Culture
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The homes revealing how Tudor people really lived
“There is an appeal to the simplicity of 16th-Century interiors and an honesty in the materials used,” says interior and…
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Ryan Gosling’s space epic is ‘a mind-stretching sci-fi’ ★★★★☆
Luckily, he’s not quite alone. It turns out that another spacecraft is on the same mission from a different planet,…
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The suburban spies who sold nuclear secrets to the USSR
Spying on the spies The other side of the spy ring – the communications experts – had developed the perfect…
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Why the Oscars are finally giving older women their due
The most recent study from Annenberg also found that from Hollywood’s top 100 films last year, there were only four…
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How the Eagles’ Greatest Hits broke the US charts
According to biographer Marc Eliot, in To The Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles, the push to release a…
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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s riff on the Bride of Frankenstein is ‘exhilarating’ ★★★★☆
When Euphronious jump-starts the corpse, the electrified Bride comes to life with her platinum hair on end, an echo of…
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How Crash pulled off the most shocking win in Oscars history
Yet as much as Crash presented a flawed cross-section of LA society “crashing into each other”, as Don Cheadle’s weary…
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The tragic romance hidden in a 19th-Century painting
Burton used gouache to create this piece, a type of water-soluble paint that gives the painting the vivid colours it…
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How Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech launched the Cold War 80 years ago
Churchill reminded people how he had warned in the 1930s against the appeasement of Hitler and Nazi Germany but “no…
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The moment Cher wore the ultimate ‘revenge’ outfit
Since then, the phrase revenge dress has increasingly been used in celebrity culture. Revenge dresses as they are understood by…
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