92 m. ago It’s time for America to remember how dangerous regime change is | Christopher Chivvis

For a superpower, toppling foreign governments is not so hard to do. Getting the outcome you want isThe ceasefire between Iran and Israel might still hold, but if not, the United States might double down on its weekend strikes and seek the overthrow of the Iranian regime. Donald Trump threatened this in comments and tweets earlier, and top officials such as Marco Rubio have said they wouldn’t mind it if it happened. Israeli leaders are openly in favor. If the US goes down this road, it will not be for the first time.In the last 80 years, Washington has overthrown many regimes. For a superpower, toppling foreign governments is not so hard to do. Getting the outcome you want is. This makes regime change as dangerous as it is seductive, as past US attempts clearly show. Continue reading...

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92 m. ago 'Most realistic' war film leaves fans 'unable to breathe' in 'painful' watch

Oliver Stone's 1986 war film has been hailed as one of the greatest war movies of all time

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92 m. ago 'Perfect' movie with 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes has fans 'hearts racing'

The First Slam Dunk is a Japanese sports film that was first released in 2022

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2 h. ago Iconic vest featured in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off sells for staggering sum at auction

Clothing item worn by Matthew Broderick’s character Ferris sold for more than £200,000

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2 h. ago Who will be the next James Bond? Top contenders to replace Daniel Craig revealed

Reports suggest that 007 will undergo a significant transformation, taking the character back several decades

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3 h. ago The return of the soundtrack: how original movie music made a comeback

Big summer bets such as F1 and The Smurfs are using stars like Rihanna and Tate McRae to appeal to a wider audiencePosters for the Brad Pitt Formula One race car drama advertise it, with a heavy dose of cheese, as F1 the Movie. But maybe the Spaceballs-like distinction is necessary, given the existence of F1 the Album, a soundtrack nearly as starry as the movie it accompanies. Maybe starrier: Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon and Shea Whigham probably can’t overpower the combination of Don Toliver, Doja Cat, Tate McRae, Ed Sheeran, Rosé, Dom Dolla and Chris Stapleton. This isn’t the only recent compilation to bring back the very early-to-mid-2000s moniker of “the Album”; Twisters: the Album, a 29-track country compilation, reached the Billboard top 10 in the US last summer. Rihanna, a massive pop star who hasn’t released an album in almost a decade, put out her first new song in ages on a little record called Smurfs Movie Soundtrack (Music From & Inspired By). (She plays Sm...

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3 h. ago F1 movie release date: Blockbuster film starring Brad Pitt drops in cinemas

The film, where Pitt plays a lead role as a former driver returning to F1, will be shown worldwide in June

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3 h. ago Spain heatwave warning issued with some parts of country 'likely to exceed 42C'

A body of hot air is moving in from the African continent bringing scorching temperatures to mainland Spain

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4 h. ago I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà review – makes most fiction feel timid

This Catalonian tale of a botched pact with the devil has the demonic excess of a Hieronymus Bosch paintingMargarida is trapped in Mas Clavell, a farmhouse in the Catalonian mountains, with Bernadeta. Bernadeta is dying in an annoying way, with “deep, raspy snores”. Margarida herself has been dead for some time. Rather than ascend to heaven, she has been “dragged downstairs by the ghastly, insufferable women of the house”. Irene Solà’s teeming third novel, I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness, follows these women, both dead and alive, as they prepare for a party. They cook and scrub, tell stories and make fart jokes. The novel begins at dawn and ends at night, but the historical era jumps around without warning. Now the viceroy’s men are arriving on horseback. Now a teenager is calling everyone a “dumbass”. Now local women are fleeing from Nazi soldiers. Characters shape-shift as much as the timeline. A he-goat becomes a bull, then a cat, then “an unusually long, skinny ma...

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5 h. ago Simpsons fans react in shock after show ‘kills off’ one of its main characters

A flash forward reveals the death of Simpsons matriarch Marge Simpson – who ‘passed before Homer, if you can believe it’

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5 h. ago Who is Denis Villeneuve? Amazon MGM name director for next James Bond film

Canadian director Denis Villeneuve, known for Dune, is set to direct the next James Bond movie

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5 h. ago ‘We thought hippies would throw mud at us’: Billy Bragg, Kate Nash and other stars on their Glastonbury debuts

Every artist dreams of playing the world’s greatest festival, but what’s it actually like? Artists returning this year, including Fatboy Slim and Self Esteem, look back at their first showsYou can tell it’s 1984 by my shirt. I’d just played the Jobs for a Change festival, in the middle of London, easy to get to by tube. But Glastonbury was like being on an island. You had to deal with the weather, the food and the toilets. It was also mainly populated by Bristolians. I performed once solo, but also got up on the Pyramid stage with [country and western singer] Hank Wangford to do (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66. The original Pyramid was made from corrugated iron and doubled as a cowshed. I remember it being swampy backstage. There were no bars, you had to bring in your own beer. Keith Allen and [Scottish poet] Jock Scott blagged their way in, pretending to be a Belgian film crew, and sold cans of Red Stripe for 50p. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago The Bear season four review – finally becoming the show it was always destined to be

It’s outgrown the ‘Yes chef’ rages and screaming matches in the pantry and morphed into something more tender, beautiful – and endlessly moving. Let the happy tears flowRecalibrate your palate: The Bear is not the show it used to be. The relentless drama you were stunned by in season two – when you finished an episode and said it was the best show you had ever seen, then played the next one and said it again – is not coming back.Season four starts with Uncle Jimmy (Oliver Platt), the family friend who has invested in the fledgling Chicago eaterie The Bear, installing a countdown clock that says the business has 1,440 hours to save itself. But much of the new run isn’t even about the restaurant. The show is outgrowing its premise, leaving behind “yes, chef!”, lingering closeups of seared beef and screaming matches in the pantry in favour of a different intensity, one that draws even more deeply on the characters and how they fit together. Indulge it – and you will have to indulge it,...

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6 h. ago What Dakota Johnson got WRONG in Materialists as The Millionaire Matchmaker weighs in on 'dark side of dating'

Dakota Johnson's character in Materialists seems to have it all, elite NYC clients and two dreamy suitors, but real matchmakers say the gig is far more complicated.

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7 h. ago Denis Villeneuve to direct next James Bond film, studio announces

‘I’m a die-hard Bond fan. To me, he’s sacred territory,’ says filmmaker

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9 h. ago Meet Wrexham's main characters as Ryan Reynolds prepares for Championship campaign

Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought the Welsh club in February 2021 and Wrexham have since become the first team in the top five tiers of the English game to win three successive promotions

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13 h. ago Matthew Broderick's iconic Ferris Bueller's Day Off vest sells for eye

Inasmuch as the movie was set over the course of one day, the vest was featured throughout its runtime, becoming indelibly fixed in fans' memories.

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14 h. ago King Charles to welcome Trump at Windsor Castle as state visit brought forward

Kier Starmer has reportedly gone against the King's wishes by moving Trump's 'bells and whistles' state visit amid tension over the US president's controversial comments on Canada

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15 h. ago Why M3GAN 2.0 could be the biggest FLOP of the year as scathing reviews pour in for horror sequel

It was one of the most anticipated and heavily marketed movies of the year, but M3GAN 2.0 is now shaping up to be 2025's biggest flop.

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15 h. ago Brad Pitt got to drive real McLaren F1 car as new movie hits cinemas

The Hollywood star plays Formula One driver Sonny Hayes in F1: The Movie.

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