43 minutes ago 'Miracle' movie that's 'sure to make you cry' is now available to watch for free

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On has been hailed as a 'miracle' and a 'glorious' achievement by fans, and now the film has been added to Netflix for subscribers to watch at no extra cost

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51 minutes ago 10 players who MUST look for January transfer including Marcus Rashford and Liverpool flop

Fans of all 20 Premier League clubs will be looking ahead to some January transfer business from their teams and there are a number of stars potentially looking to move

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54 minutes ago Wallace and Gromit creator reveals the hardest part of making new film

Nick Park said that making the movie without its veteran lead had been ‘emotional’

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59 minutes ago Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? The academic research to end all arguments this Christmas dinner

Yippie-ki-yay - there’s research to back up claims ‘Die Hard’ is a Christmas movie 🥊

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60 minutes ago ‘Perfect paternalistic nonsense’: why Father of the Bride is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers revealing their favourite mood-lifting films is an ode to the 1991 comedy in which Steve Martin is a farcically over-protective fatherI should hate this film. A possessive father loses the plot at the notion that his 22-year-old daughter – a sophisticated architecture student just back from a semester in Rome – is engaged to a man he hasn’t met. After she tells him the news at dinner, we see her saying it a second time through his eyes, as a seven-year-old. When the groom arrives, dad almost has an aneurysm at him daring to put his hand on her leg, and starts watching America’s Most Wanted every night looking for his face. He goes so cuckoo bananas over the prospect of their wedding that he loses it at the supermarket and briefly ends up in jail. “I was no longer the man in my little girl’s life,” he rues. It is paternalistic nonsense, and it is perfect.I first watched the 1991 remake of Father of the Bride (FOTB) as a kid because it is my dad’s f...

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64 minutes ago Netflix fans can't stop rewatching 'absolutely brilliant' revenge thriller with 'amazing ending'

The show that has got viewers hooked is almost a decade old but that hasn't stopped then returning to binge watch it.

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69 minutes ago The best games of 2024: from Black Ops 6 to Astrobot, what came out on top?

The Standard team picks their favourite releases, from AAA to indies

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71 minutes ago Kremlin denies Assad's British wife is trying to divorce the fallen dictator and return to the UK after being 'confined to Moscow with property assets frozen'

Asma al-Assad, 49, is currently exiled in Moscow with the toppled dictator, having left behind their lives of luxury in Syria. The former first lady is said to be dissatisfied with her life under the guard of Putin.

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78 minutes ago Reason Ralf Little really quit Death in Paradise as replacement Don Gilet says character 'not liked'

Death in Paradise returned with a new detective at the helm over the weekend after Ralf Little quit the BBC drama earlier this year after five years of playing the lead role

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90 minutes ago A teenage road trip for the ages: Why you should see Gasoline Rainbow this Christmas

Jacob Stolworthy is revealing his 2024 picks in his 12 days of Christmas round up and on the tenth day he's picked road trip movie, Gasoline Rainbow.

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