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Child review – jump scares abound in twisty organ transplant fable that keeps horror at its heart
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Child review – jump scares abound in twisty organ transplant fable that keeps horror at its heart

This Luxembourg-made movie about a couple who venture east to save their son features some impressive film-making Stippled with first-world guilt about income inequality even between fellow EU member states, this Luxembourg-made horror sprinkles a bit of liberal fairy dust over what is otherwise a pretty straight-up, if twisty…

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Stevie Wonder celebrates 50 years of 'Songs In The Key Of Life' with four unreleased songs
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Stevie Wonder celebrates 50 years of 'Songs In The Key Of Life' with four unreleased songs

Prior to hitting the road for a special tour of the UK, Europe and the US, Stevie Wonder releases four unheard songs from sessions of his seminal album ‘Songs In The Key Of Life’, which celebrates its 50th anniversary.

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4 ways to avoid getting ripped off, according to a pricing expert
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4 ways to avoid getting ripped off, according to a pricing expert

Companies have changed the way they price their products — and shoppers are getting deliberately overcharged. Here are steps you can take to ensure you are getting the best deal.

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‘A genre-defying monument’: how Sign o’ the Times captured Prince at his creative peak
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‘A genre-defying monument’: how Sign o’ the Times captured Prince at his creative peak

As a new book on the Paisley Park polymath is released, author John McKie explains why Prince’s 1987 album is the ultimate showcase of his genius By the early 1980s, Prince had cemented his place as a pop heavyweight with the phenomenal success of his 1999 album, as well as becoming a movie star thanks to Purple Rain. Even when…

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The Fall of the West by Owen Jones review – a bracing history of the changing world order
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The Fall of the West by Owen Jones review – a bracing history of the changing world order

A journalist charts a quarter century of geopolitical hubris and economic overreach Like many Britons born in the 1980s, the journalist and Guardian columnist Owen Jones came of age with Tony Blair’s platitudes ringing in his ears. Politics at the turn of the millennium was a story of temporary dispensations mistaken for…

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The Portuguese House review – picturesque, polite drama of secrets and revelations at a country estate
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The Portuguese House review – picturesque, polite drama of secrets and revelations at a country estate

Spanish drama about people leaving their old lives behind plays out like a literary novel, with Manolo Solo excellent as a discombobulated gardener Out of the blue, a woman walks out on her husband. Bags packed and ready to go, at the last moment she crumples up the letter she has written to him and vanishes from their Madrid…

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‘Jaw-dropping’ play based on Pelicot rape trial comes to London for one night
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‘Jaw-dropping’ play based on Pelicot rape trial comes to London for one night

Four-hour production featuring star-studded cast will be performed at London County Hall A play based on the trial of the men who drugged and raped Gisèle Pelicot will come to London for one night only this November – and promises to feature a star-studded cast. The four-hour production of The Pelicot Trial: Tribute to Gisèle…

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Stations by Louise Kennedy review – a superb follow-up to Trespasses
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Stations by Louise Kennedy review – a superb follow-up to Trespasses

This tale of broken hearts and broken people moves from the Troubles of 1980s Northern Ireland to an unforgiving London of squats and payphones Louise Kennedy’s first novel, Trespasses , was one of those rare triumphs, a debut that was not only rapturously received by critics but adored by readers around the world. A story of…

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April X review – Connor Storrie searches for missing twin in dystopian dream-tech sci-fi thriller
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April X review – Connor Storrie searches for missing twin in dystopian dream-tech sci-fi thriller

The star of Heated Rivalry does his best in this in this human-trafficking yarn, which gets progressively ickier and more exploitative Sketchy in every sense of the word, this sci-fi thriller is set in the not-too-distant future in a dystopian concrete city (actually mostly Bucharest looking like itself), where life is cheap…

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Denarii detectives: Mystery surrounds discovery of Germany's largest Roman coin hoard
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Denarii detectives: Mystery surrounds discovery of Germany's largest Roman coin hoard

A father from the Rhineland set out in autumn 2025 to briefly scan a field near Wesseling, south of Cologne, with his metal detector. The device beeped and he uncovered a Roman silver coin, and then several more.

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‘You’ve got to be pretty tough to be a drag queen out there’: Damien Frost’s immaculate queer portraits
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‘You’ve got to be pretty tough to be a drag queen out there’: Damien Frost’s immaculate queer portraits

The photographer’s photos are so meticulously staged that viewers often assume they were taken in a studio – not behind a London nightclub or in an Australian goat field One bright spring day, the photographer Damien Frost arrived at a farm in Gungal, outside Muswellbrook, New South Wales. Goats grazed in a paddock, eucalyptus…

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Michael Palin in the Philippines review – who else could cause such a weird moment with the president?
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Michael Palin in the Philippines review – who else could cause such a weird moment with the president?

