56 h. ago Materialists review – Dakota Johnson torn between Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans in charming romcom

Johnson plays a matchmaker who has to choose between wealthy new suitor Pascal and broke ex Evans, but the outcome feels a little undramaticSay you are a single woman in New York and you are, in the words of the song, torn between two lovers: two handsome, intelligent, nice guys – one very poor and one very rich. All things being equal, who do you go for? The answer in real life is very different, in fact diametrically opposed, to the answer in a film. Few movie heroines have the candour of Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, who admitted to falling in love with Mr Darcy on seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.But this is the choice, which never quite ascends to the state of a dilemma, in this charming and watchable – yet for me somehow anticlimactic – romantic comedy-drama from South Korean-Canadian film-maker Celine Song: a love-triangle confection to follow the much realer, truer love triangle of Song’s much acclaimed debut Past Lives. When the decision is...

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62 h. ago Netflix adds 'must watch' British TV comedy hailed as 'brilliant' by viewers

The ITV sitcom first streamed on ITV2 with fans already calling for Netflix to make the fifth series available

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4 d. ago Major bank with 2.5million customers making changes to 36 accounts within days

The Co-operative Bank is cutting is making a shocking changes to 36 savings accounts, leaving customers for the worst as they deliver a fresh blow to savers with altered interest rates

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5 d. ago Laughter really is the best medicine as watching comedy before operation cuts pain

Turkish scientists discovered that watching just 25 minutes of TV comedy before an abdominal operation could lessen the pain felt by the patient afterwards

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9 d. ago Prime Video adds ‘perfect heist comedy’ for an easy weekend watch

Fans have said that the casting is a 'dream come true' for new Amazon Prime film

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1 week ago Surgeons forced to finish operation using torches on their mobile phones amid power cut at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, damning report reveals

The central London hospital, which treats 76,000 kids a year, has been blighted by power outages, water leaks, and issues with air filtration systems.

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last month Last of Us star's 'exquisite' period film everyone is watching

Lena Dunham's period film Catherine Called Birdy is taking the world by storm, with viewers flocking to watch the comedy as the budding actor takes centre stage

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