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• The Family Secret review – an extraordinary account of child abuse

  03-12-2019 23:00
  
  Unsensationally made, with no narration, this documentary is a harrowing, unflinching examination of one woman regaining control ‘She was a very happy child. Bright, bubbly. She was always the one that made the friends when we went on our holidays in the caravan.”Old video footage of Katherine barrelling about, and family photographs of her grinning face, attest to this, Andrea’s memory of her daughter’s childhood. What they don’t show is the truth. The Family Secre
  
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• The Irishman launches into Oscar race with National Board of Review win

  03-12-2019 21:02
  
  Martin Scorsese’s Netflix crime saga has picked up the main prize with Adam Sandler and Renee Zellweger winning top acting awardsMartin Scorsese’s acclaimed Netflix drama The Irishman has picked up this year’s top award from the National Board of Review, a sturdy indicator of Oscars success. Related: Marriage Story stakes strong Oscars claim with Gotham awards triumphContinue reading...
  
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• Avoiding Epic fails in video games

  03-12-2019 18:51 via ft.com
  From Russia with leaks, fintech bubble pricked, neuron chip, Minut alarm
  
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• Letter of Recommendation: Badly Dubbed Movies

  03-12-2019 17:38 via nytimes.com
  
  When I decided to binge watch several dozen spaghetti westerns, I didn’t expect the dubbing to be one of the best parts. It was.
  
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• Big deal, he is: how Baby Yoda became 2019's biggest new character

  03-12-2019 17:26
  
  Within the space of a few weeks, Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian has achieved pop culture domination thanks to a small, green blast from the pastSome spoilers aheadHelp us cover the critical issues of 2020. This Giving Tuesday, consider making a contributionThree weeks and four episodes into its run, Disney+’s The Mandalorian – the brand-new streaming service’s flagship series and the first live-action Star Wars show – has already cemented its legacy thanks to t
  
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• Cineworld: island in the streams

  03-12-2019 17:18 via ft.com
  Cinema chains will survive blizzard of content, if not precisely in their present form
  
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• The Theater Olympics Bring a World of Drama Together

  03-12-2019 17:04 via nytimes.com
  
  More than 20 countries have sent over 100 productions, including large-scale works by some of the hottest directors. So why have so few heard of the event?
  
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• Floella Benjamin: 'They sent the police to arrest us'

  03-12-2019 16:08
  
  She was the face of kids’ TV and became one of the most influential presenters ever. As Baroness Benjamin’s achievements are recognised, she looks back at the racism she overcame
  ‘I’m here today because I love you.” That’s how Floella Benjamin, the children’s TV presenter turned advocate for children of all ages, usually begins. Sometimes she says those exact words. Sometimes, like today, she doesn’t have to. Thirty years in children’s TV, fi
  
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• The African Sculpture One Playwright Looks at Every Day

  03-12-2019 15:57 via nytimes.com
  
  Lynn Nottage describes her first trip to West Africa, and her search for the perfect keepsake.
  
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• Even at the Indie-Leaning Gotham Awards, Netflix Is a Juggernaut

  03-12-2019 15:05 via nytimes.com
  
  The streaming service, expected to be a major Oscar player, won more than half of the awards presented at the New York ceremony on Monday.
  
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• Agnelli family’s Exor to buy Italian media group GEDI

  03-12-2019 14:08 via ft.com
  Dynasty’s scion John Elkann tees up takeover of La Repubblica and La Stampa owner
  
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• ‘Black Widow’ Trailer: Scarlett Johansson Battles Florence Pugh

  03-12-2019 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In her own Marvel stand-alone picture, the title hero, an ex-KGB assassin, springs into action after the events of “Captain America: Civil War.”
  
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• Sky to create 2,000 jobs at new Elstree studio

  03-12-2019 13:52 via ft.com
  Plan for one of the biggest sites in Europe comes as pressure from Netflix and Amazon increases
  
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• Blue Story earns £2.9m so far despite cinema ban

  03-12-2019 13:00
  
  Gang drama, originally pulled from Vue chain, records sixth best opening of any British film this yearBlue Story, the debut film by Rapman that became embroiled in a race row, has made one of the best box-office starts of any British film this year, despite being banned from more than 100 cinemas after a mass brawl in Birmingham.The London-set gang drama recorded the sixth best opening of any British film during 2019, with box-office takings of £2.9m across two weekends, according to figur
  
