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Toy Story 5 is the year’s most traumatic film
Still, maybe it was decided that without some extraneous silliness, Bonnie’s anguish would be too much for viewers to take…
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The earl who vanished after murdering his children’s nanny
It also reveals much about the British attitude to class. Richard John Bingham, the seventh Earl of Lucan, married Veronica,…
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Why David Hockney’s 1967 masterpiece is newly poignant after his death
Though A Bigger Splash appears, on its surface, to be a meticulously observed moment in time, it was, in fact,…
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The 1927 painting that foretold Germany's downfall
Did German painter Max Beckmann’s Variety Show foreshadow the rise of Nazism? Source link
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How Cape Fear’s psychopath Max Cady became one of America’s all-time greatest villains
This othering of Cady is further amplified through the Santeria faith he adopts in prison. This Afro-Caribbean-Yoruba religion, developed by…
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The woman who stowed away on a ship to report on D-Day
It captures the nuance of how those who were there might have felt, beyond descriptions of military strategies or commanders’…
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Steven Spielberg’s ‘flimsy’ alien drama is like ‘a drab X-Files episode’
Josh O’Connor stars as Daniel, a cyber-security boffin who works for a powerful organisation called Wardex. The organisation was set…
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How a 26-year-old German woman made the world’s oldest animated feature film
Indeed, once Reiniger accepted the proposition, she took on just a handful of staff. This included a few animators, an…
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How two low-budget horror films caused a Hollywood earthquake
What else do Gen-Z audiences want from the cinema? Judging by the discourse on social media, teenage and twentysomething viewers…
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The groundbreaking audio series that explored world history through objects
At 09:45 on January 18, 2010, the first episode of this ambitious series began on BBC Radio 4, presented by…
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