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Minions are the face of the Despicable Me franchise. What makes them so loveable?
Cinema

Prison riots, boy band covers: A study of the Minions’ most bananas moments

These round yellow creatures have mastered the art of capturing our attention (and our money). Which of their antics won us over the most?

  • by Nell Geraets
FILE - Actor Donald Sutherland appears at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2017. Sutherland, the towering Canadian actor whose career spanned “M.A.S.H.” to “The Hunger Games,” has died at 88. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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Donald Sutherland, star of M*A*S*H and Hunger Games, dead at 88

The Canadian actor, whose lengthy career spanned from the 1960s into the 2020s, managed to switch effortlessly from character roles to romantic leads.

  • by Will Dunham and Patricia Reaney
(Clockwise from top) Ryan Gosling in Barbie; Kirsten Dunst in Wimbledon; Emma Thompson in Matilda the Musical; Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley in Bend it Like Beckham; Madonna in Die Another Day; and Steve Carell in Foxcatcher.
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Your Olympics warm up: You name the sport, we name the movie

  • by Louise Rugendyke
Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne as Rangimai and Guy Pearce as Thomas Munro in The Convert.
★★★★
Review

Once Were Warriors director returns with ‘raw and vicious’ The Convert

  • by Sandra Hall
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★★½
Review

World domination, sure, but how well does Gru settle into suburbia?

  • by Jake Wilson
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A week of 10Play
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I watched nothing but 10Play for a week. Here’s what I learnt

If you’re not a fan of reality shows or the 1990s, you probably won’t have a good time.

  • by Meg Watson
A rare photo of me making a midweek meal that took six hours.
Streaming

The Bear has made the kitchen TV’s most dramatic setting. But it wasn’t the first

Mouthwatering food, pressure cooker suspense, and Jeremy Allen White’s biceps are only part of the genre’s appeal.

  • by Robert Moran
Home renovators discover the shocking true story behind bullet hole in latest project on Houses with History.
1:42

Renovators learn the truth behind mysterious bullet hole

Host Mike Lemueiux and ghost hunter Dalen Spratt communicate with the spirit haunting an old home on Houses with History.
2:03

Mike and Dalen talk to a 'ghost'

Dr Bridie O’Donnell believes this year’s Tour de France will be more epic than usual, with a time trial finish in Nice.
Tour de France

‘Bigger than the Olympics’: Bridie O’Donnell on the Tour de France’s highs and lows

  • by Bridget McManus

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