4 h. ago Erupcja review – Charli xcx gives acting a trial run in shallow friendship drama

Toronto film festival: the star fails to make much of an impression in a slight and unpolished project filmed in Warsaw over the Brat summer of 2024The singer Charli xcx is, by her own admission, a workaholic – no sooner had she released Brat, the most dominant pop album and aesthetic of 2024, than she began work on its sequel, dropped just four months later. Insouciant and party-centric as her image may be, the pop star born Charlotte Aitchison is a sharp student of pop culture; she knows the audience demand for pop stars’ constant reinvention. The next career phase, it seems, is acting, with no less prodigiousness than music; the 33-year-old has seven films in the pipeline as a supporting or lead actor.Charli is neither the full star nor the anchor of Erupcja (Eruption), directed by Pete Ohs, but she will inevitably be the reason most English speakers hear of it. Filmed over a few weeks in Warsaw, Poland, in August 2024, in the heat of Brat summer, Erupcja seems, on paper, like a ...

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5 h. ago First look at Charli xcx acting debut sees fans predicting Oscar success in telling clip

Pop star Charli xcx has been seen in her first acting role as she takes on a number of huge film projects which has left fans all saying the same thing about her future

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9 h. ago Emerald Fennell's first trailer for Wuthering Heights is here and it looks freaky as hell

The first look features erotic bread kneading, bodice ripping and fingering a fish. Emily Brontë fans are on the warpath

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10 h. ago Trans woman feared vigilante violence after Graham Linehan’s social media posts, court told

Father Ted creator on trial accused of harassing transgender activist Sophia Brooks

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11 h. ago Graham Linehan trial: Trans activist threatened police with legal action unless harassment allegations were pursued, court hears

LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest from Westminster Magistrates' Court where Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan stands trial accused of harassing a transgender woman.

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11 h. ago Father Ted creator Linehan called trans activist ‘deeply disturbed sociopath’

The 57-year-old Irish comedy writer is on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court accused of harassing transgender activist Sophia Brooks.

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14 h. ago Graham Linehan 'smashed phone of trans activist he branded a terrorist and an incel'

Linehan denied harassing a trans activist and damaging a mobile phone in a confrontation at an LGB Alliance conference

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15 h. ago Father Ted creator Linehan’s trans activist posts were ‘oppressive’, court told

The Irish comedy writer faces trial accused of harassing transgender activist Sophia Brooks.

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16 h. ago Graham Linehan greeted by supporters as he stands trial accused of harassing trans activist: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest from Westminster Magistrates' Court where Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan stands trial accused of harassing a transgender woman.

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17 h. ago Father Ted creator Linehan arrives at court for trans activist harassment trial

The 57-year-old posed with a sign which said on one side: ‘There’s no such thing as a transgender child.’

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23 h. ago Wuthering Heights trailer FIRST LOOK: Charli XCX fans go wild as she soundtracks Emerald Fennell's raunchy new movie starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

Charli XCX has shared a first look at Emerald Fennell's 'aggressively provocative' upcoming movie Wuthering Heights on Instagram on Wednesday.

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38 h. ago Taylor Swift and Charli XCX tours help drive record year for UK live music

Total consumer spending on the sector reached £6.7 billion in 2024, industry body Live said.

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59 h. ago Gerard Depardieu will stand trial for 'raping actress Charlotte Arnould at his home'

Charlotte Arnould first accused Depardieu of rape in 2018, saying the assaults occurred in his Paris home on two separate occasions when she was in her early 20s.

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60 h. ago Gerard Depardieu to face trial for alleged rape of fellow actor

It comes after he was convicted of sexual assault in a separate case in May

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60 h. ago Depardieu to stand trial over alleged rape and sexual assault of fellow actor

Judge orders case to be heard against French film star after allegations made by Charlotte Arnould about 2018 incidentsThe French actor Gérard Depardieu has been ordered to stand trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting the actor Charlotte Arnould at his Paris home in 2018.Depardieu, France’s biggest film star, has been under investigation in the case since 2020. A trial date has not yet been set. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Gérard Depardieu to face trial in Paris over rape and sexual assault allegations

French actor Gérard Depardieu has been summoned to trial in Paris over allegations of rape and sexual assault against actor Charlotte Arnould

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5 d. ago AG Cook review – the hyperpop auteur delivers a thrilling Brooklyn show

Brooklyn Paramount, New YorkThe super-producer, whose big name collaborators include Charli xcx and Beyoncé, goes maximalist for a euphoric, high-energy Friday-night triumphEveryone is trying to out-scream and out-diva each other at AG Cook’s sold-out Brooklyn Paramount show. Midway through his Friday-night DJ set for his Britpop 25 tour, the producer and moptopped dungeon master of the hyperpop universe has put on his Von Dutch remix, a standout single from last summer’s Brat invasion that brings pop princesses Charli xcx and Addison Rae together for some prima donna repartee atop a distorted, industrial production. When the bridge’s thumping hydraulic bass drops and opens up its warped wormhole of sound, the packed room suddenly fills with skilled (too skilled) impressions of Rae’s piercing six-second shriek. Cook, who has been bopping behind the DJ booth up until now, collapses to his knees at the center of the stage, bowled over by the sheer energy in the room.Such are the deman...

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6 d. ago Nova Twins: Parasites & Butterflies review – fearless rock duo balance anthems and introspection

(Marshall)Trailblazers Amy Love and Georgia South push the boundaries of their trademark hybrid rock sound while confronting mental health and naysayersNova Twins’ 2022 album Supernova received Brit nominations and the first ever Mercury prize shortlisting for a Black rock band, and earned singer/guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South fans in Rage Against the Machine and Elton John. Their third album packs more of the trademark hybrid of rock, metal, punk and hip-hop that elbowed them to the front of a still male-dominated genre, but pushes at their boundaries and tiptoes towards pop.Working with Foo Fighters/Charli xcx producer Rich Costey and a supporting cast including former Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin and (via their first use of sampling) Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat, the sound is bigger and more blatantly anthemic. Soprano playfully flirts with sugary harmonies and semi-operatic pop. Hummingbird – a kaleidoscopic collage of multi-layered vocals, unusual guitar proc...

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7 d. ago Charli xcx and Emma Corrin’s ‘100 Nights of Hero’ to Close BFI London Film Festival

Charli xcx and Emma Corrin’s ‘100 Nights of Hero’ to Close BFI London Film Festival  The Hollywood Reporter

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7 d. ago Julia Jackman’s ‘100 Nights Of Hero’ Starring Charli XCX To Close London Film Festival

Julia Jackman’s ‘100 Nights Of Hero’ Starring Charli XCX To Close London Film Festival  Deadline

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