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Why I teach a course connecting Taylor Swift's songs to the works of Shakespeare, Hitchcock and Plath

Unusual Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Conversation

Sleaze watchdog ‘toothless’ after Matt Hancock’s jungle antics, says chair

Lord Pickles has described his own committee as “toothless” after Matt Hancock went to the celebrity jungle without asking for his permission.

Evening Standard

Music inspires powerful emotions on screen, just like in real life

There are some classic films in which music is so integral to a scene, it would be hard to imagine the scene without it.

The Conversation

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Harry Potter star recalls his 'worst' audition for Hitchcock film with Anthony Hopkins

The 2012 film, ultimately, received mixed reviews from critics

Wales Online

‘Satyajit Ray captured decay in the country’s social life through his works’

Ray had a position similar to international filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock, says P.F. Mathews, scriptwriter

The Hindu

From Flux Gourmet to Björk: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether you’re after director Peter Strickland’s descent into the decadently weird or the Icelandic conjurer’s latest aural opus, our critics have you covered

The Guardian - UK

Michael Phillips: Here’s the big reveal: Movie endings are hard to get right, and not just in ‘Don’t Worry Darling’

Near the end of last weekend’s most popular theatrical release, “Don’t Worry Darling,” the perfect 1950s homemaker played by Florence Pugh finally begins to piece together the insidious puzzle of her life. She’s living inside the confines of her marriage to a rising young executive (Harry Styles) as part of…

Chicago Tribune

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Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo review – uncomfortable for all the wrong reasons

Whether it ineffectively subverts or simply misunderstands Hitchcock’s body of work, this video game adaptation does the director a disservice

The Guardian - UK

Review: 'The Furrows,' by Namwali Serpell

FICTION: Namwali Serpell's luminous new novel about a missing child bends and blends genre in a searching exploration of grief.

Tribune News Service

Hollywood princess Grace Kelly dreamed of being invisible and living in Ireland

On 40th anniversary of Princess Grace of Monaco's death in a crash aged 52, director Rovert Dornhelm shares how the film star, who owned a cottage near Cork and had Irish roots, longed to be ordinary

Daily Mirror

Review: 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' meets Hitchcock in Hulu's enjoyable new comedy

An unlikely, likable mix of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "The 39 Steps," Hulu's "Wedding Season" is a millennial rom-com thriller, in which a lovelorn dreamer falls for a woman who's trouble. In the present timeline, the two are fleeing the authorities and mysterious deadly forces. In the recent…

Los Angeles Times

"Orphan: First Kill" horror homages

The new prequel film includes nods to horror from "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" to "Squid Game"

Salon

Binmen living in fear of 'new super-angry' seagulls - and forced to wear hard hats

Binmen have reportedly been 'forced to run for their lives' while at work, due to terrifying divebomb attacks that have been compared to scenes out of horror films

Daily Mirror

Mark Brown's Fringe Reviews: Are these three plays worth seeing in Edinburgh?

HOW better to start the Edinburgh Fringe 2022 than with a drama about a struggling female actor who – in the midst of the audition process for a…

The National (Scotland)

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Daily Record

Jim Black's Open Diary: Birdies, eagles but no seagulls as R&A use method Alfred Hitchcock would approve of

A flock of killer birds has been employed to keep the skies over the Old Course clear of the flying rats who regularly dive-bomb spectators.

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Paul Hollywood gobbles insects and bashes piñatas in Mexico

The Bake Off judge goes on a foodie tour in his enjoyable Channel 4 series. Plus: it’s crunch time in the season finale of The Outlaws. Here’s everything to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Spider-Man: No Way Home to A Knight’s Tale: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Web-slingers assemble in the wildly entertaining Marvel blockbuster, and Heath Ledger excels in the role that marked him out as a leading man

Nottingham Post

The hidden mural that has a link to one of Nottingham's most famous women

"It's time for Alma to step forward and have her day in the spotlight"

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Dakota Johnson says HBO should have ‘warned us’ about portrayal of grandmother Tippi Hedren in The Girl

Johnson said her grandmother had been ‘reminded of everything she went through, and it was heartbreaking’

Tribune News Service

Television Q&A: Was Sarah Lancashire always the choice to play 'Julia'?

You have questions. I have some answers.

Daily Record

MOVIE MEMORIES: Peering out from behind the couch as we put the 'master of suspense' Alfred Hitchcock under the microscope

William Hackett Queen takes a closer look at some of the iconic director's finest workx.

Daily Mirror

Half of Brits aged under 30 have no idea who Marilyn Monroe was, study finds

A survey of 2,000 Brits aged 18-30 found the younger generation are in the dark over icons including Marilyn Monroe, Virginia Woolf and Frida Kahlo - but they know everything about reality TV stars

Chicago Tribune

Steven Spielberg is up for another Oscar: We ranked all 33 of his movies, from worst to No. 1 best

Forty-two years ago a little-known, 30-something actor named Steven Spielberg played a Cook County Assessor clerk in “The Blues Brothers.” He had a few lines, such as “Can I help you?” and “Here is your receipt.” His on-screen career came and went so fast you never noticed. But that filmmaking…

The Guardian - UK

Mark Ravenhill on Blackmail: the sensational thriller that shook Hitchcock and me

Charles Bennett’s melodramatic suspense drama became a hit 1929 film for Hitch. Now it’s back on stage – minus the first act and with a surprising ending

Evening Standard

Parakeets take over south London neighbourhood Grove Park to delight of locals

In scenes likened to an exotic version of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds one south London neighbourhood has been overrun by hundreds of parakeets.

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