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NetflixViewers have been "shattered" by Eulogy, an emotional new episode in the seventh season of Charlie Brooker's series, starring Paul Giamatti.Since 2011, Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones' dystopian anthology series, Black Mirror, has presented 34 stories about the dark side...

AlamyThe Great Gatsby is synonymous with parties, glitz and glamour – but this is just one of many misunderstandings about the book that began with its first publication a century ago, in April 1925.Few characters in literature or indeed life...

Emmanuel Lafont/ Getty Images50 years after Monty Python and the Holy Grail redefined comedy, stars Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam look back on the freedoms – and limitations – that shaped the film.An independent British comedy made on a shoestring...

Getty Images(Credit: Getty Images)It's having a moment with celebrities, fashionistas and Gen Z. But wearing any kind of fur, from vintage to synthetic, poses some difficult questions. Could a new plant-based faux fur be the way forward?From Tory Burch in...

Fabio Lovino/ HBORight from the start, season three of Mike White's Thailand-set one percenter drama was beset by criticism and debate – where will the series go from here?Within seconds of the highly anticipated final episode of The White Lotus’s...

HBO(Credit: HBO)The video game adaptation won many plaudits for its grim-but-humane first season. Amidst a semblance of civilisation, the second series is an uneven odyssey.Despite all the mush-brained infected creatures roaming around, The Last of Us was never really about...

Alamy(Credit: Alamy)In 1966, the remote Spanish village of Palomares found that the "nuclear age had fallen on them from a clear blue sky". Two years after the terrifying accident, BBC reporter Chris Brasher went to find what happened when the...

Evan BarlowKen Burns's upcoming series, The American Revolution, follows works exploring themes including the US and the Holocaust (Credit: Evan Barlow)Ahead of his upcoming PBS documentary, The American Revolution, acclaimed film-maker Ken Burns tells BBC special correspondent Katty Kay about...

Universal StudiosFrom Drop to A Minecraft Movie, these are the films to stream at home and watch at the cinema this month.Cinetic Media(Credit: Cinetic Media)The ShroudsDavid Cronenberg's latest sci-fi-tinged drama stars Vincent Cassel as Karsh, an inventor who looks a...

Getty ImagesBeing Maria, a new film starring Matt Dillon and Anamaria Vartolomei, explores the life of Maria Schneider and the making of one of the most notorious films in cinema history.It may be the most infamous scene in the entire...