold a secret grudge against him. Holly RichardsonOrganize your life with Stacy Solomon8pm, BBC OneOver…

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Gus Van Sant: ‘My assistant wanted to erect a statue of Luigi Mangione. My generation thought: This is murder’ | film

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Gus Van Sant,Crime films,Thrillers,Culture,US crime 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn February 1977, a middle-aged businessman from Indianapolis named Tony Kiritsis held hostage an employee of a local mortgage brokers, who he was convinced had conned him out of the profits from a piece of real estate. Kyritsis decided that the system was stacked against the little man, and he would be the one to push it. He tied one end of the wire to the trigger of the gun, and the other to the hostage's head, and…

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The review is over – the most interesting drama we will see this year | TV and radio

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,David Morrissey 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WThe hat is gone? Maybe it's easier to list things that no longer exist, if only to give ourselves something to cling to when familiar trappings start to waver, fault lines appear and it all starts to slide into a pit of churning anxiety.So! Some of the things that are no longer there: a sitcom, a musical, a cooking show by sockless men with ham-like forearms, something about whales, Richard Osman's House of Games. Yes, George "Hijack" Kay's six-part…

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