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Is Nolan’s The Odyssey better than the book? It’s complicated

Is the movie as good as the book? The question always arises when a filmmaker adapts one of our favourite texts. Not many book-based movies turn out better than the works that inspired them. Jaws and The Godfather spring to mind as rare examples. But most of the time we find ourselves lamenting the movie’s failure t…

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Iran publicly hangs January protesters in Isfahan's Alikhani Square, sparking outrage

The Islamic regime publicly hanged two protesters arrested during the January demonstrations in Alikhani Square in Isfahan on Tuesday morning, sparking renewed public outrage, according to the country’s judicial media and footage of the event circulating online among dissident circles.

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For he’s a Bill Oddie good fellow: Why this Goody was the best

If you were a kid in Australia during the 1970s or ’80s, there’s a good chance you grew up watching The Goodies. And if you were indeed among the millions who tuned into the comedy trio’s madcap adventures on the ABC on weeknights, where the 73 half-hour episodes they made between 1970 and 1982 played on heavy repea…

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Life in the Teutonic Order: inside an Italian monastery – in pictures

View image in fullscreenFor the book In Umbra Lucis, photographer Roland Reinstadler gained access to the Lanegg monastery in Lana, South Tyrol, Italy, giving him a rare glimpse behind the walls of a cloistered monastery. Initially introduced by the prior in the Teutonic Order, Reinstadler photographed the architect…

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