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• Little Britain radio review: neutered by BBC impartiality rules

  31-10-2019 22:07 via theguardian.com
  The delay to Brexit plus strict pre-election guidelines left few chances for trenchant jokes in David Walliams and Matt Lucas’s sketch showIn the many risk assessments of the possible consequences of Brexit happening on Halloween – lorry queues, drug shortages, street violence – scant attention was paid to a significant victim of its not happening: broadcasting specials timed to coincide with departure from the EU being forced to go out, even though the UK actually hadn’t
  
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• Laurie Anderson and More Join 2020 Under the Radar Festival

  31-10-2019 19:55 via nytimes.com
  The performance artist will take viewers to the moon as part of the Public Theater’s next lineup of international artists.
  
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• ‘Light From Light’ Review: Is This House Haunted?

  31-10-2019 19:40 via nytimes.com
  Marin Ireland and Jim Gaffigan star in Paul Harrill’s second feature, a tender film about paranormal activity.
  
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• Review: In ‘Hamnet,’ Shakespeare’s Son Takes the Stage

  31-10-2019 19:06 via nytimes.com
  In this Irish production, an 11-year-old actor plays the child who died too soon to get to know his immortal father.
  
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• ‘Harriet’ Review: Becoming Moses

  31-10-2019 18:53 via nytimes.com
  Cynthia Erivo and Kasi Lemmons bring Harriet Tubman to life onscreen.
  
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• Bohemian Rhapsody producer to make Bee Gees biopic

  31-10-2019 18:48
  Graham King secures rights to Bee Gees songs, following £687m success of Queen and Freddie Mercury movieThe producer of Bohemian Rhapsody, the hit movie about the life of Freddie Mercury and Queen, is set to take on another set of musical icons: the Bee Gees.According to Deadline, Graham King is teaming with Paramount Pictures and production company Sister to create the biopic, which has not yet been written or cast. Related: Rocketmen and stardust: why music biopics dominate the film indu
  
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• Nine Shows to Catch at the New York Comedy Festival

  31-10-2019 17:50 via nytimes.com
  Beginning Monday, the event will pop up across the city. These rising stars could be the next festival’s headliners.
  
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• ‘American Son’ Review: Missing Teen, Missing Story

  31-10-2019 17:49 via nytimes.com
  The son of an interracial couple disappears, but something else gets lost along the way as well.
  
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• For All Mankind review – Apple's solid alt-space saga avoids crash landing

  31-10-2019 17:01 via theguardian.com
  A splashy new series imagines what would have happened if Russia had won the space race with decent, if rarely compelling, resultsMonths of hype for Apple TV+ and the many A-list names attached has dramatically dissipated this week as reviews have revealed a ragtag bunch of half-formed shows that have replaced big ideas with big production values. It might therefore be faint praise to label glossy space race drama For All Mankind as the best of the bunch but it’s adequately entertaining an
  
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• George RR Martin promises to not write spinoff until Game of Thrones book is finished

  31-10-2019 15:08 via theguardian.com
  As TV prequel House of the Dragon is announced, author says finishing The Winds of Winter, the sixth volume of his saga, ‘remains my priority’George RR Martin has promised not to write any scripts for HBO’s new prequel show based on his imaginary history of the Targaryen family until he has “finished and delivered” The Winds of Winter, the long-awaited sixth book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series.Hours after the bloody world of Game of Thrones claimed another vic
  
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• ‘Joker’ Stairs Become a Bronx Tourist Draw. Hope You’re in Shape.

  31-10-2019 15:04 via nytimes.com
  Visitors have been flocking to a long set of Instagram-ready outdoor steps in the Highbridge neighborhood where a memorable scene of the movie was shot.
  
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• New Looks in ‘Frozen 2’ for Sisters on an Adventure

  31-10-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  As the royals of Arendelle travel through woods and water, their clothes have to keep up. Introducing ice boots and travel cloaks.
  
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• Anna, Elsa and the Costume Designers Who Create Their Looks

  31-10-2019 15:00 via nytimes.com
  Now that computers can render intricately detailed outfits, the little-known behind-the-scenes job has become crucial in animated movies like “Frozen 2.”
  
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• ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Review: Edward Norton Fights the Power Broker

  31-10-2019 14:42 via nytimes.com
  The actor directs and stars (along with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Alec Baldwin) in a big, ambitious adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s prizewinning novel.
  
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• ‘American Dharma’ Review: What Makes Steve Bannon Tick?

  31-10-2019 14:21 via nytimes.com
  Errol Morris fails to crack his subject in this documentary — but maybe that’s the point.
  
