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Arts & Entertainment Stick-up in the air: Liam Neeson in the action thriller ‘Non-Stop’

Liam Neeson's tough guy act is on target in Non-Stop

This is not a film that will appeal to the airline industry but it strikes a relentless narrative tempo
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Dolores Hart in 2012

'And the nun’s vote goes to...' Just who are the mysterious Academy Awards voters?

Haley Joel Osment, Tom Hanks, Meat Loaf and a nun called Dolores Hart are all Oscars voters
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Pharrell Williams is nominated for Best Song at the Oscars with

Music stars muscle in on Oscars glory

With Arcade Fire and Pharrell Williams up for awards, soundtracks are no longer the preserve of film composers 
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Versailles is preoccupied by the long-term effects of the decisions made in the immediate aftermath of the First World War

Versailles, review

theatreMakes for a long evening but rewards persistence
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Rithy Panh’s film has already won an award at the Cannes Film Festival and it could win the first Oscar for Cambodia

One man's journey from genocide to the Oscars

filmRithy Panh’s ‘The Missing Picture’ recounts how his country faced horrors of the Khmer Rouge era
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Michael Chow poses in front of his artworks

Mr Chow's back after a '50 year sabbatical'

artRestauranteur returns to his 'true passion' of art
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Sentimental education: Sophie Nélisse and Geoffrey Rush in ‘The Book Thief’

Film review: The Book Thief

film Dark material but this film plays like a typical coming-of-age story
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Debbie Harry and Lily Allen pose in the winners room

Lily Allen wins Best Solo Artist at NME Awards

music
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Girls star Adam Driver

Adam Driver tipped for Star Wars role

Girls Star rumoured to play villain in JJ Abrams film
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Dolly Parton has confirmed she will play Glastonbury 2014

Dolly Parton confirmed to play Glastonbury

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The Allah pendant hangs around this man's neck (left)

Katy Perry accused of offending Islam

Muslims urge YouTube to take 'Dark Horse' video down
Arts & Entertainment
Elbow at the 2011 Mercury Prize ceremony. The band won the award in 2008

Elbow frontman Guy Garvey: 'I needed to find a place to be alone'

When Garvey split from his partner he found himself on his own, and anonymous, in the Big Apple
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<pNoel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Nominated for British male solo artist.

Now flying solo without brother Liam, but joined by his backing band, Noel is no stranger to the Brits, having won six, and being nominated for a further six, with Oasis - the last one being Brits Album of 30 Years for the band's 1995 record (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Nominated for British male solo artist.

Now flying solo without brother Liam, but joined by his backing band, Noel is no stranger to the Brits, having won six, and being nominated for a further six, with Oasis - the last one being Brits Album of 30 Years for the band's 1995 record (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.

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Oasis to reissue Definitely Maybe

Remastered version of Manchester band's first album to be released in May
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Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis in 1984's Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters III to go ahead

Film to continue despite Harold Ramis' planned cameo
Arts & Entertainment
Channel 4's series claims to shed light on life on benefits for residents of the street, including Smoggy pictured here

Benefits St to be investigated by Ofcom

Show sparks probe after 1,800 complaints
Arts & Entertainment
A waxwork model of Shrek at Madame Tussaud's in London, also run by Merlin Entertainments who are behind the Shrek theme park deal

Shrek theme park set to open in London

Attraction due to open in 2015
Arts & Entertainment
Eddie Izzard - £31,550: The multi-lingual stand-up comic has fronted Labour broadcasts and been talked of as a London mayoral candidate

Germans do have a sense of humour

Eddie Izzard on performing his stand-up show in German to an audience in Berlin
Arts & Entertainment
Matthew McConaughey as Rustin Cohle in True Detective

True Detective - TV review

Review It’s worth staying on the trail of this slow-burning Deep South crime drama
Arts & Entertainment
Bow time: young musicians having fun at the opening ceremony of the Britless Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition

Where has the British classical music talent gone?

There are no homegrown soloists at this year's Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition. Jessica Duchen on a worrying trend
Arts & Entertainment

River Phoenix’s last film to be screened

Dark Blood to be shown for first time in UK
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Yes: Dara Ó Briain £20,000 plus

Dara O'Briain's brain teasers

Try the comedian's fiendishly tough maths quiz
Arts & Entertainment

Caught in the eye of the Murricane

filmBill Murray is the greatest of Hollywood eccentrics. James Mottram finds him on droll form
Arts & Entertainment
High drama: Audiences enjoyed vertical cinema in the Arminius Church, during the Rotterdam International Film Festival last month

Vertical reality? Digitisation has sent cinema in a whole new direction

Arts & Entertainment

Josh Widdicombe: The English Seinfeld?

