10 h. ago Nostalgic drama hailed as ‘best film of 2022’ and 'masterpiece' available to stream now

The Scots movie, starring Paul Mescal, has a 95 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is certified fresh.

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3 d. ago Britain jobless hotspots: The areas where benefits claims have soared by 40% since Rachel Reeves' National Insurance raid on businesses

Residents have told how they can live a 'middle-class life' on taxpayer cash as other locals hit out at 'lazy' young people who they claim don't try hard enough to get into work.

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4 d. ago Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson Party at Charli XCX London Show

Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson Party at Charli XCX London Show  Us Weekly

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4 d. ago Charli XCX Brings ‘Brat’ to London in an Explosion of Neon Green, Paul Mescal and More Spotted

Charli XCX Brings ‘Brat’ to London in an Explosion of Neon Green, Paul Mescal and More Spotted  Yahoo

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3 w. ago ‘Revelatory, magnetic, unknown’: how Frank Dillane became a star at Cannes

With a breakout performance in Urchin, the actor has emerged from cult TV fame to the cusp of major stardom – a new ‘post-alpha male’ lead to join the ranks of Paul Mescal and Josh O’ConnorFew actors make an instant impact on their first major film festival appearance, but Frank Dillane, star of fellow actor Harris Dickinson’s directing debut Urchin, is one of them. Critics are near-unanimous in their praise, with Variety calling his performance “revelatory”, and IndieWire describing it as “magnetic”. Influential film industry publication Deadline said that Dillane “arrived in Cannes a virtual unknown, but Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut has made him a star”.In Urchin, Dillane plays Mike, a man living on the streets who ends up in jail after committing an assault and then struggles to go straight after his release. Despite being given a place in a hostel and helped into employment, Mike is tempted to fall back into his old ways. With a script written by Dickinson, Dillane commi...

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4 w. ago Paul Mescal 'whines' about career and 'alpha male' replacement as Lennon’s sister slams him for overexposure

As the star complains about critiques of his work, Julia Baird points out the privileged actor is already everywhere

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4 w. ago Paul Mescal hits out at ‘lazy and frustrating’ comparisons between new movie and Brokeback Mountain

‘The History of Sound’ stars Mescal opposite Josh O’Connor as two young music students who travel to rural Maine together in the summer of 1919 to record local folk songs

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4 w. ago Paul Mescal says comparing his film romance with Josh O’Connor to Brokeback Mountain is ‘lazy and frustrating’

In Cannes to promote The History of Sound, the actor said ‘I don’t see the parallels at all, other than we spent a little time in a tent’The actor Paul Mescal has hit out at critics who have drawn comparisons between The History of Sound, a gay romance in which he stars opposite Josh O’Connor, and Ang Lee’s landmark western Brokeback Mountain.Speaking at a press conference in Cannes the day after the film’s premiere, Mescal – who followed a supporting performance in Andrew Haigh’s acclaimed gay ghost story All of Us Strangers with playing the lead in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II – said he believes cinema is “moving away” from alpha male roles. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago John Lennon's sister criticises casting for Beatles biopics as she takes aim at Paul Mescal

‘There are more actors out there waiting for a go, and for a chance,’ Julia Baird said

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4 w. ago Paul Mescal’s gay love story The History of Sound is severely anticlimactic

Despite the buzz surrounding the Irish actor’s romantic team-up with Josh O’Connor, this is a slight, sentimental misfire from ‘Living’ director Oliver Hermanus

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4 w. ago Paul Mescal's 'sexless' gay romance The History Of Sound is branded 'Brokeback Mountain on sedatives' and 'too polite' by critics after nine minute Cannes ovation

The film was very well received at Cannes, receiving an impressive nine-minute standing ovation - but critics haven't been so convinced.

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4 w. ago The History of Sound review – Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor romance is full

Cannes film festival A love story of two folk song aficionados in the early days of recorded music is told with tiresomely mournful awe at its own sadnessOliver Hermanus’s The History of Sound has admirers in Cannes; but I couldn’t help finding it an anaemic, laborious, achingly tasteful film, originally a short story by Ben Shattuck which has become a quasi-Brokeback Mountain film whose tone is one of persistent mournful awe at its own sadness.Hermanus has made great movies in the past including Beauty and Living but this is a film that is almost petrified by its own upmarket values, paralysed under the varnish of classiness. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Gracie Abrams and Paul Mescal make a statement at Cannes amid engagement rumours

The rumour mill has been in full swing recently with speculation Gracie Abrams and Paul Mescal are set to tie the knot, but the duo made separate entrances at Cannes Film Festival

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4 w. ago Naomi Campbell oozes glamour while Cara Delevingne shows off a dramatic new look as they join Iris Law and Gracie Abrams at The History Of Sound premiere during Cannes Film Festival

The A-list superstars turned heads as they stormed the red carpet to celebrate the release of the historical queer romance film, starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor.

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4 w. ago History of Sound review: Paul Mescal's gay romance doesn't sing

Screening in Cannes, this folk music drama has a compelling affair between Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor but falls into monotony

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