Culture
Jonathan Demme, Oscar-winning director of Silence of the Lambs, dies
The ever-daring director leaves behind an incredible catalogue of films, from Philadelphia to Something Wild
Casting JonBenet's Kitty Green on re-enactment in her documentary
The Australian director explores the unsolved child-murder case of JonBenét Ramsay in Colorado by asking members of her local Boulder community to audition for a film about her murder
- TV + radio reviews
The Leftovers season 3 episode 2 review
Award ceremony bosses may as well etch the actor's name onto all the trophies now
- TV + radio news
Orange Is the New Black season 5 leaked online by hacker
The hacker demanded the streaming service pay an undisclosed amount
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Game of Thrones language Dothraki to be taught at university
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TV Preview: Line of Duty finale and American Gods episode 1
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Designated Survivor went heavy with the product placement this week
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GoT actor 'very into' the scene people think signals Cersei's death
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La La Land director Damien Chazelle working on TV musical
Seth Rogen is making a movie about a music festival that goes wrong
It turns out the doomed Fyre Festival was a case of life imitating art
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Marvel CEO Kevin Feige confirms huge fan theory regarding Stan Lee
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Mike Meyers looks back at 20 years of Austin Powers
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Blade Runner 2049 trailer will screen ahead of Alien: Covenant
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Harvey Weinstein wins MPAA battle for transgender film 3 Generations
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Film adaptation of Stephen King's Firestarter on the way
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- Music reviews
Bob Dylan review: He was possessed with passion for his early work
Despite some crooner-style old standards from the 'Great American Songbook', Bob Dylan confounded expectations with renditions of his old classics including 'Desolation Row' and 'Blowing in the Wind'
- Music news + features
Fyre Festival attendee gives their first-hand account of experience
A first-hand description of what went down at Ja Rule's doomed Bahamas-based festival
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Fyre Festival organiser explains disaster in open letter
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What Fyre Festival was supposed to look like
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Louis Berry talks his debut album and staying out of trouble
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Fyre Festival: Attendees 'locked in airport with no food or water'
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Ja Rule is behind luxury festival that has descended into Hunger Games
- Art news + features
Tate staff angered after being asked to donate to departing director
Employees were asked to help buy a boat as a leaving present
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Meet the British artist moulding records of the fight against Isis
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Residents overlooked by Tate Modern suing for breach of human rights
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Students criticise Gormley statue of person standing on roof's edge
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Shia LaBeouf is now living in an isolated cabin in Lapland
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Becoming Henry Moore review: His work could be better lit
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- Book reviews
Into the Water, review
There’s no doubt that Into the Water will sell a lot of copies. Like Paula Hawkins’ 2015 hit The Girl On the Train, this, her second thriller is one that will appear on those “beach reads” round-ups and stick around on bestseller stands at airports for months to come. Then, just when even your friend that “doesn’t do books” has read it, the film will come out – the rights have already been sold – and it will start again, this time with a Hollywood A-Lister on the cover. But is it any good? Well, I won’t deny that I was semi-gripped. Not quite still-reading-it-on-the-Tube-escalator gripped, but sufficiently so that I eschewed company at lunchtime for a few days to finish it.
- Book news + features
Physical book sales rebound to hit five-year high as ebooks slump
Publishers Association optimistic growth sustainable
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Wellcome Book Prize announces winner for 2017
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Ted Hughes' widow says Sylvia Plath claims about abuse are 'absurd'
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The Chicken Connoisseur signs book deal with Blink Publishing
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Unpublished Sylvia Plath letters claim domestic abuse by Ted Hughes
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Merriam-Webster dictionary trolls United over definition of volunteer
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- Theatre + dance reviews
Romeo and Juliet review: Emotionally fierce and fiery
Daniel Kramer's production which reinterprets the star-crossed lovers as modern-day teenagers and includes Village People's 'YMCA' as the main number at the Capulets' Ball is bound to upset the purists
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Nuclear War review: Intriguing but truly satisfying only in snatches
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The Philanthropist review: A strange play to unearth now
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The Plague review: The play is applicable to Ebola, Syria and Brexit
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Guards at the Taj review: It seizes on potent philosophical issues
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Betroffenheit review: Raw, funny and profoundly, tenderly human
- Theatre + dance news + features
Judi Dench criticises young theatre actors
'They're just not curious. It's just non-curiosity'