From ‘recycled chicken’ being sold on a stall to Bongbong fanboying over the Fish-Slapping Dance, Palin’s travel shows always explore fascinating things that others don’t. It is a reminder that his work is increasingly precious There is a moment in episode one of Michael Palin in the Philippines where our host surveys a group…

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I didn't think 'Pachinko' could be topped. Then I read 'American Hagwon'
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I didn't think 'Pachinko' could be topped. Then I read 'American Hagwon'

Min Jin Lee's new novel is the third in a planned four-novel series about the Korean diaspora. Nearly 10 years in the making, this sweeping-but-intimate 600+ page book is overwhelming — in a good way.

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Century-old silent film made in New Hampshire found in Japan antique shop
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Century-old silent film made in New Hampshire found in Japan antique shop

Billy B Van’s 1919 comedy Van-ar-chy found by student in Sendai will be shown in early November in New Hampshire A silent comedy filmed in New Hampshire more than a century ago was recently found in Japan, and plans have been set to show the film in early November in the state where it was created. Van-ar-chy, a 1919 film…

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Mighty Sparrow obituary
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Mighty Sparrow obituary

Trinidadian singer and songwriter hailed as a living legend and the greatest calypsonian of all time The singer and songwriter Mighty Sparrow, who has died aged 91, was quite simply the greatest calypsonian there has ever been. For at least five decades he was a monumental figure on the Caribbean music scene, while also…

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‘We wanted it to be a battlecry’: how Republica made 90s anthem Ready to Go
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‘We wanted it to be a battlecry’: how Republica made 90s anthem Ready to Go

‘The day Saff came into the studio with red hair, I said, “We’re gonna be massive!” It was the missing link’ We always had a vision of mixing acid house with indie rock, and we managed to rent a space and build our own studio in London’s Shoreditch area, long before it got trendy. I had a little vocal booth called Hattie…

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Stevie Wonder releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life sessions
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Stevie Wonder releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life sessions

Previously unreleased material comes as Wonder marks 50th anniversary of album with arena tour Stevie Wonder has expanded the scope of what was already the most epic studio album in his catalogue, 1976’s Songs in the Key of Life. Four unheard songs from the recording sessions have been released today as a new EP of the same…

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Pandora’s Legacy review – fascinating profile of silent film legend GW Pabst
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Pandora’s Legacy review – fascinating profile of silent film legend GW Pabst

Through intimate letters and family interviews, this probing documentary about the Austrian film-maker reveals a complicated figure A titan of silent cinema, Austrian director GW Pabst left behind a treasure trove of classics. Working in Weimar Germany, Pabst gave Greta Garbo her second ever lead role in The Joyless Street…

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Painting the French Riviera review – about as erotic and glamorous as a wet day in Margate
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Painting the French Riviera review – about as erotic and glamorous as a wet day in Margate

Royal Academy of Arts, London They’ve marginalised Matisse and given Picasso the cold shoulder – and what’s left seems more informed by pedantic geography than sensual art The French Riviera is not a place. It is a dream of paradise, one of those Arcadias we long for – timeless, perfect worlds saturated with light.

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'Major breakthrough': Ancient wall discovery points to origins of first Paris settlement
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'Major breakthrough': Ancient wall discovery points to origins of first Paris settlement

French archaeologists have revealed details of a find that is thought to be evidence of the first settlement in central Paris. The discovery of a 20-metre stretch of an ancient wall near Notre Dame Cathedral suggests Lutetia, the ancient name for the capital, was built on the Île de la Cité.

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‘Richly rewarding’: why Netflix’s A Different World is the only TV reboot worth watching this year
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‘Richly rewarding’: why Netflix’s A Different World is the only TV reboot worth watching this year

With zany twists and lovable new faces, reboot of the Black sitcom is a worthy sequel to the trailblazing 1980s original It’s often the case that nothing disappoints like a sitcom reboot . The Malcolm in the Middle revival is missing Dewey .

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Impressionist masters and deranged diggers: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week
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Impressionist masters and deranged diggers: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Tom Cruise gives his zaniest performance yet in dark comedy 'Digger', The Smiths' Johnny Marr returns with his 10th album, and new exhibitions spotlight Renoir and Monet. Here's what to look out for this week.

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Crushed review – Steve Oram is priestly lead in harrowing Bangkok-set child-abduction thriller
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Crushed review – Steve Oram is priestly lead in harrowing Bangkok-set child-abduction thriller

A priest investigates his daughter’s kidnapping in Thailand in this Paul Schrader-esque inquiry into spiritual nihilism ‘He’s American, a little bit overweight, sweaty, a little bit camp, creepy.” As far as descriptions of border-hopping paedophiles go, this seems a little on the nose. So it’s not surprising when the man who…

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Rediscovered chalk drawing of child attributed to Édouard Manet
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Rediscovered chalk drawing of child attributed to Édouard Manet

Exclusive: Work, whose subject resembles street urchin in masterpiece by artist, chanced upon in private collection A red chalk drawing of a crouching child, spotted in a private Italian collection, has been attributed by an art historian to the French modernist painter Édouard Manet. The child, whose identity has yet to be…

