2 d. ago Europa League final: Tottenham ready for date with destiny and night that could change everything

A fourth win of the season over Manchester United could prove seismic

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3 d. ago ‘It sucks, man’: World Surf League’s dreaded cut claims its final victims | Kieran Pender

The controversial feature, added in 2022, will disappear after the Margaret River Pro. Few surfers on the elite tour are sad to see it goOn Tuesday, as a towering swell groomed by the Roaring Forties across the Indian Ocean reached its explosive final destination on the Western Australian coast, two surfers battled for their careers. Australian-Japanese surfer Connor O’Leary and Queenslander Liam O’Brien took on each other and Margaret River’s pumping conditions to retain a spot on the World Surf League’s Championship Tour.With O’Leary just above and O’Brien just below the dreaded cut-line, victory would be a major step towards safety; defeat would likely consign the loser to a re-qualification slog on the second-tier Challenger Series. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago New laws should improve ‘everyday experience’ for those in need of legal help

Holyrood announced it had passed the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill on Tuesday.

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3 d. ago Liam Delap transfer hinges on Man Utd's Europa League outcome as Chelsea circle

Liam Delap is on Manchester United's radar but the Ipswich frontman hasn't decided on his next destination with the Europa League final integral to his decision

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4 d. ago Final Destination Bloodlines: the hidden Easter eggs in the grisly franchise

Final Destination is back 25 years after the first movie

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4 d. ago The Guardian view on the EU trade deal: a rational step forward | Editorial

Tangible gains from these negotiations will be limited, but the prime minister has at last set a positive toneSo much remains to be worked out in Sir Keir Starmer’s deal with the EU that it must be regarded as a staging post rather than a final destination. In several key areas, the agreement announced in London on Monday is really a commitment to have more meetings at which negotiators will try to make more agreements.On the issue of visas for young people and the UK’s mooted return to the Erasmus university-exchange scheme, there is little clarity beyond the rebranding of “youth mobility” as “experience”. A decision on the level of fees that European students must pay has also been booted forward. So have some details of how the UK will work with the bloc on policing and security, including the use of controversial facial-recognition technology in tackling drug and people smuggling across borders.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you wo...

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5 d. ago ‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ tops box office while The Weeknd’s movie falters

“Final Destination: Bloodlines” has topped the domestic box office charts this weekend

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6 d. ago New Final Destination film shatters box office record amid rave reviews

‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ is expected to earn between $46 million to $48 million in its opening weekend

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1 week ago Enzo review – Laurent Cantet’s swan song is a heartfelt tale of youth and desire

Cannes film festival This powerful drama from the late film-maker and his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo, who directs, charts the growing pains of a teenager from a privileged family The directors fortnight sidebar of Cannes opens with a heartfelt, urgent drama about youth and desire – and destiny, sexuality and class. It is, effectively, the final movie of the late Laurent Cantet, who died last year.Cantet was working on the screenplay with his longtime collaborator and contemporary, Robin Campillo and it is Campillo who now directs – and brings to the movie his usual intelligence and clarity. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Film reviews: Make it to Munich | Good One | Final Destination: Bloodlines | Hallow Road

Make it to Munich pays tribute to an unassuming teenager with an indomitable spirit, writes Alistair Harkness

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1 week ago Final Destination: Bloodlines review – death is back and more fun than ever

The jubilantly gory horror franchise returns with a hugely entertaining sixth installment which sets up an entire family tree for the slaughterFinal Destination, the giddy and splatterific franchise where the grim reaper finds increasingly cartoonish and comical ways to get back at those who think they’ve cheated death, has been sitting things out for more than a decade. Maybe that’s telling.In the time since, we saw the rise of so-called “elevated horror”, a trend that arguably began with 2014’s The Babadook and enjoyed its biggest success with last fall’s Longlegs. Those earnestly artful films tend to shrug off the horror genre’s baser pleasures to instead mine drama, trauma and influences such as Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski and Nicolas Roeg. For those feeling a bit trauma-fatigued, I’m happy to say Final Destination is not only back but better than ever. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago UK tourists warned of ‘E.coli risk’ from everyday hotel experience

Food poisoning can ruin your holiday

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2 w. ago Another big game tipped for Switch 2 as dev suggests there'll be more ‘we may not expect’

Nintendo Switch 2 keeps racking up the big games, as another Final Fantasy title seems destined for the handheld hybrid — and another developer says there's plenty more to come

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3 w. ago The grisly return of Final Destination: ‘What are the everyday experiences we can ruin for people?’

Twenty-five years after its first release, the horror franchise that made mundane life seem fraught with danger returns with a bloody but oddly moving fifth sequel‘My inbox is filled with the most horrible ways people can die,” says Craig Perry, the producer – or, as he would prefer, “curator” – of the Final Destination franchise. Over 25 years, his films have punctured, skewered, crushed, flattened and decapitated men, women and children in a series of horrifying “accidents” and Perry has been a witness to them all. His friends clearly want him to witness many more.But as we speak on video call, just a few weeks before the sixth instalment is released, he seems far from traumatised. Instead, he’s ebullient, buzzing infectiously about the many gory deaths he has overseen with the same enthusiasm other people might display when talking about their children (“If you’re not having fun, don’t do it!” he grins). He has every right to be proud. To date, the films have made more than $657m...

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