9 d. ago Take That announce they don't want 'more albums' as they share new career direction

The British pop group admitted their thoughts on releasing albums ahead of their new music

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9 d. ago Declan Rice clarifies what Nicolas Jover told Arsenal star before Real Madrid strike

Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice scored the first two direct free-kick goals of his career as Mikel Arteta's side stunned Real Madrid in their Champions League quarter-final

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9 d. ago Mickey Rourke says his career is 'in the toilet' after his 'short fuse' soured relationships with movie directors

The former boxer and actor, 72, who entered the Celebrity Big Brother house on Monday, is best known for 9 1/2 Weeks and The Wrestler.

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3 w. ago Nathan Sykes 'ready to share real self' as he reveals heartbreaking Tom Parker promise

Almost 20 years after finding fame, Nathan Sykes has revealed he's ready to share the real version of him and cancelling an album after Tom Parker's devastating diagnosis

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4 w. ago ‘It was chaotic but beautiful’: Warda Mohamed and Kosar Ali on filming the British

As the award-winning short is released on BBC iPlayer, the director and star talk about grief, breaking Somali stereotypes and a career-changing social media postWhen Warda Mohamed posted a message on social media that she had completed her feature film script, she never expected it to change her career. “I genuinely thought it was just going to be a few people saying, ‘Oh my God, well done’,” she says. “I posted it at nine o’clock at night and thought nothing of it.” By morning, a commissioner at BBC Film had reached out, setting the wheels in motion for what would become Muna – an 18-minute short film that screened at more than 60 international film festivals, won multiple awards, and has now made its way to BBC iPlayer.Muna tells the story of a British-Somali teenager, played by Kosar Ali (Bafta-nominated for Rocks), who navigates a complex mother-daughter relationship while mourning a grandfather she never met. Her grief mirrors Mohamed’s own experience growing up. “There isn’t ...

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4 w. ago Just Another Girl on the IRT review – Leslie Harris takes on race, sex and class in 90s indie gem

Ariyan A Johnson stars as the back-talking, fourth wall-breaking high schooler who falls pregnant in Harris’s rough and ready dramaThere’s an undimmed freshness, warmth and freewheeling energy in this 1992 indie gem, and its director Leslie Harris – whose career since has chiefly involved writing and teaching – deserves a far bigger presence in US film history. Ariyan A Johnson plays Chantel, a young Black American high schooler who lives with her stressed parents and two kid brothers in Brooklyn (in an era before its gentrification) and rides the subway’s IRT Eastern Parkway line.Chantel is getting great grades in school, and plans to be a doctor, but is addicted to talking back to the teachers and won’t restrain herself, even when she’s sent to the principal’s office. Her relationship with her mother and father is just as fraught – and as far as dating goes, Chantel is not going to sell herself short. And when she finally has sex with her boyfriend Tyrone (Kevin Thigpen), dizzied ...

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