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• Sue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border review – darkness leavened with a dash of wit

  07-09-2020 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  More of a travelogue than a documentary, Perkins begins in the border town of Tijuana, where she finds tequila-fuelled parties sit uneasily alongside the scale of asylum seekers’ sufferingWatching Sue Perkins present a programme always brings to mind the moment in Blackadder when Edmund, in financial straits, is showing prospective buyers around his home. “You’ve really worked out your banter, haven’t you?” says one of them. “No, not really,” replies Bla
  
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• Regina King makes history at Venice film festival with One Night in Miami

  07-09-2020 19:02
  
  King’s directorial debut is the first film directed by an African-American woman to be selected in the festival’s historyRegina King’s directorial debut stood out at this year’s Venice film festival. There’s the intriguing subject matter: it’s an adaptation of Kemp Powers’s dramatisation of a real-life meeting between Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke after Clay’s surprise win over Sonny Liston in February 1964. But there’s ano
  
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• Lovecraft Country recap: season one, episode four – misogyny, murder and Montrose

  07-09-2020 17:45 via theguardian.com
  
  HBO’s fantasy sci-fi shows it’s just as concerned with sexism as racism, as Christina and Ruby had their ambitions thwarted while Tic got stuck into an Indiana Jones-esque adventureOh, you thought Lovecraft Country was only interested in how black people exist within a white supremacist system? Not so. This episode also took in the relative power of men and women, white woman and black women and the struggle against internalised homophobia. At the risk of opening up a new front in th
  
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• Disney remake of Mulan criticised for filming in Xinjiang

  07-09-2020 16:15
  
  Film credits offer thanks to eight government entities in region where rights abuses are allegedDisney’s live-action remake of Mulan, already the target of a boycott, has come under fire for filming in Xinjiang, the site of alleged widespread human rights abuses against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities.The film, directed by Niki Caro, is an adaptation of Disney’s 1998 animation about Hua Mulan, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to fight in the imperial army in her fathe
  
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• Eastenders is back – with a shocking lesson on life in lockdown

  07-09-2020 13:44 via theguardian.com
  
  A pandemic-related plotline involving domestic violence mirrors the experience of many women – and the soap has chosen an unflinching and painfully realistic endingSpoiler warning: this piece contains details of upcoming EastEnders storylinesWith soaps arriving back on ours screens after their coronavirus hiatus, producers have been working hard to incorporate the pandemic into plotlines. This has been done typically with small references to social distancing or characters shielding, but E
  
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• Niche publisher Future boosted by bored readers in lockdown

  07-09-2020 12:53 via ft.com
  Magazine group defies media gloom and says operating profits will beat expectations this year
  
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• Tenet makes healthy start with $20m opening week take in the US

  07-09-2020 12:31
  
  Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi blockbuster has had a relatively encouraging US box office debut, following a healthy fortnight on release internationallyTenet has taken $20.2m on its opening weekend of release in the US – an impressive haul despite being about $30m down on director Christopher Nolan’s opening weekend average.The figure, which takes in the long Labor Day weekend and includes previews in the US and Canada, makes for a strong result, given that 45% of US venues remain
  
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• Tenet makes healthy start in US with $20m opening weekend take

  07-09-2020 12:31
  
  Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi blockbuster has had a relatively encouraging US box office debut, following a healthy fortnight on release internationallyTenet has taken $20.2m on its opening weekend of release in the US – an impressive haul despite being about $30m down on director Christopher Nolan’s opening weekend average.The figure, which takes in the long Labor Day weekend and includes previews in the US and Canada, makes for a strong result, given that 45% of US venues remain
  
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• May Forces TV be with you: the unlikely nostalgia channel you should be watching

  07-09-2020 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  While this niche gem broadcasts military-themed programmes during the day, by night it has become the go-to destination for those looking for the kind of nostalgia Netflix cannot offerOver the summer of 1984, TV viewers were in one of two broadcasting camps. It was either the Los Angeles Olympics on BBC One or, if you had any sense, a sci-fi horror on ITV called V, about Nazi-like lizard alien invaders who could devour guinea pigs in a single gulp. Those who caught this mega-hyped miniseries pro
  
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• Emma Barnett to host BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour

  07-09-2020 11:21 via theguardian.com
  
  5 Live presenter to join after Jenni Murray and Jane Garvey announced departuresEmma Barnett has been announced as the new host of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour – joining what she called the “radio mothership” next year.The news came after Jane Garvey and Jenni Murray both announced they were leaving the show. Continue reading...
  
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• How That Surprise ‘Mulan’ Cameo Happened

  07-09-2020 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It didn’t seem possible that this star, with her TV duties, could appear in the live-action remake. But after one idea was scrapped, she found a way to make it work.
  
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• TV tonight: Sue Perkins goes down Mexico way, seriously

  07-09-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The presenter probes the Trump-afflicted US-Mexico borderlands. Plus: how to stay calm in scary times. Here’s what to watch tonight Continue reading...
  
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• Jude Law: 'When I became a parent, I would cry at anything'

  07-09-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As he plays a troubled dad trapped on a sinister island in The Third Day, the star reveals how the drama unlocked his deepest parenting fears – and shares his worries about its 12-hour, live-action section Osea, a small island off the coast of Britain reached by a causeway, is too unsettling a place to be charming but it is certainly intriguing. Its inhabitants add salt to bottled water to make it palatable. They also wear large fish heads and carry oversized scissors to “cut out&rdq
  
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• Jiri Menzel, Oscar-winning Czech film director, dies at 82

  07-09-2020 02:21
  
  His first feature, Closely Watched Trains, won the best foreign language film in 1967Oscar-winning Czech film director Jiri Menzel has died aged 82 after battling serious health problems for a long time, his wife Olga Menzelová said on Sunday.“Our dear Jiri, the bravest of the brave. Your body left our mundane world in our arms last night,” she wrote on Facebook. Related: Why Harold Pinter’s widow feels his screenplays deserve greater recognitionContinue reading...
  
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