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  • Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Kate Phillips as Jane Seymour in Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light.<br>

    The watcher
    Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light – Mark Rylance’s titanic Tudor drama is the best TV you’ll see all year

    The cast are so incredible that even the bit parts feel like stars of the future. Peter Kosminsky’s rich, clever adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novels needs to be plunged into without distraction
  • Paddington in Peru.

    Film
    Paddington in Peru review – hard stares at all involved

    Our furry hero goes in search of his Aunt Lucy in a high-action jungle sequel that’s perfectly enjoyable but lacks the wit and magic of its predecessors
  • Jack Dee wearing a navy suit and waistcoat, a white shirt and patterned tie, against a pale orange background

    The Q&A
    Jack Dee: ‘After the third time someone’s late, we can’t be friends any more’

    The comedian on not opening his mail, clipping his toenails in the bath, and why lying is funny
  • person with textured face and wearing brown hat smiles

    Horror films
    A Nightmare on Elm Street at 40: Wes Craven’s horror still causes sleepless nights

    The film-maker’s 1984 shocker gave pop culture a new, physics-defying villain in the misshape of Freddy Krueger
    • Nick Cave walking along the front of the stage at the AO Arena, Manchester, with fans' arms reaching up towards him.

      Music
      Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds review – up close and existential with rock’s great everyman

    • Paddington in Peru.

      Going out, staying in
      Paddington in Peru to Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light – a complete guide to the week’s entertainment in the UK

    • a TV camera worker, their head buried under a hood, on set

      Television industry
      Brutal hours, tyrants and chest pains: a freelance producer on the reality of British TV

    • two men in dark coats with red cardinal's caps

      Film
      Conclave: the fun, exciting Vatican thriller is perfect election escapism

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  • 1992, CANDYMAN<br>TONY TODD Character(s): The Candyman Film 'CANDYMAN' (1992) Directed By BERNARD ROSE 11 September 1992 CTU82703 Allstar/COLUMBIA (USA 1992) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of COLUMBIA and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To COLUMBIA is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Film
    Tony Todd, star of Candyman, dies aged 69

    Prolific actor with more than 200 film and TV credits, including Final Destination, The Rock, The Crow and Platoon, died at home after a long illness
  • Two side-by-side images of women on red carpets

    Film
    Anne Hathaway and Zendaya are latest to join Christopher Nolan’s new film

  • Jamie Oliver in his studio in London

    Books
    Jamie Oliver apologises after his children’s book is criticised for ‘stereotyping’ First Nations Australians

  • Music
    Exhibition brings London HQ of Rastafarian faith back to life

  • Music
    Madonna laments re-election of ‘convicted felon, rapist, bigot’ Donald Trump

  • Culture
    Winner of Paul Mescal lookalike contest in Dublin receives €20 ‘or three pints’

  • Salman Rushdie
    Indian import ban on Satanic Verses to end as no official order found

  • Art and design
    First artwork painted by humanoid robot to sell at auction fetches $1m

  • Music
    Three people charged in connection with Liam Payne’s death in Argentina

Reviews

  • The Plant Institute in St Petersburg.

    Books
    The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin – the botanists who defied Hitler

  • Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp

    Music
    Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp: Ventre unique – artful mischief

    The Geneva collective are a blast with their brass-driven rhythms, engaged lyrics and energised delivery
  • Paralysed playwright Hanif Kureishi with the Italian medical team on the day he left rehab to travel back to London.

    Radio
    The week in audio: Shattered By Hanif Kureishi; The Hidden 20%; Begin Again; The Joe Rogan Experience

    The now paralysed writer’s memoir is a compelling listen; an award-winning show features neurodivergent guests; Davina McCall connects with fellow midlife women; and the world’s biggest podcaster meets Musk and Trump
  • Dora Carrington’s Iris Tree on a Horse, c.1920s.

    Art and design
    Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury – tinsel treasures from a polyamorous bohemian

  • Ballet Black, Heroes Dress Rehearsal, Hackney Empire

    Stage
    Ballet Black: Heroes – double bill explores everyday heroism and the purgatory of daily life

  • Du Blonde.

