6 h. ago Heartbroken tributes paid to teenage girl who died suddenly in cinema

Kasey-Lei Greene had been living with her family in Abu Dhabi for 14 months when she tragically collapsed and died at the Vox Cinema at Yas Mall in the United Arab Emirates capital

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7 h. ago Brit girl, 13, dies in Abu Dhabi while watching a film at cinema with friend

Kasey-Lei Greene, 13, had moved to Abu Dhabi with her family last year to start a new life in the UAE. She died suddenly at the cinema with her friend and gave her dad one last hug

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26 h. ago Teen girl gave dad a hug before cinema trip – neither knew it was the last time

Kasey-Lei Greene, a 'bubbly, caring and tough' 13-year-old from Sutton Coldfield, tragically died while on a trip to the cinema in Abu Dhabi

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34 h. ago A man in Brazil turned his childhood dream into a small cinema for film lovers

Carlos Costa has fulfilled his childhood dream of owning a movie theater

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56 h. ago Inside the wonderfully quirky Greater Manchester cinema that promises a first for film fans

It's bringing back the glory days without any gimmicks

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5 d. ago Ex cop begs for truth to be told over Brit girl who went missing from Australia beach

Cheryl Grimmer vanished 55 years ago after leaving Fairy Meadow Beach, Wollongong and has never been seen again

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7 d. ago London Film Fest Head Previews “Formally Daring Cinema,” Stars “Playing Against Perceived Type” in 2025 Edition

London Film Fest Head Previews “Formally Daring Cinema,” Stars “Playing Against Perceived Type” in 2025 Edition  hollywoodreporter.com

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7 d. ago I Swear: Scot with Tourettes whose life inspired hit film visits cinema for first time in 40 years

John Davidson’s life inspired film I Swear

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9 d. ago Brit teen who was jailed in Dubai for sex with girl, 17, is killed in car crash

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9 d. ago Brit teen Marcus Fakana jailed in Dubai over sex with girl dies in crash after release

Marcus Fakana, 19, has died in a car crash in London three months after being released from a Dubai prison - tributes said he had 'shown strength and courage' as he fought his case

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9 d. ago Film Club: Aimee Lou Wood’s fantastical romcom is part Mike Leigh, part cosy family sitcom

The White Lotus star is an agoraphobic movie lover who puts on elaborate immersive screenings in her garage in this sweet tale of longing, anxiety and family bickering. But is it believable?I’m not sure where Aimee Lou Wood – the Stockport-born star of Sex Education and The White Lotus – got the idea for Film Club (Tuesday 7 October, 10pm, BBC Three), the new drama she has created with fellow actor Ralph Davis, but I’d be amazed if it’s drawn from her own life. Not because the fearlessly outspoken global celebrity plays a woman too scared to set foot outside her mum’s house in Manchester following a nervous breakdown, her only respite being a weekly movie night with uni friends in the garage. No. It’s the garage itself.Each week, unemployed, agoraphobic Evie somehow finds the wherewithal to transform her garage into a spectacular film set. For a screening of Alien, this one-woman Secret Cinema wallpapers it with tinfoil and hazard tape and fills it with smoke, strip lights...

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1 week ago Chilling moment Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner refuses to answer if he killed missing Brit girl

CONVICTED paedo and Madeleine McCann prime suspect has refused to reveal whether he killed the missing girl. The creep, 48, said he had been advised not to respond to questions about Maddie - and that he would stick to that. Speaking to Sky News, Brueckner also pleaded for the "witch hunt" against him to stop....

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2 w. ago ‘Go woke, go broke’? New study challenges claims progressive films flop at the box office

Film data analyst Stephen Follows finds no evidence that ‘woke-adjacent’ cinema is doomed commercially – and claims some genres may benefit from diverse casting“Go woke, go broke” is a movie catchphrase du jour, loved by rightwing culture warriors, who take aim at mainstream films judged to have adopted progressive values, and therefore are worthy of boycott and complaints. Films as varied as The Marvels, Charlie’s Angels, Ghostbusters (the 2016 reboot) and Pixar’s Elio have been attacked for their perceived commitment to inclusiveness and diversity, and in some cases their box office revenue appears to have been affected as a result.But is it actually the case? Film data analyst Stephen Follows, an adviser to Guinness World Records and author of The Horror Movie Report, has published research on how audiences actually respond to “woke-adjacent” content in current cinema. First presented at the Zurich film festival on Saturday, Follows’ research suggests that there is no blanket rul...

