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Review of Soul to Soul – An exhilarating 1971 musical film depicting the emotional return of black American stars to Ghana | film

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Music documentary,Tina Turner,Ghana,Africa,Culture,Music,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThis lively and memorable documentary, now restored, comes from Oscar-winning but somewhat overlooked filmmaker Dennis Sanders, made just a year after his acclaimed 1970 film Elvis: That's the Way It Is, about Elvis Presley in Las Vegas. Soul to Soul is a recording of an epic Independence Day concert in Accra, Ghana, in 1971, by American and Ghanaian musicians. Ghana was chosen because it was the first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence from Britain. The American band…

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10cc Review – 70s legends remake a dazzling series of pop classics | 10 cc

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: 10cc,Music,Pop and rock,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 10cc provided some of the most innovative pop music of the 1970s: melodic constructions that combined glam rock, art rock, rock 'n' roll, and doo-wop with surreal, Monty Pythonesque lyrics. Life was described as "minestrone", and death as "cold lasagna, served with parmesan cheese". Sadly, their golden career took a jolt when Kevin Godley and Lol Cream left in 1976 to become a hugely successful duo, with co-founder Eric Stewart heading for the exit almost two decades later.Today, all that…

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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Tommy Shelby returns for a muddy and bloody showdown on the big screen | film

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Crime films,Period and historical films,Peaky Blinders,Cillian Murphy,Rebecca Ferguson,Barry Keoghan,Birmingham,Roma, Gypsies and Travellers,Culture,Television & radio,UK news,World news,Second world war ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AAfter six TV series from 2013 to 2022, which caused an alarming rise in the wearing of flat caps among well-to-do men in country pubs, Peaky Blinders is now getting a huge independent feature film, a muscle picture drenched in mud and blood. This is the film version of Steven Knight's international small-screen hit, based on the real gangs who roamed Birmingham from the Victorian…

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Review of The Legend of Davy Mackenzie – Butch, Sundance and the Final Cinematic Farewell | stage

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Comedy,Comedy,Traverse theatre ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TIts title is ridiculous. There is nothing legendary about Davy Mackenzie. Barely out of prison after serving time for possession, the fictional hero of this lunchtime play ends up dead, having scored a batch of tainted drugs. It was three days before anyone noticed.This may seem like a spoiler, but it happens surprisingly early in a play that's not so much about a worthless death as it is about a meaningful life. Surviving is his cellmate and childhood friend Sean Molloy,…

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Ministry of Time Book Review by Kalyan Bradley – A time-travelling, thematic love story | Audio books

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💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Audiobooks,Books,Fiction 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe Ministry of Time opens in the middle of a job interview. The applicant, an unidentified Cambodian-British civil servant, is a candidate for a position that involves working with expatriates with “high profile and special needs”. When she asks where these expatriates come from, she is told: “History.” “We have time travel,” the interviewer adds casually.Listeners interested in the practicalities of this time-traveling tale will be reassured by the protagonist's observation that contemplating physics leads to a "trap of nonsense," so it's…

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The Manningtree Witches review – Ava Beckett’s engaging follow-up to Tudor hit 1536 | stage

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✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Fiction,Books 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'I“It doesn't matter what's true,” a teenager tells us after giving testimony about witchcraft against a group of women including her mother. What matters, she says, is “what is written.” It's advice passed down to Rebecca (Lucy Mangan) from her indomitable mother, Anne (Gina Isaacs), in this play by Ava Beckett from A. K. Blackmore's award-winning 2021 novel. What's been written about in the true case of the Manningtree witch trials of 1645 is minimal when it comes to the Essex women…

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Even in these depressing times, Love Is Blind is a very depressing TV show | Reality TV

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Reality TV,Netflix,Television,Television & radio,Culture,US television 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn this corrupt year, 2026, there is no shortage of things to frustrate us: domestic terrorism by federal agents, war, the dominance of artificial intelligence, and Super Bowl sports betting ads. The Epstein Files. FIFA Peace Prize. Six more weeks of winter. The need for escape, catharsis, or both is more urgent than ever. However, what frustrated me most, in the low-stakes “I can actually wrap my head around this” way, was the pinnacle of escapist entertainment: the…

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From Mulder and Scully to Marge and Homer: Your Favorite TV Couples | television

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Drama,The X-Files,Fleabag,The Simpsons,Star Trek,Gavin & Stacey,Heated Rivalry,Animation on TV 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Miss Piggy and Kermit -Puppet showThe sign of true romance is that a couple is closer than anyone else in the world. As Emily Brontë said: “Whatever our souls are, they are our souls and souls.” This applies to Miss Piggy and Kermit. Their relationship has been longer than most TV couples (since 1976), although it has been turbulent. No matter the universe, from Dickens' London to Treasure Island to their various…

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Paddington and Into the Woods compete for 11 Olivier Awards each | Olivier Awards

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Olivier awards,Stage,Theatre,Culture,Awards and prizes,West End,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Michael Bond's jam-loving teddy bear will face off against a host of fictional characters at next month's Olivier Awards, with two musicals dominating the nominations announced on Thursday.The front-runners for London's biggest theater awards are Paddington: The Musical and Into the Woods, which each received 11 nominations. Paddington, which opened to five-star reviews at the Savoy Theater, is nominated for Best New Musical, Best Director (Luke Sheppard), Best Theater Choreographer (Ellen Keane) and Best Actor in a…

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Black Ballet in 25 Reviews – A dazzling double bill brings resistance and hope | Dance

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance,Ballet Black,Ballet,Culture,Stage,Royal Opera House ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's been 25 years since the indomitable Ballet Black company was founded, and to mark the occasion they're treating us to a very good double bill. The company generally commissions works from outside choreographers, but here it blows its own trumpet by bringing to life a great score by one of their own – Ingoma (2019) by Mthuthuzile November, who has since continued to work on an international scale.It doesn't take long to figure out why this piece…

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