2 h. ago Swiped review – breezy drama gives dating apps the origins treatment

Lily James plays former Tinder employee who became founder of Bumble in an illuminating yet corny rise-to-fame taleIn 2012, a plucky, headstrong young entrepreneur crashes a startup mixer in Los Angeles, desperately trying to get their big idea off the ground. Naive and ruthlessly ambitious, they brave the skeptics, the losers, the people too good to talk to them and the people who don’t take them seriously. Eventually, inevitably, their genius – obvious, unsinkable, perhaps diabolical – collides with opportunity. Voilà! An origin story is born.Swap out the date and the city, and this would describe a pivotal scene in any number of recent movies and TV shows that take cinematic interest in the self-mythology of entrepreneurs. The dramatic logic and iconography of the origin story, basically true but always highly glossed, is by now so recognizable it almost writes itself: initial rejection, dogged persistence, chance meeting, lightbulb moment, big break. We’ve seen it in a wave of b...

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2 h. ago Juice season two review – Mawaan Rizwan’s enchanting sitcom comes at you like a tidal wave of creativity

The cast radiate charm, the storytelling is hugely imaginative and the narrative is irresistibly heartwarming. It’s not the funniest comedy, but it has so much more going for it than just laughsMawaan Rizwan began his career as a YouTuber; he later attended the prestigious Paris clown school, École Philippe Gaulier. In Juice, the 33-year-old’s BBC sitcom, he effortlessly unites these disparate comedy training grounds. As the fun-loving commitment-phobe Jamma, Rizwan channels the archetypal man-child vlogger. Puppyish and relatable, he wears his insecurities on his sleeve, and his attempts to conform to the expectations of adulthood are inevitably thwarted. But he is also a figure of more outre fun. With a severe bowl-cut and a penchant for retina-searing fashion, Jamma is overtly ridiculous: a master of slapstick and a magnet for chaos.In series one, Jamma spent most of his time clowning about: hardly working at a quirky marketing company (with mini trampolines instead of desk chair...

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3 h. ago CPS: No outside pressure to drop charges against men accused of spying for China

The CPS faced criticism after proceedings against a former parliamentary researcher and a second man accused of spying for Beijing were stopped.

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3 h. ago In Whose Name? review – Kanye’s descent makes for grimly compelling watch

More than 3,000 hours of footage filmed since 2018 by a teenager gets turned into a strange, revealing and unsettling look at a fallen star‘What was Kanye West thinking?’ has remained a prevailing question since the Grammy award-winning rapper-producer pulled the rip cord on his spectacular descent into rightwing nihilism more than a decade ago. In Whose Name?, a cinéma vérité take on the tortured musical genius (who goes by just Ye now), offers fans and long-term observers a new artifact to pore over in search of answers – and reason to be disappointed all over again.That’s not a knock on the 104-minute opus, an outcropping of more than 3,000 hours of footage – some of it never before seen, some of it a reverse perspective on the viral stunts and rants that have marked Ye’s dramatic nosedive. Director Nico Ballesteros – who started filming in 2018, at age 18, with nothing to recommend him (his stint as a second assistant director on a Jesus Is King concert video came later) – had s...

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3 h. ago Pensioner woke to find towering internet mast outside her home... then it started WEEPING and smelling

EXCLUSIVE: Ms Raye, 67, had been enjoying her home in Eastleigh, Hampshire, for well over three decades before her dreams of residential bliss were dashed.

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3 h. ago BREAKING: VAR forced to intervene over incident that left Erling Haaland fuming in Man City v clash

There was early drama in Manchester City's clash with Napoli in the Champions League as Giovanni Di Lorenzo was sent off for bringing down Erling Haaland after a VAR review

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3 h. ago Kevin de Bruyne hauled OFF as VAR intervenes in incident that left Erling Haaland fuming

There was early drama in Manchester City's clash with Napoli in the Champions League as Giovanni Di Lorenzo was sent off for bringing down Erling Haaland after a VAR review

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4 h. ago Police Scotland backs plan to criminalise sex buying and quash convictions of prostitutes

EXCLUSIVE: The single force revealed their stance in a consultation response.

