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From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025
Film
American auteurs return
A new film from one of the heavy hitters of US cinema is always cause for celebration, and with projects from Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Baumbach and Paul Thomas Anderson on the horizon, there’s plenty to whet cineaste appetites in the coming year. Details on …
The big chill: warming, nourishing culture to help you hibernate until spring
TV
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
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Period dramas are traditionally rather cosy, but from the very first scenes – a stark restaging of Anne Boleyn’s beheading – it’s clear
this adaptation
of the final book in Hilary Mantel’s epic Thomas Cromwell trilogy will be a bracing …What is freezing rain and how could it cause disruption across UK?
Freezing rain is due to fall over the weekend across the UK and is predicted to cause significant disruption.
The Met Office has issued yellow and amber weather warnings for most of the country on Saturday and Sunday.
The icy weather is likely to bring power cuts, cause vehicles to …
‘It is impossible to outrun them’: how drones transformed war in Ukraine
Denys, a soldier with Ukraine’s Khyzhak brigade, describes a new kind of war. Standing in a barracks workshop with piles of basic Ukrainian First Person View (FPV) drones behind him, he says simply: “There are fewer gunfights because there are more drone fights.”
Frontlines that were once a gunshot apart …
Ukraine war briefing: Five killed and homes damaged in series of Russian and Ukrainian attacks
At least five people were killed in a series of Russian and Ukrainian strikes on Friday, including an afternoon Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Chernigiv
which left at least one person dead and damaged a residential area, officials said
. “Several houses were heavily damaged. There …
Working on a world free of nuclear arms | Letters
‘A look into the future’: TV drama about Danish climate refugees divides opinion
Featuring scenes of huge crowds boarding ferries, protest and desperation as six million Danes become climate refugees and life as they know it rapidly collapses, the new TV series by the Oscar-winning director Thomas Vinterberg is a potential “look into the future”, he says.
Familier som vores
(Families Like …Digested week: through the Christmas perineum and out the other side
Monday
And so we find ourselves again at the Christmas perineum, the time between the end of the yuletide celebrations and before the new year shenanigans begin, and a phrase so awful I have felt compelled to use it as often as possible ever since the dark day I learned …
Snow and freezing rain expected across UK as temperatures plummet
Temperatures across the UK have plunged to-8C (17.6F) as the country shivers under an arctic chill expected to bring widespread heavy snow and freezing rain over the weekend.
On Friday morning, the Met Office upgraded its weather warning for snow and ice from yellow to amber for much of northern …
‘Drab December’ caps another year of declining footfall on UK high street
High streets and other shopping destinations have had a “drab December”, ending another year of falling visitor numbers and raising fears of disappointing sales in the most important month for retailers.
Attendance at UK shopping centres, retail parks and high streets was down 2.2% in December compared with the same …