6 d. ago The dark true story behind Netflix's Angi: Maria Angeles Molina killed her friend then used semen from a brothel to make it look as though she'd been raped and murdered

María Ángeles Molina, known as Angi, from Barcelona, killed her friend Ana Páez then used semen from brothel to make it look as though she'd been raped and murdered.

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7 d. ago Netflix fans rave over film dubbed 'a masterclass in storytelling 'based on harrowing real events as they're left 'in tears and on the edge of their seats'

It stars Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, James Badge Dale, Taylor Kitsch and Jennifer Connelly.

Culture

8 d. ago A Different Man’s Adam Pearson to star in new film of The Elephant Man

Pearson, who will be the first disabled actor to play the role in a film, said: ‘I can think of no greater honour than to tell the true story of Joseph Carey Merrick’Adam Pearson, the actor who appeared in Under the Skin and the Oscar-nominated A Different Man, is to play the lead role in a new adaptation of The Elephant Man.According to Variety, Pearson will play Joseph Merrick, whose physical disfigurement led to him becoming a freak show exhibit and then a notable figure in late Victorian London, in a film based on the celebrated play by Bernard Pomerance that became a hit in London and New York after premiering in 1977. Pomerance’s son Moby is writing the screenplay, and shooting is due to begin in 2026. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Smashing Machine: The brutal true story behind Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s A24 UFC biopic

Johnson wears facial prosthetics to star as trailblazing UFC star Mark Kerr in the upcoming film

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1 week ago Luke D'Wit now as true story of 'cold and calculated' killer told in Essex Millionaire Murders

Luke D'Wit was found guilty of the murders of Carol and Stephen Baxter in one of the most complex criminal cases police have ever undertaken - their deaths are the subject of an ITV documentary

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1 week ago The true story behind the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes

The police shooting of the 27 year old Brazilian national is being made into a Disney+ series

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1 week ago Netflix's true crime drama with 'impressive' Rotten Tomatoes score to leave site in days

Netflix's Hatton Garden is a gripping true crime drama based on the real life story and fans have just days left to watch it

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2 w. ago Netflix fans 'in tears' after watching 'overlooked' film based on true story

A Netflix fan has recommended a 'must-watch' film on the streaming platform which will leave you 'crying your eyes out' - it's a heart-breaking true story that's been labelled 'overlooked'

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2 w. ago Hidden gem war film with perfect review score and 'realism few can replicate'

The Cruel Sea is a 1953 war film that is based on the best-selling novel of the same name and is set during the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War

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2 w. ago Bridgerton star looks unrecognisable in first glimpse at 'scandalous' new TV show based on true story

Bessie Carter, 31, rose to fame on the Netflix period drama as the obnoxious Prudence Featherington.

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2 w. ago Bridgerton star totally unrecognisable for new role in drama based on a 'scandalous' true story

You may not recognise this major Bridgerton star in their next role leading an upcoming period drama based on a shocking true story

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2 w. ago ‘We didn’t want to avoid the reality of what happened’: the drama telling the true story of Jean Charles de Menezes

The 2005 shooting of the Brazilian created national headlines, but the shocking truth of his death remains unknown by many. A new series aims to do justice to his story – and those who fought to clear his nameOn 22 July 2005, 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes was shot and killed by firearms officers on the London underground shortly after boarding a train. The information relayed by the Metropolitan police at the time was that he had leapt over the ticket barriers at Stockwell station and was wearing a bulky coat under which officers thought he was hiding a bomb.The incident occurred two weeks after the 7/7 bombings on London’s transport network, where 52 people were killed, and the day after a copycat attack in which four men tried – and mercifully failed – to detonate devices on three underground trains and a bus; the bombers in the latter incidents fled the scene, triggering a police manhunt. It later emerged that De Menezes was innocent and the intelligence on him was flawed. ...

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2 w. ago Bombshell new Titanic book uncovers chilling true story of Captain's final moments that weren't in the movie... it changes everything

Millions of movie-goers have watched Captain Edward John Smith die a hero. But is that the truth? A new book from Dan E. Parkes details eyewitness accounts of the ill-fated Titanic and its commander.

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3 w. ago Pray that this outlandish new social policy will fail to take flight | Phillip Inman

Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk Steve Coogan wants ­people to see his new film, The Penguin Lessons, and think about how they might be living in a wealthy cocoon, disengaged from the world.The film’s central character – a Briton teaching expat children in Argentina – rescues a penguin and tries to help local people persecuted by the rightwing government. Re-enacting a true story, Coogan is showing how it’s possible to be involved in local communities even when the protagonist is an outsider. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth | Phillip Inman

Analysts trace a link between financial security and a troubling, increasingly devil-may-care, attitude to political risk Steve Coogan wants ­people to see his new film, The Penguin Lessons, and think about how they might be living in a wealthy cocoon, disengaged from the world.The film’s central character – a Briton teaching expat children in Argentina – rescues a penguin and tries to help local people persecuted by the rightwing government. Re-enacting a true story, Coogan is showing how it’s possible to be involved in local communities even when the protagonist is an outsider. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'More than a film' Netflix war movie leaves fans insist is a must watch

Number 24 is streaming on Netflix now and tells the true story of the Oslo Gang, one of the most daring resistance groups in the Second World War

Events

3 w. ago Reality bites as Madrid’s Champions League remontada turns to dust

Carlo Ancelotti’s pleas went unanswered with his side’s limp exit a damning indictment of collective failings this seasonJude Bellingham saw the videos, listened to the stories and heard the word remontada “a million times”, but it was easier said than done. “There is no magic,” Carlo Ancelotti warned. In the end there was nothing really, just another glimpse of reality, the true story of their season: a chronicle of a death foretold. No epic, no comeback, not even much mystique, and certainly not much football. This time, Real Madrid could not escape themselves.“This is the other side of football,” Ancelotti said after the match. “There’s a happy part, which we have experienced many times, and a sad part which is today. We have to accept it, and the ‘sticks’, the criticisms, that will come. Over the two games Arsenal were better than us.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Best autobiographies and memoirs that everyone should read in 2025

The private lives of presidents and princes, romantic affairs, meditations on grief, awkward coming-of-age stories, or an inside look at Hollywood: the best autobiographies tell someone else’s story but ring true to our own life experiences.

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3 w. ago Netflix announce new true crime documentary series 'Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story'

The ‘definitive’ documentary series will pull back the curtain of the infamous serial killer couple.

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3 w. ago The biggest heist that never happened: how thieves almost stole £350m of diamonds from the Millennium Dome

The story of how one of the biggest attempted heists of all time collapsed has now been made into a Netflix documentary, courtesy of Guy Ritchie

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