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Back with a new name – and minus just one core cast member – the 90s classic show will have to update its race and sexual politics for a very different world Sex and the City is back, with a new name – And Just Like That … – and a new cast, which is to say, the old cast, minus Samantha (Kim Cattrall). Anyone who is surprised to see them recovered from the bruising experience of the movie sequel just has too long a memory. Sex and the City 2

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This affectionate spoof of early 90s gaming scores high in nostalgia, but lags without comedic heavy-hitters Here is a throwaway space spoof, an affectionate send-up of the naffness of early 90s video games, that lovingly recreates the vintage details with its production design and fight choreography, but is troublingly low on scripted gags. It plays out in two dimensions: virtual and real life. Inside a computer game, explorer Max Cloud is an intergalactic hero, a preposterous macho knucklehead in latex, sturdily performed by actor and martial arts expert Scott Adkins, who has appeared in a few of the Marvels. I did wonder if an actor with the comic chops for some megaton silliness might have done some heavier lifting here. Meanwhile, in actual Brooklyn, teenage gamer Sarah (Isabelle Allen) is hooked on the Max Cloud video game. After a fight with her dad she is mysteriously teleported into the game – and into the body of a minor character, chef Jake (Elliot James Langridge). You might consider this a waste of a female lead – putting her into the body of a male actor – but there she stays for most of the movie. For any chance of making it back to her real life she must complete the game with the help of her friend playing in her bedroom (Franz Drameh). John Hannah is painfully unfunny as ultra baddie Revengor, who wants to destroy planet Earth over a past snub.

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‘I did it in a deliberate way to be awkward,’ said Norton

‘I had to sprint across Berlin in a pair of Dr Marten boots – and I was smoking two packs a day back then’ I was in New York shooting a couple of films when I got this script called Lola Rennt (Lola Runs). I read it and thought: “This is cool – but kind of weird, too.” I flew back to Berlin, met the writer-director Tom Tykwer, and realised the energy I had felt on the page came from him.

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The much-loved TV series is back with a new name but only three of the original four leads will star.

The stars of the hit show are reprising their roles in a spin-off series – but fan favourite Kim Cattrall will not be appearing

The redevelopment should be completed by 2030 meaning it will not be ready in time for the Olympic Games in Paris

The rebooted show will be called And Just Like That ... and will feature the original stars, apart from Kim Cattrall On a very basic level, it is only television. But there is TV that comes and goes and then there is television that defines an era. The hullabaloo that has greeted news that Sex and the City will be given a 2021 makeover, places it firmly in the latter category. The excitement follows confirmation from the US streaming service HBO Max of the long-swirling rumours that the video-on-demand arm of the prestige TV brand was considering commissioning a revival of the 90s and 00s show On Sunday night, three of the four stars of the original show, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis, shared a trailer for the series on social media platforms.

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Actor said Cattrall’s character ‘isn’t a part of this story’ as reboot is announced

Conductor will remain in role until 2023 and then lead Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich

The global video gaming industry took in an estimated $180bn in 2020 – more than sports and movies worldwide It would be incorrect to say video games went mainstream in 2020. They’ve been mainstream for decades. But their place in pop culture feels far more central – to gamers and non-gamers alike – than ever before. In part, this is due to desperate marketers hunting for eyeballs in a Covid landscape of cancelled events. Coachella wasn’t happening, but Animal Crossing was open was for business. Politicians eager to “Rock the Vote”

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Cattrall and her co-star Sarah Jessica Parker have been engaged in a feud for years

The great writer’s passion and resilience resonate anew in Eddie S Glaude Jr’s timely, powerful study Michael Ondaatje once wrote that if Van Gogh was “our 19th-century artist-saint” then James Baldwin was “our 20th-century one”. For many, Baldwin’s writing has long been a touchstone of anti-racist humanism, but the sense of that particular epithet has never landed more emphatically for me than while reading Eddie S Glaude Jr’s

Luke Evans stars in The Pembrokeshire Murders, nightly, until Wednesday. Plus: Liam Charles returns to judge young bakers. Here’s what to watch this evening

Written in 1878 by four of Ireland’s leading whiskey producers, ‘Truths About Whisky’ has remained an inspiration for Jay Bradley of The Craft Irish Whiskey Co, writes Christine Manby