16 m. ago Martin Lewis urges all workers to check their payslip NOW to see if they are owed thousands

Each year, millions of people across the UK pay over the odds in tax because they are in the wrong tax band, MSE claimed. (Martin Lewis pictured left)

Economics

33 m. ago Rogue runner strikes again! Tommy Fury is caught PUSHING Great North Run rival away to get his perfect viral finish line video, days after 'LYING' about completing 100km triathlon

Tommy Fury has gone viral once more for yet another running sprint finish, and footage appears to show the professional boxer pushing a fellow competitor out of the way.

Events

40 m. ago Ring doorbell camera captures 'ghost' walking past man's home near eerie cemetery

A horror movie fan, who lives near a graveyard, was so excited by the paranormal sighting that he rewatched the footage for 15 minutes and showed his superstitious friends

Politics

44 m. ago Sacrifice review – starry satire pokes fun at celebrity before falling into a volcano

Toronto film festival: Chris Evans is excellent as a vain actor kidnapped by an eco-terrorism cult in an initially amusing comedy of performative politics that falls apartPoking fun at the absurdity of celebrity is of course never unwarranted but it also frequently comes across as a little fatiguing. The target is easier than ever and too often, so are the jokes, incisive satire proving hard to nail when the subjects have become so indistinguishably cartoonish. The same has become true of the wealthy in general and recent films that have tried to lampoon either have felt lazy, pointing and laughing at something that’s stopped being funny a long time ago.There’s an initial kick then to the new film from French music video provocateur turned film-maker Romain Gavras, who finds a more precise section of the VIP area to ridicule: performative environmentalists. As the world continues to burn, artists and those who use that word loosely, have attached themselves to the crisis whether it ...

Politics

64 m. ago Marilyn Monroe centenary exhibition to feature at National Portrait Gallery

Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait will open at the London gallery in summer next year.

Politics

64 m. ago ‘Most intelligent’ period drama film ever that risks being forgotten now streaming on Netflix

The film is a classic and one for Wolf Hall fans

Events

99 m. ago Rental Family review – Brendan Fraser is stranded in mawkish misfire

Toronto film festival: The Oscar-winning star of The Whale makes another awards play with a beautifully shot yet emotionally inert comedy dramaBrendan Fraser is an actor performing characters who help people achieve a sense of emotional healing, affirmation or comfort. That could describe who he tends to be in “real” life (whatever that means in this context) but it’s also what he’s playing in Rental Family.The feelgood dramedy – or at least that’s what it tries so hard to be – is about an actual service in Japan that supplies actors who perform as bit players in everyday people’s lives. They’re hired by clients to fake it in roles as a family member, a friend or even the cheering audience at a karaoke bar. The premise packs meta layers and gives Fraser the opportunity to inhabit multiple roles, while turning the lens back on the audience to consider what we’re looking for in the movie(s). Unfortunately, when it comes to Rental Family, it’s just not that deep. Continue reading...

Society

1 hour ago Little Jaffna review – undercover cop thriller goes deep into French

Lawrence Valin directs and stars in this Paris-set drama, where a young man caught between cultures infiltrates criminals shaped by Sri Lanka’s civil warHere is a Paris-set story that unfolds during the Sri Lankan civil war and revolves around Tamil immigrants supportive of the insurgent Tamil Tigers, but politics is not much more to the fore than good old-fashioned gangster machinations. Writer, director and star Lawrence Valin is himself from the French-Tamil community and he immerses the film within that hybrid culture beautifully, drawing out the internal conflicts and loyalties that a man like the one he plays here, Michael, might feel in the circumstances.Like many of the people he lives among, Michael is an orphan who came to France after both his parents met violent ends in the war in Sri Lanka. Brought up by his grandmother (Radhika Sarathkumar), who is, like much of the community, a staunch Catholic, Michael is torn between a longing for acceptance in the immigrant subcult...

