CULTURE
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16 of the most exciting films coming up in 2026
12. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping With or without Jennifer Lawrence’s heroic archer, Katniss Everdeen, audiences can’t get their…
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The globe-trotting thriller’s long-awaited second series is ‘irresistible’
When the Night Owls’ cameras spot a mercenary who worked for Roper setting up a new arms deal, Jonathan leaps…
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Why A Minecraft Movie was 2025’s most important film
The blockbuster based on the brick-building video game came top at the US box office – and, with their “chicken-jockey”…
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The Salt Path and 2025’s most scandalous books
Getty ImagesVirginia Giuffre’s powerful posthumous autobiography Nobody’s Girl detailed her sexual abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein and his…
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The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice
AlamyOrkney’s Maeshowe tomb is a burial cairn created around 2800BC that conceals a stone-clad sepulchre (Credit: Alamy) We will probably…
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18 of the most striking images of 2025
12. Transit centre, Buganda The image of a Congolese refugee sitting on a swing at a Transit centre near Buganda…
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The latest in the sci-fi adventure series is the longest and worst yet
The third instalment in James Cameron’s mega-hit blockbuster franchise is “197 minutes of screensaver graphics, clunky dialogue, baggy plotting and…
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The 25 best books of 2025
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters The follow-up to Torrey Peters’ critically acclaimed debut Detransition, Baby is a collection of tales,…
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Harry Potter to Eyes Wide Shut: 12 of the best alternative festive films
Alamy(Credit: Alamy) A Grand Day Out (1998) Way before the feature-length Wallace and Gromit films of more recent decades, my…
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Seven of the greatest rivalries in art history
Born just a year apart (Turner in sooty London in 1775, Constable in a serene Suffolk village in 1776), the…
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