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The reason Sinners has become a true box-office sensation

Warner Bros After great reviews and buzz, Ryan Coogler’s vampire film had an extraordinary second weekend at the box office.…

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How Aldrich Ames became the US’s most damaging double agent

Getty Images Aldrich Ames spent nearly a decade selling secret information to the Soviet Union, compromising more than 100 clandestine…

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10 of the best films of 2025 so far

Nicholas Barber and Caryn James Yun Sun Park/ BBC (Credit: Yun Sun Park/ BBC) BBC film critics Caryn James and…

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The overlooked masterpiece full of coded messages about World War One

Trustees of the De Morgan Foundation (Credit: Trustees of the De Morgan Foundation) Esoteric and pioneering, the paintings of a…

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The ultra-violent Shakespeare play that makes audiences faint

Alamy Tragedy Titus Andronicus is the Bard’s goriest work, and a new production is set to be one of the…

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The anti-Bollywood films fighting sexist stereotypes

Altitude Sister Midnight, Santosh and All We Imagine as Light are part of a new wave of female-centred Indian films…

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How fake Hitler diaries fooled the British press

Getty Images In April 1983, a German magazine, Stern, and a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to have made…

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How the ‘gangster’ years of the young Joseph Stalin inspired the gritty Star Wars series

Lucasfilm Ltd (Credit: Lucasfilm Ltd) It may be set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but…

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10 of the best TV shows of 2025 so far

Caryn James and Hugh Montgomery Yun Sun Park/ BBC (Credit: Yun Sun Park/ BBC) From the new season of the…

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Why JMW Turner’s greatest painting is so misunderstood

The National Gallery, London (Credit: The National Gallery, London) As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW…

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