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Carve a pumpkin? You can do better than that. Fun and unusual ways to celebrate the season, from writing a gratitude letter to making an ancestral altar.
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In a blockbuster show, The Metropolitan Museum of Art places the work of two major 20th century artists side by side: the married couple Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. (Image credit: Ernst Haas)
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Veronica Roth's latest, The Sixth Faction, takes us back to the beginning, where Beatrice Prior has a choice to make. This time, she chooses another path.
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Fjord .'/> Cristian Mungiu's latest film takes place in a small Norwegian town, where a recently arrived couple stands accused of abusing their children — but in Fjord , the truth is never quite clear.
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Warning: contains spoilers The four short scenes added to the new version has made the film the highest-grossing of all time – but the only people really enjoying this are the Disney accountants Does it really matter which film is the highest-grossing of all t
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Genden Phuntsok brings charm and innocence to his portrayal of Tenzing Norgay, while Tom Hiddleston is suitably frank as Edmund Hillary Here is a well intentioned, watchable, if sometimes soft-edged film with some NatGeo production values on high mountain peak
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There’s some effectively unnerving imagery and a cleverly icy dual lead performance but this kept-from-critics shocker is a bit of a jumble The buzz surrounding the viral, limb-bending trailer of pre-Halloween horror Other Mommy was such that screen grabs beca
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The French author discovered Carson on a bus while stranded in a snowstorm and has been enthralled by her fearless imagination ever since Where to start with Anne Carson ‘Delights await!’: Margaret Atwood and other writers on Nobel winner Anne Carson 1. Anne C
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Late-night hosts looked at Trump’s latest lies and his bizarre comments on Iran destroying Los Angeles and San Diego Late-night hosts poked fun at Donald Trump’s attempts to lie about crowd size once again as his administration continues to show signs of corru
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Saber is expected to fetch at least $1m and is one of more than two dozen props that will be up for sale A lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the Star Wars duel where he tells Luke Skywalker “I am your father” is going up for sale at Heritage Auctions next mont
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When her sons died the Book of Goose author turned to Grief Lessons, Carson’s translation of four plays by Euripides. She reflects on the ‘life sustaining’ work of an extraordinary writer • Where to start with: Anne Carson • ‘Delights await!’: Margaret Atwood
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Jeremy Strong’s portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning shows how public opinion has changed around billionaire CEOs since The Social Network’s release When The Social Network came out, Mark Zuckerberg organised a staff viewing of a film he descri
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Drawing from post-hardcore, twee and emo, the Exeter trio’s intoxicating energy feels like an invitation to form your own band From Exeter, UK Recommended if you like Boyracer, the Promise Ring, Rites of Spring Up next Little Bastard EP out now It’s tempting t
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Misty Green. '/> Chris Rock's new movie Misty Green wants to critique Hollywood's treatment of Black women. Instead, it gives star Rosalind Eleazar a half-baked role while Rock plays a moralizing savior we've seen before. (Image credit: A24)
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It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable Werner Best, a senior SS official and jurist who helped organize the Nazi death squads that
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The poet and author on F Scott Fitzgerald’s perfect novel, losing faith in Ernest Hemingway – and the recent debut that blew her away My earliest reading memory Lynley Dodd’s Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy – where an assortment of differently shaped dogs
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PlayStation 5 (version played), Xbox, PC; Epic Games Publishing This fetchingly presented horror game brings style and scares, but overextends itself with repetition A small band of soldiers enters an abandoned facility, where puckered flesh sprouts from cold
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