π Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Prisons and probation,Southwark Playhouse,Men π Main takeaway: A A decade ago, playwright Evan Blassie explored the complex pressures on young women in the play Girls Like That. While this searing drama was a stress test for a high school fraternity, Life concerns a similarly unstable fraternity of older men navigating the hallways of their own institution. Lenny (Peter White), Baxter (Ricky Fearon) and Norton (Sam Cox) are long-term prisoners who we first meet in Playing Cards. As their game progresses, it becomes clear that each of them…
β¨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Art,Art and design,Culture π‘ Key idea: DAnna Schutz decorates her canvases with thick blobs of sticky paint. The American artist's first real exhibition in London is a joyful and orgy celebration of her material, but there are some big messages smuggled in if you can slog your way through them.Schutz's approachβwhich has earned her acclaim as one of the most important visual artists of her generationβis about surface, brushstrokes, color, and materiality. It's a painter's painting, real stuff with a high level of artistry. If you…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Drama films,Film adaptations,Colin Farrell,Tilda Swinton,China,Macau,Gambling,Asia Pacific,Books,Culture,Society,World news π‘ Key idea: TThe vast emptiness of luxury hotels is part of the mystery and spectacle of Edward Berger's intriguing and intriguing psychodrama; It is about a desperate adventurer and gambling addict, who faces the metaphysical crisis of renewing or canceling his existence by betting everything on a single bet. Screenwriter Rowan Joffe adapts the 2014 novel by Lawrence Osborne, with an ironic title. He wouldn't have had these problems if he were a really young player. He's a big…
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Key idea: II've never met a billionaire before. This is not the way I imagined things would go. Don't get me wrong: His brightly lit Manhattan office is nice, but not unusual. The pipes are very hot. As his assistant leads me into the conference room, I'm pretty sure I can see the discarded paper plates of pizza slices sticking out of the kitchen basket. In other words, it's like most workplaces in the city.I'm here to interview Jim McKelvey, someone Forbes will…
π Explore this awesome post from BBC Culture π π Category: π‘ Key idea: As MTV takes its last breath, closing its last music channels in the UK, it's strange to look back to the days when multiple TV channels broadcast music videos for hours every day, but gave rise to pop as a product in the 2000s and the era of influencers in which we now find ourselves. Artists are meant to be seen while being heard. Not every artist was drawn to gravity at that time. Some made their videos weird or humorous, like Busta Rhymes' clips or…
β¨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Games,Culture,Action games,Battlefield,Shooting games π Hereβs what youβll learn: AAnd so Battlefield is back. The long-running military shooter series, which specializes in massive multiplayer online conflicts involving dozens of ground troops, tanks and aircraft, is back for its sixth major installment β ββand it's exciting, epic and compelling.Aside from the single player campaign mode, which I absolutely hated. It's another all-too-familiar tale of supernaturally gifted soldiers just doing their jobs to defend the free world from evil private military companies, terrorist organizations, or CIA double agents. It…
π₯ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Daniel Day-Lewis,London film festival 2025,Film,Culture,Acting,Stage π Key idea: Actor Daniel Day-Lewis criticized the decision to keep audiences out of cinemas, and what he saw as a continuing disdain for UK cinema at an event at the London Film Festival.Speaking to critic Mark Kermode for a lengthy talk in front of an audience at the BFI Southbank, Day-Lewis said he felt "there is still an elitism in this country that theater is the superior form". His dramatic training at the Bristol Old Vic School encouraged him to feel…
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Key idea: yourAtherine Moar's gripping drama is inspired by American heiress Patty Hearst who served a prison sentence for a bank robbery organized by the far-left guerrilla group, the Symbionese Liberation Army. The group had kidnapped her months earlier and in court testimony she told how she was locked in a closet and raped during captivity.This memory play traces the aftermath of such a case through a fictional encounter between heiress Holly (Abigail Cruttenden) and the lawyer Robert (Nathaniel Parker) who lost…
π₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Architecture,Art and design,Football,Sport,Culture,The RIBA,Liverpool,Tate Liverpool,Design,Art,UK news π Key idea: forOne day, an ailing Shankly, a man so beloved by Liverpool that there is now a hotel in the city bearing his name, said: βSome people think football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed in that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.βInevitably, Shankly appears in Home Ground, an exciting new exhibition about the architecture and social culture of football grounds. The legendary manager was pictured enjoying the…
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Hereβs what youβll learn: RReaders of a certain age will remember the massive nuclear impact of Michael Mann's Heat upon its release in 1995. The film was not only officially ambitious and hugely influential, but it also marked the first time Al Pacino and Robert De Niro shared the screen.This, more than anything else, was the film's big draw. Two men, each believed to be the greatest actor of all time in the medium, battle against each other in real time. Their…
