29 h. ago Alex Lawther: ‘I really like kissing – I’m always looking forward to the next one’

The Alien: Earth star on the joys of kissing, disliking his forehead, and the time he tried (and failed) to get arrestedBorn in Hampshire, Alex Lawther, 30, made his West End debut in David Hare’s South Downs at 16. In 2014 he played the young Alan Turing in the film The Imitation Game, earning him a London Critics’ Circle award. In 2016, he starred in the Black Mirror episode Shut Up and Dance, and from 2017 he played the lead in Channel 4’s The End of the F***ing World. He appears in the series Alien: Earth, a prequel to the 1979 Alien film, which is streaming on Hulu. He lives in London with his partner.When were you happiest? Last year, during four days in January, when I directed Rhoda, my second short film, in a tiny house in Camberwell with Juliet Stevenson and Emma D’Arcy. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Deadlifting beef adds unnecessary weight to world of inspirational beefcakes | Barney Ronay

Game of Thrones star ‘Thor’ Björnsson aims to lift 510kg this weekend but has cast gentle giant Eddie Hall as his nemesisThere are probably sound structural reasons why the Eddie Hall deadlift world record video from July 2016 is so hard to stop watching, why it has become a sleeper internet phenomenon, a thing people go back to, theorise about, commune over in ways that seem both lighthearted and also deeply-felt in the way of all the best sport.Part of this is its stark and simple theatre. The video is 55 seconds long. It features what seems at first to be an abandoned American-style fridge‑freezer, but turns out on closer inspection to be a single very square man, essentially a seamless slab of human muscle, quivering slightly, moaning to himself, profoundly alone even in front of a boisterous full-house crowd. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago 'Alien ship' hurtling towards Earth has 'hidden friend' that may crash into Mars

A Harvard apace boffin has defied the consensus of his peers to insist a giant unidentified mass hurtling through space towards Earth could be an extraterrestrial space vehicle

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4 d. ago Alien ship 'coming to Earth to test our intelligence' should be intercepted says scientist

A mysterious object is hurtling towards Earth with scientists debating on the origins of the UFO – but there could be a chance for us to intercept it as it travels through the universe

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5 d. ago What time is Alien: Earth out on Disney Plus? Release time for episode 5 in the US and UK

Disney Plus will release the latest episode of Alien: Earth this week 👽📺

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5 d. ago Mysterious interstellar object 'could be aliens' as expert says truth is out there

It comes as theoretical physicist Avi Loeb theorised the object, which is hurtling through space at around 130,000mph, may be an alien craft about to unleash 'little green men' to earth

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1 week ago The monstrosity of mankind: in Alien: Earth, the real villain is humanity

Noah Hawley’s thrilling new series set in the Alien universe dares to suggest that there might be something worse than a xenomorph There was a time when nothing in cinema was more frightening than a xenomorph. HR Giger’s nightmarish biomechanical hellspawn, dripping with fluids and Freudian discharge, was the gruesome, undisputed apex predator of movie monsters. It burst from your chest; it dissolved your face with acid; it splintered your ribcage like a piñata filled with blood and screams. It was unstoppable, unknowable, the kind of thing you’d expect to find at the bottom of your dishwasher after leaving it closed for 36 centuries.The early films, 1979’s Alien and 1986’s Aliens, rarely steered too far away from the sense that these infernal creatures were the worst thing you could possibly encounter in the universe. Later on, in Ridley Scott’s ultimately rather pointless prequels, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, the godlike Engineers and David the Android grasped the mantle of co...

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1 week ago Alien: Earth: what time is episode 4 out on Disney Plus? UK and US release time

It is almost time for your weekly dose of Alien: Earth terror 👽

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2 w. ago The Rocky Horror Picture Show review – the campfest that became a cultural colossus

As the all-singing, all-conquering horror-schlocker celebrates its 50th birthday, the genuine one-off retains all its raucous, raunchy, riotous joyThe Rocky Horror Picture Show is now 50 years old, a B-picture horror-schlocker campfest extravaganza based on Richard O’Brien’s original stage musical from 1973; it has carried on as an international theatrical touring phenomenon ever since. That live show, with the vital element of regular audience participation and dress-up, may in fact now have a bit more energy and point than the movie itself, which (whisper it) perhaps suffers a few longueurs.The undoubted star is the sonorous and feline Tim Curry playing Dr Frank-N-Furter, a vampirically queer alien sex god, proselytising here on Earth for borderless pleasure and describing himself as a “sweet transvestite transsexual from Transylvania”. Dr Furter toys with the affections of the many followers and servants at his giant castle in middle America, including his butler Riff-Raff (playe...

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2 w. ago 'Alien spaceship' heading towards Earth glows like 'a car turning on its headlights'

Harvard professor Avi Loeb – the bloke who thinks the mysterious object hurtling towards Earth is an alien spacecraft coming to probe us – has revealed another theory about 3I/ATLAS

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2 w. ago Alien: Earth: what time is episode 3 out on Disney Plus? UK and US release time explained

Alien: Earth will continue on Disney Plus this week - but when can you expect the latest episode 👀📺

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2 w. ago What year is Alien: Earth set? Where Disney+ series falls in the Alien timeline explained

Alien: Earth expands on the hit space horror series like never before, but when is it set compared to the Alien films?

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2 w. ago When is Alien: Earth set? Where the prequel falls in the Alien timeline explained

Fans are raving about the new TV series set in the Alien universe, but where exactly does it land in the timeline?

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3 w. ago Alien: Earth fans need to check out these 5 'underrated' sci

If you're a fan of Alien: Earth, these underrated sci-fi films are must-watches

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3 w. ago 'Hostile' alien spaceship hurtling towards Earth is advanced 'mothership' – here's proof

Earth could be due a few extraterrestrial visitors, claims one Harvard professor, who has been watching an unexplained object flying through the universe heading to our planet

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3 w. ago Timothy Olyphant’s life from marriage to college sweetheart to connection to one of America’s richest families

TV and film actor Timothy Olyphant has landed his latest role in the critically acclaimed series Alien: Earth

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3 w. ago Inside Alien: Earth star Sydney Chandler's life from Hollywood parent to cover shoot mishap

Sydney Chandler is the lead in Alien: Earth and her father is a household name

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3 w. ago Alien: Earth lead Sydney Chandler has unexpected family connection to beloved Hollywood star

Up-and-coming actress Sydney Chandler leads the critically acclaimed new series Alien: Earth, the latest entry in the long-running sci-fi horror franchise

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3 w. ago Alien: Earth viewers blindsided by unlikely movie reference in new horror series

‘It’s heartwarming to know that in 2120 people are still seeing these movies,’ one excited fan wrote

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3 w. ago ‘I’m a huge Alien fan and the new TV series is the best it’s been in years

Alien: Earth has finally arrived on Disney+ and the first six episodes of the series are as brilliantly gory as ever, but there's just one problem

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