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Unfrosted review – Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts

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The history of how the all-American breakfast snack was created is served up with lashings of goofiness in this comedy caper

Thursday, May 2

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Kevin Spacey hits back at docuseries alleging sexual abuse

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Oscar-winning actor criticized an upcoming two-part exposé in the UK detailing alleged incidents that go back to his youth

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Keeping it clean: Hollywood sex scenes decline by 40%

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Since the millennium, there is substantially less erotic content on our screens – with changing audience tastes and ‘intimacy coordinators’ to blame

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The one where Bandit gives birth: is America ready for the banned Bluey episode?

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For years, Disney has stopped US viewers from watching Dad Baby, in which Bandit pretends to push out his daughter Bingo in a paddling pool. But it’s far from the only kids’ TV to face a ridiculous censor

Stephen Colbert on Trump’s trial: ‘He lasts only a few furious minutes and then nods off’

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Late-night hosts discuss Donald Trump falling asleep in court, and the Biden administration reclassifying marijuana

Excitable Boy by Dominic Gordon review – punchy tales of masculinity, sex and violence

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These stylish autobiographical essays take the reader into backstreets rarely traversed in Australian literature – sex clubs, street fights and emergency rooms

Sia: Reasonable Woman review – pop reduced to motivational poster

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(Atlantic) The Australian hitmaker reaches for moments of brilliance on her 10th studio album. But too often it plays like generic inspiration

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John Cleese cut N-word from Fawlty Towers revival because people ‘don’t understand irony’

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Speaking at launch for West End adaptation, Cleese complains about literal-minded viewers ‘not playing with a full deck’

Ex-Nickelodeon producer sues makers of sex abuse docuseries for defamation

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Dan Schneider, who worked on shows like The Amanda Show, claims the makers of Quiet on Set are responsible for a ‘hit job’

Go ape! Killer simians in cinema – ranked!

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As Kong continues to terrorise us in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we rate some great apes

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‘I refuse to simplify Syria for western audiences’: director Soudade Kaadan on making a war movie without bloodshed

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Nezouh, a dreamlike story of a family under siege in Damascus, seeks to portray the difficult decision of all refugees as to whether to stay or leave the country they love

The Fall Guy review – Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt fun it up in goofy stuntman romance

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Gosling does the dirty work in this entertaining action film, which has moments of tenderness with Blunt among the crashes, leaps and fireballs

Sea of Thieves on PlayStation 5 review – you’ll laugh, you’ll sail, you’ll drink grog until you’re sick

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Microsoft; PS5 (version tested), Xbox, PC; Rare You’re pirates on the ocean wave, fighting sea monsters and digging up buried treasure, but you’re also larking about playing musical instruments

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Five of the best books about eating

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From a pioneering 1940s ‘gastrography’ to a recent novel about a real-life 18th-century French peasant cursed with an appetite to eat just about everything

Manny and the Baby by Varaidzo review – dreamy debut of loss and unrequited love

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A grieving son aims to connect with his late father through the cassette tapes he left behind, in a tale of jazz, black ambition and romance

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Duane Eddy’s twang remains one of rock’n’roll’s greatest sounds

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The late guitarist was rightly ubiquitous in the late 1950s thanks to his otherworldly sound, earning admirers from Bruce Springsteen to John Peel

‘Like taking a shovel to your brain’: dark fairytale game Indika takes aim at the Russian Orthodox church

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Creative director and writer Dmitry Svetlov explains how his religious upbringing shaped this game about a nun with a rebellious streak

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Love Lies Bleeding review – Kristen Stewart lifts brilliant bodybuilding noir

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Violent story of extreme sport, forbidden love and a lot of murder could be a new grindhouse classic, but Stewart’s fierce subtlety pushes it up a level

Beauty, filth, violence and death: why still life art is more subversive than you think

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Once dismissed as a lesser art form, the still life has been reinvented as a radical form of expression, as a thrilling new show makes clear

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‘Intense and insane’: was this the most unsettling reality TV show ever?

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In the new documentary The Contestant, a Japanese man is put through an astonishing TV experience for more than a year

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Facing changes, changing faces: LensCulture portrait awards 2024 – in pictures

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Photographers talk us through the images – from confused parents to topless lovers – that wowed the judges for this year’s prize

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‘I don’t know if my body can do this’: does A Chorus Line still ring true for dancers?

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As the 1975 musical about Broadway hoofers sets off on tour, professionals reveal how much has – and hasn’t – changed since its debut

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A Man in Full review – skin-crawling Trump satire is a worthy Succession replacement

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Jeff Daniels rages as a crooked real-estate mogul staring into the abyss of bankruptcy in this lavish take on Tom Wolfe’s novel. It’s just a shame the swearing can’t compete with the real deal

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Richard Tandy, ELO keyboardist who shaped band’s futuristic sound, dies aged 76

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Electric Light Orchestra leader Jeff Lynne announces death of ‘remarkable musician and friend’ who played everything from the Minimoog to the Clavinet

Wednesday, May 1

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Duane Eddy, pioneering rock’n’roll guitarist, dies at 86

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Grammy-winning musician, who had a string of instrumental hits in the 50s and 60s, has died of cancer

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The Idea of You review – Anne Hathaway lives out fanfic fantasy in solid romance

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The star makes for a charming lead playing a mother falling for a younger pop star in a passable adaptation of Robinne Lee’s bestselling pulp

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‘A literary voice for the ages’: Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more

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The critically acclaimed American writer has died aged 77. Here, contemporaries pay tribute to his life and work

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Jimmy Kimmel on Trump trial: ‘Why is this not on TV?’

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Late-night hosts discuss Donald Trump’s court naps, police crackdowns on peaceful pro-Palestinian student protesters and Kristi Noem’s VP chances

Who is Stan Smith? New film uncovers tennis and footwear legend

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The former player, once a world No 1, also inspired a defining Adidas shoe and is the subject of a revealing new documentary

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A 007 paradise – or lads holiday in Marbella? Inside Aston Martin’s lavish Miami penthouses

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The British brand has entered the booming market in luxury ‘car-chitecture’, opening a themed tower in Miami boasting ballroom, helipad and infinity pool – all offering millionaires a perfect view of our choking, collapsing world