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‘He was a very dear friend’: Cary Elwes on life after The Princess Bride β€” and losing Rob Reiner | film

‘He was a very dear friend’: Cary Elwes on life after The Princess Bride β€” and losing Rob Reiner | film

πŸ”₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Film,Culture,Gus Van Sant πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: IIn 1988, actor Cary Elwes' career declined. His latest film, a fantasy film in which he played a farm boy turned adventurer hero, was a box office hit and the actor was left out of work for a year. One day he was in a New York restaurant when he saw Al Pacino, so he went and introduced himself. β€œHe asked me if I was working, and I said no,” Elwes recalls. β€œYou need to practice your,” he said…
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‘There’s no way back for him’: Martin Clunes talks about playing Hugh Edwards in controversial new drama | television

‘There’s no way back for him’: Martin Clunes talks about playing Hugh Edwards in controversial new drama | television

πŸ”₯ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Martin Clunes,Huw Edwards βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: HEdwards has not sat at a newsreader's desk since July 2023, when he was suspended by the BBC following a report in The Sun that he paid a teenager Β£35,000 for intimate photos and conversations. A year later – when Clive Merry, the BBC's new Ten newsreader, announced that his predecessor had been convicted of possessing indecent images of children – the Welsh broadcaster's career was effectively over.But on the night of March 24, Edwards returned to the…
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Matisse, Review 1941-1954 – Success after success in a life-enhancing display of genius | art

Matisse, Review 1941-1954 – Success after success in a life-enhancing display of genius | art

✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Art,Exhibitions,Painting,Drawing,Henri Matisse,Paris,Art and design,Culture πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: FOr forget the joy and energy of youth - perhaps your best days are ahead. Henri Matisse was like that, even when he was barely coming out of surgery alive in his early 70s as war was raging across France. Sitting in his wheelchair, his hand wobbly and weaker than ever, his body barely able to muster the strength to stand and paint, he reinvented himself and reshaped modern art in the process.The Grand Palais's exploration of the…
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BTS: Arirang Review – The biggest pop group in the world is back with stupid fun and total weirdness | BTS

BTS: Arirang Review – The biggest pop group in the world is back with stupid fun and total weirdness | BTS

πŸ”₯ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: BTS,Music,Pop and rock,Culture βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: TThe general consensus seems to be that as BTS's commercial stock soars into the stratosphere β€” more than 500 million units have been sold worldwide, including more than 104 billion streams, making them the best-selling Asian act of all time β€” the actual music has become increasingly irrelevant. Before they took a hiatus in 2022 to fulfill their mandatory military service in South Korea, their English-language hits like Dynamite and Butter β€” despite their huge international successes β€” had stifled…
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The story that distorted the British class system

The story that distorted the British class system

πŸ’₯ Read this awesome post from BBC Culture πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Galsworthy's writing career spanned the first three decades of the twentieth century, and in 1932, he won the most prestigious literary award of all, the Nobel Prize "for his outstanding narrative art which took its highest form in the Forsyte saga," the judges said.Gil Dury, honorary associate professor at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia and author of a book about Galsworthy, says he was deserving of the award. β€œHe is a realistic writer,” she says, β€œwho writes about issues that are considered current in…
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Resident Evil at 30: How Capcom’s horror franchise survived and thrived | games

Resident Evil at 30: How Capcom’s horror franchise survived and thrived | games

πŸš€ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Games,Culture,Resident Evil βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: TMany of us were playing and writing about video games in the '90s, and Resident Evil seemed to come out of nowhere. The emerging PlayStation and Saturn consoles were all about bright, cool arcade conversions – the glossy thrills of Daytona and Tekken – and Japanese publisher Capcom was in a state of coin-op conversions and endless sequels to Street Fighter and Mega Man. Scary games were rare at the time and were mostly limited to computers. So when news…
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‘Weirdness, paranoia and extremes’: Why HBO’s Neighbors is the most amazing show on TV | television

‘Weirdness, paranoia and extremes’: Why HBO’s Neighbors is the most amazing show on TV | television

✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,HBO,US television,Documentary βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOnce upon a time, she worked as a local reporter in a small town in Montana. The job, where I had to make actual phone calls and attend local council meetings regularly, was very rewarding; Nothing teaches you about people's idiosyncrasies like showing up at their door and listening to the concerns of their community. During my time there, we published several very strange stories about a farmer's proposed water bottling plant, which was strongly opposed by neighbors because…
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Breakfast with Gosling, Roasted by Spielberg, Burned by Star Wars: Lord and Miller are the hottest duo in cinema | film

Breakfast with Gosling, Roasted by Spielberg, Burned by Star Wars: Lord and Miller are the hottest duo in cinema | film

πŸ”₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Film,Culture,Ryan Gosling,Lego,Steven Spielberg,Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,21 Jump Street πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Phil Lord and Christopher Miller began their careers in Hollywood β€” long before they turned to popcorn with The Lego Movie, the Jump Street films, the Spider-Verse series and, most recently, Project Hail Mary β€” the duo found themselves called before a panel at the Directors Guild of America (DGA). Lord and Miller wanted to be credited, as they would be for the rest of their careers, as co-directors, and this was something…
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Imperfect Woman Review – A Lot of Fun… If You Lower Your Expectations Enough | television

Imperfect Woman Review – A Lot of Fun… If You Lower Your Expectations Enough | television

πŸš€ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Kerry Washington,Elisabeth Moss πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: YYou can't say that the "imperfect woman" doesn't warn you. It's clear from the first shots - three women dancing, drunk but happily, laughing but not screaming, as the camera pans around their beautifully lit selves - and the first line - an earnest voiceover about "a kinship from the depths of our souls" - what we're in for. This is a well-written, far-fetched, brilliant yet derivative murder mystery – a descendant of Big Little Lies, married with…
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TV Tonight: Comedy Relief with Alison Hammond and Catherine Tate Nunn | television

TV Tonight: Comedy Relief with Alison Hammond and Catherine Tate Nunn | television

✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Peaky Blinders πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Comic Relief: Funny for Money7pm, BBC OneThe fundraiser is back, with hosts including Davina McCall, Nick Mohammed, Katherine Ryan and Catherine Tate - as Nan! Highlights include an exclusive world from Traitors: The Movie: The Sequel and a stunning sketch of Amandaland. Additionally, Greg James has completed a 1,000km tandem bike challenge, while Dermot O'Leary and Alison Hammond take on a secret special project.. Holly RichardsonThe world of gardeners9pm on BBC TwoAre your pelargonium plants ready for a great…
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