50 m. ago ‘I am elated each time I watch’: why Rushmore is my feelgood movie

The next in our series of writers drawing attention to their most-watched comfort films is a reminder of Wes Anderson’s idiosyncratic 1998 comedy“Let’s hope it’s got a happy ending,” Herman Blume, played by Bill Murray in one of his best roles, says near the end of Wes Anderson’s 1998 film Rushmore. He makes the remark about an over-the-top, literally pyrotechnic school play that his teenage friend Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) has just debuted to an audience of dazed teachers and parents. But his comment stands in for the whole movie, an audacious and risky comedy that should not work, but does. I am elated each time I watch this poignant, wise and wildly funny film – and, yes, there is a happy ending.Rushmore is about children trying to act like adults and adults acting like children. Fischer is a precocious scholarship student at Rushmore, a prestigious private boys’ school. He is the sort of bright but naive young person who tries to impress an adult by telling them, with a st...

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5 h. ago ‘Robin Williams said: “I’ll buy the club!”’: how The Comic Strip set the UK comedy scene ablaze

It started in a strip joint and ended up bringing alternative comedy to our TV screens. Ahead of a new Edinburgh show, Peter Richardson tells us why his riotous creation still makes audiences laugh 40 years onIt was the moment comedy broke with sexism – yet it happened in a strip club. It was a fervour of free creative expression – yet it retained a commercial, careerist edge. It was one of the longest-running and most successful brands in UK comedy history – which few people could now recognise.At the Edinburgh fringe this summer, The Comic Strip Presents will be memorialised in a series of film screenings and Q&As with its creator and prime mover Peter Richardson. Richardson was the impresario behind the legendary comedy club The Comic Strip, which opened in 1980. When he and his star performers – Rik Mayall, Alexei Sayle, French and Saunders among them – created Channel 4’s The Comic Strip Presents a couple of years later, he could legitimately claim to be the man who brought...

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5 h. ago Danny Dyer reunites with EastEnders icon as he returns to Sky show

He's miles away from Albert Square and all the EastEnders drama, but Danny Dyer was still thrilled to be reunited with one of his former co-stars while filming for Mr Bigstuff.

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10 h. ago Danny Dyer on toxic masculinity, absent dads, and penis socks

“There’s a bloke running naked down the street and I think it’s Mick from EastEnders.”

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11 h. ago Danny Dyer reveals he ran 'NAKED' through a council estate while filming new series of Mr. Bigstuff

Danny Dyer is back in the buff in series two of Sky's Mr Bigstuff as he revealed he 'ran through a council estate naked'. 

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14 h. ago Danny Dyer eyes Doctor Who job as he reveals plan for 'working class alpha' role

The Bafta-winning actor says he'd like to follow in the footsteps of the actors lucky enough to be cast in the 'iconic' role

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17 h. ago Worrying sign Aaron and Denise's marriage was toxic as insider reveals what it was really like on their reality show

Following Denise Richards' accusations of abuse against her estranged husband Aaron Phypers, insiders reveal exactly what went down while filming their Bravo reality series.

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34 h. ago Danny Dyer and Stephen Graham 'set to reunite for gritty new drama' to rival Netflix hit Adolescence

Danny Dyer is reportedly teaming up with acting heavyweight Stephen Graham for a powerful new TV drama - and it's tipped to go head-to-head with 2025's biggest hit, Adolescence.

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39 h. ago Stephen Graham set to team up with huge TV actor for Adolescence

EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool-born star Stephen Graham is in talks with acting legend Danny Dyer to make a hard-hitting drama which will rival his huge Adolescence series

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47 h. ago Death in Paradise fans thrilled as detective returns to iconic role in spin

The spin-off series, Beyond Paradise, is already filming in Cornwall, and fans are delighted.

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62 h. ago Grantchester star shares filming update as series comes to an end

The beloved series is coming to an end with an eleventh and final season.

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68 h. ago Danny Dyer says an ‘odd’ incident with a pair of jeans made him ‘sort his life out’

‘Of all the things that had happened, all the weird moments, that was the moment’

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68 h. ago BBC Death in Paradise's Kris Marshall returns to beloved role as filming begins for series

Death in Paradise and Beyond Paradise fans will be thrilled to know that Kris Marshall is back in action as filming begins for the highly-anticipated series

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69 h. ago First Harry Potter Set Photos Feature Series' Young Star and the Dursleys, as HBO TV Series Films at London Zoo

First Harry Potter Set Photos Feature Series' Young Star and the Dursleys, as HBO TV Series Films at London Zoo  IGN

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3 d. ago Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time

Firm says technology used in El Eternauta is chance ‘to help creators make films and series better, not just cheaper’Netflix has used artificial intelligence in one of its TV shows for the first time, in a move the streaming company’s boss said would make films and programmes cheaper and of better quality.Ted Sarandos, a co-chief executive of Netflix, said the Argentinian science fiction series El Eternauta (The Eternaut) was the first it had made that involved using generative AI footage. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ITV The Assembly future sealed as bosses share huge announcement

ITV bosses have big news for fans of The Assembly after stars Danny Dyer, David Tennant, Jade Thirlwall and Gary Lineker all took part in the first series.

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3 d. ago ITV renews The Assembly for second series with more episodes as Hollywood star set to join

This year's series of the popular ITV show featured candid interviews with Danny Dyer, David Tennant, Jade Thirlwall and Gary Lineker and is now set to get an extended follow-up

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3 d. ago Jim Legxacy: Black British Music review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(XL Recordings)The rapper and producer doubles down on his vaulting style, lurching from alt-rock to distortion and chipmunk soul on an astonishingly coherent and melodic third recordOn Father, the first single to be taken from Jim Legxacy’s third mixtape, the listener is offered a vivid image from the author’s past. The teenage James Olaloye, as he was then, is on the streets of Lewisham, the south-east London borough where he grew up. He is “rolling up a blunt, scheming for the funds trying to come up off the roads on my own two / I never had a father”. Inevitably, this means he’s up to no good: “Making money off a phone a key’s what they want.”It’s a familiar scenario in the world of UK rap, a genre in which you seldom want for bleak descriptions of the life its stars have left behind on often deprived council estates. But in the case of Father, it comes with a small, but striking detail. “On the block,” he attests, “I was listening to Mitski.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Harry Potter actors snapped on set as they start filming for new HBO series

The cast for the new HBO television series of Harry Potter have finally come together to start filming the TV adaption of the hugely popular book and movie series

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4 d. ago Harry Potter HBO series first look pictures as new cast film iconic zoo scene

Harry Potter fans can get a sneak peek of what's in store for the upcoming HBO series - as the new cast can be seen shooting the infamous zoo scene with the Dursleys

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