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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Gwilym Mumford
Forget Severance, Adolescence, even The White Lotus – the most talked-about show so far this year in the US has concerned the life-and-death dealings of an inner-city emergency room and a doctor that looks suspiciously like John Carter MD. No, time hasn’t turned back to 1994 (however much we might wish it would).
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6 days ago | 
msn.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more
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6 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Peter Bradshaw |Stuart Heritage |Phil Hoad |Anne Billson |Laura Snapes |Lucy Knight | +6 more
Archie Leach makes an appearanceOne of Hollywood’s most durable Easter eggs debuted in Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday (1940) when Cary Grant’s character says: “The last man who said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat!” And in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) his character sits pensively in a cemetery where Archie Leach’s gravestone is to be seen. In Charles Crichton’s A Fish Called Wanda (1988), John Cleese’s character is called Archie Leach.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Gwilym Mumford
I regret to report that my podcast feed has been a bit of a state recently. Granted, this might not be the most pressing issue facing society right now, but still, it is the sort of persistent niggle that can make a day 0.01% less enjoyable, like a stone in your shoe, or the stubborn persistence of Piers Morgan in public life. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more.
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3 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Gwilym Mumford
The Studio, Apple TV+’s Hollywood satire starring Seth Rogen as the newly installed head of a floundering movie studio, is the sort of series that we should be thankful is still getting made; one last splurge on the company credit card before the boss looks at the balance sheet and reins in all the spending.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Gwilym Mumford
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Gwilym Mumford
Britain’s first film club was a bit of a rarefied affair. Founded in 1925 at the New Gallery Kinema on Regent Street in central London, The Film Society counted John Maynard Keynes, George Bernard Shaw and HG Wells among its members, as well as British film and TV pioneers like the director Anthony Asquith and Granada founder, Sidney Bernstein.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Gwilym Mumford
We haven’t really discussed season two of Severance here at The Guide, at least not compared with all the hyperventilating we did over season one. While I’d like to argue that there’s been a lot to cover so far in 2024 – The Oscars, The Traitors, dead-eyed celebs trying to convince us of the merits of AI – it does feel like a bit of an oversight. Because in this second season, Severance seems to have become a stealth cultural juggernaut.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Gwilym Mumford
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Gwilym Mumford
Whenever, in a weak moment, I find myself mindlessly scrolling on Instagram, it usually isn’t long before I encounter a compellingly fuzzy video of a band performing on a long-since-cancelled TV show: Shaun Ryder with a bowl cut swaying awkwardly to Happy Mondays’ Step On on a 1990 edition of Top of the Pops; or Cedric and Omar from At the Drive-In thrashing away to One-Armed Scissor on Later with Jools Holland; or riot grrrlers Huggy Bear mounting an impromptu feminist protest against the...
