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Dance
Dance Revolutionaries is a new film that honours two choreographers, whose work changed the face of dance in the UK: Robert Cohan and Kenneth MacMillan
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Theatre
Tim Minchin's glorious Groundhog Day musical returns to the Old Vic for 2023. Matthew Warchus directs and Andy Karl reprises his Olivier-winning lead role
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Cinema
At once relevant and timeless, the story of Anthony Bryan, who was wrongly threatened to be deported, is brought to the BBC by his brother, playwright Stephen S. Thompson
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Kids
If you have kids in the house, Disney+ will be your saviour. Thing is, there's plenty on it to appeal even if you don't...
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Cinema
An intimate portrait of fashion's most elusive figure
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Netflix
The Ghibliotheque podcast is hosting a live watch party on Twitter of My Neighbour Totoro, available to stream worldwide on Netflix
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Fashion
The nominees list was controversial for the names it left off, but Little Women was a worthy winner
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Classical Music
Book in for the latest installment of the Harry Potter Film Concert series at the Royal Albert Hall
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Kids
The Secret Life of Pets 2 lands in cinemas just in time for May half-term.
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Cinema
Julianne Moore plays an opera diva held hostage in Bel Canto, the film adaptation of Ann Patchett's 2001 bestseller
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Classical Music
Pixar favourites including Toy Story, Ratatouille and Monsters Inc come to life with a live orchestral performance
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Cinema
From influential director Asghar Farhadi and starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, Everybody Knows is a fine-tuned family drama that sometimes falls flat
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Cinema
After a three year wait, Sophie Turner, Jennifer Lawrence and Michael Fassbender return in Dark Phoenix, new X-Men movie
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Cinema
Based on one of the most ridiculous stories never told, Spike Lee's Oscar-winning Blackkklansman shows he hasn’t lost his touch but that may just be out of it
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Classical Music
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is making its UK debut with orchestral accompaniment at the Royal Albert Hall in September 2019.
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Netflix
In Velvet Buzzsaw, Netflix's satire of the art world, art critic Morf (Jake Gyllenhaal) approves the works of a dead artist. But these paintings are more violent than they appear
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Cinema
Nicole Kidman stars as a hardened detective in LA thriller Destroyer, directed by Karyn Kusama
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Cinema
From charming Walt Disney to being taught to sing by Julie Andrews, child actress Karen Dotrice recalls her experience of playing Jane Banks in the original Mary Poppins film
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Cinema
A revenge story of cosmic proportions from visionary director Panos Cosmatos featuring a career-defining performance from Nicolas Cage, Mandy has us holding on to our seat
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Netflix
From the producers of The Babadook comes Netflix film Cargo, an Australian thriller held together by a convincing performance from Martin Freeman
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Cinema
Somerset House and Film4 bring a curated selection of films to the great outdoors
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Cinema
The HBO adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451 updates the story in interesting and relevant ways, creating a true dystopian tale for our troubled times
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Cinema
Mads Mikkelsen shines in Arctic, a by-numbers but efficient one-man survival story directed with a sure hand by first-timer Joe Penna
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Cinema
The second Star Wars anthology film, Solo: A Star Wars Story, is a broadly enjoyable adventure with only a few standout moments and star turns
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Cinema
Starring Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike, Entebbe teases out one of the Middle East’s tensest moments but struggles to make us see events in a new light
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Cinema
Redoubtable is an amusing and self-aware take on the life of one of France's most celebrated auteurs
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Classical Music
The champion of chanson is back: Michel Legrand brings his award-winning film scores to London this autumn
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Cinema
Enjoy a screening of spaghetti western, A Fistful of Dollars, at the BFI this April
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Cinema
A hilarious Hollywood classic with an all-female cast: this film is on trend for 2018
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Cinema
A feminist revenge comedy is exactly what we need in 2018
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Cinema
Monroe and Russell are the ultimate material girls in this quintessential Hollywood flick
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Cinema
Dark Night is a deeply thoughtful film about modern America but one without a clear social conscience