5 d. ago Echo of You review – expressive documentary hears from grieving life partners

Zara Zerny’s lucid and compassionate study gathers moving, candid interviews with bereaved partners remembering their lost loves The Marvel bromide about “What is grief, if not love persevering?” comes to mind watching this metaphysically charged Danish documentary in which nine senior citizens discuss their departed life partners. Director Zara Zerny works hard in defining the miracle of lifelong companionship, and the ineffable essence of that significant other which persists after death. So much so that, in one final, oddly encouraging section, some of the interviewees here suggest that their loved one still watches over them, Patrick Swayze-style.Awkward beginnings and lovestruck thunderclaps: it’s all here. Finn-Erik recalls his first sighting of Kirsten as a 17-year-old with ballet-dancer grace. Ove was rescued from a hotel-room orgy with multiple Norwegians by strapping six-footer Bent, who tells him: “You’re coming home with me.” Then there’s Elly, the trauma of whose first ...

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1 week ago Make It to Munich review – uplifting story of a young footballer cycling to recovery

Touching film recounts the teenage Scottish player Ethan Walker’s 745-mile pilgrimage to the Euros and his comeback from a devastating accidentThis is an uplifting film about a miracle of ordinary life: the lightning-fast recovery of the teenage Scottish footballer Ethan Walker after being hit by a car, and the 745 mile (1,200km) bike ride he undertook from Hampden Park, Glasgow, to Munich just nine months after the accident to deliver the match pennant for the opening game of Euro 2024.Walker – on a football scholarship in New York when he was struck at 60mph – suffered cataclysmic injuries, including two brain haemorrhages, multiple fractures, the dislocation of his right knee and a lacerated lung. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ocean with David Attenborough on Disney+ review: a glorious, soul

Now 99, the veteran broadcaster’s message has never been more potent – or important

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2 w. ago Seeking Mavis Beacon review – tracking a Black female tech icon, who didn’t exist

Documentary investigates the whereabouts of the model who played an influential corporate character, as well as the relationship between race and technologyBack when computers were still new, Mavis Beacon was an icon for generations of children learning IT skills. Her name, along with the accompanying image of a smiling, suited Black woman, graced countless editions of some popular software that taught typing through interactive lessons and games. For Black students, to see someone who looked like them in a position of authority and knowledge, inspired assurance and aspiration. Mavis Beacon, however, did not exist; she was a fictional character represented by a photograph of Renée L’Espérance, a Haitian model whose story is now lost to history. Eager to reclaim her legacy, film-maker Jazmin Jones and collaborator Olivia McKayla Ross embarked on a years-long quest to track down the woman behind the image.The resulting documentary is anything but conventional. Describing themselves as...

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4 w. ago TODAY'S TV WITH SARA WALLIS: Freddie Flintoff shares harrowing injuries that left him unable to leave house for 6 months

Freddie Flintoff opens up about his life-changing Top Gear crash in his new Disney+ documentary Flintoff, while Beyond Paradise continues on BBC One with gueststar Caroline Quentin

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4 w. ago Flintoff documentary leaves fans 'crying so much' over terrifying Top Gear crash

Fans were left intensely emotional during Disney+'s new documentary detailing Freddie Flintoff's near-fatal crash

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4 w. ago Freddie Flintoff recalls young son’s heartbreaking reaction after horror Top Gear crash

Freddie Flintoff has recalled his youngest son’s heartbreaking reaction to his injuries following his horror Top Gear crash.

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4 w. ago Flintoff review – so traumatised he can’t even speak to his ex

The story of the former cricket prodigy and car crash survivor Freddie Flintoff is fascinating but this documentary shows he has such extreme PTSD that he keeps slamming the shutters downFreddie Flintoff is numb. As the 98-minute Disney+ documentary Flintoff begins, we find its subject sitting in a hospital room. He can’t feel his lip, the one that was torn from his face in a nightmarish car accident on the Top Gear track in 2022. But more than that, he is mentally checked out. As one doctor after another tells him that he is recovering well and looking good, he stares at the ground dejectedly. He just wants everyone to stop sugarcoating everything and tell him the truth, he says. What he wants to hear is that he looks like “a fucking mess”.Flintoff was designed as the big unveiling of the new, post-accident Freddie Flintoff. His days as a cricketing prodigy are over and so, it seems, are his days as a permanent light entertainment fixture. He is older, slower and more reflective. H...

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4 w. ago Flintoff on Disney+ review: this documentary spares no grisly detail

The former England cricketer is an engaging and likeable presence in this exhaustively detailed retelling of his life

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4 w. ago Loose Women star halts show for emotional Freddie Flintoff message

Loose Women's Jane Moore sent a moving message to Freddie Flintoff's wife Rachael ahead of the cricket star's Disney+ documentary which details his horrific crash

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4 w. ago Freddie Flintoff's injuries were most 'complex' medics had ever seen 

Freddie Flintoff has opened up in new Disney+ documentary set to air tomorrow on Thursday April 24, which has given fans a glimpse into his recovery following the horror Top Gear crash in 2022

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4 w. ago Freddie Flintoff barely speaks to Paddy McGuinness since BBC Top Gear crash in sad admission

Flintoff has revealed all in a no-holds-barred new Disney+ documentary

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4 w. ago When Freddie Flintoff's documentary covering car crash is on TV and where to watch it

Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff documents the recovery from his tragic crash in a new feature-length film, which hears from close friends including Jack Whitehall and James Corden

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4 w. ago Jack Whitehall reveals he battled bulimia when starting out in television as he hails 'incredibly brave' Andrew Flintoff in new Disney documentary

Whitehall admitted the 'pressures' of the industry led to his battle and it was something he kept quiet about until his good friend Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff publicly shared his own personal struggles.

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last month Andrew Flintoff reveals lowest moments following Top Gear car crash admitting ‘I wish I’d died’

Flintoff tells the story in a documentary on Disney+.

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