18 h. ago Is your favourite chocolate treat really a FAKE? The cult classics that no longer have enough cocoa to count... and those that do

The average Briton consumes 7,560 chocolate bars and 8,316 chocolate biscuits over their lifetime. But what if all that chocolate we're hooked on isn't actually chocolate at all?

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26 h. ago 'Classic' horror movie hailed 'masterpiece' now streaming for free on ITV

The Thing, which was released in 1982, is now considered a cult classic and has been branded one of the best Halloween movies of all time by viewers

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31 h. ago Cadbury Heroes to replace fan favourite chocolate in Christmas tubs with new variant

Cadbury has announced a major change to its Heroes tubs this Christmas, and one said 'noooo that’s my favourite one!!'

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3 d. ago How much chocolate is really in your favourite treat: The list of sweets and biscuits packed with so much oil and filler they can't even be called chocolate anymore

Club and Penguin bars are among those now being labelled 'chocolate flavoured' - with palm oil and shea oil increasingly filling in instead of cocoa with its rising prices.

Politics

6 d. ago 21 haunting Halloween releases coming to cinemas in 2025: from family favourites to future cult classics

What better way to avoid the door knockers this Halloween than a trip to your local cinema to catch one of these frighteningly good releases this season?

Politics

1 week ago The Fiery Furnaces reissue a cult classic: ‘We knew we wouldn’t seem like an also

As the divisive duo re-release Blueberry Boat for its 20th anniversary, they talk being unfit for success, how indie got soft and the ‘dream come true’ of getting 1/10 in NMEThe Fiery Furnaces had no expectations for their second album, 2004’s Blueberry Boat. The sibling duo recorded it before their debut had even come out, and so had no idea that 2003’s Gallowsbird’s Bark would receive such wild acclaim: in an 8.4 review, Pitchfork called its shambolic rock’n’roll and frontwoman Eleanor Friedberger’s arcane lyricism a “a mess of weird, undulating musical bits that are hugely intriguing despite not always making a whole shitload of sense”. They were busy fulfilling a five-album deal with Rough Trade, a luxury that was pretty much par for the course as a buzzy Brooklyn band in the time of the Strokes and Interpol – not that their Beefhearty blues had much in common with preening rock revivalism. “I thought they were so bad. I just didn’t give a shit about that stuff,” was one of Elea...

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1 week ago Cadbury fans 'disappointed' as Christmas favourite bars 'vanish' from family size bags

The new Cadbury Family Treatsize Variety Bag has seen some favourites removed, chocolate fans noticed

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1 week ago Lost chapter of beat writer Jack Kerouac's cult classic On the Road discovered in Mafia boss's files 

The two-page manuscript, which is signed by author Jack Kerouc in his trademark green ink and dated April 15, 1957, came into the hands of American mobster Paul Castellano - but how is a mystery.

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1 week ago Amazon's huge 1.4kg box of chocolates is just £23 and perfect for Halloween

The giant 1.4kg Mixed Bulk Chocolate Box is priced at just £22.99 and contains full sized chocolate bar favourites like M&M's Peanuts, Snickers, Twix, Maltesers and Bounty

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1 week ago ‘I’m going to write about all of it’: author Chris Kraus on success, drugs and I Love Dick

A decade after her debut became a cult hit, the US author talks about the true crime that inspired her latest novel, #MeToo overreach and being married to an addictChris Kraus regards the late success of her first book, I Love Dick, with ambivalence. A work of autofiction, first published in 1997, it chronicles Kraus’s infatuation with a cultural theorist named Dick, a doomed, one-sided love affair that nonetheless pulls Kraus, a depressed, 39-year-old failing film-maker languishing in a sexless marriage, out of her personal and artistic rut. After a slow start, the book became a cult classic and in 2016 it was made into an Amazon Prime Video TV series, with Kraus played by Kathryn Hahn. “To me, success would have been like a long review in the New York Review of Books, not being a character on a sitcom,” Kraus says now. Her commercial success was a financial boon, of course. “But who can stand by a book they wrote 20 years ago? It was massively embarrassing to go out and support th...

