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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves review – passable, playful adventure

Post Views: 8 Michelle Rodriguez and Chris Pine in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Photograph: Aidan Monaghan Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves review – passable, playful adventure There’s just about enough goofy charm, if not enough humour, in this serviceable attempt to create a new big-screen franchise from …

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Law of Tehran review – ferocious Michael Mann-style thriller of the Iranian underworld

Post Views: 6 Law of Tehran review – ferocious Michael Mann-style thriller of the Iranian underworld Fanatical energy … Law of Tehran. Photograph: Vertigo Releasing A barnstorming – and ultimately gruesome – opening sequence sets the grisly action-packed tone, as a morally ambiguous cop takes on a powerful drug lord If …

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Portraits of Dogs review – pass the pooper-scooper, this one’s a stinker

Post Views: 9 Portraits of Dogs review – pass the pooper-scooper, this one’s a stinker Woofers and tweeter … Hector, Nero and Dash with the Parrot, Lory, 1838, by Edwin Landseer. Photograph: Royal Collection Trust This show of canine portraiture is so trite and desperate to please, it ends up insulting …

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Paul O’Grady – a life in pictures

Post Views: 8 Paul O’Grady – a life in pictures  Paul O’Grady as Popeye on The Paul O’Grady Show, one of many TV series he hosted across his career. Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features The TV host and comedian was known as the host of Blind Date and Blankety Blank, and …

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Return to Russia: magic and mythology in a small village – in pictures

Post Views: 3  The water’s fine … Katya Vysotskaya, 2014. Photograph: Nadia Sablin Return to Russia: magic and mythology in a small village – in pictures Years after leaving her homeland, Nadia Sablin made an anxious return. She found that the village she had grown up in had changed beyond …

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The Big Door Prize review – Chris O’Dowd’s comic timing is immaculate in this beautifully light sci-fi

Post Views: 1 The Big Door Prize review – Chris O’Dowd’s comic timing is immaculate in this beautifully light sci-fi ‘The actor you want when you need to ground any show with surreal or sci-fi elements…’ Chris O’Dowd in The Big Door Prize. Photograph: AP This funny, friendly series about a …

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Will an Oasis reunion finally happen – and do we really need it?

Post Views: 5 Will an Oasis reunion finally happen – and do we really need it? ‘We live in an age where no band is allowed to leave the stage without an encore’ … (L-R) Liam and Noel Gallagher. Photograph: Niels Van Iperen/Getty Images Recent proclamations by the Gallagher brothers …

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Rabbit Hole review – Kiefer Sutherland’s fun new thriller is like 24 … but even wilder

Post Views: 8 Rabbit Hole review – Kiefer Sutherland’s fun new thriller is like 24 … but even wilder It’s the end of the world as we know it … fortunately, Kiefer Sutherland is on hand in Rabbit The one-time Jack Bauer is having the time of his life alongside …

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Unforgotten series five, episode five recap – TV doesn’t get more head-spinning than this

Post Views: 9 Unforgotten series five, episode five recap – TV doesn’t get more head-spinning than this ‘I didn’t have an ideal childhood’ – Martina Laird as Precious’s mother, Ebele Falade. Photograph: ITV Did Precious have a ‘sugar daddy’? Why was she blackmailing Karol? And will Hume make it to Zurich? …

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Succession: this glimmering show will end on a high that we’ll be talking about in 30 years’ time

Post Views: 9 Succession: this glimmering show will end on a high that we’ll be talking about in 30 years’ time Squabbling along … Shiv, Roman and Kendall Roy. Photograph: HBO As the Roy family’s fleet of helicopters land for their final outing, there’s no point in resisting this sumptuous …

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