✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Margaret Atwood,Autobiography and memoir,Fiction,Science fiction books,Booker prize 2019,Booker prize 2000,Books,Culture ✅ Main takeaway: Margaret Atwood is doing her grocery shopping in her local supermarket in Toronto, and it is taking longer than usual. This is not because The Handmaid’s Tale author turns 86 this month, but because she is checking the provenance of every item before it goes in her trolley: California satsumas out; Canada spuds in. Atwood is a passionate environmentalist, but at the moment she is more worried about boycotting anything that comes from over the border…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games 📌 Main takeaway: Checkout: cinemaBugoniaOut nowYorgos Lanthimos, one of the fiercest directors of the 21st century, returns with something you might not expect from him: a remake. But this is not a Hollywood record amount. It's a dark comedy that sees Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons go to some really crazy places in the story of two conspiracy theorists who kidnap a CEO.relayOut nowRiz Ahmed plays the man you call when a dodgy company and an individual with the power to expose…
🚀 Check out this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: It was released on November 26 in the United States, November 28 in Turkey and Taiwan, and December 12 in the United Kingdom and Ireland.Netflix11. Dead Man's Wake: A Knives MysteryDaniel Craig dons his tailored suit and extravagant Southern accent once again in Rian Johnson's Knives Out Whodunits III. The setting this time is a country church in upstate New York. The new vicar (Josh O'Connor) clashes with a fire-and-brimstone preacher (Josh Brolin) and several hostile parishioners, including a church caretaker (Glenn Close),…
💥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Books,Film,Culture,Biography books,Fiction,LGBTQ+ rights 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered at around midnight on 2 November 1975. His blood-soaked body was found the next morning on waste ground in Ostia, on the outskirts of Rome, battered so badly the famous face was almost unrecognisable. Italy’s premier intellectual, artist, provocateur, national conscience, homosexual, dead at the age of 53, his scandalous final film still in the editing suite. “Assassinato Pasolini,” the next morning’s papers announced, alongside photographs of the 17-year-old accused of his murder. Everyone…
💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Music,Documentary,Factual TV,Pop and rock,All Saints,Little Mix,Sugababes 📌 Main takeaway: gEarlbands, then. Glittering icons of empowerment or Pygmalion projects for middle-aged men in A&R? Here's a radical idea – both. Two becomes one, my dear. That's the feeling from Girlbands Forever (Saturday, 9:20 p.m., BBC Two), the Louis Theroux-produced documentary that charts the fortunes of 90s bands like All Saints, Eternal, Atomic Kitten, Mis-Teeq and even 2000s stars Little Mix. If this lineup speaks to your older millennial soul the way it speaks to mine, then…
💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Stage,Culture,Theatre,Dance,Musicals,Folk music,Music,Kate Prince,Orange Tree theatre,Henrik Ibsen,Tanika Gupta,Ballet,National Theatre,Political theatre,Flamenco ✅ Main takeaway: The Unlikely Pilgrimage by Harold FryWhen Rachel Joyce's best-selling book about a retiree's road trip was made into a film in 2023, it contained a number of great numbers by Sam Lee. Earlier this year, his colleague Folke Basinger (aka Michael David Rosenberg) provided the music and lyrics for the Chichester Festival stage production, which will move to the West End in January. Passenger's song album, One for the Road — with some tracks…
✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Drama films,John Simm,Andrew Lincoln,Marc Warren,Culture,Stevenage,Television & radio,UK news 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: IIt can be fascinating to see the early work of well-known actors, and in this British drama from 1995, we see John Simm (Life on Mars), Andrew Lincoln (The Walking Dead), and Mark Warren (Hustle), all of whom show early promise as young people in their late teens trying to figure out what to do with their lives. There's also a sad feeling watching actors who had as much potential but didn't enjoy…
💥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television & radio,Culture 📌 Main takeaway: Girl gangs forever9.20pm, BBC2From the highs of world domination to the lows of tabloid bullying, insiders tell the story of girl groups' ups and downs. While the Spice Girls were enjoying massive commercial success, Eternal and All Saints were sticking to their roots for the No. 1 spot - but there was a dark truth behind it all. Kelly Bryan remembers her diet was controlled and Melanie Platt says her manager told her and Nicole Appleton to "abort our babies." Sarah…
🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Music,Pop and rock,Metal,Punk,Classical music,Experimental music,Film,Horror films,Horror (TV),Television,Television & radio,Culture,John Carpenter,Herbie Hancock,Nick Cave,Ethel Cain ✅ Key idea: Cosey Fanni TuttiBernard Herrmann – The Murder (1960)Scary music actually excites me, but the piece that most sends shivers down my spine is the music in the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho. I’ve seen it numerous times and even though I know what’s coming, the stabbing knife synched with Bernard Herrmann’s score always freaks me out.More recently, I went through a phase of watching Japanese and Korean horror…
🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Classical music,Music,Culture 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: THis delightful release on the Leipzig-based Accentus label is a reminder that the Royal Opera's new music director, Jakob Harsha, has excelled over the past nine years in orchestral music as principal conductor of the Bamberg Symphony. The program brings together three works composed in the last decades of the nineteenth century, each of which reflects in different ways the concept of the hero, or what is meant by the hero's journey.“Hero’s Song” was Dvořák’s final tone poem, a 20-minute…
