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‘She’s so rude’: Rose Byrne plays a cracking mother in her taboo-busting new film | film

‘She’s so rude’: Rose Byrne plays a cracking mother in her taboo-busting new film | film

✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Rose Byrne ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIf I Had Legs I'd Kick You, for which Rose Byrne just won a Golden Globe, is undoubtedly a horror film. But how could that be? It is the story of a mother, Linda, with a very sick child. You'll never see the baby, only the outlines of anxious paramedics. You'll never find out what's in it, just that it includes a feeding tube. Linda is steadily going crazy, because who wouldn't? On paper, this is a painful but moving…
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TV Tonight: A journalistic deep dive into the mind of a serial killer | television

TV Tonight: A journalistic deep dive into the mind of a serial killer | television

✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Bewitched by the devil9 p.m., Sky CrimeWhen 23-year-old Doug Gretzler was imprisoned in 1973 for the murders of 17 people over 20 days – including two children – in the United States, along with his accomplice Willie Stillman, the only person he spoke to was journalist Laura Greenberg, who recorded their conversations. This happened over an astonishing 350 prison visits and 500 hours of conversations. You open this documentary that questions the motives of the killers. Holly RichardsonCan you keep…
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Small Prophets Review – Mackenzie Crook’s new magical comedy is pure, unadulterated fun | Mackenzie Crook

Small Prophets Review – Mackenzie Crook’s new magical comedy is pure, unadulterated fun | Mackenzie Crook

🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Mackenzie Crook,Television & radio,Culture,Television,Michael Palin,TV comedy 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TYou don't have to be told about the central premise of Small Prophets, the new comedy from Detectorists writer/director Mackenzie Crook, before you dive into it. In a show full of wonderful surprises, the main thing that happens is the most precious gift waiting to be opened. But what you should know is that this is everything Detectorists fans could want in its creator's new project: the same sensibilities taking on imaginative new forms. Little Prophets is…
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US judges reject lawsuits accusing Neil Gaiman of sexual assault | Neil Gaiman

US judges reject lawsuits accusing Neil Gaiman of sexual assault | Neil Gaiman

✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Neil Gaiman,US news,New Zealand,Books,Asia Pacific,World news,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Federal judges have dismissed three lawsuits accusing best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting his children's nanny in New Zealand four years ago.Scarlett Pavlovich filed a lawsuit against Gaiman and his wife, Amanda Palmer, in Wisconsin in February 2025, accusing Gaiman of committing multiple sexual assaults while working as the family's nanny in 2022. She filed lawsuits against Palmer in Massachusetts and in New York on the same day as the Wisconsin suit.Gaiman has a home…
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US rap rebel MF Doom’s final years revealed in West Yorkshire | hip hop

US rap rebel MF Doom’s final years revealed in West Yorkshire | hip hop

💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Hip-hop,Podcasts,Rap,Music,Culture,UK news,Television & radio ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The search for clues about the life of masked rapper MF Doom takes Adam Patty to some strange places, and none more so than a remote control car shop in the market town of Otley, West Yorkshire.Rumor has it that Dom, who died in Leeds in 2020, spent thousands at the store. Other scenes placed him at the independent venue Brudenell Social Club.Like most things surrounding the rapper, legend, rumor and lore shroud his story. But the central question…
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Review of Your Life Without Me by James Meek – The Angel of Destruction Haunts a Local Drama | books

Review of Your Life Without Me by James Meek – The Angel of Destruction Haunts a Local Drama | books

✨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Fiction,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A A major demolition is also a creative act, as long as its execution is bold and impressive enough, and as long as it clears away dead wood and opens up the terrain. It's the spirit that connects Pablo Picasso to 1970s punk, and Shiva the Destroyer to the anarchist hero in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent. Tear it up and start again. Or tear it up for the pure thrill of shredding. In Graham Greene's short story "The Destroyers," student vandals…
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Jimmy and the Stages Review – Silly, Skull-Psychedelic Alien Invasion Threads | film

Jimmy and the Stages Review – Silly, Skull-Psychedelic Alien Invasion Threads | film

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Science fiction and fantasy films,Horror films,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TIt's a DayGlo, heavy metal horror film that clearly hopes to induce nausea in viewers with its abundant cut-up scenes and copious use of shaky first-person shots. But considering that the gushing "blood" is mostly bright orange and belongs to unusually fake-looking alien creatures, the effect is neither gross nor even interesting at all; It's just boring and headache-inducing. Just as you should bring tissues to see Hamnet, viewers are advised to bring painkillers to this…
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Known for manufacturing submarines. So how does this remote Cumbrian place attract the world’s boldest musicians? | music

Known for manufacturing submarines. So how does this remote Cumbrian place attract the world’s boldest musicians? | music

💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Cumbria,Experimental music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: forArrow-in-Furness is located on a windswept hook on the Cumbrian coast. It is an industrial city surrounded by the Irish Sea on three sides, and is famous for its 140-year history of submarine building. The undulating peaks of BAE Systems' Dock Hall dominate the skyline above Barrow's red-brick balconies, and nearly a third of local working-age residents work in its sprawling complex. This militaristic landscape is the unlikely home of Full of Noises, a 40-capacity experimental music and arts venue whose…
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Melania fell 88% to 62nd at the UK box office, averaging £66 on the site | film

Melania fell 88% to 62nd at the UK box office, averaging £66 on the site | film

💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Melania,Culture,Biopics,Film industry 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Compared to its impressive US opening 10 days earlier, when it finished third in the box office charts and took $7.2m (£5.76m), Melania's UK debut – No. 29, with £32,974 overall across 155 cinemas with a site average of £212.80 – was modest.But the documentary fell significantly in its second week of release in the UK, with tracking organization Comscore confirming that it took in £4,091 from 62 venues, meaning the site averaged £65.98 – or around six tickets per venue.The…
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Philippe Gaulier has had a huge influence on theater – but his lesson to ’embrace the absurd’ is a lesson for us all platform

Philippe Gaulier has had a huge influence on theater – but his lesson to ’embrace the absurd’ is a lesson for us all platform

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Comedy,Theatre,Comedy,Culture,Clowns,Philippe Gaulier 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen I was starting out as a theater maker, back in the millennium, there were three ways (or so we thought) you could educate yourself in the trade. If you want to be taken seriously and say a lot of words, a drama school in the UK is your bag. If you want to make theater with your body, the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris has invited you. And if you wanted to perform with all your heart, shared innocence…
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