Category: 5. Entertainment

Talk about being a pantomime villain. It’s unpopular enough playing the antagonist who murders a long-running TV character. When your victim is a fan favourite, though, you risk being vilified even more. So what’s it like being the ultimate…

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As the internet spits out underground artists like mouthwash, it has becoming harder to separate the visionaries from the…

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It is a mystery. Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas is not so much a whodunnit as a why-have-they-done-it. In…

You want to live independently and follow your dreams? Of course, you do. And so does Ella, 19, the protagonist of Norwegian writer-director Mari Storstein’s fiction feature directorial debut My First Love. But there are barriers for her that…

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“We used to get people saying, ‘you’re making in India: shouldn’t you be cheaper?’ — with no regard to what…

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All the answers here are linked in some way. Once you’ve spotted the connection, any you didn’t know the first time…

Bill Nighy is single. He has never read a self-help book, had no intention of becoming an actor and briefly went deaf after putting toilet paper in his ears to get to sleep. He has shutters, not curtains, in his bedroom, but has no idea what time…

A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m, A$84.7m) at a New York art auction, setting a new top sale price for a work by any female artist.

El sueño (La cama), or The Dream (The Bed), which depicts…