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Ghana’s film heritage takes centre stage at UniMAC-IFT commemoration
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Ghana’s film heritage takes centre stage at UniMAC-IFT commemoration

Ghana’s efforts to digitise historical film archives, preserve vulnerable audiovisual collections and restore film infrastructure have come under renewed scrutiny at a World Day for Audiovisual Heritage commemoration in Accra. Moukala commended Rev. Dr Hesse for his contribution to safeguarding Ghana’s historical film collection and encouraged efforts to have his materials inscribed on UNESCO’s national Memory of the World Register.

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‘Sad lost souls’: Taika Waititi lambasts critics after Klara and the Sun box-office disaster
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‘Sad lost souls’: Taika Waititi lambasts critics after Klara and the Sun box-office disaster

The Jojo Rabbit director blamed the dismal numbers for his film of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel on ‘obsolete’ reviewers’ notices, adding that he works ‘for the people’ – whose Rotten Tomatoes ratings are much higher Taika Waititi has launched a furious broadside at “critics” following the disastrous commercial performance of Klara and the Sun, his new film adapted from a Kazuo Ishiguro novel. In a post on social media, Waititi wrote: “This Halloween, let’s spare a thought for those sad lost souls who couldn’t achieve their dreams of becoming artists, and thus settled, and became critics.”

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BBCSO/Stasevska review – Caroline Shaw’s cosmic visions meet Barber’s lyrical brilliance
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BBCSO/Stasevska review – Caroline Shaw’s cosmic visions meet Barber’s lyrical brilliance

Barbican, London The Golden Record and the vastness of space inspire a fascinating but underdeveloped new work, alongside a richly rewarding performance from Randall Goosby As it hurtles away from Earth – 16bn miles and counting – the Golden Record on board the Voyager spacecraft continues to fascinate us. Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners – written for San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque in 2019 and here receiving its London premiere from the BBCSO as part of Shaw’s Barbican residency – features one of its tracks: spoken greetings in 55 languages.

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Blockhead review – struggling novelist embraces his inner monster in comic thriller of literary machismo
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Blockhead review – struggling novelist embraces his inner monster in comic thriller of literary machismo

Writer-director Matt Harlock looks into ego and insecurity in a smart film about a BritLit bad boy who goes down a grisly road This has nothing to do with Ian Dury; rather, it is a brisk, effective British indie thriller informed by the legend of Robert Louis Stevenson wrestling his shadow self while writing Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The present-day equivalent proposed by writer and director Matt Harlock is BritLit posterboy Will Mercer (Danny Horn), much admired for his debut novel A Random Act yet presently mired in indecision over a follow-up that seems likely to cost him relationships,…

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Dead Howling review – werewolf hunts zombies in tough-love apocalypse horror
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Dead Howling review – werewolf hunts zombies in tough-love apocalypse horror

Sadly, this inter-species thought-experiment never comes to pass in this otherwise lifeless and crushingly derivative Aussie post-apocalyptic slog, the only point of note in which is a very brief cameo from Mr Once Were Warriors and Jango Fett himself, Temuera Morrison. He drops off his niece and nephew, Megan (Téa Heathcote-Marks) and Billy (Riley Stiles), before succumbing to a zombie pile-on.

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Meeting Elvis was ‘my biggest day with the Beatles’, says road manager’s book
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Meeting Elvis was ‘my biggest day with the Beatles’, says road manager’s book

Mal Evans’s tale of historic meeting among revelations in forthcoming memoir unpublished before his death in 1976 Meeting Elvis Presley was “the biggest day of all the years I have spent with the famous Beatles”, the band’s loyal road manager wrote. It is among recollections in a memoir that Mal Evans had planned to publish, with the band’s permission, before his death in 1976, aged 40, in a shooting by the Los Angeles police.

