30 h. ago Netflix now streaming 'unbelievable' war film based on true story

Operation Mincemeat was first released in 2021 but it is only now that fans are coming to know the film is based on the real-life events of the successful British operation

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41 h. ago Florence Pugh swaps fashionista status for Guinness World Record holder after performing terrifying skyscraper stunt for latest movie

Speaking to Harper's Bazaar the British star revealed she landed her latest accolade after the film saw her jump off the world's second-tallest building - Malaysia 's 2,227ft Merdeka 118.

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56 h. ago ‘Beautifully, awfully funny’: why Withnail and I is my feelgood movie

The latest in our ongoing series of comfort movies is a pick for Bruce Robinson’s cult British comedyIn the words of its writer and director, Withnail and I is a comedy that “doesn’t know it’s funny”. To its star, it’s about “the nobility of failure”. It ends with its title character alone in the rain, his one friend gone, delivering a Hamlet soliloquy to an indifferent wolf. It’s my feelgood movie.Bruce Robinson’s British classic was released in 1987. He and Richard E Grant made the remarks above in 2007, at the British Film Institute. I was there, eager to hear Robinson discuss a movie based on his own experience. Themes abide. As he said recently about The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman, his imperishable novel about his brutal childhood: “It’s very funny but also sad as fuck.” Robinson’s first film was a novel before it was a screenplay. At the BFI, he said he knew he’d got his film right at an early screening, when a “girl sort of threw up, laughing”. She had a point. Withna...

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2 d. ago 'Unique and hilarious' Olivia Colman film on Netflix is being removed very soon

One of the most popular British films on Netflix is set to be removed from the streaming service in just over a week

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6 d. ago Cristiano Ronaldo announces shock career move as Man Utd legend ventures into 'new chapter'

The Manchester United and Portugal legend has joined forces with British filmmaker Matthew Vaughn as the pair prepare to launch a new film studio together

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6 d. ago 'Haunting' war movie leaves Netflix viewers in 'stunned silence'

The British war film, 1917, directed by Sam Mendes, was a huge success when it was released in 2019, and now it's making its way up the Netflix rankings as fans rave about it

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6 d. ago Star Wars original cut to be screened for the first time in decades

The sci-fi blockbuster will be shown as part of the British Film Institute’s Film on Film festival.

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6 d. ago Bruce Springsteen claims he 'had PTSD' after playing first UK gig 50 years ago

New BBC film to mark the anniversary of The Boss's first British gig in 1975 reveals his deep dismay over a 'terrible' UK debut but also how much he loved our country and the fans

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8 d. ago What They Found review – Sam Mendes’s debut documentary has the power to change viewers for ever

This tale of two British army sergeants who filmed the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp uses their profoundly disturbing footage. It’s TV that could alter your whole world viewWhat They Found, the first documentary by the film and theatre director Sam Mendes, is a short, stark shock. The film straightforwardly combines two precious artefacts held at the Imperial War Museum in London: 35mm film, shot by Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit, before and during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near the town of Celle in northern Germany in April 1945; and audio interviews given by the cameramen in the 1980s. Lewis and Lawrie did not record sound when they visited Belsen; the words they spoke years later are the only sounds we hear.Lewis and Lawrie do not arrive at Belsen until almost halfway through the film’s 36-minute running time. First, laid over generic archive footage, we hear how they came to be a...

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9 d. ago ANOTHER iconic BBC show is slapped with 'discriminatory' trigger warnings

The British Board of Film Classification warned the show contained 'verbal references to discrimination and the discriminatory social structure of an alien society'.

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9 d. ago Like it or not, Kevin & Perry Go Large was proud British cinema – now it’s all but gone

Twenty-five years ago, Harry Enfield and Kathy Burke played libidinous teenage monsters in one of the most successful Britflicks in UK box office history. Since then, the British film industry has become crisis-stricken and largely Americanised, writes Adam White. Where did all the local stories go?

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1 week ago Forgotten fashions: rediscovered slides show off everyday flair from the Fifties and beyond

The latest book from artist Lee Shulman, who has created the world’s largest private collection of amateur colour transparencies, has an often startling sartorial focusIt started with an impulsive eBay purchase. When Lee Shulman received the box of vintage slides he had bought from an anonymous seller, the British visual artist and film-maker could not believe the treasure he had accidentally uncovered. Beyond the impeccable quality of each image, taken in the 1950s by unnamed photographers, these were glimpses at everyday moments from everyday lives long since lost. Birthdays, family gatherings, holidays, parties, graduations – once cherished memories lovingly captured but now forgotten.Bought in 2017, that box was the catalyst for what Shulman refers to as a “complete obsession”. More than 1m slides, 14 publications and a dozen international exhibitions later, The Anonymous Project has grown into a global endeavour and the 51-year-old’s life’s work. This ever-expanding archive of ...

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1 week ago Inside White Lotus island as Mirror reveals dark side of resort targeted by Brit drug traffickers

The vast cannabis farms on Thailand's Koh Samui - where the hit Netflix drama White Lotus was filmed - have sparked a rash of British traffickers arrested for smuggling cannabis

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1 week ago Noel Clarke allegations had ‘high public interest’, Guardian editor tells court

Bafta endorsement could have escalated actor’s allegedly abusive behaviour towards women, Kath Viner saidThe editor-in-chief of the Guardian, Katharine Viner, has told the high court there was a “very high public interest” in reporting allegations made against Noel Clarke after he received a special Bafta award.In a witness statement, Viner said she believed it was conceivable that the actor’s endorsement by the British academy film awards could lead to an escalation of his allegedly abusive behaviour towards women. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Sublime' spy thriller starring Gary Oldman on TV this weekend

The Gary Oldman starrer won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film in 2012.

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2 w. ago Title and release date revealed for fourth Tom Holland Spider

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is set for a July 31 2026 release date, Marvel Studios said.

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2 w. ago Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan confirmed as among four stars of Beatles movies

British actor Harris Dickinson will play John Lennon while Mescal’s Gladiator II co-star Joseph Quinn portrays George Harrison.

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2 w. ago Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan confirmed among four stars of Beatles movies

British actor Harris Dickinson will play John Lennon while Mescal’s Gladiator II co-star Joseph Quinn portrays George Harrison.

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2 w. ago Hollywood star 'quits British film amid claims production has run out of money leaving crew owed £600k in unpaid wages'

The Hollywood actress, 55, was set to star in upcoming drama Angels in the Asylum alongside an all-star cast, with the film being the directorial debut of British director Rob Sorrenti.

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2 w. ago James Bond should not be a woman due to franchise’s ‘profound sexism’, says Helen Mirren

Actor says she is opposed to the possibility of a female 007 and that cinema should focus on telling stories of ‘extraordinary’ real female spiesHelen Mirren has said that James Bond should never be played by a woman, as the spy franchise is “born out of profound sexism”.The future of 007 is currently up in the air, after Amazon MGM Studios struck a $1bn (£770m) deal for creative control over the character with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, the British-American heirs to the film producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and longtime stewards of the Bond films. Continue reading...

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