2019

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Fashion 

It's been another bumper year for the fashion industry; let's take a look back on the style highs and lows of 2019

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TV 

In episode 3, Lyra (Dafne Keen) is thrown into the back of a van and promptly rescued by Gyptians. Meanwhile, Mrs Coulter (Ruth Wilson) is aggressively intent on finding her

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Kids 

Disney’s Frozen 2 may not match the magic of the original, but it’s a heart-warming family film with catchy songs to thaw your heart

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Best of 

In The Crown season 3, Olivia Colman steps in as Queen Elizabeth II - following her reign between 1964 and 1977. Helena Bonham Carter also stars as Princess Margaret

Essential

Netflix 

Actor Josh O'Connor is about to reach international fame as Prince Charles in the excellent Netflix series, The Crown. Culture Whisper chats with O'Connor about his recent success

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TV 

This three-part BBC adaptation of HG Wells' novel retains the original setting in Surrey, which will be set ablaze by Martian heat-rays. Rafe Spall and Eleanor Tomlinson star

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Cinema 

In The Report, Adam Driver stars as Senate investigator Daniel J Jones, who uncovered the unlawful torture of terrorist suspects in the wake of 9/11

Tried and Tested

Cinema 

Bridesmaids director Paul Feig and Emma Thompson team up for the rom-com with a cast plucked straight from our Christmas wish-list including Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding

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TV 

Gold Digger follows the unconventional relationship between 60-year-old Julia (Julia Ormond) and thirty-something Benjamin (Ben Barnes). But her family isn't happy about it...

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Cinema 

This Christmas, an animated caper unlike any other is coming to cinemas: there's a spy, there's a boy, but there's an astonishing scientific twist to change the game completely

Tried and Tested

Cinema 

Matt Damon and Christian Bale lead James Mangold's Le Mans '66, retelling the crucial time the men of Ford took on Ferrari

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Netflix 

From the thrilling reunion of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro in The Irishman to Timothée Chalamet rocking royalty in The King, Netflix in November is filled with dark menace

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TV 

In episode two, the clearly devious Mrs Coulter (Ruth Wilson) takes Lyra (Dafne Keen) to her opulent London apartment. But Lyra senses something awry

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Cinema 

From Judy Garland to Marie Curie – true stories inspire great films. Here are the best movies based on real life events to look out for

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TV 

Here's everything you need to know about the new streaming venture from the BBC and ITV. Shows include Broadchurch, Fawlty Towers and Downton Abbey

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Netflix 

In this underwhelming second season, Alyssa (Jessica Barden) prepares for her wedding day and a new character, Bonnie (Naomi Ackie), has a sadistic score to settle

Tried and Tested

Cinema 

Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones reunite after The Theory of Everything for Tom Harper's high-flying adventure The Aeronauts

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TV 

James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson and Dafne Keen star in His Dark Materials, BBC One's new eight-part adaptation of Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy by Jack Thorne (The Accident)

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Cinema 

Stanley Kubrick terrified audiences with The Shining, but not its author Stephen King. Can The Haunting of Hill House director Mike Flanagan reconcile the two in Doctor Sleep?

Tried and Tested

Netflix 

Writer-director David Michôd brings his ambitious, if uneven, Shakespeare adaptation to Netflix with Timothée Chalamet as King Henry V alongside Robert Pattinson and Lily-Rose Depp

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TV 

Joel Kinnaman stars in this new alt-history drama from Battlestar Galactica writer Ronald D Moore, in which the Soviets beat the Americans in the Space Race to the moon

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Cinema 

Isabel (Michelle Williams) is called to New York for a potential investment to her orphanage in Calcutta. But the mega-rich investor Theresa (Julianne Moore) is a little unhinged...

Tried and Tested

Cinema 

Cannes veteran Ken Loach returns with Sorry We Missed You, a heartbreaking damnation of working-class gig economy

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TV 

The beloved wildlife filmmaker is back with a new documentary series uncovering the natural world through the continents

Tried and Tested

Netflix 

Steven Soderbergh sets his sights on the shady elite for his new Netflix project starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas

We Love

Tried and Tested

Cinema 

Brazilian-born filmmaker Alejandro Landes uses the backdrop of the Colombian civil war to tell a dizzying story of teenage angst and global chaos in Monos

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Cinema 

The dark side of Sleeping Beauty's story returns, and goes deeper: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil sees Aurora's godmother show her true colours

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TV 

John Carney (Begin Again, Sing Street) brings the New York Times column Modern Love to the small screen in a sweet anthology series

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TV 

This thrilling and stylish BBC drama explores the devastating effects of a murder separated by thousands of miles. Kelly Macdonald stars

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Netflix 

Paul Rudd delivers a poignant double-performance in this existential Netflix comedy drama, in which the apathetic Miles comes face to face with his doppelgänger. Aisling Bea also stars

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TV 

In BBC's Dublin Murders, Killian Scott and Sarah Greene star as detectives looking into a series of forest murders in 2006 Ireland.

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TV 

In BBC Two's The Name of the Rose, John Turturro stars as Guglielmo da Baskerville, a 14th-century Franciscan friar who investigates a series of murders in an isolated monastery