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Young Sherlock review – Guy Ritchie’s bizarre detective has the charm of a waiter | TV and radio

Young Sherlock review – Guy Ritchie’s bizarre detective has the charm of a waiter | TV and radio

🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,Guy Ritchie,Colin Firth 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: guy Ritchie has made a new TV series about Sherlock Holmes, and the long and short of it is... well. But first, some questions. Does the eight-part mystery drama include scenes in which moody young men in flat caps shout "Oi" while hurtling through the air in slow motion? It is. Are there bare-knuckle joints during which puffy cocks cheer on other puffy cocks and Irish folk music plays frantically in the background? there. Could there also…
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‘At First, She Couldn’t Get Off The Oxygen Long Enough’: The Film That Gives Marianne Faithfull One Last Thrilling Performance | film

‘At First, She Couldn’t Get Off The Oxygen Long Enough’: The Film That Gives Marianne Faithfull One Last Thrilling Performance | film

✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Marianne Faithfull,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Marianne Faithfull died in early 2025, at the age of 78, she left the world with one last musical performance. It comes at the end of a new film, Broken English, which celebrates her six-decade career. It's a very moving scene, and will almost certainly leave you in tears. You don't need to be a complete fan, up to that point, to enjoy Faithfull's candid looks at her amazing life - but this husky-voiced final number, accompanied by Nick Cave…
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“He paints penises the way other people paint landscapes”: The disturbing genius of erotica pioneer Félicien Ropes | Art and design

“He paints penises the way other people paint landscapes”: The disturbing genius of erotica pioneer Félicien Ropes | Art and design

🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Museums,Exhibitions,Painting,Art,Switzerland,Europe,Illustration ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: DDuring an extremely hot week in Paris in 1878, the Belgian-bohemian artist Félicien Ropes painted a portrait of a woman walking with her pet pig. In the photo, the woman is blindfolded and naked — except for some stockings, long black gloves and a feathered hat — and the pig has a cute pink curly tail. A pornocrat — which roughly translates as “ruler of adultery” — is an eyeworm. Once you see it, it's hard to forget.Robes recalls that…
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The Quantitative Theory of Morality by Will Self – A raucous, innovative satire on the state of the nation | Self will

The Quantitative Theory of Morality by Will Self – A raucous, innovative satire on the state of the nation | Self will

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Will Self,Fiction,Books,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn Will Self's 1991 debut collection The Quantity Theory of Madness, an art therapist named Mischa Gorny finds himself involuntarily sectioned in the psychiatric hospital where he works. In the title story, Mischa's father is revealed to be a friend and early assistant of the hospital's chief psychiatrist, Zach Posner, and is a recurring character in autofiction to this day.In his first incarnation, Posner was engaged in testing the titular theory, according to which “the surface of the collective psyche…
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And the least likable character is… How did Oscar season become dominated by difficult people? Oscars 2026

And the least likable character is… How did Oscar season become dominated by difficult people? Oscars 2026

🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars 2026,Oscars,Awards and prizes,Culture,Film,Timothée Chalamet,Rose Byrne,Stellan Skarsgård,One Battle After Another,Marty Supreme,Emma Stone,Drama films,Sinners,Michael B Jordan,Benicio del Toro,Kate Hudson,Teyana Taylor,Jessie Buckley,Sean Penn 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: forIn practical terms, the best way to get an Oscar for acting is to play a likable person, or a hated likable person. Not every winning actor fits into this pair, of course, but the history of the four categories is littered with spectacular bad behavior (Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the…
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Dolly Review – Six-foot-tall mannequin terrorizes couple in gory horror full of tropes | film

Dolly Review – Six-foot-tall mannequin terrorizes couple in gory horror full of tropes | film

✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Horror films,Thrillers,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HHorror cinema offers another compelling reason why you should never go camping, with this gory thriller that proves there's no point in walking in the woods, looking for beautiful hilltop views, or communing with nature in any way.The attractive but doomed couple who learned this lesson the hard way are Missy (upcoming scream queen Fabienne Therese) and Chase (Sean William Scott, forever Stifler from American Pie). When the story begins, Chase is planning to propose to Missy, intending to pop the…
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Mozart with meatballs at IKEA: How opera faces its existential crisis | Opera

Mozart with meatballs at IKEA: How opera faces its existential crisis | Opera

💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Festivals,Stage,Australia news,Culture,Classical music,Perth festival ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's Sunday and I'm in a suburban Ikea on the verge of tears. Perhaps this isn't too surprising - who among us hasn't come close to an emotional breakdown while navigating a labyrinthine homewares store? But these are tears of joy. And no, it's not because I captured one of Djungelskog's beloved characters; This is because of the five people singing to me from two meters away.I'm in the plants and outdoor furniture section, watching the movie The Marriage…
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Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura are among the authors longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction | Women’s Prize for Fiction

Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura are among the authors longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction | Women’s Prize for Fiction

🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Women's prize for fiction,Books,Awards and prizes,Fiction,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Katie Kitamura, Susan Choi, Kate de Waal and Lily King are among the authors longlisted for this year's Women's Prize for Fiction.Awarded annually and now in its 31st year, the prize is worth £30,000 and is one of the most prominent prizes for women's writing in the English language. The list of 16 features a selection of novels whose settings range from climate-ravaged islands to near-future Kolkata, from Birmingham in the 1970s to East Berlin on the…
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Even for fans like me, Pokemon 30th anniversary “stuff” is a lot | games

Even for fans like me, Pokemon 30th anniversary “stuff” is a lot | games

🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt had been nearly impossible to escape from Pokemon over the past few weeks. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the original games, The Pokémon Company has been on an unprecedented promotional nostalgia trip all month: there was a campaign that had celebrities talking about their favorite Pokémon, giving us an unforgettable scene of Lady Gaga singing with Jigglypuff, and Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen (a fantastic re-release of the original 1996 Game Boy Advance games) were re-released on the Nintendo Switch.…
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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s talk about Bride of Frankenstein is ‘delightful’ ★★★★☆

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s talk about Bride of Frankenstein is ‘delightful’ ★★★★☆

🚀 Check out this must-read post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When Euphronious initiates the corpse, the Electrified Bride comes back to life with her platinum hair at the end, an echo of Elsa Lanchester's hair in the original film. A renewed chemical left black spots on her face and she can't remember the name of it. Buckley gives a fierce performance, but it takes a while to believe in the character of the Bride, not because she doesn't know herself but because Gyllenhaal's stylistic shifts keep us at a distance. For much of the…
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