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Culture
Best films to watch out for at the Sundance Film Festival
Films that debut at Sundance with no buzz whatsoever often go on to earn Oscar nominations and wins
Room star Brie Larson on the film that changed her life
Room has a backdrop of kidnap and rape. Brie Larson tells James Mottram how the role opened her up like a wound
- TV + radio reviews
The Real Marigold Hotel, BBC2 - TV review
The show was much more about the personalities than the place
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Crashing, Channel 4 - TV review: A noisy, sweary, fast-paced show
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Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur, review: Truly moving piece of TV
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How we distinguish between Donald Trump and his waxwork
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10,000 BC: Two Tribes - fight for survival means not having a mobile
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The Comic Strip Presents... Red Top: You just couldn't make it up
- TV + radio news
Mary Berry's Beef Wellington criticised by viewers
'I’m horrified', wrote one Twitter user
Ava DuVernay says #OscarsSoWhite is not a 'diversity' issue
'There’s a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs?'
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A poultry remix of The Shining actually made it to Sundance
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The deranged Exorcist score that the director threw out the window
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12 famous films that nearly had very different titles
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The world's worst movie tagline goes to London Has Fallen
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First look at heartwarming new trailer for I'll See You in My Dreams
- Book reviews
Bowie on Bowie: Interviews and Encounters: Book review
Preposterous, a tad pretentious but oh so poignant
- Book news + features
Frances Hardinge becomes second children's author to win Costa prize
Bookies' outsider follows in footsteps of Philip Pullman to become just the second children's author to claim the prize
- Art news + features
Travel with the Impressionists: From Monet's garden to Sorolla's Spain
As a new exhibition opens at the Royal Academy of Arts, Aoife O'Riordain explores the scenery behind the paintings
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- Music reviews
Sia, This is Acting review: so much more than just off-cuts
This album of tracks written for other stars makes you wish Sia Furler kept every song for herself
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- Theatre + dance reviews
Pink Mist, review: Conveys the trauma of war with devastating impact
Owen Sheers' verse-drama on three young friends in Afghanistan eloquently fuses the topical and the timeless
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The Royal Ballet's Rhapsody, review: A virtuoso display
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4000 Days, review: McGowan executes a skilful portrait of an amnesiac
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The Rolling Stone, review: A play of insight, wit and tragic dilemma
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Le Corsaire, review: Shimmering dancing and packed with pirates
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Until the Lions, review: Akram Khan's tale of identity and revenge
- Theatre + dance news + features
Rat dies in freak accident just as her Broadway career was flourishing
She is remembered as 'a feisty, agile, fearless precocious rat who loved adventure'.