13 h. ago How do you celebrate James Bond Day when you don’t know who the next 007 will be?

All things Bond will be commemorated on 5 October. But while the new movie has a director and writer attached, we’re still none the wiser as to who will play the super-spyIt’s James Bond Day this Sunday, if you didn’t know – 5 October is now a celebration of all things 007, thanks to this being the date of the world premiere of Dr No, the very first Bond film, starring Sean Connery, in 1962. Imagine it as a bit like Star Wars Day, with fewer Wookiees and Ewoks and a whole lot more tuxedoed swagger.This year though, the advent of JBD (as no one has ever called it) is bit of a damp squib. It hasn’t been that long since Denis Villeneuve was announced as the director of the next Bond film (June, in fact) and even less time since Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight was hired to write the script. But there’s been little to no sign since then of the new 007 actually being revealed, and even less sense of where this venerable franchise is going next. All we have are whisperings on the wind via th...

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41 h. ago Keira Knightley's 'best performance' to date is in a cosy romance film based on a classic novel

A Reddit user asked for film recommendations for "cosy autumn" evenings and was inundated with one suggestion – a Keira Knightley film that's perfect for this time of year.

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66 h. ago Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror review – musical mash

This new approach to silent cinema is like trying to watch a movie while your neighbour has their music on too loudHow should we watch silent films now? When they were first produced and consumed, they were after all just films, not “silent” films – any more than photographs or paintings or sculptures are thought of as “silent”. Yet of course they often had improvised piano accompaniment; Gert Hoffman’s autobiographical novel The Film Explainer (filmed with Armin Mueller-Stahl) remembered the prewar time in Germany when his father was employed in a movie theatre to stand next to the screen with a pointer and literally explain what was going on. When Abel Gance’s Napoleon was revived in the late 70s with a live orchestral accompaniment, there was a new creative excitement around the idea of early cinema’s musical reinvention – we recently saw the re-release of the special edition of Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin with the 2005 soundtrack composed for the film by the Pet Shop Boys.B...

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3 d. ago What Time is Taskmaster On? What time is episode 4 out, current leaderboard, series 20 schedule, contestants, how to watch

We’re reaching the mid-point of the series.

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3 d. ago 'Underrated' drama based on 'classic' film quietly added to Netflix that fans say is the 'best show' on TV

The original filmed starred movie icons Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt

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4 d. ago The fanfiction written on a notes app that’s become a bestseller – with a seven

SenLinYu’s debut started life as Harry Potter fanfiction. The Alchemised author shares why they were drawn to a war-torn love story, how a conservative upbringing shaped their writing, and the snobbery around fanfictionIn recent days, bookish pockets of TikTok and Instagram have been talking about one thing only. “I’ve been looking forward to this day more than I look forward to my wedding day,” says one creator, holding up to the camera a copy of the 1,040-page novel that was Penguin’s most pre-ordered debut of the year and has already netted a potentially record-breaking seven-figure film rights deal.How does a first-time novelist get out of the starting blocks quite like that? The thing is, the author behind the doorstopper dark fantasy novel, Alchemised, is no unknown debut: SenLinYu, 34, started off writing Harry Potter fanfiction that blew up online during the pandemic, racking up more than 20m downloads. Her Draco and Hermione (“Dramione”) fanfic, heavily inspired by The Hand...

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6 d. ago Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith shocked at her salary as she 'sleeps on the job'

Bake Off judge Prue Leith has admitted that she can't believe how much she gets paid for her role with her even having time to "have a snooze" in between filming

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7 d. ago Netflix adds 'masterpiece' film hailed as 'one of the best of all time' by fans

Netflix has added an "epic" sequel that is widely considered as better than the original film.

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7 d. ago Netflix quietly adds one of the 'best films of all time' and it's not one to miss

The Godfather Part II was released 50 years ago and is still considered one of the greatest films ever made.

