🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThere has never been a better time for man, the hero of Helen of Nowhere, to be a new transcendentalist. As a university professor, the lessons he imparts include encouraging his students to turn away from city politics and “the tools of human construction” to pursue the purity of nature. Humans believe that doing so may require “an innate ability to simply engage being“Outside arbitrary institutions of knowledge, such as the university.Man is a good man, or so we hear. He notices,…
✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekLucian Freud: Drawing In drawingDelve into the vision of this great artist with an exhibition that follows his photographic process from paper to canvas. National Portrait Gallery, London, from 12 February to 4 Mayalso appearGwen John: Strange beautyOne of the most original and original British artists of the early 20th century brings it all back to her native Wales. Read the review. National Museum Cardiff, from 7 February to 28 JuneLinda Benglis and GiacomettiThe artist who subverts…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Horror films,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIf you're wondering how this horror series got this far, Renny Harlin is filming all three back-to-back in Bratislava in late 2022; The reshoots came after the indifferent response to the first chapter in 2024, which did little to mitigate the indifferent response to last year's chapter two. We get it whether we want it or not: modest resources have been expended, and so we now come to the final blows that constitute the year's most obligatory carnage. The mistake is…
🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Classical music,Hamnet 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: German-born British composer Max Richter was not nominated for an Oscar until this year, though he may have one day ruined someone else's chance at winning it – unintentionally.In 2016, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences disqualified Jóhann Johansson's score for Arrival on the grounds that viewers would find it impossible to distinguish the late Icelandic composer's soundtrack from the purchased score that ended Denis Villeneuve's alien invasion psychodrama: Richter's soaring, minimalist drama about the nature of daylight.A decade…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Austin Butler,Biopics,US news,Lance Armstrong,Culture,Film,US sports,Sport,Cycling 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Oscar-nominated actor Austin Butler is set to star as disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong in an intriguing new biopic.According to Deadline, the package has sparked a "frenzied" bidding war in Hollywood with Conclave director Edward Berger at the helm and King Richard's Zach Palin set to write the script.Producer Scott Stuber, who most recently worked on Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, has been working to secure the rights to Armstrong's life for a while and a deal has now…
🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Military,Russia,Nato,British army,Europe,UK news,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt is the world's largest military alliance, but by reputation at least, NATO is currently weak. For an organization that relies so heavily on US stability and generosity, Donald Trump's shredding of the so-called “rules-based order” poses a potential existential threat. So NATO can benefit from an easy PR win now, and with Frontline: Our Soldiers vs. Putin, Channel 4 is trying to provide just such a win.This two-part premise is that after four years of…
💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Lover, liar, predatorBBC iPlayerFrom left: Shannon, Robyn, Jenny and Natalie in Lover, Liar, Predator. Image: BBC ScotlandSummarize in a sentence The story of four women, all abused by the same man when they were teenagers, who band together to help imprison him.What our reviewer said “Not to mention teenagers – I would love to put a collection of films like this together and send one to every school in the country.” Lucy ManganRead the full…
🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Checkout: cinema100 nights of heroOut nowMica Monroe plays a woman trapped in a castle with her husband's handsome and seductive best friend (Nicholas Galitzine) who bets that he can lure her away from her marriage. Smart maid Hiro (Emma Corrin) watches what's going on and does her best to thwart the dirtbag's plans, in this fantasy tale from Julia Jackman. Charli xcx also stars.My father's shadowOut nowọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Slow Horses) stars in the semi-autobiographical debut from Akinola Davies…
✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,JS Bach,Classical music,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen I found a cassette tape of Bach-Busoni Chaconne, at the age of seven, this is how I imagine a child would feel when he sees Messi playing football and thinks: I should do that with my life. By then, I had been sexually abused by a teacher for two years, and despite showing all the signs of trauma—night terrors, tremors, bed-wetting, persistent stomach aches—I obediently kept his secret. For me, the world was a war zone of pain. I…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: CFar-flung stories, from Cast Away to The Martian, are often feel-good classics. They are tales of a brilliant person overcoming enormous odds, a triumphant metaphor for the human spirit. Here's a funny thing: Outcast stories that depict large groups of people do exactly the opposite. Forced to self-organize, they ended up eating each other. Exception missing; I don't know what that was about. Polar bears?Needless to say I love them all. So it's exciting to see a new kid on…
