41 h. ago Meryl Streep in talks to play Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie

Oscar-winner set to take on role as godlike lion usually perceived to be male in upcoming adaption of The Magician’s NephewMeryl Streep is in talks to play Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Narnia film, according to reports. According to Nexus Point News, and confirmed by Deadline Streep, 79, is being lined up to star in Netflix’s film, which will be adapted from The Magician’s Nephew – the sixth of CS Lewis Narnia series of novels, but the first in chronological terms.In the Narnia books, Aslan is a dignified and quasi-omniscient lion, generally seen to be male and usually interpreted as an allegory for Jesus. The Magician’s Nephew centres on two children, Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer, who discover the magical world through Digory’s uncle Andrew. Daniel Craig is also in talks for the film, with speculation rising that he will play the uncle. Charli XCX is also in line for a role, rumoured to be Jadis, the White Witch. Continue reading...

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61 h. ago White Lotus fans realise hints toward character deaths hidden in title sequence

The White Lotus has had viewers gripped for weeks but now fans are starting to think that the opening credits were hinting towards the show's darkest storyline all along

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4 d. ago REVEALED: The hidden meanings in White Lotus: from the books the characters read to a creepy recurring number and even the role of MONKEYS, the subtle clues that suggest the killer's identity...

With just one episode left, White Lotus fans are on tenterhooks, desperate to discover the identity of the body seen floating in a pool in the first scene of what has been perhaps the darkest season yet.

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4 d. ago All the White Lotus characters wear jewellery from an affordable Kate Middleton

From Versace to Chanel, The White Lotus is filled with luxury fashion, however, this affordable British jewellery brand loved by Kate Middleton has featured in almost every episode

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5 d. ago White Lotus fans horrified as another grim sexual fantasy is pushed on character

Viewers of The White Lotus have watched Saxon Ratliff go through every emotion after a weird encounter with his brother, but he was asked to take part in another fantasy too

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5 d. ago Trump wants to move on from the Signal security scandal. House Republicans aren’t making it easy

Some GOP members – including experts on national security – are breaking with the White House’s official line on whether leaked attack plan was classified

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6 d. ago White Lotus star shuts down killer theory but hints her character could be involved

The White Lotus season three opened with a shooting spree, but the details of who the gunman is or who the victims are have not yet been revealed to viewers

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7 d. ago Between the lines: what do White Lotus characters’ book choices tell us?

Season three offers up clues to characters’ psyches – or perhaps their fates – by showing us their holiday readsThey say never judge a book by its cover, but some viewers of The White Lotus have been doing exactly that.Online discussion around the critically acclaimed TV show has centred on the paperbacks glimpsed in the hands of several of the show’s characters and whether they offer clues about their psyches or fate. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago The White Lotus ‘goes too far’: Duke University unhappy over their prominence in show

Two characters in the troubled Ratliff family are Duke alumni, but the association has displeased the US universityThis article contains spoilers for the third season of The White LotusIn the aftermath of an incestuous threesome, many viewers of the latest season of The White Lotus may think the show has stepped over a line. But audiences have an unlikely ally in Duke University, which is unhappy that two characters happen to be Duke alumni.The third season of the popular TV show, which follows wealthy guests and workers at a luxury resort in Thailand, includes the Ratliff family, with the father, Timothy (played by Jason Isaacs) and one of his sons, Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) both having attended Duke, a prestigious institution located in Durham, North Carolina. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The White Lotus star brands character 'evil' after controversial brother kiss

Charlotte Le Bon's White Lotus character Chloe was the driving force behind the controversial kiss between brothers Saxon and Lachlan Ratliff and she's now had her say

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2 w. ago Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project review – electric film about radical thinker and poet

Featuring interviews and archive footage of the brilliant civil rights activist, the readings of her poems will have the hairs on the back of your neck standing upNikki Giovanni, bestselling American poet and civil rights activist, blazed on to the scene in the 1960s. In this documentary, completed before she died in December, we watch Giovanni in her late 70s, reigning over sold-out public appearances. On stage she recites poems about love, race and gender and in between, with the timing of a standup comedian, she has the auditorium erupting in whoops and laughter. Posing for selfies, a woman tells Giovanni she named her daughter after her; another says she wrote to her on the verge of dropping out of college. “You wrote back. I’m a teacher now!”In archive footage, Giovanni as a young woman, reads her 1968 poem Nikki-Rosa, which has a line about how white people fail to understand the lives of black people: “they’ll probably talk about my hard childhood / and never understand that ...

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3 w. ago England must be ruthless against Wales – and that is the blueprint for the future | Ugo Monye

Context dictates that England have to be on the front foot in Cardiff – let’s have that as their modus operandiPlay the match, not the occasion. Lap up the theatre, the dramatics, the pyrotechnics, the hostility, if that is what gets you going, but when you cross the white line, play what is in front of you. If there is one message that should have been hammered home to England’s players this week, it is exactly that.Sport rarely plays out the way we fully expect it to, otherwise the Principality Stadium would not be sold out on Saturday, there would not be a growing sense of belief among Wales supporters that this is the day their desperate run of defeats ends, there would not be a nervousness, a tension among England fans heading to Cardiff. It’s why we love our sport but if England can play the match and not the occasion, they have the potential and the players to put Wales away comfortably. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Supermarket guards, truck drivers and ‘very big mistakes’: the failed role of western mercenaries in the fall of Goma

An investigation into the DRC’s use of hundreds of hired Romanian fighters reveals how a disorganised operation with untrained recruits became a deadly ‘circus’In January, after the two-year siege of the Congolese city of Goma ended with victory for the M23 rebels and Rwandan troops, an ill-assorted group of nearly 300 white mercenaries were lined up to have their humiliating defeat televised.“You must not joke with us,” barked Willy Ngoma, the M23’s military spokesperson, at one man he’d ordered to sit on the ground with his hands clasped behind his head. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Checking out early: who is going to die in this season of The White Lotus?

The third season of Mike White’s delicious resort-set comedy drama has teased yet another murder but we don’t yet know the whos or the whysAfter a characteristically slow start, we are now halfway through this year’s season of The White Lotus. From what we know of the last two seasons, this means that things are about to get very crazy very quickly. To use season one as a way marker, we are now approximately the runtime of The Brutalist away from watching someone perform the equivalent of a suitcase poop.More than previous runs, however, a number of mysteries still hang over almost every White Lotus character this year. We know that there’s a shooting. We know that there’s a body. At this point, almost every character could be either one of them. It’s time to theorise wildly. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Donald Trump's threats to Canada – how serious are they and what could happen next?

US president Donald Trump's new threat to slap Canada with 50% tariffs is only the latest in a long line of insults against the country since he returned to the White House

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