CULTURE

The 70s rock band putting ‘Zamrock’ back on the map, 50 years on
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- . June 13, 2025
Alamy Blending the style of The Rolling Stones with African beats and instruments, Zambian group Witch were revolutionary – then

This ‘captivating’ romantic drama explores love and money with ‘piercing honesty’
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- . June 10, 2025
A24 Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal make for a starry love triangle in this exquisite new film from

The remarkable all-female flying team that helped defeat the Nazis – with wooden planes
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- . June 7, 2025
Andrei Linde (Credit: Andrei Linde) A new episode of the BBC’s History’s Secret Heroes podcast focuses on the Night Witches,

The 1960s sex scandal that rocked British politics
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- . June 4, 2025
Getty Images The Profumo affair led to a government minister’s resignation on 5 June 1963. In 1983, Christine Keeler talked

The naked billboard that shocked the establishment – and blazed a trail in the art world
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- . June 1, 2025
Guerrilla Girls It’s been 40 years since the controversial activist group Guerrilla Girls formed. Their most powerful campaign, the “naked

How Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP sent shockwaves through the ’00s
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- . May 29, 2025
Getty Images Twenty five years ago, the rapper provoked outrage with his third LP, which shot him to superstardom, and

The 12 Cannes films you need to know about
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- . May 26, 2025
Rebecca Laurence, Hugh Montgomery and Nicholas Barber This year’s Cannes Film Festival finishes today – and from the hundreds of

Jafar Panahi’s ‘taut revenge thriller’ becomes frontrunner to take Cannes’ top prize
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- . May 23, 2025
Courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival After years of imprisonment and travel bans in his native Iran, Jafar Panahi returns

How Midnight Cowboy became the only X-rated winner of the best-picture Oscar
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- . May 20, 2025
Alamy When Midnight Cowboy came out 56 years ago this week, it instantly upended Hollywood’s idea of a mainstream hit.

This ‘deranged’ starry thriller about the US’s pandemic divisions will ‘leave you breathless’
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- . May 17, 2025
Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival (Credit: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival) Midsommar and Hereditary director Ari Aster is once again