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  • Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump.

    Film
    Forrest Gump at 30: a wildly popular movie that remains as light as a feather

    Tom Hanks is an affecting lead but the popularity of Robert Zemeckis’s much-loved Oscar-winner is still a curious mystery
  • The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning.

    The watcher
    The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: a rare TV show that will change your life for the better

    Amy Poehler narrates this soft, soul-cleansing delight – which will make you go for a chic black coffee then throw away nine boxes of rubbish. Blessed relief!
  • Location, location, location … a scene from House of the Dragon, part of which is filmed in Cornwall.

    Film
    ‘We made the Maldives from a hotel in Heathrow airport’: Hollywood location scouts reveal their secrets

    Globe-trotting in search of picture-perfect scenes for the screen is not always as glamorous as it sounds. But to better understand these unsung heroes’ shadowy art, you first have to track them down …
  • The artist Mark Leckey in Margate

    On my radar
    Mark Leckey’s cultural highlights

    The Turner prize-winning artist on a glorious Italian painting, his favourite horror novel, and why he finally started to like podcasts
    • Jasper Attlee looking down, leaning against a wall

      Music
      One to watch: Berlioz

    • Iain Banks

      Books
      ‘An explosion of talent’: Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory at 40

    • Magalie Lépine Blondeau and Pierre-Yves Cardinal in The Nature of Love.

      Going out, staying in
      From The Nature of Love to Leonora Carrington: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

    • Taffy Brodesser-Akner.

      Books
      ‘You can write anything about sex, but you cannot talk about money’: Taffy Brodesser-Akner on life after Fleishman

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News

  • Dawn Hollyoak

    Television
    Great British Bake Off contestant Dawn Hollyoak dies aged 61

    Baker competed on Channel 4 show in 2022, becoming sixth contestant to leave tent
  • Kevin Bacon.

    Film
    ‘This sucks. I want to go back to being famous’: Kevin Bacon’s experiment as a ‘regular person’

  • Noel Gallagher at 2024’s Glastonbury festival.

    Music
    Noel Gallagher says Glastonbury is ‘a bit woke now’ and criticises political musicians

  • Heritage
    Listed Derbyshire stone pillar knocked down for 12th time in decade

  • Film
    Lily Gladstone likens Golden Globes to Squid Game: ‘You’re in shapewear, you need to pee’

  • Ceramics
    Chinese ‘broken pots’ found in Lincolnshire attic sell for £160,000

  • Archaeology
    Survey detects Roman villas and iron age farmsteads in Shropshire

  • Books
    Georgia lawsuit challenges anti-LGBTQ+ book bans over ‘real harms’

  • Music
    Ann Wilson, frontwoman of Heart, diagnosed with cancer

Reviews

  • Jason Patel and Ben Hardy in Unicorns.

    Film
    Unicorns – mechanic meets drag queen in touching drama with real-world edge

  • Héloïse Werner, centre, recording Close-ups.

    Music
    Héloïse Werner: Close-ups – from lip-smacking to lyrical

    No sound is left unturned as the soprano-composer-musician and friends range from Barbara Strozzi to Errollyn Wallen and Werner’s own work
  • The members of Orquesta Akokán standing by the side of a road amid trees

    Music
    Orquesta Akokán: Caracoles review – joyous Cuban dancehall

    This hugely danceable reboot of the 1950s Cuban sound features slick solos and a Palo Mayombe priest on vocals
  • Max Porter

    Audiobook of the week
    Shy by Max Porter audiobook – tale of a ne’er do well, done well

  • KASABIAN 2024 Press publicity portrait

    Music
    Kasabian: Happenings review – newfound concision and big choruses

  • Headie One.

