3 d. ago Frankenstein review – Guillermo del Toro reanimates a classic as a monstrously beautiful melodrama

Venice film festivalOscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi star as the freethinking anatomist and his creature as Mary Shelley’s story is reimagined with bombast in the director’s unmistakable visual styleGuillermo del Toro has created a movie about a grotesquely unnatural attempt to make a human being shocking in his physical strangeness but that’s enough about his film version of Pinocchio. Now Del Toro has written and directed a bombastic but watchable new version of Mary Shelley’s great novel and makes of it a stately melodrama, starring Oscar Isaac as the anatomist and passionate freethinker Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as his creature: no passé neck-bolts or big fringey forehead, of course, and if you compare him with portrayals by other actors – Boris Karloff, Peter Boyle, Robert De Niro – he is, for all the picturesque prosthetic scars, the nearest this iconic figure has come to being a bit of a hottie.It’s an epic bromance between scientist and monster, both of whom speak wit...

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7 d. ago Trump loses it over ‘sick rumor’ that NBC extended ‘insecure child’ Seth Meyers’ contract — which happened last year

‘So, why would Fake News NBC extend this dope’s contract. I don’t know, but I’ll definitely be finding out!!!’ Donald Trump ranted just before 2 a.m. on Truth Social.

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1 week ago Trump in 'cognitive decline' as he calls himself 'war hero' and butchers two country names

Trump has repeatedly bragged about stopping six wars during his time in office and the peace agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia is one of his most notable achievements.

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2 w. ago Seth Meyers roasts Andy Samberg after death of beloved pet dog who ‘disliked’ actor

Late night host took aim at ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ star after ‘rivalry’ came to a sad end

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2 w. ago Seth Meyer roasts Andy Samberg after death of beloved pet dog who ‘disliked’ actor

Late night host took aim at ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ star after ‘rivalry’ came to a sad end

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2 w. ago Donald Trump shows 'classic signs' of horror disease as expert warns 'it will get worse'

A leading psychologist has suggested that there could be two signs that President Donald Trump is experiencing cognitive decline, as concerns for the 79-year-old's mental ability continue

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2 w. ago Sophie Turner says famous couple broke off engagement after actor accused her of ‘flirting’

Turner recalled the incident on Thursday’s episode of ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’

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3 w. ago Seth Meyers on Trump’s cognitive test: ‘The written version of a boxing referee holding up three fingers’

Late-night hosts discuss Trump bragging about his intellect again as he prepares for a summit with Putin in AlaskaLate-night hosts talked about Donald Trump’s rambling Truth Social posts and Taylor Swift’s new album announcement. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Zoe Kravitz recalls snake incident that ‘destroyed’ Taylor Swift’s bathroom

The actress said she moved into the singer’s home with her mother Lisa Bonet during the LA wildfires.

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3 w. ago Trump swallowing Putin’s lies is a bigger threat to Ukraine than bombs | Rafael Behr

In Alaska the Russian leader will claim to want peace, but only on his terms – and play on the president’s desperation to ‘make a deal’ quicklyWars do not have to be won. Total victories loom largest in the popular imagination because those are the stories nations always tell to sustain patriotic feeling. The fuller version of history is written in stalemates.That is worth remembering when Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. Both leaders have incentives to pretend that Ukraine’s fate can be settled decisively without any Ukrainians at the negotiating table. That doesn’t make it so. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Seth Meyers ridicules Trump’s DC crime crackdown: ‘Like a dystopian hellhole in a steampunk novel’

‘Trump should be fact-checked every time he talks about numbers,’ The Late Night host said

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