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• The One Thing Abducted in Plain Sight Viewers Don't Understand, According to Jan Broberg

  15-02-2019 21:30 via feeds.eonline.com
  The unbelievable true story of Jan Broberg is now out in the world for all to see. Broberg, an actress who has appeared in Everwood, I'm Sorry and Iron Man 3, is the subject of the true-crime...
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Dear Academy: Face It, the Short-Film Oscars Should Be Cut From the Telecast

  15-02-2019 21:28 via nytimes.com
  Giving these shorts their due in a separate ceremony would make the main event swifter and stronger, argues the Carpetbagger.
  
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• 5 Facts You Never Knew About Meg Ryan's Best Rom-Coms

  15-02-2019 21:18 via feeds.eonline.com
  She's Meg Ryan, the Queen of Rom-Coms.The 57-year-old actress rose to fame thanks to her leading role in the 1989 cult film When Harry Met Sally..., co-starring Billy Crystal,...
  
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• Meghan Markle Is Making Her Big Screen Return

  15-02-2019 21:02 via feeds.eonline.com
  Meghan Markle's movie might be heading to the big screen.According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Duchess of Sussex's 2011 film The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down has been...
  
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• Critic’s Notebook: Suspended in Air, Searching for Connection in Two High-Flying Shows

  15-02-2019 21:01 via nytimes.com
  “When Angels Fall,” at Peak Performances, and “Non Solus,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, blend circus with dance in feats of perfect equilibrium.
  
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• Last member of real-life Great Escape team dies aged 99

  15-02-2019 20:29
  Dick Churchill escaped from German prison camp in a feat immortalised in the film starring Steve McQueenTributes have been paid to the last surviving member of the real-life Great Escape team after his death at the age of 99. Former squadron leader Dick Churchill was one of the 76-strong group who escaped from the Stalag Luft III camp in Germany in 1944. The site is now part of Poland.Their feat of courage became one of the most famous stories from the second world war, and was immortalised in t
  
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• The Carpetbagger: Oscars Rewind: When Harvey Weinstein Was a Force in Oscar Campaigns

  15-02-2019 18:19 via nytimes.com
  He pulled off an upset when “Shakespeare in Love” won best picture 20 years ago, though in retrospect he may not have been the underdog he seemed at the time.
  
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• Will Smith’s Blue Genie and Other Scary Trailers This Week

  15-02-2019 17:03 via nytimes.com
  In a week that brought a bounty of new clips, promos for “Yesterday,” “Chlid’s Play” and “Ma” stood out; the one for “Aladdin” raised eyebrows.
  
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• Best Picture Tournament: We're Down to the Final Four Oscar-Winning Films Before Naming a Champion

  15-02-2019 16:11 via feeds.eonline.com
  Can you believe it? We are down to the final four films in our Best Picture Tournament!After two weeks of voting, and lots of difficult face-off rounds, you've narrowed down our list...
  
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• Lenny Henry on his Windrush series: 'We felt the sting of injustice sharply'

  15-02-2019 15:48
  A new BBC drama follows generation Windrush, from first arrival to the scandal of deportation. Executive producer and star Sir Lenny Henry explains why their story needed to be toldLast year the nation set out to celebrate a bold, brave and pioneering generation; those who, in 1948, made the transatlantic journey aboard the Empire Windrush in search of a ‘better’ life.The Windrush generation, and the deportation scandal they were the victims of last year, is something that both mysel
  
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• Anatomy of a Scene: How ‘The Lego Movie 2’ Envisions the Apocalypse

  15-02-2019 15:30 via nytimes.com
  The director Mike Mitchell discusses how these familiar characters ended up on the wrong side of the bricks.
  
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• ‘The Lego Movie 2’ | Anatomy of a Scene

  15-02-2019 15:26 via nytimes.com
  The director Mike Mitchell narrates a sequence from his film.
  
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• CBBC sitcom about British Chinese family accused of racism

  15-02-2019 15:16
  Critics say scripts for Living With the Lams contain a ‘litany of orientalist cliches’An upcoming BBC children’s sitcom that focuses on a British Chinese family has been marred by accusations of racism.A group representing British East Asians in the film and TV industry said it was indefensible that the show should have been developed and written with little input from writers and creatives from the community. Continue reading...
  
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• Streaming Movie Review: ‘The Breaker Upperers’ Review: Calling It Off, With an Assist

  15-02-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  This New Zealand comedy by Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami adds some welcome irreverence to the homogenized mix of Netflix comedies.
  
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• Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle review – beautiful and epic family drama

  15-02-2019 14:19
  Kwame Kwei-Armah’s self-contained stories shift through the decades to movingly explore the experience of migration. If only they made more of themFull of misplaced optimism, Eunice packed a white straw hat decorated with ribbons, white church gloves and a silk scarf before leaving Jamaica in 1948 for her new life in England.A year later, she looks at them, still unworn, still folded in her suitcase, and laughs sadly. “Which film did you think you were coming to star in? Well now you
  
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• Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle review – a moving search for identity

  15-02-2019 14:19
  Kwame Kwei-Armah’s beautiful self-contained stories move through the decades to explore the experience of migrationFull of misplaced optimism, Eunice packed a white straw hat decorated with ribbons, white church gloves and a silk scarf before leaving Jamaica in 1948 for her new life in England.A year later, she looks at them, still unworn, still folded in her suitcase, and laughs sadly. “Which film did you think you were coming to star in? Well now you know.” Life in England ha
  
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• The Week in Arts: Kamasi Washington, Amy Sedaris, Farruquito’s Flamenco

  15-02-2019 14:00 via nytimes.com
  The brash saxophonist performs at the Apollo; Season 2 of “At Home With Amy Sedaris" begins; and the Spanish dancer returns to Manhattan.
  
