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She wanted them to help her sort through old photographs to use in a memory book for son Carl (Jonathan Howard), though the night quickly took a sad turn. Assembling her friends around the dining table, Debbie laid out…
They give a weekly wildlife dispatch from their pod nestled in the countryside somewhere near Bristol, with guest experts and "guaranteed nerdiness". Hollie Richardson BBC Sounds, episodes weekly Exoplanet This sci-fi…
Her film, her feature directing debut, takes us inside the tight-knit world of Toronto's Tibetan community, using a cast of nonprofessional actors. It drifts in a dreamlike manner as it follows introverted 18-year-old…
Or is it about a childish impulse to show off? On location for the thriller Marathon Man in 1975, playing the regular guy unforgettably finding himself in a Nazi war-criminal's dentist chair, Hoffman told co-star…
“BEAUTY AND VIOLENCE ARE DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE SAME COIN.” Speaking on the language around girlhood, “My experience of it has been very savage, violent, like cathartic exorcism. That’s why I also say pop and noise are…
Recorded with Indiana-rooted drummer Ben Lumsdaine and trumpeter John Raymond, Beginningless maintains their strong winning streak. Butterss, Raymond, and Lumsdaine may not have recorded together before in this exact…
The guests at a luxurious Berlin hotel include a famous but unhappy ballerina, a hard-up baron who has turned thief, a dying clerk, a ruthless businessman and an ambitious secretary. Their contrasting stories unfold…
Over the next few films, producers struck a balance between nodding to the past while also moving away from some of the cheesier elements of the series, no longer sticking rigidly to all of the tradition and tropes of…
The BBC One soap aired Danny Dyer’s exit as the pub landlord back in 2022, when his character Mick was lost at sea following a car chase involving then-pregnant wife Janine Carter (Charlie Brooks) and ex-wife and…
At the heart of the story are Janet Williams and Emma Murphy, two mothers who refused to be deterred by official inertia (and, at times, outright scorn) and whose robust lack of self-pity makes this film stirring rather…