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… or Six Feet Under, Buffy or Deadwood, for that matter. Viewers are spoiled for choice with ‘quality’ television – but the real golden age may already have passed
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Harry Potter author tells Pen America gala she disagrees with calls for US presidential hopeful to be banned from the UK
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Forget Kiefer-era 24. The new trailer is a masterpiece of giddy thrills, baddies, man-bags … and the climax is a tube rolling down a hill
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They were reclining beauties with ecstatic expressions – and lift-out intestines. Enter the necrophiliac world of 18th-century anatomical models
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Cannes gets its first marmite sensation with Olivier Assayas’s uncategorisable – yet undeniably terrifying – drama about a fashion PA trying to exorcise herself of her dead twin
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Korean novelist Han Kang will share £50,000 prize with translator Deborah Smith, for ‘lyrical and lacerating’ story
talking points
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The colours – and the women – pop in the Spanish auteur’s adaptation of three Alice Monroe stories, but there’s something intentionally unsatisfying at the heart of this minor work
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The director claimed that the Spanish press have overplayed his role in the leak and that more investigation is needed – as well as describing himself as a ‘housewife’ and ‘not a sacred cow’
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Our film team brings you the latest news and reviews from the Cannes 2016 film festival
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Chris Pine and Ben Foster are bank-robbing brothers pursued by Jeff Bridges’s Texas ranger in a heavyweight, cynical thriller from Starred Up director David Mackenzie
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Loving, Paterson and Hands of Stone are the big films of the day at the Cannes film festival
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Travelling Indian moviehouses and the lives of the men behind them create a moving portrait of a changing medium
people
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The writer explains how what is now a bestselling book began as a series of letters she and her partner wrote to a relative stranger but didn’t plan to send
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The legendary photographer is joining us to answer your questions from 1pm BST on Tuesday 17 May
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the big picture
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From the horrors of war in Vietnam to extreme poverty closer to home, Don McCullin’s camera has captured it all. Named master of photography at Photo London 2016, here are some of the greatest images of his career
reviews
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Some brilliant, epic and shocking moments this week – and it looks like it’s about to kick off all over Westeros. Hold tight!
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Quiara Alegría Hudes’ new play, which shares a director with Hamilton, has a fierce compassion for its characters and an ardent love for New York’s diversity
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pictures & video
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From Hogwarts robes to Hermione’s wand: take a look at some of the designs for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which begins previews at the Palace theatre, London, in June
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The exhibit Refugee, at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, highlights their journeys and arrivals and includes portraits of new Americans
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A followup to Trainspotting (1996) has started shooting, reuniting the principal cast and director
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More than 50 dogs – and their owners – attend a screening of Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog at Picturehouse Central in London’s West End
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An impressive number of you have been contributing to our callout asking you to share your story after we published a fascinating selection of ‘then-and-now’ stories
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Italian architect-cum-designer Federico Babina’s Archicards turn famous architects into playing cards
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Shakespeare Solos
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In a speech taken from the first scene of All’s Well That Ends Well, Sacha Dhawan’s Parolles stresses the importance of losing one’s virginity
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Paterson Joseph speaks Shylock’s lines from The Merchant of Venice, in which the moneylender reminds Antonio of the times he has insulted him
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Jaques’s speech about the seven ages of man from As You Like It is performed by Zawe Ashton
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Laura Carmichael speaks Portia’s lines from the courtroom scene in The Merchant of Venice, in which she tells the moneylender Shylock to be merciful
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Damian Lewis performs Antony’s funeral oration for Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s tragedy – one of a new set of films to mark Shakespeare 400
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Riz Ahmed speaks Edmund’s soliloquy from King Lear, in which Edmund reflects upon being an illegitimate son and plots against his half-brother, Edgar
Bob Dylan Don't Look Back and the invention of the rockumentary