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America has seduced many of our greatest international filmmakers – but it can come at a cost

27 October 2025 at 10:00

The psychodrama ‘Die My Love’, starring Jennifer Lawrence, is the latest trip to the US for Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, of ‘You Were Never Really Here’ fame. But, like Pedro Almodovar and Wong Kar-Wai before her, leaving her homeland has slightly sanded off her edges, argues Xan Brooks

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The tragic history behind Springsteen’s darkest album that inspired new biopic

26 October 2025 at 20:55

In ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’, Jeremy Allen White plays Bruce Springsteen during the writing of ‘Nebraska.’ Kevin E G Perry looks back at the creation of a haunting record that many, including Springsteen himself, consider the New Jersey songwriter’s finest work

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Good Boys and Girls Star in the Dog Photography Awards 2025

26 October 2025 at 17:00

Three dogs leap off a dock into a lake at sunset, splashing in the water. Below, five black-and-white illustrations of dogs' faces are shown, each with distinct expressions and fur patterns.

The winners of the 2025 Dog Photography Awards have been revealed and Belinda Richards from Melbourne, Australia, has been crowned Dog Photographer of the Year.

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Murder, racism… and a drama therapist? David Harewood, Toby Jones and Caitlin FitzGerald on their new Othello

26 October 2025 at 10:00

Almost three decades after Harewood made history as the National Theatre’s first Black Othello, he is stepping back into the role. Annabel Nugent meets him and his co-stars over steak and salad to talk drama therapists, stinky smooches, and Blackface in theatre

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Rebecca Ferguson: ‘I seek sensations – movies that get inside of me and twirl my intestines up like spaghetti’

25 October 2025 at 09:00

The Swedish star of ‘Dune’ commands the room ferociously in Kathryn Bigelow’s deeply stressful new armageddon tale ‘A House of Dynamite’. She speaks to Adam White about nuclear war, standing up for herself on toxic sets, leaving ‘Mission: Impossible’ behind, and the co-star blind item that got the world talking

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‘I’m living with a tumour the size of a golf ball in my head – it’s changed my attitude to life’

25 October 2025 at 09:00

David Aird, 56, a London-based musician, builder, and father of one, had been suffering from migraines for five years before he saw his GP, who broke the news to him that he had a brain tumour the size of a golf ball. It blew his world apart, he tells Charlotte Cripps – but it also means he no longer sweats the small stuff

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Lily Allen has always been the queen of the confessional – West End Girl is a perfect exercise in unsparing honesty

25 October 2025 at 09:00

Younger artists like Charli XCX have mastered what Allen owned first: a kind of ironic detachment that makes any suggestion of female artists being ‘hysterical’ much harder. With her new album, the pop star is so back, says Roisin O’Connor

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Aerial Photographer Reveals the Beauty of Sweden’s Island Archipelago

24 October 2025 at 19:44

Aerial view of two rocky islands with dense clusters of red-roofed houses surrounded by deep blue water; the left island is smaller, while the right island is larger with more buildings and green patches.

The Nordic country of Sweden has over 260,000 islands -- the most of any country in the entire world. Recently, photographer Bernhard Lang explored a handful of them from above, picking out patterns that are invisible from the ground.

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Leonardo DiCaprio and David Fincher Once Tested a RED Camera Using Just a Single Match

23 October 2025 at 20:06

A man in a dimly lit room holds a lit match close to his face while smoking, with smoke partially obscuring his features.

Leonardo DiCaprio and director David Fincher are movie titans of the modern age; therefore it is surprising that the two have never worked together. Unless you count the time the pair tested a RED camera together in 2010 for a clip called The Match.

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