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"It just feels like everything is over," says 23-year-old unemployed Ethan, rather unbearably, as he and his best mates from uni, Abi (Emily Fairn) and Sam (Olive Gray), leave their shared house. As they bounce around…
Klara and the Sun, says one, and her colleagues agree. It's not just that the film is still so fresh in their memory, or that they have gathered today to meet its creators and stars. Klara is funny and moving; it's their…
What's been one of your all-time favourite gigs? I loved performing on a lesbian cruise, despite the debilitating impostor syndrome (I'm an omnivore). I got a record number of fist-bumps from appreciative butches and met…
Earlier this month, I stepped back after presenting the programme for more than 20 years. I’m 77. Best to quit before people want you to go. I may have played into their hands, though. At the time of writing, Great Lives…
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That is until The Experiment – Channel 4's highly controversial social exercise designed to find out "how susceptible the British public are" to Nazi ideology about disabled people. This is a show so disturbing, timely…
Among the highlights: a woman who makes wild swimming her whole personality before realising she hates freezing water; a pair of overbearing, overopinionated mums who vlog from a sterilely clean kitchen ("you're not a…
Set on the coast of Tuscany, it’s an atmospheric story about a woman who’s drawn back to Italy 30 years after her husband’s death, forcing her to revisit a past she’s spent decades trying to forget. And to get into the…
There's still interest there, of course (this summer's Spider-Man is now the biggest film of all time in the US after all), but it's no longer good enough to leave a high-speed conveyor belt unmanned, purpose and quality…
The track is also accompanied by a music video directed by Alfred Marroquín. Legendary Love was written and recorded over a period of two and a half years, following Aalegra’s growth within a relationship that is…