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From “The Mummy” by Lee Cronin to Zane: Your Complete Entertainment Guide for Next Week | culture

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🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Checkout: cinemaLee Cronin The MummyOut nowYou may know what a mummy is, but do you know what Lee Cronin is? Let us help: He's the Irish director responsible for the effective indie horror film The Hole in the Ground and the highest-grossing entry in the Evil Dead franchise, Evil Dead Rises. In his version of this horror classic, journalist (Jack Reynor) and his wife (Laia Costa) reunite with their daughter who went missing in the desert eight years…

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Madonna Review: I Feel Free – Album Teaser Offers a Hypnotic Glimpse of a Return to the Roots of the Club Scene | music

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Madonna,Pop and rock 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: RRecent years have not been particularly kind to Madonna. Her tours have been marred by controversy of a very different kind than the scandal she happily courted: In 2024, some disgruntled fans tried to sue her for showing up on stage two hours later than scheduled.Her albums have met with a noticeably mixed reception, selling in increasingly diminishing quantities, each one altering half of what its predecessor did: she dismisses 2012's MDNA and 2015's Rebel Heart as albums she…

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Grayson Perry saw the future for Miroirs No 3: Week in Great Reviews | culture

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💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Grayson Perry has seen the futureChannel 4Summarize in a sentence The artist offers a very insightful - and often terrifying - look at artificial intelligence.What our reviewer said "As always, Perry is the guy you want to question these people." Lucy ManganRead the full reviewFurther reading “World Champion of Personalization” Grayson Perry says he's unfazed by using AI for his businessChoose from the restA Gorilla Story: Told by David AttenboroughNetflixA Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough.…

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Zelda taught me the importance of play — and helped me deal with work, parenting, and grief | culture

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Games 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I I had a complicated relationship with video games when I was a teenager. I clearly loved the Nintendo games I grew up with, wandering through the primary-colored dreamscapes of Super Mario 64 and having the time of my life. But as I grew up and became an ambitious young man in the early 2000s, I started wanting more games, and I wasn't finding it. Many were reckless, juvenile, or unnecessarily violent. A few of them seem to have any He…

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Half Man: Richard Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer is uncomfortably exciting – and downright brutal | television

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Richard Gadd 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: pThe art of suspense in Baby Reindeer was the feeling of watching a monster being born. Comedians who star in their first scripted drama tend to gently base their characters on themselves, prodding their vulnerabilities without doing appropriate damage — but Richard Gadd torched that safety net by portraying his own experience of being stalked, along with other, darker moments of victimhood, with an honesty that was a violation.On screen and in his old real life, Gad's helpless admirer,…

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Questionable career move: how Claudia Winkelmann’s show ended the presenter’s winning streak | television

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,BBC,Claudia Winkleman,Television & radio,Culture,Graham Norton,Timothée Chalamet,Matthew McConaughey,BBC One,Media,Television industry ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SNine weeks ago, before Claudia Winkleman launched her talk show on BBC One on Friday night, media profiles regularly referred to her “Midas touch” in television formats. She has left one gold programme, moving away from Strictly Come Dancing, but her portfolio still includes three other winners: the hugely successful The Traitors, a popular BBC show, and Channel 4's The Piano.After six sofa conversations, Winckelmann hasn't quite suffered the fate of the mythical…

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Can a new biopic change your mind about Michael Jackson? | Michael Jackson

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Michael Jackson,Music,Michael Jackson trial,Culture,Film,Musicals,Musicals,Pop and rock,US crime,Janet Jackson,Lynn Nottage,Leaving Neverland,Miles Teller 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In December 1993, Michael Jackson’s genitals were photographed by the Santa Barbara county sheriff’s department and the Los Angeles police department (LAPD). The pop music titan had been accused of sexually abusing Jordan Chandler, a 13-year-old boy who had accompanied Jackson on his Dangerous world tour and regularly shared a bed with the singer. Chandler had made a drawing of distinctive markings and blotches on Jackson’s crotch which matched the photos, law…

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The story of black British music is writ large in the first exhibition at the V&A East| Exhibitions

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Exhibitions,V&A,Museums,Art and design,Black British culture,Music,Culture,London,England,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Jacqueline Springer stands in the middle of the Victoria and Albert Museum's new exhibition space and looks wistfully at a pair of drain pipe trousers, a tailored suit jacket and a pig hat, creating the unmistakable silhouette of Pauline Black, lead singer of the group 2 Tone the Selector.Springer is the curator of the Victoria and Albert East Museum's inaugural exhibition, 'Music is Black', a historical survey of black British music, which opens this weekend. It starts…

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No generation is safe from the nostalgia industry – just look at the disappointing Malcolm in the Middle reboot | Johan Koshy

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Disney+,Media,US news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOne day in the near future, millennials like me will move into nursing homes. Once we're in, what will we do to pass the time? Narrative podcasts from the 2000s will likely be beamed into our bedrooms as the evening approaches, with early albums by Arctic Monkeys and Strokes available on demand. Paperbacks about the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and the disappearance of flight MH370 will line the bookshelves. In the TV room, the struggle for the remote…

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Michael Jackson’s film is set to be a controversial success

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💥 Explore this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: However, these allegations remain part of Jackson's life story, complicating the attempt to turn his life into a nine-figure Hollywood blockbuster. But given the pop star's current demand, he's likely to be a hit, too. Industry analysts expect Michael to be even bigger than Bohemian Rhapsody.worldwideMichael is produced by Graham King, who had a huge hit with Bohemian RhapsodyIf King had any initial doubts about the wisdom of giving Jackson the "Bohemian Odyssey" treatment, those doubts may have been dispelled by his soaring popularity since…

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