Arts
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From crumbling mansions to newlyweds buying a bargain fixer-upper, architecture in films holds the perfect backdrop for generational anxieties -
The Brit-winning, Stormzy-collaborating soul star has conquered the shops of Walsall. With the release of her debut album Lost & Found, she sets her sights on the world
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2 out of 5 stars.
After much online outcry, the Wachowskis’ cancelled show was given a feature-length reprieve in which to tie up loose ends and wallow in schmaltz
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HBO has given a pilot order to a series set thousands of years before the hit show with Kick-Ass and Kingsman screenwriter Jane Goldman as showrunner -
From deep-fried haggis in Scotland to the opioid crisis in Massachusetts, we look back at a career that was as much about humanity as it was food
The Start
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A new podcast about artistic beginnings, as told by great artists of our timeListen to episodeThe Start with
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People
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Her defiantly hedonistic music has put her on the map, and she wants to make people forget their problems with songs about ‘love, superficiality and rich dudes who broke my heart’ -
The Filipino American author’s debut novel draws together a complex, intergenerational story where no character’s pain takes precedence -
The big picture
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John Cage, Andy Warhol, smoking self-portraits, U2’s falling buffalo … they all feature in Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz’s atmospheric snapshots of the counterculture in 1980s New York
Reviews
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5 out of 5 stars.
Television & radio The Staircase – still the godfather of the true crime documentary
5 out of 5 stars.Netflix’s doc about the death of Kathleen Peterson and her novelist husband Michael’s court case remains a sensational, game-changing series -
5 out of 5 stars.
Film Hereditary – Toni Collette is outstanding in brilliant fear machine
5 out of 5 stars.Collette give a terrific, hypnotic performance as a harried mother facing down family evil in Ari Aster’s rivetingly shot horror debut -
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4 out of 5 stars.
Beyoncé & Jay-Z OTR II review – heart-stopping scenes from a marriage
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2 out of 5 stars.
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Pictures & video
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The eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala, demonstrations in Gaza, rescued cats in Syria and Sloane Stephens at the French Open – the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
Charlotte Gainsbourg: ‘Art shouldn’t be censored’