13 h. ago The Legend of Zelda film adaptation cast and release date announced

Fans have hailed the incredible casting" of the film adaptation of the hit video game franchise, The Legend of Zelda.

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14 h. ago The Real Housewives of London: Release date, cast and latest news

The Real Housewives of London: Release date, cast and latest news  Radio Times

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18 h. ago Killer space meatballs to cursed shrubbery: Stephen King’s TV adaptations – rated bad to best

Television versions of the author’s writing have been mixed, to say the least. Ahead of The Institute – about a bootcamp for telekinetic kids – we rate the lot, from the volcanically dull to the Tim Curry-as-Pennywise brilliantThere are several things we have come to expect from small-screen adaptations of Stephen King’s many, many novels and short stories and they are, generally speaking, these: there will be a small town beset by an Ageless Evil. There will be children, some of whom will be dead, others merely telekinetic and/or screaming in pyjamas. There will be blood. And flannel shirts. And dialogue so awful you will want to bludgeon it with a spade and inter it in an ancient burial ground, despite the suspicion that it will rise from the dead and continue to torment you.Like the generally superior film versions of the author’s works, some of these TV adaptations will, in fact, be very enjoyable. Others will not. And then there is The Institute (MGM+), a new adaptation of a mi...

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21 h. ago Washington Black release date, cast and more as fans 'can't wait to watch'

Washington Black is a historical drama series coming to Disney Plus and Hulu in July and looks set to be a gripping watch for fans of the genre - here's all you need to know

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45 h. ago Mr Bigstuff season 2 release date, cast and episodes as new series includes huge reunion

The second season of Mr Bigstuff will see Danny Dyer reprise his role as Lee Campbell, with Ryan Sampson also returning as his estranged brother Glen.

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61 h. ago Harry Potter reboot officially starts filming as first look at boy wizard's costume revealed

HBO's highly-anticipated Harry Potter reboot is finally in production, with images from the set and first-look cast photos having been released

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6 d. ago Inside the Salt Path controversy: ‘Scandal has stalked memoir since the genre was invented’

Raynor Winn’s bestselling book is far from the first time a true story has been called into question after publication. But how does it happen? And should readers really feel betrayed?“The Salt Path is an unflinchingly honest, inspiring and life-affirming true story,” reads the description of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir on its publisher Penguin Random House’s website.Which is unfortunate wording if accusations made at the weekend turn out to be true: an investigation by the Observer alleged that the 2018 book – which has recently been adapted into a film starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs – is not all that it seems. Winn writes in The Salt Path that she and her husband, Moth, had their home repossessed due to an investment in a friend’s company that went on to fail. With nowhere to live, as she tells it, the couple decided to walk the length of the South West Coast Path, wild camping along the way and relying on the kindness of strangers. The Observer piece suggests Win...

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7 d. ago The Salt Path author defends memoir against fabrication allegations

Raynor Winn describes enduring ‘hardest days’ and publishes clinic letters saying her husband, Moth, has been treated for CBD/S for many yearsRaynor Winn, the author of The Salt Path, has described enduring some of the “hardest days” of her life as she defended her memoir against allegations that parts of it were fabricated.The bestselling 2018 book, which was adapted into a film starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, tells how she and her husband, Moth, walked the 630-mile trek along the south-west coast path after losing their home. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Outlander fans 'screaming' over closest look at Blood of My Blood spin

New images of the Outlander prequel series, Blood of My Blood, have been released, showing an even closer look at the cast of the forthcoming spin-off

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8 d. ago The Salt Path is a box office hit. Will its takings – and its Oscar hopes – now fall off a cliff?

The film adaptation of Winn’s book, starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, quickly became the third most successful UK movie of the year. What happens now?On paper it has everything. A redemption-arc narrative about overcoming homelessness, adversity and illness. Two late-middle age lead characters that would appeal to the key silver-pound cinema-going demographic, as well as providing plum roles for top-notch British actors. A backdrop of glorious south coast scenery, as experienced through that most modish of contemporary activities: hiking.No wonder film-makers were champing at the bit to make a movie out of The Salt Path, the memoir by Raynor Winn published in 2018 – and so one duly emerged, starring Gillian Anderson as Winn and Jason Isaacs as her husband Moth, who was diagnosed with the incurable condition corticobasal degeneration (CBD). It was released in the UK in May, and was a verifiable hit, taking home £7.6m from the UK box office and becoming the third most succes...

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8 d. ago King Lear is a masterpiece – as told by Akira Kurosawa rather than Shakespeare | Michael Billington

The tragedy’s mythic quality appeals to adapters the world over but the Japanese film-maker’s Ran, now rereleased, manages to solve the play’s problemsI have long had mixed feelings about King Lear. I admire its cosmic grandeur and sublime poetry but balk at its structural unwieldiness and dramatic implausibility: like Coleridge, I find the spectacle of Gloucester’s suffering “unendurable” and there is something gratuitously cruel about Edgar’s refusal to reveal his identity to his father. I’ve never regretted omitting it from my book The 101 Greatest Plays yet I still remember a shocked head of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford greeting me with the words: “I hear you’ve dropped Lear.”Whatever my personal doubts, the play has a mythic quality that has appealed to dramatists, composers and film-makers including our own Peter Brook, the Russian Grigori Kozintsev and the Japanese Akira Kurosawa whose Ran is enjoying a rerelease to mark its 40th anniversary. Seeing Ran again after ...

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1 week ago Couple whose memoir inspired hit film The Salt Path angrily deny claims their story of hope in the face of adversity may not be as 'unflinchingly honest' as initially billed

Her steely account of homelessness and hope in the face of adversity captivated more than two million readers worldwide and was adapted into a film with Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs.

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1 week ago Richard Osman sees 'plea' get ignored in 'disappointing' career update

Netflix has reversed a decision to give the film adaptation of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club a wide UK cinema release, but the move hasn't pleased everyone

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2 w. ago Everything to know about The Running Man, from Glasgow filming locations to 2025 release date

From when it will be released to where exactly in Scotland it filmed, here’s everything you need to know about The Running Man.

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2 w. ago Prime Video's Ballard release date, cast, trailer and what to expect from Bosch spin

Ballard is set in the same universe as author Michael Connelly’s Bosch and The Lincoln Lawyer

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2 w. ago 'Best and most definitive' Jane Austen adaptation is free to watch right now

The film is often hailed as the best adaptation of the novel

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2 w. ago Superman star Nicholas Hoult reveals new 'love' after secret wedding

Nicholas Hoult is taking on the iconic role first made famous by Gene Hackman in an all new cast for the much anticipated DC Comics' movie Superman, released in UK cinemas in July

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2 w. ago Marvel fans convinced major actor’s been cut from Fantastic Four

Hollywood star’s appearance has been thrown into question

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3 w. ago Call The Midwife to end after 15 years as 'emotional' BBC cast film last series

Hit BBC show Call The Midwife is ending after 15 years as an emotional BBC cast film the final series of the show, slated to be released in early 2026 following a two-part Christmas special

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3 w. ago Every game with free Nintendo Switch 2 updates – including one which blew me away

The likes of Super Mario Odyssey, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury have all been updated for the Switch 2...

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