17 h. ago Materialists review – Dakota Johnson torn between Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans in charming romcom

Johnson plays a matchmaker who has to choose between wealthy new suitor Pascal and broke ex Evans, but the outcome feels a little undramaticSay you are a single woman in New York and you are, in the words of the song, torn between two lovers: two handsome, intelligent, nice guys – one very poor and one very rich. All things being equal, who do you go for? The answer in real life is very different, in fact diametrically opposed, to the answer in a film. Few movie heroines have the candour of Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, who admitted to falling in love with Mr Darcy on seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.But this is the choice, which never quite ascends to the state of a dilemma, in this charming and watchable – yet for me somehow anticlimactic – romantic comedy-drama from South Korean-Canadian film-maker Celine Song: a love-triangle confection to follow the much realer, truer love triangle of Song’s much acclaimed debut Past Lives. When the decision is...

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39 h. ago Love Island’s Conor slams castmate on TikTok after 'fallout' despite strong friendship

Love Island star Conor Phillips has sent TikTok into meltdown after seemingly slamming one his fellow islanders who he was good friends with while in the villa

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42 h. ago Rick and Morty writer bringing 'chaos energy' for Netflix show fans can't wait to fall in love with

Fans are already looing forward to binge watching the enture series

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45 h. ago Town with 70 independent shops where businesses don't compete but flourish

The businesses here work together to thrive and not compete according to locals who have fallen in love with the area

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68 h. ago ‘Our director is a madman’: a century on, Gloria Swanson’s disastrous film Queen Kelly is finished

The Hollywood icon played a convent girl falling for a prince in this bizarre film directed by Erich von Stroheim. Decades after it was abandoned, Queen Kelly will now be shown at the Venice film festivalIn the long history of Hollywood excess, there is no tale as torrid as that of Queen Kelly. This lavish silent melodrama starring Gloria Swanson and directed by Erich von Stroheim will screen as the pre-opening event at this year’s Venice film festival, with a new score by composer Eli Denson. The film is an outlandish saga of illicit love in sordid surroundings – and so is the story of its production.Queen Kelly is set in Europe before the first world war and tells the story of Patricia Kelly (Swanson), a convent girl who falls in love with a prince (British actor Walter Byron) who is engaged to a deranged queen. Patricia is sent away to Tanzania, where she is forced into marriage with a vile character called Jan, later earning the nickname Queen Kelly. It’s a far-fetched tale, whi...

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3 d. ago Bruce Forsyth's widow 'open to finding love again' eight years after Strictly legend's death

Lady Wilnelia, widow of late entertainment star Bruce Forsyth, has revealed she would be open to falling in love again as she tells the Mirror she has 'no idea what the future holds'

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3 d. ago Moses Itauma: Ben Davison’s planning helped me fall back in love with boxing

Moses Itauma has been tipped as a future world heavyweight champion, but started to fall out of love with boxing in 2024.

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3 d. ago Bella Thorne’s honest playlist: ‘I wrote an essay about why I admire Lil Wayne for school’

The actor has a soft spot for Olivia Rodrigo and can’t listen to any of her exes’ music, but which wintry Christmas hit did she sing at a summer karaoke?The first song I fell in love with When I was a kid, my mom gave me her iPod, and I fell in love with all her music from the 70s and 80s. I’d sing Call Me by Blondie at the top of my lungs, jumping on the bed. What a great song.The first single I downloaded I was in [Disney sitcom] Shake It Up when I started falling in love with hip-hop. I went on a binge and discovered BedRock by Young Money. I was so obsessed that I ended up writing an essay about why I admire Lil Wayne for school. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Big Brother couple got hitched 16 years ago in only lasting relationship from show

Big Brother has seen many housemates fall in love in the house, only for things to fall apart on the outside - but for one doting couple, things could not be any happier for them

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5 d. ago Married mum 'fell in love' with boy in children's home and asked him 'for love bite'

Lindy Leah was said to have 'fallen in love with' a teenage resident of the children's home where she was employed as deputy manager

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5 d. ago American visits UK but it's not England she falls in love with

Sierra Noelle visited the UK this summer and she had a few things to say about it. You may be surprised to learn that her new favourite place isn't actually in England

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5 d. ago Married mum who asked care home teen for 'love bite' found guilty of sex crime

Lindy Leah claimed she had 'fallen in love with' the unnamed teen resident of the Merseyside care home where she worked, but accepted her messages were 'inappropriate'

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5 d. ago Billboard in LA vandalized with message declaring ‘Proud Boys love Sydney Sweeney’ as jeans ad fallout continues

A billboard in Los Angeles has been vandalized to declare, “Proud Boys love Sydney Sweeney”

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1 week ago 'Truth about what we saw on set with Mr Big': Chris Noth was cancelled at height of #MeToo

As Mr Big in Sex And The City, he was the handsome businessman whose gentlemanly charm made Carrie Bradshaw - and millions of fans - fall in love with him.

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1 week ago From orgies to marathon sex scenes: how did period drama get so raunchy?

Non-stop coitus, controversial nudity and shocking sex toys: steamy scenes in costume dramas have changed since Colin Firth got his shirt wet in Pride and Prejudice. Here is an outrageous history of small-screen saucinessOutlander first sizzled our screens in 2014, with Vulture soon declaring that the period drama had “the best sex on television”. Its tale of second world war nurse Claire (Caitriona Balfe) time-travelling to 18th-century Scotland and falling in love with clansman Jamie (Sam Heughan) certainly earned the accolade. The wedding night episode features Claire reaching such an explosive orgasm that it requires smelling salts for viewers to get through. There’s a knee-trembling “castle cunnilingus” scene and, at one point, the extraordinary moment when Claire saves Jamie’s life by masturbating him. It has proved so popular that in 2026 its eighth (and final) season will air.In the last year we’ve had shows such as Carême, about a Napoleonic-era celebrity chef who like...

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3 w. ago 'Jealous' haunted doll falls in love with owner and physically attacks his girlfriend

Ghost hunter says Lee Steer possessed doll 'Elizabeth' has scratched his partner's neck as crazed toy disapproves of their relationship and will often wait until he's out the room

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3 w. ago ‘It’s not just pleasure – it’s resistance’: portraits of people with their sex toys around the world

Gulim in Kazakhstan keeps her very first one as a souvenir while Coco in Thailand breaks the law by having them, and Serena in Italy says they’re essential. But there’s still a stigma when it comes to talking about sex toys. That’s why Gabriele Galimberti’s images are so powerful, writes author and academic Roxane Gay (Warning: explicit content)Most of us are taught to keep our sexual lives private. We’re taught to hide our desires, and all too often, to be ashamed of them. Cultural instruction about sex tends to be very prescriptive. Sex happens in our bedrooms, behind closed doors, between a man and a woman. Sex is for procreation rather than pleasure. Sex is for marriage. Sex should only happen when you fall in love. If you’re a woman, you should only have one sexual partner for the whole of your life. If you’re a man, the sky’s the limit.Certainly, some of these mores have shifted over time, relaxed a bit. But mostly, we’re supposed to keep our sex lives to oursel...

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