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Director Sean Cronin also acts, but the real star is teenager Poppie Jae Hughes – which doesn’t say much for its more senior playersSomething has definitely gone awry when the best acting in a film comes from a little kid playing a supporting vampire. In this case, it’s P...
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Hampstead theatre, LondonSarah Ruhl’s stage adaptation of the book she wrote with her former student Max Ritvo, who died of cancer at 25, is smartly written if emotionally distantSarah Ruhl first knew Max Ritvo as a student of her pl...
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A canny biography of the early career of this strange, brilliant novelistMuriel Spark, born Muriel Sarah Camberg, was nothing if not protean. Her gravestone declares her a poet; posterity knows her as the author of 22 short, indelibly strange and subversive novels. In lif...
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A woman is forced to rethink her childhood after she learns that her mother was denied custody, in a decade blighted by homophobiaFor a writer, the 1980s bear rich, dark fruit. The social and political turbulence of the decade provides the perfect landscape for Claire Lyn...
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Joanna Miller said her grandfather would hate the mechanical replica to be debuted at Disneyland in JulyWalt Disney’s granddaughter has condemned the entertainment giant he founded fo...
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US actor drops claims of infliction of emotional distress related to co-star in It Ends With UsBlake Lively has withdrawn two of the claims she made about the actor and director Justin Baldo...
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Tracey Moffatt’s triptych of ghost stories melts time and shifts tone with little warning. It’s unsettling, audacious – and so crazy it works...
Entertainment » 4 days ago
Documentary charting the British Olympian’s career including his return from breaking his neck is for equestrian fans only due to tight-lipped interviewsIt’s one hell of a comeback. In 2000, champion showjumper Nick Skelton broke his neck in a bad fall; two years later, h...
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Documentary on Columbia unrest of April 2024, when students set up an outdoor camp, is fascinating but much has been superseded by the arrest of student organiser Mahmoud Khalil after the re-election of TrumpThe horror of Gaza is approached in this documentary via a story...
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Chloé Aïcha Boro’s watchful documentary charts the disharmony and legal wrangling caused by a dispute in her family over sacred burial landEconomic and financial woes cast a dark shadow over family bonds in Chloé Aïcha Boro’s contemplative, searching documentary. Returnin...