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Alamy(Credit: Alamy)When The Shawshank Redemption came out 30 years ago this week, it seemed to have all the ingredients of a box-office smash.After all, it was based on a novella by one of the world's best-selling authors, Stephen King, so...

Paul KoudounarisA new photography book explores the practice of memorialising beloved beasts, from a performing elephant in Las Vegas to service animals and the world's most loyal sheepdog.The first time Paul Koudounaris visited Pet Haven Cemetery and Crematory in Gardena,...

AlamyFirst broadcast 30 years ago this week, the hugely popular show Friends became much more than a sitcom – it brought a new way of living into the mainstream.Barely three minutes into the pilot episode of Friends (The One Where...

Mubi(Credit: Mubi)No one who watches this twisted Demi Moore film about a special anti-ageing treatment will forget it. But is it a feminist masterpiece or shallow, misogynistic and exploitative?In The Substance, the much-discussed, opulently stylised and lavishly gory gonzo horror...

Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)She was one of the world's biggest pop stars – but her new album has been plagued by controversy and failed singles. Here's why she's stumbled – and what it says about music today.The comeback has a...

Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images(Credit: Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty Images)As fashion month continues, the trailblazing supermodel talks 90s nostalgia, career gambles, and embracing getting older.It's hard to picture Cindy Crawford being scared. The supermodel's signature gaze is pretty fearless, after...

MarvelA "magical romp of a show", this WandaVision spin-off veers from "playfully spooky to genuinely scary".It is three years since Agatha Harkness was revealed to be the Big Bad of WandaVision, a show that riffed on classic sitcoms as it...

Emmanuel Lafont(Credit: Emmanuel Lafont)In the 1960s, Barbara Hulanicki disrupted the stuffy, class-ridden view of fashion, and the inclusive Biba lifestyle changed everything.She talks to the BBC about her extraordinary career."Biba attracted troublemakers or people who liked to make trouble," asserts...

Sky UK LtdIn the new film Lee, Kate Winslet stars as the legendary model-turned-war photographer Lee Miller (Credit: Sky UK Ltd)After the wartime horrors she witnessed, the photographer – now the subject of a biopic, Lee, starring Kate Winslet –...

Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)Last night's biggest shock came when this HBO show about a veteran stand-up comic starring Jean Smart took best comedy over The Bear. Was it a victory for genuinely funny comedy?At the last Emmys ceremony in January,...