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‘Fall Guy’ Screenwriter Drew Pearce On Creating a Blue-Collar Hero’s Journey

Screenwriter and director Drew Pearce has two words tattooed on his right hand: The End . It’s a reminder of why he does what he does,...

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The Best Rooftop Bars in Paris

The City of Light has a chic rooftop bar for every taste.

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Michelin-Starred Kol Chef Santiago Lastra Is Constantly Evolving

In October of 2020, during the height of the pandemic, Santiago Lastra opened Kol, a high-end restaurant celebrating the marriage of Mexican flavors...

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The Insider’s Guide to Portofino

Portofino's charming piazza, high-end shopping and dining, and natural splendor result in a memorable Italian vacation spot that caters to travelers...

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‘Challengers’ and The Best Movies About Tennis 

For non-fans, tennis can seem like an unexciting sport. Or, at least, it lacks the cinematic drama of football or baseball, two of Hollywood’s...

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The Essentials With Tracy Anderson

For Tracy Anderson, movement is both a career and a way of life. Anderson is best known as the founder of the Tracy Anderson Method , a fitness...

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The Best Rooftop Bars London

Despite London’s rainy day reputation, there’s a particular love for outdoor drinking and dining in the city, which is best done on a rooftop with...

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‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: Guy Ritchie Bends History With Thrilling Results

Let’s be honest: however valuable or deeply emotional, World War II movies can be a slog. A game-changing global conflict which continues to impact...

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The Best London Cafes and Coffee Shops to Work Remotely

These spots are perfect for your next WFH session.

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‘The Absence of Eden’ Review: A Noble But Unsatisfying Look At the Immigration Crisis

  Thank you for signing up! By clicking submit, you agree to our terms of service and acknowledge we may use your information to...

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‘The Greatest Hits’ Review: Time Traveling Rom-Com Can’t Find Its Groove

Life is full of “what if” moments, a universal truth that is often at the heart of Hollywood rom-coms. Movie plots thrive on the idea of...

10.04.2024 10

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‘Scoop’ Review: Prince Andrew’s Downfall Minute By Minute

Give someone enough rope, they’ll hang themselves. Or so goes the adage. But that is what happened to Prince Andrew when he sat down for an...

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Chef Alexandre Mazzia on Sustainability, the French Culinary Scene and Cooking for the Paris Olympics

France is in the midst of preparing for the Summer Olympics, which will take over Paris and several other cities from July 26 through August 11, 2024....

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‘A Gentleman in Moscow’: Ewan McGregor Trapped In a Hotel In Fascinating, Epic Series

There are certain things that befit a nobleman, as Ewan McGregor’s Count Alexander Rostov explains in A Gentleman in Moscow . Things which...

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The Ultimate Guide to London’s Soho Neighborhood

Soho is one of the most exciting places in London, with easy access to Mayfair, Covent Garden and St. James, as well as attractions like Big Ben,...

29.03.2024 10

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Chef Hélène Darroze on Her Six Michelin Stars, Food Photos and What Makes a Great Meal

Hélène Darroze’s name has become synonymous with innovative, high-end French cuisine, but the chef has done her best to remain humble, despite...

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‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Review: Overstuffed, Unfunny, Not Scary

Why let a franchise drift peacefully into the afterlife when you can continue to forcefully resurrect it until it’s only a whisper of its once...

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‘Irish Wish’ Review: Lindsay Lohan Rom-Com Is a Sweet Comfort Watch

Although Irish Wish is a fantasy about a fictional writer, its director Janeen Damian is making real-life wishes come true. Damian helmed 2022’s...

15.03.2024 8

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An Insider’s Guide to Denver

Here's everything to know when planning a trip to Colorado's capital.

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‘Damsel’ Review: Millie Bobby Brown Stranded In A CGI Uncanny Valley

One of the reasons audiences—and awards voters—have gravitated to movies like Barbie and Poor Things is because the fantastical worlds...

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The Most Anticipated U.K. Hotel Openings of 2024

From Manchester to Oxford to Edinburgh, travelers can expect chic stays and luxury hotel brands debuting in the U.K. this year.

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How to Cultivate a Sober (or Sober-Curious) Lifestyle

Cutting back on drinking alcohol can be a life-changing step for many people, but it can also be a difficult one. While the challenge of Dry January...

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‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Review: A Queer Road Trip Without Forward Motion

Over the years, the Coen Brothers have developed a distinctive, compelling style of filmmaking, culminating in 2018’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs...

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‘Madame Web’ Review: What A Tangled Mess They’ve Weaved

Let’s get one thing out of the way first: Madame Web is not as bad as Morbius , a movie that seems manufactured to be one of the worst...

14.02.2024 4

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An Elevated Guide to Manchester, England

The north of England has not historically been associated with high glamour, but Manchester is a city on the rise. The locale, formerly known as an...

08.02.2024 4

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The Best Under the Radar Rom-Coms

It’s that magical time of the year again when everyone is forced to spend too much money on fancy dinners and flowers: Valentine’s Day. And while...

