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Squeeze: Trixies Review – Finally Completed Debut Album Proves Teenage Dreams Are Hard to Overcome | pressure

Squeeze: Trixies Review – Finally Completed Debut Album Proves Teenage Dreams Are Hard to Overcome | pressure

đź’Ą Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Squeeze,Pop and rock,Music,Culture đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: IIn interviews to promote their 16th studio album, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook have been frank about the reason for its existence. After the world mocked The Knowledge conference in 2017, someone told Tilbrook: “No one is interested in Squeeze’s record. What matters is Squeeze’s story.” “That stayed with me,” he says.So not only does Trixies have a story – it's a concept and musical album about a fictional nightclub – but there's also a great story around the album.…
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Bright and beautiful? The man who causes millennium euphoria with his school chant | music

Bright and beautiful? The man who causes millennium euphoria with his school chant | music

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Christianity,Religion,Society,Life and style âś… **What You’ll Learn**: HHe has the entire Warwick Arts Center in his hands. It's Friday night and the 550-capacity hall is sold out. The stage is full of adults singing school council hymns you may remember from childhood. They soar and sparkle, making delightful hand movements to the wiggle worms and fish in the sea. Just what's going on?Originally a viral video, James B Partridge's Primary School Bangers is the hit show that has taken UK arts centres by storm. “It…
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Pokémon Pokopia Review – Collectible Creatures Creating Their Perfect World | games

Pokémon Pokopia Review – Collectible Creatures Creating Their Perfect World | games

✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Games,Culture,PokĂ©mon,Nintendo,Nintendo Switch 2,Role playing games âś… **What You’ll Learn**: forListen with me here: PokĂ©mon has always had an environmental subtext. As you wander through its lush, creature-filled worlds, collecting species like David Attenborough, you're constantly shown that people and PokĂ©mon should live in harmony. The villains in these stories, from Team Rocket to Bill Nighy in Detective Pikachu, are always the ones who want to exploit these creatures for personal gain. Otherwise it will show you that people should respect Pokemon; Both the creatures you hunt and…
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Stylish costume design, bio-horror, and the complete Mike Leigh Film Collection: The Best Films of Lesley Manville – Ranked! | film

Stylish costume design, bio-horror, and the complete Mike Leigh Film Collection: The Best Films of Lesley Manville – Ranked! | film

đź’Ą Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Film,Lesley Manville,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 10. Queer (2024)Like an orc... Manville in Queer. Photo: Yannis DrakulidisAmong the bold choices in Luca Guadagnino's frenetic adaptation of William S Burroughs's novel is a late-20th-century pop and alternative soundtrack (Nirvana, Prince, New Order) for a 1950s story, and the casting of the unrecognizable, orc-like Manville in a fabricated cameo role as the shaman Dr. Cooter, who was male in the original book.9. Ms. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)In a vision of the French capital that makes Amelie look like…
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The mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros still has some hurdles to overcome | Paramount Pictures

The mega merger between Paramount and Warner Bros still has some hurdles to overcome | Paramount Pictures

🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Paramount Pictures,Warner Bros,Media,Mergers and acquisitions,Business,US news,UK news,World news,US television industry,Europe đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Champagne was reportedly flowing at Paramount Skydance headquarters late last week after the media conglomerate beat out Netflix to acquire all of Warner Bros Discovery for $110 billion.In a call with analysts and investors Monday morning, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison said the company was “very confident” that the merger would quickly pass regulatory muster both in the U.S. and abroad.“We have dealt with regulatory agencies around the world and this combination has…
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How the Eagles’ greatest hits broke the US charts

How the Eagles’ greatest hits broke the US charts

✨ Check out this awesome post from BBC Culture đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: According to biographer Mark Elliott, in To The Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles, pressure to release a "best of" came from Asylum's new president Joe Smith, who was seeking to raise money while the band itself (responsible for more than 50% of the label's revenue in the mid-1970s) delayed work on their fifth album in an attempt to renegotiate their royalty deal.Drummer Don Henley described the recording as "the forced, hideous marriage of art and commerce" and told Elliott that Asylum "didn't…
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Why Bugonia Should Win the Academy Award for Best Picture | Oscars 2026

Why Bugonia Should Win the Academy Award for Best Picture | Oscars 2026

🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Oscars 2026,Film,Culture,Oscars,Yorgos Lanthimos,Emma Stone,Jesse Plemons,Awards and prizes âś… **What You’ll Learn**: eMma Stone as a kidnapped, shaven-headed CEO of a pharmaceutical company who may also be the ruler of a major alien race? It tells us a lot about director Yorgos Lanthimos that Bugonia was his most straightforward film to date.For this new version of the popular 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! We're invited into the unkempt home of beekeeper Teddy (Jesse Plemons), a paranoid conspiracy theorist whose Internet research leads him to believe…
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‘Fame is the worst thing for us as humans’: Naomi Scott on scream queens, Disney princesses and finding her own voice | culture

‘Fame is the worst thing for us as humans’: Naomi Scott on scream queens, Disney princesses and finding her own voice | culture

đź’Ą Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Culture,Music,Pop and rock,Film 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Naomi Scott was 27, she suffered what she now refers to as a “quarter-life crisis.” She had been working as an actress since she was a teenager, trading bit parts in advertisements for plum roles in high-profile Disney TV shows and big-budget Hollywood films including Aladdin (she played Princess Jasmine) and a remake of Charlie's Angels produced by Elizabeth Banks. She had also married young, having met her husband, former professional footballer Jordan Spence, at her local church in…
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Vladimir Review – Rachel Weisz is consistently great in a TV show you’ll love for years to come | television

Vladimir Review – Rachel Weisz is consistently great in a TV show you’ll love for years to come | television

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Rachel Weisz,Leo Woodall đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: VWladimir is that rare visitor to the screen, and it's television suitable for adults. The eight-part adaptation of Julia Mae Jonas's provocative 2022 novel of the same name has not shied away from the characteristics that made the book great—dark comedy, dark insight, and the evisceration of accepted piety—and fit them perfectly into the new form. Screenwriter Jenny Bergen, who has clearly digested the book to her bones, retains all of Jonas's intelligence, confidence, and, most importantly, her…
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TV Tonight: Alexander Armstrong sets off on Indian trip | television

TV Tonight: Alexander Armstrong sets off on Indian trip | television

✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Alexander Armstrong in India8pm on Channel 5Mumbai is the first stop in Alexander Armstrong's Indian odyssey - from the 90s and 00s comedy duo Armstrong and Miller. Estate agent Ravi shows him around a multi-million pound apartment, and Raj takes him on a tour of the slum where he grew up. There's also time to sample the critically-approved 'Mumbai Burger' and visit the massive India Gate on Mumbai's waterfront where colonial rule ended in 1948. Holly RichardsonTonight: Cars – What's…
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