Culture
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How a historic women-only gang menaced London for decades
Police Gazette/ National Archives The all-female Forty Elephants lived by their own shoplifting and pickpocketing code. Now a new series…
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How Brazil propelled drama I’m Still Here to be this year’s Oscars dark horse
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Starring Fernanda Torres and centring on a family torn apart by Brazil’s military dictatorship, I’m…
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How one surprising photo of a teenage Kate Moss kick-started the 1990s
Estate of Corinne Day/ Bridgeman Images An iconic image of Kate Moss marked an explosive moment of change in Britain…
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Why this is ‘one of the closest and most thrilling Oscar races ever’
Getty Images With less than two weeks to go until this year’s Oscars, we’ve reached the stage where most of…
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How the assassination of Malcolm X shook the US 60 years ago
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) US black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated on 21 February 1965, at the age…
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This WW2 miniseries is a ‘stunning’ showcase for Jacob Elordi
Curio Pictures The Euphoria star shines in this remarkable adaptation of a Booker Prize-winning novel about an Australian prisoner of…
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Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho’s confused sci-fi blockbuster is a ‘serious disappointment’
Warner Bros Entertainment Inc Robert Pattinson stars as multiple clones in the South Korean film-maker’s big-budget follow up to Parasite…
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Why people claim Kieran Culkin, Zoe Saldaña and Ariana Grande’s nominations are ‘category fraud’
Searchlight Pictures Among the many controversies of this year’s Oscars race, many believe that favourites to take home the acting…
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Is the rom-com heroine a ‘misogynist role model’ or ‘inner voice of a generation’?
Universal Pictures (Credit: Universal Pictures) Since Helen Fielding created hapless, middle-class Bridget in the mid-90s, she’s divided opinion. As the…
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US fashion star Christopher John Rogers on fighting against ‘quiet luxury’
Serenity Strull/ BBC The new star of US fashion Christopher John Rogers’ bold designs are worn by the likes of…
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