4 h. ago Cillian Murphy plays impassioned headteacher in trailer for Netflix drama Steve

The reform school drama is a reimagining of Max Porter’s Sunday Times bestseller Shy.

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5 h. ago Cillian Murphy unrecognisable in new Netflix film based on 'haunting' book

The first look at the film has been released

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6 h. ago 'Incredible' Netflix film based on true events is leaving viewers in tears

The movie has recently joined Netflix's large library and a well-known and film critic has 'begged' viewers to add it to their watch list, praising it as as "incredible" true story

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44 h. ago Brian Cox touts Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy to be next James Bond: ‘He’s very real’

The Succession star asked if Murphy was being recommended for the role

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44 h. ago Succession star Brian Cox: Cillian Murphy would make an ‘interesting’ James Bond

In an interview with Radio Times, the Succession star discussed the upcoming second series of reality competition 007: Road To A Million.

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3 d. ago ‘The dream came true’: Major League Baseball gets its first female umpire

Jen Pawol, 48, was given an ovation when she took to the pitch for a game between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta BravesIt was, she said, the day “the dream came true”. Jen Pawol, a 48-year-old former art teacher, made US sporting history at the weekend when she became the first female umpire of a Major League Baseball game during the regular season.Pawol, whose debut came on Saturday in a game between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves, was given a standing ovation as she arrived on the pitch. Supporters held up signs reading “Pawol making HERstory” and “the time has come for one and all to play ball” – a nostalgic reference to A League of Their Own, the classic sports film about a women’s baseball league during the second world war. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Netflix fans break down in tears at 'heartbreaking and messy' film based on true story with all

The movie, directed and written by Sean Durkin, was released back in 2023, but is about to find a new audience on the popular streaming service.

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3 d. ago It was a film filled with unsimulated sex, based on a real murder. But even the nudity and graphic depiction of severed genitals paled in comparison to one infamous scene that shocked audiences

***GRAPHIC CONTENT*** Nagisa Oshima's groundbreaking 1976 erotic drama In the Realm of the Senses was hugely controversial upon its release for a series of reasons.

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4 d. ago Mare’s Nest review – an opaque, challenging reflection on the end of the world

Locarno film festivalBen Rivers’s cine-poem, based on Don DeLillo’s climate crisis play The Word for Snow, follows a child’s strange encounters as she wanders in a postapocalyptic world devoid of adultsEnglish experimentalist Ben Rivers offers up another challenging, intriguing cine-poem, this time on the nature of existence and the end of the world. It is opaque but with flashes of strange brilliance, an adaptation of The Word for Snow, a one-act stage play by Don DeLillo from 2007 that reflected on the climate crisis.A child called Moon (Moon Guo Barker) wanders around a strange world, entirely peopled by other children, except for one eerie monochrome sequence in which Moon sees adult figures in some kind of underground tunnel, frozen in attitudes of dismay similar to the citizenry of Pompeii. In the course of her travels, bookended by clambering out of a crashed car and finally driving happily off, Moon has dreamlike encounters with these children who speak with the tongues of a...

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5 d. ago Iconic Netflix actress looks unrecognisable as she shares throwback snap

An iconic Netflix actress was unrecognisable as she shared a very sweet throwback picture.

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5 d. ago New Netflix film based on heist that's 'straight out of Grand Theft Auto'

It comes from the makers of 'one of the best documentaries ever made'

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8 d. ago David Byrne and Hayley Williams write original songs for Netflix film The Twits

The film adaptation based on the characters from Roald Dahl’s book of the same name will feature three original songs.

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8 d. ago Can’t Look Away review – a harrowing, heartbreaking indictment of social media’s ruthlessness

Bloomberg journalist Olivia Carville follows a small legal outfit as it takes Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies to task for endangering young users“Tweens are herd animals” and have “an addicts’ narrative”, according to internal documents revealed by a Facebook whistleblower to congress, making clear the levels of cynicism and obfuscation the company operates with in its quest to hook young people to its platform. Bad though that is, it’s not the worst example in this lucidly laid out and often harrowing indictment of social media’s ruthlessness; that would be the proliferation of drug dealers on Snapchat, which the company seems to have to some extent turned a blind eye to in the scramble to expand its user base.Based on the investigative work of Bloomberg journalist Olivia Carville, this film covers the attempts of minnow legal outfit Social Media Victims Law Center to net the sharks of Silicon Valley. It represents a host of families who have suffered heartbreaking losses ...

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9 d. ago Netflix viewers 'can't wait' for new thriller thanks to actor stepping into lead role

The film adaptation is based on author Ruth Ware's best-selling thriller novel of the same name. It was first published in 2016 and sees a woman board a luxury yacht where she witnesses a murder

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3 w. ago Lord Voldermort Casting Odds Latest: Here are the 9 actors in the frame to play the Dark Lord in Harry Potter TV reboot

It’s the casting call that Harry Potter fans are most fascinated by.

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