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  • Beyoncé performing in Houston at half time during the NFL Christmas Day match between Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens.

    Music
    Beyoncé NFL half-time show review - country ho-ho-ho-down is playful and infectious

  • Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in Notting Hill, 1999.

    Romcoms are clearly fantasy – but divorce sequels aren’t the answer

    Zoe Williams
    Who wants to see the Notting Hill follow-up where it all falls apart? Not me – I’d rather recover my faith in the possibility of love, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
  • Composite of four color movie stills

    Film
    Twisters! Tennis! Transformations! The best movie moments of 2024

    From edge-of-seat chases to sexy role-playing, Guardian writers pick their most memorable scenes from films released in the US this year
  • Film director Christopher Nolan,

    Film
    Christopher Nolan’s next film announced as ‘mythic action epic’ The Odyssey

  • Blake Lively at the UK gala screening for It Ends With Us.

    I’m ashamed of what I said about Blake Lively. Her allegations should shock us all

    Laura Snapes
  • Alec Baldwin attends his trial in July for involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

    Film
    Alec Baldwin film set shooting case ends after prosecutors drop appeal

  • A side bye side image of a man playing a musical instrument and a woman holding a mic

    Music
    ‘I don’t want a fight’: the Brazilian samba composer suing Adele for plagiarism

Talking points
  • a man with police behind him

    Film
    Alex Gibney to produce documentary on UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

  • five people waving on a beach

    Television
    The White Lotus: first trailer for third season suggests more satire and intrigue

  • Beautifully brittle … Róis, The Rheingans Sisters, Jacken Elswyth

    Music
    The 10 best folk albums of 2024

  • A man drives a woman, whose face is covered in blood, in a car, both of their faces with serious expressions

    Television
    How Black Doves subverts the gay best friend stereotype

People
  • John D MacDonald.

    Books
    Lost story by Cape Fear author John D MacDonald published for first time

  • ‘I want to pour gasoline on that anger’ … Michael Moore.

    Film
    ‘Yes, I condemn murder’: Michael Moore responds to Luigi Mangione’s manifesto

    • Mischa Barton.

      Film
      Post your questions for Mischa Barton

    • Lisa Kudrow.

      Film
      Lisa Kudrow says Tom Hanks movie Here is ‘an endorsement for AI’

    • Lorraine Bracco.

      Music
      ‘Uptown Funk makes me want to move, it makes me happy’: Lorraine Bracco’s honest playlist

The big picture
  • Art as therapy … images from the triptych I Wish, I Am, I Will Be, 2009

    Subversive, sensual and shocking: Erwin Olaf’s larger than life portraits – in pictures

    Marvel at Dutch photographer’s suggestive Champagne explosions and naked cyclists! But Olaf’s work could also be intensely personal …
Reviews
  • Mouthwashing game, screenshot

    Games
    Mouthwashing – 2024’s most difficult game, but not in the way you might expect

  • Two people standing on a stage with a school library as the set background

    Stage
    Eureka Day – thorny Broadway play takes on school vaccination chaos

    • Two contestants with their cake creation featuring a Slytherin snake, with Hogwarts Express in background

      Television
      Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking – this Hogwarts-themed cake show is sheer magic

    • A man hearing a microphone headset holds his glasses to his face

      Film
      September 5 – taut media procedural revisits Munich Olympics

    • Lauren Mayberry

      Music
      Lauren Mayberry: Vicious Creature – a solo statement of intent

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Pictures & video
  • Sam Tutty  and Dujonna Gift  in Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) at the Criterion theatre, London

    Stage
    Scene stealing: Tristram Kenton’s best theatre and dance shots of 2024

    Wayne McGregor’s MaddAddam, the RSC’s School for Scandal and Robin/Red/Breast with Maxine Peake are among the highlights of the photographer’s work for the Guardian this year
  • A marmoset dangles upside down by its hind legs, enjoying a banana at Forte Duque de Caxias in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

    Week in wildlife in pictures
    A dangling marmoset, rare leopard babies and an eyelash snake

  • ‘Enigmatic subjects’ … a Halloween costume contest in the South Side of Chicago

    Art and design
    Outsider art: the unique vision of Yasuhiro Ishimoto – in pictures

  • Homelessness
    ‘I smile to keep from crying’: Americans without homes – in pictures

  • Photography
    Subversive, sensual and shocking: Erwin Olaf’s larger than life portraits – in pictures

  • Work
    Pointless jobs: the unbearable ennui of office life – in pictures

  • Liverpool
    There are places I remember: Steve McCoy’s Merseyside

  • The big picture
    Tony Kearns captures stalled time at Camden Market

  • Twenty photographs of the week
    The week around the world in 20 pictures

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