11 h. ago They've got a type! As Kevin Costner's new love's likeness to his estranged wife is revealed, which male stars have dated their ex's doppelgängers

Kevin Costner's new romance has got tongues wagging - for a very intriguing reason.

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24 h. ago Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, surprise winner of Venice Golden Lion

The Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing account of a Palestinian child’s death in Gaza, won the runner-up Silver LionUS indie director Jim Jarmusch unexpectedly won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice film festival on Saturday with Father Mother Sister Brother, a three-part meditation on the uneasy tie between parents and their adult children.Although his gentle comedy received largely positive reviews, it had not been a favourite for the top prize, with many critics instead tipping the Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing true-life account of the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during the Gaza war. In the end, the film directed by Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania took the runner-up Silver Lion. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago EastEnders Autumn storylines from Joel's 'comeuppance' to Lauren and Peter wedding drama

It's set to be another dramatic Autumn in EastEnders as Executive Producer Ben Wadey promises "drama ahead for lots of different families" and a potential Beale wedding

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39 h. ago My cultural awakening: Jackie Chan films inspired me to become a kung fu instructor

Since I saw a VHS of Rush Hour at a sleepover as a kid, the martial art has given me increased body positivity and helped me find a community When I was 12, following my parents’ divorce, I moved with my mum and sister from London to Australia, leaving behind my dad and a large extended family. It was destabilising and demoralising. Throughout high school I was bullied for my accent, clothes and looks. While Australian girls seemed like flowers thriving under the brutal sun, I felt like a sweaty, acne-prone gremlin who craved the dark and cold of home.Shortly after moving, I befriended a girl who had lost her mum. Suffering in our own ways, we found release in watching the 1998 action comedy Rush Hour, starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker as detectives trying to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Chinese diplomat. My friend had the film on VHS, and we put it on one night when I was sleeping over. This became a regular activity, and we would fling ourse...

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5 d. ago She was a fugitive accused of killing a woman in a 2006 car crash. Two decades later, she’s been captured

Leydis Menendez Abdala, 52, faces charges of vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter in connection with the 2006 death of 39-year-old Gloria Marcia Hall

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9 d. ago Execution date set for Florida man who fatally stabbed married couple during 1990 robbery

A Florida man who fatally stabbed a married couple during a robbery is scheduled for execution in Florida under a death warrant signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

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9 d. ago Triple killer put to death in Florida’s record 11th execution this year

Curtis Windom was executed by lethal injection

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9 d. ago Florida monster who killed lover, her mother, and rival executed after decades on death row

Curtis Windom, 59, was sentenced to die for the Nov. 7, 1992, killings of girlfriend Valerie Davis, her mother Mary Lubin, and Johnnie Lee in the Orlando area

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1 week ago Orphan review – László Nemes’ fable of resentment and rage in post

This always interesting film-maker displays impressive technical control in this painful, sombre story about a boy who meets the father he never knewAfter the spiritual ordeal of his Holocaust movie Son of Saul, and his complex, nuanced drama about prewar Budapest, Sunset, Hungarian director László Nemes comes to Venice with a valuable, interesting picture: another painful, sombre story from 20th-century central Europe composed in his familiar sepia visual palette, and executed with impressive technical control.Set in the aftermath of Hungary’s failed uprising against its Soviet masters, it is a story about sons rebelling against fathers, but also about coming to terms with (or having to swallow resentment at) the reality of a new order of power – just as the Hungarian people had to come to terms with Moscow’s rule and with finding their proud spirit of independence stigmatised as quasi-fascist. With no support for their self-determination, Hungarians in 1956 were orphaned by the ti...

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1 week ago White House Farm killer Jeremy Bamber insists he's been 'framed' for murdering his own family as he speaks out from behind bars 40 years on in shocking testimony

Bamber, now 64, killed his adopted parents, sister and two six-year-old nephews at their home in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex in 1985 - but has always maintained that he is innocent of the crime.

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1 week ago Davina McCall admits she was 'terrified of dying' before her brain tumour diagnosis after family loss

Davina revealed that her parents and sister died quite young, but she's no longer terrified of her own death after her benign brain tumour

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1 week ago Killer 'forced man to wear girlfriend's clothes before stabbing her to death'

Arnaldo Cintron, 42, is alleged to have worn a wig belonging to his victim, Hiojaira Velez Bonilla, while forcing her boyfriend to wear her clothes during a "brutal" killing in Tampa, Florida

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1 week ago Unleashed dog kills two dozen newly born sea turtles on Florida beach

The incident at Atlantic Beach in Duval County follows a similar suspected dog attack at Ponte Vedra Beach a few miles away

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1 week ago Florida woman accused of killing husband after dousing him in sulfuric acid

Officers said they could hear the man screaming for help when they arrived, according to local reports

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1 week ago Cruz Beckham and father David send fans wild as family shares Italian getaway snaps

The 20-year-old jetted off on a luxury trip with his parents, brother Romeo, 22, and 14-year-old sister Harper

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2 w. ago Chilling final words from oldest death row inmate seconds before execution

Oscar Frankline Smith, 75, was killed by lethal injection on Thursday, May 22. He had been sentenced to death in July 1990 - after a jury found him guilty of the brutal murders of his estranged wife and her two teenage sons.

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2 w. ago Tycoon slaughters estranged wife and daughter then kills himself at stunning $15m mansion after divorce got nasty

LA Sheriff's Office said all three people were found dead following the apparent murder-suicide in the gated community of Rolling Hills around 10:20am Saturday.

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2 w. ago Hamlet by New York Circus Project review – a flashy, dreamy spin on Shakespeare

Assembly Roxy, EdinburghThere’s a hint of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet in the cocksure, poppy aesthetic of this charismatic display of acrobatics, tumbling and clowningIt wouldn’t be the Edinburgh fringe without at least one new spin on Hamlet. This spunky 60-minute version created by Sam Landa and Emma Owens combines a radically trimmed text with aerial acrobatics, tumbling and clowning. Sensitively delivering Shakespearean verse and executing sophisticated circus requires a niche skill-set; some lines fall flat but Landa and Danielle Diniz’s choreography often deepens a story limited to the personal not the political. The enterprise is executed with panache by a charismatic cast of 10.Who’s there? A ghost in white, twisting and turning to the song Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, later returning to use an aerial pyramid. The show casts Old Hamlet (Arthur Morel Van Hyfte) and Hamlet (Maddox Morfit-Tighe) at a similar age, which movingly emphasises how they see themselves in each oth...

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2 w. ago Rainbow crosswalk outside Florida Pulse nightclub where 49 LGBT+ people were killed is removed overnight on Trump’s orders

DeSantis administration’s removal of memorial crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub is ‘cruel’ and ‘callous,’ Orlando mayor says

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2 w. ago Rainbow crosswalk outside Florida club where 49 LGBT+ people were killed is removed overnight on Trump’s orders

DeSantis administration’s removal of memorial crosswalk outside Pulse nightclub is ‘cruel’ and ‘callous,’ Orlando mayor says

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