13 h. ago BGT act doing 'things never seen on ITV' promise 'people will be hurt' in boldest stunt yet

EXCLUSIVE: As the fifth semi-final gears up to get away, one of the more off-the-wall acts has told the Daily Star about the carnage we can expect from them tonight

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17 h. ago Indianapolis celebrates an epic sports weekend with Pacers, Fever and the Indy 500

Indianapolis has an incredible weekend of sports on deck

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59 h. ago Train smashes into tractor on level crossing leaving 17 people hurt

Emergency services including ambulances and the air ambulance were scrambled to the scene near Leominster, Herefordshire, shortly after 10:45am.

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62 h. ago Train smashes into tractor on level crossing leaving six people hurt

Emergency services including ambulances and the air ambulance were scrambled to the scene near Leominster, Herefordshire, shortly after 10:45am.

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3 d. ago Spike Lee on the collision of his two passions, the Knicks and cinema, in Cannes

Some of Spike Lee’s most deeply felt passions — filmmaking and the New York Knicks — have collided at the Cannes Film Festival

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4 d. ago Spike Lee says ‘people are hurting’ in jab at Trump’s foreign

‘I don’t know how much we can talk about American values considering who is the president,’ the director said

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4 d. ago Denzel Washington and Spike Lee’s days of collaboration might be numbered, director says

Lee’s newest movie, ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ starring Washington and A$AP Rocky, premiered Monday at the Cannes Film Festival

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4 d. ago Spike Lee says Highest 2 Lowest is his last film with Denzel Washington

Director says his fifth movie with the actor will probably be their last project together as Washington ‘has been talking about retirement’The collaboration between Spike Lee and Denzel Washington has spanned four decades and tackled many aspects of African American life. But Lee feels their latest venture, the kidnap drama Highest 2 Lowest, will probably be the duo’s swansong.“This is the fifth one we’ve done together,” Lee said after the picture’s premiere at the Cannes film festival. “It has been a blessing, this body of work between us, doing films that people love. And I think this is it. He’s been talking about retirement. But five films together: that’s good, they stand up.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Denzel Washington SKIPS Cannes Film Festival event as director Spike Lee claims they won't work together again... following red carpet showdown with a photographer

The Oscar-winning actor, 70, shocked fans the night before when he was seen pointing his finger in the face of one of the snappers during the dramatic exchange.

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5 d. ago Denzel Washington surprised with honorary Palme d'Or award at Cannes Film Festival

The legendary actor, 70, attended the premiere of his latest film Highest 2 Lowest during the event in which director Spike Lee presented him with the award.

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5 d. ago Highest 2 Lowest review – Spike Lee and Denzel Washington remake Kurosawa in fine style

Cannes film festivalAkira Kurosawa’s downbeat noir High and Low is retooled with Washington on magnificent form as a record producer whose godson is kidnapped by mistakeSpike Lee has made a brash, bold, big-city movie with this pulsing New York adventure that doubles as a love letter to NYC’s sports and its music. It is a remake (or maybe cover version) of Akira Kurosawa’s classic downbeat noir High and Low from 1963, transplanting the action from Yokohama to New York – or rather returning it there, because the original source material, Ed McBain’s novel King’s Ransom, is set in a fictional city based on the Big Apple.It’s got a terrific throb of energy and life, moving across the screen with the rangy grace of its superstar Denzel Washington – though a little of the minor-key sombreness and complex pessimism and cynicism of the first film has been lost and the modern technology of GPS (unknown in Kurosawa’s day) has indirectly left it with a very small plausibility issue. Continue ...

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5 d. ago With a whirlwind stop from Denzel, Spike unveils 'Highest 2 Lowest' in Cannes

Denzel Washington sandwiched a whirlwind trip to the Cannes Film Festival in between Broadway performances for the premiere of Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” on Monday

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5 d. ago A$AP Rocky busts a move with Spike Lee and Bill Murray throws water over photographers as stars cause chaos during Cannes Film Festival photocalls

The stars let loose at Cannes Film Festival on Monday as they made the most of their moment in the spotlight at the various photocalls.

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7 d. ago Tall ship crashes into Brooklyn Bridge with search underway for people thrown into water

Three people are critically injured and about a dozen others seriously hurt, according to early reports

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1 week ago White House backed down on China’s tariff after president was told they would hurt ‘Trump’s people’ the most

Several White House staffers had to warn the president that his tariffs would impact ‘Trump’s people.’

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1 week ago Uproar as disability rights protesters in wheelchairs dragged out of House Medicaid meeting: ‘You’re going to kill me!’

Republicans insist the work requirements won’t hurt people with disabilities, but disability rights advocates

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1 week ago Uproar as disability rights protesters in wheelchairs dragged out of House Medicaid meeting: ‘You will kill us!’

Republicans insist the work requirements won’t hurt people with disabilities, but disability rights advocates

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1 week ago The new pope is the internet’s biggest meme. What does that say about us? | Tayo Bero

Social media has been fun for the first time in years. But the joy of this moment is about more than just jokesWhile most good Catholics spent the early days of this week in solemn contemplation, praying that the church’s new leader would be a person of character and someone who could unite us in these tense, ungodly times, the rest of us were on X cackling at our screens and reposting chimney memes.Social media has been having a field day since Pope Francis passed and the race was on for a new pope. And now that Pope Leo XIV from Chicago has been selected, the jokes have been top-tier – references to the TV show The Bear, videos of the new pope walking out to music by the Chicago legend Chief Keef, Spike Lee somehow making this a win for the New York Knicks – I don’t remember the last time I had this much fun in the hellish digital town square formerly known as Twitter.Tayo Bero is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Putin takes a jab at Trump in war of words over who REALLY won World War Two as Russia stages huge Victory Day parade and hosts China's Xi

The Russian and Chinese leaders nestled side-by-side to watch the parade in a show of unity after they issued a statement yesterday condemning Trump 's plan for a missile defence system

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2 w. ago A$AP Rocky calls himself ‘Black Tom Cruise’ after performing own stunts in new Spike Lee film

Rocky did his own stunts in the forthcoming film ‘Highest 2 Lowest’

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