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8 d. ago ‘This is the first time I’ve not thought about the box office’: Dwayne Johnson on wrestling, reinvention and the role that could redefine him

He became cinema’s most bankable strongman. But weary of his own persona, Johnson turned to indie director Benny Safdie – and delivered a bruising new role that rewrites his own rulebookFor much of his career, Dwayne Johnson has been stuck between the Rock and a hard place. In the early years of his transition from body-slamming World Wrestling Entertainment heavy to marquee movie star, he was still being billed under his nom de ring. Even once he retired that moniker, he seemed to be lugging behind him a persona from which he might never be free. There are people-pleasers and then there is this affable brawler-turned-actor, who appears to regard the contentment of the world’s multiplex-goers as his personal responsibility. Whether in vehicles comic (Central Intelligence, Baywatch), family-oriented (Jumanji, Jungle Cruise), four-wheeled (the Fast & Furious series) or disaster-based (San Andreas, Skyscraper), he is a rip-roaring razzle-dazzler, shiny of scalp and tooth, and so co...

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8 d. ago Taskmaster Series 20: What time is episode 3 out? Current leaderboard, release times, contestants, how to watch

It’s shaping up to be a top-tier series.

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8 d. ago 12 brilliant book adaptations to catch at the London Film Festival

12 brilliant book adaptations to catch at the London Film Festival  Time Out Worldwide

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9 d. ago Go quietly and get a side hustle: how to quit acting properly

Emma Watson hasn’t been on screen for six years and says she is better for it – for any one else tired of the Hollywood circus, here’s how to walk away with your dignity intactIn a recent interview with Hollywood Authentic, Emma Watson described herself as “the happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been”. And this is for one reason and one reason only: she isn’t an actor any more.The last time Watson appeared on film was in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Little Women six years ago. Since then, she has decided to lay low, largely because she considered the act of promoting her movies “soul-destroying”. And good for her; not just for refusing to strap herself to the machine, but also for slipping away so quietly that nobody had actually even noticed that she’d gone. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Once Upon A Time In The West star Claudia Cardinale dead at 87: Italian screen siren of 1960s passes away

In English, her best-loved roles include the reformed prostitute Jill in the 1968 spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West and an exiled princess in the 1963 film The Pink Panther.

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1 week ago ‘A broken system full of criminality and death’: the podcast lifting the lid on what happens to the UK’s rubbish

Turkey’s recycling centres treat vast amounts of the UK’s waste – and rely on refugees who work in conditions so unsafe that hundreds have died. A new podcast uncovers the sinister side of what happens when Brits throw things awayOn his way to a remote industrial zone at the edge of Istanbul, Adnan Khan compares it to something out of Mad Max. Packs of wild dogs roam around desolate wastelands; toxic chemicals spill out into the street, with corrugated metal sheets and “slapdash factories” scattered around. “It’s like a shantytown,” he says.However, once he sets foot inside some of these factories, he reaches for a different cinematic comparison. This time he’s thinking of the torture-horror film Saw, as he witnesses Afghan refugees working and living in conditions that he says fit the UN definition of modern-day slavery. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'Brilliant from start to finish' noughties film is streaming now

Fans hailed the film 'one of my all time favourite movies'

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1 week ago Demon Slayer – Infinity Castle: The anime film that’s smashing box office records

It has become not only the highest-grossing anime film ever worldwide, but also the biggest Japanese film of all time

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1 week ago Robert Redford’s death renews search for suspect in murder of daughter’s boyfriend

FBI announces $10,000 reward to find suspect who disappeared after Sid Wells was fatally shot in 1983The recent death of Robert Redford brought renewed interest to an unresolved search for a murder suspect – the one accused of killing the boyfriend of the acclaimed actor’s daughter in Colorado decades earlier.As local outlets recounted in the aftermath of Redford’s death, his daughter Shauna was attending the University of Colorado Boulder when her boyfriend and fellow student, Sid Wells, was fatally shot in his apartment. Redford was gearing up to film his classic The Natural at the time of the 1 August 1983 murder, yet he was at his daughter’s side in the wake of Wells’ death and was present for his funeral. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 'Brilliant' forgotten David Tennant drama fans say is '10/10' quietly added to Netflix

“Frighteningly talented” David Tennant is at the heart of a long forgotten drama that should be Netflix subscribers’ next binge-watch.

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1 week ago Eighties crime thriller Blue Velvet known as 'one of the best films of all time' is finally made free to stream on Amazon Prime Video

The eighties classic is well known for its graphic sexual and violent content, which saw it declined by several studios when it was made in 1985.

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