58 h. ago Lando Norris jokes of walking away if he wins Formula One drivers’ championship

The British driver has been locked in a head-to-head battle with McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri throughout the season

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4 d. ago The Roses REVIEW: This very British battle of the sexes is devilishly good fun, writes LARUSHKA IVAN

Based, like the original, on the novel by Warren Adler, it sees two Brits - a successful architect called Theo (Cumberbatch) and a rising chef called Ivy (Colman) - fall in love at first sight.

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7 d. ago The Roses review: cartoonishly insane, even if both characters are unlikeable

Ingenuity is not the order of the day here - just as well Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch are excellent

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7 d. ago The Roses review – Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch are relentlessly entertaining

In this remake of 1989’s ‘The War of the Roses’, which charts the breakdown of a marriage, desire and disgust become one

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7 d. ago The Roses review – dieback blights Colman and Cumberbatch remake

Both British actors are let down by the overly glossy, romcom-y sheen of this update of Warren Adler’s 1980s novel about a spectacularly toxic marriageOlivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, the two most prestigious English screen actors in the world, resoundingly butt heads in this feel-bad movie; it is oddly, but not uninterestingly, composed throughout in feelgood romcom style. In casting terms, this is a Borg-McEnroe 10-set tie-break leading to play being suspended even as the leads bring every microlitre of their technique to the game.They play Ivy and Theo, two high-achieving professionals whose marriage becomes a black-comic Chornobyl of toxic hate; it is adapted from the 1981 novel The War of the Roses by Warren Adler, which was previously filmed in 1989 with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Tony McNamara writes this new version and the director is Jay Roach, known for Austin Powers and Meet the Parents. Colman and Cumberbatch are acting black-belts and they are never an...

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1 week ago Alcaraz and Raducanu bulldozed by Draper and Pegula in revamped US Open mixed doubles | Tumaini Carayol

Starry pairings enjoy magic moments but mixed fortunes while specialists retain pride in ‘reimagined’ doublesAfter many long months of discussion and anticipation, the doubles partnership between Emma Raducanu and Carlos Alcaraz came and went in the blink of an eye in a well‑populated Arthur Ashe Stadium. Despite ample smiles and enjoyment on the court, they were outclassed in a battle of British No 1s by a sharp Jessica Pegula and Jack Draper, the top seeds, who reached the quarter-finals of the revamped mixed‑doubles competition with a 4-2, 4-2 win.With one win under their belt and their confidence growing, Pegula and Draper then rolled through their quarter-final against Mirra Andreeva and Daniil Medvedev, easing into the semi-finals with an emphatic 4-1, 4-1 victory. They will face Danielle Collins and Christian Harrison on Wednesday afternoon for a place in the final, which takes place on Wednesday night. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Freakier Friday review: Twice as many body swaps, but this ropy sequel's only half the fun, writes BRIAN VINER

In Freakier Friday, a sequel to the 2003 film again starring Lohan and Curtis, the phenomenon befalls not just one pair of females but two, writes Brian Viner.

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3 w. ago Two wives battle it out over dead British accountant's £1.8m fortune after he married them BOTH in Las Vegas wedding chapels five years apart without getting divorced

Wealthy James Dinsdale died of cancer, aged 55, in October 2020, leaving his vast estate to be fought over by his two spouses, who he married in separate Vegas weddings.

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3 w. ago Platonic season two review: Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne stop at nothing to make you laugh – and it’s joyful TV

It’s so nice to watch a show that tries this hard to induce chuckles. But there’s also real depth to this gag-packed comedy about two mischief-loving friends reuniting in midlifeThe Studio, Seth Rogen’s cosy Hollywood satire which dropped on Apple TV+ earlier this year, features a glut of industry figures cameoing as themselves: Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron, Zac Efron, Ron Howard, Zoë Kravitz, Nicholas Stoller. Unless you also happen to work in the movie business, that last name probably won’t mean much: in the show Stoller is introduced as a reliable writer of kid-friendly fare – The Muppets, Captain Underpants – who can make a decent job of the IP-driven film (“the Kool-Aid movie”) that Rogen’s studio head, Matt Remick, has been forced to pursue.In real life, Stoller did indeed write those films. Yet he’s also a key figure in the later years of the Judd Apatow-abetted Frat Pack era, responsible for a number of box office hits including Sex Tape, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get ...

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3 w. ago British Grammy winner reveals teenage drug battle left her with speech problems and a driving ban

Clean Bandit released their new single Believe last month. 

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