38 minutes ago Drake’s lawsuit against Kendrick Lamar also puts artistic freedom on trial

Drake is understandably vexed about lyrics framing him as a ‘certified paedophile’ – but diss tracks are a deliberately lurid part of rapThere were people who thought Drake v Kendrick was the greatest hip-hop beef of all time, attracting a wider level of public interest and proceeding at a more dizzying velocity than any previous feud: the parties involved released 10 tracks in the space of six weeks, more if you count J Cole’s withdrawn 7 Minute Drill and producer Metro Boomin’s BBL Drizzy, released as a contest to see which member of the public could add the best insult of Drake to the instrumental beat.On the other hand, there were high-profile naysayers, among them rapper Macklemore, who complained that the feud was distracting attention from the war in Palestine; and Roots drummer, DJ and hip-hop historian Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson, who called it “wrestling match level mudslinging and takedown by any means necessary” for an “audience wanting blood [that] will soon put up RIP p...

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14 hours ago Less, please, of this overblown Oliver! PATRICK MARMION reviews Oliver! at London's Gielgud Theatre

Thanks to a famously unbeatable roster of music hall tunes - from Food Glorious Food to Consider Yourself - it's a big, beaming, toe-tapping lark.

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3 hours ago Gavin and Stacey finale filmed at luxury 'hotel of the year' where rooms start £90

The Parkgate Hotel was transformed into a very opulent setting for Sonia's hen do in the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special, which was watched by over 15 million people

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2 hours ago David Lynch leaves poignant final message to fans in last public appearance before death

David Lynch wished for "everyone to be free from disease" in his final public appearance before his death aged 78.

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53 minutes ago Linda Nolan’s sister confirms cancer wasn’t cause of her death in emotional tribute to much

‘The big C didn’t actually get her’ wrote Maureen Nolan

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44 minutes ago BAFTA Film Awards Odds 2025: Here how the bookies rate all 12 lead actor and actress nominees' chances

It’s the biggest night of the year for the British film industry.

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8 hours ago Mac Miller’s posthumous album is a wonderful, if unsettling, reminder of a talent lost

Unlike your typical bucket-scraping rattlebag of audio oddities thrown together to con extra cash from grieving fans, this record feels complete and cohesive

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28 hours ago Road to the Oscars 2025: Our league table to predict who are our favourites to win at this year’s ceremony

With the road to the Oscars underway, follow our league tables to find out who could win big at the 97th event 🏆

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60 minutes ago Mel Gibson had the same reaction as everyone to Trump giving him a new Hollywood role

Gibson, Sylvester Stallon and Jon Voight have been named as ‘Special Ambassadors’ to Hollywood

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17 hours ago Justin Baldoni files bombshell lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds

Justin Baldoni has filed a lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, accusing them of defamation and extortion related to the film It Ends With Us

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4 hours ago Billy Bob Thornton: ‘I didn’t want Johnny Cash to catch me looking in his fridge in my underpants’

The actor and musician answers your questions on his time as a roadie, being intimidated by rich people and falling off a horse for Steven SeagalIs your music less important, more important, or about as important as your film work? BenderRodriguezHere’s the thing: I grew up in music. I saw the Beatles when I was eight. By the time I was nine, I had a band. Started with a little cheap guitar and then got a drum kit, which my father hated. I was playing pretty big concerts by the time I was 16 and then went on tour. I became a roadie from 18 to about 22. I went to LA to play music, accidentally got into acting. I’m still not sure how it happened. I always say that my success as an actor was out of ignorance, because I didn’t know how to be anything other than natural, and I think they liked that.I loved both of them. It’s all one vision, all out of the same brain. I couldn’t choose one over the other. I’d like to do both, as long as they’ll let me. Continue reading...

