40 minutes ago Why this lavish retelling of the vampire story is worth a watch over Christmas

Yes, you've seen this story told before, but the TV series of Interview With The Vampire is a great spin on the tale.

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4 hours ago Mufasa: The Lion King review – technically dazzling Disney origin story lacks soul

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins’s all-action tale boasts uncanny CGI effects and songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, but the screenplay is schmaltzy and derivativeIt’s a technical marvel. Using the same photorealistic CGI techniques as John Favreau’s 2019 “live-action” remake of the classic 1994 Disney animation The Lion King, this origin story for Mufasa, father of Simba and the character whose death is the inciting incident in the original film, is a visually arresting spectacle. Directed by Barry Jenkins, the indie darling behind the triple Oscar-winning masterpiece Moonlight, and the similarly lauded If Beale Street Could Talk, Mufasa: The Lion King feels like a massive leap forward in terms of the rendering capacity of the computer animation software.It captures not just the fur, but the play of muscle and sinew beneath it; not just water and ice but the minute refractions of light through a droplet or crystal. It even solves the lack of facial expression of the somewhat taxidermied-...

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11 hours ago How brave Tyson Fury could not solve the Oleksandr Usyk conundrum: JEFF POWELL'S verdict on what proved decisive in the big fight

JEF POWELL IN RIYADH: The longer it went the more it became a master class from the greatest tactician and the most dazzling technician of this and many another generation.

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12 hours ago Settling down to watch a romantic film with your partner proves it's love, actually!

Settling down to watch a romantic movie with your partner this Christmas could work wonders for your relationship, according to new research.

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14 hours ago Isaac Price Rangers transfer 'dossier' in the works as mystery Championship club also swot up on Standard Liege star

Reports in the Belgium claim that the Ibrox club are doing their homework on the Northern Ireland international

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15 hours ago Met Office issues 80mph wind warning after drivers begged to reconsider trips

A yellow weather warning for wind has been issued across all of Scotland, into northern England and Northern Ireland, with the peak winds now shifting slightly north

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17 hours ago Luke Littler convinced PDC World Darts Championship is his this year as he returns to where incredible rise began

Littler shot to fame as his run to last year's Final against Luke Humphries thrust him into the poster boy of darts role

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19 hours ago Belief in a lottery curse is comforting, but winning lots of money does make you happy | Martha Gill

The notion that vast windfalls inevitably bring misery is based on a handful of sad casesDoes winning the lottery wreck your life? When an anonymous Briton won £177m in the EuroMillions draw last month – making them the third biggest national lottery winner ever – the Mail Online announced it with all the impartiality of a bad fairy at a christening: “Other big winners”, the second half of the headline ran, “have faced ‘lottery curse’ with divorce, disease, family splits and death”.Follow the progress of lottery winners through the newspapers, and you’d be forgiven for thinking they all live out the same morality tale. Headlines such as “The bad luck of winning” and “A treasury of terribly sad stories of Lotto winners” drive home the point. Continue reading...

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19 hours ago ITV Emmerdale fans 'work out' who is working with Peter as character 'returns from the dead'

Emmerdale viewers are convinced they have worked out who Peter's mystery ally is, and the person in question is not who they were expecting.

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