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• TV tonight: an air fryer show that is actually worth your time

  02-04-2025 07:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Prof Hannah Fry examines the kitchen phenomenon in her fascinating tech series. Plus: Rose Ayling-Ellis’s emotional signing project.Here’s what to watch this evening8pm, BBC Two
  Yet another show about the air fryer – but it’s OK, because this time it’s to kick off the brilliant Prof Hannah Fry’s third tech series, in which she examines seemingly ordinary objects in “obscene detail”. And this isn’t about just recipes. Fry – a self-confes
  
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• Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater to Compete at Cannes Film Festival

  10-04-2025 13:41 via nytimes.com
  
  A sidebar to the competition will feature Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut.
  
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• Sky to bring hit US series ‘Saturday Night Live’ to the UK

  10-04-2025 13:15
  
  The broadcaster has agreed a deal to produce a UK version of NBC’s long-running comedy series for the first time
  
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• ‘The Lady’ should be capitalising on its OG power, not closing . . .  

  10-04-2025 13:00
  With the trad wife algorithm on a roll, and a plethora of books and TV shows fetishising aspects of domestic life, it's a shame this British institution of a magazine has fallen
  
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• ‘Chicken Jockey!’ What to Know About the ‘Minecraft’ Catchphrase

  10-04-2025 11:03 via nytimes.com
  
  When Jack Black yells that in “A Minecraft Movie,” young audiences respond raucously. The director approves, but some theaters don’t. Here’s what to know.
  
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• ‘Warfare’ Review: A Combat Movie That Refuses to Entertain

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s film about an American platoon in Iraq, there is no admirably staged bloodshed or witty repartee. That’s the point.
  
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• ‘The Uninvited’ Review: A Surprise Guest at the Garden Party

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Hollywood types get skewered in this comedy of manners, starring Walton Goggins, Pedro Pascal and Elizabeth Reaser.
  
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• ‘The Teacher’ Review: Harsh Lessons in the West Bank

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A legal procedural, a family tragedy, a romance and a kidnapping plot are a lot to hang on one character in this debut film by Farah Nabulsi.
  
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• ‘The King of Kings’ Review: A Remaking of the Christ

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The story of Jesus, told through the eyes of Charles Dickens, that nobody asked for.
  
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• ‘The Amateur’ Review: An Unsafe World

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Rami Malek stars in a spy movie that struggles with its conspiratorial angle.
  
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• ‘Sacramento’ Review: Best Frenemies

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  In this warmly funny indie comedy, two friends with a complicated past confront their grief and anxieties on a California road trip.
  
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• ‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: A Year in the Life

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Kevin Macdonald’s immersive documentary follows the couple from their heady first days in New York to their galvanizing concert at Madison Square Garden in 1972.
  
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• ‘G20’ Review: Madam President or Rambo?

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Viola Davis raises the bar on sheer brawniness in this action film where an American president has to fight Australian crypto-terrorists.
  
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• ‘Drop’ Review: The Ultimate Doomscroll

  10-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A first date turns hellish when a terrified woman’s phone is cloned by an anonymous psycho in this stylishly silly thriller.
  
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• TV tonight: Northern Ireland’s dangerous motorcycle pilgrimage

  10-04-2025 07:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Ride Or Die meets competitors in the North West 200 race. Plus: Paul Chuckle guest stars in a whodunnit. Here’s what to watch this evening10.40pm, BBC One
  Why do more than 100 motorcycle road racers from around the world make the pilgrimage to Northern Ireland every May to take part in the North West 200 – a dangerous race that involves competitors riding at speeds in excess of 200mph? This documentary speaks to the people doing it – including five-time winner Lee Johnston and
  
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• Sky in talks to bring hit US series ‘Saturday Night Live’ to the UK

  10-04-2025 06:00
  
  The broadcaster is in advanced negotiations to produce a version of the long-running comedy series for the first time
  
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• Black Mirror season seven review – Charlie Brooker’s thrilling satire gets its warmest, most human season ever

  10-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tender sentiment touches instalments starring the likes of Chris O’Dowd, Rashida Jones and Paul Giamatti. But it hasn't lost its demon side – you’ll cackle with laughter at some of the chaosIt’s tough being an anthology. While other dramas set up their premise and characters and then lazily dole out a little more of the same in every episode, anthologies must constantly seek our approval anew. If critics and viewers think the latest shiny thing is a dud, they toss it into
  
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• ‘Manhunt’ Is a Case Study in Fragile Masculinity

  09-04-2025 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  A new play by Robert Icke about a real-life police chase takes the form of an imagined trial.
  