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22 hours ago Nathan Patterson can finally end Rangers exit deja vu as Everton transfer trigger leaves David Moyes to fulfil pledge

The right-back has failed to make his mark at Everton since leaving Ibrox

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57 minutes ago Heidi Montag drops new song as Avril Lavigne checks in on her friend after LA fire tragedy

Montag has enjoyed a musical comeback since her home burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires

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45 minutes ago Michelle Keegan gives glimpse of baby bump after announcement as she films series ahead of birth

The actress is filming her next TV project before welcoming her first child into the world

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24 hours ago Man's life support switched off after hospital staff mistake him for another patient

David Wells, 69, was put on a life support machine in Vancouver, Washington, after choking on steak, but staff at the hospital called the wrong family to ask if they wanted it switched off

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60 minutes ago Mobb Deep review – New York rap duo can still keep the temperature rising

O2 Academy, IslingtonThirty years on from their album The Infamous, and seven years after the death of founder member Prodigy, Havoc teams up with Big Noyd for a breathlessly-paced setBig Noyd holds up a half-drunk bottle of brandy as though it were an Olympic torch, pleading: “Lord forgive me, the Hennessy got me not knowing how to act!” He and Havoc of Mobb Deep have not lost a coulomb of their electric, heart-racing energy.The first night of the New Yorkers’ European tour begins with a run of Survival of the Fittest, Eye for an Eye, Right Back at You and Give Up the Goods; Temperature’s Rising is performed by Havoc over isolated boom-bap drums, and stripped back, the song is all the more atmospheric. These tracks are all taken from their second album The Infamous, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and is still revered for its cinematic darkness, conveying the grittiness of their Queensbridge neighbourhood through evocative and scene-setting lyricism. Continue readin...

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35 hours ago Renee Zellweger admits 'HR would have something to say' about Bridget Jones' work affair with Hugh Grant as she spills the hit films' secrets for Vogue

The actress, 55, and Hugh , 64, have reunited to spill the secrets of Bridget Jones and their 25-year friendship to Vogue.

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5 hours ago The modest £170,000 Blackpool terraced house where 'Naughty Nolan sister' Linda spent her final weeks before dying from cancer

The singer found global success as a member of The Nolans, spearheaded by parents Maureen and Tommy, who pushed their daughters to begin performing from an extremely young age.

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25 hours ago Everything can change in two games – David Raya sure Arsenal can catch Liverpool

The Gunners moved to within four points of the Reds by beating Tottenham on Wednesday night.

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94 minutes ago Oscar Best Actor Odds: Here are the 12 favourites for the 2025 acting Academy Award

It’s not long until the stars take to the red carpet for the biggest night of the film industry’s year.

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66 minutes ago Apple TV+ series cancelled after Noel Fielding abruptly withdraws due to ill health

Every episode filmed so far will not see the light of day

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26 hours ago Jenufa at the Royal Opera House review: symbolic, psychologically probing and more potent than ever

This revival was Jakub Hrusa’s first production as Covent Garden’s music director designate – the venue is in safe hands

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89 minutes ago What is considered the most sombre song ever recorded to avoid on Blue Monday 2025?

As Blue Monday approaches, there is one song recorded you may want to avoid 🎶🤦 ♂️

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10 hours ago Liam Payne’s friend files defamation lawsuit against late singer’s father

The One Direction singer died aged 31 from ‘polytrauma’, after falling from an Argentine hotel balcony in October.

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26 hours ago Vicky Michelle fights back tears live on Good Morning Britain as she pays heartfelt tribute to 'strong and inspiring' Linda Nolan after death from cancer aged 65

The actress, 74, appeared on the ITV show during Thursday's installment as she dubbed the songstress 'strong and inspiring'.

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1 hour ago Oscar Odds 2025: These are the 13 favourites for the Academy Award for Best Picture

The Oscars race is now entering its final phase.

