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Welcome to the Weekend Sensemaker from Tortoise – making sense of who and what is shaping culture now
It’s all gone wackadoodle at Fox
Welcome to the Weekend Sensemaker from Tortoise – making sense of who and what is shaping culture now
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Coronation chicken
Is the Coronation Concert an opportunity to celebrate new British music?
Cocaine Bear: A beast of a B-movie
Elizabeth Banks’s new film does exactly what it says on the tin
Post-truth pop
There’s an increasing trend of musicians embracing extreme opinions – where does that leave the fans?
The himbo’s last dance
Magic Mike’s Last Dance brings the trilogy that saw Channing Tatum take to the stage as a male stripper to a close. But it could also be the last hurrah for a particular kind of leading man: the broad, muscly, good-looking hero known as the “himbo”
The triumph of the storyteller
Victory City is Salman Rushdie’s first novel since the horrific attempt on his life in August – a virtuoso work of fiction that shows why the right to free expression must be defended much more robustly
The weight of grief
Brendan Fraser’s Oscar-nominated performance in The Whale as a morbidly obese shut-in online teacher is a master-class in the quest for hope amid the despair of bereavement