2 h. ago ‘I’d feel stifled by that’: Gwyneth Paltrow told intimacy coordinator to ‘step back’ on new film with Timothée Chalamet

The actor, who shares a number of sex scenes with co-star Chalamet in new film Marty Supreme, said ‘I’m from the era where you get naked, you get in bed, the camera’s on’Gwyneth Paltrow has said she felt uncomfortable about the presence of an intimacy coordinator on the set of her new film, in which she shares a number of sex scenes with co-star Timothée Chalamet.Speaking to Vanity Fair, Paltrow, 52, said that working on Marty Supreme, which is her first leading role in a film since 2010, was her first experience of the relatively new profession, introduced after the #MeToo movement to try to help protect actors on set after multiple instances of abuse were exposed. Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Johnny Depp was 'freaked out' by fame after beating Tom Cruise to iconic film role

The Pirates of the Caribbean star has been opening up about his challenging start in Hollywood.

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54 h. ago Adolescence fans astonished by Hollywood film star's secret role behind the camera

Netflix fans have been binging Stephen Graham's heart-wrenching drama Adolescence over the weekend - and they've just discovered that a major Hollywood star worked on the series

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4 d. ago ITV Emmerdale's Meena Jutla star's life since leaving soap including new film role

Emmerdale's Manpreet Sharma has been blackmailed in recent weeks and some viewers have questioned whether her sister Meena Jutla could be behind the sinister messages

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5 d. ago Age campaigner Alison Clyde to receive honorary degree from Stirling University

The University of Stirling is to award an honorary degree to Scottish age campaigner, Alison Clyde, at its Spring graduation ceremony next week.

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6 d. ago Car industry urges UK government to create new EV incentives

Automotive body says current policy is leading to job losses and has become a ‘driver of de-industrialisation’Fresh incentives to boost a flatlining electric car market are urgently needed, according to the UK automotive industry, whose leaders called on the government to act fast and “revisit the mandate” for zero emission vehicles (ZEV).The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said its research showed growth in consumer demand for EVs was lower than expected, with only one in eight new buyers planning to switch in the next three years, putting jobs at risk. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Daniel Craig in line for role in Greta Gerwig’s Narnia film for Netflix

Gerwig is expected to begin filming The Magician’s Nephew, the origin story of CS Lewis’s classic fantasy novels, with the actor reported to have a major roleDaniel Craig is being lined up for a role in Greta Gerwig’s new Narnia film, her first directorial project since her huge success with Barbie and the first product of a deal she signed with Netflix to make at least two adaptations of CS Lewis’s fantasy novel series.According to Deadline, Craig has been offered a role in the film, which is currently in production for a projected release in autumn 2026. While Netflix has not confirmed which novel is being adapted, it is thought to be The Magician’s Nephew, which is listed on the Internet Movie Database as Gerwig’s next project. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Lord Sugar 'fires The Apprentice candidate BEFORE the end of the episode' in shocking show first'

The reality TV series sees business hopefuls compete in team-based tasks to win a job with a top executive, with eliminations each week leading to a final winner.

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7 d. ago 'Soulless' warehouse job leads former Stirling university student to starring Ken Loach film role

Louis Utieyin worked long hours at a warehouse before getting his big break in the new Ken Loach film, On Falling.

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7 d. ago Margot Robbie poised to play Anna Nicole Smith in a film about the Playboy model's life

Margot Robbie, who played the title character in Barbie in 2023, is reportedly the only name in the frame for the lead role in the film about Anna Nicole Smith

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8 d. ago The Rivals of Amziah King review – Matthew McConaughey returns with unwieldy misstep

SXSW film festival: The Oscar winner’s first film role for six years shows his undeniable magnetism but squanders it on a baggy mix of tones and genresIn the past six years, the Academy award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey, the reigning prince of Austin, Texas, has kept busy. He raised his three kids in the city, written and released a bestselling memoir on “easy-livin’” (“because life is a verb”), taught in the film department at the University of Texas at Austin, pleaded for gun control at the White House after the horrific school shooting in his home town of Uvalde and “seriously considered” running for governor of Texas. But he has not acted on screen – relegating his last two film roles, underwhelming romps in Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum and Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, to the distant memory of a pre-pandemic 2019. With the end of the 2010s, the energy of the McConnaissance went elsewhere.That is, until Monday, when McConaughey returned to red carpet promotional duties fo...

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9 d. ago Cumbernauld Colts content with point amid injury woes in relegation fight

The Broadwood side earned a draw from their trip to Stirling University on Saturday

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1 week ago On Falling – heartbreaking study of a warehouse worker’s yearning loneliness

Director Laura Carreira’s superb debut feature is reminiscent of Ken Loach in its humane portrayal of soul-destroying workA Portuguese stock picker toiling in a vast Scottish warehouse, Aurora (lovely, empathetic work from Joana Santos), in the eyes of her employers, is not an individual. She is the sum of the data that her handheld scanner feeds back into the system. If the algorithm decrees it, she is rewarded for efficiency (a bar of chocolate from her callow, barely post-adolescent manager). If she falls behind, she’s scolded by someone oblivious of (and indifferent to) the fact that Aurora is struggling on several levels: the unexpected cost of repairing her phone has wiped out her food budget for the month; the work is soul-destroying and repetitive. But most of all, she’s isolated, disconnected and painfully lonely.This terrific English-language feature debut from Portuguese-born, Scotland-based director Laura Carreira makes a satisfying companion piece to Ken Loach’s Sorry W...

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1 week ago One of Them Days star SZA's forgotten role in HBO hit drama explained

SZA takes on a comedic role in new film One of Them Days

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1 week ago Is One of Them Days Sza’s first film role? Popstar's forgotten HBO role unearthed

The Grammy-winning popstar has a little-known HBO role

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1 week ago Lady Gaga: Mayhem review – a fabulous return to her freaky first principles

(Interscope)After some noteworthy musical and cinematic misfires, Gaga gets back to her core themes of sex, sleaze and celebrity on an album that sounds not retro, but relevantLady Gaga’s single Abracadabra is enjoying its fifth consecutive week in the UK Top 10. You can imagine a collective sigh of relief chez Gaga: she has been experiencing what you might call a case of career sea sickness, in which unadulterated commercial triumphs have been followed by very public flops. In the credit column, there’s Die With a Smile, a power-ballad duet with Bruno Mars that went to No 1 in 28 countries and spent 10 weeks as the world’s biggest-selling single. (Released last August, it also appears on Mayhem.) In the debit, there was her starring role in the disastrous Joker: Folie à Deux, a film that was estimated to have lost Warner Brothers something in the region of $150m (£116m), and which seemed to take both the Gaga-heavy soundtrack and her own, jazz-based “companion album” Harlequin down...

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1 week ago The inventor of basketball who is being reclaimed as Scottish

The history of basketball is being retold following research from a Stirling University academic.

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2 w. ago Commuter shocked as they spot Netflix star cuddling their dog on the subway

The actor, 34, who is also known for his role in the film Challengers with Zendaya, petted the woman's dog as it sniffed around his feet.

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2 w. ago Commuter shocked as they spot Netflix star cuddling their dog on the tube

The actor, 34, who is also known for his role in the film Challengers with Zendaya, petted the woman's dog as it sniffed around his feet.

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2 w. ago NHS Lanarkshire’s Quit Your Way team launches programme as part of research study to support smoke

Study being led by researchers at the University of Stirling in partnership with the health board and the University of Glasgow.

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