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The UK's fastest-growing arts extravaganza returns with underground parties, comedy and theatre at The Vaults Festival 2019

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TV 

In Pure, Channel 4's new sex-infused comedy-drama, Marnie (Charly Clive) suffers an especially intrusive form of OCD. She hops on a coach to London in the hope of finding answers

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Theatre 

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical brings spontaneous song and silliness to the West End's The Other Palace

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Netflix 

Get ready to laugh, cry, and be seduced by this new hilarious Netflix comedy Sex Education. Asa Butterfield and Gillian Anderson star

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Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan come back to their hilarious Channel 4 comedy for its fourth and possibly final run

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Cinema 

The stars of Stan & Ollie, Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, are absorbing in the new Laurel and Hardy biopic following the comedy duo's 1953 tour

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Theatre 

Comedy stars unite in aid of the refugee crisis at Choose Laughs Festive Special

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Kids 

Based on the book by award-winning David Walliams, Awful Auntie fills the holidays with wackiness

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Musicals 

Del Boy, Rodney and co. tread the boards as Only Fools and Horses: The Musical comes to Theatre Royal Haymarket

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Cinema 

Gaspar Noé returns with Climax, another piece of provocation, blending sex, drugs and faux-philosophical musings

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From Now You See Me 2 director Jon M. Chu, Crazy Rich Asians is a rom-com fantasy that tackles class, family, and lavish lifestyles

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Cinema 

In The Spy Who Dumped Me, Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon are the slapstick pair taking on spies galore in what has always been a man's world

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Cinema 

Henry Cavill, Angela Bassett and Vanessa Kirby join Tom Cruise for Mission: Impossible — Fallout, the stunning sixth instalment of the action film series

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Cinema 

In Hotel Artemis, Jodie Foster tops off a cast including Sofia Boutella and Sterling K. Brown in a dark yet lighthearted film set in a deeply criminal future L.A.

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Want some advice on your latest novel? Well, comedian Christopher Bliss is going to give it to you anyway

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Cinema 

14 years after the original comes the sequel to the finest animation film from the Pixar studios: Incredibles 2 arrives with new villains and a fresh sense of relevance

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Cinema 

Swelling with small screen British talent, Swimming with Men sees Rob Brydon fight his mid-life crisis by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team

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Cinema 

From the fun to the feelgood to the fast and furious, here are the best blockbusters of 2018 coming out this summer

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Gigs 

Big name comics and bright new talents come to Battersea Arts Centre to preview their gigs ahead of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

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Cinema 

How far does gender affect opinion on the all-female Ocean's 8? A male and female critic go head to head

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Cinema 

Directorial debut from Rupert Everett, The Happy Prince is a heartfelt account of Oscar Wilde's final years in Europe that just holds itself together. Colin Firth and Emily Watson feature.

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Cinema 

Here's what you'll be watching next: the buzziest and best films that screened at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival

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Cinema 

Juno director Jason Reitman's latest portrait of motherhood, Tully sees Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis bond but makes a minor misstep at the very end

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Cinema 

The latest outing from Four Weddings and a Funeral director, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society needs a little less bliss and little more bite

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Cinema 

Gold Whisper members see Juliette Binoche in Let the Sunshine In at the French Institute

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Cinema 

Starring Dwayne Johnson and Naomie Harris, Rampage is a mildly satisfying slash-and-burn disaster movie that ends up more exhausting than exhilarating

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Theatre 

James Macdonald's lively production of William Congreve's satire of desire, fortune and greed wows the Donmar

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Cinema 

A long overdue take on the high school romance on the trials and tribulations of coming out, Love, Simon hits the right notes by not reinventing the wheel

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The latest quirky and colourful animated adventure from Wes Anderson, Isle of Dogs follows a bunch of canines stranded off Japan’s coast and features an incredibly characterful all-star voice cast

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Idris Elba's Black-British family life charms in new comedy on Sky 1

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Taking a satirical shot at the contemporary art scene, The Square is another immensely satisfying drama from Force Majeure director Ruben Östlund featuring Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West

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Cinema 

Boasting a bumper cast including David Oyelowo and Charlize Theron, Gringo takes us through Mexico's drug underworld but there are too many twists and turns to keep the comedy up