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• Marriage Story stakes strong Oscars claim with Gotham awards triumph

  03-12-2019 11:31
  
  Noah Baumbach’s divorce comedy-drama takes four key awards at indie film awards that serve as an early Academy Awards bellwetherMarriage Story, the divorce comedy-drama starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, has consolidated its position as strong Oscars frontrunner by picking up four wins at the Gothams, awards designed to reward independent film-making.Marriage Story won in all four categories it was nominated: best feature, best actor for Driver, best screenplay for writer-directo
  
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• 'Prince Andrew can't slink away from this now' – the TV triumph of Virginia Giuffre

  03-12-2019 11:27
  
  Calm, thorough and deeply plausible, Virginia Giuffre’s BBC interview was everything Prince Andrew’s wasn’t – and it made the severity of the accusations against him look undeniablePrince Andrew’s Newsnight interview quickly became more about him than the subject. Through no fault of Emily Maitlis’, Prince Andrew outed himself as such a lunk-headed idiot that the serious allegations against him retreated a little.When you think of that interview, you immediate
  
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• ‘Star Wars’ Star Billy Dee Williams Uses Gender-Fluid Pronouns

  03-12-2019 11:04 via nytimes.com
  
  “I say ‘himself’ and ‘herself,’ because I also see myself as feminine as well as masculine,” the actor told Esquire magazine.
  
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• Best Theater of 2019

  03-12-2019 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Shows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
  
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• From Fortnite to the Marvel Universe: why is the rest of culture copying TV?

  03-12-2019 10:00
  
  Film, podcasts and gaming are adopting the look and feel of television. Is this imitation robbing us of distinctive modes of storytelling?Two lines of questioning have bubbled up around the promotional campaign for The Irishman. The first is: “Is Netflix destroying cinema?” and the second, thanks to an offhand mid-interview remark by the film’s director Martin Scorsese that refuses to go away, is: “Is Marvel destroying cinema?” The answer to both, of course, is yes.
  
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• Black Widow: first trailer for the Scarlett Johansson superhero movie released online

  03-12-2019 09:41
  
  The standalone movie starring Johansson as the KGB assassin turned Avengers superhero has its first footage on the internetThe first trailer for Marvel’s standalone Black Widow movie starring Scarlett Johansson has been released online.Johansson has already played the character, aka Natasha Romanoff, in a string of previous Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including Captain Marvel, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Romanoff is a former KGB assassin and current agent of SHIELD,
  
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• TV tonight: the harrowing act of confronting a family's sexual abuse

  03-12-2019 07:00
  
  A chilling account of victim and abuser meeting 25 years after the traumatic event. Plus: seven years following a lone wolf. Here’s what to watch this evening
  This one-off documentary probes the deeply uncomfortable revelation of sexual abuse in a family, 25 years after the incident occurred. With access to the affected family members as well as the perpetrator, it is a chilling account of the lasting effects of trauma, centred around a final tear-filled and emotional meeting of victim and
  
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• How we made Loose Women

  03-12-2019 07:00
  
  ‘When I saw Nadia, I thought I won’t get on with her – any woman with toe-rings is not my kind of woman’I got a call asking me to screen test for a new all-female lunchtime panel show. It was summer, always a slow time for TV, so I thought: “Why not?” The remit was that we would talk about anything and everything from a female point of view, but it didn’t have to be limited to women’s issues. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Marriage Story’ Wins Best Feature at the Gotham Awards

  03-12-2019 04:48 via nytimes.com
  
  The film dominated the evening. It also took home honors for best actor (Adam Driver) and best screenplay as well as the audience prize.
  
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• ‘Star Wars’ Star Billy Dee Williams Uses Male and Female Pronouns

  03-12-2019 01:10 via nytimes.com
  
  “I say ‘himself’ and ‘herself,’ because I also see myself as feminine as well as masculine,” the actor told Esquire magazine.
  
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• Growing Up Poor: Britain's Breadline Kids review – the lives stolen by poverty

  03-12-2019 00:00
  
  You could call these tragic stories Dickensian – if the word didn’t imply that things would come right in the end
  Eight-year-old Courtney found her first visit to the food bank quite exciting over all, despite the disappointment of discovering that it didn’t dispense victuals in the same manner as a cashpoint does money. She, her mum and her brother walked the two and a half miles from the flat they have been living in since they fled domestic violence seven months ago, and two
  
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