Post Views: 10 Race Across the World series three review – one of the greatest reality shows gets its best cast ever ‘The secrets and tensions within relationships are what make Race Across the World a top-tier reality show’ … the cast of series three. Photograph: Mackenzie Walker/BBC A gameshow, travel …
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Read More »‘Paddies are changing the world’: exhibition seeks to debunk Irish stereotypes
Post Views: 6 ‘Paddies are changing the world’: exhibition seeks to debunk Irish stereotypes Paddy Hazelton: ‘Ireland has changed so much. And this debunks the stereotype of the hooligan in the bar.’ Photograph: Ross O’Callaghan New York photography project features 50 boys and men named Paddy of various backgrounds The quintessential …
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Post Views: 4 ‘They’d never seen sliced bread’: how a tiny film about Himalayan yak-herders conquered the world ‘You feed him according to how much dung you want’ … Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom. Photograph: Jigme Thinley/AP Filmed in a remote Bhutan village, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom …
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Post Views: 11 The Comet Is Coming review – a blast of jazz from another world ‘More than a display of herculean stamina’: Shabaka Hutchings leads the Comet Is Coming at the Mill, Birmingham. Photograph: Sonja Horsman/The Observer Hang on to your internal organs as saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings and friends whip …
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Post Views: 13 Mike Nelson review – spooky rooms and indoor deserts create a disturbingly masculine world Nothing is as it seems as the Hayward is turned into a series of ill-lit labyrinths where it is hard to tell the incidental from the crucial Sand and deliver … installation view …
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Post Views: 8 Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker (Part 2) review – Alex Gibney plays a very long game The second part of this documentary portrait of the tennis star’s rise and fall does fill out the story but it sure takes its time Boris Becker arrives at …
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Post Views: 22 Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker review – ups and downs of a tennis legend Alex Gibney’s documentary about the disgraced German tennis star has wonderful archive footage and interviews but is ultimately unrevealing about its subject Boris Becker at Hyatt Grand Champions Stadium, Indian Wells, …
Read More »The week around the world in 20 pictures
Post Views: 18 The week around the world in 20 pictures Seher, a 15-year-old Syrian woman rescued after 210 hours under the rubble, is carried to an ambulance in Hatay. Photograph: Bülent Kılıç/AFP/Getty Images The aftermath of the earthquake in Syria and Turkey, Russian shelling in Bakhmut, Rihanna at Super …
Read More »Inside Our Autistic Minds review – this beautiful documentary will make you see the world differently
Post Views: 27 Inside Our Autistic Minds review – this beautiful documentary will make you see the world differently Chris Packham gives autistic people the chance to make a film about their life, and the results are deeply moving. It’s a charming, powerful watch that’s hugely intimate ‘I’m worried that …
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