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• Arcadia review – a beautifully bonkers montage of Britain's rural past

  10-03-2019 23:20
  Yes, there was dewy-eyed nostalgia for our green and pleasant land, but there was the gothic horror of what it has become – all set to a driving soundtrackIf the UK does leave the EU, Paul Wright’s beautifully bonkers film Arcadia (BBC4) should be used by Donald Tusk to show why we should never be allowed back in. What a shower of cheese-rolling, Morris-dancing, nude-prancing, crusty-raving, zebra-riding, dead poodle-grooming, fox-eviscerating, glue-sniffing, environment-despoiling,
  
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• ‘Captain Marvel’ Has the Year’s Best Opening Weekend at the Box Office

  10-03-2019 19:32 via nytimes.com
  The Brie Larson-led superhero story breezily outperformed expectations, bringing the domestic box office a much-needed boost this weekend.
  
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• Phoebe Waller-Bridge 'empowered' to see violent women on TV

  10-03-2019 19:02
  Creator of BBC’s Killing Eve says it’s refreshing not to see ‘women on slabs the whole time’Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who developed the award-winning BBC drama Killing Eve, has spoken of how it is “refreshing and oddly empowering” to see female characters being violent after decades of television in which women have been brutalised.The writer and actor acclaimed for her role in a new series of the BBC sitcom Fleabag which she created, addressed the issue as fans e
  
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• Dr. Funky Butt and Me: My Friendship with the Real Donald Shirley

  10-03-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  An author recalls the pianist at the center of “Green Book” as erudite, salty and not a little opinionated.
  
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• Africa's film awards still glitter, but few of its big screens are left

  10-03-2019 13:24
  ‘Video clubs’ and watching on mobile is taking over from the joyful experience of going to the cinemaThree riders on horseback canter up a dusty road in Ouagadougou to deliver the top prize, a golden horse, to the awards ceremony of Africa’s most important film festival. Dressed head to toe in glitter, film-themed wax fabric and flowing silks, celebrities of African cinema settle down, Rwanda’s national ballet performs and the presidents of Burkina Faso, Rwanda and Mali l
  
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• Saturday Night Live: Idris Elba hosts and the R Kelly jokes land … just about

  10-03-2019 11:55
  The British star trod the high wire of comedy with aplomb and Kate McKinnon’s Momo parody was the stuff of real nightmaresThe cold open spoofs Gail King’s CBS interview with “R&B star Robert Kelly, also known as R Kelly, also known as individual who number ones”. Kelly (Keenan Thompson) asks to be called “victim” and hopes to clear his name against charges he keeps a harem of young girls and started a cult. Asked by King (Leslie Jones) why people think thi
  
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• New breed of studio executives behave like old-style Hollywood moguls, warns Mike Leigh

  10-03-2019 10:30
  Peterloo director tells of his fears that streaming service executives are killing creativityFilm and TV drama is booming, with the streaming services Netflix, Hulu and Amazon offering audiences hit after hit on demand. But, according to the acclaimed director Mike Leigh, this comes with an unfortunate side effect: that young British film-makers are being held back by a powerful “new breed of executive”.“It is just not on,” said Leigh, 75. “The next lot of young dir
  
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• Netflix and Amazon behave like old-style Hollywood moguls, warns Mike Leigh

  10-03-2019 10:30
  Peterloo director tells of his fears that streaming service executives are killing creativityFilm and TV drama is booming, with the streaming services Netflix, Hulu and Amazon offering audiences hit after hit on demand. But, according to the acclaimed director Mike Leigh, this comes with an unfortunate side effect: that young British film-makers are being held back by a powerful “new breed of executive”.“It is just not on,” said Leigh, 75. “The next lot of young dir
  
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• I’m shocked by those who still won’t accept Michael Jackson as abuser | Dan Reed

  10-03-2019 09:00
  The director of Leaving Neverland on the polarised reaction to his landmark filmLeaving Neverland has been seen by his many wild-eyed defenders as a “j’accuse” aimed at the legacy of Michael Jackson. It is not. It is a detailed, four-hour study of the psychology of child sexual abuse, told through two ordinary families who were groomed for 20 years by a paedophile masquerading as a trusted friend. It’s a mask that is often used by predators, whether a priest, a teacher, a
  
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• The week in TV: Leaving Neverland; Fleabag; Derry Girls; Home – review

  10-03-2019 08:00
  Two brave men made convincing allegations about being abused by Michael Jackson. Plus, welcome returns for the dark and stylish Fleabag and the brilliant Derry GirlsLeaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me (Channel 4) | All4
  Fleabag (BBC One) | iPlayer
  Derry Girls (Channel 4) | All4
  Home (Channel 4) | All4Michael Jackson’s wealth and stardom may have proved a useful fortification against lawsuits while he was alive (Jackson settled with Jordan Chandler for a reported $23m in 1994, and was
  
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• The week in radio and podcasts: Scala Radio; Don’t Log Off; Moving Pictures – review

  10-03-2019 08:00
  If you find Classic FM too cheesy and Radio 3 too highbrow, Simon Mayo’s bright and breezy Scala Radio could be just the thingScala Radio | planetradio.co.uk
  Don’t Log Off | BBC Radio 4
  Moving Pictures | BBC Radio 4The brand new classical music digital station Scala Radio launched last Monday to a small but upbeat fanfare. (A fanfara piccola ma brillante? I don’t really speak classical.) Much of said fanfare was because Simon Mayo – BBC veteran of 36 years, forced out of
  
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• TV tonight: a rebel history of Britain with a Portishead soundtrack

  10-03-2019 07:00
  From remarkable rave-and-rituals documentary Arcadia to Torvill and Dean impersonations in the Dancing on Ice final, here’s all the best TV to tune in forContinue reading...
  
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