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Timothe Chalamet's 'Wonka' Back at #1, Box Office Bounced Back in '

Getty Timothée Chalamet is entering 2024 as king of the box office -- marking the end of what's been been a pretty damn good year in terms of ticket sales at the movies. Go figure! The actor's latest offering, "Wonka," returned to #1 this weekend -- this after claiming the same spot two weeks ago when it first debuted and slipping to #2 last week after the release of 'Aquaman 2,' which technically came in first .

'I Love It When You Play a Bi***'

Few things go together as well as Dame Judi Dench and British literary classics. From her take on Lady Macbeth and a slew of Shakespeare’s finest characters to her turn as one of his biggest fans, Queen Elizabeth, in Shakespeare In Love, Dench has a niche that’s impossible to deny. As such, when Joe Wright wanted to cast Lady Catherine in Pride and Prejudice, only one name came to mind.  ‘Pride and Prejudice’ has a timeless appeal  Jane Austen was moderately successful during her life, but it wasn’t until after her death that she became the literary superstar that she’s viewed as today.

Cartoon packaging and an inconsolable high: when magic mushroom chocolate gets into the wrong

‘If psilocybin products look like candy, it is inevitable that these products will get into the wrong hands.’ Illustration: Marta Parszeniew‘If psilocybin products look like candy, it is inevitable that these products will get into the wrong hands.’ Illustration: Marta ParszeniewDrugsAs grey-market psilocybin sweets grow more popular in the US, doctors warn of risks to unsuspecting kids In the fall of 2022, a six-year-old boy was rushed to the emergency room at Mease Countryside hospital in Safety Harbor, Florida, a small city on western shore of Tampa Bay.

Dancing in the dark

BooksReviewClaire Keegan's short story collection Walk the Blue Fields shines a light into the world of rural Ireland, says Anne EnrightWalk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan 163pp, Faber, £10.99 One of the most shocking moments in Amongst Women, by John McGahern, is when someone takes a carton of orange juice out of the fridge. A story that might have been set in the 50s is jerked into the 1980s and we realise what was going on outside the terrible, claustrophobic world of Moran's kitchen - not the lives of our parents, but our own.