CULTURE
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Amy Adams is Oscar-worthy in this fearless drama about alcoholism ★★★★☆
The actress makes a return to form in this hard-hitting film from Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó about a middle-aged woman…
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How America’s Next Top Model became a TV horror show
Looking back on it with a 2025 lens It will be interesting to see how the perception of the show…
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The true story of Japan’s mysterious samurai
Their playbook for statecraft was based on Chinese philosophy, principally the ideas of Confucius. “In Neo-Confucian thought,” says Buckland, “you…
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The painful scene that really makes Taxi Driver a classic
Notable for its moments of shocking violence and its avant-garde visual approach, Taxi Driver is brimming with memorable scenes beyond…
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Why Vigil, a wacky, ‘climate change Christmas Carol’ is dividing readers
Yet he is painfully aware that this is “an impossible way to live”, an “idiot compassion” that eliminates personal responsibility…
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The policeman who inspired Al Pacino’s Serpico
More than just a few bad apples Serpico, partially deafened in one ear by the shooting, testified in the inquiry…
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10 of the best films to watch this February
Universal Pictures 9. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert When Baz Luhrmann was researching his Elvis biopic, he unearthed dozens of…
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10 of the best TV shows to watch this February
Gray House Inc(Credit: Gray House Inc) 9. The Gray House Set during the US Civil War, this historical drama is…
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Why this Robert Burns classic is a masterpiece
Nannie and her cohorts aren’t pleased to hear it: Tam has to flee on horseback with a crowd of screeching…
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The story behind City Lights and cinema’s greatest ever final shot
Simply the best? There are, of course, many rival claimants to the title of the greatest final shot in cinema…
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