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Shut up and dance: clubland's row over yapping, phones and the vanishing chill-out room

A DJ's plea for quiet on the dancefloor has turned into a wider reckoning with what years of club closures, licensing ...
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Sandra Hüller's crowded year: four films, one $684m hit, and a Marvel rumour nobody will confirm

The German actor is suddenly everywhere on screen - but her biggest 2026 role may be the one she won't discuss.
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Murim Login Chapter 202 Release Date, Spoilers & Where to Read – The Artistree

Murim Login offers an exciting take on the action and fantasy genres by blending virtual reality gaming with martial arts adventure. The story follows Jin Tae-Kyung, a low-ranking hunter who stumbles ...
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Almodóvar plays the villain in Bitter Christmas, but the real risk is the release strategy

The Spanish auteur's 24th film promises a reckoning with autofiction, Trump and Netflix, though the interview itself offers more sty than substance. Bitter Christmas is billed as a melodrama about the ...
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Beck on lonesome v funky, and the one song category he's never cracked

A rare reader Q&A doubles as album promotion for Ride Lonesome, genial, guarded, and light on the numbers that actually keep a 35-year career afloat. Beck has spent nearly four decades oscillating ...
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McDonagh's Easter Island spy caper surfaces - but who's paying for it stays off the record

Martin McDonagh’s next film has a title worth savouring: Wild Horse Nine. According to a new interview with The Guardian, it stars John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell as a pair of CIA agents stationed on ...
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Thirty years on, Republica cash in on the anthem that almost wasn't a hit

Republica’s Ready to Go has had a strange afterlife: sung by 40,000 people at the Stadium of Light when Sunderland beat Chelsea last season, performed pitchside at a Fifa World Cup, and reportedly a ...
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Michael Kiwanuka on the stroke that stopped his tour and the album it shelved

A year ago, Michael Kiwanuka’s career looked unassailable. His 2024 album Small Changes had drawn critical acclaim and was denied the UK No 1 spot only by Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, no small feat for a ...
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The monastery that ate itself: how The Name of the Rose nearly bankrupted its own producer

Forty years on, The Name of the Rose, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s 1986 adaptation of Umberto Eco’s monastery whodunnit, has arrived on 4K UHD and limited-edition Blu-ray via Second Sight Films, the kind of ...
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Neeson turns producer to bring Tuam's mass grave scandal to the screen

Nine years ago, Liam Neeson read a New York Times article about Catherine Corless, an amateur historian in County Galway who had spent years establishing that 796 children died at the St Mary’s mother ...
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Madness restore Take It or Leave It, the film they made instead of buying a country pile

Rather than sink their earnings into cars or country piles, Madness ploughed the money into Take It or Leave It, a semi-fictionalised account of their own scrappy beginnings, shot back in the streets ...
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Tim Walker points his lens at queer Britain, starting from a plaque in Highbury Fields

The fashion photographer behind Madonna and Rihanna shoots says he found his new subject in a 1970 arrest and a protest that happened on the day he was born - but the finished project remains ...