Politics

1 hour ago ‘Perfect’ historical drama that Wolf Hall fans will love now on Netflix

The film is a classic and is in danger of being forgotten

Events

1 hour ago Hollywood stuntman with more than 300 credits reveals hardest film he's ever done

The star has doubled Christian Bale, Ryan Reynolds, Bradley Cooper and Tom Hiddleston.

Culture

2 h. ago ‘The energy is infectious’: why Bride and Prejudice is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort films is an ode to Gurinder Chadha’s 2004 spin on the Austen classicWe’ve never been short of Jane Austen film adaptations. In fact, it seems a new one arrives every decade – two were announced recently, including Netflix’s spin on Pride & Prejudice. Yet, one adaptation has been shamefully overlooked: Gurinder Chadha’s Bride & Prejudice.A cross-cultural, British-and-Bollywood-meets-Hollywood take on Austen’s most famous novel, the film is pure joy – a riot of original musical numbers, colourful costumes, chaos, culture clashes and, of course, romance. Continue reading...

Science

3 h. ago British woman, 23, is killed and two others injured with one left fighting for life after 'drugged

One of the survivors is fighting for her life in hospital, it emerged today as officials confirmed all three women were from the UK.

Events

3 h. ago Fast and Furious fans issued apology for space scene: ‘We can never get that genie back’

Universal executive admitted that many ideas that end up in Fast and Furious films come from fans

Politics

3 h. ago Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle review – battle anime brings the visual flair

In the first of a film trilogy, teenage Tanjiro seeks vengeance for his murdered family in what is a great taste of things to comeThe first part of a trilogy that will conclude the massively popular anime series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, this latest smash hit from Ufotable, directed by Haruo Sotozaki, is a spectacular treat. For those new to the franchise, the story is set during a mythical imagining of the Taisho era, where hordes of carnivorous demons descend on innocent civilians. Fighting in the name of his massacred family and a sister infected with demon blood, teenage protagonist Tanjiro Kamado joins the Demon Slayer Corps, determined to wipe these ruthless beasts off the Earth. The film picks up from a thrilling cliffhanger of the fourth season, where Tanjiro and his fellow comrades are thrust into the lair of the demon-in-chief, the cunning and all-powerful Muzan Kibutsuji.Much of the film is structured around various battles between the series regulars and their swor...

Events

4 h. ago From the call centre to the BAFTAs: A story of remarkable transformation

Award-winning filmmaker Thomas Stogdon was ready to ‘fold up his dreams’ — until one course changed everything

Politics

5 h. ago 'I died in car crash that killed half my family – then I saw something impossible'

Jeffrey Olsen survived 18 surgeries including a leg amputation after a horrific car crash that took the lives of his wife and young son who he said he visited while briefly in the afterlife

Events

5 h. ago Flytippers fill grandad's garage with three tonnes of rubbish

Contractors sent to help him clear up the mess emptied the wrong building

Politics

5 h. ago Best pal decapitated his friend in horror accident and it inspired horror film

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: A car accident that took place in Marietta, Georgia in 2004 was the inspiration for one of the best-known scenes in a renowned horror movie

Events

5 h. ago Man decapitated by phone line in gruesome car crash inspires horror film

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: A car accident that took place in Marietta, Georgia in 2004 was the inspiration for one of the best-known scenes in a renowned horror movie

Events

6 h. ago Reshuffle it how you like, Starmer’s ‘grownup’ Labour has the Tory whiff of spiteful incompetence | Nesrine Malik

Here we are again: constant rebooting, cruel rhetoric and crackdowns. And hurtling towards a Reform-shaped futureSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreThere has been a familiar feeling in the air for a while, but not one I could identify until last week, when it finally settled. It is a sense that this Labour government is just as terminally dysfunctional and directionless as its predecessor. I am beginning to feel the same sense of frustration, confusion, anger and depletion that I carried through all those years of Conservative government.Here we are again, with the pettiness and authoritarianism, the performatively cruel rhetoric and crackdown on immigration, the ridiculous posturing on flags, the empty sloganeering – and with the constant rebooting in order to jumpstart a broken machine. The result is that government has been reduced to the same intrus...

Politics