Culture
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The true Scandi style that Swedish people love
Courtesy of Svenskt Tenn archive Scandinavian interior style is not all about pared-back, minimalist living and functional, identikit furniture. Here’s…
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How ‘gay cowboy movie’ Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US
Alamy Twenty years ago, Ang Lee’s drama about the love between two male sheep herders was finally released after a…
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The 12 best books of 2025 so far
Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker Bloomsbury, Knopf, Penguin Random House From multigenerational family sagas to speculative dystopias – the very…
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Why Gen Z is so nostalgic about ‘indie sleaze’
Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images (Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images) Today’s youth are harking back to the messy hipster…
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Zombie-apocalypse horror is a ‘never-dull’ monster mash-up
Miya Mizuno Alex Garland and Danny Boyle have reunited for a follow-up to their 2002 classic. It has visual flair,…
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Did Ballerina’s title spell box-office disaster?
Lionsgate Action blockbuster From the World of John Wick: Ballerina has been one of the summer’s big flops so far…
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Motor-racing blockbuster is a non-starter
Apple TV+/ F1 (Credit: Apple TV+/ F1) Brad Pitt plays a long-in-the-tooth former Formula One star in a “slick and…
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How Return to Oz became one of the darkest children’s films ever made
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Back in the 1980s, Disney commissioned a sequel to The Wizard of Oz which was as scary…
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The mysterious murder of ‘God’s Banker’
Getty Images Forty-three years ago this week, the BBC reported on the death of Roberto Calvi, an Italian banker whose…
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Who was the real Andy Warhol?
Getty Images With his famous wig and shades, Warhol cultivated a mysterious, enigmatic persona. Now a new exhibition with unprecedented…
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