45 m. ago Cheer up, Ice Cube, your War of the Worlds movie may be really bad, but it's not worthless | Saranka Maheswaran

Awful clunkers occasionally emerge from both Hollywood and Bollywood, but I have found value in most cinematic calamitiesIf the latest adaptation of HG Wells’s 1898 novel The War of the Worlds, a movie starring Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, was designed to make us pause and ask questions, it has certainly succeeded. Unfortunately, what a lot of viewers have been asking is why it was inflicted on the public in the first place. Is War of the Worlds “one of the worst movies ever made?”, asked the BBC. “Shockingly bad War of the Worlds is one of the worst movies of the decade,” said the New York Post. “Amazon’s War of the Worlds update should never have been released,” declared the Telegraph.The 2005 adaptation, starring Tom Cruise, was a smash hit. Now people are flocking to the remake to see just how bad a film can be – it’s in the top 10 films watched in the UK and US on Amazon Prime. It seems that we have come to love “bad” films almost as much as those deemed good. The website Rotten ...

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45 h. ago Sturgeon: Salmond happier for SNP to be destroyed than succeed without him

The former first minister said she realised her ex-mentor came to view her as ‘public enemy number one’.

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45 h. ago Alan Tudyk says he was removed from I, Robot publicity after viewers preferred him to Will Smith

‘At the time, I was very upset,’ the actor, who played cyborg Sonny, said

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50 h. ago Alan Tudyk was ‘removed from I, Robot publicity’ after viewers preferred him to Will Smith

‘At the time, I was very upset,’ the actor, who played cyborg Sonny, said

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50 h. ago Alan Tudyk was ‘removed from I, Robot publicity’ after early viewers preferred him to Will Smith

‘At the time, I was very upset,’ the actor, who played cyborg Sonny, said

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51 h. ago Alan Tudyk says he was removed from I, Robot publicity after early viewers preferred him to Will Smith

‘At the time, I was very upset,’ the actor, who played cyborg Sonny, said

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4 d. ago The war on WFH isn’t over. London’s return to the office has flatlined

The war on WFH isn’t over. London’s return to the office has flatlined  The Times

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5 d. ago Training Gallery | Hammers prepare for London Stadium return against LOSC Lille

Training Gallery | Hammers prepare for London Stadium return against LOSC Lille  West Ham United

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5 d. ago Major incident near BBC and ITV studios in Media City as police swarm area

Police and ambulance services have rushed to a scene in Salford, Manchester, after an incident took place at Media City, with areas being blocked off from public view

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6 d. ago Air New Zealand's return to London is a 'high priority', but which route to take?

Air New Zealand's return to London is a 'high priority', but which route to take?  Stuff

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7 d. ago Moment drunken yobs spark emergency at 30,000 feet by refusing to stop vaping

Police were called to Stansted Airport, where they waited for a Jet2 flight bound for Heraklion in Crete to return to London after two drunken men refused to stop vaping in their seats.

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8 d. ago ‘Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Ghislaine Maxwell is not’: Sex trafficker fights DOJ move to unseal grand jury records

Maxwell’s attorneys say she wants to keep grand jury transcripts from public view as she continues her appeal to the Supreme Court and to the Trump administration to toss her prison sentence.

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8 d. ago Rare white storks are coming back to London after being extinct for 600 years

Rare white storks are coming back to London after being extinct for 600 years  Time Out Worldwide

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9 d. ago British teenager boards wrong flight at Menorca airport and ends up in Italy

Boy, 15, became separated from his family, who were due to fly back to London Stansted, at island’s Mahon airportA British teenager separated from his family at a busy Spanish airport on Monday boarded a flight to Italy instead of his return flight to London.The 15-year-old was supposed to fly with Tui from Menorca to Stansted but disappeared in the island’s Mahon airport. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Iconic’ birds that once vanished from UK could be coming back to London after centuries

Breeding populations were hunted to extinction in Britain in the 1400s

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1 week ago ‘Iconic’ birds that once vanished from Britain could be coming back to London after centuries

Breeding populations were hunted to extinction in Britain in the 1400s

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1 week ago Rewilding group to assess possible return of white storks to London

Citizen Zoo to map habitats in the capital and consult boroughs and the public about reintroduction of the birdsAn urban rewilding group is seeking the public’s views on the potential return of white storks to London as part of a project to see if the birds could make a home in the capital.White storks could once be seen flying in Britain’s skies and building their huge nests on roofs and in trees, but they disappeared centuries ago as a breeding bird as a result of hunting and habitat loss. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Iconic’ white storks could be coming back to London after centuries

Breeding populations were hunted to extinction in Britain in the 1400s

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1 week ago Could white storks return to London? Public’s views sought on ‘talismanic’ bird

The species has been reintroduced to southern England and can thrive in urban areas as well as natural landscapes, experts say.

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1 week ago The Guardian view on statues: new monuments reflect changing values and reinvigorate the public realm | Editorial

It is refreshing to see women’s achievements celebrated, and statuary become more representative of a diverse nationEfforts to ensure that modern values are reflected in public sculpture began well before the Black Lives Matter protests five years ago. Those demonstrations saw the statue of the Bristol slave trader Edward Colston dragged from its pedestal and dumped in the harbour, while multiple Confederate monuments were removed from cities in the southern US.Statues in Britain have gradually reflected evolving social values. A statue of the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst was unveiled in Westminster in 1930, two years after women were finally granted the vote on equal terms to men. Nelson Mandela joined Winston Churchill in Parliament Square in 2007. The nurse Mary Seacole became the first named black, Caribbean woman to be honoured with a UK statue in 2016. In the same year, the Monumental Welsh Women campaign was established. It set itself a target of five statues, and ha...

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