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Be your January dry or anything but, here’s to boozing in the movies, from The Lost Weekend to Sideways, Whisky Galore! and Harvey

AI breakthroughs to royal breakdowns — what do you remember, asks Nick Curtis

Nicole Scherzinger, Sam Mendes, Ian McKellen... the glamour quotient was off the scale

After a Halloween feature in which Guardian writers shared their biggest movie nightmares, it’s readers’ turn

Unimaginable suffering has already been inflicted on both sides in the Israel-Hamas war

John Masefield wrote poem for 1932 opening of Shakespeare Memorial theatre, which is now staging The Box of Delights

Drink-fuelled fights, tantrums, fratricide… Roger Lewis’s exhaustive but exhausting study of the Burton-Taylor partnership is as extravagant and uncompromising as its badly behaved stars

From classic West End musicals to exciting new work by emerging voices, London's theatre scene is stronger than ever

It’s very hard to get excited about Taylor Swift and her rumoured American footballer love interest, while Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner are a snooze, and the less said about Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis, the better. Celebrity couples never used to be this dull, writes Jessie Thompson