A couple have been chosen to help humanity survive the coming collapse of the planet.
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Set in the not-so-distant future, Foe poses questions about humanity and what it means to be human in the face of environmental collapse.
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From haunted houses to villainous vampires, these are the spooky reads our experts just can’t forget.
The cover to Dark Side of the Moon: Redux.
Roger Waters
In Redux, Waters goes from the extreme of understatement in his earlier work to the extreme of overstatement and overwriting
Terence Davies shooting Sunset Song in 2015.
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These films also chart the development of the director’s distinctive, very personal style.
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The business acumen of those behind the scenes at Disney have been central to the peaks and troughs of the company.
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Surprisingly, the earliest silent Disney films didn’t avoid references to sound.
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Long-distance relationships are hard but there are ways to make your connection stronger.
A player in Fortnite visiting the Holocaust museum and learning about the Jews of Tunisia.
Luc Bernard
It might seem odd but it’s not the first museum in a video game or metaverse.
Steve Coogan as Jimmy Savile in The Reckoning.
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Coogan’s profile as both an actor and as a comic contributed to the questions raised ahead of his portrayal of Jimmy Savile.
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Japanese and English readers have read Murakami in quite different contexts and chronologies.
Banksy has a team of lawyers and art dealers who make sure that the Banksy name is only ever associated with authentic Banksys.
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The scale of his work and the control he has over his brand suggests that Banksy is not just one man anymore.
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Made at a time when America was facing crises on many fronts, William Friedkin’s film has profound things to say about humanity and society.
Painting, Smoking, Eating by Philip Guston (1973).
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Guston’s complex engagement with racialised evil caused a contentious three-year delay in the exhibition opening.
The cast of Ghosts, series five.
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Ghosts’s mix of humour and poignancy echoes real 19th century attempts to communicate with spirits.
Mark Senior
Written by comedian Harry Hill, it’s a hectic hour-and-a-half of high-energy songs and skits.
Tony (Norbert Leo Butz), Katherine (Olivia O’Neill) and Miranda (Jennifer Nettles) in The Exorcist: Believer.
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There is a liberal splattering of gore, with the obligatory twisting heads and spewing of foul liquids.
Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor in Fair Play.
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In the US, where Fair Play is set, women didn’t gain the legal right to be members of the New York Stock Exchange until 1967.
Decadent Young Woman After the Dance by Ramón Casas (1899).
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With its iconic designs and its showcasing of women writers, the Yellow Book gave its name to the decade.
Jon Fosse.
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The prize has gone to a Norwegian playwright and novelist whose work examines the lives of ordinary people on the outer reaches of society.
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The poems go beyond protest songs – there is skill and craft to them.
Not everyone appears as they seem.
Hodder & Stoughton
The third book to feature the eponymous detective is a whydunnit not a whodunnit.
Celine Gittins and Tyrone Singleton performing in Black Sabbath – The Ballet.
Johan Persson
The elegance of classical ballet beautifully coalesces with the gritty, aggressive nature of heavy metal music.
Don’t Look Now opens with a shocking accident, after which the sense of dread never abates.
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A sinister and slow-building sense of dread ensures Nic Roeg’s supernatural horror lingers in the mind long after the credits have rolled.
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The emotional response to the loss of the Sycamore Gap is part of a long history of emblematic trees, their destruction and renewal
Sophie Wilde in Everything Now.
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The series should be praised for recognising that it’s not just white, middle-class girls who experience eating disorders.