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74 minutes ago Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics

Adam McKay says the Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio-starring satire resonates with a widespread feeling of being deceived by government and mediaAdam McKay, writer-director of climate-crisis satire Don’t Look Up, says that the film’s popularity with viewers shows the popular will to tackle climate change, despite the critical brickbats the film attracted and political inertia around the issue.McKay was speaking to the NME during the wildfire emergency that is currently affecting Los Angeles, which has included many high-profile victims from the Hollywood community. Saying that while Netflix, the film’s distributors, would not release definitive audience figures, he estimated that “somewhere between 400 million and half a billion” people saw it, and that “viewers all really connected with the idea of being gaslit”. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago You’re really spoiling us: Trump miscasts Gibson, Stallone and Voight by making them mere ambassadors

The president-elect’s latest trio of mischievous appointments show his genius for trolling the celebrity-woke communityDonald Trump has permitted himself the delicious pleasure of trolling Hollywood’s celebrity-woke community who once dreamed of preventing his second term with their collective prestige. He has found a new wellspring of liberal tears in which to bathe. But whatever our feelings about his proposed “Hollywood ambassadors”, Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone – ambassadors to Hollywood from Maga? to Maga from Hollywood? – it’s possible to wonder if the ambassadors themselves have a right to be a bit miffed.Hollywood ambassador? Gibson has directed a number of feature films, (Stallone and Voight also have directing credits); these are vast organisational challenges, requiring energy, vision, skill and political finesse. And that zero-experience lunkhead Pete Hegseth gets to be defence secretary? Despite only knowing how to do sycophantic interviews with the onc...

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20 hours ago Bakery fined more than £500,000 after man gets trapped in mixer for 90 minutes

David Wood Baking Ltd admitted breaches of safety regulations after three people were seriously injured in separate incidents at their sites in Bolton

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35 hours ago ‘Inspiring’ biopic featuring Jennifer Lopez ‘losing herself’ in ‘beautiful’ role is now streaming

The unbelievable true story of one of the world’s most inspiring living athletes comes to life in a gripping biopic, now streaming on Prime Video

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1 hour ago Police officer, 51, cleared of rape after pressing businesswoman into sex and telling her 'it feels too good I can't stop now' is found to have committed gross misconduct by disciplinary panel

PC David Longden-Thurgood, 51, had 'non-consensual sex' with the business owner after meeting her on dating app Bumble , a misconduct panel ruled.

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2 hours ago David Lynch transcended film: he was one of America’s greatest artists

David Lynch’s death marks the passing of a true instinctive genius who stood apart from the rest of Hollywood

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1 hour ago When are the Oscar Nominations 2025 announced? Date, host, shortlists, venue and how to watch on television

With awards season well underway, the eyes of the movie world will soon be focused on the biggest awards ceremony of them all – the Oscars.

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21 hours ago Film company of the son of Welsh tech billionaire Sir Terry Matthews tipped for Oscar success

Brookstreet Pictures set up by Trevor Matthews co-produced the acclaimed and Golden Globes winning film The Brutalist which is being tipped for Oscar nomination and potential success at the Academy Awards in March.

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3 hours ago 'Carer', 31, is spared jail after sickening video shows him abusing non

Joseph Jones was filmed restraining the vulnerable victim on the sofa at her home in Sandbach, Cheshire and placed his hand on her mouth to stop her screaming hysterically at him.

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3 hours ago Concern for Noel Fielding who pulled out of comedy series due to ill health after 'every possible option to continue filming was exhausted'

Concern is rising for Noel Fielding after he abruptly pulled out of filming for his comedy series The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin due to ill health.

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1 hour ago ‘It brought out the most vile side of lad culture’: Unilad founder Alex Partridge on online hate, alcoholism and ADHD

The entrepreneur suffered with anxiety all his life, then a court case fuelled his alcoholism and nearly cost him everything. Now, an ADHD diagnosis has brought him clarity, a podcast and determination to help othersWhen Alex Partridge decided to become a podcaster, he dismantled his bed and soundproofed his bedroom, spent a fortune ordering recording equipment, hired a producer and booked guests – all in one evening. As an entrepreneur, the creator of the online entertainment brands Unilad and LadBible, he thought a podcast about business was a great idea. He could certainly talk about the downs as well as the ups, given that he had been kicked out of one of those companies, and only got back in after a legal battle that pushed him into alcoholism.Three days later, before the equipment had even been delivered, he’d lost interest. “I remember just being so confused,” he says, “not understanding how I could have this feeling of emptiness, compared to the euphoria and the determinatio...

