2020

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Cinema 

Disney's very own streaming service will finally be launching in the UK on 24 March – featuring Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, Fox and more

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Cinema 

Nancy Ephron, Luca Guadagnino, Paul Thomas Anderson, Desiree Akhavan, Mati Diop and more are behind the camera for the best romantic films to stream this Valentine's Day

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Cinema 

South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho won the Palme d'Or in Cannes with Parasite – shocking, thrilling, entertaining in equal measure – and is now up for six Oscars

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Netflix 

From Gwyneth Paltrow's discoveries in Netflix's The Goop Lab to Patrick Stewart returning to his trekkie roots in Star Trek: Picard, this week in TV is out of this world

Tried and Tested

Cinema 

Armando Iannucci (The Death of Stalin) enlists an all-star cast to bring to life a fresh retelling of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield

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Cinema 

From Parasite to 1917 – we round up what will win, and what should win at the 2020 Oscars

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Netflix 

In season 2, Otis (Asa Butterfield) enjoys his new-found sex drive, Maeve (Emma Mackey) receives a visit from her recovering mother, and Moordale School is infected with chlamydia

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TV 

Boasting a heavenly cast with David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Jon Hamm, Frances McDormand, and Benedict Cumberbatch, Good Omens can't be missed

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TV 

Paolo Sorrentino's The New Pope sees Pope Pius XIII (Jude Law) in a coma, and the Vatican scrabbles to find a new supreme pontiff. Is John Malkovich the answer?

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Cinema 

This week in cinemas, men go to war. George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Adam Sandler, Taika Waititi and Roman Griffin Davis star in this week's new movies

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Cinema 

The actor du jour lines up his latest star-studded role, as Timothée Chalamet is Bob Dylan in James Mangold's new biopic, Going Electric

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Cinema 

Filmmaking duo Josh and Benny Safdie sink into the criminal underground once more after Good Time with a high-stakes thriller set in New York's diamond district

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Cinema 

With a new year to get excited for, it's time to plan which foreign-language films to watch across the next months. Here are the titles to keep on your radar

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Cinema 

Taika Waititi, George MacKay, Terrence Malick, Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hanks, Marielle Heller, Robert Pattinson – all the stars are coming out to shine this month in cinemas

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TV 

In this new Channel 4 mystery drama, Dr Tom Kendrick (David Tennant) has his life turned upside down when tragedy strikes a small community in Scotland

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TV 

Closely following the 1985 White House Farm murders, writer Kris Mrksa traces the lead-up to the shootings and the injustice that came afterwards. Stephen Graham stars

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Netflix 

Gwyneth Paltrow's top-grossing lifestyle brand Goop is coming to Netflix in The Goop Lab, where she experiments with energy healing, psychedelics and... exorcisms?

Tried and Tested

Cinema 

George Mackay and Dean-Charles Chapman lead the war epic, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Scott, Colin Firth and Mark Strong in supporting roles

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Netflix 

In BBC's new three-part adaptation of Dracula, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss reanimate culture's best-known vampire (Claes Bang) for a shocking, horrific, hilarious series

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Cinema 

In his follow up to Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi brings his trademark wit to Nazi Germany: playing a little boy's imaginary friend – Adolf Hitler

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Netflix 

From the stylish return of BBC's Killing Eve with Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh to Belgravia, ITV's new successor to Downton Abbey, TV in 2020 is awash with great drama

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Cinema 

Superheroes, lovers, lighthouse keepers, wuxia warriors – whoever your hero, there's a new favourite film just around the corner for you.

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Cinema 

The historic 1970 Miss World pageant comes to the big screen, starring Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Suki Waterhouse, Jessie Buckley, Lesley Manville

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Eva Green suits up in an astronaut drama with a twist. Proxima sees Belgian director Alice Winocour reach for the stars

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Cinema 

Black Widow has often stayed on the sidelines. Cate Shortland directs the standalone prequel starring Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz and David Harbour

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Killing Eve showrunner Emerald Fennell makes her directorial debut with Promising Young Woman, a wry revenge thriller starring Carey Mulligan

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Cinema 

Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson stars as the legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin in an upcoming biopic in 2020

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Musicals 

Lin-Manuel Miranda earned Tony awards for In the Heights as well as Hamilton – now his story of a tight-knit latino community comes to the big screen

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Lifestyle 

From dopamine fasting to using DNA testing kits for health benefits, these rising lifestyle trends will be huge in 2020

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Cinema 

With a cast including John David Washington, Robert Pattinson and Elizabeth Debicki, Christopher Nolan's next thriller Tenet isn't just for action addicts

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Cinema 

Photographer Autumn de Wilde makes her directorial debut with a new take on Jane Austen's Emma with Anya Taylor-Joy, Mia Goth, Bill Nighy and more

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Cinema 

The swinging romance of summer 1963 gears up to get London audiences dancing in July 2020