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• Weird City: Jordan Peele's sci-fi curio is a star-studded disappointment

  15-02-2019 13:24
  The Get Out director’s YouTube show is packed with big names – from Rosario Dawson to Michael Cera – but the Black Mirror-style premise feels worn and stretchedWith the launch of YouTube’s latest original series Weird City, the world-conquering video portal seems keen to hold up a polished onyx reflector to our tech-traumatised times, albeit one with a goofy funhouse spin. Created by the Oscar-winning writer/director of Get Out, Jordan Peele, and Charlie Sanders, who prev
  
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• This week’s best home entertainment: from Soon Gone to Flack

  15-02-2019 12:59
  Kwame Kwei-Armah’s Windrush family saga is on BBC Four, while Anna Paquin is a firefighting PR in FlackYoung Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah brings together an impressive collection of acting and directing talent, including Lenny Henry and Sherlock’s Vinette Robinson for this affecting miniseries on Generation Windrush. Set in a single living room, it traces one family’s fortunes, taking in everything from the 1981 Brixton riots to the recent deportation scandal.
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• It’s crackers to bring back Crackerjack!

  15-02-2019 12:30 via ft.com
  ‘No one actually liked it: it’s just that it was often the only thing that was on’
  
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• 'I know what it feels like to be hunted': Brigitte Bardot on life in the spotlight

  15-02-2019 12:28
  Actor reflects on her despair at human nature and how animals have brought her peaceShe was the ultimate screen goddess, who gave it all up, dedicating herself to protecting animals for the past 46 years. Now, in a forthcoming memoir, Brigitte Bardot laments the destructive nature of celebrity, saying it suffocated her and robbed her of the ability to go anywhere without being approached by strangers, some of whom wanted to embrace and touch her.“I know what it feels like to be hunted,&rdq
  
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• BBC's This Week to end after 16 years as Andrew Neil steps down

  15-02-2019 12:10
  Lighthearted late-night politics show will conclude in the summer when its current series endsThe BBC’s long-running late-night politics show This Week is to end after its presenter Andrew Neil announced he was stepping down.The BBC One show, which airs on Thursdays after Question Time, will be taken off air this summer when its current series ends, the corporation said. Continue reading...
  
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• The Umbrella Academy review – get ready for a downpour of hokum

  15-02-2019 12:00
  Seven superhero siblings and a talking ape butler make Netflix’s latest comic-book adaptation a daffy, palate-cleansing treatThere is such a rich array of televisual treats before us that sometimes it is overwhelming. As soon as one dish finishes, the plate is whisked away and another tasty dish appears – Killing Eve, perhaps, while you were still patting your stomach in satisfaction after Patrick Melrose. Sometimes the palate longs for something simple to cleanse it. Diners, let me
  
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• A Peerless ‘War and Peace’ Film Is Restored to Its Former Glory

  15-02-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Sergei Bondarchuk’s 1960s movie, made with a virtually unlimited budget and the backing of the Soviet state, comes to Lincoln Center this weekend.
  
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• A Pop Culture Shock After the Trip of a Lifetime

  15-02-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  Our 52 Places Traveler thought she could rely on downloads as armor against the unknowns of global travel. That’s not how it went down.
  
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• Friday’s best TV: Flat Pack Pop: Sweden’s Music Miracle; Grantchester

  15-02-2019 07:19
  A fascinating documentary on how Sweden became the world’s biggest exporter of pop. Plus: a teddy boy’s murder is the focus of this 50s-set series9pm, BBC Four Continue reading...
  
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• Ron Burgundy brings his classy touch to true crime – podcasts of the week

  15-02-2019 07:00
  Will Ferrell’s famous Anchorman blunders into the world of podcasting, while a new series explores the dangerous chaos of tech startup TheranosMajor podcast players Spotify and the BBC are teaming up for a new series. Created by the BBC Studios arm of the corporation, Stay Free: The Story of the Clash will follow ‘the rise, the reign and the self-destruction’ of Joe Strummer’s punk icons, according to Deadline. The eight-part series is narrated by Public Enemy rapper Chuc
  
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• Lorena review – she cut off her husband's penis, but who was the real victim?

  15-02-2019 07:00
  It was the member-maiming heard around the world, but in 1993 there was little interest in why Lorena Bobbitt did what she did. This documentary tells her side of the storyThe emergency service men, one nurse recalls, all sat with their legs crossed protectively. “We,” she added, of all the women involved at the hospital, “were thinking: ‘What did he do to make her do something like that?’” He was John Wayne Bobbitt, she was his wife, Lorena Bobbitt, and the s
  
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• Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag

  15-02-2019 06:00 via ftalphaville.ft.com
  If an enterprise needs an army of online thought police to protect it, it's definitely not an investment worth making.
  
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• What will change with the EU’s new copyright law?

  15-02-2019 05:00 via ft.com
  New rules aim to give artists and publishers more power over internet platforms
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Face Death Onstage

  15-02-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  In “Sea Wall/A Life,” at the Public Theater, a pair of monologues gives the two stars ample opportunity to shine and mourn.
  
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