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100% ‘certified fresh’: our pick of Rotten Tomatoes’ best films

There’s an unexpectedly large number of films with perfect scores on the site

Evening Standard

Gay best friend: a history of Hollywood’s favourite queer character

What’s often been a patronising and reductive archetype is given depth in a new season of films in time for Pride month

The Guardian - US

TV shows to watch: Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne reunite for 'Platonic,' a rom-com without the rom

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‘Oh my God, what will they think?’ How Katharine Hepburn was haunted by fear of audiences

New documentary uses unheard tapes and unseen footage to reveal insecurities of legendary actor

The Guardian - UK

Gillian Jacobs loves "messy" characters

The actor talks Netflix show "Transatlantic," loving classic films and the "Community" moment that haunts her life

Salon

Ginger Rogers’ 20 best performances – ranked!

With the BFI celebrating the Oscar-winning actor and dancer, and ahead of the re-release of Top Hat in cinemas, we rate Rogers’ greatest films from Hollywood’s golden age

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Election winners, fashionable horses and a tour of stately homes – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

‘She had to hide’: the secret history of the first Asian woman nominated for a best actress Oscar

Merle Oberon, a pick for best actress in 1936, was born in Bombay and spent her career passing for white

The Guardian - US

Our pick of the best “Valentine’s” films for singletons (that aren’t remotely gooey)

Looking to watch something a little bit different? Here’s our alternative selection of movies that won't make you cringe this February

Evening Standard

Rewatching classic kids’ movies brings on some cultural whiplash

Plus shockers from Prince Harry and memories of Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

The Guardian - UK

Barbara Walters' 12 most influential TV interviews

Legendary newswoman Barbara Walters, who died Friday at 93, may have started out on "Today" and blazed a trail as the first woman to co-anchor the evening news. But she made her name over decades of headline-making TV specials, in which she interviewed celebrities, businesspeople, politicians and — perhaps most…

Los Angeles Times

Barbara Walters dies: Trailblazing US news anchor and interviewer passes away aged 93

In a career spanning five decades, she interviewed world leaders including Fidel Castro, Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin, and every US president since Richard Nixon

Evening Standard

Barbara Walters, dead at 93, was cultural fixture, TV icon

Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture

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Factbox-Key facts about pioneering broadcast journalist Barbara Walters

The following are key facts about the life and career of pioneering broadcast journalist Barbara Walters, the first woman to anchor an American network evening newscast, who died on Friday:

Reuters

Pioneering U.S. television journalist Barbara Walters dead at 93

Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on U.S. television as the first female anchor on an American network evening news broadcast and one of TV's most prominent interviewers, died on Friday at age 93, her longtime ABC News home said.

The Guardian - UK

‘We got so many things wrong!’ – How we made cult kids show Hey Duggee

The creator of the fabulously silly show reveals how it was almost called Chop Chop – while its busiest voice artist recalls playing an antelope golfer in the style of Katharine Hepburn

Los Angeles Times

Bold predictions for 6 top Oscar categories, including best picture

LOS ANGELES — We're still a couple of months away from Oscar nominations, but, outside of "Avatar: The Way of Water" and its glorious space whales, all the contenders have landed. Now it's just a matter of convincing voters to give them a look.

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Streaming: the best Sidney Poitier films

An engaging new Apple TV+ documentary about the trailblazing actor is an ideal introduction to his work, from Blackboard Jungle to In the Heat of the Night

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The Surprise Hurricane That Nearly Killed Katharine Hepburn In 1938

Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn, seen here in a still from the 1940 film 'The Philadelphia Story,' had a brush with death.

Evening Standard

The BBC’s new series Marriage: Why are we all so fascinated by marriage dramas?

We’re all nosy as heck about how others live their lives

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: The Phantom of the Open and the best underdog sports films

Mark Rylance’s pitch-perfect turn as the worst golfer in the Open’s history follows in the slipstream of valiant loser dramas, from Rocky and Slap Shot to Cool Runnings

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best lost-in-the-wilderness films

The Lost City, Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum’s remote island romp, joins classics from The African Queen to Fitzcarraldo

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Jenifer Lewis intentionally receives her Hollywood Walk of Fame star on ‘Jackie Washington Day’

Jenifer Lewis, best known for starring in the hit ABC sitcom “black-ish” for eight seasons, scored a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Friday.

The Guardian - UK

Elvis Presley as Willy Wonka? The films the King of Rock’n’Roll almost made

West Side Story, Midnight Cowboy and The Godfather would all have been very different if Elvis had got his way – or if his manager Col Tom Parker hadn’t turned down so many roles on his behalf

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