44 h. ago House of Guinness filming locations including iconic heritage site in major city

House of Guinness, which landed on Netflix in September and became one of the most watched series in the UK, was filmed at various locations in England and Wales

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5 d. ago ‘How did we get here?’: documentary explores how Republicans changed course on the climate

In The White House Effect, now available on Netflix, archival footage is used to show how the US right moved from believing to disputing the climate crisisIn 1988, the United States entered into its worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Crops withered in fields nationwide, part of an estimated $60bn in damage ($160bn in 2025). Dust storms swept the midwest and northern Great Plains. Cities instituted water restrictions. That summer, unrelentingly hot temperatures killed between 5,000 and 10,000 people, and Yellowstone national park suffered the worst wildfire in its history.Amid the disaster, George HW Bush, then Ronald Reagan’s vice-president, met with farmers in Michigan reeling from crop losses. Bush, the Republican candidate for president, consoled them: if elected, he would be the environmental president. He acknowledged the reality of intensifying heatwaves – the “greenhouse effect”, to use the scientific parlance of the day – with blunt clarity: the burning of fossil fuels contr...

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5 d. ago BREAKING Dying man 'abandoned in Costa del Sol holiday resort after being thrown from boat'

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5 d. ago Dying man 'abandoned in Costa del Sol holiday resort after being thrown from boat'

Footage published online revealed a number of National Police and Civil Guard vehicles at the scene in Puerto Banus parked by the expensive yachts in the port, with an ambulance also present

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7 d. ago London 1980s housing crisis film remastered for film festival

London 1980s housing crisis film remastered for film festival  BBC

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9 d. ago A House of Dynamite has already aged like milk – for one key reason

Kathryn Bigelow’s new Netflix film seems, at first, to be a chillingly plausible tale of a hypothetical nuclear attack. But in making one key departure from our reality, it ends up becoming an absurd fantasy, writes Louis Chilton

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1 week ago A House of Dynamite director Kathryn Bigelow reacts to Pentagon ‘inaccuracy’ claims

The Pentagon took issue with the film’s claims about the reliability of its missile defense system

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1 week ago Kathryn Bigelow responds to Pentagon criticism of House of Dynamite: ‘I just state the truth’

Director of Netflix hit said US government claims that the nuclear strike drama is inaccurate did not reflect the world’s ‘really combustible environment’Warning: contains a spoiler for the plot of House of DynamiteKathryn Bigelow, the director of Netflix thriller House of Dynamite, which depicts government officials responding to a nuclear strike on the US, has responded to criticism by the Pentagon over the accuracy of its defence systems.Speaking alongside writer Noah Oppenheim to the Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar-winning film-maker defended the film, saying: “I just state the truth. In this piece, it’s all about realism and authenticity.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kathryn Bigelow responds to Pentagon criticism of A House of Dynamite: ‘I just state the truth’

Director of Netflix hit said US government claims that the nuclear strike drama is inaccurate did not reflect the world’s ‘really combustible environment’Warning: contains a spoiler for the plot of A House of DynamiteKathryn Bigelow, the director of Netflix thriller A House of Dynamite, which depicts government officials responding to a nuclear strike on the US, has responded to criticism by the Pentagon over the accuracy of its defence systems.Speaking alongside writer Noah Oppenheim to the Hollywood Reporter, the Oscar-winning film-maker defended the film, saying: “I just state the truth. In this piece, it’s all about realism and authenticity.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago A House of Dynamite is both political fantasy and major disappointment

Kathryn Bigelow’s Netflix ‘what if?’ drama is the director’s most frustratingly assembled and visually flat film to dateBestowed on an elite few, the mantle of Noted Film-maker can be both a crown and a burden. On the positive side, it can serve as protection: viewing an ennobled director’s films through this prism, auteurist critics can feel obliged to make excuses for even the worst among them. (The rationale is that a bad film by a Noted Film-maker is still better than the best efforts of a jobbing hack.) One disadvantage is that such honorifics can leave a creative patrolling a very narrow courtyard, searching only for material worthy of a Noted Film-maker; another is that the dismay when a project doesn’t spark is all the greater. A prominent test case has just reached Netflix in the Kathryn Bigelow-directed A House of Dynamite, a not-so-heavy-hitter that – if texts from cinephile pals this past weekend are anything to go by – seems nailed on for only one award this season: tha...

