Watch Coldplay performing live at the festival
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The real-life California scandal that inspired the iconic Los Angeles thriller
Alamy Now 50 years old, Chinatown is one of the all-time great crime films – and that’s partly because of a potent story based on
Why the British are obsessed with the Cotswolds
Getty Images Equestrian events – such as the one shown here at Blenheim Palace – are central to certain sections of Cotswold society (Credit: Getty
The film that shows women’s periods are still a taboo
Akanga Film Productions A Malay coming-of-age film about a girl who becomes a monster after her first period has been censored in its home country.
Pixar sequel could be this summer’s best Hollywood entertainment
Disney Inside Out 2 “glimmers with diamond-hard truths about the complex business of being a human” – and has one of the year’s best punchlines.
The world’s first global sporting celebrity
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How Saving Private Ryan’s D-Day sequence changed the way we see war
Alamy (Credit: Alamy) Today marks 80 years since the momentous World War Two Allied operation – and back in 1998, Steven Spielberg’s brutally immersive depiction
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The radical 1970s roots of wellness
Alamy The ‘wellness’ boom of the 1970s was encapsulated, albeit cynically, in Don Draper’s spiritual retreat at the very end of Mad Men (Credit: Alamy)
Eight of the best films of 2024 so far
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