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‘We both know how we feel about death and dying’: Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney on their brutally honest Parkinson’s drama
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‘We both know how we feel about death and dying’: Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney on their brutally honest Parkinson’s drama

Written by Vicar of Dibley co-creator Paul Mayhew-Archer, who has the disease, Onwards and Sideways sees the actors play a couple who bond over their diagnoses – a devastating subject but laced with humour too, they say Ahead of production on their first job together, Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney didn’t undergo the standard “chemistry read” to make sure they got on. In the Norfolk-set BBC film directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), Ifans would have to nearly throttle Linney while in the grip of night terrors, she’d have to collapse in his arms in a weeping mess having bankrupted…

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I Died review – moving portrait of Tzotzil women confronting patriarchal violence in the Mexican highlands
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I Died review – moving portrait of Tzotzil women confronting patriarchal violence in the Mexican highlands

Ana Ts’uyeb’s poetic film celebrates the resilience of Indigenous women while exploring the possibility of a different future Shot in her home village of Naranjatic Alto in the Mexican highlands, Ana Ts’uyeb’s documentary debut is a stirring ode to the courageous women of the Indigenous Tzotzil community. The film centres on three important figures in her life: her mother, Margarita; her aunt, Juana; and her sister-in-law, Faustina.

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Alex Garland’s Elden Ring adaptation is on course to be Hollywood’s goriest ever fantasy movie
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Alex Garland’s Elden Ring adaptation is on course to be Hollywood’s goriest ever fantasy movie

The Golden Compass diluted Philip Pullman’s theological bite, Warcraft thought that just explaining its world would make us care about it, and The Dark Tower compressed Stephen King’s sprawling mythology so ruthlessly that it scarcely left room for a story. Which brings us to the forthcoming Alex Garland adaptation of the hugely popular high fantasy video game, Elden Ring.

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Nigerian TVET programme makes UNESCO global awards final
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Nigerian TVET programme makes UNESCO global awards final

A Nigerian vocational education programme, Summer School, has been named one of three finalists in the 2026 UNESCO-UNEVOC Global Awards for Innovation in Technical and Vocational Education and Training. The initiative, which provides free vocational and academic learning activities for public secondary school students during long holidays, was selected in the Resourceful Innovation category.

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The Lives of Others review – Keira Knightley brings star power to Robert Icke’s Stasi drama
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The Lives of Others review – Keira Knightley brings star power to Robert Icke’s Stasi drama

Adelphi theatre, London Theatre wunderkind’s adaptation of the Oscar-winning film has plenty of suspenseful stagecraft but struggles to match its subtlety Another new show, another old story. Except this production is helmed by theatre wunderkind Robert Icke, whose work is marked by the utmost integrity and who has a record of making fast-moving, suspense-filled work of canonical material (from the Greeks in Oedipus and Oresteia to Arthur Schnitzler’s Professor Bernhardi reimagined as The Doctor).

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Not every artist I signed will become global – Don Jazzy
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Not every artist I signed will become global – Don Jazzy

Renowned music executive Michael Collins Ajereh, popularly known as Don Jazzy, has explained that being signed to his record label doesn’t guarantee global success. Don Jazzy has nurtured and played significant roles in the careers of Nigerian artists who rose to global prominence, including D’Banj, Tiwa Savage, Rema, and, most recently, Ayra Starr.

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Movie director Michael Mann accidentally shoots self
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Movie director Michael Mann accidentally shoots self

Michael Mann, the acclaimed director of crime classics “Heat” and “Collateral,” accidentally shot himself at a gun range in Los Angeles, resulting in minor injuries, a statement released on Sunday said. “On Saturday, at a gun range, a weapon accidentally discharged while holstered, resulting in a superficial injury to film director Michael Mann.

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Teenage violinist wins BBC Young Musician 2026, after first all-female final
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Teenage violinist wins BBC Young Musician 2026, after first all-female final

Judges hail Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturity A teenage violinist has won the BBC Young Musician competition 2026, in the first all-female final in the competition’s 48-year history. The judges, Joanna MacGregor, Ben Gernon and Errollyn Wallen, hailed Sofia Demetriades’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto as full of insights, poetry and maturity.

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JoyNews’ Fred Quame Asare adjudged 2026 Best Community Reporter in Volta Region
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JoyNews’ Fred Quame Asare adjudged 2026 Best Community Reporter in Volta Region

Joy News Volta Regional Correspondent, Fred Quame Asare, has been adjudged the Best Community Reporter at the 4th Volta Ghana Journalist Media Awards ceremony, held in Ho over the weekend. Daniel Agbesi Latsu of the Ghana News Agency (GNA) was selected as the best reporter in the Agriculture category, while Edward Williams, also of GNA, won the Best Health Report.

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