8 h. ago Katie Price shows off taut new face while filming on set of upcoming movie

Katie Price showed off her taut face following her most recent round of cosmetic surgery, as she was seen filming on the set of her upcoming movie, Jackie The Stripper

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39 h. ago How Afrofuturism can help us imagine futures worth living in | Lonny Avi Brooks and Reynaldo Anderson

Afrofuturism knows that futures are made – and that who gets to make them is a political questionThe digital age sings a seductive song of progress, yet a deliberate erasure echoes within its circuits. We stand at a crossroads, where technology, particularly the promise of artificial intelligence, threatens both to illuminate and to obliterate.Whose perspectives will shape, and whose will be erased from, the future we build? AI, in particular, has become the latest battleground in a culture war that oscillates between unchecked techno-optimism and dystopian fear. We are told, on one hand, that AI will save us – from disease, inefficiency, ignorance – on the other, that it will replace us, dominate us, erase us.Lonny Avi Brooks is Professor and Chair of Communication at Cal State East Bay, co-founder of the AfroRithm Futures Group, and co-creator of AfroRithms From The Future, a visionary storytelling game that imagines liberated futures through Black, Indigenous, and Queer perspecti...

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5 d. ago Sean Ono Lennon hits out at Rachel Zegler with scathing take down amid Snow White controversy

Sean Ono Lennon publicly criticized Snow White star Rachel Zegler amid backlash over the film. The Disney remake has faced controversy over it casting and political tensions.

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6 d. ago Gérard Depardieu trial finally gives France its #MeToo moment

Actor’s week in court seen as turning point as French film industry has been slow to take abuse claims seriouslyWhen the actor Gérard Depardieu took the stand at his sexual assault trial in Paris this week, it was seen as a turning point for the #MeToo movement in France.As a parliamentary commission examines why the French film industry has been slow – even resistant – to take women’s claims of abuse seriously, Depardieu, the nation’s biggest film star, faced accusations that he trapped a set decorator between his legs and sexually assaulted her while shooting the film Les Volets verts (The Green Shutters) in 2021. He is also accused of touching the breasts and buttocks of an assistant director on the same film on three separate occasions. Depardieu, 76, has denied all the charges, telling the court he had been “dragged through the mud by calumny and lies”. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Shoppers can get £10 back on last minute supermarket Mother's Day flower buys

Shoppers who fear they've left it too late to save money on blooms for the big day have found another way to make a hefty saving

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8 d. ago BREAKING: Adolescence's Owen Cooper says he's teased at school after starring in hit show

Adolescence's Owen Cooper has revealed that he's faced some teasing at school ahead of filming a major film with Margot Robbie

Culture

1 week ago French actor Gerard Depardieu admits ‘grabbing woman’s hips’ but denies sexual assault at trial

If found guilty, the star of films like Jean de Florette and Cyrano de Bergerac could face up to five years in jail

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2 w. ago Adolescence star Stephen Graham's dyslexia struggle: Actor's wife reads his scripts for him to decide on new projects before he has to repeatedly go over lines to learn his parts

He is one of the great British character actors, a serial Bafta nominee whose face is familiar through a string of TV and film hits. But Stephen Graham owes much of his success to his wife.

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2 w. ago ‘Something must have gone wrong with us’: David Cronenberg and Howard Shore on four decades of body horror

One is the master of gruesome horror, the other is the composer who scored his most famous films. They sit down to discuss their 46-year collaboration, and the unlikely source of their darkest, most disturbing inspirationWhat would having sex in a car crash sound like, as music? What about a gynaecological exam performed by identical twins, or a man’s transmogrification into a grotesque human-insectoid hybrid? These are just some of the challenges faced, over more than 40 years and upwards of a dozen films, by the composer Howard Shore as part of his long collaboration with the director David Cronenberg. Shore, 78, may have won three Oscars for the magisterial sweep of his Lord of the Rings score, but it is his work on the 81-year-old Cronenberg’s notorious body-horror movies, from The Fly to Dead Ringers and Crash, that is most indelible. Those last two films will be screening this month as part of a wider tribute to Shore’s work at the London Soundtrack fe...

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3 w. ago Brave toddler, 3, is filmed facing his greatest fear to save beloved great

A three-year-old Colorado boy had to brave his greatest fear the night his great-grandmother fell outside her home. She counted on the youngster to save her in her most vulnerable moment.

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3 w. ago BBC Celebrity Traitors 'sign up' England rugby star amid major cast changes

The Traitors spin-off show, Celebrity Traitors, is set to start filming next month with a host of famous faces heading to Scotland.

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3 w. ago Scarlett Johansson says she faced ‘pressure’ to join social media to promote Jurassic World: ‘The film will do fine’

Black Widow star doesn’t feel she can ‘stay true’ to herself on social media

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3 w. ago US tourist's appalling act sparks calls for her to be deported from Australia: 'This is heinous'

An American influencer has faced calls to be deported from Australia after she was filmed committing an appalling act.

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3 w. ago The trauma plot: how did culture get addicted to tragic backstories? | Diana Reid

Again and again, audiences have been spoon-fed the same story: a character can only be explained by a past trauma, tantalisingly revealed in the last episode. Has the trope reached a tipping point?Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailYou only need to look at some of the biggest stories of the past decade to realise popular culture from the late 2010s had a love affair with trauma. Online there was the personal essay boom that kept websitesincluding BuzzFeed, Jezebel and Australia’s own Mamamia afloat. In publishing, memoirs that explored the gamut of human suffering – everything from the pampered (Prince Harry’s Spare) to the impoverished (Tara Westover’s Educated) – broke sales records. And memoirs found their fictional counterpoint in novels including Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace. Even television and film were trauma-obsessed. Cue the detective who must face his own trauma before he can crack the case (True ...

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3 w. ago Laura Whitmore 'infuriates BBC bosses' as she pulls out huge TV show at last minute

The BBC’s planned Celebrity Apprentice special reportedly faced disruption as Laura Whitmore pulled out just days before filming was due to begin

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