2019

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Immersive 

From The Wolf of Wall Street to sun-soaked seventies disco, here are the kooky adventures and immersive experiences London will get in 2019

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Theatre 

Drunken chaos is abound in this improvised take on A Christmas Carol under the influence

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Cinema 

In Hail Satan?, documentarian Penny Lane delves into the controversial religious group known as the Satanic Temple

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Cinema 

Based on the controversial books by Alvin Schwarz, the teen horror fanatic Stella (Zoe Margaret Colletti) finds a book that writes its own horror stories... and they become true

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Cinema 

Famed Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar directs Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz in Pain and Glory, premiering in the Official Selection in Cannes

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Cinema 

Set in '80s Leningrad, punk musician Mayk (Roman Bilyak) takes on newbie Viktor (Teo Yoo) as his protege

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TV 

Imelda Staunton has shot from wicked fantasy to harrowing drama, starring in the new ITV drama about the controversial Sian O'Callaghan case. She talks to CW about the series

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Best of 

Whether you're looking for ambient romance or heartracing pop, this year's biggest releases have offered eclectic music to get you through study breaks, summer parties and slow evenings

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Cinema 

Film4 are teaming up with Somerset House once more for a programme of outdoor screenings under the stars

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Cinema 

Transit depicts a refugee crisis in modern day occupied France to heart-wrenching results

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Cinema 

Naomi Watts and Octavia Spencer face off in a suspenseful cerebral battle, in Julius Onah's complex study of the model minority myth

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Cinema 

Closing this year's Toronto Film Festival, another biopic comes to light: Radioactive shines the spotlight on one of the greatest physicists

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Gigs 

As the days get shorter, evening excitement becomes all the more important. From jazz retrospectives to pop sensations, here're the best gigs to look out for this Autumn

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TV 

Based on the Windermere novels by Paula Daly, ITV's Deep Water follows three friends in the Lake District as they cope with debts, motherhood, and mediocre husbands

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Cinema 

In Once Upon A Time ... in Hollywood, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie return. Tarantino's ninth feature rocked Cannes this year

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Cinema 

Babyfaced tween Jacob Tremblay (Room) stars in Good Boys, a rude and raucous comedy produced by Seth Rogen

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TV 

In Channel 4's This Way Up, Aisling Bea plays an English-language teacher who leans on her sister Shona (Sharon Horgan) after a nervous breakdown

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Cinema 

From a Pulitzer Prize winner to yet another Little Women remake, books being made to movies are coming thick and fast in 2019

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TV 

Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan star in the new Channel 4 comedy drama This Way Up, coming this Thursday. We attended a Q&A for the show at the BFI Southbank

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Cinema 

Gurinder Chadha's Blinded by the Light sets an Asian-British coming-of-age story to a Bruce Springsteen soundtrack

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TV 

In Euphoria, Zendaya stars as Rue Bennet, a 17-year-old drug addict just out of rehab. She tries to navigate her anxious, Gen-Z life without any intention of getting clean

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Cinema 

Rising stars and veterans making a comeback are storming screens in 2019. Here are the names to remember for the remainder of the year in cinema

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Best of 

From writer Joe Penhall and director David Fincher, Mindhunter will resume on Netflix in August. The serial killers featured will include Charles Manson and David Berkowitz

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Gigs 

The 'punk poet' is making an appearance in one of the largest live venues in London for performance art that only he could master

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Gigs 

If you've seen Fight Club or (500) Days of Summer, you might recognise the loud-quiet rock of Pixies: In London this September

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Cinema 

Across the ocean, one of the world's biggest film festivals is setting the tone for the awards season to come. Major movies and hidden gems abound at TIFF 2019

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Cinema 

Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat star as two thirty-something best friends in Animals, a hedonistic portrait of female love in Dublin

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TV 

On BBC 2 this Friday: present-day titans Michelle Williams and Sam Rockwell play Gwen Verdon and Bob Fosse, the Hollywood dancer and choreographer

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Cinema 

Settle in for a film night in Grade II listed building Oxford House in Bethnal Green, courtesy of Historic England to celebrate the importance of our preserved history

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Netflix 

From the dark, psychopathic pleasures of Joe Penhall's Mindhunter to the puppet-fighting fantasies of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Netflix in August is filled with adventure

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Cinema 

Southbank Centre is teaming up with Electric Pedals for four outdoor film screenings with a twist: power up the bikes along the river to watch Chicago, Moulin Rouge! and more

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Cinema 

A Star Is Born, The Greatest Showman and more – enjoy the best immersive outdoor screenings with Backyard Cinema in Camden this summer