8 d. ago Marty Supreme review – Timothée Chalamet a smash in spectacular screwball ping

Following every dizzying spin of Chalamet’s table tennis hustler, Josh Safdie’s whip-crack comedy serves sensational shots – and a smart return by Gwyneth PaltrowThis new film from Josh Safdie has the fanatical energy of a 149-minute ping pong rally carried out by a single player running round and round the table. It’s a marathon sprint of gonzo calamities and uproar, a sociopath-screwball nightmare like something by Mel Brooks – only in place of gags, there are detonations of bad taste, cinephile allusions, alpha cameos, frantic deal-making, racism and antisemitism, sentimental yearning and erotic adventures. It’s a farcical race against time where no one needs to eat or sleep.Timothée Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, a spindly motormouth with the glasses of an intellectual, the moustache of a movie star and the physique of a tiny cartoon character. He’s loosely inspired by Marty “The Needle” Reisman, a real-life US table tennis champ from the 1950s who was given to Bobby Riggs-type sh...

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2 w. ago Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker review: 'Spectacular Christmas magic'

Sir Peter Hall’s version of The Nutcracker returns to Royal Ballet with a bravura extravaganza which conjures the Christmas cheer right out of you

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2 w. ago Las Vegas GP fish and chips price so high F1 fans are convinced Gordon Ramsay must cook them

The 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix got underway this week - and it has already sparked plenty of discussion both on and off the track with F1 followers.

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2 w. ago Toxic mushrooms spark urgent biohazard event in abandoned UK bingo hall

Experts discovered mushrooms called Serpula lacrymans - a species of fungus known for causing dry rot - in Bournemouth's Grand Cinema bingo hall, sparking an urgent biohazard clean-up

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2 w. ago 'Powerhouse' Ariana Grande sparks Oscar buzz in first reviews for 'spectacular' Wicked: For Good

The second installment of director Jon M. Chu's blockbuster big screen adaptation of Broadway's Wicked hits theaters on Friday after a year-long wait.

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3 w. ago Ariana's parting barb to crowds sparks fears for her health at New York Wicked premiere

Ariana Grande sparked concerns after becoming overwhelmed with photographers' attention at the Wicked: For Good New York premiere this week.

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3 w. ago Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo spark chatter with another unusual red

The clip has since gone viral, becoming the latest entry in the duo’s growing catalogue of affectionate, and occasionally eccentric, press-tour interactions

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3 w. ago Netflix film praised for ‘brilliant’ acting as viewers left heartbroken

The movie is already generating Oscar buzz ahead of awards season

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3 w. ago Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution review – spectacular if baffling anime is out to thrill and bewilder

Remix of old and new material from TV series includes tremendous battle sequences but there’s an awful lot of lore for new viewers to catch up withHere’s an unusual proposition: a film that opens with a kind of super-edit, cutting together chunks culled from many hours’ worth of plot and spectacle from the Jujutsu Kaisen TV series, which is then followed by some all-new episodes of the TV series; playing together in full as a movie, in the cinema. Is it a movie borrowing bits from a TV show? A TV show dressed up as a movie? Does it matter? It certainly doesn’t, if all you need is spectacular and imaginatively staged battle sequences – though for non-initiates, it’s difficult to see it adding up to much more than that.One thing that would be very helpful – and is regrettably lacking – is a Star Wars-style scroll plainly laying out the backstory in simple terms for unfamiliar viewers. Sure, the TV show compilation does a bit of that, but it also feels like trying to download a thousan...

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