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The best new books, films and games to enjoy in 2020

The best new books, films and games to enjoy in 2020

1 January 2020

Wondering what to read, watch and see this year? Here's our cracking cultural calendar of the most interesting non-fiction, films, games, events and sci-fi in 2020
Paul Rudd as Miles Elliot in Living With Yourself

Netflix’s Living With Yourself shows the dangers of perfectionism

6 November 2019

Paul Rudd's character's quest to find a perfect version of himself in Netflix's Living With Yourself - with the help of a dodgy DNA hacking service - explores the dark side of our drive for perfection
aeronauts film poster

Don't miss: Risky flights, idiotic experiments and the secrets of life

30 October 2019

This week, watch as fact and fiction meet above Victorian England, learn about our worst military ideas and discover evolution's other hero, Alfred Russel Wallace

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