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Gore and vengeance aplenty as Dragon returns
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Sky Ferreira: ‘I never feel like an adult, but I’ve never felt like a child either’
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‘It’s more dangerous if we are having fun making a revolution’
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New Kylie music ‘simmering away in the background’
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Furiosa crashes and burns at the box office
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More laughs in the ledger as Colin from Accounts returns
The show is full of heart without being saccharine, and quirky without being twee.
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