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Soho theatre, LondonThis intergalactic show about sexuality and religious homophobia boasts a charismatic star in Willy Hudson but tips into chaosWilly Hudson’s “queer sci-fi epic” has an interstellar theme and rocket-fuelled energy, even if it ultimately remains grounded. A boyfriend breakup at the start brings a Nasa-sized rupture in Hudson’s life...
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A glamorous woman swaps bodies with another glamorous woman – Max Barbakow’s new bodyswap film looks set to subvert a genre built on polar oppositesThe bodyswap genre has long existed on a simple premise: what if two people with entirely opposite worldviews got to experience life through each others’ eyes. Classics of the genre have involved Freaky...
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Actor taking legal action over collapse of film says it is ‘humiliating’ for private messages to be read in courtThe actor Eva Green has insisted she didn’t really mean things she said in private WhatsApp messages now being examined in a court battle, comparing them to Daniel Craig’s empty threat to slash his wrists rather than make another James Bond...
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Cafe owner Charlie Clarke ‘shrieked like schoolgirl’ when he turned up pristine necklace bearing initials of Henry and Katherine of AragonCharlie Clarke had been metal detecting for just six months when he stumbled across what he calls his “once in a lifetime – no, once in 30 lifetimes”, find. He was exploring a Warwickshire field, turning up “junk”...
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Midfielder injured ankle in tackle by Reading’s Andy Carroll‘It shouldn’t have happened,’ says United manager Erik ten HagErik ten Hag has insisted Christian Eriksen’s ankle injury that could rule him out until early May will not derail Manchester United’s season. The manager said it was unlikely a midfielder would be signed on Tuesday’s transfer deadline...
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Taking the fashionable genre as a starting point, Ric Rawlings’ film tries to elevate amateurism in three creepy rural stories but it just looks ineptThose interested in the concept of rewilding, a form of environmental conservation that seeks to restore land to a more natural state as popularised by the book by Isabella Tree, should be well advised...
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Tourist authority joins international brands on listWorld Cup starts on 20 July at Eden Park, AucklandSaudia Arabia’s tourist authority is to sponsor football’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand this year, despite the country’s history of oppression of women’s rights.Fifa is expected to confirm that Visit Saudi will join international brands...
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World No 14 tennis player accused by girlfriend Olga SharypovaATP cite ‘lack of reliable evidence and eyewitness reports’The ATP has decided to take no disciplinary action against the German tennis player Alexander Zverev after a 15-month independent investigation found “insufficient evidence to substantiate published allegations of abuse”.Zverev, the...
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Geoffrey Robertson says wealthy Russians using legal system to intimidate British journalists and publishersRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has helped “open eyes” to the idea of reforming England’s increasingly draconian libel and privacy laws, according to one of the country’s leading media advocates.Geoffrey Robertson KC, author of a new book on efforts...
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