28 h. ago I thought Brandon Williams was Man United's future despite warnings from inside Carrington. Now, he faces jail and a ruined career but it could have been so different, writes IAN HERBERT

IAN HERBERT: I watched Brandon Williams look like Manchester United's future left back of choice in a 2-0 win at Burnley, five years ago. Spatial awareness, box-to-box running - he had so much.

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65 h. ago Forgotten Jason Statham action film with Robert De Niro is airing on TV tonight as new movie wins box

The UK action star is one of the nation's most successful actors

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3 d. ago ‘Their voices had been overlooked for so long’: the shocking hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer

The long and often shocking journey to finding the alleged killer of young women in Long Island is brought to a wider audience in a damning new Netflix seriesThe film-maker Liz Garbus was on vacation in July 2023 when she got the call that an arrest had finally been made in the case of the Long Island serial killer. Since 2010, when the bodies of four women were found along an isolated stretch of highway near Gilgo Beach, authorities had looked for a presumed serial killer with little progress and plenty of consternation. Garbus was one of the most prominent chroniclers of the grassroots effort to force authorities into action; her 2020 feature film Lost Girls, an adaptation of Robert Kolker’s book of the same name, depicted the fight by a group of working-class women to figure out what happened to their loved ones – all women who participated in sex work on Craigslist – with or largely without police help.It was the star of that film, Amy Ryan, who alerted Garbus to the arrest of R...

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5 d. ago One of the best horror movies of all time is airing on TV tonight 

The horror genre has come on leaps and bounds over the last decade

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6 d. ago Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart join cast of Avengers: Doomsday

The movie is due for release on May 1 2026.

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6 d. ago Sir Ian McKellan and Sir Patrick Stewart join cast of Avengers: Doomsday

The movie is due for release on May 1 2026.

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7 d. ago A Working Man review – Jason Statham actioner is far too much work

The reliable bruiser re-teams with director David Ayer for a bland Sylvester Stallone-scripted thriller of fisticuffs and familiarityThe new Jason Statham movie is based on a novel called Levon’s Trade, which is a pretty good title. But A Working Man is a better Jason Statham title, because who’s better, or at least more reliable, at punching in for duty at the genre factory than Stath? Pushing 60, he’s still throwing those punches, sometimes aided by Jackie Chan-like props, and increasingly aided by those old-guy action-movie crutches of firearms and grenades.A Working Man is Statham’s insta-follow-up to his biggest hit in years, 2024’s January-movie ideal The Beekeeper; it’s not a sequel, but it’s also directed by David Ayer, extending his break from cops and gangs to send Statham off to combat some more broadly agreed-upon social ills with vaguely QAnon undertones. Last time, Statham fought back against phone scammers and a conspiracy that led all the way to, well, you know; this...

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7 d. ago Marvel announces Avengers Doomsday is in production and appears to reveal cast

More names are currently being announced.

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7 d. ago Villagers win 'David and Goliath' battle to keep their historic red phone box by lining up to use it

Around 30 locals in Sharrington, Norfolk, queued for hours to increase the number of calls from the K6 kiosk after the telecom giant said it was only used nine times last year.

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7 d. ago One of Emma Thompson's most underrated movies is airing on TV tonight

The actress is one of the UK's most successful exports of all time

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9 d. ago A swan: ‘I have looked upon these brilliant creatures, and now my heart is sore’ | Helen Sullivan

This is my last column in this series. ‘Farewell, all joys!’This morning I learned the word “limn”. It looked at first like a typo, and I almost ignored it. But I pressed on the letters on my phone, which caused its meaning to pop up in a little box, like a window appearing in a wall. To limn is to “depict or describe in painting or words”.I was drinking cold coffee in my kitchen, and preparing to write this column – my last. Because I knew that I would do the swan, a large, long-necked water bird had started gliding around my mind, so it seemed clear that the word limn looks like a swan: the tall l with the tiny flick of a dipped head, and the letters after.I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, And now my heart is sore. All’s changed since I, hearing at twilight, The first time on this shore, The bell-beat of their wings above my head, Trod with a lighter tread.Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue, –the swan’s down-feather, That stands upo...

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2 w. ago Emma Raducanu splits with latest coach after just two weeks and one match

Emma Raducanu announced that she would work with Vladimir 'Vlado' Platenik on a trial basis just 14 days ago - but the Slovakian coach was not in her box for her win in Miami

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2 w. ago The Alto Knights review – double De Niro makes for a laborious true

The actor plays Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, two warring mob bosses in 1950s New York, in a caper that lacks the richness of its writer’s earlier Goodfellas‘They’re the same – he’s marrying himself!” The speaker is an aghast Bobbie Costello, played by Debra Messing, addressing her shruggingly detached mob boss husband, Frank Costello, played by Robert De Niro. They are guests at the wedding of mercurial club owner Anna (Kathrine Narducci) to Frank’s hot-tempered mafia associate Vito Genovese. And Vito is played by Robert De Niro.This film is a laborious true-crime account of Frank and Vito’s homicidal falling out in 1950s New York, directed by Barry Levinson and written by Nicholas Pileggi, though with little of the perspective, light and shade and narrative richness of Pileggi’s earlier scripts. As Vito, De Niro is gloweringly resentful, taciturn, bad-tempered and wears glasses and a hat. As Frank, De Niro is gloweringly resentful, taciturn, slightly less bad-tempered and does...

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2 w. ago BBC star who acted in Robert De Niro film dies at 43 after 'tough' battle

Award-winning actress Emilie Dequenne has died at the age of 43, less than two years after she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, called adrenocortical carcinoma

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2 w. ago 'Perfect' comedy airing on television this weekend and where you can watch for free

"One of the best comedy movies of all time" is airing on television tonight, here's where you can watch the film for free

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2 w. ago Amazon Prime adds Robert Pattinson's 'best performance' fans of Mickey 17 should not ignore

The crime thriller is recommended by fans and critics alike

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2 w. ago Two classic movies starring the late Gene Hackman are on TV tonight

Tributes have been pouring in to the acting legend in the wake of his tragic passing

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2 w. ago One of Leonardo DiCaprio's most romantic movies is airing on TV tonight

Director Baz Luhrmann turned a famous English play on its head with a modern version

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2 w. ago Robert De Niro on the challenges of playing two roles in The Alto Knights

The star appears as two rival mob bosses in the new movie which opens this month.

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3 w. ago How to win free Krispy Kreme donuts for one year this St. Patrick’s Day

Winners will receive one free box of glazed donuts per month from April 2025 to March 2026

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