3 h. ago Inside Meghan Markle’s rented £5m reality TV mansion where Netflix show With Love was filmed

The Duchess of Sussex’s new series With Love, Meghan has now launched

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4 h. ago Inside Meghan Markle's £5m rented reality TV mansion: The sprawling Montecito mansion serving as backdrop for duchess's new cookery show that has kitchen fitted with £15k cooker and £600 pans

When Meghan Markle announced her much-anticipated Netflix cooking show, With Love, Meghan, she promised viewers an intimate 'at home with Meghan' experience.

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20 h. ago Dune 2 snubbed: why do the Oscars hate films that audiences love?

The very best film of the year was snubbed on Oscars night, apparently because it was just too damn popular

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24 h. ago With Love, Meghan: inside the Montecito home used to film the Duchess of Sussex's new series

We take a look inside the chic farmhouse in five acres of sprawling Santa Barbara countryside

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51 h. ago The Sound of Music at 60: a flawed but enduring cultural touchpoint

The 1965 musical has its faults but it remains a deserving and enduring point of reference for so many of usMany of the formative films of my childhood come with crisp sense memories of the first time I saw them: precisely what cinema or whose couch, the time of day and the weather outside, who I was watching with, my in-the-moment reactions to what delights or shocks the film threw at me.The Sound of Music, however, is an exception. Robert Wise’s swirling, swollen 1965 film version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical has been a personal favourite since long before I ever thought to list personal favourites – a seasonal staple, a constant generator of unprompted earworms, a point of good-natured familial conflict between those who love it and those who merely pretend not to, a film so laden with short-cut iconography that it rushes quickly to mind when I see a certain shade of upholstery, a particular bob haircut or even a passing nun. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago A Cruel Love star Lucy Boynton struggled to 'switch off' as she filmed harrowing Ruth Ellis drama

Actress Lucy Boynton appeared on BBC's The One Show on Thursday where she spoke about the upcoming ITV drama in which she portrays the last woman to be executed in Britain

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9 d. ago Meghan Markle counters 'demanding' label with generous gestures on Netflix set amidst Trump's criticism

An insider has given a glimpse into what Meghan Markle is really like off-camera, after she was branded as "demanding" while filming for her new Netflix show With Love

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9 d. ago Norwegian drama 'Dreams (Sex Love)' takes top prize at the Berlin Film Festival

A Norwegian film about love, desire and self-discovery won top honors at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday

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1 week ago Drømmer (Dreams) review – teen’s high romantic hopes throw adults into disarray

When Johanne, at 17, writes a memoir about her passion for teacher Johanna, the precocious result rattles three generationsHere is the third in a playful trilogy from Norwegian novelist and film-maker Dag Johan Haugerud (after Sex and Love, which appeared last year at Berlin and Venice respectively). This one is a sly, garrulous, mischievous piece with something of Lukas Moodysson’s early film Show Me Love; it saunters lightly and entertainingly along, breaking all the screenplay-seminar rules against voiceovers (of which it has lengthy stretches but it never feels oppressive). I can imagine two different sorts of US English-language remake: one which ramps up the wry indie comedy, and another which transfers the emphasis to a dead-serious generational family drama. Neither would have this insouciant flavour.The setting is Oslo and Ella Øverbye plays Johanne, a 17-year-old at high school who is dissatisfied with her life; she lives with single mum Kristin (Ane Dahl Torp) and is also...

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