41 m. ago Borderline review – Raymond Nicholson shines as a deranged fan in comedy thriller

It’s the 1990s and a famous pop star is taken hostage by a fan in Jimmy Warden’s stylish but confused film, loosely inspired by a real-life stalker case involving MadonnaPaul Duerson (Raymond Nicholson) has got it bad for world famous pop star and actor Sofia (Samara Weaving). It being the 1990s, he doesn’t have the option of simply being creepy on social media; instead, he takes her hostage and attempts to marry her, as you do, in a period-comedy-horror-thriller that is entertaining enough moment-to-moment, but doesn’t add up anything very substantial overall. Standing in the way of Paul’s deranged scheme is bodyguard Bell (a grounded and nicely judged performance by Eric Dane), and rounding out the men in Sofia’s life is her NBA player boyfriend Rhodes (Jimmie Fails).Screenwriter Jimmy Warden knows a grabby real-life premise when he sees one. In 1985, a bear ate a massive amount of cocaine and fatally overdosed, leading, in 2023, to the release of the Warden-scripted movie Cocaine...

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8 h. ago Pink reveals she’s contracted E. Coli and is being treated with a ‘vitamin IV’

The 45-year-old pop star says she caught the infection while on vacation

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22 h. ago Orlando Bloom applies for Irish passport following split with Katy Perry

Bloom, 48, parted ways with pop star Perry, 40, in June after nine years together

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22 h. ago Addison Rae live at O2 Brixton Academy: 'live show rookie delivers short set of pure pop'

Pop’s newest star makes her move into live performance with a short but sweet show in Brixton

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36 h. ago Ava Max's pop career was saved by a medical miracle after vocal chords 'exploded'

Pop princess Ava Max's pop career was almost over before it really started when her vocal chords dramatically exploded. However, she experienced a medical miracle when they suddenly grew back

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43 h. ago Broken English review – Marianne Faithfull’s last glow, as she recounts past lives

Venice film festivalThe charismatic Faithfull is quizzed by a fictional ministry fronted by Tilda Swinton about a confounding career, from 60s It girl to art scene doyenneMarianne Faithfull led different lives and was cast in various roles. Some roles she chose and wrote herself; others were forced upon her, like an ugly hat or an ill-fitting suit. She was the convent girl and the teenage bride, the 60s It girl and the rock star’s girlfriend. She was the pop singer, the folk singer, the tragic addict and the indomitable survivor. Broken English, a flawed but ardent new documentary from Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, effectively arranges all of these incarnations like museum exhibits and invites its subject to review each one in turn – and then smash the glass to set them free.Faithfull broke the mould, and so it is fitting that the film of her life should do the same, except that Forsyth and Pollard’s main conceit feels jerry-rigged and overdramatised to the point where it risks obs...

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69 h. ago Six times pop culture eerily predicted WW3 – from The Simpsons to Star Trek

World War 3 is in the headlines more and more these days – here are six of the most prominent pop culture examples, whether that's fighting ourselves or aliens

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3 d. ago Sabrina Carpenter: Man’s Best Friend review – smut and stunning craft from pop’s best in show

(Island Records) The controversy-courting star is in perfect alignment with producer Jack Antonoff, on detailed and utterly delightful tracks that make her previous hit album seem rudimentary in comparisonIn June, Sabrina Carpenter announced her seventh album, Man’s Best Friend; its artwork depicts Carpenter on her hands and knees, an unseen man grasping a handful of her hair. It instantly caused an uproar online – most notably among Carpenter’s young fans, who weren’t on Tumblr in 2015, or weren’t aware of the way the Sun newspaper wrote about Madonna every day of the 1990s and 2000s, and therefore didn’t realise that discourse around whether pop stars should or shouldn’t be allowed to sexualise themselves is older than pop music itself, and almost always inane.Anyone hitting play on Man’s Best Friend in search of another barrel-full of ragebait might be alarmed, not because it is particularly provocative, but because it is strangely old-fashioned. Carpenter is fond of blue turns o...

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3 d. ago Sabrina Carpenter: Man’s Best Friend review – Some incredible highs, but too much that feels like a first draft

There are some sensational songs on the pop star’s follow-up to ‘Short n’ Sweet’, but too much of the rest struggles for lift-off

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3 d. ago Didsbury Pride returns with 90s icon headliner and Corrie favourite

A pop icon and Corrie star are lined up for this year's Didsbury Pride which is free to attend

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4 d. ago Sabrina Carpenter has built a brand on her coquette persona – what is it that makes her so alluring?

As Sabrina Carpenter releases her new album, ‘Man’s Best Friend’, Ellie Muir speaks to pop culture experts and stars who know the ‘Espresso’ singer about what has gone into developing her distinctive persona

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4 d. ago Warehouse worker accused of impersonating Michael Jackson by making 'hee hee' noises at a colleague was unfairly sacked, tribunal rules

The colleague, who is black, accused Lucasz Zawadzki of mimicking the pop star, making monkey noises and being racist at the Co-Operative warehouse where they worked.

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4 d. ago Viral lip liner stain used by Billie Eilish 'every day' plummets to £11 in sale

Billie Eilish's go-to lip liner stain has been a viral sensation since the pop star shared her beauty routine on social media - and right now, it's on sale for £11

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4 d. ago Taylor Swift’s romantic travails were the soundtrack to mine. What does her engagement mean for fans’ love lives? | Hollie Richardson

The singer’s breakups were anthems for emotionally bruised youth. Now she’s happy, I look forward to hearing yet more poundingly relatable lyrics – based on real, lasting love• Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce engagement on social mediaTaylor Swift wrote today’s headlines when she was only 17 with her country hit Love Story: “Baby, just say yes!” Now, at 35, she has announced her engagement to Travis Kelce, her American football player partner of two years, who got down on one knee and popped the question. “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” she captioned the subsequently staged engagement photos of them in a rose garden. It’s gaudy, it’s cringe, it’s gleefully too much – some even say it makes the Bezos wedding look classy. But it’s perfect and it made me cry.When the pop star who has soundtracked your entire adult love life gets engaged, it’s discombobulating. Especially when they are similar in age. Over two decades, Swift has gifted a song for ...

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4 d. ago Katy Perry slammed by family of veteran she ousted from home as she demands 'justice'

Pop star Katy Perry is seeking 'justice' and $6million from a terminally ill veteran as she takes him to court over back rent and damage repairs to the Californian mansion

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5 d. ago Travis Kelce’s net worth revealed after engagement to Taylor Swift — and it’s dwarfed by pop superstar’s

The NFL player and pop star announced their engagement Tuesday after two years of dating

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5 d. ago Jason Kelce screams with joy as he finally breaks his silence on brother Travis' engagement to Taylor Swift

Jason Kelce could not contain his excitement at the news of his brother's engagement to the world's biggest pop star.

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5 d. ago All the private battles that nearly doomed Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: But after family emergencies, Blake Lively drama and THAT 'breakup contract'... friends know why she fell so hard

When Travis first tried to give Taylor a friendship bracelet bearing his phone number - only to fumble the pass - it seemed that this was destined to be another of the pop star's doomed relationships.

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5 d. ago Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement news sparks flurry of hilarious memes as fans brand upcoming nuptials as 'the closest thing America has to a royal wedding'

It took only minutes for the news that the world's biggest pop star and three-time Super Bowl winner were getting hitched to spread across social media, exploding into hundreds of memes.

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5 d. ago Chappell Roan Edinburgh Gig Pics: Here are 25 amazing pictures from the first night of the star's Summer Sessions concerts

One of the world’s biggest pop stars is in Edinburgh this week.

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