✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,The Beatles,Sam Mendes,Happy Valley,Music,Culture,Television & radio ✅ Key idea: Happy Valley star James Norton is reportedly set to play the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, in Sam Mendes' four-film biopic of the band.According to Deadline, Norton will play Epstein, who discovered the Beatles in 1961 and served as their manager until his death in 1967. No details have been officially revealed, and Sony's Hollywood studio, which produces the films, has not commented.Mendes' ambitious project, consisting of four solo films each focusing on a different band member, was announced…
💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture 💡 Main takeaway: Iris issue9pm, Sky AtlanticThere's a propulsive opening to Niamh Algar and Tom Hollander's cat-and-mouse film. Iris Nixon (Algar) is an elusive puzzle-solving genius who is invited by businessman Cameron Beck (Hollander) to solve her biggest mystery yet: an amazing piece of technology with terrifying powers. But when Iris finds the device's activation sequence, she escapes with it - and an action-packed chase across Italy ensues. Holly RichardsonClassic Movies: The Story of the 39 Steps8 p.m., Sky Arts“If you need to defend…
✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Music,D'Angelo,Soul,R&B,Culture ✅ Main takeaway: Lady (1995)D'Angelo burst onto the scene in 1995 with his debut album (Brown Sugar) that effectively rearranged our music palette, awakening memories of our parents' living rooms where the stereo was always plugged in to Stevie, Marvin, Smokey and company. What made Brown Sugar such a seismic jolt in the '90s R&B scene though was a smoldering sensuality filled with the undercurrents of unflappable hip-hop. Hardworking and loyal tool; And an infectious commitment to the art of endless jam. The Lady is…
🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Christmas shows,Theatre,Musicals,Comedy,Comedy,Culture,Stage,Christmas,Dance,Children's theatre 💡 Main takeaway: Ebony curmudgeonSadler's Wells East, London, From November 26th to January 4th Choreographer Dannielle Rhimes Lecointe brings a hip-hop-style twist to A Christmas Carol with a family-friendly story about a fashion designer who cancels Christmas to focus on her career. Presenting a united festive front, Sadler's Wells is also bringing back The Snowman, The Red Shoes and The Little Match Girl.beauty and the beastcitizens, glasgow, From 2 to 31 DecemberThe Gorbals Theater looks even more beautiful after its seven-year renovation, and…
🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Prisons and probation,Southwark Playhouse,Men 📌 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…
✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Art,Art and design,Culture 💡 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 approach—which has earned her acclaim as one of the most important visual artists of her generation—is about surface, brushstrokes, color, and materiality. It's a painter's painting, real stuff with a high level of artistry. If you…
💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Drama films,Film adaptations,Colin Farrell,Tilda Swinton,China,Macau,Gambling,Asia Pacific,Books,Culture,Society,World news 💡 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…
✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Documentary,Cryptocurrencies ✅ 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…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 Category: 💡 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…
✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Games,Culture,Action games,Battlefield,Shooting games 📌 Here’s what you’ll 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 – and 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…