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• Adolescence season two: Brad Pitt’s production company begins talks

  09-04-2025 17:19 via theguardian.com
  A follow-up to the record-breaking Netflix series might be in the works with hopes that it will ‘not be repetitive’Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B is in talks to develop another season of Adolescence, after the British show became a runaway hit on Netflix.Speaking to Deadline in their first interview since the show took off on the streaming platform last month, co-presidents Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner said they are speaking to director Philip Barantini about the &ldq
  
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• From constipated security guard to drug-addled hotel manager: White Lotus’s 40 best and worst characters

  09-04-2025 15:56 via theguardian.com
  
  The HBO series has produced a whole raft of guests you just love to hate. Here’s our pick of the standout performancesWarning: this article contains spoilers.Three seasons of The White Lotus are now complete, which means that Mike White has offered us some incredible main characters over the years – and some not so great ones. How do the newest batch stack up against the veterans? Let’s rank the lot and find out. Continue reading...
  
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• The Best Classical Music Performances of March 2025

  09-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Watch and listen to recent highlights, including Nicole Scherzinger on Broadway, a pair of Janacek operas and Cécile McLorin Salvant.
  
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• ‘Pink Narcissus’: A Home Movie Both Abject and Erotic

  09-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Originally released anonymously, this homoerotic fantasia by James Bidgood gets its first theatrical run in 54 years at Metrograph.
  
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• Angel Studios Turns to Viewers of Faith to Greenlight Movies

  09-04-2025 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  The company behind “Sound of Freedom” follows an unusual strategy that relies on an army of subscribers to its streaming platform.
  
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• ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’: What to Know About the Broadway Show

  09-04-2025 11:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The new play, set 24 years before the start of the Netflix series, combines lavish spectacle with a cast of familiar characters.
  
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• TV tonight: the astonishing story of jailed ‘wellness influencer’ Kat Torres

  09-04-2025 07:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Inside the alarming case of ‘witchcraft, sexual exploitation and missing women’. Plus: a fascinating look at fridges. Here’s what to watch this evening11pm, BBC Two
  Last year, rags-to-riches Brazilian model and “wellness influencer” Kat Torres was sentenced to eight years in prison for human trafficking and slavery (which she still strongly and passionately denies). Her victims were her followers. This alarming documentary, an investigation by BBC Eye, tells a story
  
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• Falling share prices test bro-sphere’s bromance with Trump

  09-04-2025 06:01
  
  Conservative podcasters who were key to US president’s election win are divided by tariff fallout
  
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• Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing review – nothing about this shocking tale feels OK

  09-04-2025 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This grim documentary shines a light on child social media star Piper Rockelle,the hugely murky ethics surrounding this kind of content – and the high-profile lawsuit that engulfed their careerThe title of the new documentary Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing is interesting. It could be said to presuppose the existence of a good side to allowing, encouraging or coercing young children and early teens to put their lives online for attention and validation (or deliberately creatin
  
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• Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Old Friends’ Review: A Broadway Party With 41 Songs

  09-04-2025 03:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga lead the festivities in a new Broadway revue of the great musical dramatist’s work.
  
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• UK hails Universal theme park as ‘vote of confidence’ in Britain

  09-04-2025 01:01
  PM Keir Starmer to confirm Universal visitor attraction that will bring an estimated £50bn boost for economy
  
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• UK hails new theme park as ‘vote of confidence’ in Britain

  09-04-2025 01:01
  
  Sir Keir Starmer to confirm Universal visitor attraction that will bring an estimated £50bn boost for the economy
  
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