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Inside No 9, Nine Lives Kat, review: too clever by half
The latest episode of the BBC’s anthology struggled for pace and stuck in far too many competing twists and turns
Fighter jets and vomit bags: could you survive Tom Cruise’s nightmare Top Gun boot-camp?
Maverick’s co-stars faced cruel and unusual treatment on the set of Top Gun 2 – it’s been his gruelling approach for years
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Minnie Driver’s memoir spills the beans on Matt Damon, Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood
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Tariq Ali’s Churchill biography is a Marxist insult to history
The old soixante-huitard’s new book, Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes, sets ideological hang-ups above serious research
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Christie’s ‘Marilyn’ sale is a rebuke to the Warhol naysayers
While the actual auction lacked a sense of theatre, the $195 million sale breathed life back into the Pop artist’s sluggish sales
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