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• Mother’s Day review – gut-wrenchingly hard to watch, but hugely inspiring

  03-09-2018 23:30 via theguardian.com
  This was a touching, human, desperately sad drama about the IRA attack in Warrington that proved to be the catalyst for peace; plus an innovative way of exploring the devastation wrought on the families of convicted paedophilesA woman sits in a hospital, consumed by anguished thought and accompanied by the sound of someone breathing through a ventilator. We don’t see the patient yet, but I think we know who it’s going to be. Then, memories of happier times – a newborn baby boy,
  
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• New Yorker Festival Faces Backlash Over Steve Bannon Headlining

  03-09-2018 23:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Update: In a statement made Monday evening, publisher David Remnick announced he had “changed his mind” following the backlash to his decision to interview Steve Bannon for The New Yorker Fest. “I don’t want well-meaning readers and staff members to think that I’ve ignored their concerns. I’ve thought this through...More »
  
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• The Innocents Recap: The Real Housewives of Sanctum

  03-09-2018 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Ben’s away, the shapeshifters will pl– get a little drunk and bond in ways they are typically not allowed to but desperately crave. Although I’m extremely invested in the Ballad of Harry and June, I could’ve spent this entire episode with the women of Sanctum — the things that...More »
  
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• Insecure Recap: Just Like Starting Over

  03-09-2018 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  Depicted onscreen, the opening or closing of a door is an unsubtle broadcaster of narrative beginnings or endings. A door opens and tornado-swept Dorothy and Toto begin their traipse through the trippy, Technicolor dreamscape of Oz. A door closes and you know for certain that Henry Hill’s life amongst the...More »
  
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• Buzz Aldrin Weighs in On the Controversy Over First Man’s Amount of Flags

  03-09-2018 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  First Man is by most accounts a good movie about Neil Armstrong’s journey into space, but it’s been marred by controversy this week over not featuring enough of the American flag for some people. Today Buzz Aldrin, the man who climbed down that ladder right after Neil Armstrong did, appeared...More »
  
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• Jacqueline Pearce, Blake's 7 and Doctor Who actor, dies aged 74

  03-09-2018 20:46 via theguardian.com
  Pearce, best known for role as evil Supreme Commander Servalan, had lung cancerBlake’s 7 star Jacqueline Pearce has died at the age of 74, shortly after being diagnosed with lung cancer, her friend John Ainsworth has said. Related: How evil Servalan took over my lifeContinue reading...
  
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• Critic’s Notebok: The Past Isn’t Safe at All at the Telluride Film Festival

  03-09-2018 20:44 via nytimes.com
  At this year’s edition, the movies looked ahead (to the Oscars) and back into history, none better than Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical “Roma.”
  
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• Critic’s Notebok: At the Telluride Film Festival, the Past Isn’t Safe at All

  03-09-2018 20:44 via nytimes.com
  At this year’s edition, the movies looked ahead (to the Oscars) and back into history, none better than Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical “Roma.”
  
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• WPP’s new boss is unlike Martin Sorrell

  03-09-2018 20:41 via ft.com
  Language of Mark Read’s appointment hints at opportunities
  
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• Sure, You’d Definitely Only Watch the Pornhub Awards If Kanye West Directs Them

  03-09-2018 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  You probably definitely have no idea at all because of course you’ve never visited it, but this Thursday the website Pornhub will be streaming its very first award show, hosted by Asa Akira, live from the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles. And now Page Six is reporting that the site...More »
  
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• Melissa McCarthy Correctly Suggests We Make an Oscar for Cats

  03-09-2018 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Saturday night saw the premiere of Melissa McCarthy’s latest project Can You Ever Forgive Me? at the Telluride Film Festival, in which she portrays the author and notorious literary forger Lee Israel. The film, which received glowing reviews and almost immediate awards buzz, features a slew of great performances from...More »
  
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• Myanmar must pay for crimes it is committing

  03-09-2018 19:24 via ft.com
  The jailing of two reporters is an attempt to halt scrutiny of army atrocities
  
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• Neil Armstrong biopic not unpatriotic, say sons as Aldrin fuels controversy

  03-09-2018 19:15
  First Man does not show the astronauts planting US flag, sparking anger on the right – but second man’s views are unclearNeil Armstrong’s sons do not think First Man, a Ryan Gosling-starring biopic about their father, is anti-American. Some American conservatives do. Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, may agree with them. Or he may not.Related: First Man review: Ryan Gosling shoots for the moon in Neil Armstrong biopicRelated: Neil Armstrong obituaryContinue reading...
  
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• Review: Living, and Dying, While Black in ‘Scraps’

  03-09-2018 18:58 via nytimes.com
  A community reels after a young father is killed by police in Geraldine Inoa’s unsettling play.
  
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• socializing with: George Salazar, a ‘Be More Chill’ Star, Heats Up Online

  03-09-2018 18:56 via nytimes.com
  How did an Off Broadway actor wrangle so many followers on Instagram? He hid in the bathroom.
  
