30 h. ago Straw review – Taraji P Henson rises above Tyler Perry’s tortured Netflix thriller

The Oscar nominated actor gives a powerhouse performance as a woman pushed to the edge but the punishing film around her does a disserviceTyler Perry is not beating the allegations. For decades, the content-creating studio chief has been roundly criticized for making the traumatization of Black women a persistent theme in his work. In Straw, his latest exercise in misogynoir for Netflix, he pulls out all the stops to break the camel’s back.The guinea pig for this cultural stress test is Janiyah (Taraji P Henson), an apex Perry caricature who is past the point of exhaustion. Her loud, hot and dumpy apartment isn’t all that keeps her in perennial discomfort. There’s also a precocious young daughter (Gabrielle E Jackson) with nagging medical issues, and that eviction notice on the dining table. She can’t make ends meet despite working three jobs, and her cashier’s position at the local food desert grocery store is especially thankless. When an angry customer spikes a bottle of fizzy dr...

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54 h. ago Woman captures moment brazen 'thief' tries to break into car while filming TikTok video

Madison Bush, 19, was cleaning her room and recording a video for a friend when she noticed a man and woman standing outside her home in what appeared to be a heated argument.

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3 d. ago Gal Gadot 'reluctant to ever film in London again' after antisemitic protests

Gal Gadot has been left 'scarred' and 'reluctant to ever film in London again' following a wave of anti-Israel and antisemitic protests that have dogged the production of her latest film.

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5 d. ago Body of slain gangster Ross Monaghan filmed lying outside bar in Spain as woman battles to save him

A witness at Monaghan’s pub in Fuengirola in the Costa Del Sol recorded the shocking clip on Saturday night.

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1 week ago Ambika Mod says 'doors are starting to open' as she reflects on One Day success

A year after the sweeping success of her lead role in Netflix's One Day, Ambika Mod has shared her personal insights and experiences about being a brown woman in the film industry

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2 w. ago 'Evil' teen bullies get taste of vigilante 'justice' after they were filmed beating disabled woman

A group of teen bullies got a taste of vigilante justice after she was filmed beating up a young disabled woman in Hawaii .

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2 w. ago Vile woman caught on camera hitting dogs with spade before shouting 'next one'

Elizabeth Perrin was filmed in the act by a concerned witness

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2 w. ago Woman and Child review – drama of rage and pain in the Iranian marriage market

Cannes film festivalSaeed Roustaee’s new film takes aim at a slippery, entitled male who thinks he can lord it over a widow he plans to marryA strange, sad, sombre movie from Iranian director Saeed Roustaee whose last entry at Cannes was the family drama Leila’s Brothers in 2022. This is a story about the randomness of life in the big city, a melodramatic convulsion of grief, rage and pain which has a TV soap feel to its succession of escalating crises. Like Leila’s Brothers, it is about the entitlement of Iran’s menfolk, and how a man – however shiftless, casual and low-status – can somehow pull rank on a woman in the marriage market.Payman Maadi (from Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation) plays Hamid, an ambulance driver in his late 40s with a certain roguish ladies-man charm whose unmarried status raises eyebrows among some of his acquaintances, but who is now engaged to Mahnaz (Parinaz Izadyar). She is a smart, hardworking hospital nurse who is widowed and lives with her sister Mehri (...

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2 w. ago Romería review – Carla Simón’s gripping pilgrimage tackles Aids, parents and the legacy of secrets

Cannes film festivalA young woman arrives in a Spanish coastal city to meet the family of her dead father, who are hiding information about his life and death, in Simón’s distinctive dramaIs biology destiny? Spanish film-maker Carla Simón brings to Cannes her very personal and in fact auto-fictional project Romería (meaning “pilgrimage”) – about an 18-year-old girl, arriving in Vigo in Galicia on Spain’s bracing Atlantic coast. She is on a mission to find out more about her biological father who died here of Aids after he split from her mum, who has since died, too, and about her dad’s extended – and very wealthy – family.Romería returns Simón (and her audiences) to the complex and painful subject of her mother and father, which she first approached in her wonderful autobiographical debut Summer 1993 although for me the more conventionally enclosed fictional transformation of the material there might have given that film a sharper arrowhead of storytelling power. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'I filmed my outfit at tube station and tannoy worker's comments stunned me'

Fashion stylist Talia-Brodie Francis was left fuming after a tannoy announcer made a 'rude' comment about her outfit while she was filming a video at a tube station

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2 w. ago Woman filming outfit video at station shocked by tannoy worker's 'rude' reaction

A woman has shared her shock after being told she wasn't allowed to film her outfit on the London underground – and travellers believe the rules are unfair

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2 w. ago Mystery deadly rash left woman's skin peeling off 'like something out of a horror film'

EXCLUSIVE: Charity Gumede’s world was turned upside down when she developed a mysterious, painful rash - within days, her body was shutting down and doctors delivered a chilling prognosis

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3 w. ago Man, 60, arrested on suspicion of voyeurism after breastfeeding mum 'filmed on bus'

He's been bailed 'with conditions not to use the bus service', police said

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3 w. ago Man accused of filming mum breastfeeding on bus says 'I'm English'

A man was confronted by passengers on a bus when a woman accused him of filming her breastfeeding

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3 w. ago Bloke films mum breastfeeding on the bus, 'zooms in' then tells her to 'f*** off'

Hamidat Soliu, 27, was left traumatised by the incident after a man refused to stop recording her on a bus in Manchester, giving an 'excuse' that he was "English and lives here"

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3 w. ago Fury as breastfeeding mum filmed on bus by man who replies 'F*** off...I'm English'

Hamidat Soliu, originally from Nigeria but lives in Manchester, was met with offensive language after she confronted a passenger who filmed her as she breast feed her baby

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3 w. ago Man films woman breastfeeding on bus then tells her 'f*** off... I'm English'

Police have launched an investigation following the incident

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3 w. ago Man caught filming woman breastfeeding on bus tells passengers 'f*** off, I'm English'

Hamidat Soliu, 27, was breastfeeding while travelling to visit her friend when she was alerted that another passenger was filming her.

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3 w. ago Man filmed woman breastfeeding on bus then replied 'f*** off... I'm English'

Police have launched an investigation

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last month ‘Not much zoology – apart from the rabbit!’ Desmond Morris on his secret surrealist love romp film

The zoologist, now aged 97, is about to unveil Time Flower, his fantasy-fuelled film in which he pursues a woman called Ramona – who gave such a brave performance leaping off the bonnet of a car that he proposed to herIn the opening scene of Time Flower, a surrealist film by the zoologist Desmond Morris, a woman is lying facedown on the ground, clutching the grass with manicured hands and shaking her head. She is about to start running across a Wiltshire moor in elegant black heels, chased by Morris in a shirt and tie, her eyes wide, her lipstick dark, the angle of the shot emphasising her perfect, parted, panting mouth. Just before she trips and falls, a wild rabbit will stare straight at the camera – and flee.This 10-minute black-and-white film, which Morris made in 1950 while he was a 22-year-old student at Birmingham University, has lain untouched in his archive for nearly 75 years. Created in response to Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou, it is a testament to Mor...

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