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• Don't Forget the Driver review – the refugee crisis hits Bognor in superb sadcom

  09-04-2019 23:30
  Toby Jones stars as a Bognor Regis coach driver who discovers a migrant in his wheel arch in a pitch-perfect portrait of the sins and sorrows of our timeThere is always a time lag between extraordinary events and the art they give rise to. Memories and facts mulch down to productive soil, aerated by prevailing moods and watered by thought. Seeds germinate and creations eventually flower.We appear to be at the start of a season of art rooted in the refugee crisis. Rufus Jones has grown something
  
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• Camila Cabello Will Make Her Acting Debut in a Reimagined Cinderella Film

  09-04-2019 22:14 via feeds.eonline.com
  Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo! Camila Cabello is stepping into the famous (glass) shoes of Cinderella.E! News can confirm the 22-year-old "Never Be the Same" singer-songwriter is slated to...
  
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• Spoiler alert! How TV and film are trying to protect their blockbusters

  09-04-2019 18:01
  From self-detonating scripts to drone killers, production companies are going to extreme lengths to protect shows such as Game of Thrones and franchises like Marvel’s Avengers. But is so much secrecy really necessary?There is a room in a bunker in Santa Monica, California, with all the windows blacked out. Even if you can charm your way past the security guard stationed outside, you will still need to scan your fingerprint to get in because the information taped to the walls is top secret.
  
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• ‘Sauvage / Wild’ Review: A French Hustler Gets Too Close to His Work

  09-04-2019 17:05 via nytimes.com
  This sexually frank film from Camille Vidal-Naquet demonstrates that it’s difficult to build a character study around an unconvincing character.
  
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• Get Ready to Party: It's Kristen Stewart's 29th Birthday & We Have All Her Best Roles for You to Vote On

  09-04-2019 17:00 via feeds.eonline.com
  Party people unite, because it's Kristen Stewart's birthday!The Los Angeles native turns 29 years old today and fans of her have really watched her grow right in front of their...
  
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• What Fleabag did next: future looks bright for Phoebe Waller-Bridge

  09-04-2019 16:43
  Creator of hit sitcom not short of offers and hints Fleabag could return – when she is 50It has been described as “a near perfect work of art” with an ending that “raised the bar so utterly … all one could do was shake one’s head in appreciation”. Now, as the creator and star, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, calls time on her raved-about sitcom Fleabag, her next step is being eagerly anticipated by viewers and industry insiders alike.The BBC Three show ended on M
  
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• Sony/Third Point: workspace invaders

  09-04-2019 14:05 via ft.com
  Second attempt to push group to spin-off its movie business could lead to a happier ending
  
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• Sony/Third Point: lights, camera, activist

  09-04-2019 14:05 via ft.com
  Second attempt to push group to spin-off its movie business could lead to a happier ending
  
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• How to survive after Fleabag: a cultural guide

  09-04-2019 13:50
  All the shows, books and even bands to seek out if you need more of a Fleabag-y fix
  People I had to stop myself from asking what they thought of the Fleabag finale this morning: the postman, the construction workers outside my house, and every single person on the train to work. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s first creation has departed our screens with a conclusive little wave, leaving us electrified by a heartbreak that feels total, but also – unlike those induced by the loss of her mother
  
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• Richard Madden: male actors are also pressured to lose weight for nude scenes

  09-04-2019 13:28
  Bodyguard actor said he and other actors frequently give in to industry pressure to stay slimThe entertainment industry places as much pressure on men to look slim in nude scenes as on women, the actor Richard Madden has said.Speaking to Vogue, Madden railed against a trend he admitted he was a part of. “We’re projecting a very unrealistic body image,” he said. “I find myself with actor friends – after we’ve done a kind of barely eating, working out twice a da
  
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• Horror trailers shown before screening of Peppa Pig film

  09-04-2019 12:49
  Cinema chain apologises after children were reportedly left tearful and confused following Brightburn preview in IpswichYoung children were reportedly frightened and tearful at a screening of Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun at Empire Cinema in Ipswich on Saturday after two age-inappropriate trailers were aired before the feature.The trailers shown were for the film Brightburn, which is billed as a “startling, subversive take on a radical new genre: superhero horror” and Ma, a psychologica
  
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• Game of Thrones season eight: how do you think it will end?

  09-04-2019 11:12
  Who will sit on the throne? Share your final season predictions now and we will publish your best theoriesGame of Thrones season eight is nearly here, and we know many of you can’t wait to find out about the future of the Iron Throne.Will Bran be revealed as the Night King? Will Cersei change her mind about fighting the White Walkers? Who will win Cleganebowl? We’d like to find out what your predictions are. What do you think will – or should – happen? We will feature som
  
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• Ed Sheeran? Incest? Ice dragons? How Game of Thrones might end

  09-04-2019 10:00
  As the show concludes, there are multiple directions its final chapter could take. None of which are listed belowWhen Game of Thrones arrived on the scene, all fire and ice and petite exposed breasts, I thought: I will have to get into this one day. Everyone is tweeting about it and thinkpiecing about it and talking about it at parties. Anyway, reader, I’m sorry to tell you, I have been saying “I gotta get into Game of Thrones” since 2011, and have yet to do so. From what I can
  
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• TV tonight: the brilliant Derry Girls bow out with a visit from Bill Clinton

  09-04-2019 07:00
  The rip-roaringly funny second series comes to a close, as Toby Jones’s state-of-the-nation comedy kicks off. Here’s what to watch on TV this eveningLisa McGee’s acutely observed yet rip-roaringly funny sitcom set against the backdrop of the Troubles wraps up what has been a terrific second season. It is November 1995 and the entire community is anticipating a visit from Potus-with-the-most Bill Clinton. For the girls, it’s an excuse to try to become BFFs with Chelsea. Fo
  
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• Fawlty Towers named greatest ever British TV sitcom

  09-04-2019 07:00
  Comedy experts position series set in a chaotic hotel above Father Ted and I’m Alan PartridgeFawlty Towers has been named the greatest ever British TV sitcom once again by a panel of comedy experts compiled by the Radio Times.The comedy series set in a chaotic Torquay seaside hotel managed by an incompetent and highly strung hotelier played by John Cleese, was ranked above Father Ted, which chronicled the lives of three dysfunctional Irish priests and their housekeeper, and I’m Alan
  
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• Teenagers Charged With Setting Fire to Shakespeare Theater in Connecticut

  09-04-2019 04:17 via nytimes.com
  The fire in January reduced the historic building, opened in 1955, to a smoldering mound of mangled steel.
  
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• Critic’s Pick: Review: Puppets and Power Make for a Marvelous ‘Menagerie’

  09-04-2019 03:45 via nytimes.com
  The latest play from the Mad Ones finds the seeds of momentous social change in a 1979 focus group about a kids’ television show.
  
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• Seymour Cassel, Familiar Face in Independent Films, Dies at 84

  09-04-2019 01:28 via nytimes.com
  Mr. Cassel, who worked often with John Cassavetes and Wes Anderson, played parts that were often small but almost always memorable.
  
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• Farewell Fleabag: the most electrifying, devastating TV in years

  09-04-2019 00:05
  Phoebe Waller-Bridge raised the bar so utterly with her hit show’s second, and last, series that you just have to shake your head in astonishment ... then go back to the startWarning: this article contains spoilers to Fleabag.That’s it. The End. Or at least, according to Sian Clifford, who plays Fleabag’s sister Claire in the show that has become a breakout hit in both the UK and US: “It is complete.” Continue reading...
  
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