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2 w. ago Skye Community Cinema first Scottish winner of renowned UK film award in almost 30 years

Skye Community Cinema took home the night’s top prize, with Borscht Film Club and Ayr Film Society also recognised.

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2 w. ago Claudia Cardinale, glamorous star of The Leopard and Once Upon a Time in the West, dies aged 87

Tunisian-born actor worked with the great Italian auteurs of the era, including Visconti, Fellini and Sergio LeoneClaudia Cardinale, a glamorous symbol of post-war Italian cinema who enjoyed a long and varied acting career on film and in the theatre, has died at age 87, according to AFP and other French media.Raised in Tunisia to a family of Sicilian origin, Cardinale’s introduction to the movie world came in 1957 after she won a beauty contest in Tunis and was rewarded with a trip to the Venice film festival. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Mission Alarum review – dreadful Sylvester Stallone spy thriller shames cinema itself

Donald Trump’s ‘special ambassador to Hollywood’ plays a grizzled agent in this dismal action movie Back at the beginning of the second Trump administration (which feels like the Jurassic era now), the president named Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight “special ambassadors to a great but troubled place, Hollywood, California.” No one seems to be quite sure what these ambassadorships entail or if any of that troika of right-wing fellow travellers have fulfilled any official duties. But on the evidence of this, Stallone is already letting the side down – by making a film so bad it shames American cinema itself. And it wasn’t even made in Hollywood! Instead, it was shot in Ohio (pretending, deeply unconvincingly, to be Poland), making this what’s called a runaway production, the phenomenon that is undermining Hollywood’s film-making industry.However, this cheapola would-be spy thriller is bad all on its own, whatever its politics. The idea is that secret agents Joe (Scott Ea...

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3 w. ago Brit teen girl forced off Jet2 flight over health issue as she 'bursts into tears'

Lee Kelly and 17-year-old Tessy Kelly-Hester were trying to get back from Lanzarote after a week in the sun when they were asked to leave the Jet2 plane. The teen burst into tears

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3 w. ago Freedom and joy: Rugby World Cup’s quirky quality sets it apart from the pack | Emma John

This tournament has embraced a festival atmosphere and still seems to be fuelled by a radiant and irrepressible delight with a gleaming sense of funI have a friend who rejects the notion of “guilty pleasures”. There is, she argues, plenty of real and justified guilt in the world, without co-opting it to our choice of trash TV or an unkickable penchant for romantasy novels. She’s a helpful touchstone when I hear myself trying to justify the silly superhero film I went to see at the cinema on the basis that it might have carried an underlying anti-fascist message (if you squinted hard enough at the screen). My friend will sigh kindly and then remind me: sometimes it’s OK just to enjoy things.It is, perhaps, a lesson we particularly struggle with in sport because of its very nature. A huge part of our investment is grounded in the result and its consequences for whichever athlete or team we prefer. Ask a football fan if they enjoyed themselves at the match they just paid a decent whack...

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3 w. ago With the Sundance Film Festival and filmmaker labs, Robert Redford brought change to cinema

Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at 89, transformed the film industry with the Sundance Institute and Film Festival

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3 w. ago A new kind of action – how Babes With Blades are fighting for screen space for women of colour

When Jade Ang Jackman met Ayesha Hussain it was to make a film about the latter’s training as a stunt performer. With that in the bag along with Sag award nominations, they are going after bigger ambitions togetherAyesha Hussain says her mum was relieved when she became a professional stuntwoman because there were a lot more safety precautions on film sets than at the nightclubs where she had been fire-breathing and throwing knives since her early 20s. Now a twice Sag-award nominated stunt performer, with credits on Doctor Who, Gladiator II and Deadpool and Wolverine, 35-year-old Hussain has her heart set on becoming “the female Keanu Reeves slash Jason Statham”.As part of Hussain’s aim to tackle the lack of representation of south Asian women in the action arena, she joined with Malaysian-British director Jade Ang Jackman to co-found the film collective Babes With Blades. In January, they took over the Rio cinema in London’s Dalston during the London short film festival to showcase...

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