5 h. ago ‘I knew my job was to fulfil a man’s fantasy’: Elizabeth McGovern on Downton, early fame and co

As the Downton Abbey finale hits the big screen, the actor looks back on the pitfalls of scoring huge success so young – and the liberation she later found singing in a band and writing a play about Ava GardnerFor the maudlin among us, the final Downton Abbey film should perhaps come with a warning. Everything in it is tinged with wistfulness – a goodbye to cherished characters and a farewell to a stately home that was a sturdy presence in a transient world. When the ITV series started in 2010, wasn’t life better? Did Elizabeth McGovern feel this too, the sense of time passing? After all, her character, Cora, is now ageing out of custodianship of Downton along with her husband, Lord Grantham, in favour of a younger generation and a changing era as the 1930s dawn.“No!” says McGovern, snapping me out of my melancholy. “I feel very excited that I’m going into a gratifying new phase in my career.” As well as reviving Cora, there is the play she has written, Ava: The Secret Conversations...

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39 h. ago Why we’re all obsessed with Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson’s love story

‘The Naked Gun’ director appears to have confirmed the rumoured romance between his two leads, calling them ‘little dirty flirts’. In a world full of pain and darkness, this is one piece of delightful celebrity gossip we could all use right now, says Helen Coffey

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45 h. ago Emmerdale star shares all on new Robron love scene as couple's future 'revealed'

Robert Sugden is back on Emmerdale and is desperate to bring down killer John Sugden - but there's a certain distraction in the form of Aaron Dingle to deal with first

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46 h. ago Gaza latest: Netanyahu orders military to speed up occupation plan as funeral held for five journalists killed

Gaza residents reported heavy shelling east of Gaza City as Israel faces criticism for the death of six journalists

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56 h. ago New War of the Worlds film named one of the 100 worst movies ever

The film achieved a zero per cent score on the review aggregator site

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3 d. ago ‘The dream came true’: Major League Baseball gets its first female umpire

Jen Pawol, 48, was given an ovation when she took to the pitch for a game between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta BravesIt was, she said, the day “the dream came true”. Jen Pawol, a 48-year-old former art teacher, made US sporting history at the weekend when she became the first female umpire of a Major League Baseball game during the regular season.Pawol, whose debut came on Saturday in a game between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves, was given a standing ovation as she arrived on the pitch. Supporters held up signs reading “Pawol making HERstory” and “the time has come for one and all to play ball” – a nostalgic reference to A League of Their Own, the classic sports film about a women’s baseball league during the second world war. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Liam Neeson doesn’t expect The Naked Gun to get a sequel: ‘I think it’s a one

The comedy has received rave reviews from critics and audiences alike

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3 d. ago National Indigenous Music awards 2025: Emily Wurramara wins artist of the year

Warnindhilyagwa singer also wins film clip of the year, while Malyangapa Barkindji rapper Barkaa wins album of the yearGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailEmily Wurramara expressed solidarity with the people of Palestine and “all Indigenous peoples around the world” experiencing oppression as she accepted the artist of the year award at the 21st National Indigenous Music awards at the Nimas in Garramilla/Darwin on Saturday night.“There’s nothing like coming back home and being here and playing for mob and playing for the people,” the Garramilla-born Warnindhilyagwa singer said. “Because the music is about the people. The music is freedom. Free Palestine, free Congo and free all Indigenous peoples around the world from their oppressors. It always was, always will be Indigenous land.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Mektoub My Love: Canto Due review – gobsmackingly weird series drops another surreal sex shocker

Locarno film festivalBlue Is the Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest erotic melodrama delivers another heady dose of flirting, farce and bafflementSo here it is – the third but, incredibly, perhaps not the final episode in the most bizarre arthouse franchise in film history, and which, for its sheer melodramatic ker-aziness it commands attention. So, as it were, previously on Mektoub My Love The first film in the series from Tunisian-French director Abdellatif Kechiche, who had won the Cannes Palme d’Or for Blue Is the Warmest Colour (for which he was famously required to share the award with his two acting leads Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux), arrived in 2017. This first MML (called Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno) turned out to be an epic erotic summer romance set in the early 90s about a guy called Amin (Shaïn Boumedine) who comes back from Paris to his hometown of Sète, having abandoned his medical studies to follow his dream of being a screenwriter, and finds ...

