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  The chilling relevance of Tokyo’s Cult of Aum terror attacks today

  The Telegraph - James Balmont

  For the thousands of passengers piling into Tokyo’s subway network on Monday, March 20, 1995, it should have been a commute like any other. The air was cool, the skies outside were clear, and the looming Spring Equinox – a national holiday in Japan –promised respite from the country’s high-pressure …

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  Was Richard Burton abused by his adoptive father? The grim truth behind Mr Burton

  The Telegraph - Alexander Larman

  Four decades after his death, the tumultuous personal and professional lives of Richard Burton have become fair game for fictitious exploration. In the past few years alone, Dominic West has played the Welsh actor on television (opposite Helena Bonham Carter as his grand inamorata, Elizabeth …

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  The director accused of taking $55m from Netflix – and blowing it on crypto and cars

  The Telegraph - Alexander Larman

  It is commonplace in Hollywood today for television series and films to be commissioned at far too large a budget for them to enjoy the success that their producers and studios hope for. Very occasionally, someone sees the light and pulls the plug on the unfinished product before it can run up even …

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  Flow: this quietly transportive animation is a skin-prickling wonder

  The Telegraph - Robbie Collin

  There is a certain mood in post-apocalyptic storytelling that video games tend to pull off far better than films. Think the monuments and mausoleums of the CD-ROM classic Myst, or the overgrown ruins of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – they are abandoned Arcadias where explorers feel more …

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  ‘People must know what happened here’: the challenge of recreating the Nazi camp Chelmno on film

  The Telegraph - Lucy Denyer

  On June 25, 1942, the Daily Telegraph was the first newspaper to report a shocking story about a new horror the Nazi regime was inflicting on Jews. Described as “the greatest massacre in the world’s history”, the news report detailed the mass slaughter of more than 700,000 Polish Jews by …

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  Disney’s Snow White: Not too woke – and better than Wicked

  The Telegraph - Robbie Collin

  “And they all lived adequately ever after” is not the fairy-tale ending Disney was presumably originally gunning for. But at this point, the studio will surely take what it can get. Filming began on Disney’s Snow White in March 2022, and the intervening three years turned into the sort of ride that …