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Six reasons why these are the best Oscars in years

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🔥 Discover this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Popular wins in every roundFrankenstein, which won three Oscars, and KPop Demon Hunters, which won two, were both Netflix films that had limited theatrical releases but, unlike a lot of streaming, millions of people watched them, loved them, and wanted to see them get some Oscars. Meanwhile, Amy Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for her role as creepy Aunt Gladys in the hit horror film, Weapons; Brad Pitt's F1 race car movie won Best Soundtrack. Avatar: Fire and Ash won Best Visual Effects. In other…

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London Book Fair roundup: Idris Elba’s sensational deal, the rise of romantic comedies, and the fight against censorship | London Book Fair

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: London book fair,Publishing,Books,Culture,UK news,Fiction,Autobiography and memoir,Children and teenagers,Fantasy books,Romance books,Censorship,DEI policies,Idris Elba ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The annual London Book Fair concluded on Thursday, marking the end of three days that saw 33,000 people connected to the book industry - agents, publishers, authors and more - gather at Olympia to cut deals and discuss the state and future of the publishing world. Here's our roundup of the biggest deals, trends and takeaways from the show.The most stellar book deal of the week was a new thriller…

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Bushra Review – The Wolf Who Wears Prada is the anti-identity alter ego in the film that charts the queer experience | film

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Animation in film,LGBTQ+ rights,Culture,Sexuality 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: SPeople who struggle with family acceptance often misrepresent their daily existence and rely instead on white lies, omissions, and omissions. In Orianne Barkey and Meriem Bennani's debut feature, the process of weaving fiction from real life can be both painful and generative. Bouchra, the novel's engaging heroine, is a lesbian Moroccan filmmaker living in New York, and she understands this paradox well. Although she has already revealed who her mother is, Aisha, she still has to hide…

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Plastic Detox Movie Review – A Movie So Scary You’ll Want to Change Your Life Immediately | television

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Documentary,Factual TV,Environment,Plastic free,Fertility problems ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: gHe woke up after a restless sleep. Bathing using products containing plastic in plastic containers. Fix your hair and deodorize your body with plastic smoothing sprays, before putting on synthetic fiber (plastic) clothing, picking up your plastic phone and going outside, sipping water from a plastic bottle. Plastic chewing gum. Buy a plastic-wrapped snack and get a receipt printed on plastic-covered paper. Come home, take food out of its plastic packaging, cook it with plastic utensils, store…

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TV Tonight: Inside Facebook and Meta with Ex-Employees and Whistleblowers | television

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Facebook,Meta,Marianna Spring,Media,Social networking,Technology,Mackenzie Crook,Steve Carell,Jason Bateman 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Inside the rage machine9pm on BBC Two“My goal is not to get sued,” says Matt Motyl, a former senior researcher at Facebook and Meta. He's one of the former employees who gave reporter Marianna Spring the inside story of how social media giants profit from algorithms that perpetuate division and hate. It also examines whistleblower documents, the reach of TikTok, and charts how events such as the pandemic and the Southport riots played out…

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Cillian Murphy talks Peaky Blinders: the best podcasts of the week | TV and radio

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🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasts 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Choose the weekImmortal manAhead of the release of Peaky Blinders, Edith Bowman and Bucky Lee (who played Johnny Dogs) give an in-depth look at the series. Surprisingly, since it is a Netflix production and can be watched on Netflix, it works well in both audio and video form. From wide-ranging chats with creator Steven Knight about 19th century masculinity to Cillian Murphy delving into the research he undertook to play Tommy Shelby, it's a great companion piece for fans. Alexey…

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Orwell went to fight. I Thought I Should Do the Same: Raoul Peck on His Intimate Relationship with the Writer | Documentaries

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Documentary films,Film,Culture,George Orwell,Books ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'I “I have to admit, George Orwell was not at the top of my list of authors who I thought fit my current worldview,” says Raoul Peck from his book-filled Parisian apartment. This outlook – anti-imperialist, intellectually curious, and fiercely independent – ​​has been shaped by an extraordinary life. Beck was born in Haiti, and grew up under the violent Duvalier regimes, before his family fled in 1961. He was educated in what is now the Democratic Republic of the…

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Oscars 2026: the red carpet, the ceremony, the winners – follow the action live! | Oscars 2026

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars 2026,Film,Culture,Sinners,One Battle After Another,Hamnet 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureStuart HeritageI don’t know if you’re following the AP red carpet feed but, if you are, you’re missing some of the most frenzied commenting I have ever seen. I have become particularly enamoured with the YouTube user who has spent the last 25 minutes typing ‘WHERE IS JAVIER BARDEM?’ into the chatbox every few seconds. I truly pray that Javier Bardem turns up at some point,…

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Fast to Draw: The Universal Allure of Drawing 100 People a Week | art

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Australia news,Canada,Art and design,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIf you're lucky, you might spot Liz Steele sitting in the corner of a sun-soaked Sydney café, pencils and water-soluble markers in hand. Half a world away, Mark Taro Holmes leads his sketchbook into the freezing streets of Montreal, “like a bear emerging from hibernation.”The duo are co-founders of the #OneWeek100People Challenge, an informal global initiative that asks artists to draw 100 people in seven days. The challenge, which is in its 10th year, took place this week,…

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“Siegfried wants to have a good time, kill the dragon, meet the girl”: Andreas Schager on Wagner’s young bully | Opera

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,Royal Opera House,Richard Wagner 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AAndreas Schagr rushed through the door, crossed the room in one step and seized my hand in a tight clasp. “Sorry I'm sweaty,” he smiled. “You forged Nothong!” It's midweek lunchtime in the busy back office of London's Royal Opera House, but crafting a magic sword is a morning's work for the world's most sought-after Wagnerian leading man. Currently in rehearsals for Siegfried – the third painting of the Ring Cycle's new show at Covent Garden –…

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