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The singer and actor reveals her favourite ever Black Mirror, and the pop parallels in her new episode
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As a new season of TV’s paranoid satire Black Mirror is unveiled, its creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones talk ‘disrespectful’ chemistry, being grownup and why the show is not about tech -
Twenty years ago, the idea of free music was so compelling that up to 80m users downloaded Napster and broke the law. The aftershocks are still being felt today
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After weeks of speculation, the actor has officially inherited the keys to the Batmobile from Ben Affleck
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4 out of 5 stars.
Expectations are high after the Mercury-winning Konnichiwa, but Skepta’s flow ensures this follow up is a sensual pleasure
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4 out of 5 stars.
Television & radio When They See Us – Netflix's gut-wrenching tale of the Central Park Five
4 out of 5 stars.Ava DuVernay pulls no punches in this urgent, astonishing retelling of an assault case that opened a window on injustice in America -
4 out of 5 stars.
Music Richard Hawley: Further – mellow fellow keeps it rocking
4 out of 5 stars.His eighth album sees Hawley ruminate on themes from ageing to solitude, with the guitars turned up loud
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The pixie popster drops the bop, Chance and PnB Rock team up with the ginger prince, while UK garage gets a re-rewind to 1999 -
4 out of 5 stars.
Music Lee 'Scratch' Perry: Rainford – Upsetter on an even keel
4 out of 5 stars.Producer Adrian Sherwood meets dub-reggae hero half way, with new tech to enhance Perry’s ideas – it’s a return to form -
3 out of 5 stars.
Stage Flinch review – Gen Z couple's fears, fights and restless ecstasy
3 out of 5 stars.Emma Hemingford’s promising debut gets under the skin of a troubled relationship and refuses to take sides
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Francis Ford Coppola’s wildly ambitious take on Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness premiered at the Cannes film festival 40 years ago – and won the Palme d’Or. Next month, recently discovered on-set photographs by Chas Gerretsen will be shown for the first time at KINO Rotterdam
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