9 h. ago Welsh drama filmed on the streets of Cardiff takes home prestigious international prize

BBC Wales' Lost Boys & Fairies won an award for TV movie/mini series at the International Emmy Awards

Society

3 d. ago Netflix adds film based on 'heartbreakingly beautiful' book but there's a catch

Netflix will be adding a drama film based on the novel of the same by Amy Koppelman

Culture

5 d. ago ‘That wasn’t Chris, it was sad’ – Harlem Eubank opens up on cousin’s Benn loss and says twin nephews can rebuild dynasty

HARLEM EUBANK is beaming that the devastated dynasty is getting rebuilt by cousin Chris’ twin boys. Patriarch Chris Eubank Sr lost his son and boxer Sebastian in 2021 to a heart attack in Dubai. And, in 2023, Senior’s brother and Harlem’s father Simon lost his final fight with frontal lobe dementia. But 36-year-old Junior found...

Economics

9 d. ago Families who lost young boys to suicide say Scotland is still failing its youth

Helen Mitchell was told her ­struggling son Jack, 18, was just your “typical teenager” before he cut his life short.

Events

1 week ago Netflix film leaves fans in tears over ‘heartbreaking’ scenes and ‘wonderful performances’

The film has left audiences emotional after its recent premiere

Culture

3 w. ago Jonas Brothers share heartbreaking admission in first look at Christmas film

A Very Jonas Christmas Movie will be released on Disney Plus and Hulu on November 14

Events

3 w. ago The Lost Boys of Mercury review – heartbreaking film on the enduring wounds of church

Clémence Davigo’s uncompromising film gives voice to three survivors of a French correctional school, and the difficult path towards healingGreat courage, physical and moral, is shown by the three principal interviewees in this heartbreaking French documentary. André, Michel and Daniel are former wards of the church-run Belle Étoile correctional school in the Savoie town of Mercury and, now in their 60s and 70s, they recount a barrage of abuse at the hands of Abbot Garin and his lackeys: beatings that inflicted permanent damage, sleep deprivation, cold-water baths, starvation, nocturnal molestation.As director Clémence Davigo sits in on their long reminiscence sessions, the damage is clear. Michel weeps at the memory of his humiliations: deprived of a nurturing education, André became a career criminal, spending decades in prison; the alert-eyed Daniel, sexually abused and trapped in “hell”, speaks of later being emotionally crippled, unable to tell anyone he loves them. Michel and ...

Politics

3 w. ago 'Beautifully shot' war film based on heartbreaking true story streaming now

After the outbreak of the Second World War, Austrian farmer and devout Catholic Franz Jägerstätter refused to fight for the Nazis

Events

3 w. ago I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me | Josh Sargent

Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lostIf you judged modern boyhood from the headlines, you’d think we were broken – radicalised, misogynistic, angry. But as a teenage boy myself, I don’t see a generation of lost boys around me. I see young men trying to make sense of a world that seems apathetic to our voices.I’d be the first to admit that there are serious issues facing young men my age – I’ve experienced some of them first-hand. Between the ages of 12 and 14, I was drawn into harmful online communities promising me money, meaning and manhood. Muscular, wealthy men, parading through Dubai draped in designer labels and flanked by beautiful women flooded my feed. They said there was no excuse for the rest of us not to be in their position too, and offered what they claimed was a blueprint to get us there. Misogyny was rife in these communities, as was political extremism.Josh Sargent is a ...

Politics