27 m. ago 'Must watch' Netflix thriller from The Crown and Sherlock director divides fans

Some believe Marvel star gives an award winning performance

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2 h. ago ‘Kept fighting despite the odds’: the Russian journalists who risked everything to report the truth

In an expansive five-hour documentary, young journalists are branded ‘foreign agents’ for continuing to report independently as authoritarianism spreadsIn the fall of 2021, the director Julia Loktev traveled from her Brooklyn home to Moscow, with the intent to film some friends under pressure. That summer, the Russian government had cracked down on the remaining independent media in the country, designating outlets and journalists it found irksome as “foreign agents”. Loktev, who moved to the US from the Soviet Union at age nine, had several journalist friends now required to submit detailed financial reports to the government and affix an all-caps disclaimer to any output, be it an article or an Instagram post of their cat, declaring it the work of a foreign agent.Loktev began shadowing her friend Anna Nemzer, a host on the country’s only remaining independent news channel, TV Rain (Dozhd, in Russian), which was on the growing list of “foreign agents” meant to chill any press criti...

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3 h. ago Conservative TV host crashes Jasmine Crockett town hall to call Democrat a ‘fake ghetto hoodrat’

Blaze TV anchor Sara Gonzales berates Democratic congresswoman at public meeting for her Texas constituents for having the audacity to come from Missouri

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4 h. ago James Gunn explains ‘complicated’ reason behind Superman’s quick streaming release

‘There were a lot of things that are beyond our control,’ said the director

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14 h. ago Female babysitter asked to care for disabled children because her pedophile boyfriend liked sexually abusing them

Brittney Lyon, 31, procured at least four young girls , two aged three and two aged seven, for her partner Samuel Cabrera, 31, to molest while she participated in 2016.

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18 h. ago Hit horror Weapons doesn’t have a deeper meaning but that’s OK | Jesse Hassenger

A frenzied search for answers in the wake of the box office smash has some assuming there’s a weightier allegory but its power is in something simpler and more primalMajor spoilers aheadFor years now, horror fans and critics have grown increasingly and understandably impatient with the tendency of genre films to orient their scares toward a clearly conveyed central metaphor.The real monster in these movies is parenthood, personal trauma or that old horror-movie standby, grief. Writer-director Zach Cregger is no stranger to this line of thinking; his 2022 horror movie Barbarian is very much a spooky-creature-in-the-basement movie for the #MeToo era. Now Cregger has returned with a movie that may well stymie anyone who has been trained by the last decade to search for an easy-to-track allegory within their viscerally depicted fears. His new movie Weapons has received mostly rave reviews and positive audience response. But at least a few critics and fans are pivoting from complaining a...

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19 h. ago ‘We thought with The Crown: “Is anyone going to watch this?”’ director Benjamin Caron on risk, realism – and royalty

A ‘safe pair of hands’ in high end TV, Caron now reunites with Vanessa Kirby for hyperactive Netflix thriller Night Always Comes about the terror of urban homelessnessIt’s quite a schlep from Buckingham Palace to the mean streets of working-class Portland, Oregon, but it is one that Midlands-born film-maker Benjamin Caron and actor Vanessa Kirby have undertaken with their new thriller Night Always Comes, adapted from the taut novel by Willy Vlautin. Caron and Kirby met nearly a decade ago when he directed episodes of The Crown, in which she played the young Princess Margaret from behind a cloud of cigarette smoke.Now Kirby stars as a former sex worker called Lynette, toiling in multiple jobs and living with her disabled brother (Zach Gottsagen) and their wrecked, wayward mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh). They have cobbled together the funds to buy their dilapidated house at a snip, only for Lynette’s mother to recklessly blow her half on a new car. Cue one manic night in which Lynette ...

