8 h. ago ‘One of the best films of the year’ lands digital streaming date

Ryan Coogler’s vampire drama was released in theaters last month and has dominated at the box office ever since

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18 h. ago Marvel’s Thunderbolts* heading for unwanted box office record despite rave reviews

The latest MCU film about a team of misfits was called ‘Marvel’s best in years’

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33 h. ago Sir David Attenborough's new film Ocean earns a huge £2.5million at the global box office

The new production released on the British icon's 99th birthday on May 8 and has captivated audiences across the globe.

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64 h. ago Europa League final: Tottenham ready for date with destiny and night that could change everything

A fourth win of the season over Manchester United could prove seismic

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67 h. ago Not just one bad apple? Experts weigh up whether Disney's Lilo & Stitch remake will succeed after 'woke' Snow White became huge box office flop

Snow White brought in an underwhelming $204.8 million (£152million) of box office takings against a $270million budget. Can Lilo and Stitch, out today, reverse the trend?

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2 d. ago ‘It sucks, man’: World Surf League’s dreaded cut claims its final victims | Kieran Pender

The controversial feature, added in 2022, will disappear after the Margaret River Pro. Few surfers on the elite tour are sad to see it goOn Tuesday, as a towering swell groomed by the Roaring Forties across the Indian Ocean reached its explosive final destination on the Western Australian coast, two surfers battled for their careers. Australian-Japanese surfer Connor O’Leary and Queenslander Liam O’Brien took on each other and Margaret River’s pumping conditions to retain a spot on the World Surf League’s Championship Tour.With O’Leary just above and O’Brien just below the dreaded cut-line, victory would be a major step towards safety; defeat would likely consign the loser to a re-qualification slog on the second-tier Challenger Series. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Liam Delap transfer hinges on Man Utd's Europa League outcome as Chelsea circle

Liam Delap is on Manchester United's radar but the Ipswich frontman hasn't decided on his next destination with the Europa League final integral to his decision

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3 d. ago Lilo & Stitch review – Disney’s latest unnecessary remake is a monstrosity

The studio’s new attempt to generate more money from the same property hits an instant roadblock in ghastly misfireThis year, Disney may have gone too far, turning perhaps its single greatest animated film into a heavily CG-augmented quasi-live-action monstrosity. No, not the already-infamous box office bomb Snow White; the animated basis for that movie is a monumental achievement in the medium, but it’s ultimately a famous version of a timeless fairy tale that seems fair game for reinterpretation. Lilo & Stitch, however, is the rare sui generis piece of Disney animation – one that somehow emerged during a tumultuous time for the animation studio to become a substantial hit back in 2002.The film has endured because it’s a triumph of mixing techniques: old-fashioned ultra-expressive hand-drawn animation and watercolor backgrounds; dashes of newfangled computer animation to assist with some of its sci-fi-heavier scenes; and a story about a stranded alien befriending a misfit littl...

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4 d. ago Final Destination Bloodlines: the hidden Easter eggs in the grisly franchise

Final Destination is back 25 years after the first movie

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4 d. ago The Guardian view on the EU trade deal: a rational step forward | Editorial

Tangible gains from these negotiations will be limited, but the prime minister has at last set a positive toneSo much remains to be worked out in Sir Keir Starmer’s deal with the EU that it must be regarded as a staging post rather than a final destination. In several key areas, the agreement announced in London on Monday is really a commitment to have more meetings at which negotiators will try to make more agreements.On the issue of visas for young people and the UK’s mooted return to the Erasmus university-exchange scheme, there is little clarity beyond the rebranding of “youth mobility” as “experience”. A decision on the level of fees that European students must pay has also been booted forward. So have some details of how the UK will work with the bloc on policing and security, including the use of controversial facial-recognition technology in tackling drug and people smuggling across borders.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you wo...

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5 d. ago ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ tops box office while The Weeknd’s movie falters

“Final Destination: Bloodlines” has topped the domestic box office charts this weekend

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5 d. ago Pillion review – 50 shades of BDSM Wallace and Gromit in brilliant Bromley biker romance

Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling play unlikely lovers in this sweet and extremely revealing first time drama from Harry Lighton, adapted from Adam Mars-Jones’ Box HillHere to prove there’s nothing gentle about true love is an intensely English story of romance, devotion and loss from first-time feature director Harry Lighton, who has created something funny and touching and alarming – like a cross between Alan Bennett and Tom of Finland with perhaps a tiny smidgen of what could be called a BDSM Wallace and Gromit. It’s basically what Fifty Shades of Grey should have been. Pillion is adapted from the 2020 novel Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones: a shy traffic enforcement officer falls for the ultimate dominant alpha male – an impossibly handsome, strong, emotionally impassive biker who casually demands complete domestic obedience in exchange for the privilege of being reamed with athletic vigour and thrilling lack of sensitivity, often in a specially modified wrestling outfit. Harry M...

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6 d. ago New Final Destination film shatters box office record amid rave reviews

‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ is expected to earn between $46 million to $48 million in its opening weekend

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9 d. ago Bollywood fears huge impact of Trump’s tariffs on foreign films

US president wants to impose 100 per cent levy on all films made outside US

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9 d. ago Enzo review – Laurent Cantet’s swan song is a heartfelt tale of youth and desire

Cannes film festival This powerful drama from the late film-maker and his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo, who directs, charts the growing pains of a teenager from a privileged family The directors fortnight sidebar of Cannes opens with a heartfelt, urgent drama about youth and desire – and destiny, sexuality and class. It is, effectively, the final movie of the late Laurent Cantet, who died last year.Cantet was working on the screenplay with his longtime collaborator and contemporary, Robin Campillo and it is Campillo who now directs – and brings to the movie his usual intelligence and clarity. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Trump tariff threat worries India’s film industry: ‘Could end theatrical releases in US’

US president wants to impose 100 per cent levy on all films made outside US

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1 week ago Film reviews: Make it to Munich | Good One | Final Destination: Bloodlines | Hallow Road

Make it to Munich pays tribute to an unassuming teenager with an indomitable spirit, writes Alistair Harkness

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1 week ago Final Destination: Bloodlines review – death is back and more fun than ever

The jubilantly gory horror franchise returns with a hugely entertaining sixth installment which sets up an entire family tree for the slaughterFinal Destination, the giddy and splatterific franchise where the grim reaper finds increasingly cartoonish and comical ways to get back at those who think they’ve cheated death, has been sitting things out for more than a decade. Maybe that’s telling.In the time since, we saw the rise of so-called “elevated horror”, a trend that arguably began with 2014’s The Babadook and enjoyed its biggest success with last fall’s Longlegs. Those earnestly artful films tend to shrug off the horror genre’s baser pleasures to instead mine drama, trauma and influences such as Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski and Nicolas Roeg. For those feeling a bit trauma-fatigued, I’m happy to say Final Destination is not only back but better than ever. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Disney's 'worst movie of all time' is available to watch at home this week

The live-action remake of the animated classic was a box office flop and was widely panned by critics

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1 week ago ‘Thunderbolts’ and ‘Sinners’ top box office charts once more

Marvel’s “Thunderbolts” and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” are dominating the North American box office charts again

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