Arts and entertainment news from Guardian US
Arts
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The acclaimed author on the power of familial love, ignoring advice to write only about domestic life, and the recent death of her husband
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We’ve come a long way since that 80s one where you punched a bull in the face. As fighting games hit home in Black Mirror’s Striking Vipers, we chart their evolution
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Chasing Happiness fails to offer any analysis of how and why the boyband happened in the first place
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Black Mirror is back. From an 80s lesbian romance to a murderous choose-your-own adventure, here are the essential dystopian stories you must watch before the new season drops next week
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Late-night hosts discussed the race to impeach the president as well as his latest ‘category 5 tweetstorm’
People
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The actor has taken issue with the phrase, saying that such labels block communication, and that women can also be toxic
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The comedian confirms that Kid Rock was so incensed by the 2006 comedy that he filed to end his marriage to Baron Cohen’s co-star
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The big picture
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Photographer Fred Sigman’s latest book, Motel Vegas, documents the vernacular roadside architecture that at once dominated the Nevada city’s skyline
Reviews
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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 -
2 out of 5 stars.
Film Always Be My Maybe – another middling Netflix romantic comedy
2 out of 5 stars.Ali Wong and Randall Park can’t spin enough charm from a flat-looking regurgitation of a formula we know all too well -
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1 out of 5 stars.
Film Domino – atrocious thriller is new low for Brian De Palma
1 out of 5 stars.
Pictures & video
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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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