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What was the best TV episode of 2016?Game of Thrones’ notorious mud’n’blood fest had stiff competition this year from Black Mirror, Atlanta, Mr Robot, Horace & Pete and that Westworld finale -
Arrival director Denis Villeneuve in talks to direct Dune rebootThe Canadian director is the latest in talks to bring Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic to the big screen for the first time since 1984
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The actor and part-time painter was right to decline a role as chief of the National Endowment of the Arts. Whoever takes it will be tainted by a hellish reignStallone refused Trump's arts job – but who will take this poisoned chalice?
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Here's every single thing that is wrong with Collateral BeautyWith Collateral Beauty, the beloved box-office slugger has scored one of 2016’s biggest turkeys. We get out the baster and try to figure out what went so wrong
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Why Jediism should be recognised as a religionThe Charity Commission for England and Wales’s lack of faith is disturbing. The Temple of the Jedi Order is as theologically coherent as Buddhism
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Wes Anderson's next film to be canine animation with Bill Murray and Yoko OnoThe director is to shoot Isle of Dogs in England, also featuring Ed Norton, Scarlett Johansson, Jeff Goldblum and Tilda Swinton
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the big picture
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The deep forest life of Mari peopleIkuru Kuwajima photographed the Mari El republic in Russia over the course of the year, speaking to locals about witchcraft and paranormal activity
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The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher – fame, sex and Harrison FordFisher recently unearthed the diaries she wrote as a 19-year-old playing Princess Leia. They were the inspiration for a memoir that crackles with one-liners
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Assassin's Creed – Michael Fassbender game movie achieves transcendental boredomThis film adaptation of the successful videogame, in which Fassbender must battle Templars after the original apple from Eden, is an interminable, lifeless mess
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The winter tradition of 'mummering', Newfoundland, CanadaThe custom of ‘mummering’ – in which groups of friends go from house to house, disguising their faces and playing the fool – has sprung back to life in Newfoundland. It even has its own festival
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Barry Jenkins's Oscar-tipped dramaA young man in Miami struggles with his sexuality and his drug-addicted mother in Barry Jenkins’s acclaimed drama
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Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford star in sequel's first trailerThe first look at the long-awaited sci-fi epic shows the return of Rick Deckard as he confronts a younger agent
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Glorious, glamorous, glittering powerThe actor, socialite and exercise guru has died at the age of 99. We look back over her life and career in clips
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Director and cast on Oscar contender MoonlightMoonlight is the surprise contender in this year’s Oscar race; directed by Barry Jenkins, and adapted from a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, it’s the story of a black gay man at three different stages of his life
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The first trailer for Alice Lowe's pregnancy comedy-horrorAlice Lowe, co-writer of Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers, has made her directorial debut with Prevenge, a darkly satirical slasher film in which she plays a pregnant woman who is convinced her foetus is ordering her to kill
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