51 m. ago Apocalypse constantly: The perverse reasons we love to watch ourselves die on screen

From ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ to ‘Deep Impact’ and ‘Don’t Look Up’, nothing seems to bring audiences together faster than a glimpse at the end of the world. As Tilda Swinton sings through the apocalypse in her new film, Xan Brooks dives into cinema’s most curious lineage

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1 hour ago The Handmaid's Tale season 6 release date, episode count and cast confirmed

Here's everything you should know about The Handmaid's Tale before it returns for season 6.

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3 h. ago easyJet, Ryanair, BA and TUI rules for bringing food onto the plane over Easter

If you're hoping to avoid lacklustre plane meals and pricey in-flight menus while travelling, make sure you're up to date on the latest rules about bringing food into the cabin

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8 h. ago Dreamers review – this teen dance drama is too subtle for its own good. Where’s the debauchery?

Where other teen shows ramp up the sex, drugs and scandal, this Leeds-set saga about rivalries in a dance school keeps it real – so real it almost refuses to be entertainingThe implausibility of the teen drama may well be the genre’s defining feature. In the 00s, we were subjected to untold glamour and relentless wisecracking by US imports such as The OC and Gossip Girl. The UK equivalent was Skins, in which a group of Bristolian party animals managed to make practically every personal problem known to man look intimidatingly cool. More recently, we’ve had mind-blowing levels of debauchery from Euphoria, mind-blowing levels of sexual literacy and candour from Sex Education and mind-blowing levels of heartwarming niceness from Heartstopper. All of it is ludicrous in its own way.Dreamers is different. It is realistic – jarringly so. That’s both a pro and a con for this Channel 4 drama about a group of teenage dancers living in Leeds. The series – written by Lisa Holdsworth (Waterloo R...

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12 h. ago Watch Perfume Genius Sing “No Front Teeth” Live For The First Time In London

Watch Perfume Genius Sing “No Front Teeth” Live For The First Time In London  Stereogum

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14 h. ago Competition Concerns: American Airlines & British Airways To Give Up Slots On London

Competition Concerns: American Airlines & British Airways To Give Up Slots On London-US Flights  Simple Flying

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15 h. ago Kelsey Parker's heartbreaking message to Tom for anniversary of his death on Mother's Day

Tom Parker died three years ago today after being diagnosed with a tumour, and his widowed wife Kelsey overlooked Mother's Day as she honoured him in a moving post featuring their two kids

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16 h. ago Readers reply: Why are you expected to be quiet in an art gallery?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsWhy are you expected to be quiet in an art gallery? Thierry Dupond, Charente-Maritime, FranceSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago First orbital rocket launched from mainland Europe crashes after takeoff

Uncrewed Spectrum test rocket’s failure seconds after blast-off said to have produced extensive data nonethelessA test rocket aimed at kickstarting satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded less than a minute after takeoff from a Norwegian spaceport on Sunday, in what the German startup Isar Aerospace had described as an initial test.The uncrewed Spectrum rocket was billed as the first attempt at an orbital flight to originate from Europe, where several nations, including Sweden and Britain, have said they want a share of the growing market for commercial space missions. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago A private European aerospace startup completes the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle

A private European aerospace startup says it has successfully completed the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle from Norway

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17 h. ago Who is in the cast of This City is Ours? BBC actors and where you know them from

This City is Ours features plenty of famous faces in its cast 👀

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18 h. ago The Yorkshire suburb hidden in plain sight that feels like a holiday resort

Thousands drive past every day oblivious to its hidden water features

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19 h. ago Democrats have never been so angry. Who will step up and lead them?

At rallies, town halls and protests, voters are unleashing their fury with Donald Trump, stoking what some believe is a populist backlashDemocrats are furious. And they want their leaders to get mad, too.“I wish you’d be angry,” a constituent told representative Gil Cisneros, a Democrat of California, at a recent town hall. At an event in Minnesota featuring a panel of Democratic attorneys general, an activist voiced a similar sentiment: “Get angry, man,” punctuating the message with a profanity. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Just the ticket: Europe’s 10 best train station hotels for a first

Travelling by rail? Treat yourself to a proper arrival at these extra-special hotels, just minutes from the platformYou might think the location is the best thing about this hotel – slap bang next to María Zambrano station – the ideal starting point for a tour of Andalucía’s trio of spectacular cities: Seville, Córdoba and Granada. But the roof terrace is an unexpected win, too, with a sleek outdoor pool, alfresco sofas and loungers for a post-sightseeing snooze, and a nice menu of cocktails and light bites. The real gem, though, is the totally unexpected slide that swooshes down from the first to the ground floor, giving the lobby a lovely sense of fun. Breakfasts are also excellent.Doubles from £144 room-only, barcelo.com Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Protection ITV cast: who is in the show and where do you know them from?

Protection features plenty of recognisable faces - but where do you know them from? 👮 ♂️

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20 h. ago M&S shoppers rave about £29.50 'no crease' plisse trousers that are 'great for packing'

Marks & Spencer's plisse trousers come in two versatile colours meaning they can be dressed up or down - and they don't need ironing so are ideal for packing in your suitcase

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22 h. ago ‘Their voices had been overlooked for so long’: the shocking hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer

The long and often shocking journey to finding the alleged killer of young women in Long Island is brought to a wider audience in a damning new Netflix seriesThe film-maker Liz Garbus was on vacation in July 2023 when she got the call that an arrest had finally been made in the case of the Long Island serial killer. Since 2010, when the bodies of four women were found along an isolated stretch of highway near Gilgo Beach, authorities had looked for a presumed serial killer with little progress and plenty of consternation. Garbus was one of the most prominent chroniclers of the grassroots effort to force authorities into action; her 2020 feature film Lost Girls, an adaptation of Robert Kolker’s book of the same name, depicted the fight by a group of working-class women to figure out what happened to their loved ones – all women who participated in sex work on Craigslist – with or largely without police help.It was the star of that film, Amy Ryan, who alerted Garbus to the arrest of R...

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23 h. ago Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets | Kenan Malik

Arrests, blacklists and deportations are chilling reminders of the red scare that transformed America‘Gold, mister, is worth what it is because of the human labor that goes into the finding and getting of it.” It’s a line spoken by Walter Huston in the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a story about greed and moral corruption directed by his son, John Huston. That line was to have appeared on screen at the beginning of the film. It didn’t, on orders from the studio, Warner Bros. “It was all on account of the word ‘labor’,” John Huston later reflected. “That word looks dangerous in print, I guess.”It was a relatively insignificant moment in the drama of America’s postwar red scare. McCarthyism proper had still to take flight. Yet, so deep ran the fear already that a single, everyday word could create consternation in Hollywood. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Ayrshire represented on the Tartan Week catwalk at Dressed To Kilt in New York

Ayrshire's own kiltmaker Graeme Bone and singer Jai McDowall will feature at the renowned Dressed To Kilt event in New York next week.

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24 h. ago The city with '300 days of sun', pints for under a fiver and £14.99 flights from Manchester Airport

It's the latest route from Manchester Airport to one of the world's most in-demand holiday destinations

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