12 h. ago Apple races to box office glory with Brad Pitt’s F1 blockbuster

Takings at global box office top $200mn after Apple followed a more commercial approach for movie release

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34 h. ago Quatermass 2 review – Hammer turns up the heat in enjoyable alien invader sequel

The brusque, unsmiling American rocket scientist returns with a bigger budget and more action alongside an entertaining turn from Sid James as an inebriated journalistHere is the 1957 sequel to Hammer’s box office smash The Quatermass Xperiment from 1955; it is enjoyable, though the law of diminishing returns is coming into play. Like the first film, it is based on the original BBC drama (the second series, in fact) and Brian Donleavy is back as Quatermass himself: the brusque, unsmiling American rocket scientist working closely with the British government and permanently exasperated with them.Once again, Quatermass finds himself at the centre of a deadly alien attempt to take over Planet Earth. While debating whether or not to fire a nuclear powered rocket up into space, Quatermass comes into contact with a woman whose boyfriend has been injured by what appear to be football-sized meteorites, which his white-coated assistants have been already tracking on their radar scopes. It app...

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67 h. ago Keanu Reeves signs up for F1 docuseries as Brad Pitt's movie is a box office smash

Ironically, the 60-year-old Matrix alum did not perform that well when he made his own motorsport debut at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last October

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3 d. ago East Ayrshire school pupils attend safety briefing at dangerous loch

Children and young people received essential lifesaving skills training including CPR awareness and defib training.

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3 d. ago Parents furious at council decision to remove school transport from vulnerable Ayrshire kids

A petition was launched by one of the parents after East Ayrshire Council removed school transport for vulnerable children with ASN.

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4 d. ago Brad Pitt’s F1 movie has fans racing to book this unique London experience amid box office success

Hilton has unveiled a McLaren-themed suite, offering fans a unique motorsport staycation amid the success of F1: The Movie

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5 d. ago Pavement parking enforcement in East Ayrshire starts next week with 900 warning dished out to locals

More than 900 warning notices were issued to motorists in East Ayrshire ahead of the enforcement of the new pavement parking rules.

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5 d. ago Back from the dead: can the new Fast and Furious movie really ‘reunite’ Vin Diesel and Paul Walker?

Vin Diesel says ‘reuniting Dom and Brian O’Conner’ was a condition for agreeing to a Furious finale, which will no doubt require a CGI resurrectionIf you’re a fan of the Fast and Furious franchise – and you’re only human, so of course you are – then you’ll know that Fast X ended on one of the most operatically daft cliffhangers of all time. In short, Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson are apparently dead, having been shot out of the sky by a double agent. Vin Diesel seems certain to die, having ended the film at the bottom of a dam that Jason Momoa just exploded. And Gal Gadot is back. And the Rock is back.All these threads need to be resolved urgently. And yet, Fast X was a box-office disappointment. The fourth most expensive film ever made, Fast X was the fifth highest-grossing film of 2023 and still managed to lose $20m. And suddenly the prospects of a sequel looked dimmer and dimmer. Or at least they did, until Vin Diesel stumbled across a foolproof plan to revive the franchise forever:...

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6 d. ago 'F1' opens with $55 million, delivering Apple its biggest big

Apple has its first box-office hit

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6 d. ago ‘It was very hard to see myself as a director’: the Australian film

Gabrielle Brady’s docufiction hybrids have earned international recognition even as her home country has been slow to catch up. For her latest, she worked with a Mongolian couple displaced from their farmlandGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email“There are so many hang-ups in the documentary world about this idea of ultimate truth,” says Gabrielle Brady. “There’s only subjectivity in documentary. It’s all a construction.”Ever since Louis Lumière filmed workers leaving his factory in 1895, documentary film has struggled with the idea of authenticity. Lumière’s 17-metre film is regarded as the first ever made, yet even this modest document is a lie: it was filmed not on a work day, but a Sunday. Ethnographer Robert Flaherty staged scenes in his 1922 documentary Nanook of the North, and it was Michael Moore’s crafty editing that made Roger and Me an emotive box office hit. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Tory calls for flags to be put up and taken down every day at East Ayrshire HQ

He described it as “a very British way of expressing joy and pride”.

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8 d. ago Ayrshire volunteers treated to Dumfries House tea dance as special thanks for their dedication to communities

East Ayrshire Leisure hosted the event.

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9 d. ago Andy Farrell opts for box office as Tomos Williams' timely opportunity emerges

Tomos Williams will have the chance to lay down a massive marker in the absence of Jamison Gibson-Park

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9 d. ago Dog walker missing after pets discovered wandering alone at Scots estate

Darren Noble, 47, has been reported missing from Cumnock area in East Ayrshire.

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9 d. ago Why M3GAN 2.0 could be the biggest FLOP of the year as scathing reviews pour in for horror sequel

It was one of the most anticipated and heavily marketed movies of the year, but M3GAN 2.0 is now shaping up to be 2025's biggest flop.

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1 week ago East Ayrshire has highest record of collisions caused by faulty tyres

Experts have warned that drivers face fines of up to £2,500 and three penalty points per tyre if found to be below legal standards.

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1 week ago Rachel Zegler reveals candid deails about how she reacted following her film Snow White's commercial failure

Rachel Zegler has revealed details about how she 'wasn't functioning' after the live action remake of Snow White bombed at the box office.

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1 week ago Snow White star Rachel Zegler responds to backlash to her online activism: ‘There are worse things’

Actor’s social media posts were blamed by some for Snow White remake’s poor performance at box office

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1 week ago Stanley Kubrick’s biggest folly is actually his greatest masterpiece – and now is the time to see it

Critically lambasted on its release, and so commercially unsuccessful that the filmmaker signed onto ‘The Shining’ for an easy box-office win, 1975’s ‘Barry Lyndon’ has only been embraced – then even more embraced – in the decades since. As it arrives back in cinemas, Xan Brooks salutes an often misunderstood classic

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1 week ago Pixar suffers its worst box office opening ever as $150M movie Elio bombs with $21M debut

How to Train Your Dragon remained perched at the top of the box office its second week in theaters, in spite of some tough new competition.

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