28 h. ago The Long Walk review – Stephen King death game dystopia is the grimmest mainstream movie for some time

Fifty young men compete in an endurance event, during which they are shot in the head at point-blank range if they slow down, in this horrific buddy story adaptationIf you like your dystopian scenarios lean and extremely mean, then look no further than this Stephen King adaptation, which is surely one of the grimmest mainstream movies we’ve had for some time. The blunt premise is custom built for death and suffering: 50 young American men are selected by lottery for an annual marathon march. If any walker slows to less than three miles per hour, or strays off the road, they are removed from the competition – by being shot in the head at point-blank range. The final survivor wins whatever they want, they’re promised.Why these men would volunteer for a competition with such unfavourable odds we’re left to wonder, as the broader authoritarian society in which the story is set – which looks a lot like 1960s America – is barely seen or explained. It’s clear who we’re rooting for though: ...

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2 d. ago Belarus v Scotland: World Cup 2026 qualifying Group C – live

Updates from this 7.45pm BST kick-off in Group CEmail Michael | Sign up to Football DailyThis piece is worth your time.Looks like Scotland are moving from the 4-4-2 against Denmark back to a more familiar 4-2-3-1. That is Adams leading the line, McTominay in the No 10 role, Doak-Gammon on the left and McGinn on the right wing. Only four players – Denis Law (30), Kenny Dalglish (30), Hughie Gallacher (23) and Lawrie Reilly (22) – have more goals than McGinn (20), who is a canny presence in that more advanced role. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Prince Harry is feeling 'really positive' and is 'so excited' to come back to the UK tomorrow

The Duke of Sussex , 40, is set to jet to London as part of a four-day visit to spend time with several patronages, before moving up the country to Nottingham .

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4 d. ago Sweeping changes were needed for Labour to be serious about a fresh start

Editorial: Moving so many ministers after such a short time may not seem ideal, but the end result is a team better matched to the challenges ahead

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8 d. ago BBC Breakfast fans in tears as hosts share moving update after 'very dark time'

BBC Breakfast host Sally Nugent was also left visibly moved as they delivered the news to viewers

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9 d. ago Zara McDermott looks effortlessly chic for the London photocall of her BBC documentary as she's seen for the first time since 'moving in with Louis Tomlinson'

Zara McDermott looks effortlessly chic for the London photocall of her BBC documentary as she's seen for the first time since 'moving in with Louis Tomlinson'  Daily Mail

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2 w. ago ‘We have the quality’: Saki Kumagai says London City Lionesses are ready for the big time | Moving the Goalposts

‘We have the quality’: Saki Kumagai says London City Lionesses are ready for the big time | Moving the Goalposts  The Guardian

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2 w. ago The Thursday Murder Club: what time is film out on Netflix? Timings for Richard Osman movie explained

The Thursday Murder Club will be in session very, very soon 😍

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2 w. ago Netflix KPop Demon Hunters is streaming giant's most watched movie of all time with 236m views

Netflix viewers are desperate to know if there's a sequel to smash hit Kpop Demon Hunters in the works...

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2 w. ago I only started dating aged 24 now I give advice to fellow 'late bloomers'

Maeby started dating for the very first time after moving to New York right before her 24th birthday. The content creator has since been documenting her experience for her 35,000 followers.

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2 w. ago ‘The 90s were remarkable – we weren’t all living in existential terror!’ Darren Aronofsky on Caught Stealing, his love letter to New York

Famed for intense dramas like Black Swan, the director’s latest film is a riotous retro crime caper. He explains why he’s battling TikTok – but embracing AIDarren Aronofsky’s new film is a blast from the past; a half-cut retro tour of late-1990s New York. Beetling around the tatty East Village, casually framing the twin towers downtown, it lifts the lid on a time that has been and gone: when the city was a melting pot of miscreants and misfits, when lowly bar staff could still afford Gotham rents,, and when every car came equipped with a cigarette lighter. “Don’t they have those any more?” says Aronofksy, frowning at his untouched cup of herbal tea. “I don’t know, maybe not. It’s been many years since I smoked a cigarette.”Caught Stealing, he says, could almost be his parallel-universe first movie, given that it’s set in 1998, around the time he was shooting his actual first film, Pi, on the same East Side streets. He was in his late 20s back then, subsisting on pizza and living in ...