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21 hours ago ‘I’m a momfluencer who makes six figures — my kids won’t mind when they see their bank accounts’

‘Momfluencers’ are taking over TikTok and Instagram. Amber Raiken speaks to two mothers who are making more money than ever by filming their children for content

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3 hours ago TikTok star Chris O'Donnell's heartbreaking Instagram post before his tragic death: Influencer shared haunting message about how he'd be remembered

The fitness influencer - born Christopher Ryan O'Donnell - passed away on January 11, according to an online obituary.

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3 hours ago David Lynch, the visionary artist who made films that no one else could

The singular American filmmaker died this week at the age of 78, leaving behind a legacy like no other. Louis Chilton looks at the life and work of a man who redefined what cinema itself could achieve

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2 hours ago How Jeff Bezos can stop the bleeding at the Washington Post | Margaret Sullivan

The paper’s owner should show up – soon – to hold a town hall with the newsroom, answer questions, and take the heatMore than 400 newsroom staffers at the Washington Post pleaded with the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, this week to do something about their beloved paper’s rapid – and very public – decline.“We are deeply alarmed by recent leadership decisions that have led readers to question the integrity of this institution, broken with a tradition of transparency, and prompted some of our most distinguished colleagues to leave, with more departures imminent,” an extraordinary letter to Bezos read in part, as first reported by NPR’s David Folkenflik. It was signed by some of the Post’s most respected names, including the investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and the unofficial dean of DC politics writers Dan Balz.Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading...

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23 hours ago Boasting drug dealer who filmed himself brandishing wads of cash and chunky gold jewellery as he claimed benefits on phone is jailed

Iestyn Raven, 24, donned chunky gold necklaces and flashy jewelled bracelets as he made the call for Universal Credit, telling the operator 'I'm struggling for money'.

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3 hours ago David Lynch Quotes: A look back at 13 of the visionary director's best quotes following his death

Announcing his death, the family of David Lynch said: “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’”

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4 hours ago Pregnant Michelle Keegan conceals her blossoming baby bump with an oversized coat as she shares behind the scenes snaps filming Brassic

The actress, 37, shared the happy news that she was expecting her first child with her husband Mark Wright at the end of December and is said to be due in February.

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2 hours ago Rufus Wainwright says he should use the fact Trump is a fan to ‘reason with him’

Trump is reportedly a fan of Wainwright’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Halleujah’

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31 hours ago Disabled Oasis fan spent £419 to see his heroes... then was told he couldn't go

A disabled Oasis fan worried he might miss huge Heaton Park gig because Ticketmaster wouldn't let him take a carer

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3 hours ago BBC ‘should reflect on playing music of rapper who reportedly glorified murder’

The Culture Secretary also said she would be having a discussion with the BBC after music by the masked drill artist Ten was showcased.

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5 hours ago Remembering David Lynch’s musical legacy: 10 songs to go beyond the films

The loss of singular talent and visionary filmmaker David Lynch is not only felt in the world of cinema, but music, where he had inextricable influence on multiple generations of artists. Maria Sherman runs through the 10 best songs to remember his legacy

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2 hours ago Twin Peaks: the everlasting legacy of the late David Lynch's slice of television surrealism

The late David Lynch’s television legacy and how it shaped how television shows would become years later 📺

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3 hours ago Pressure all on Ross County as Livingston look to cause Scottish Cup upset, says boss

David Martindale's side travel north to face the Staggies tomorrow

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5 hours ago Back in Action cast: who is in Cameron Diaz Netflix film and where have you seen the actors before?