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1 week ago A House of Dynamite is both political fantasy and major disappointment | Mike McCahill

Kathryn Bigelow’s Netflix ‘what if?’ drama is the director’s most frustratingly assembled and visually flat film to dateBestowed on an elite few, the mantle of Noted Film-maker can be both a crown and a burden. On the positive side, it can serve as protection: viewing an ennobled director’s films through this prism, auteurist critics can feel obliged to make excuses for even the worst among them. (The rationale is that a bad film by a Noted Film-maker is still better than the best efforts of a jobbing hack.) One disadvantage is that such honorifics can leave a creative patrolling a very narrow courtyard, searching only for material worthy of a Noted Film-maker; another is that the dismay when a project doesn’t spark is all the greater. A prominent test case has just reached Netflix in the Kathryn Bigelow-directed A House of Dynamite, a not-so-heavy-hitter that – if texts from cinephile pals this past weekend are anything to go by – seems nailed on for only one award this season: tha...

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1 week ago House of Dynamite writer ‘respectfully disagrees’ with Pentagon’s complaints about nuclear missile thriller

Noah Oppenheim responded to complaints from the Pentagon over the accuracy of the film’s depiction of the US’s defence systemsNoah Oppenheim, the writer of Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear-missile thriller House of Dynamite has responded to complaints from the Pentagon over the accuracy of its depiction of the US’s defence systems, saying he “respectfully disagree[s]”.In an internal memo dated 16 October obtained by Bloomberg, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said: “The fictional interceptors in the movie miss their target and we understand this is intended to be a compelling part of the drama intended for the entertainment of the audience,” but results from real-world testing “tell a vastly different story.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Real Housewives of Atlanta stars spotted in Edinburgh as onlookers left stunned

The Real Housewives of Atlanta cast were spotted filming for the upcoming series in Edinburgh as locals were left baffled by the reality stars' appearance

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1 week ago A House of Dynamite’s gritty realism is all nonsense – because of one man

Kathryn Bigelow’s new Netflix film seems, at first, to be a chillingly plausible tale of a hypothetical nuclear attack. But in making one key departure from our reality, it ends up becoming an absurd fantasy, writes Louis Chilton

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1 week ago Expert names one aspect of A House of Dynamite that is a success despite inaccuracies

‘It scares the bejesus out of people,’ says former White House aide on divisive nuclear war film

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1 week ago 'BBC Ghosts was filmed at my house – I'm being thrown out at 71 for holiday lets'

West Horsley Place has been used as a filming location for several shows, such as Enola Holmes, Howards End, Vanity Fair and Ghosts, and one resident claims she's being thrown out

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2 w. ago Pensioner, 71, being evicted from estate where BBC hit Ghosts was filmed accuses owners of wanting to 'turn it into a holiday let for fans'

Baschea Walsh has lived for nearly two decades on the grounds of West Horsley Place, a 15th-century Grade I-listed manor once owned by Henry VIII in Surrey.

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2 w. ago BBC show that gave kids nightmares and panic attacks was never aired again

Ghostwatch was a one-off horror show aired on BBC One on Halloween night in 1992, and the show was so chilling that the BBC has never broadcast it again

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2 w. ago The Pentagon issues statement decrying Netflix’s House of Dynamite over ‘inaccuracies’

The film follows a nuclear attack on the United States after anti-missile defense systems fail

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2 w. ago ‘Must see’ period drama set in breathtaking British stately home now streaming

The 2013 film is loosely based on a real-life figure

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