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2 w. ago Cult Classic Halloween Screening | Deptford Lounge | Things to do in London

Cult Classic Halloween Screening | Deptford Lounge | Things to do in London  Time Out Worldwide

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2 w. ago Peter Doig is bringing a cult classic London pub back to life—here's why it matters

Peter Doig is bringing a cult classic London pub back to life—here's why it matters  The Art Newspaper

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2 w. ago Jim Mitchum dead: Robert Mitchum's actor son dies at 84 after long mystery illness

The son of screen legend Robert Mitchum has passed away at the age of 84. He first gained attention in the 1958 cult classic Thunder Road, a role originally intended for Elvis Presley.

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2 w. ago I tried 'rare' B&M chocolates and the weirdest was my favourite

The discount store is often packed with treats that shoppers won't find elsewhere in the UK

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3 w. ago ‘People seemed deeply insulted’: how cult 90s band Rachel’s took chamber music out of the classical world

The graceful ensemble prefigured the neo-classical phenomenon and found surprising success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. After the deaths of two members, reissuing their debut has proven bittersweetIf you were an American indie rock act in the mid-90s, life could be strange. After the breakthroughs of Nirvana and Green Day the music industry spent several frenzied years trying to refine the formula for rock success. Labels indiscriminately hoovered up guitar bands in the post-grunge glut.But the newfound interest in alternative music also buoyed some unexpected acts. “There were a lot of people looking to independent labels for the next Nirvana,” says Christian Frederickson, violist with the Louisville chamber music act Rachel’s. “While that obviously wasn’t us, I do think we benefited.” Continue reading...

Culture

3 w. ago Lindt brings back ‘one of its greatest flavours yet’ ahead of Christmas

A POPULAR chocolate brand has relaunched a seasonal favourite for autumn. The luxury treat has been imported from the US, with shoppers dubbing it one of the best flavours. Autumn is synonymous with cosy knitwear, fallen leaves, and pumpkin-flavoured everything. And now Lindt has added a touch of pumpkin spice to its beloved Lindor chocolates....

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3 w. ago I spent the night in one of the UK’s best museums with private tours, film screenings and even comedy shows

IF you thought spending a night at the museum only happened in the movies, think again. The Natural History Museum has brought all the magic of the cult classic film to life. Dino Snores For Grown Ups is a unique adult sleepover at the world- famous museum. Those who get their hands on a coveted...

Culture

3 w. ago Our favourite chocolate bars could be 'killed off' by soaring use of 'fat jabs'

Chocolate makers feel weight loss drugs contain an ingredient which curbs our cravings which is what drives us to devour our favourite bars

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4 w. ago Hotel Chocolat's advent calendar is the luxury chocolate calendar I splurge on every year

If you're a fan of all things chocolate, then you'll love Hotel Chocolat's luxury advent calendar - it's my favourite one to open every single year

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4 w. ago Sane Inside Insanity: The Phenomenon of Rocky Horror review – joyous fan history of the cult classic

As Richard O’Brien’s time-warping, pelvic-thrusting camp extravaganza turns 50, this unofficial doc explores the ‘accidental’ success and what it still means todayThis warts-and-all history of Richard O’Brien’s beloved cult classic opens with a card briefly explaining the origins of it all, and a short quote familiar to the many fans of the musical: “It was great when it all began.” And wasn’t it just? Sane Inside Insanity goes deep into the early days of Rocky, upstairs at the Royal Court theatre, and goes on to detail the evolution of the cult, and how the film came to be, including various pieces of sharp practice and incompetent dealing on the parts of a few different people.Constructed from recordings of stage shows, old photographs, archival footage and talking heads, this unofficial documentary is competing with an official version produced by O’Brien’s son (Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror), with both being released to celebrate the film adaptation’s 50th anniversa...

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