Cameron Diaz returns to acting in Netflix’s Back in Action film 👀

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3 hours ago TikToking on heaven’s door: Bob Dylan joins social media app as US ban looms

Songwriter, 83, signs up to TikTok with platform facing Sunday deadline to sell US operationBob Dylan is TikToking on heaven’s door after signing up to the social media app – days before it could disappear from his native US.The 83-year-old songwriter has set up an official account, which launched with a 50-second video montage accompanied by a soundtrack featuring Like a Rolling Stone, Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door and Hurricane. The post has attracted nearly 2m views. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Jimmy Mizen's 'rapper killer' could be sent back to jail after subtle clue found in video

Rapper TEN, who is said to be 35-year-old Jake Fahri, filmed a music video on the Greenwich Peninsula with the backdrop of Canary Wharf - but he is not allowed in that borough

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5 hours ago No Dylan but loads of Coldplay! What the songs with a billion streams on Spotify tell us about music taste today

Spotify’s Billions Club tracks the world’s most popular songs, but dozens of greats are nowhere to be found. From TikTok to TV soundtracks, we explore the forces shaping pop’s new canonIn 2011, Jacob Rubeck and Nick Rattigan were living in a basement in Reno, Nevada, and thinking about starting a band. One afternoon, Rubeck came up with a frisky Strokes-like guitar riff, Rattigan whipped up the melody and lyrics and Surf Curse’s Freaks was born. “We wrote the song in like 30 minutes,” the singer says.A catchy song about alienation and longing, Freaks was released in 2013 and became a raucous highlight of their live shows but didn’t trouble the wider world until 2021, when it was discovered, out of the blue, by TikTok users. Its Spotify streams kept going up and up and up, until last March it passed a remarkable milestone. Unlike Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd or Prince, Surf Curse can claim membership of Spotify’s Billions Club, the running playlist of every song to have a...

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3 hours ago Best David Lynch Films: Here are all 10 of the director's feature films ranked from best to worst

As the movie world mourns one of the great auteurs, we’re looking at David Lynch’s filmography.

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4 hours ago "I remember them telling me ‘we’ve got no more options’... but I just thought I'm not ready to die"

Jodie Hill from Wolverhampton was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in March 2021 which was originally suspected to be diabetes

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10 hours ago AP PHOTOS: Papua's noken bag, the knotted legacy of resilience and identity

The woman carries bananas, yams and vegetables in a knotted bag on her head as she wanders through a market in a suburban area of Jayapura in eastern Indonesia.

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3 hours ago Jamie Theakston says he is ‘cancer free’ as he returns to Heart Breakfast

The radio host is set to return to his Heart Breakfast show from Monday.

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4 hours ago ‘I’m not voting’: Stephen King demands Oscars cancellation after California fires

‘No glitz with Los Angeles on fire’ wrote the 77-year-old writer

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3 hours ago Adam McKay says Don’t Look Up being watched by 400 million shows viewers know they’re ‘being lied to’

The filmmaker says viewers ‘all really connected with the idea of being gaslit’

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6 hours ago Woman noticed man's strange behaviour so Googled him... now he's in jail for years

David Bennett's date read about his past crimes online

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22 hours ago Apple TV+ series cancelled despite season 2 almost completing production

Every episode filmed so far will not see the light of day

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3 hours ago 'Eastenders' road rage spat spirals into 'good old fashioned bare knuckle' brawl

A pair of men were filmed having a road rage row in the middle of a busy street - one tried to take down the other with a martial arts move in an EastEnders-style spat

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7 hours ago David Lynch, film director known for Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet, dies aged 78

"There's a big hole in the world now that he's no longer with us. But, as he would say, 'keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole'.

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23 hours ago Netflix now showing classic family movie with near perfect rotten tomatoes score

The film is now available to stream on Netflix

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3 hours ago Hisham Matar: ‘I learned English by listening to Jane Austen audiobooks’

The British-Libyan author on Hemingway’s craft, finding comfort in Joseph Conrad, and spending six months drowning in AustenMy earliest reading memoryFrom as far back as I can remember, before I could read, I was read to mostly from the same book, The Arabian Nights, feeling the reverberations of Shahrazad’s sentences against my mother’s lap, and suspecting that it must be so: that to tell a story is to postpone death, that after she asks her would-be murderer, “Do I have your permission to tell a story?”, the world is made a little less certain.The book that changed me as a teenagerWhen I was 13 I read Badr Shakir al-Sayyab’s Rain Song. I can’t claim to have understood it, but those poems ripped open a veil. The experience of being overrun by language, of being caught in the wake of lines that were just beyond reach, showed me how literature can be both the translation of an experience and also its manifestation. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Speedier drug trials and better films: how AI is transforming businesses

From aviation to retail, many industries are already looking to artificial intelligence to improve productivityKeir Starmer this week announced a 50-point plan that aims to give the UK world leader status in artificial intelligence and grow the economy by as much as £47bn a year over a decade.The multibillion-pound investment, which seeks to create a 20-fold increase in the amount of AI computing power under public control by 2030, has been framed as a gamechanger for businesses and public organisations. Continue reading...