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4 h. ago Second eviction notice for 'African tribe' camping in Scots woods

The so-called Kingdom of Kubala have been living in the woods just outside Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, since May this year.

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5 h. ago Sex Pistols icon Johnny Rotten reckons punk music was actually invented by cavemen

Sex Pistols hellraiser Johnny Rotten, real name John Lydon, reckons that cavemen were the original punk rockers, rather than bands like The Ramones

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6 h. ago Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal star to set up Great Britain clash with USA

Kartal and Boulter won in straight-sets to book a semi-final against the USA

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7 h. ago Emma Raducanu squanders three match points to crash OUT of the Korea Open against former Wimbledon champion

While the 22-year-old was able to despatch world No 41 Jacqueline Cristian in straight sets in her tournament opener, former Wimbledon champion Krecjikova proved a tougher obstacle.

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7 h. ago Dying Light: The Beast review – Kyle Crane goes beast mode in the true sequel to Techland’s original

Tearing through hordes of flesh-eaters and other nightmare creatures is made all the more eventful thanks to a variety-filled setting and the franchise's most refined con bat system yet.

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7 h. ago Suspect, 71, claiming to be Charlie Kirk shooter so assassin could escape charged with having images of child sex abuse

‘I shot him, now shoot me,’ George Zinn told officers moments after Kirk’s assassination

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8 h. ago Is Lakeland’s Dry:Soon heated clothes airer a laundry hero or a load of hot air?

The tent-like capsule is the ideal option for the clothes you can’t tumble dry

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8 h. ago Swiped review – Lily James leads a girlboss Social Network that is half film, half Bumble advert

This Disney+ biopic treats Whitney Wolfe Herd’s often harrowing experiences in the male-dominated tech industry with appropriate seriousness, but ultimately becomes a bland PR exercise

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8 h. ago Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Opp 12 no 2 & 96 album review – sheer joie de vivre

(Signum)Viktoria Mullova and Alasdair Beatson end their cycle of Beethoven violin sonatas with energised and immaculate performancesViktoria Mullova began her cycle of the Beethoven violin sonatas partnered by Kristian Bezuidenhout, but Alasdair Beatson has been the pianist for the last three instalments. They end the series with a pairing of the second of the Op 12 set in A major with the last of the sonatas, in G. All of the performances use historical instruments, with Mullova playing her gut-strung 1750 Guadagnini and using a classical bow, while here Beatson plays a different keyboard for each sonata. For the rather Mozartian Op 12 no 2 he uses a copy of a Walter fortepiano made in 1805, seven years after the sonata was composed; while for the much more ambitious keyboard writing of Op 96 it’s a copy of a Graf from 1819.What is common to the performances of both sonatas is the sheer joie de vivre of the playing. Everything seems energised, and if the precision and immaculate en...

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8 h. ago London Calling Review: Josh Duhamel's Empty Action Comedy Is Devoid Of Both The Action & The Comedy

London Calling Review: Josh Duhamel's Empty Action Comedy Is Devoid Of Both The Action & The Comedy  Screen Rant

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8 h. ago Raducanu suffers devastating Korea Open defeat as Krejcikova saves three match points in epic

Raducanu continues her campaign in Seoul after opting to skip the Billie Jean King Cup Finals

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8 h. ago How Robert Redford redefined menswear on – and off – the screen

The late actor was a paragon of masculine cool and a sartorial chameleon, able to take any aesthetic trope and make it shine with easy authenticityThe pantheon of men’s style icons is surprisingly compact. There are scores of uniquely handsome and stylish actors, pop stars, sportsmen – but when it comes to their decades-long influence and a sense of permanence unaffected by trends in fashion, three square-jawed American boys next door stand out: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen – and Robert Redford, who died yesterday at 89.Redford’s death is, obviously, a loss to cinema. In the latter half of the 20th century, few actors so roundly embodied the soul of American film-making, or perhaps even the US itself. During a decade-long, career-defining run of hit movies, Redford established the archetype of the modern leading man. He was impossibly handsome and warmly charismatic, of course, but also scrappy, soulful, athletic, bookishly intelligent and politically aware. A matinee idol who could f...

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