Published: 12:52 pm, 20 October 2025
Category: 5. Entertainment
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‘I hope he goes to jail’: Brazil’s Cannes-winning director on Bolsonaro and political amnesia | Film
When the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho was writing his latest movie, in 2021, he felt shame about the situation in his homeland as it took “a sharp turn to the right” under then president Jair Bolsonaro. “Well-informed friends…
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Oasis, Benedict Cumberbatch Films Interview With Dylan Southern: LFF
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Thing With Feathers, writer-director Dylan Southern’s big-screen adaptation of Max Porter’s award-winning Grief Is the Thing With Feathers, which just screened at the 69th edition of the BFI London Film…
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Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre review – a devastating exposé of power, corruption and abuse | Books
There is a strand running through Nobody’s Girl – a memoir by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died by suicide in April this year – in which the activist and survivor of Jeffrey Epstein grapples with something more insidious than abuse. “I…
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Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)
0:37 Intro. [Recording date: September 29, 2025.]
Russ Roberts: Today is September 29th, 2025, and my guest is author, podcaster, journalist Stephen Dubner. He is the author, with economist Steven Levitt, of Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores…
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Children’s authors to visit Guernsey for book week
Children’s authors are speaking to young islanders as part of an annual book week.
Peter Bently, Jenny Pearson, and Ele Fountain will tour schools across the bailiwick and organisers said they would “celebrate the magic of reading” with more than…
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Rekha, Muzaffar Ali’s ‘Umrao Jaan’ Set for Red Sea Film Festival
Indian director Muzaffar Ali‘s freshly restored 1981 classic “Umrao Jaan” will be shown outside the country for the first time at Saudi Arabia’s upcoming Red Sea International Film Festival, which has unveiled the lineup of…
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‘It’s a bit clandestine, a bit punk’: the guerrilla scheme letting skint artists mass-share gallery membership cards | Art
On a railing, not far from Tate Modern, is a lockbox. Enter a code and inside is a membership card to the museum, enabling free access to its temporary exhibitions. You get your ticket, you return the card.
The Artist Membership Project, much to…
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Go bald or go home: LA cinema offers free Bugonia ticket to those willing to shave their heads | Film
Yorgos Lanthimos fans based in Los Angeles eager to see his latest film for free are in luck: a cinema is offering complimentary tickets to a special screening on Monday to anyone who is either already bald or is willing to have their head shaved…
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A personal account of getting a massage at Surya Wellness Spa
This story is part of Image’s October Abundance issue, reveling in indulgence, maximalism and the deliciously impractical.
At the Proper Hotel in Santa Monica, an employee in a white polo and khaki…
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