4 h. ago The Life of Sean DeLear review – loving film about queer black punk rocker, and secret legend

Sweet documentary about Sean DeLear, of LA punk band Glue, who never landed a major record deal but was famous among celebrities That’s Sean DeLear, pronounced like “chandelier”, born Anthony Robertson in 1964. You probably haven’t heard of him: DeLear was the lead singer of a band called Glue on the underground post-punk scene in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 90s. On stage, he performed in drag, singing punk songs dressed like a 1960s go-do dancer in cute little dresses. The band never landed a major record deal, and DeLear died from cancer in 2017. This sweet, scrappy documentary has been lovingly put together by his friend Markus Zizenbacher.It’s not the first posthumous attempt at recognition for DeLear. In 2023, his teenage diary, written in 1979, was published under the title I Could Not Believe It. Extracts of this queer black memoir are read here on the voiceover – and they are glorious. Even aged 14 years old, living with his Christian parents in a conservative suburb of Los...

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3 d. ago TV legend Anthea Turner reveals her real secret to looking so good at 65

EXCLUSIVE: As Anthea Turner approaches her 65th birthday, the much-loved presenter opens up about becoming a proud “glam-ma”, to navigating heartbreak, healing after divorce and finding love again later in life

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4 d. ago Will Poulter on ‘ironic’ reason his most underrated film didn’t get the love it deserved

Actor tells Jacob Stolworthy about the project that never had its moment in the sun

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4 d. ago Kristen Stewart’s directorial debut and Lynne Ramsay’s latest among significant Cannes additions

Ramsay’s Die, My Love, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, helps take number of female directors in competition to a record-breaking sevenLynne Ramsay’s long-awaited new film, Die, My Love, has been announced as a late addition to this year’s Cannes competition lineup. The film, which is Ramsay’s first for eight years, stars Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson and concerns a woman in rural America who experiences psychosis after the birth of her baby.The inclusion of Ramsay’s movie takes the number of female director’s in the official selection to seven – a record for the festival. It also means that a British director is now in the running for this year’s Palme d’Or. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Final chapter of Heartstopper love story to end with Netflix film

Kit Connor, Joe Locke and Yasmin Finney have all become big stars since appearing on the show.

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8 d. ago British music legend 'accidentally reveals he is playing secret Glastonbury set'

The British artist is said to have revealed that he will be heading to Worthy Farm to play a 'mobile disco set' at this year's festival.

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8 d. ago Elizabeth Hurley baffles fans with 'romance' with Billy Ray Cyrus as her son weighs in

The Austin Powers actress, 59, and country crooner, 63, played love interests in a Christmas film in 2022

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8 d. ago Sean Bean's £6m London mansion he shunned for quiet life in Somerset

Sean Bean's £6m London mansion he shunned for quiet life in Somerset  hellomagazine.com

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9 d. ago Top 5 Netflix thrillers you need to watch if you love the film Get Out

If you're a fan of thrillers, then these hidden gems on Netflix just might be the perfect films for you. Here's the top five you've probably never seen - but you should.

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1 week ago Billy Idol: ‘I’m the sexy sexagenarian. Then I’m gonna be the sexy septuagenarian, ha ha!’

The punk rocker who broke America with ‘White Wedding’ looks back on the ‘unhinged’ time of free love and sex before Aids, legging it from rehab back to crack addiction, and making his starry new album. And, finds Craig McLean, he also has a sensitive side...

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1 week ago Former Bachelor Sean Lowe gives health update after being violently attacked by his dog

Lowe revealed last month that his rescue dog, Moose, was rehomed after multiple attacks

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1 week ago Villains of the Titanic: The passengers who showed themselves to be cowards, fools and criminals

Cal Hockley, the American industrialist portrayed by Billy Zane in James Cameron's epic 1997 film, was the villainous love rival to Leonardo DiCaprio 's Jack Dawson.

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2 w. ago Go to Bat with Joel Edgerton: My film that deserves more love

Actor picks the projects that never had its moment in the sun

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2 w. ago Toy Story fakery! All the major mistakes in the iconic 90s movie as it turns 30

Is the much-loved Pixar tear-jerker your favourite film? Perhaps it's your children's favourite film? Or your grandchildren's favourite film? Well, sadly, the unanimously acclaimed movie is filled with errors.

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2 w. ago Gemma Collins leaves commuters gobsmacked with surprise piano performance

The Only Way Is Essex legend Gemma Collins showed off a secret skill - piano playing. She was filmed tinkling the ivories, and singing with a gospel choir, in front of shocked commuters at London's Liverpool Street Station

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2 w. ago The 'villains' of the Titanic: The Captain who was 'going too fast', the officer who took a crucial key and the 'coward' who jumped in lifeboat

Cal Hockley, the American industrialist portrayed by Billy Zane in James Cameron's epic 1997 film, was the villainous love rival to Leonardo DiCaprio 's Jack Dawson.

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2 w. ago Fans are stunned at heartthrob's real accent in steamy Netflix thriller

Jack O'Connell stars in the 2022 film adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover, alongside Emma Corrin, and the Derby born-and-bred actor is closer to home than ever in this role

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2 w. ago Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter review – kitchen tyrant’s story

Celebrity chef who took Chicago by storm in the 90s and noughties, but at a price, in solid if slightly unsatisfying documentaryA chef is yelling at an underling: “I will kill your whole family if you don’t get this right!” The chef is Charlie Trotter, but he is filmed not at work, but for a scene in My Best Friend’s Wedding; Trotter’s cameo in the 1997 movie played up to his reputation as a tyrannical perfectionist. He opened his eponymous restaurant in Chicago aged 27, swiftly becoming a rock-star celebrity chef. In 2012, Trotter dramatically closed the kitchen on its 25th anniversary and died a year later of a stroke aged 54. This documentary about him is a solid if slightly unsatisfying portrait, lacking real depth or flavour.Trotter was born into a wealthy family (raised on hotdogs and meatloaf, jokes his mother). Mostly self-taught, he got an education in gastronomy by eating his way around Europe. In 1987 he opened Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago, bankrolled by his father, Bob, ...

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3 w. ago How Afrofuturism can help us imagine futures worth living in | Lonny Avi Brooks and Reynaldo Anderson

Afrofuturism knows that futures are made – and that who gets to make them is a political questionThe digital age sings a seductive song of progress, yet a deliberate erasure echoes within its circuits. We stand at a crossroads, where technology, particularly the promise of artificial intelligence, threatens both to illuminate and to obliterate.Whose perspectives will shape, and whose will be erased from, the future we build? AI, in particular, has become the latest battleground in a culture war that oscillates between unchecked techno-optimism and dystopian fear. We are told, on one hand, that AI will save us – from disease, inefficiency, ignorance – on the other, that it will replace us, dominate us, erase us.Lonny Avi Brooks is Professor and Chair of Communication at Cal State East Bay, co-founder of the AfroRithm Futures Group, and co-creator of AfroRithms From The Future, a visionary storytelling game that imagines liberated futures through Black, Indigenous, and Queer perspecti...

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3 w. ago 'I love JK Rowling' stickers put after showing of gender critical film was cancelled at university were not transphobic 'dog whistle', tribunal told

Academics Deirdre O'Neill and Michael Wayne are suing the University and College Union (UCU) after its Edinburgh branch said their film Adult Human Female was an attack on transgender identity.

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