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‘Should have garnered the actor an Oscar’: why Liar Liar is my feelgood movie
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‘Should have garnered the actor an Oscar’: why Liar Liar is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to the films they watch when they need a lift is an appreciation of Jim Carrey’s manic 90s comedy To be completely honest, whenever anybody asks what my favorite movies are, my list has some typical standbys: Goodfellas and It’s a Wonderful Life among them. The holiday classic…

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Rod Stewart announces final tour for 2027: ‘Most definitely my last’
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Rod Stewart announces final tour for 2027: ‘Most definitely my last’

The 81-year-old singer will wrap up a touring career that stretches back to his mid-teens in the early 1960s, with dates planned for UK and Europe Rod Stewart has announced that his next tour will be his last. The 81-year-old singer has been touring since the early 1960s, when he set out across Europe with a harmonica – and…

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Just Play Dead review – Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green punch up switchback crime caper
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Just Play Dead review – Samuel L Jackson and Eva Green punch up switchback crime caper

Jackson and Green just about manage to distract viewers from the sub-par Tarantinoesque flourishes, confusing plot points and tired stereotypes Having shot five films since 2020, 82-year-old Martin Campbell is a certified member of the post-retirement director’s club that includes Ridley Scott, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen et…

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Range by Dorthe Nors review – an astrophysicist at odds with reality
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Range by Dorthe Nors review – an astrophysicist at odds with reality

In the Danish writer’s latest novel, an eminent scientist withdraws to the countryside When Gunn Haven, an eminent professor of astrophysics at an urban university, moves to rural Denmark, she tells a local newspaper: “It’s to do with the sky.” From the outset of Range, Danish author Dorthe Nors’s fifth full-length novel, it…

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‘I’ve never watched a whole episode of Peep Show’: Matt King on surviving a stroke and reviving Super Hans
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‘I’ve never watched a whole episode of Peep Show’: Matt King on surviving a stroke and reviving Super Hans

The actor is returning to his character in the cult Channel 4 sitcom with a new autobiography – despite barely watching the series. He talks about his ‘terrifying’ hospital stay and why strangers still shout at him about crack being ‘moreish’ Super Hans is back!

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Sex, drugs and floral fabrics: Celia Birtwell relives her wild times – and wilder outfits – with Ossie Clark
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Sex, drugs and floral fabrics: Celia Birtwell relives her wild times – and wilder outfits – with Ossie Clark

They dressed – and partied with – the innermost in-crowd. As a swirling new show celebrates their fashion creations, Birtwell recalls her happy days with Clark and her sorrow at the loss of David Hockney In the mythical age of bohemia, the psychedelic decade between Mary Quant’s cheerful miniskirts and the first snarls of punk…

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Kikuyu Land review – the colonial-era misery behind our morning cup of tea
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Kikuyu Land review – the colonial-era misery behind our morning cup of tea

The impact of colonial then corporate agricultural development is unravelled in a sobering documentary that takes a dramatic turn when a family secret is discovered The central highlands of Kenya are renowned for their lush tea plantations, which stretch as far as the eye can see. Most of the field workers come from the…

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Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965-66 by David Kynaston review – a tour de force of popular history
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Deep into the Sixties: Britain 1965-66 by David Kynaston review – a tour de force of popular history

From the Beatles and the World Cup to racism and homophobia, the latest instalment in Kynaston’s series captures a society in the throes of change In February 1965, the civil rights activist Malcolm X visited Smethwick, in the Midlands, where the Conservative-run council was planning to buy up houses to stop the area becoming…

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‘My husband has to remind me: You’re not a real cop!’ Siân Brooke on the perils of playing a tough Blue Lights ‘peeler’
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‘My husband has to remind me: You’re not a real cop!’ Siân Brooke on the perils of playing a tough Blue Lights ‘peeler’

She lit up Sherlock, made a brutal exit from House of the Dragon and now she’s back in the hard-hitting Belfast-set police drama. Will she have to stuff a chopping board into her flak jacket this time round?

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‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre
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‘We could have had good fun a few decades ago’: Christine Baranski and Richard E Grant on sex scenes, parties and theatre

The actors are working together for the first time ever, in Noël Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. Backstage, there’s no stopping their tales of skinny-dipping, fat-shaming and warring co-stars Richard E Grant : Despite our vast combined vintage, our paths have never crossed before, have they?

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MTV VMAs 2026: Taylor Swift and Madonna win at awards dominated by female artists
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MTV VMAs 2026: Taylor Swift and Madonna win at awards dominated by female artists

Madonna and Swift take home four of six prizes given out during ceremony telecast, alongside K-pop star Lisa and British newcomer Sienna Spiro MTV VMAs 2026 red carpet: Taylor Swift, Charli xcx, Troye Sivan and more – in pictures MTV VMAs: full list of winners Madonna and Taylor Swift triumphed at the 2026 MTV Video Music…

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