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The F Ward review – Anna Friel’s medical drama Never Quite Clean | Australian TV

The F Ward review – Anna Friel’s medical drama Never Quite Clean | Australian TV

πŸ”₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Australian television,Stan,Television,Culture,Drama,Television & radio βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: AAmong The Pitt's many virtues is the way it illustrates the power of hospitals as dramatic settings: inherently interesting pressure-cooker environments, which bring together people from all walks of life, in varying states of distress. It's a great series, and it has resonated so strongly with audiences that every new drama set in a hospital for the foreseeable future will be judged by it.That's not good news for shows like Stan's six-part series The F Ward, which by comparison…
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Dinshatech attack! Review – It’s Time to Get on Board the Kickflipping Trains | games

Dinshatech attack! Review – It’s Time to Get on Board the Kickflipping Trains | games

πŸš€ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Games,PC,PlayStation 5,Xbox series S/X,Nintendo Switch 2 βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: eEvery now and then a game comes along with a premise so outrageous that you stop in your tracks to take it all in. Denshattack!, a game about kicking trains through a dystopian future in Japan, is an example of this feeling. The film is set in a post-climate catastrophe world, where people take refuge in corporate-owned domed cities to live out their days in air-conditioned comfort. Except for a handful of outcasts, the rest of the…
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The best books to read in July: new paperbacks from Andrew O’Hagan, Miriam Toews and Oyinkan Braithwaite | Books

The best books to read in July: new paperbacks from Andrew O’Hagan, Miriam Toews and Oyinkan Braithwaite | Books

πŸ”₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Books,Culture,Paperbacks,Oyinkan Braithwaite,Fiction,Biography books,True crime books,Autobiography and memoir,Essays,Thrillers πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: FictionFictionCursed DaughtersOyinkan BraithwaiteRepeat a family story often enough, and it becomes a kind of legend – or a curse. The Faloduns at the centre of Cursed Daughters share tales of heartbroken women across the generations who just can’t seem to hold on to a man. There’s Fikayo, whose husband left after he tired of tending to her chronic illness; Afoke, who seduced her younger sister’s boyfriend; Feranmi, the matriarch of the family, who got pregnant by…
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Sweeney Todd review – Sondheim’s Devil’s Barber is still above par | stage

Sweeney Todd review – Sondheim’s Devil’s Barber is still above par | stage

πŸ”₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Theatre,Musicals,Stephen Sondheim,Stage,Culture,Birmingham Rep πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: STiffin Sondheim was drawn to fairy tales β€” and not just the subject of the short story book Into the Woods. The origins of Sweeney Todd, the devilish barber of Fleet Street, lie in Victorian melodrama, but in the hands of the composer, working with book writer Hugh Wheeler in response to a Christopher Bond play, steeped in folklore tropes.The story of a serial killer who delivers the grisly contents of his landlady's pies is filled with the kind…
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Christopher Nolan’s epic used the occupied territories as a film location. This sounds like betrayal Odyssey

Christopher Nolan’s epic used the occupied territories as a film location. This sounds like betrayal Odyssey

πŸ”₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: The Odyssey,Film,Culture,Christopher Nolan,Western Sahara,Morocco βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: TSimply carrying a camera in my home country of Western Sahara can constitute a crime. When Sahrawi filmmakers and journalists try to document daily life under Moroccan occupation, they can often end up in prison cells. For the Moroccan regime, a camera in the hands of a Sahrawi threatens its official narrative that Western Sahara is part of Morocco.In contrast, when world-famous names in the film industry want to capture the perfect photo of an epic journey, and it…
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TV Tonight: Jennifer Garner and Chloe Sevigny Star in Girls’ Trip Drama Shiny | television

TV Tonight: Jennifer Garner and Chloe Sevigny Star in Girls’ Trip Drama Shiny | television

✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Five star weekend getaway9pm, Sky AtlanticThis glossy drama about wealthy women heading out for a girls' weekend is the perfect haunt for anyone racing through a fortnight in August. After the death of her husband, celebrity chef Hollis Shaw (Jennifer Garner) organizes a fun trip with four friends: a school mother, a college friend, a sister, and a fan who connected on social media. But everyone has a secret β€” and one is an absolute shocker. Gemma Chan, ChloΓ« Sevigny,…
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‘The moment I had success, I stopped doing drugs’: John Waters on 60 years of screen carnage | John Waters

‘The moment I had success, I stopped doing drugs’: John Waters on 60 years of screen carnage | John Waters

πŸš€ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: John Waters,Film,Culture πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: John Waters still remembers the day his 1988 comedy Hairspray was certified PG. β€œIt was terrible,” he says.Even then, Waters, whom novelist William S. Burroughs called the β€œPope of Garbage,” was famous for photographing the unphotographable. In Eat Your Makeup, he recreated the JFK assassination just five years after the event, casting the brash Divine in the role of Jackie Kennedy. He invented a blasphemous sex act called the "rosary job" on several lunatics, which also involved raping a giant…
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Ride Or Die review – Hannah Waddingham’s big comedy is your pre-menopausal dream TV show | TV and radio

Ride Or Die review – Hannah Waddingham’s big comedy is your pre-menopausal dream TV show | TV and radio

✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television,Hannah Waddingham,Octavia Spencer βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: THannah Waddingham's profound coolness is such that, I suspect, she could convince most of us to get into a burning car if she wanted to. So selling viewers on the ridiculous premise of Ride Or Die is only the work of the moment. Waddingham plays Whiptail, a deadly assassin for the past 20 years whose work has recently become more attention-grabbing than her bosses like. Octavia Spencer (who holds a high-profile comedic place in my heart for…
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TV Tonight: A riveting account of Katie Price at the Playboy Mansion | television

TV Tonight: A riveting account of Katie Price at the Playboy Mansion | television

πŸ’₯ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Katie Price: Nothing to hide9pm, Sky DocumentaryThe second part of the story of Katie Price's turbulent life. After a riveting account of her time at the Playboy Mansion, Price recalls discovering that she would be a single mother and the public judgment that accompanied it. Gareth Gates also sat down to talk about their fling - "I was on cloud nine!" β€” and what happened when Price later sold his story to the press. Then we get to the "I'm…
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Gillian Armstrong remembers Sam Neill: ‘I can’t believe the next day he was gone’ | Sam Neill

Gillian Armstrong remembers Sam Neill: ‘I can’t believe the next day he was gone’ | Sam Neill

πŸš€ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Sam Neill,Film,Culture,Australian film,Gillian Armstrong,Australian television,Australia news,Television πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: What can I say? I am shocked and sad. He had just undergone cancer treatment and was finally free. And bang! He's gone. But what wonderful, heartfelt greetings from everywhere.Yes, Sam was a great actor, in many films, in many roles. Broken, dry, evil, cheeky, damaged and extremely heroic. Even my grandson knows that guy with the dinosaurs. I loved him having fun as that scheming, handsome, grey-haired lawyer in The Twelve.Our real Sam? He was a…
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