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‘How to Have Sex’ Director Molly Manning Walker On Her Award-Magnet Debut Film

Molly Manning Walker had a successful career as a cinematographer before she wrote and directed How To Have Sex , an impactful British drama that...

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‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ Review: Edgier, Funnier, More Interesting Than The Movie

Donald Glover seems determined to confound expectation with Mr. and Mrs. Smith , a series that marries high thrills with high laughs. Co-created by...

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‘Fitting In’ Review: A Coming-of-Age Story That Makes The Personal Universal

Being a teenage girl is traumatizing, as cinema has underscored time and time again. But for Lindy (Maddie Ziegler), surviving high school isn’t as...

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‘Argylle’ Review: Ridiculous Fun Battles With Plot Hiccups

Matthew Vaughn infused the spy genre with a sense of violent, tongue-in-cheek fun in 2014’s Kingsman , which spawned a similarly outrageous...

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‘Origin’ Review: Ava DuVernay Brings Tangible Intimacy To Complex Issues

  It would have been an obvious choice for Ava DuVernay to make a documentary out of Isabel Wilkerson’s best-selling book Caste: The Origins of...

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Why Is Hollywood Pretending Musicals Don’t Exist—Until They Win the Box Office?

  The first trailer for Paramount’s Mean Girls , based on the Broadway musical based on the 2004 film, used every trick in the book to hide the...

19.01.2024 6

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‘Griselda’ Review: Sofía Vergara Is A Ruthless Cocaine Godmother In Compelling Series

If there’s one thing Netflix loves, it’s a dramatized version of a true story. The streaming network’s latest limited series, Griselda ,...

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The Most Exciting Tasting Menus in London You Need to Try

The quality of British food has been a long-time joke, but anyone who has been to London in recent years knows that that assumption is a thing of the...

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‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Review: Thrilling And Immersive Theater

Stranger Things: The First Shadow | 3hrs. One intermission. | The Phoenix Theatre | Charing Cross Road, London Fans will be forgiven if they were...

12.01.2024 5

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The Vegan-Friendly and Plant-Based London Restaurants You Need to Try for Veganuary

With a new year comes new goals, including eating healthier and more sustainably. One of the best ways to do that is with a plant-based diet, which...

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‘Good Grief’ Review: Stumbling Through Love and Loss In Daniel Levy’s Debut Film

There are a few things a good romantic comedy needs: an aspirational setting, a devastatingly beautiful kitchen, and a protagonist who finds true...

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‘Society of the Snow’ Review: A New, Terrifying Look A Familiar Survival Story

Some stories are told again and again because Hollywood is out of ideas. Others are echoed because a filmmaker finds a new perspective or fresh lens...

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The Most Exciting London Hotel Openings of 2023

It was a big year on the London hotel scene , with dozens of new openings and big-scale renovations. But some of the debuts, like the...

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Best of 2023: Emily Zemler’s Top 10 Movies

  After several dire years following the pandemic, 2023 felt like the year Hollywood finally got back on its feet. Filmgoers returned to the...

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‘The End We Start From’ Review: A Mother and Child Confront Climate Disaster

It seems almost impossible to transform Megan Hunter’s debut novel, The End We Start From , into a film. The scant novel, told in haunting,...

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‘Wonka’ Review: Big, Buoyant, Sometimes Ridiculous, And Great

Childhoods were made or broken by Mel Stuart’s 1971 Roald Dahl adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory . Gene Wilder’s irreverent,...

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‘The Inventor’ Review: A Lovingly Animated Leonardo da Vinci Without Much of a Story

A clever inventor like Leonardo da Vinci seems like the ideal subject for a clever artform like stop-motion animation. And in many ways he is: Da...

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‘The Crown’ Season 6 Review: The Series Returns to Form as Darkness Descends

A dark cloud has loomed over The Crown since Princess Diana, then played by Emma Corrin, appeared in the fourth season. The impending tragedy,...

16.11.2023 4

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Tom Blyth On Playing a Young Coriolanus Snow in the Hunger Games Prequel

Tom Blyth had big shoes to fill when he took on the role of Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes . In the film,...

14.11.2023 2

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‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Review: Is There Any Appetite Left?

For several years in the 2010s, young adult dystopic stories swept the big screen. The original Hunger Games franchise, based on the novels by...

09.11.2023 4

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‘The Marvels’ Review: Thankfully No Superhero Fatigue Here

Here’s the main thing you need to know about The Marvels , the 33 rd movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: It’s fun. That shouldn’t be...

08.11.2023 5

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Chef Mauro Colagreco Is Ready to Disrupt the London Dining Scene

For Mauro Colagreco, opening a restaurant in London felt like a worthy new endeavor. The Argentinian chef is best known for his three-Michelin star...

20.10.2023 4

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‘Tuesday’ London Film Festival Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus In A Surreal Encounter With Death

Grief manifests in strange ways, but perhaps not as strange as it does in Tuesday , the directorial debut feature from Daina O. Pusic. The film...

16.10.2023 2

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‘The Kitchen’ London Film Festival Review: A Haunting Glimpse Into A Possible Future

There’s an undercurrent of raw energy that threads through The Kitchen , the directorial debut from Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe Tavares. The film,...

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