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‘The plot twist tears the heart out of the series’
HBO (Credit: HBO) The video game adaptation won many plaudits for its grim-but-humane first season. Amidst a semblance of civilisation,…
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How the US dropped four nuclear bombs on Spain in 1966
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) In 1966, the remote Spanish village of Palomares found that the “nuclear age had fallen on them…
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Ken Burns on showing the dark parts of US history
Evan Barlow Ken Burns’s upcoming series, The American Revolution, follows works exploring themes including the US and the Holocaust (Credit:…
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11 of the best films to watch this April
Universal Studios From Drop to A Minecraft Movie, these are the films to stream at home and watch at the…
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How Last Tango in Paris’s infamous explicit scene undid its female star
Getty Images Being Maria, a new film starring Matt Dillon and Anamaria Vartolomei, explores the life of Maria Schneider and…
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‘Radically different from any other show’
Apple TV+ Jon Hamm excels in Apple TV+’s “emotionally real but absurdist” drama about a desperate corporate man who resorts…
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How masterful paintings by the artist’s stepdaughter are finally getting recognition
Art Institute of Chicago/ Arthur M Wood/ Collection of Alice and Rick Johnson Blanche Hoschedé-Monet has barely been acknowledged in…
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11 of the best TV shows to watch this April
HBO (Credit: HBO) From the return of HBO’s zombie apocalypse thriller to Michelle Williams in a provocative new role. Amazon…
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How Microsoft founder Bill Gates mapped out the new internet era back in 1993
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Gates and Paul Allen launched computing giant Microsoft 50 years ago. In 1993, he talked…
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Why the quaint paintings of Thomas Kinkade divided the US
(Image credit: The Kinkade Family Foundation) Beloved by many, despised by others, Thomas Kinkade’s quaint rustic scenes and his wholesome…
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