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11 of the Winter Olympics’ most striking images

7. Mass and motion Getty Images Transformed by a photographer’s lens into smudgy speed lines accelerating behind the carefully calibrated push of her polished curling

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Amy Adams is Oscar-worthy in this fearless drama about alcoholism ★★★★☆

The actress makes a return to form in this hard-hitting film from Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó about a middle-aged woman facing up to addiction –

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How America’s Next Top Model became a TV horror show

Looking back on it with a 2025 lens It will be interesting to see how the perception of the show is shifted yet again by

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The true story of Japan’s mysterious samurai

Their playbook for statecraft was based on Chinese philosophy, principally the ideas of Confucius. “In Neo-Confucian thought,” says Buckland, “you have to have a balance

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The painful scene that really makes Taxi Driver a classic

Notable for its moments of shocking violence and its avant-garde visual approach, Taxi Driver is brimming with memorable scenes beyond Bickle’s famous squaring off in

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Why Vigil, a wacky, ‘climate change Christmas Carol’ is dividing readers

Yet he is painfully aware that this is “an impossible way to live”, an “idiot compassion” that eliminates personal responsibility and enables people to continue

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The policeman who inspired Al Pacino’s Serpico

More than just a few bad apples Serpico, partially deafened in one ear by the shooting, testified in the inquiry himself, saying: “I hope that

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10 of the best films to watch this February

Universal Pictures 9. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert When Baz Luhrmann was researching his Elvis biopic, he unearthed dozens of boxes of unseen documentary footage.

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10 of the best TV shows to watch this February

Gray House Inc(Credit: Gray House Inc) 9. The Gray House Set during the US Civil War, this historical drama is inspired by the true stories

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Why this Robert Burns classic is a masterpiece

Nannie and her cohorts aren’t pleased to hear it: Tam has to flee on horseback with a crowd of screeching witches in hot pursuit, “Wi’