1 hour ago Holland review – twisty Nicole Kidman thriller is a disappointing mess

SXSW film festival: Fresh director Mimi Cave delivers an underwhelming follow-up that can’t make the most of its hard-working leading starNicole Kidman is, in general, providing a public service with her seemingly inexhaustible energy. She’s been working consistently with female directors – 19 in the last eight years – while also attempting to rescue the tight domestic thrillers of yore and consistently probing the gap between women’s placid public facades and private turmoil. The quality of Kidman’s performances – and she is almost always delivering something a little weird, a little off and very magnetic – does not indicate the quality of the project, which can range from the provocative (if underwhelming) Babygirl to her personal beach-read cinematic universe of mediocre TV roles.Holland, Kidman’s latest film as a star and producer (under her Blossom Films banner), finds Kidman in a familiar groove: a suburban housewife with secrets and suspicions, beset by paranoia and straining...

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5 h. ago Gang wars erupt in Ayrshire as feuding traveller families filmed in violent clashes

Footage of the shocking scenes were shared on social media.

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41 h. ago Horror in Syria as 'naked women are paraded and shot dead': More than 1,000 killed in just two days as country is gripped by deadly violence between new rulers and Assad loyalists

The violent clashes, which erupted Thursday, are some of the deadliest since Syria's conflict began 14 years ago, and marked a major escalation in the challenge to the new government.

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44 h. ago Horror in Syria as 'naked women are paraded and shot dead': More than 600 are killed in deadly violence between new rulers and Assad loyalists

The violent clashes, which erupted Thursday, are some of the deadliest since Syria's conflict began 14 years ago, and marked a major escalation in the challenge to the new government.

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57 h. ago Streaming: Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and the best haunted house films

The director’s witty supernatural thriller joins Psycho, Hereditary, The Brutalist and more – films in which buildings are characters in their own rightThe first more-or-less horror movie in the lengthy, genre-skimming career of director Steven Soderbergh, Presence is a film about grief, trauma, familial dysfunction and abusive masculinity. But it’s also, to a significant and compelling extent, about property. Beginning with a family’s first viewing of a handsome Victorian home in an unidentified stretch of suburbia, the film never ventures outside its walls for the next 85 minutes, as the ensuing chills make us consider the merits of that purchase. Wittily and unnervingly shot from the perspective of the restless spirit roaming its halls, it’s a haunted house film in which much of the tension feels determined by the shape and flow and light and shade of the house itself. It’s a while since I’ve seen a film where I could quite so exactly draw the floor plan of its primary location, ...

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3 d. ago EasyJet flight chaos as two families brawl over Karate Kid film – forcing emergency landing

One family claim the altercation ‘involved racial abuse, discrimination, and physical assault’

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7 d. ago Revealed: Romanian thugs launched terrifying street brawl as they punched, kicked and attacked police with pieces of wood 'because social workers tried to take two children from a home'

EXCLUSIVE: Violent clashes which saw police 'ambushed' and brutally attacked are believed to have erupted when social services 'tried to take two children from a home'. 

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9 d. ago Bike club in bid to save kids from Fife gang wars begs council for safe place to go

Kingdom Off Road Motorcycle Club has made the plea after a boy was "battered" in Methil last weekend.

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1 week ago Greek police fire tear gas at protesters in Athens amid violent clashes on rail disaster anniversary

Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of cities across Greece on Friday in mass demonstrations against the Government

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1 week ago Kids caught up in Fife gang wars offered safe haven by boxing boss

Bowhill Miners Boxing Club has made the lessons available for youngsters after a boy was "slashed in the face" in Methil on Saturday.

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1 week ago Gang wars erupt in Fife as chilling clip shows boy wielding kitchen knife

The warning comes after a teenage boy was slashed in the face days after posting a video of himself wielding a kitchen knife online.

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3 w. ago The White Lotus opening credits: Every Easter Egg hidden in season three from gang warfare to forbidden romps and murder at sea

The White Lotus is back for its hotly-anticipated third season - but how many clues and Easter Eggs are lurking in the new opening credits?

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