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European culture: art, music, film, books and ideas.
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Goodbye Chinatown by Kit Fan review – a chef’s elegy to London
Skipping between London, Shanghai and Hong Kong, this tale of family migration, politics and food has plenty of flavour and fire A…
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Veteran director Renny Harlin delivers kinetic survival thriller in Deep Water
Director Renny Harlin’s latest survival thriller proves his enduring command of action cinema, despite a script weighed down by ge…
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The Last First Time review – queer coming-of-age drama gives itself up to pleasure
A Mexican student’s post-exams night out becomes a heady voyage of self-discovery in this slight but joyful coming-of-age drama Th…
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Earth Photo awards expose economic toll of poaching and climate
The Earth Photo 2026 exhibition in London spotlights how illegal wildlife trafficking and climate-driven displacement are reshapin…
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The Art of Opposition by Courttia Newland review – piercing essays on culture and creativity
The novelist issues a inspiring call for artists to exercise their autonomy in a world of gatekeepers In 1988, the late Ghanaian w…
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Rural NI teen lands Disney role, draws four record offers
A 16-year-old from Northern Ireland has beaten 300,000 global applicants to star in Disney’s Cheetah Girls revival, immediately at…
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Actor Sam Neill dies at 78; rural New Zealand mourns 'just a local'
The death of internationally renowned actor Sam Neill has drawn an outpouring of grief not just from Hollywood, but from the rural…
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TV tonight: regrets and flashbacks in sizzling Swedish affair drama
Faithless is an erotic series based on Ingmar Bergman’s 2000 film. Plus: the final chilling part of the Pike County Murders. Here’…
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‘He made wine and he shared it. What more do you want?’: Sam Neill remembered by his co-stars
The actors Lindsay Duncan and Charles Dance, alongside director Peter Webber, pay tribute to a practical joker, unpretentious craf…
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US: 12 states challenge Paramount's buyout of Warner
The states have filed a lawsuit arguing that a merger of Hollywood giant studios Paramount and Warner would "extinguish competitio…
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Sam Neill dies at 78, leaving a versatile legacy and three posthumous films
The acclaimed actor’s death at 78 marks the end of a uniquely versatile career that spanned blockbuster franchises, independent ci…
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Name of ancient Maya astronomer-mathematician deciphered for the first time
Discovered alongside unique formulas for the movements of the sun and planets, the attribution proves the importance of such work …
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Google faces billion-pound risk as YouTube feeds teens harmful content
New research shows YouTube's algorithm is still recommending eating disorder content to teenage users across Europe, exposing Goog…
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Serkis defends Animal Farm flop and Lord of the Rings casting
Director Andy Serkis has pushed back against poor US box office returns and scathing reviews for his animated Animal Farm, while d…
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Film fans fly to Australia for Nolan's analogue Odyssey
European audiences are travelling to Melbourne to watch Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey on scarce 1570 film, signalling a new cons…
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Sculptor Valerie Brathwaite dies at 87 amid rising European museum interest
The Trinidadian-Venezuelan sculptor Valerie Brathwaite has died at 87, leaving behind a body of work that is only now gaining the …
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UK house prices to climb 19% as property dominates economy
A new documentary exposes how the UK's reliance on real estate as its largest economic sector has created a rigged market where pr…
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Evolution review – with this TV miracle, David Attenborough’s successor is well and truly crowned
The new BBC documentary is so wondrous and awe-inspiring it will make you feel like a child again – and in Chris Packham, it has a…
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I interviewed Sam Neill in 2024. He was even more charming than I’d expected | Zoe Williams
The actor, who has died aged 78, was refreshingly candid about Hollywood, filmmaking, his cancer treatment – and why he preferred …
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Arch Connelly, beloved mainstay of the 1980s East Village art scene, steps into the spotlight
The late artist’s first-ever institutional survey at the Aspen Art Museum honours him through its theatrical staging, featuring wo…
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Tom Cruise unveils remarkable transformation in Digger trailer: ‘I’ve never had something that could challenge me in this way’
The new Alejandro González Iñárritu film sees Cruise playing an eccentric oil baron on a mission to save the world The first full …
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UK funds £27.5m music rescue to close stadium-grassroots gap
The UK government is pouring millions into free public recording studios and cutting event red tape to prevent the economic collap…
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‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire
Love’s Labour’s Lost offers a heady mix of passion and death – which makes the Spanish art form a perfect match, says director Ind…
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Sam Neill was a warm, wry and unselfish star who twinkled so others could shine | Peter Bradshaw
His unshowy gifts, which discreetly carried arthouse drama and blockbuster adventures alike, never sucked a movie’s oxygen in to h…