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Marianne Jean-Baptiste is Oscar-worthy in Mike Leigh’s ‘captivating’ new film

TIFF(Credit: TIFF)In his stunning new drama, Leigh portrays "living, breathing, flawed but good people", with Marianne Jean-Baptiste starring, in "what is sure to be one of the best performances of the year".The woman at the centre of Mike Leigh's brilliant...

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The historic roots of goth

Warner Bros/ Parisa TaghizadehFrom its early Germanic roots to Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the Gothic sensibility has journeyed throughout the centuries, morphing through architecture, art, fashion, music and film.Few directors are so instantly recognisable by their aesthetic as Tim Burton....

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How history got Henry VIII wrong

Getty ImagesIn new film Firebrand, Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star as Henry VIII and his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, reframing how history and culture have presented the monarch.Inarguably Britain's most famous male monarch, the silhouette of Henry VIII alone...

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