11 h. ago Finding Margaret by Andrew Pierce review: A moving tale of abandonment

Andrew Pierce’s moving memoir is dedicated “to Betty and George, my real mum and dad”. That puts the story that follows in perspective. It’s about his search for his birth mother. But we know at the start that it has a happy ending, because Betty and George were there for the little boy, who grew up to be a distinguished journalist.

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44 h. ago MOVIE REVIEW: We see if 'Final Destination: Bloodlines' breathes new life into horror franchise

Sixth instalment honours series' legacy as well as adding to its lore.

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50 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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68 h. ago Driver flees and leaves passenger fighting for life after horror police pursuit crash

Emergency services raced to the horror collision on Drake Street

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4 d. ago Original cast of Final Destination now from ditching fame to heartbreaking tragedy

The first Final Destination movie was released in 2000 and saw the likes of Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Seann William Scott and Tony Todd take on the roles of high school students

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5 d. ago ‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticidesDaniel Janzen only began watching the insects – truly watching them – when his ribcage was shattered. Nearly half a century ago, the young ecologist had been out documenting fruit crops in a dense stretch of Costa Rican forest when he fell in a ravine, landing on his back. The long lens of his camera punched up through three ribs, snapping the bones into his thorax.Slowly, he dragged himself out, crawling nearly two miles back to the research hut. There were no immediate neighbours, no good roads, no simple solutions for getting to a hospital. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Strategic defence review live: Starmer says UK moving to ‘war

PM outlines new measures to put nation on war footing

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8 d. ago MOVIE REVIEW: We decide if you should feel compelled to watch exorcism

Wastes its genre-flipping premise and several actors we’ve seen do much better work.

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9 d. ago 'Just hot people getting killed!' Charli XCX 's puts herself forward to produce Final Destination

The pop superstar has proposed an idea for the film franchise which sounds like a winner

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1 week ago Marriage Material at the Lyric Hammersmith review: a raucously funny and often moving family saga

Even when it stretches plausibility – those wigs! – this sprawling immigrant aspiration story is a pleasure to watch

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1 week ago Along Came Love review – l’amour, loss and lingering shame in eventful French relationship movie

Director Katell Quillévéré explores the ravages of romance in an intelligently performed period piece about a shamed mother and a closeted husbandThe title of Katell Quillévéré’s first movie, Un Poison Violent from 2010, was taken from Serge Gainsbourg’s song Un poison violent, c’est ça l’amour, and the awful toxicity of love is a theme that has run through her work ever since. It is an underground stream that has become very much an overground stream in this new, heartfelt movie. It’s robust and a little unsubtle, without the nuances and indirections that govern her best work, but handsomely produced and resoundingly performed, avowedly autobiographical and inspired by her grandmother. Quillévéré has said that her influences are Maurice Pialat for the tough realism and Douglas Sirk for the melodrama and the sense of buried shame. I wonder if there isn’t some David Lean in there for the final scene at the railway station.Madeleine is a young single mother played by Anaïs Demoustier;...

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1 week ago Mum's horror as boy, 4, 'scarred for life' after being savaged by neighbour's dogs

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Antonio Quinn, 4, was left covered in blood after being attacked by two dogs. The owner of the dogs has been identified by police and is set to be spoken to

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1 week ago Bring Her Back review – Talk to Me directors return with a film you’ll watch from between your fingers

Sally Hawkins is intensely disturbing as the foster parent from hell, with Jonah Wren Phillips playing a creepy kid for the ages in the Philippou brothers’ new horrorAustralian horror film-makers have spectacularly overdelivered in the last few years, conjuring various nerve-shredding bangers including Late Night with the Devil, You Won’t Be Alone, You’ll Never Find Me, Sissy, Leigh Whannell’s underrated Wolf Man reboot and Talk to Me. The latter – which revolves around thrill-seeking teenagers who converse with spirits instead of taking recreational drugs (kids these days!) – marked the fiendishly good debut of Adelaide-born directors Danny and Michael Philippou.They’re back – or baaa-ack! – with another serving of macabre bravado pulled from the black cauldron. Bring Her Back is lighter on thrills and spills for the midnight movie and heavy with thick, abject horror and despair, featuring an intensely disturbing performance from Sally Hawkins as a foster mother from hell. She play...

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1 week ago Woman fighting for life after horror bear attack as grizzly beast disappears into forest

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A woman has been left in a critical condition following a bear attack in a forest in a tourist hotspot, with the animal fleeing back to the woods

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1 week ago Man, 24, fighting for life after car careers off A34 and flips over in horror crash

The driver suffered serious head injuries after the car left the road and rolled

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1 week ago PlayStation Plus June 2025 Essential games revealed with huge sports game and Destiny 2 expansion

PS Plus subscribers can grab NBA 2K25, the Alone in the Dark 2024 reboot, and Destiny 2: The Final Shape as part of June's Essential offerings, plus retro-themed hit Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

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1 week ago Cinemagoer injured after ceiling collapses during Final Destination screening

Woman, 29, narrowly escapes being hit in head by falling debris

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1 week ago Cinemagoer hurt after theatre ceiling collapses during Final Destination screening in Argentina

Woman, 29, narrowly escapes being hit in head by falling debris

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2 w. ago Girl, 9 slices legs open in tin lid horror but uses Walking Dead skills to save own life

EXCLUSIVE: Navaeh Connor, nine, took out the rubbish during a blackout when a lid from a tin of peas sliced her right leg in two places slicing through a tendon

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2 w. ago MOVIE REVIEW: We see if 'It Feeds' satisfies horror fans' taste buds

Little originality on show but still works. on its own merits - just.

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