arts
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Barry Jenkins’s coming of age drama and Andrea Arnold’s first film set in the US lead the way at the flagship award ceremony for independent cinema
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The Friends star’s latest project follows in the footsteps of Welcome to Night Vale and Limetown, as the radio drama continues its reinvention with help from other big-name actors including Oscar Issac
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Search Party and The Great Indoors are both centered around kale-crunching, VHS-watching millennials but only one of them gets it right
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Matthew McConaughey, Zach Galifianakis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt also feature in the year’s least profitable films, including Snowden, Max Steel and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
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‘Exhausted’ rapper being treated at UCLA Medical Center, says Kris Jenner, after Los Angeles police were called to reports of a disturbance at his home
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Norman Jewison: ‘A black man had never slapped a white man back in an American film. We broke that taboo’
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people
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Oscar-winner to move ahead with film about controversial politician and businessman, who was vice-president to George W Bush
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Bouquet of Tulips, currently being built, is to be installed on the plaza outside the Museum of Modern Art next year
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the big picture
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Street photographer Yassine Alaoui Ismaili follows 16-year-old Emeer Guesmi, aka B-boy Zulu Rema, as he trains and performs breakdance moves – all without the use of his legs
reviews
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This extraordinary documentary charts the antics of the first western band allowed into the country – to perform thunderous versions of songs from The Sound of Music
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Graphic novel of the month Saving Grace by Grace Wilson – brilliant commentary on the housing crisis
A graduate’s struggle to find a room in London makes for a wise, hilarious graphic memoir -
pictures & video
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Brandon Victor Dixon, who played America’s third vice president, Aaron Burr, in the hit show Hamilton, told CBS’s This Morning program there was no need for the cast to apologise.
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The video for her reworked piano ballad will be included on a new box set of live performances, to be released later this month
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There wasn’t actually porridge in the bowl – they used some kind of cigarette. It has become family legend that it was a joint
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Adam ‘Ad-Rock’ Horovitz of the Beastie Boys joined a protest at a New York park named after Beastie Boy Adam Yauch that was vandalized with swastikas and the words ‘Go Trump!’
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An extraordinary war of words broke out between Donald Trump and the cast of the diversity-celebrating hit musical Hamilton, after Mike Pence was booed by the audience
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Based on the bestselling books, A Series of Unfortunate Events follows the Baudelaire orphans as they try to escape the clutches of their creepy guardian Count Olaf. The Burtonesque series starts on 13 January 2017
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