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2 w. ago ‘I can’t sleep, I can’t get on with my life’: how Europe’s tougher rules are keeping families apart

Tighter family reunification laws are causing long separations, traumatising children, and can push people towards traffickers, campaigners sayStanding outside Germany’s parliament in June, Ahmad Shikh Ali fought back tears as he held up a blurry photo of his three-year-old son. Since fleeing Aleppo more than two years ago, Shikh Ali had done all he could to secure his son a safe future: moving to Hanover, getting full-time employment and wading through endless paperwork so that his wife and son could join him.He was close to reuniting with his family, with just two cases in front of his in the queue. That was, until Germany’s lower house of parliament passed a bill in June to suspend family reunifications for migrants like him for at least two years. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago BBC presenter announces pregnancy in joyful update after engagement and new home

BBC sports presenter Jenny Drummond has revealed she’s expecting her first child, sharing the news after recently getting engaged to her long-time love and moving into a new home

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3 w. ago ‘I’m not a big CGI guy’: Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash on remaking trashy classic Deathstalker

The rock star has loved the cult film ever since he worked in a video shop. As his ‘requel’ gets its world premiere, he talks Hammer horror, soundtrack heaven – and how his dad got him into Edgar Allan PoeWelcome to the celluloid jungle. Guitar legend and Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash is getting into movies, producing a “requel” of the 1983 cult Roger Corman trash classic Deathstalker. The film has its world premiere at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland, where Slash – aka Saul Hudson – is talking up this new addition to his CV.It turns out that Slash’s affection for Deathstalker goes way back. “When I was working at Tower Video, we had it on the monitors all the time. It was a real popular popcorn movie,” he says. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘I’m not a big CGI guy’: Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash on remaking trash classic Deathstalker

The rock star has loved the cult film ever since he worked in a video shop. As his ‘requel’ gets its world premiere, he talks Hammer horror, soundtrack heaven – and how his dad got him into Edgar Allan PoeWelcome to the celluloid jungle. Guitar legend and Guns N’ Roses axeman Slash is getting into movies, producing a “requel” of the 1983 cult Roger Corman trash classic Deathstalker. The film has its world premiere at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland, where Slash – aka Saul Hudson – is talking up this new addition to his CV.It turns out that Slash’s affection for Deathstalker goes way back. “When I was working at Tower Video, we had it on the monitors all the time. It was a real popular popcorn movie,” he says. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Alicia Vikander calls The Danish Girl ‘extremely dated’ for portrayal of trans people

Movie was considered controversial at the time due to its portrayal of trans people and for Redmayne’s casting as lead

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3 w. ago Quentin Tarantino finally weighs in on which film is his ‘masterpiece’ and which is his ‘favorite’

Revered filmmaker has, so far, made a total of nine feature films in his career

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3 w. ago Quentin Tarantino weighs in on one of cinema’s big questions: what is the best Tarantino movie?

Director names his ‘masterpiece’ film, along with his favourite and the one he was ‘born to make’It’s one of cinema’s most contested subjects: which Quentin Tarantino movie is the best? The director himself has finally weighed in – while also sharing his personal favourite and which of his films he was “born to make”.Speaking on The Church of Tarantino podcast, the 62-year-old film-maker said his 2009 second world war drama Inglourious Basterds was the best of his nine films, while his 2019 movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was his favourite. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Quentin Tarantino names which of his films is his ‘masterpiece’ and which is his ‘favorite’

Revered filmmaker has, so far, made a total of nine feature films in his career

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3 w. ago 'Greatest movie of all time' now available to stream after decades away from screens

A Hollywood classic that was once hailed as the "greatest movie of all time" is now making its way back to screens

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