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<p>Kate Hudson has been nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her performance in Song Sung Blue</p>

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In defence of Kate Hudson’s shocking Oscar nomination

Yes, Chase Infiniti, Amanda Seyfried and Jennifer Lawrence warranted slots in the fiercely competitive Best Actress category, too – but the perennially underrated ‘Almost Famous’ star doesn’t deserve to have metaphorical fruits and vegetables thrown at her, argues Adam White

<p>Josh Hartnett and Dakota Johnson star in an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s psychological thriller ‘Verity’</p>

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<p>Television is increasingly being tailored to the brain’s shortening attention span</p>

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TV brain rot: The real reason shows are getting stupider

<p>Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel jump and grin and siiiiing in the artwork for Disney’s ‘High School Musical’</p>

Flashbacks

12-year-old girls were never the same after High School Musical

Features & Reviews

<p>Traitors stars Rachel and Stephen have run a successful, if not always slick, operation</p>

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Why this year’s messy Traitors are the only ones I’m rooting for

<p>Dancers Liam Francis and Eileih Muir in 'Troubadour'</p>

Yorke Dance Project’s Modern Milestones is packed with wit and poise

<p>Kristen Stewart at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘The Chronology of Water’ this month</p>

Inside Film

Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut is pretentious but magnificent

<p>Peter Claffey as Ser Duncan the Tall in 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms'</p>

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is an odd, crass Thrones spin-off

The Saturday Interview

<p>‘I had become very tired of the trope of the toxic father’: Brendan Gleeson stars in ‘H is for Hawk</p>

The Saturday Interview

Brendan Gleeson: ‘I’m more into enjoying life than being pretty’

<p>Malachi Kirby: ‘Most of the characters that I’ve played have been traumatised. Weirdly, that is my comfort zone’</p>

the saturday interview

Malachi Kirby: ‘The cameras were off at this point, but I was shaking’

Rising Stars

<p>Rising star Alfie Williams, who returns to the world of ‘28 Years Later’ with ‘The Bone Temple’</p>

Interview

Meet 28 Years Later’s 14-year-old star: ‘It’s so gory but so awesome!’

<p>Josh Finan: ‘There’s a certain amount of pressure that builds up in your body over the days’</p>

Interview

Josh Finan on his searing prison drama Waiting for the Out

<p>‘It was awful timing. It was the biggest opportunity I’d had in my career. And we weren’t allowed to talk about it’</p>

Interview

Archie Madekwe: ‘It’s easy to get lost in the bigger picture – that’s when you fall into narcissism’

<p>Petticrew stars in a classic tale of forbidden love set against the backdrop of the Troubles</p>

Interview

Lola Petticrew: ‘Calling it the Troubles minimises what it really was’

Roisin O’Connor’s Good Vibrations podcast

Good Vibrations with KT Tunstall

KT Tunstall reflects on the ‘unwelcome side’ of her early fame

Ella Eyre is a guest on Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations podcast

Ella Eyre: ‘I’ve had to unlearn what I was shown early in my career’

Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi: ‘There have been days where I thought I was done’

Zara Larsson is the latest guest on Roisin O'Connor's Good Vibrations podcast

Zara Larsson ‘didn’t expect’ reaction to support slot for Tate McRae

News

The Countdown

<p>Tom Cruise and Michelle Monaghan in ‘Mission: Impossible III’</p>

The Countdown

15 times a director walked away from a blockbuster

<p>Overrated?: Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘There Will Be Blood’ and Cillian Murphy in ‘Oppenheimer’</p>

The most overrated films of the 21st century

<p>Glast from the past: A snapshot of the famous festival from 1982</p>

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<p>Not even music’s greats are immune to writing absolutely terrible songs</p>

13 worst songs by brilliant artists, from The Beatles to Taylor Swift

Independent TV

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The Masked Singer’s Scarab unveiled as Oscar-nominated actor

Will Smith opens up about near death experience during Arctic dive

Charlie Heaton finally speaks out on Jonathan Byers’ running style

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‘Surreal’ to get honour from Princess Royal, says outdoor diversity champion

politics

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