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20 h. ago ‘A Christmas Carol’ adaptation to feature Scrooge who ‘despises refugees’

The film will ‘teach the lesson of how prejudice, poverty and division shapes our society today,’ the director said

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21 h. ago Christian Horner sees final Red Bull F1 ties cut as new company director named

Team principal and chief executive Christian Horner was removed from both those roles last month and has now had his departure from Red Bull Racing and its related companies officially confirmed

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21 h. ago Councils slammed for charging ‘fat tax’ on burials of larger coffins

Funeral director says additional charges for burial of larger coffins discriminate against grieving families

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22 h. ago Tributes as Terry Lane, founder and artistic director of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, dies

Terry Lane co-founded the Traverse in 1963

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22 h. ago Ravel: Complete Orchestral Works II album review – Mallarmé miniatures shine brightly

Barron/Duhamel/OBC Barcelona/Morlot(L’Auditori)Ludovic Morlot creates a shimmering web around soprano Fleur Barron’s lucid vocals in Trois Poèmes, on an album that also showcases Shéhérazade and Don QuichotteThe first disc of Ludovic Morlot’s Ravel survey with the Barcelona orchestra of which he’s been music director since 2022 appeared last year. That included two of Ravel’s best known scores: the suite Le Tombeau de Couperin and the ballet Mother Goose. At the heart of this latest instalment are Ravel’s three orchestral song cycles: the mezzo soprano Fleur Barron sings Shéhérazade, the 1904 settings of poems by Tristan Klingsor, and the 1913 Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, while between them the baritone Alexandre Duhamel is the soloist in the charming product of Ravel’s old age, which was originally intended as a film score, Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, from 1933.For all the oriental beauty of Shéhérazade, delivered with suitably seductive warmth by Barron, it is the Mallarmé min...

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23 h. ago Christmas Carol adaptation to feature Scrooge who ‘despises refugees’ – director

Musical movie Christmas Karma stars The Big Bang Theory’s Kunal Nayyar as a contemporary Scrooge, called Mr Sood.

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24 h. ago The London beauty hot list: Our health director's favourite salons, spas and skincare specialists

Rose Beer rounds up London’s best insider beauty addresses, from the cult and the luxe to the indie and the A-list approved

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25 h. ago Democrats can win in 2028. But we need to oust corporate candidates first | Alexandra Rojas

They need a new generation of leaders with fresh faces and bold ideas, unbought by corporate Super Pacs and billionaire donorsIf the Democratic party wants to win back power in 2028, then look no further than the 2026 election cycle as the most important moment to focus on.It is not three years from now when working class voters will decide, like they did in November, whether they still believe the Democratic party isn’t fighting for their interests – it’s the next 12 months. And to make it abundantly clear, it is not going to be the same 257 Democrats that are in Congress today that will deliver Democrats their majority. That’s why a robust, active, and exciting Democratic primary process in districts across the country is a necessary prerequisite to Democrats winning in 2026, let alone 2028.Alexandra Rojas is the executive director of Justice Democrats Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard says JD Vance has ‘surprised’ him

‘The strategy he’s chosen to follow are not what I would’ve expected,’ filmmaker who unleashed Trump’s vice president upon the world said

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26 h. ago The Thursday Murder Club director shares 'mistake' with initial adaptation

The Thursday Murder Club, which is based on the best-selling novel of the same name, will be available to stream on Netflix from August 28

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27 h. ago Harry Potter star joins Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club in major role

Netflix has pulled out all the stops for the film adaptation of Richard Osman's bestselling novel, The Thursday Murder Club, with a star-studded cast and a well-known director

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27 h. ago Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard says he’s ‘surprised’ by JD Vance controversy

‘The strategy he’s chosen to follow are not what I would’ve expected,’ filmmaker who unleashed Trump’s vice president upon the world said

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27 h. ago Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club sees Harry Potter star in huge role

Netflix is bringing Richard Osman's book, The Thursday Murder Club, to screens with a film adaptation that promises to be a hit. The director is known for his work on Harry Potter.

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