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• 'No scissor emoji?!' Olivia Wilde criticises airline censorship of Booksmart

  31-10-2019 14:15
  Film’s director protests at the removal of a lesbian sex scene and other edits made to her film by a third-party company Booksmart director Olivia Wilde has criticised in detail the edited version of the film available on commercial flights, accusing the “third party company” that created the edit of sending the message that “women’s … bodies are obscene [and] that their sexuality is shameful”.I finally had the chance to watch an edited version of Books
  
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• ‘The World Is Full of Secrets’ Review: Teen Tales of Terror

  31-10-2019 14:02 via nytimes.com
  Stories of murder and violation abound in this unsettling, and ultimately unsatisfying, horror film.
  
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• Hugh Grant hits back after being called 'incredibly rude' by Sajid Javid

  31-10-2019 13:08
  The actor has said he refused to shake the chancellor’s hand because of Javid’s treatment of victims of phone hacking while he was culture secretaryThe actor Hugh Grant has hit back at an attack on his character by Sajid Javid, the chancellor of the exchequer. In an interview in this week’s ES magazine, Javid said the pair had met at the London premiere of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.He told ES Magazine: “I recognised him and put my hand out and said, ‘Love
  
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• Emilia Clarke spills beans on Game of Thrones' coffee cup culprit

  31-10-2019 13:07 via theguardian.com
  The actor has revealed who was responsible for the takeaway drink that went viral during the last season of the HBO hitEmilia Clarke has revealed the culprit behind the errant coffee cup which made a viral cameo in the final season of Game of Thrones: co–star Conleth Hill. The British actor made the claim on Tonight With Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, telling the late-night host that the actor who played Lord Varys in the HBO hit was responsible for the blunder.The white takeaway cup made head
  
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• ‘To Be of Service’ Review: Veterans Heal With the Help of Dogs

  31-10-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Josh Aronson’s documentary follows former military members whose service dogs help them cope with post-traumatic stress.
  
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• ‘The Apollo’ Review: Showtime for a Legendary Harlem Theater

  31-10-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  Roger Ross Williams’s documentary about the Apollo Theater explores the venue’s identity as a destination for black expression.
  
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• ‘Queen of Hearts’ Review: A Gut-Wrenching Family Drama

  31-10-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  The film includes go-for-broke performances and an explicit sex scene.
  
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• ‘Gay Chorus Deep South’ Review: Singing Down Homophobia

  31-10-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  On a tour of states that have enacted laws restricting the rights of LGBTQ people, music makes a difference on a personal level.
  
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• ‘Cubby’ Review: Offbeat? Definitely. Out of Touch? That Too.

  31-10-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  It’s written and directed by its star, Mark Blane, playing the anagrammatic Mark Nabel, who seems to live in some alternate reality.
  
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• ‘Adopt a Highway’ Review: Ethan Hawke as a Silent and Sympathetic Ex-Con

  31-10-2019 12:00 via nytimes.com
  This quiet drama centers on a man who, soon after leaving prison, finds an abandoned child.
  
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• TV tonight: Harry Enfield steals the show in How Europe Stole My Mum

  31-10-2019 10:10 via theguardian.com
  A standalone comedy shows how Brexit tore one family apart. Plus: Giri/Haji and The Accident gain momentumDocumentary and dramedy reconstruction combine to tell comedian Kieran Hodgson’s story of how Brexit divided his family. Irreverent and erratic, Hodgson’s jittery tone works well with the complex subject material of Britain’s historically fraught relationship with Europe, while “librarian” Harry Enfield and Hodgson’s fictional mother Liza Tarbuck steal the
  
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• What Greta Gerwig Saw in ‘Little Women’: ‘Those Are My Girls’

  31-10-2019 10:00 via nytimes.com
  The filmmaker didn’t so much adapt the Louisa May Alcott novel as excavate it. Think of it as a modern screenwriter in conversation with a proto-modern novelist.
  
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• Release of Vaxxed sequel prompts fears dangerous propaganda will spread again

  31-10-2019 07:00
  Anti-vaccination film to premiere in theatres as several states have been battling against localised outbreaks of measlesAnti-vaccination campaigners are preparing to release the sequel to Vaxxed, the highly contentious film that has been used to spread the unfounded claim that vaccines cause autism and other developmental problems.Vaxxed II: The People’s Truth will be premiered on 6 November in 50 venues across America. Its producers, led by Robert F Kennedy Jr, are keeping locations secr
  
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• Twitter to pull all political ads

  31-10-2019 02:43 via ft.com
  Move announced by Jack Dorsey increases pressure on Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg
  
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• The World According to Putin review – sex, lies and state-approved videotape

  31-10-2019 00:00 via theguardian.com
  This surreal look at Russian TV showed a foreigner-bashing propaganda machine in full swing – just the thing to distract from a nation in chaosThis is the era of the dead cat. It’s Boris Johnson’s fault. Back in 2013, he wrote an article advising that if you are a politician facing embarrassment over, I don’t know, allegations you funnelled public money to a pole-dancing American businesswoman, slap a dead cat on the table and your problems are over. Noticed how few cats
  
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