    Music
    Headie One: The Last One review – rueful memoir with party tunes attached

  • picture of couple

    Books
    True Love by Paddy Crewe review – from the heart

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Regulars

  • David Duchovny

    Film
    David Duchovny: ‘I’m not just throwing on a kilt willy-nilly’

    The actor and musician answers your questions on Twin Peaks, that song by Catatonia and the importance of failure
  • Photo of FLEETWOOD MAC and Stevie NICKS<br>UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 01: NEW HAVEN Photo of FLEETWOOD MAC and Stevie NICKS, of Fleetwood Mac, posed (Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns)

    Stevie Nicks
    Wild-hearted hits: Stevie Nicks’ 20 best songs – ranked!

  • The Stone Roses backstage at Spike Island, May 1990

    Photography
    The Stone Roses buzzing at Spike Island: Andy Phillips’ best shot

  • Honest playlist
    ‘I try to avoid karaoke – I get too embarrassed’: Joss Stone’s honest playlist

  • How we made
    ‘I was attacked by a bloody rabbit’: how we made Xena: Warrior Princess

  • Simon McBurney
    On my radar: Simon McBurney’s cultural highlights

Staying in

  • End of Summer on BBC Four

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: a moreish Swedish thriller about a big family trauma

  • A total revelation … Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson and Zac Efron in The Iron Claw.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    The Iron Claw to Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Jeremy Allen White and Zac Efron are terrific in a bone-breaking wrestling biopic, and Eddie Murphy resurrects the wisecracking Axel Foley!
  • Future shock … Sunny. Photograph: Apple TV+

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Sunny to Sausage Party: Foodtopia – the seven best shows to stream this week

    Rashida Jones is excellent in a gripping comedy about an infuriatingly cheerful robot, and Seth Rogen’s raunchy, squelchy food satire is back. Plus: more Abbott Elementary
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Pictures & video

  • Rehearsals for The School for Scandal at the Royal Shakespeare theatre

    Royal Shakespeare Company
    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC – in pictures

    Sheridan’s 18th-century comedy of manners is staged for the Royal Shakespeare Company this month by director Tinuke Craig. Enter a backstage world of wigs, fans and frocks
  • Linda in the laundry room, alongside a picture of linens

    NHS
    ‘We all need a place to hide’: hospital workers take a breather

  • Jordan, Shuayb, Sadiq and Idris at the Other Stage

    ‘Like an island separate from England’
    ‘Like an island separate from England’: Black joy at Glastonbury

  • ‘Our message? Be fabulous!’
    Drag artists with Down’s Syndrome

  • Close encounters
    Arles festival of photography

  • Photo essay
    Families behind the two-child limit to benefits

  • Photography
    Giddy up! LensCulture critics’ choice awards

  • Photography
    ‘Some people refused to leave their flats’: Britain through the Thatcher years

  • Photography
    Bogart, Dietrich, Keaton: Faces from Hollywood’s golden years

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You may have missed

  • Illustration by Julia Allum.

    Summer reading
    Beach books at the ready: authors pick their essential summer reads

    From newly published novels to timeless classics, Elizabeth Strout, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Irvine Welsh, Tessa Hadley and other writers choose their holiday favourites
  • Portrait of Charli XCX

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    Labels are desperate for artists to be liked, otherwise you’re bad, evil and wrong

  • (From left) Lizzie Mayland, Aurora Nishevci, Emily Roberts, Abigail Morris and Georgia Davies, AKA the Last Dinner Party

    The Last Dinner Party on misogyny, maximalism and making it big
    Men think they’re the arbiters of rock

  • ‘I thought everyone in music had a really glamorous life. So I tried to make normality feel glamorous’ … Mike Skinner of the Streets.

    The reader interview
    The Streets’ Mike Skinner: ‘My mid-20s were utterly traumatic. Everything was upside down’

  • Kevin Bacon, in a pale blue shirt, arms and hands resting on a table next to his black-framed glasses

    ‘You have to get over the me thing’
    Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself

  • ‘No one else was making the images I wanted to see’ … from Corrine’s Oregon series.

    Lesbians unleashed!
    The joyous, sexually explicit photographer no publisher would touch

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