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Review by Euan Uglow – No wonder Cherie Blair hasn’t been a model for long, these pictures are exhausting just to look at | Art and design

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Art,Painting,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: eThey say Wanoglu is an artist's artist, and therein lies the problem. If you approach his effortful paintings out of curiosity—how to build form, capture precise perspective, proportions—I can see how her visual works (intricate little dashes, crosses, vertical lines, geometric grids) would be inspiring. But many of us come to art to be inspired, moved, and felt. Despite their artistry, Uglow's 70-plus paintings in Gallery MK leave me cold.Flashes of Life... Marigolds, 1969. Photo: © Property of Ivanoglu. All…

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Deftones Review – Metal veterans sound exceptionally fresh in 38 years | Deftones

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Deftones,Music,Culture,Metal 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: eIn the early 2000s metal is enjoying a resurgence, but that alone cannot explain the surge in business fortunes enjoyed by Deftones. Thirty-one years after the release of their first album, they find themselves, as singer Chino Moreno says, “literally bigger than we ever were.” Between the release of 2020's Ohms and last year's special, Spotify's monthly listener numbers rose from 2 million to 17 million. So the 15,000 capacity venue where they open their UK tour is growing.The reason, inevitably, is…

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Arundhati Roy is right, not Wim Wenders – here are eight films that changed politics | film

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Wim Wenders,Berlin film festival,Culture,Festivals,A Fantastic Woman,Female genital mutilation (FGM),Homelessness,Post Office Horizon scandal,Arundhati Roy,Books,Health,Housing,Post Office,Communities,Poverty,Society,UK news,Social exclusion,Business ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SShould film festivals be more than just screenings and a red carpet? Should it make us think about the role that cinema plays in the world? Novelist Arundhati Roy certainly thinks so. She withdrew from appearing at the Berlinale in protest against jury president Wim Wenders' claim that films should "stay apolitical". She said Wenders' position was "unreasonable" and that he "must be heard". [him] To…

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Bad Bunny had his first top 10 single in the UK thanks to a Super Bowl boost Bad bunny

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Bad Bunny,UK charts,Pop and rock,Music,Culture,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Despite being one of the most listened to musicians in the world, Bad Bunny has never had a Top 10 single in the UK – until now.The Puerto Rican musician attracted a slew of curious new fans — and previously thrilled fans — after last week's Super Bowl, performing a halftime show that many described as one of the greatest performances in NFL history.His album Debí Tirar Más Fotos - which won Album of the Year at…

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Review All Digs Bill Evans – Delve into the turbulent world of the great jazz man | film

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Drama films,Biopics,Bill Evans,Jazz,Period and historical films,Berlin film festival,Culture,Festivals,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TElusive, ruminative and highly entertaining, his film presents its successive scenes like a series of unresolved strings carrying the listener on a destinationless journey – and is, incidentally, one of those rare films with a great supporting role that neither undermines nor overrides the rest. It's a movie about music. In particular, what is left when a musician can no longer play and is left to contemplate the terrible sacrifices that are made, without conscious…

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“His favorite book was by Jordan Peterson, which was a huge hit”: How Books Perform on Dating Apps | books

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Ben Lerner,Sheila Heti,Annie Ernaux,Jordan Peterson,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'HeyOne of my detailed prompts is: "What's the best book you've read this year?" “I swipe left on anyone who says a book I don't like,” says 29-year-old Ayo*. “Someone once responded with a book by Jordan Peterson, which was a huge shock.”It's a straightforward take on romance, but IU is far from alone. Books have long served as a cultural shorthand for personality—cues of taste and worldview—but dating apps have accelerated and intensified that process. In…

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Prayer for Death Review – The Pandemic West Feels Like a Short Stretch Over a Long Time | Berlin Film Festival 2026

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Berlin film festival 2026,Film,Westerns,Period and historical films,John C Reilly,Johnny Flynn,Film adaptations,Books,Culture,Music,Berlin film festival,Festivals 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: THere's some highly orchestrated image-making and mood-making in this technically accomplished but unsatisfying drama from first-time Norway resident Dara van Dusen. It's a bleak tale of the American Old West, adapted by Dawson from Stuart O'Nan's novel, and somehow feels like a short film shot at length. His visual gestures and set pieces, while striking and often shocking, felt to me disconnected from any emotional truth – a truth perhaps…

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Sunny Dancer Review – ‘Chemo Camp’ Gives Teen Drama a New Twist | film

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Berlin film festival,Culture,Festivals,Bella Ramsey,Cancer,Drama films,Young people 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: forElla Ramsey leads the cast of this beloved coming-of-age film from 25-year-old actor-turned-director George Jack, about a summer camp for teens with cancer. Although it can sometimes be a bit cheery in its positivity, and unrealistic about the life-changing experiences that can be had at a camp like this or any other, it is kind-hearted, well-acted, and topped off with entertaining star appearances - and for those who think they can spot the "tragic, sacrificial" character in…

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Review of No Good Men – A smart and urgent Afghan romance | Berlin Film Festival 2026

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Berlin film festival 2026,Berlin film festival,Festivals,Culture,Film,Romance films,Drama films,Afghanistan 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TAfghan director Shahrbano Sadat is a warm, approachable presence as writer, director, and star of No Good Men — the story of the women of Afghanistan in 2021 as they are on the verge of surrendering to the Taliban as American forces withdraw. It's an urgent tale, which incidentally ends with a rousing finale reminiscent of Casablanca — though the central shift in the heart of the male hero, which the title gamely refutes, is…

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Crime 101 for the Little Prophets: Week of Enthusiastic Reviews | culture

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Minor ProphetsBBC iPlayerLauren Battle as Casey and Pierce Quigley as Michael in Little Prophets. Image: BBC/Treasure Trove/Blue House ProductionsSummarize in a sentence Mackenzie Crook follows up Detectorists with a brilliant slice of gentle, supernatural-themed comedy about a man's attempts to find out what happened to his girlfriend who disappeared seven years ago.What our reviewer said "Little Prophets is pure, unadulterated fun." Jack SealeRead the full reviewFurther reading “Watching The Office Lately, My Heart Just Sank” -…

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