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Aacta Awards 2026: Bring Her Back and Jacob Elordi’s horror film wins big at Australian Film and Television Awards | Acta Awards

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Aacta awards,Australian film,Culture,Awards and prizes,Film,Television,Television & radio,Australian television,Jacob Elordi 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Bring Her Back dominated the 2026 Aacta (Australian Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards, winning 10 out of 16 nominations, while Jacob Elordi continued the recent awards buzz by taking home Best Lead Actor for his performance in The Narrow Road to the Deep North.Danny and Michael Filippo's horror-thriller "Bring Her Back," about an evil foster mother, emerged as the night's top-earning film with 10 wins. This represents a major achievement for the…

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The Best Modern Poems – Review Report | hair

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Poetry,Books,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Afterburn by Blake Morrison (Chatto & Windus, £12.99)Known as a memoirist, Morrison returns to poetry 11 years later with a masterclass in lyric distillation and charged observation, demonstrating that there is nothing beneath poetic deliberation. Its themes range from social and political justice to reflections on poetic heroes such as Elizabeth Bishop and sonnet sequences that pay tribute to the writer's sister. The interwoven specificity and episodic nature of the poems is captivating: one senses their movement, “in the body, / in…

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The Virgins review – A tornado of gossip, pretense and pain as teens have Friday night sex | stage

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💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Soho theatre,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: II'm watching Maryam Paty's The Virgins, which was nominated for a 2020 Women's Playwriting Award, but it's as if I've been transported headfirst back into my teenage years. The film is about a group of teenagers who decide that tonight is the night their sex life finally moves, a tornado of growing pains and pretending to have fun.It's a Friday night, and best friends - and virgins - Chloe (Anushka Chakravarty) and Jess (Ella Broccoleri) are preparing to go out for…

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2026 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Review – Opera Masters and Disco Dance Above the Stage Mariah Carey | music

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Winter Olympics 2026,Culture,Mariah Carey,Pop and rock,Classical music,Opera,Sport,Olympic Games ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThe opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics has arrived shrouded in mystery. There hasn't been much advance publicity about what might happen, other than a roster of musical performers, heavier with more famous classical names, including Andrea Bocelli and Lang Lang, than pop stars — and a quote from the event's creative leader and executive producer, Marko Palić, that the event will avoid "high tech and frills."Anyone desperate for information could be shown a live…

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Taylor Swift casts ‘insanely attractive and lovable’ Graham Norton in music video | Taylor Swift

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Taylor Swift,Graham Norton,Music,Television,Television & radio,Culture,UK news,Lewis Capaldi 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Graham Norton's chat show has long been the subject of fascination with American stars, awed by their combined star power, glasses of wine and Norton's quick-witted, saucy rep - and now Taylor Swift has taken that fandom to another level.Norton was cast in the music video for Opalite, the second single from her album The Life of a Showgirl to receive the music video treatment after The Fate of Ophelia. In fact, it's not just…

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‘Christian pastors declared Pikachu a demon’: How Pokémon went from moral panic to unifying global hit | Pokemon

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pokémon,Games,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen I was 11 years old, my dream was to compete in the Pokémon World Championships, held in Sydney in 2000. I stumbled upon that dream in a magazine, and then set about in earnest training teams of creatures, transporting them between my Pokémon Red Game Boy cartridge and the 3D arenas of Pokémon Stadium on the Nintendo 64. I never achieved that as a player, but I finally achieved that dream on my 26th birthday, when I went to Washington, D.C.,…

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Cage fights in the White House! Giant bow! Trump’s flashy plans to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary | Build

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Architecture,Art and design,Culture,Donald Trump,US politics 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen the United States celebrated its bicentennial on July 4, 1976, it marked the occasion by opening the Exhibition Hall of the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Designed in a bold, modern style by Helmuth's firm, Obata + Kassabaum (now known as HOK), they were a testament to the daring of American aviation, from the Wright Brothers to the moon landing.At the time, although the smell of Republican political shenanigans was…

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Giorgia Meloni’s face on a church fresco is offensive – but not for the reason the Vatican thinks coloring

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Painting,Art,Art and design,Culture,Michelangelo 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt must be the ugliest fresco in Rome – and that's even without the bizarre image of Giorgia Meloni as an angel. Artist Bruno Valentinetti painted a tribute to Umberto II, the last king of Italy, earlier this century in a side chapel of the ancient church of San Lorenzo in Lucena in its historic heart, the Centro Storico. It's the kind of ugly build-up you try to ignore when basking in the city's artistic glories which include, in this…

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It Walksaround the House at Night review – Jump scares and spine-tingling sensations when the pretend ghost gets really spooked | stage

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Chichester Festival theatre ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: THere's a sparkling irony in Tim Foley's ghost story: An unemployed actor is recruited to play a ghost for a week, only to become haunted himself. Joe (George Naylor) is hired by David, a handsome outsider, to prowl the grounds of Paragon Hall in order to perpetuate the legend of a troubled spirit residing in the countryside.What a great gig – he can pay off his debts with what he earns and exercise his acting muscles. Of course, Joe…

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Classic Mixtape: Takeover Live Review – One Queue After One at Mars Orchestra Festival | classical music

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Southbank Centre,London Philharmonic Orchestra,Aurora Orchestra,Chineke! Orchestra,The London Sinfonietta,Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,The Philharmonia Orchestra 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 'h“Hear music in different ways in our acquisition across locations,” ran a marketing blurb. “You can choose to listen again, skip and move on to another orchestra or pause to catch up with friends at one of our bars.” The idea is to create a live mixtape in which the six world-class orchestras based at the Southbank Center will play a short set, repeated throughout the evening,…

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