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Sinners or One Battle: What can we learn from the anonymous balloting for this year’s Oscars? | Oscars 2026

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars 2026,Sinners,Oscars,Film,Awards and prizes,Culture,Jessie Buckley,One Battle After Another,Michael B Jordan,Timothée Chalamet,Hamnet,Marty Supreme,Paul Thomas Anderson,Ryan Coogler 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt took a great deal of blood, sweat, and tweets, but in 2016 the Academy finally took notice and began to embrace diversity and modernity. The #OscarsSoWhite hype over two straight years of all-white nominees (Michael B. Jordan's snub of Creed was the harshest in my opinion) led to a sea change and has continued ever since with more women, people of color, and international voters added…

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Naked Erotica, Japanese Giants Confront, and Spring Arrives in Oxford – The Week in Art | Art and design

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Photography,Art,Exhibitions,Hokusai ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekIn Bloom: How Plants Changed Our WorldBeautiful flower paintings herald the arrival of spring, but all is not as it seems in this survey of how science, commerce, and the tulip craze helped shape the modern world. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, from 19 March to 16 Augustalso appearAlexis RalivaoPaintings that hover provocatively between abstraction and fleshy sensuality. Pilar Correas, London, until 23 MayUnder the great waveHokusai and Hiroshige get the Turner and Constable treatment in this look at…

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King Conan is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chance at a late-era masterpiece, like Clint Eastwood’s ‘Unforgiven’ | film

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Arnold Schwarzenegger,Science fiction and fantasy films,Culture,The Terminator,Clint Eastwood,Unforgiven 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIf you were a fan of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 80s and 90s, his late-era career will likely be a huge letdown. The Austrian oak was once Hollywood's most reliable tool for beating up killer robots, but it's never had its unforgivable moment. Despite a string of absurdly influential sci-fi and fantasy films, Schwarzenegger missed the kind of late-career reckoning that could have dismantled his youthful legend, just as Clint Eastwood's 1992 epic Western confronted…

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Twisted Yoga Review – A Wild Reveal of Tantric Sex Cult | television

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💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Documentary,Factual TV,Yoga 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: YYou are invited to an exclusive yoga retreat in the 'Villa'. When you arrive, you'll find a gloomy building in Romania, where women walk around in tiny bikinis and drink each other's urine after a group orgy. You have been summoned to meet a spiritual teacher in Paris. When you arrive, a woman wraps your SIM card in foil and takes you to the suburbs. Later you are taken to a dingy apartment where you are expected to have…

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Daisy Johnson: “I wasn’t a fan of David Salai, but Flesh is a masterpiece.” books

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Fiction,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: My first memory is readingMy childhood memories bloom as I read to my young children right now. Something in the pictures of Helen Cooper's "The Bear Under the Stairs." Or Lynn Smith's Big Pet It takes me back to being four years old and reading to him.My favorite book growing upI love Sabril A series by Garth Nix that I first read alongside my father, and later my younger brother. It was a real pleasure to be immersed in this world, and…

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10 of the most amazing penthouse apartments in the world

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✨ Read this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 8. 181 Fremont The Grand Penthouse, San FranciscoLocated more than 700 feet (213 m) above the city, the Grande Penthouse is the tallest private home on the West Coast of the United States. After taking the private elevator from the lobby, one is met with an elegant mid-century inspired foyer.This is one of the four-bedroom suites, and its side position has views of the San Francisco Bay on both sides. However, the focal point is the walnut corner unit and its built-in TV. “This room…

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“Wouldn’t Life Be Easier If You Were White?”: Inside a Provocative Race-Swapping Body Horror | Horror movies

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💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Horror films,Film,Culture,Comedy films,Comedy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIn March 2021, six Asian women were killed in a mass shooting in Atlanta. Amy Wang, an Asian-Australian writer and director who immigrated to America in 2015, remembers that tragedy well. “This was the first time I felt really unsafe here,” she says. Along with the growing fear, childhood memories resurfaced - internal and external racism and the exhaustion of not fitting in. “I moved to Australia when I was seven and didn't speak English – it was a difficult…

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James Blake: Times Trying review – Platitudes about politics and Kanye can’t detract from an excellent album | James Blake

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: James Blake,Music,Culture,Electronic music,Pop and rock ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HeyWith all the things you might expect from a James Blake album – gorgeous minimalism, plaintive vocal distortion, and trappings of good, good hip-hop – the chin-up social and political commentary probably isn't one of them. But as the title suggests, our current predicament is exactly what the 37-year-old aims to address on his seventh solo record. Unfortunately, the clichéd preachy sentiments (“Everybody's getting different information / So how can we get on the same side?”) sit…

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‘Villages are being burned and animals are being slaughtered. We have to let the world know what’s happening’: Tinariwen and Imarhane fight over Tuareg music | Tinariwen

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Tinariwen,Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Algeria,Mali,Africa,Middle East and north Africa,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: SSince its formation in 1979, the Tuareg guitar band Tinariwen has been constantly on the move. The Grammy Award-winning group, based in Mali, Libya and Algeria, has used their desert blues to lament the wandering refugee situation that continues to this day.Co-founder Abdullah Ag Al-Husseini says the group is currently in Algeria, after band members were forced to flee their homes in Mali in October 2024. “The Malian army and the Russian mercenary group Wagner…

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TV Tonight: Could Claudia Winkleman become our new chat show queen? | television

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Claudia Winkelmann Show10.40pm, on BBC OneIt's time for Claudia to take her rightful place as the queen of chatbots. Expect the same vibe as The Graham Norton Show (they share the same product) with more fake tan and eyeliner. Her first guests are celebrities who always have a good story up their sleeves: Jeff Goldblum, Vanessa Williams, Jennifer Saunders, and Tom Allen. Additionally, it promises to engage audiences at home and in the studio as well. Holly RichardsonThe world of…

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