    Music
    Du Blonde: Sniff More Gritty – a gleefully self-sufficient affair

  • Impressive debut … Olga Pudova as Olympia (right), in The Tales of Hoffmann at the Royal Opera House, London.

    Opera
    The Tales of Hoffmann – fun, carnivalesque staging goes to the dark side

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Regulars

  • Monty Don posing for a portrait in a garden

    On my radar
    On my radar: Monty Don’s cultural highlights

    The Gardeners’ World presenter on being a sucker for spy stories, pub nights in the early 70s, and having his prejudices challenged by a gigantic floral dog
  • Liz Hurley courtesy Debenhams (C)2024 - DAN KENNEDY

    Film
    Elizabeth Hurley: ‘If I were Queen, I’d outlaw air fresheners in cars and ban prison for white-collar criminals’

  • Portrait

    Ranked
    Top of the pips: Fiona Apple’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!

  • My best shot
    Two bondage fans in Cuba: Jean-François Bouchard’s best photograph

  • How we made
    ‘I was a stuffed shirt, he was an oik’ – Ian Hislop and Paul Merton on making Have I Got News for You

  • Honest playlist
    ‘Last Nite by the Strokes is dead to me’: Julian Casablancas’s honest playlist

  • On my radar
    On my radar: Noreen Masud’s cultural highlights

Staying in

  • Nothing is off limits in David Baddiel’s My Family: Not the Sitcom.

    What's on tonight
    TV tonight: David Baddiel’s outrageous and deeply personal standup

  • Emilia Pérez.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Emilia Pérez to Dune: Part Two – the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    An audacious musical drama about a mob boss’s secret new life as a woman, and Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya’s spectacular fantasy saga
  • Bad Sisters.

    The seven best shows to stream this week
    Bad Sisters to Say Nothing: the seven best shows to stream this week

    Sharon Horgan’s pitch-black comedy is back, plus a gripping new drama about a mother of 10 abducted in Northern Ireland during the Troubles
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Pictures & video

  • A driver waits for tractor man Eddy during the Pallamallawa mud trials

    The Guardian picture essay
    Mud in their blood: the wild world of mud bombing

    Mud trials showcase heavily modified two-wheel drive cars built to withstand violent impacts as drivers navigate a series of muddy obstacles
  • A close up of the bare back of a woman with her hands clutching her hair

    Photojournalism
    From war to resilience: World Press Photo’s emerging photographers

  • The Ramones, The Rainbow, London 1977.

    Punk
    ‘It sounded dreadful – but to me it was the second coming!’: punk rock memories – in pictures

  • My best shot
    Two bondage fans in Cuba

  • Art and design
    Grape expectations! The best of Paris Photo fair – in pictures

  • Art
    Posters from the Montreux jazz festival through the decades – in pictures

  • US
    Sun, surf and the Trump Store: a Florida road trip – in pictures

  • Halloween
    Too scary for children! How Halloween used to be – in pictures

  • Fright club!
    Hollywood’s golden age goes ghoulish

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  • Fearsome … Silverfish frontwoman Lesley Rankine.

    Music
    ‘You got it or you didn’t’: the sweat, smoke and sonic excess of the indie scene pre-Britpop

    A new photography book captures the ramshackle squats and grimy venues that were a playground for confrontationally uncommercial early-90s bands like My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab and Silverfish
  • Fooled … Haydn scholar, HC Robbins Landon with the fake sonatas he verified.

    Classical music
    What are you Haydn? The hoaxers who fooled the classical music world

  • ‘I wore a T-shirt as I thought we looked like a parole board’ … from left, Ian Hislop, Angus Deayton and Paul Merton in 1990.

    How we made
    ‘I was a stuffed shirt, he was an oik’ – Ian Hislop and Paul Merton on making Have I Got News for You

  • Saturn rising … the PAL version of the console, released in 1995.

    Games
    The Sega Saturn at 30: a pioneering games console ripe for rediscovery

  • Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake during their Super Bowl performance in 2004.

    Stage
    ‘One thing goes wrong and that’s it’: how Janet Jackson’s career was wrecked in a split second

  • John Kennedy, left, with Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith of Band Aid.

    Music
    Wrangling with Abba, risking jail for the Stone Roses … the lawyer behind pop’s big spats

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