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6 d. ago Liam Neeson left heartbreaking note to makeup artist at wife Natasha Richardson's funeral

Liam Neeson's late wife Natasha Richardson passed away in 2009 after a tragic accident and the makeup artist who did her final resting makeup has shared the emotional note the star left her.

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6 d. ago Pamela Anderson receives a kiss from new beau Liam Neeson before he feeds her popcorn as romance heats up

The flirty spot came three days after the coy couple intimately shared the same $22 tube of 'Basic' lip balm from her company Sonsie Skin

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6 d. ago 'Worst film EVER!' Why War of The Worlds is being hated on with ZERO per cent rating

Prime Video’s ‘dreadful’ new HG Wells reboot stars Ice Cube and Eva Longoria, and is being dragged through the mud

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6 d. ago Netflix fans all watching 'best war movie since Saving Private Ryan' based on incredible true story

It was nominated for multiple Oscars and is still hailed as one of the best ever made

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7 d. ago How did a new War of the Worlds movie get a 0% critical rating?

A cursed Covid-made version of the HG Wells classic, starring Ice Cube, was quietly buried after a five-year delay and perhaps it should have stayed buriedJust over 20 years ago, Steven Spielberg released War of the Worlds, a remake of the HG Wells classic updated for then modern day, capturing an era of post-9/11 anxiety filtered through the prism of late-90s disaster movies. That movie’s reputation has only grown over the years – it’s basically the thinking and anxious person’s Independence Day – but the Wells text has been revisited repeatedly since its publication at the tail end of the 19th century. 2025 seems as good a time as any for another update. And if ever any viewers yearned to see a new War of the Worlds beset with the constant pinging of a Microsoft Teams chat, Prime Video has a real treat in store.Yes, hovering towards the top of Prime Video’s movie charts is a new War of the Worlds, which arrived with little fanfare on the service at the end of July. In it, Ice Cube...

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8 d. ago Hollywood actress on the brink of tears over Liam Neeson's rumoured relationship with Pamela Anderson

A Hollywood actress was left on the brink of tears when discussing Liam Neeson's rumoured relationship with Pamela Anderson in a new interview.

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8 d. ago 'Heartbreaking' World War II film hailed as 'masterpiece' that will leave you in tears

The film has been given glowing praise from audience members

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8 d. ago Jamie Lee Curtis gets emotional over Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson romance rumours

Curtis, who co-starred with Anderson in 2024 drama ‘The Last Showgirl’, had a strong response to the speculation

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8 d. ago ‘I can’t get mad at anyone who tells me I’m a genius’: original Naked Gun director softens response to reboot

David Zucker, who co-created the franchise, was initially sceptical about the new Liam Neeson instalment, but now says he’s ‘excited’ amid positive reviews and strong takingsDavid Zucker, who co-created the Police Squad! and Naked Gun franchises and directed the first two films starring Leslie Nielsen, has reacted to the warm critical reception and healthy box office takings of the reboot starring Liam Neeson.Zucker had previously expressed scepticism and even anger about the direction the new film appeared to be taking, and the decision by the studio not to include him in the process. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Jamie Lee Curtis sobs over Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson's 'intimate' relationship

Jamie Lee Curtis has praised Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson's 'intimate' relationship and told people to 'leave them the f*** alone' if they have found love with each other

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8 d. ago Emmerdale's Vinny Dingle star admits 'it was really hard' to film 'horrendous beating' scene

The actor revealed how difficult it was to film Vinny's attack

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