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The Stranger review – Joel Edgerton is at his brooding best in this sophisticated crime drama
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A creeping sense of dread permeates the second feature film of writer/director Thomas M Wright, who burst out the gates with Acute Misfortune in 2018, which was not just a great biopic (of the artist Adam Cullen), ma...
Paper Girls review – a hugely fun sci-fi caper that’s like an all-female Stranger Things
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Paper Girls (Amazon Prime Video) is a good if unseasonal yarn. This adaptation of Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s comic-book series begins on 1 novembre 1988, the day after Halloween and a date known to the locals ...
Stranger Things season 4 finale review – so perfectly judged it could be the ending for the entire show
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Stranger Things season four was already bigger and better than anything the show had done before. It was clearly more expensively produced, with a larger cast and a surer sense of why all the monsters, heroes and hang...
Is Stranger Things even TV any more?
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The plot of the upcoming two-part Stranger Things finale remains a great mystery. Netflix isn’t giving away a single detail; nor, per questo motivo, are the cast, production team or publicity department. But nature abho...
Can Stranger Things help put Netflix back on track?
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Way back in 2016, when Stranger Things first hit Netflix, the world was a different place. The streaming service itself cost $8, and if you weren’t turned on by the prospect of endless, if vastly quality-variable cont...
TV stasera: Joanna Lumley is whisked away to Rome by a handsome stranger
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Dragging her suitcase along a cobbled ancient road, it doesn’t take long for a handsome stranger to pick Lumley up on his Vespa and whisk her away to Rome for a few days (“Fantastica!” she yells as they speed off). On...
A Life of Picasso: Volume IV by John Richardson review – stranger things
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John Richardson opens the final (fourth) volume of his magisterial biography of Pablo Picasso with the artist in more than usual disarray. The year is 1933 e, while his celebrity and his wealth are unassailable, Pic...
‘Stranger, sadder and more surreal’: how the war in Ukraine transformed the fashion shows
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At the end of London fashion week last month, I wrote about how this season was going to be all about the return of the party dress. People like me hold up fashion to be a kind of divining rod for the coming public mo...
Ukrainian mother hugs her children brought to safety by a stranger – video
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A Ukrainian mother embraced her child and then the person who brought him and his sister safely to her across the Hungarian border. Nataliya Ableyeva was entrusted with the two children by their father who was forced ...
Adults Adopting Adults: a reality show even stranger than it sounds
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There was a time, maybe a decade and a half ago, when the documentary series format primarily existed as a kind of freak show. You’d tune in and watch an hour of a couple that had an unmanageable number of children, O...
A moment that changed me: a stranger contacted me – to say he was my brother
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I was a toddler when I entered the care system. By the time I left, a 18, I had been shunted between four foster homes and a residential care home, all across south-east London. I met my biological mum for the first ...
From ET to Stranger Things: take our Halloween pop culture quiz
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Some years ago, Halloween surpassed Christmas as my favourite time of year. Much of my enjoyment of Halloween, tuttavia, comes filtered through my love of Halloween on screen: those moments in movies and on television...
An Island by Karen Jennings review – stranger on the shore
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Karen Jennings’s taut, tenebrous novel describes what happens when Samuel, a septuagenarian lighthouse keeper and the sole inhabitant of a small island off the coast of an unnamed African country, acquires an uninvite...
Ciao, Stranger by Will Buckingham review – how we find connection in a disconnected world
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For many of us – particularly those of us fortunate enough to not lose family members – one of the deeper losses we have suffered during the pandemic has been being cut off from people who we were not close to. I long...