Robin Kirkey

Hollywood is bracing for a potential strike as screenwriters and movie studios begin contract negotiations on Monday that are expected to be the most contentious since 2007, when the film and television industry ground to a halt for…
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To read about the other Culture Shifters for February, return to the list here.In 2020, Sean Bankhead thought he had reached his peak. After working with Missy Elliott, Fifth Harmony and Normani, the choreographer wanted to take a break and…
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To read about the other Culture Shifters for February, return to the list here.In 2020, Sean Bankhead thought he had reached his peak. After working with Missy Elliott, Fifth Harmony and Normani, the choreographer wanted to take a break and…
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“Don’t keep pulling me … I’m not just an object, I am a person …” These were the words uttered by Paula Yates in the Channel 4 documentary about the late TV presenter that aired last week.Though the footage came from the 1980s, Yates’s…
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Where to begin with the star power fuelling the new horror series Swarm? It is co-created by Donald Glover, showrunner and star of the awards-festooned Atlanta, alongside Janine Nabers, writer on Atlanta and Watchmen. The cast…
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At the start of the new podcast 900 Degrees, host Mobeen Azhar issues a stark warning that “this story goes to some hellish places”. Listeners accustomed to such preambles will no doubt shrug and plough on, but the warning is…
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We last saw the Yellowjackets — the all-girl soccer team whose plane crashed in the Canadian wilderness in the mid-1990s — huddled in a dilapidated cabin, shocked by the death of Jackie from hypothermia, and on the brink of…
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It is one of the shortest viewings in estate agency history. As soon as the door opens, every inch of living space except the sleeping quarters is visible.A tiny genkan entryway, which could nearly accommodate three pairs of shoes, leads to…
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My friend Paul Messerschmidt, who has died aged 66, was a photographer who used his camera to hold the modern world at bay. Distrusting digital manipulation, he practised old-fashioned photography using 35mm colour negative film, then…
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A line strung with dead birds runs across an overcast sky of blue-grey enamel. The image appears familiar: crows used as scarecrows, the dead displayed to warn off the living. But these birds turn out to be scraps of black cloth suspended…
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