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Netflix
Ali Tabrizi's new and controversial Netflix documentary Seaspiracy confronts many issues around commercial fishing, but some questions still linger
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TV
The Amazon Prime series Them examines the dark, racist undergrowth in 50s American suburbia. Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Allison Pill star
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Beauty
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TV
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Theatre
Josh O'Connor and Jessie Buckley play Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers in this intimately filmed, National Theatre version of Romeo and Juliet
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TV
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Netflix
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Dance
English National Ballet has unveiled its full programme for the 2021/22 season, a blend of cutting-edge new works and much-loved classics
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Cinema
Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley and Benedict Cumberbatch star in Kevin Macdonald's difficult legal thriller, following the harrowing story of Mohamedou Slahi
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Cinema
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TV
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TV
In the third and final series of this popular Welsh legal drama, Faith (Eve Myles) endures tricky divorce proceedings, truanting teenagers, and a big case involving a terminally ill child
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Cinema
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
This Sussex-based spy thriller follows British Intelligence agent Thomas Miller (Eddie Izzard) going undercover as a teacher in a Nazi finishing school run by Miss Rocholl (Judi Dench)
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Dance
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TV
Kelly Macdonald stars in the latest Line of Duty, which changes its atmosphere this time around. Adrian Dunbar, Martin Compston and Vicky McClure also star
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Cinema
Irvine Welsh co-writes this infectiously punky biopic of music manager Alan McGee, played by Ewen Bremner, who signed bands like Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and Oasis
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TV
This new international murder-mystery from Steve Yockey shows a newer, darker side to The Big Bang Theory actor Kaley Cuoco
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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 latinx community comes to the big screen
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Netflix
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TV
John Simm and Richie Campbell star in this new ITV detective drama, set in Brighton and written by Russell Lewis
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Cinema
Lady Gaga and Adam Driver star in Ridley Scott's new crime drama about the failed marriage of Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani. Al Pacino and Jared Leto also star
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TV
Director Barry Jenkins adapts Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-winning novel The Underground Railroad for Amazon Prime. Thuso Mbedu, Aaron Pierre, Will Poulter, and William Jackson Harper star
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Netflix
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Lifestyle
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Cinema
Shaka King's new biopic about Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) examines his assassination, facilitated by FBI informant William O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield)
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Cinema
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Netflix
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TV
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Cinema
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Cinema
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Cinema
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