4 d. ago ‘They told me what their bodies had lived through’: how Syrian vigilantes inspired new thriller Ghost Trail

Director Jonathan Millet contacted a secret cell that hunts down Assad’s collaborators while researching a new film. He soon realised that it could not be a documentary ‘I never show a single image of torture,” says French director Jonathan Millet. “When you leave things off-screen, often the image the viewer creates are the ones that are most deeply anchored in their fears and anxieties.” Millet’s new film, Ghost Trail, follows a Syrian refugee in Strasbourg as he attempts to locate the man who brutalised him in Sednaya prison, Damascus.Ghost Trail therefore joins the roll call of cerebral films that manufacture an uncanny power from what isn’t depicted. But here, it’s not achieved in exactly the same fashion as ones where the consequential action is cropped out of view, like Auschwitz over the picket fence in The Zone of Interest. In Millet’s film, the invisible is compacted inside characters doing ostensibly banal things, more akin to Chantal Akerman’s housewife-observing Jeanne ...

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1 week ago British film star banned from driving after being caught speeding at 24mph

British film star Jason Flemyng has been banned from driving after being caught speeding at 24mph in a Kia Sorenton. He starred in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

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1 week ago Nicole Scherzinger shares an unseen backstage photo of late singer Liam Payne from filming Netflix's Building The Band

The One Direction star tragically died at the aged of 31 after falling from the third-floor balcony of a hotel in Buenos Aires last October.

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1 week ago Marvel films costume designer who raped a woman after she put a banana skin in the 'wrong bin' is jailed for 12 years

Marvyn Marques, 38, launched the sickening attack after raging that his victim had put the peel in the wrong rubbish bin and later raped her again as punishment.

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1 week ago 'I cheated to get on Countdown and was banned from The Chase'

James almost backed out of Countdown when he realised he was no good and was going to 'get destroyed'

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2 w. ago The Queen director Stephen Frears convicted of speeding near his £2.4million London home

The veteran filmmaker, 84, is already serving a six-month driving ban handed down in July after racking up at least 12 penalty points for previous offences.

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2 w. ago ‘The pope complained about the lyrics!’: the Bluebells and Siobhan Fahey on how they made Young at Heart

‘I had moved down from Glasgow and was sharing a council flat with the girls from Bananarama. We wrote the song after watching the Frank Sinatra film’I first glimpsed Siobhan Fahey at my publisher’s offices. Later that day, when I was being interviewed by Smash Hits, I told the interviewer: “I really fancy Siobhan from Bananarama.” The next night, she was at our concert, at the front. I remember saying to my bandmates Ken and Dave McCluskey: “I’m gonna get off with her.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘I luxuriate in the weird details’: why Highlander is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their favourite comfort watches is a journey back to the unusual sci-fi antics of 1986With all due respect to Flash Gordon, there is only room in my heart for one maximalist 1980s movie blending science fiction, fantasy and romance with a banging Queen soundtrack. That film is Highlander, the stylised but strangely lofty 1986 wannabe blockbuster with a premise so ridiculous – immortals tussle throughout human history in a beheading battle royale – it is often deployed as a pop culture punchline. (In the Nascar comedy Talladega Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Will Ferrell’s blowhard racer confidently asserts that Highlander won the Academy Award for “best movie ever made”.)Even Highlander’s production history sounds like a mistranslated joke about national stereotypes walking into a bar. Australian director Russell Mulcahy chose French-American actor Christopher Lambert to embody the titular mythic Scottish hero, then cast actu...

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4 w. ago Glasgow Cineworld closing date set as staff to be made redundant

The closing date of the world's tallest cinema on Glasgow's Renfrew Street has been set.

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last month Man banned after he filmed Cineworld staff telling off confetti throwers

Cineworld staff argued with a number of filmgoers who threw confetti during a screening

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