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We've all heard that you shouldn't leave your toaster plugged in, or your straighteners and curling irons on, but I've never heard about this before.

We've all heard that you shouldn't leave your toaster plugged in, or your straighteners and curling irons on, but I've never heard about this before.

We've all heard that you shouldn't leave your toaster plugged in, or your straighteners and curling irons on, but I've never heard about this before.

Cast your mind back to the year of Eez-Eh, Pacifier, How Good It Was and Iron Sky.

The celebrated bass-baritone tells us why he’s bringing opera back to the former 'Bayreuth of the North'.

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Should you remain true to a troubled college? Leaving is an obvious strategy for reducing misery if your work seems pointless or overwhelming, your colleagues are incompetent or conniving, and you feel underpaid. Yet people stay at badly run colleges for many of the same reasons they stay in bad relationships: economic dependence, fear of uncertainty, the misguided belief that things will get better, and desire to protect the children. Like a bad relationship partner, a bad workplace can convi...

Where’s it on? Netflix Quietly arriving on Netflix last week, The Disciple was a favourite for many who saw it on the festival run last year. Mumbai-born director Chaitanya Tamhane made a name for himself with his 2014 legal drama Court. His second feature enters the world of Indian classical music. The Disciple centres on a vocalist, Sharad Nerulkar (Aditya Modak), who has followed his father into a music career, devoting himself to practise and the noble tradition of his craft. Only t...

Oscars: 366 Films Eligible for Best Picture, Most in 50 Years Matt Petit - Handout/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images From March 5-10, Academy members will nominate between five and 10 films, with options ranging from Absent Now the Dead to You Cannot Kill David Arquette. Three hundred sixty-six feature films — meaning 40 minutes or longer — have been deemed eligible for the best picture Oscar at the 93rd Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday as it released ...

Kenya’s film The Letter has been named in the list of eligible films for this year’s Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars. The nominees for the awards will be announced on February 9, 2021 ahead of the Oscars Academy Awards ceremony scheduled for April 25, 2021. The Kenya Film Commission has previously selected The Letter as the country’s official entry for the Oscars’ best international film category. The  Letter is a film by producer-director duo Christopher King and Maia ...