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Trending: Shining a light on conspiracy theories

Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece The Shining is the director's take on the Holocaust. Or is it about the treatment of Native Americans? Or numerology? Or how Kubrick – fresh from filming 2001: A Space Odyssey – was behind the faked filming of the moon landings?

VVVVVV – Review

A retro audio-visual package designed to bring to mind the heyday of the 8-bit era.

Carmageddon: Reincarnation revs up on Kickstarter

Anarchic "classic" out to secure development funding via crowd-funding service.

Rufus and Martha Wainwright in ‘Sing Me the Songs that Say I Love You’, which premiered at Sundance yesterday

First Night: Sundance London Film Festival, O2 Arena

Wainwrights make UK's sunless Sundance sing, but will it return?

Megalyn Echikunwoke, far left, with Carrie MacLemore, Greta Gerwig and Analeigh Tipton

Damsels in Distress, Whit Stillman, 99 mins (15)

These women talk in Wildean epigrams and want you to tap dance, yet you may well end up pals

Flaming Lips
Suiting himself: Glover at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York

Cinema's enduring outsider

He made his name in the Eighties smash 'Back to the Future' – but director and actor Crispin Glover will never bow to the mainstream, he tells Kaleem Aftab

Ruth Bradley stars in ITV's 'Titanic'

Cultural Life: Ruth Bradley, actress

Television: I really enjoy 'Mad Men', but I'm hugely into 'Homeland'. The characters are very well drawn and complex. All too often, female characters in particular aren't multi-layered enough. Claire Danes is brilliant playing Carrie Mathison, the chemically imbalanced CIA agent. Sergeant Brody, played by Damian Lewis, is brilliant too. You're always waiting for the next thing to happen or trying to anticipate the plot twists. It's flawless.

Michael Sheen in <i>The Gospel of Us</i>

Also showing: Blackthorn, Mozart's Sister, The Gospel of Us and Edge

Blackthorn (102 mins, 15)

Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992) helped put Sundance on the map for founder Robert Redford

Preview: Sundance London

The heyday of American indie cinema is long gone – but as the Sundance Festival visits these shores, Jonathan Romney detects life in the old dog yet ...

Clémence Poésy attends the world premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Our new favourite mademoiselle

Actress, musician and model Clémence Poésy is poised to star opposite Michael Caine. Gerard Gilbert meets the rising vedette

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Can technology lure us back to the high street?

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Jenson Button: Downbeat driver cannot wait to put season behind him

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James Lawton

Firmer fist will be required to win Champions Trophy final battle with stouter foe
'To farm I have to rape the countryside. It’s got to be wrong': The true effect of the badger cull

The true effect of the badger cull

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Theatre review: Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandage's The Cripple of Inishmaan

First night: The Cripple of Inishmaan

Daniel Radcliffe gives an admirably honest performance in Michael Grandage's comedy
Girls Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen

Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen

After 103 years, organisation changes oath to welcome 'all girls, of all faiths, and none'
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Chris Froome: Free from 'pain in neck' after Bradley Wiggins' exit

Chris Froome: Free from 'pain in neck' after Wiggins' exit

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