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57 days ago

Streaming: Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and the best haunted house films

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a story from The Guardian › International

The director’s witty supernatural thriller joins Psycho, Hereditary, The Brutalist and more – films in which buildings are characters in their own right

The first more-or-less horror movie in the leng…

My sister was killed after her husband lured her to a derelict Victorian mental health hospital and stabbed her more than 20 times… the authorities knew what he was like but wrongly said that he was less risky

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a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Gemma Marjoram (pictured) was just 38 when her estranged husband lured her to the derelict St Andrew's mental health hospital in Norwich and set upon her with two kitchen knives.

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‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare?

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a story from The Guardian › International

After rereading the entire works of the great Victorian novelist during the pandemic, Peter Conrad became convinced – whisper it – that Dickens is an even greater writer than that other British liter…

64 days ago

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Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya; The South by Tash Aw review – love under the eye of the law

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a story from The Guardian › International

Two contrasting but equally impressive Asia-set coming-of-age novels explore gay teenagers navigating their nascent sexuality against the backdrop of personal and political upheavals

What makes sex s…

70 days ago

72 days ago

A Thousand Blows review – the irresistible new boxing drama from the Peaky Blinders creator

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a story from The Guardian › International

Steven Knight’s latest series is a hugely fun journey into the murky world of Victorian bare-knuckle fighting. It’s a ripping yarn full of audacious dialogue

Some will come for the boxing. The Peaky B…

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