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The wealthy English heiress who stole art for the IRA

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The enchanting history of Oxford University’s 750-year-old medieval library

Today, just a few volumes in the library are chained – purely for display purposes. And the remaining books are

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‘A bland and barely competent daytime TV movie’ ★☆☆☆☆

This saccharine, reverential biopic about controversial music legend Michael Jackson is set to be one of the worst films of

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Michael Jackson film set to be a controversial hit

All the same, the allegations remain a part of Jackson’s life story, complicating the attempt to turn his life into

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Has the new Devil Wears Prada lost its bite?

Wintour has shrewdly positioned herself as someone game enough to embrace a caricature of herself. And the caricature is likely

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Eight of the best films of 2026 so far

From a touching sci-fi blockbuster to a wilfully provocative comedy-drama Source link

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Why this 16th-Century masterpiece is not what it seems

In the 1930s, detailed X-ray analyses of the painting were undertaken and the unicorn discovered and restored. Later, in the

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The scientist who developed the polio vaccine

Although fewer than 1% of infections led to paralysis, the sheer scale of polio outbreaks meant that large numbers of

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Why Chow Yun-Fat is cinema’s greatest action hero

And if Woo helped lay the foundations of modern action cinema, Chow was right alongside him, showing what the ideal

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The Drama’s horrifying twist is set to divide audiences

The Drama isn’t the first film to engage with high-school massacres: notable examples are Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003) and