53 m. ago Row review – impressive, largely unknown cast keep seagoing horror afloat

A woman washes up on the Orkney island of Hoy, the only survivor of a transatlantic sortie in Matthew Losasso’s debut feature, a twisty if murky chillerWater, like the human psyche, is unpredictable and full of beasts lurking in the depths, and so it says a lot about our primal fear of the ocean that boat movies often offer threats either under the surface, in the shape of sharks, or psychosis or both. With Row, a smattering of startling jump cuts showing blood splashed around a boat and flashbacks of the protagonist Megan (Bella Dayne, very impressive) screaming, but the viewer needs to wait out a somewhat unreasonably long running time to find out if the antagonists here are biting fish or knife-wielding killers.All we know at first is that Megan is the only survivor of an attempt to break the record for rowing across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to the UK with four crew members, two men and two women. Having washed up on the Orkney island of Hoy, Megan spends most of the film’s...

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60 m. ago Jamie Carragher shares bold theory on why Man Utd haven't sacked Ruben Amorim

Ruben Amorim remains in charge at Manchester United despite a horror set of results with Jamie Carragher claiming his good looks have helped keep him in a job

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84 m. ago Outrage after newborns bitten by rats at top hospital in ‘cleanest Indian city’

Surveillance footage shows rat jumping around in neonatal care unit

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88 m. ago Putin accuses Europe of spreading 'hysterical horror stories' about a Russian invasion after France and Germany warned of possible attack

Vladimir Putin has today accused Europe of spreading 'hysteria' and 'horror stories', after France and Germany warned of a possible Russian attack.

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1 hour ago Renters’ Rights Bill: key changes for London landlords and tenants

The Renters’ Rights Bill will bring the biggest shake-up to private renting in a generation. Here’s what landlords and tenants need to know

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2 h. ago Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson baffles fans as he ‘looks like Gregg Wallace’ in slim snaps

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's dramatic weight loss left fans baffled, with many joking the Hollywood star now looks more like MasterChef host Gregg Wallace than a wrestler

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2 h. ago Above the Knee review – man struggles with body integrity dysmorphia in gory amputation horror

A man grapples with an overwhelming desire to remove his leg in a lingering psychological interrogation from Norwegian film-maker Viljar BøeNorwegian director Viljar Bøe has been hacking out an interesting niche for himself in the horror genre, specialising in a variety grounded more in psychology than supernatural jiggery pokery. For example, Good Boy from 2022 revolved around a man and his “dog” (who is obviously a guy in a dog costume) acting like a mutt at all times. Similarly, his new feature features a character called Amir (Freddy Singh) with a psychological fixation that’s so unusual he feels he must keep it a secret from his girlfriend and all acquaintances: he has body integrity dysphoria (BID), which in his case means he has an overwhelming desire to amputate his left leg even though there’s nothing physically wrong with it.Amir lives with his super-nice, cheerful girlfriend Kim (Julie Abrahamsen) in hyper-tolerant, Scandi-socialist quasi-utopia Norway, so when he drunken...

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2 h. ago Trump trolls Biden with plans for ‘very controversial’ new White House portrait of the former president

President Trump says the painting will be unveiled in two weeks as part of his new ‘Presidential Wall of Fame’

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2 h. ago Girl, 16, shot dead at sleepover while brushing friend's hair in horror drive

Traelynn Sibley, 16, was shot dead in a drive-by shooting at a Kansas City home on August 9, in what prosecutors say was a case of fatal mistaken identity that has left a community in shock

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3 h. ago Dad, 62, shredded and killed 'instantly' by boat propeller as son watched on in horror

A sudden gust of wind is thought to have swung the sailboat’s boom into Andrea Bruglia’s head, knocking him out cold and sending him plunging into the sea off Ancona’s Marina Dorica, Italy

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3 h. ago Saleswoman's home improvements firm colleagues placed bets on which of them would sleep with her first, tribunals hears

Molly Craigie had only just joined Anglian Home Improvements, when the disturbing office 'wager' was allegedly made.

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3 h. ago Man's nighttime toilet trip horror as he finds snake lurking in dark

The man was given a major shock when he paid a visit to the loo in the middle of the night only to discover he wasn't the only one in the bathroom

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3 h. ago ‘Clearly the worst film ever made by anyone ever’: the story behind John Boorman’s horrific Exorcist sequel

After landmark flop The Heretic, the director was considering ‘immolating myself on Hollywood Boulevard’ in 1977. But a new documentary premiering at Venice calls for its redemption‘Evokes not terror but laughter.” “A movie for morons, a total cheesy rip-off that makes not one minute of coherent sense.” “The stupidest major movie ever made.” These were some of the milder responses from reviewers to Exorcist II: The Heretic, one of the most notorious disasters in Hollywood history, on its release in 1977. Its director, John Boorman, says he felt utterly humiliated and close to despair. “I considered my choices. The first was to commit suicide. The second was to defect to Russia,” the chastened director told one interviewer. He asked another if he could atone for his film by “immolating myself on Hollywood Boulevard”.What was the problem? Audiences had, most likely, been looking for shock and horror, revolving heads and vomit, but Boorman gave them metaphysics and surrealism instead –...

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3 h. ago 'I slept in comfy granny pants but ended up in hospital with agonising injury'

Kaela Tucker went to bed one night wearing a pair of 'granny pants' she'd worn '100 times before' - but within days she was in hospital experiencing 'excruciating pain'

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4 h. ago Tainted love: how Ukrainians are ridding themselves of Russian

Putin’s invasion has seen Ukrainian book lovers recoil from Russian literary dominance, by a range of meansOne day this summer, the Ukrainian artist Stanislav Turina took two of his books to his garden near Kyiv. One was a volume of poems by Alexander Pushkin.But Turina – a voracious reader, never without a couple of books in his backpack – had no plans to pick it up again. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago EastEnders' Zoe Slater star addresses 'struggles' with character ahead of soap comeback

Michelle Ryan's Zoe Slater will be reuniting with her mother Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) two decades after her explosive EastEnders exit

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4 h. ago Teen's inspiring musical legacy after Manchester Arena horror

Eilidh MacLeod died in the terrorist bombing aged just 14

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5 h. ago Art and politics are not the same thing – but the Anna Netrebko case shows what happens when they collide | Martin Kettle

The arts and politics are bound to mix, but they are not the same thing. In the cold war, Soviet artists performed in the west. Should the Russian soprano, who has condemned the Ukraine invasion, be blocked from singing in London?It is one of my very earliest concert memories. In October 1965, my father drove us to Manchester to hear Mstislav Rostropovich play in the Free Trade Hall. Rostropovich played Dvořák’s cello concerto with the Moscow Philharmonic, who began the concert with a symphony by Tikhon Khrennikov and ended it with one by Brahms. I was smitten by Rostropovich’s noble playing. I had never heard a musician like him before.This was, though, a concert taking place slap-bang in the middle of the cold war. The Cuban missile crisis had taken place less than three years earlier. The Berlin Wall was still fairly new. The Vietnam war was deepening. That summer I had read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The movie version of Le Carré’s novel, with Richard Burton, was due out...

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5 h. ago Romeo Beckham confuses fans as he appears completely 'naked' in snap with dad David

Victoria Beckham treated fans to an album full of glorious snaps from her summer with her family, but one photos in particular left followers scratching their heads

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6 h. ago Horror landslide wipes out entire village killing more than 1,000 people

A landslide wiped out a village in Sudan's western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country's recent history

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