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The Golden Record and the vastness of space inspire a fascinating but occasionally underdeveloped new work, alongside a richly rewarding performance from Randall Goosby
Read moreAfter Guardian writers picked their choices for Halloween, readers have responded with films that send chills down their spines – from Never Let Me Go to The Truman Show The murder of the taxi driver is utterly excruciating and the hanging at the end equally so. Both are shown in full, in close up and in real time. The condemned man’s last cigarette is smoked in full. The unease (to put it mildly) of the audience was palpable. Wiscot Continue reading...
Read moreThe new words that end up a part of everyday speech can tell us a lot about the zeitgeist. In a world changing faster than ever, we need to coin some more, writes Emma Beddington
Read moreWriter-director Matt Harlock looks into ego and insecurity in a smart film about a BritLit bad boy who goes down a grisly road
Read moreOne has a trunk, the other has big ears. And they both represent the two major American parties. How did the elephant and the donkey become the symbols (official or unofficial)…
Read moreThe latest in our ongoing series of writers detailing their most rewatched comfort films carries special romantic meaning
Read moreBonnie Tyler's last studio recording will be released as a Christmas single on November 13.
Read moreActor, who appeared in Dad’s Army and Rainbow, remembered as ‘true gent’ by TV producer Russell T Davies John Leeson, the actor best known as the voice of K9, the robot dog in Doctor Who, has died at 83. Leeson’s son, Guy Ducker, shared the news on Facebook. He wrote: “I regret to announce the death of my father … after a summer of illness. The end was peaceful.” Continue reading...
Read moreThe hallucinatory crisis of a war-scarred jurist with a painkiller dependency makes for frustrating reading
Read moreEvery bog-standard cliche is employed – and fails – in this moribund Aussie thiller, which entirely lacks both bite and bark
Read moreMal Evans’s tale of historic meeting among revelations in forthcoming memoir unpublished before his death in 1976 Meeting Elvis Presley was “the biggest day of all the years I have spent with the famous Beatles”, the band’s loyal road manager wrote. It is among recollections in a memoir that Mal Evans had planned to publish, with the band’s permission, before his death in 1976, aged 40, in a shooting by the Los Angeles police. Distraught over the breakup of his marriage, it is believed to have been “suicide by cop” after he repeatedly pointed an air rifle at police. Continue reading...
Read moreWritten by Vicar of Dibley co-creator Paul Mayhew-Archer, who has the disease, Onwards and Sideways sees the actors play a couple who bond over their diagnoses – a devastating subject but laced with humour too, they say Ahead of production on their first job together, Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney didn’t undergo the standard “chemistry read” to make sure they got on. Which is remarkable, given what their characters would have to do to each other in Onwards and Sideways. In the Norfolk-set BBC film directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), Ifans would have to nearly throttle Linney while in
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