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24 hours ago Daughter of late Sylvester Stallone voice actor criticises AI cloning of her father

‘I agreed to a trial’ said the daughter of French actor Alain Dorval

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4 hours ago Adrien Brody sidesteps question about The Pianist director Roman Polanski

Actor won an Oscar for his collaboration with Polanski in the 2003 film ‘The Pianist’

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9 hours ago David Lynch dead: Naomi Watts' heartrending tribute to director who 'put her on the map'

David Lynch, whose career spanned more than 50 years, directed surrealist mystery Mulholland Drive, in which Naomi Watts, from Shoreham, Kent, played a lead character

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4 hours ago Bob Dylan was washed up and irrelevant – then one electrifying tour saved his career

As the Timothée Chalamet-starring Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ hits cinemas, Stevie Chick revisits a moment in time where the musician teetered on insignificance... until a single tour in 1974 with The Band cemented the Tambourine Man’s place in music history

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11 hours ago Naomi Watts' heartbreaking tribute to David Lynch after his death at 78

Australian actress Naomi Watts has penned a heartfelt tribute to director David Lynch.

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4 hours ago Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta: Mapambazuko review – Congolese soukous gets a maximalist makeover

(Nyege Nyege Tapes)This Peruvian-Congolese partnership transforms traditional African guitar-playing with thrillingly chaotic sound designPeruvian multi-instrumentalist Ale Hop has a knack for unsettling reinventions of musical traditions. On her last album, 2023’s Agua Dulce, she and percussionist Laura Robles reimagined the cajón, electronically processing the instrument’s rhythms with skittering synths and rumbling sub-bass to produce eerie, unpredictable percussion. She returns with Congolese guitarist Titi Bakorta, the pair’s lively debut record delivering a new take on the folk-pop sounds of Congolese soukous.Characterised by its high-register, dextrous electric guitar rhythms and bright arpeggiated melodies, soukous is generally an uptempo, joyous genre sitting somewhere between Ghanaian highlife and Latin cumbia. Across six tracks, Bakorta captures this effervescence, his spirited guitar-playing ringing with trilling harmony on opening track Bonne Année, lilting through a fa...

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11 hours ago Rod Stewart, Sting, Billie Eilish and Lady Gaga to perform concert for LA fires

FireAid will take place in two venues in Los Angeles on January 30.

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5 hours ago ‘The high point of TV as a medium’: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks may never be bettered

The surreal murder mystery’s impact is so profound that its fingerprints are on every show made during TV’s golden age. What a legacy In the coming days and weeks, much will be made about David Lynch’s gargantuan contribution to cinema. This will be undeniable and well deserved. However, there is the argument to be made that in actual fact David Lynch was able to master every medium in which he chose to work. His music, for instance, sounded like music that only he could make. And, sincerely, in both his daily weather report and his Today’s Number Is lottery draw, he deserves to be remembered as a pioneering YouTuber.However, in terms of pure influence, it might end up being the case that Lynch’s most important realm was television. In his lifetime, Lynch only ever worked on four TV projects. Two of them were cancelled after just three episodes. But the other two were Twin Peaks. And the impact both Twin Peaks series had on TV as a medium is hard to overstate. Continue reading...

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12 hours ago Inside David Lynch's heartbreaking health battle as he couldn't walk across a room' before death at 78

The legendary filmmaker, whose work included the movie Mulholland Drive and the series Twin Peaks, had been left homebound by his struggle with emphysema after smoking from the age of eight on.

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