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The opposite of ‘damsels in distress’: how TV fell in love with female gangsters
Television’s gangster genre is increasingly putting women at its centre, with shows such as Netflix’s The Gentlemen, Black Doves and Paramount+’s MobLand featuring female characters who wield criminal power on equal or greater terms than their male counterparts, rather than being sidelined as girlfriends or sidekicks. The shift matters because it marks a departure from…
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Trump and Rubio’s bold Venezuela oil pact could finally crush communism’s grip
A Fox News opinion piece argues that the new US-Venezuela oil partnership, announced by President Trump and negotiated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, could help end decades of Cuban, Russian and Chinese influence over Venezuela. The author frames the deal as a strategic and economic safeguard rather than…
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3 Rock Songs From 1971 You Heard While Shopping at the Mall With Your Friends
This piece is a nostalgic music feature highlighting three rock songs that were popular in 1971, imagining them being played over speakers in shopping centres of the era. It’s part of a light-hearted retrospective on early mall culture and the soundtrack that would have accompanied teenagers browsing shops with friends at the time. The three…
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“We got dropped by our manager, our publisher and our label. The grand project suddenly didn’t seem quite right”: Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness once gave themselves an hour to write a No-Man song. Another time, they took 25 years
Progressive rock duo No-Man, comprising Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness, released their 2019 album Love You To Bits after a gestation period stretching back 25 years to 1994. The album’s origins trace to the sessions for their record Flowermouth, when the pair first conceived an ambitious, album-length exploration of a single song inspired by Donna…
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The Life of Gerda Taro, the First Female Photojournalist to Be Killed on the Battlefield, Captured in Venice’s ‘The Girl With the Leica’
Gerda Taro, the first female photojournalist to die while covering a conflict, is the subject of “The Girl With the Leica,” a new film by Alina Marazzi that opens the Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival. The drama aims to correct decades of historical neglect of Taro’s work and legacy, much of which was…
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10 Unforgettable ‘Far Side’ Comics About Dinosaurs
Polygon has rounded up ten memorable dinosaur-themed comic strips from Gary Larson’s The Far Side, the long-running newspaper cartoon that ran from 1980 to 1995 and produced over 4,000 strips. The piece highlights Larson’s recurring dinosaur gags, separate from his single most famous dinosaur cartoon: the 1982 “thagomizer” strip, which jokingly named the spiky end…
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Ukrainian Drama ‘Camouflage’ Set Sales With MMM Films & Drops First Clip – Venice
Paris-based sales agent MMM Films has acquired international sales rights to “Camouflage,” a drama by Ukrainian director Mykyta Gibalenko, and released the film’s first clip ahead of its world premiere in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori strand. The film draws on Gibalenko’s own experience of emigrating from Ukraine to Germany, exploring themes of migration and identity…
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Transfer window verdict: how every Premier League club fared
The Guardian assesses how every Premier League club fared in the summer 2026 transfer window, in which the British transfer record was equalled and one club signed as many as 18 players. Arsenal strengthened but were criticised for missing out on a marquee attacker after failed pursuits of Morgan Rogers, Vinícius Júnior and Julián Álvarez,…
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The adult game crackdown is “ridiculous for our art form”, say Hellraiser devs, but they think they’ll survive thanks to that Clive Barker association
The developers of Clive Barker’s Hellraiser: Revival have criticised the recent crackdown on adult content in video games, calling it “ridiculous” for the medium, but believe the game’s explicit horror content will survive scrutiny because Hellraiser is a well-established franchise. The comments follow a campaign by Australian anti-porn group Collective Shout, which last year pressured…