Malcolm Peel

Jennifer Egan: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron LanierLanier’s provocatively titled book may in itself appear divisive, but the tools for…
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Why don’t we have a late-night TV culture in the UK? America has it: Seth Meyers, SNL, hundreds of men called Jimmy laughing emptily at the first sentence of an anecdote. And…
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Hollywood loves a good comeback story, and the new Disney+ film Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers has a great one. No, not that of the titular chipmunk heroes, starring in their first…
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Few writers have published and been damned with quite the ferocity Julie Myerson was back in 2009 for her memoir The Lost Child. The book, which included descriptions of her…
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Grant the Mad Max fans a magic wish and they’d conjure up a new film from George Miller, right here and right now, not a moment to lose. It’s probably what they’ve been wanting…
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Films about hostage situations rarely play out like Hold Your Fire, where both the captives and captors don’t die.Stefan Forbes’s riveting documentary revisits a real life 47-hour…
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Claire Rushbrook and Adeel Akhtar are the middle-aged lovers defying familial prejudice and cultural barriers in Ali & Ava (arriving on major VOD platforms on Monday), but…
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The Great Garden Revolution8.15pm, Channel 4A stress-relieving sensory garden – with a tea bed (which grows everything you need for a cuppa) and a firepit – sounds like something…
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Multi-hyphenate pop star Rihanna and rapper A$AP Rocky have welcomed their first child, according to a TMZ report. The baby boy was reportedly born on 13 May in Los Angeles. No…
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Pick of the weekStranger ThingsNatalia Dyer and Maya Hawke in Stranger Things. Photograph: NetflixA gruesome flashback to Dr Brenner’s lab cuts to sunny guitar pop and a teenage…
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