With stage, TV and radio gigs, the comic is everywhere. Lucky he’s so talented
Arts & Entertainment

Rufus Wainwright admits that writing music is like being 'drugged up'

Former crystal meth addict says he'd love to have 'pop hit'
Arts & Entertainment
Bedroom eyes: Shia LaBeouf in 'Nymphomaniac Volumes I & II'

Nymphomaniac Parts I & II

Review Von Trier's sex epic is brilliant but frustrating
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Malcolm McLaren (right) with Pistols fans including Siouxsie Sioux (second left) in 1976

Sex, drugs & herring rolls

musicPunk’s Jewish roots revealed
Arts & Entertainment

House of Cards DC BBQ joint actually in Baltimore

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Arts & Entertainment
Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, and Christoph Waltz at the 2013 Oscars - the four winners will be presenting awards on Sunday

Oscars 2014: Presenters announced

film
Arts & Entertainment

The Toy Story theory you haven't heard before...

film

Internet alight with new theory about Andy's mum
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Tim Rice’s ‘From Here to Eternity’ will end its run at the Shaftesbury Theatre next month

Don’t cry for me…

theatreAndrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's latest shows flop in West End
Arts & Entertainment
Sound and vision: Newton Faulkner

Newton Faulkner on film, family and fatherhood

music

The musician was filmed 24/7 for five weeks for his new album. He tells Chloe Hamilton about it
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Yes: Dara Ó Briain £20,000 plus

Dara O'Briain shuns ban on all-male comedy panels

TV
Arts & Entertainment
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, center, and Harold Ramis, right, appear in a scene from the 1984's

Harold Ramis' finest moments in film

film
Arts & Entertainment
Tom Hardy is in talks to play criminal Kray twins in forthcoming film Legend

Tom Hardy in talks to play Kray twins in new film

film
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The cast of the original series of Heroes, which won favorite new TV drama at the 2007 People's Choice Awards

Heroes set for 2015 return

TV
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A statue of Kurt Cobain was unveiled in Aberdeen to mark what would have been his 47th birthday on 20 February, now named 'Kurt Cobain Day'

Kurt Cobain honoured with crying statue in hometown

music
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Soulful sounds: Alice Herz-Sommer drew heavily upon music for inspiration in her life

Beethoven: music as religion

music

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Actor Samuel Anderson joins the cast of Doctor Who

Doctor Who heading back to school

TV

Emmerdale actor Samuel Anderson joins cast as teacher Danny Pink
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Jake Bugg at the Royal Albert Hall

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Helen Walsh: ‘Just don’t ask me what I write...’

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Material Pictures, a company set up by the actor and producer Tobey Maguire, signed up to translate The 5th Wave to the big screen

Love and aliens conquer all as 'The 5th Wave' wins children's book award

filmThe under-the-radar hit with Britain's young readers will soon become a major film
Arts & Entertainment

The First World War on stage: Lest we forget... the politics of war drama

theatreA whole host of plays are marking the Great War centenary. But just what will Mr Gove think?
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Age has not withered Meades' infinite variety

Death, Brutalism and pre-pubertal sex

peopleJonathan Meades embraces some difficult subjects in his TV series and memoir
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Was the character a feminist icon or bustier-clad fodder for the male gaze?

Wonder Woman fights back

filmThe iconic character is getting her first solo big-screen outing after 75 years at the BFI
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Bunking up with Bob Hardy: Musician's unconventional selfies

Since 2005, Franz Ferdinand bassist Bob Hardy has taken 325 photos of himself in hotel rooms whilst on tour.
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‘Notturnino’, by Thomas Hauert, part of tonight’s triple bill

Candoco: the dance company that’s challenging perceptions of disability

The world’s only professional dance group for disabled and able-bodied performers has embarked on a nationwide tour
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Veronica Lee: Losing your comedy partner is no laughing matter

Last week, it was a pleasurable surprise to hear Dawn French announce her first solo tour. Since she and erstwhile comedy partner Jennifer Saunders did their last gigs together in 2008, French has successfully focused on writing books and gave no hint that she had ambitions to start performing solo at the age of 56.

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The Edwardian Grand Designer: a Time Team Special, TV review

It’s worth staying on the trail of this slow-burning Deep South crime drama
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