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• Chris Evans: from enfant terrible to morning radio's favourite family man

  03-09-2018 18:31 via theguardian.com
  As he resigns from Radio 2’s flagship Breakfast Show, we take a look at the broadcaster’s journey to Murdoch’s Virgin RadioThe last time Chris Evans quit the BBC for Virgin Radio, he resigned from Radio 1’s Breakfast Show with a reputation as an enfant terrible of British broadcasting, known for hitting the tabloid headlines with all-day benders and signing off with a rant about his contractual conditions.More than two decades later, he quit the equivalent programme on Ra
  
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• How André Holland Keeps Castle Rock Afloat

  03-09-2018 17:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  Not long after Shawshank warden Dale Lacy (Terry O’Quinn) kills himself on Hulu’s Castle Rock, an out-of-town couple turns his house into a macabre tourist attraction. As the dummy perched on the living room couch with an ax lodged in its head makes clear, their bed and breakfast offers more...More »
  
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• Why Ice King Is Adventure Time’s Best Character

  03-09-2018 16:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  Adventure Time was never at a loss for memorable characters. The Cartoon Network show — which airs its final episode Monday night — got a lot of mileage out of its central duo of Finn and Jake, of course, but one of its central strengths was the way that it...More »
  
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• Room Director Finds Another Claustrophobic Space in The Little Stranger

  03-09-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Before his critically acclaimed indie hit Room earned Brie Larson an Oscar in 2016, director Lenny Abrahamson was toiling away in Ireland, looking for his niche as a filmmaker. His first film, Adam & Paul, was a modest success, taking the Laurel & Hardy approach to a pair of Dublin...More »
  
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• It’s good to talk? How Loose Women chatted itself into a clickbait corner

  03-09-2018 14:00 via theguardian.com
  After nearly two decades on screen this once innovative show has descended into one big slanging match as the recent Kim Woodburn controversy demonstrates Over the past few years, Loose Women has become notorious for spirited debates on topics ranging from the banal (“Should Camilla be Queen?”) to the grossly insensitive (“Can rape ever be the woman’s fault?”). But when the show first aired in 1999, it was genuinely innovative. Back at the height of ladette culture,
  
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• Myanmar journalists sentenced to 7 years in jail

  03-09-2018 10:10 via ft.com
  Case seen as defining moment for Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government
  
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• Roseanne Barr Says She’s Leaving for Israel When The Conners Premieres

  03-09-2018 07:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  While you might personally still be up in the air about your interest in the upcoming Roseanne spin-off, Roseanne Barr knows where she’ll be when The Conners drops on October 16: sunny Israel. In the latest episode of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s podcast, the actress outlined her plan to get the...More »
  
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• Monday’s best TV: Married to a Paedophile; Jeremy Vine

  03-09-2018 06:59 via theguardian.com
  A deeply eerie film with an unusual format that sees actors lip-sync words spoken by the wives of men convicted of downloading sexual images of children9pm, Channel 4
  The people seen in Colette Camden’s documentary are actors, but they lip-sync to real words spoken by the wives of men convicted of downloading sexual images of children. With the family torn apart – one father’s study is now a shrine to an unimaginable betrayal – what now? The unusual format and queasy subj
  
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• Monday’s best TV: Married to a Paedophile

  03-09-2018 06:59 via theguardian.com
  A deeply eerie film with an unusual format that sees actors lip-sync words spoken by the wives of men convicted of downloading sexual images of children9pm, Channel 4
  The people seen in Colette Camden’s documentary are actors, but they lip-sync to real words spoken by the wives of men convicted of downloading sexual images of children. With the family torn apart – one father’s study is now a shrine to an unimaginable betrayal – what now? The unusual format and queasy subj
  
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• Imagine This Guy Ordering This ‘Weinstein Is Innocent’ T-Shirt to Wear to the Suspiria Premiere

  03-09-2018 06:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  Picture, if you will, Italian director Luciano Silighini Garagnani making the “Weinstein Is Innocent” t-shirt he wore to the red carpet before Venice Film Festival’s world premiere of Suspiria. Did he Photoshop it himself? Did he have it commissioned? Did he rush order it, or did he plan his look...More »
  
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• At This Point, Dave Bautista Doesn’t Even Know If He Wants to Be in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

  03-09-2018 04:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 star Dave Bautista has hedged around this inevitability for some time now (well, as much as Dave Bautista hedges, which isn’t very much.) Now, in a new interview on The Jonathan Ross Show, the actor answers the question of whether or not he will...More »
  
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• Set The VCR Growing In Your Torso: David Cronenberg Is Developing a TV Show

  03-09-2018 02:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  David Cronenberg’s 1983 surrealist horror Videodrome imagined a world in which television could control, supplant and potentially destroy corporeal human existence as we know it. So, expectations are pretty high now that Variety reports the director is currently developing a television show. While attending the Venice Film Festival to receive...More »
  
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