8 d. ago 'Outstanding' WWII film based on iconic British comedy is available for free

The 1970s feature film inspired by one of the most beloved British comedy series is airing on Film4 today

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8 d. ago Jill Freud, Love Actually actor and inspiration for Lucy in Narnia books, dies aged 98

The actor ran her own theatre company and was described by her daughter Emma as ‘feisty, outrageous, kind, loving and mischievous’Jill Freud, a stage star who was also the inspiration for the character of Lucy in CS Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has died aged 98.The news was announced by her daughter, Emma Freud, who wrote: “My beautiful 98-year-old mum has taken her final bow. After a loving evening – where we knew she was on her way – surrounded by children, grandchildren and pizza, she told us all to fuck off so she could go to sleep. And then she never woke up. Her final words were ‘I love you’.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'As much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog': Eva Longoria, Danny Dyer and Pixie Lott's festive movie is savaged by critics as Bollywood

Christmas Karma, which is directed by Bend It Like Beckham's Gurinder Chadha, is a modern musical retelling of A Christmas Carol.

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3 w. ago A new start after 60: I found my feet in midlife, became a park ranger at 85 – and retired happily at 100

At 104, Betty Reid Soskin has had the most extraordinary life, from protest singing to civil rights activism to meeting the Obamas. She reflects on what it takes to stay strong and keep goingBetty Reid Soskin was 92 when she first went viral and became, in effect, a rock star of the National Park Service. She was the oldest full-time national park ranger in the US – this was back in 2013; she’d become a ranger at 85 – but she had been furloughed along with 800,000 other federal employees during the government shutdown. News channels flocked to interview her. She was aggrieved not to be working, she told them; she had a job to do.“In a funny way, I suppose that started lots of things,” Soskin says. Her memoir, Sign My Name to Freedom, was published in 2018, and a documentary about her work, No Time to Waste, was released in 2020. Another film is in the works. Barack Obama called her “profoundly inspiring”. Annie Leibovitz photographed her. Glamour magazine named her woman of the year...

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3 w. ago Bad Bridgets podcast about crime among Irish women in US inspires film

Margot Robbie’s company to make movie based on Northern Ireland academics’ stories of poverty and prisonIt started as a trawl of dusty archives for an academic project about female Irish emigrants in Canada and the US by two history professors, a worthy but perhaps niche topic for research.The subjects, after all, were human flotsam from Ireland’s diaspora whose existence was often barely recorded, let alone remembered. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Fifth Step: Writer David Ireland reveals inspiration behind hit play starring Slow Horses star Jack Lowden

The Fifth Step will be released in cinemas from November 27

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4 w. ago Aldi tease Kevin the Carrot's return in 2025 Christmas ad inspired by iconic festive film

Watch Aldi's Christmas 2025 teaser ahead of the full advert debuting on TV screens at 8.15pm tonight, November 3.

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