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From Chris Rock to Helen Mirren: 10 films to look out for at the Toronto film festival 2026

This year’s festival offers an unusual Patricia Highsmith thriller, an adaptation of a hit stage show, a harrowing prison drama and a new way into the Rocky franchise

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Toronto film festival: Helen Mirren, Chris Rock and Seth Rogen lead lineup

The 51st edition of the Canadian festival will also feature world premieres starring Taron Egerton, Amanda Seyfried and Chase Infiniti

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Who’s in, who’s out, and how many have you read? The story behind our 100 best novels list

Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. Ulysses or Catch-22 … Find out which title came top, as chosen by authors, critics and academics worldwide

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Live version of The Talented Mr Ripley kills on stage

Crime novelist Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr Ripley has inspired popular screen versions, but rarely has it been adapted for the stage.

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The Talented Mr Ripley review – Ed McVey plumbs the depths of deceit

The actor offers up lightning asides as Patricia Highsmith’s social chameleon in an atmospheric meta staging by Mark Leipacher

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From Taylor Swift to Twin Peaks: What are the most iconic rings in pop culture?

Just one day after the public announcement of her engagement, the pop superstar’s sparkler has already cemented its legacy in pop culture. What are the other iconic rings?

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Impressive performances and production values – but Joanna Murray-Smith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley doesn’t quite land

Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith has a long held fascination with the brilliance of Patricia Highsmith, who published the classic novel The Talented Mr. Ripley in 1955.

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The Talented Mr Ripley review – stylish thriller gets a pacy, crowd-pleasing stage adaptation

Heartbreak High’s Will McDonald does an admirable job as antihero Tom Ripley, while playwright Joanna Murray-Smith dials up the humour and homoeroticism

The Guardian - AU

Unmoored review – Scandi thriller delves into hidden truths of a toxic marriage

Atmospheric but unresolved drama pits a seedy academic against his ill-used wife, uneasily staying by him as he faces a rape charge

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Lucy Foley: ‘Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging didn’t talk down to teenage girls’

The crime author on rediscovering Edith Wharton, and the brilliantly twisted author who changed her ideas about writing

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"I must have read it about six times" – author Lucy Foley on 5 books that changed her life

With the paperback publication of her latest novel, The Midnight Feast, I asked Lucy Foley to share the books that meant the most to her

Woman & Home

Maisie Smith and The Crown’s Ed McVey to star in The Talented Mr Ripley UK tour

Ed McVey stars as the mysterious Tom Ripley, a role that has been played by Matt Damon and Andrew Scott.

Evening Standard

First Thing: Democrats ‘too polite’ in fight against fossil fuel giants, says senator

Sheldon Whitehouse was giving his 300th climate speech to the Senate. Plus, the human chain that helped a bookstore relocate

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Can I tame my 4am terrors? Arifa Akbar on a lifetime of insomnia – and a possible cure

From Van Gogh’s starry skies to the nocturnal workings of Louise Bourgeois and Patricia Highsmith, sleepless nights have long inspired heightened creativity. Could those artistic impulses actually help us to sleep?

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The 10 best audiobooks for summer

To soundtrack those long, lazy afternoons try Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s torrid love affair, a real-life pirate of the Caribbean or Peter Dinklage as Hercule Poirot

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Best summer books to add to your beach bag, from Yesteryear to Every Summer After

From exciting debuts to classic thrillers, these are the reads deserving of a spot in your suitcase

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Emma Jane Unsworth: ‘I blush when I think of Miranda July’s All Fours. I became a changed woman’

The author of Slags on Patricia Highsmith, Judy Blume and her lifelong reaction to Yeats

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There’s a deep ugliness and some slippery ethics behind the snail slime beauty boom

If gastropods are lucky, another cheap and unlovable source of age-defying secretions will come along soon

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Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe by Ian Collins review – village voice

A biography of the bard of rural England reveals an unexpectedly adventurous sex life

The Independent UK

10 new TV shows from 2024 that are worth watching before the new year

It could be argued that 2024 wasn’t the best year for TV

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Best historical fiction books of 2024, from Robert Harris to Colm Tóibín

THE LIST: Transport yourself back to a bygone era with Katie Rosseinsky’s guide to the best historical fiction releases of the year

The Guardian - AU

Talented Mr Ripley and the Shiralee headline Sydney Theatre Company’s 2025 season

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Happy Days and aged care musical Bloom also on next year’s STC program, which will the last from outgoing artistic director Kip Williams

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Alain Delon was an enigmatic anti-hero, and France’s most beautiful male movie star

Alain Delon’s death at the age of 88 brings down the curtain of one of postwar European cinema’s most important film stars.

The Independent UK

Matt Damon says he had ‘trouble’ watching Andrew Scott’s Ripley on Netflix

Actor previously portrayed the con-man opposite Jude Law in 1955

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As we await news on Ripley season 2, I rewatched The Talented Mr Ripley on Netflix and was struck by key differences

I'm hopeful Netflix will order Ripley season 2, in the meantime I revisited the movie...

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