8 h. ago Predators review – grimly compelling look at reality TV revenge hunt for child abusers

David Osit’s documentary takes a disturbing look at the televised shaming served up by the hit show To Catch a PredatorIt’s too soon to know for sure, but this may end up being ranked as one of the best nonfiction films of the year. At least let’s hope lots of people get to see this, even if it’s a mistake because they meant to buy a ticket for Predator: Badlands. Instead of an alien hunter with gnarly teeth, this offers a profoundly troubling meditation on our collective thirst for revenge – or at least the kind of bizarre performance art version of revenge as served up by reality TV show To Catch a Predator, a US series that ran from 2004 to 2007 and which featured weekly footage of paedophiles and would-be paedophiles being duped, shamed and arrested.Predators’ director David Osit, at first just an offscreen voice but eventually a fully seen (in every sense) presence, explains that he used to watch To Catch a Predator avidly as a young man. Every episode was roughly the same: a m...

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20 h. ago Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater are 'still together' despite keeping their distance at Wicked premiere after 'enjoying a secret reunion at her London hotel' amid split rumours

The singer, 32, is currently on a worldwide tour to promote the second instalment of the box office hit alongside co-star Cynthia Erivo.

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59 h. ago Predator: Badlands tops box office with impressive worldwide opening weekend

New sci-fi blockbuster has topped the North American box office with a $40 million debut, according to studio estimates

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3 d. ago 'Predator: Badlands' tops box office with $80 million worldwide

"Predator: Badlands" has topped the North American box office with a $40 million debut, according to studio estimates

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6 d. ago ‘Sinners was a blast’: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram, the blues prodigy serving up electrifying riffs in the year’s biggest film

He was mentored by Buddy Guy as a teen and played for Michelle Obama in the White House. Now, the 26-year-old Mississippi guitar hero is bringing the blues back into the spotlight – and taking it to the top of the box officeFounded in 1848, Clarksdale, Mississippi, soon earned the title “the Golden Buckle on the Cotton Belt”, a place where enslaved Africans and their descendants picked cotton by the tonne. But mechanisation in the 1960s changed things. Today, the small city’s median household income is $35,210, with 40% of the populace living below the poverty line. And 80% of Clarksdale’s 14,400 residents are African American. Just another left-behind town in the poorest state in the Union? This is how Clarksdale appears to many outsiders.Or it did until one of the biggest movies of 2025 opened with the words: “Clarksdale, Mississippi – October 16, 1932”. Why was Ryan Coogler’s Sinners set in Clarksdale? Because this forgotten settlement is also a blue...

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7 d. ago 'Predator: Badlands' sticks its 2 stars together to take the franchise to new places

The seventh “Predator” film takes the franchise to new places by sticking its two stars together

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8 d. ago Predator: Badlands review – a pointless but unkillable franchise that has started to eat itself

The toothy villain is humanised and made sympathetic in this disappointing horror sci-fi – at which point it ceases to be the Predator There is disappointment in store for those hoping the Terrence Malick classic Badlands had been rebooted as a horror sci-fi, with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek menaced by a great big space alien with a peculiar mouth. No: this is actually the umpteenth iteration of the Predator franchise, which has a roach-like unkillability itself, having started in 1987 with Arnold Schwarzenegger facing an extraterrestrial creature rustling and snarling in the Central American jungle.Predator: Badlands is just about kept from flatlining by Elle Fanning’s effortless charm, though it shows what happens when the Predator in question must, in the service of narrative development, be humanised and made sympathetic and vulnerable and kinda nice? What happens is that it ceases to be the Predator, so something or someone else has inevitably to fill the Predator role. Conti...

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8 d. ago ‘I want to try it all’, says Elle Fanning on role in Predator: Badlands

Elle Fanning, who began acting as a young child, said she has always wanted to explore every genre as an actress.

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2 w. ago Elle Fanning’s Moto Moment in Coach for 'Predator: Badlands'

Elle Fanning’s Moto Moment in Coach for 'Predator: Badlands'  Red Carpet Fashion Awards

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2 w. ago Elle Fanning Wore Coach To The ‘Predator: Badlands’ London Screening

Elle Fanning Wore Coach To The ‘Predator: Badlands’ London Screening  Yahoo

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2 w. ago Epic Christmas beauty gift set gets you a £145 eye cream for £60 plus nine free products

Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for a beauty fan? This box contains over £375 worth of top beauty products yet costs you less than £60 to buy

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2 w. ago ‘I don’t know how anyone takes themselves seriously in this job’: Hollywood hotshot Glen Powell talks to Marina Hyde

He’s an old-fashioned movie star in a digital age, making box-office smashes like Top Gun: Maverick, Twisters and Anyone But You. Now he’s lining up projects with everyone from Ron Howard to Edgar Wright. Could he be Texas’s answer to Tom Cruise?There’s that famous line in the first episode of The Sopranos, where Tony laments his place in the timeline. “Lately I’m getting the feeling,” he confides, “that I came in at the end. The best is over.” I know Tony was talking about the mindful joy of building an incredibly violent organised crime enterprise from the ground up – but lately I’ve been thinking about his words every time I watch Glen Powell giving it 200% as a movie star. Glen Powell is Hollywood’s hottest mid-level actor; but because of the harsh realities of modern movie stardom, a lot of people still don’t know who he is. You get the feeling he’s coming in at the end of something.Yet barely a week goes by where I don’t hear of an uncast starring role – the bodyguar...

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