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The first trailer for the Western version of Val Kilmer’s AI-starring Western version has been released film

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Val Kilmer,AI (artificial intelligence),Technology,Film industry 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A trailer has been released for the first film starring an AI-certified version of a major Hollywood actor.Val Kilmer was cast in the Western film As Deep As the Grave before his death in April 2025. Production delays meant that no scenes were ever filmed, but the creative team worked with UK-based company Sonantic to create an AI speaking voice based on his old recordings.His estate and daughter Mercedes collaborated with filmmakers on a visual deepfake of the…

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Big Mood season 2 review – Nicola Coughlan’s hugely ambitious comedy becomes a farce | television

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThe second part of the title of Camilla Whitehill's Channel 4 comedy-drama is a reference to mood disorders. Bipolar, to be precise—the condition her heroine Maggie was diagnosed with. The first part is a reference to almost everything else. Big Mood tackles big topics and chases big laughs. There are big adventures, big gestures, and big cameos. It's an undeniable ambition, but does it all add up to something truly meaningful? It may be difficult to know.The first series…

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Avenue Q Review – The Provocative Dolls Return for a Feast of Filth and Fun | stage

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Puppetry,West End,Comedy,Comedy,Culture,Stage ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: THe sounded a warning that "doll nudity" doesn't begin to cover it. You'll also see the dolls having sex, sing about being "a bit racist" and happily admit to having pornographic tendencies.The gentle subversion of Q Street, 20, is back Years after these once-feeling obscure Sesame Street wannabes stormed the West End. The Tony Award-winning musical from Robert Lopez and Jeff Marks is not exactly shocking now but it is very entertaining as these creatures (plus some humans) fall in love,…

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The power of the Dunst: Kirsten’s best film performances – ranked! | Kirsten Dunst

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Kirsten Dunst,Film,Lars von Trier,Culture,Jesse Plemons ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: An elegant, sun-soaked Patricia Highsmith adaptation with fine work from Viggo Mortensen as a con man and Dunst as his wife, holidaying in early 1960s Athens when they meet an American tour guide (Oscar Isaac). It seems tantalisingly unclear at first whether his designs are on the chirpy young bride or her shady older husband.The opening instalment in Sam Raimi’s trilogy featured that ingenious upside-down kiss, with MJ (Dunst) suggestively unpeeling the mask of Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) as…

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Samuel Haselhorn: Schubert Hoffnung Review – Tingular and Emotional Flexibility in Plenty | classical music

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Music,Culture,Franz Schubert 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: nGerman baritone Samuel Hasselhorn, in his mid-30s, is a key player in a veritable group of talented young singers. His growing recordings include an ongoing series with pianist Emil Puschakewicz, part of Harmonia Mundi's Schubert 200 project to record all of the composer's songs, from 1823 onwards, before the bicentenary of his death in 2028.The year 1826 found Schubert in a positive mood, a torrent of lies reflecting a new sense of optimism. Titled Hoffnung, the German word for hope,…

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Pooh in Pencil: Sketches for the Original Winnie the Pooh Book Shared for the First Time | fee

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Drawing,Children and teenagers,Books,Illustration,Culture,UK news,AA Milne,Exhibitions,Art and design,Art 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Previously unseen drawings of Winnie the Pooh have come to light, showing the honey-loving bear before he was introduced to generations of readers in the 1926 book.Two preliminary pencil drawings by E.H. Shepard have been shared for the first time by his family to mark the centenary of one of the most beloved books in children's literature.Having been abandoned in the early phase of the book's creation, the drawings provide a rare glimpse into Shepherd's working…

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Like a concrete aircraft carrier: Was Los Angeles’ giant new $724 million Expo really worth all the carbon emissions? | Build

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Architecture,Art and design,Culture,Los Angeles,US news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: DWalking along the palm-tree-lined strip of Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, a stunning new crossing appears on the horizon. A ribbon of glass leaps over the road, sandwiched between two giant floors of concrete. As you get closer, the bridge bulges out in sinuous arcs, snapping in on itself to carve a shape-shifting amoeboid dot, spreading like an inkblot. From some angles, it has a retro-futuristic atmosphere, reminiscent of a Jetsons airport terminal, or one of those "Googie"-style…

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Phil Ellis: Bath Mat Review – Taskmaster goof celebrates his middle-aged failures | comedy

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Stage,Comedy,Culture,Taskmaster 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: pHale Ellis was watching the Netflix specials, and noticed that all of the stand-up alpha shows now have a hype guy hyping them up before the show. Here, then, is his own version, a fellow Northerner (comedian Tom Short) rattling off a list of Ellis' unaccomplished accomplishments in a threadbare American accent, punctuated by gunshot sound effects and an air horn. The modest success of Taskmaster doesn't surprise Ellis: With his new show, he continues to revel in the failures and trivialities…

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DJ Shadow: “Kraftwerk is a touchstone for every stage of my career” | DJ Shadow

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: DJ Shadow,Music,Hip-hop,Electronic music,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Can you share any regrets or missed opportunities from your career? nnagewadIn 1999, Deftones approached me to work on White Pony, but I had just come off Unkle's Psyence Fiction album. I was nurturing the image and reputation of hip-hop, so I was wary of working with anything that seemed too alternative or rock-oriented. So I missed being part of a nice album. I wouldn't say I regret it, necessarily, because I feel like my rationale was sound, but it…

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The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Besant Audiobook Review – Reflections on Nature and Belonging | books

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Poetry,Autobiography and memoir ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AAn award-winning poet living in Roundhay Park, Leeds, Jason Allen Besant spent his early childhood living with his grandmother in Coffee Grove, a mountainous rural area of ​​Jamaica that was cut off from basic amenities such as electricity and water. He notes that Coffee Grove, through the eyes of a child, was “a small place and a huge planet at the same time.” There he developed a close relationship with the local plant life by climbing trees, picking fruit, and…

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