11 h. ago The Twits star says 'no more reboots' as they insist 'we need more original stories'

EXCLUSIVE: The Twits actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has opened up on working on the iconic Roald Dahl story which has never been adapted to the screen until now.

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29 h. ago Black TV star under fire after donning whiteface for internet broadcast

The Twitch star, who has over 960,000 followers on the livestream platform, posed in his new look alongside a group of friends in one video he shared to Instagram.

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33 h. ago The Twits star lifts lid on biggest change to Roald Dahl story in Netflix adaptation

EXCLUSIVE: The Twits star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has shared the biggest change made for the film in a new interview.

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35 h. ago Netflix’s The Twits star details 'favourite change' to iconic Roald Dahl story

EXCLUSIVE: Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, who stars in Netflix movie The Twits, has lifted the lid on her favourite additions to the classic Roald Dahl story.

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36 h. ago Blue plaque unveiled at former home of Thomas The Tank Engine creator

Rev Wilbert Awdry originally told the stories of railway engines to his son Christopher.

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43 h. ago Netflix's Maitreyi Ramakrishnan explains why The Twits isn't a 'typical' kids movie

EXCLUSIVE: The Twits star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has broken down Netflix’s feature-length adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic story.

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1 week ago ‘Are the neighbours’ curtains twitching? Good!’ Avril A, the 80s housewife who became a star of Manchester’s gay scene

She sang out of tune, her choreography was bizarre – and everyone who saw her loved her. As her superb music is rereleased, her family and fans recall a subcultural greatWhen Joanne Rosenthal was a kid in Manchester, gatherings of her religious Jewish family were enlivened by the presence of her uncle’s eccentric wife. “Mad eye makeup; larger than life. You’d say to her: ‘Auntie Avril, can I give you some more chicken?’ And she’d say: ‘Go on, Joanne, my punters love me with a bit of meat on.’ Hang on, what are you talking about, your punters?”There would be other “tantalising references to her career on stage” besides, but no further info. “Everyone’s sitting there at Passover or Jewish New Year and no one asks any follow-up questions!” Rosenthal continues. “It’s like everyone accepts that Auntie Avril is this subversive presence. When I told her I was getting into music, she said: ‘Quit school, join a band, get on the road, never look back – you won’t regret it.’ It was a very humd...

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1 week ago Night of the Zoopocalypse review – Clive Barker story becomes zombified animal caper for horror

Perhaps the first animated animal adventure based on a story by Hellraiser writer Barker, with commendably scary baddies and a lemur who is a horror-movie buffA children’s animated adventure based on an idea by Clive “Hellraiser” Barker? It’s a new one on us and yet, why not. All the best children’s stories have gory origins, from anonymous folklore to the Brothers Grimm. Here, the premise is fairly simple: zoo animals are becoming zombified and our heroes, a young wolf (Gabbi Kosmidis) and world-weary mountain lion (David Harbour) plus a growing posse of the non-zombified, must try to a) escape and b) put a stop to the zombification.It’s not the most complex premise – the Barker original, called Zoombies, is an unpublished short story – and this occasionally shows, in that there’s not an awful lot of narrative to go around. The film-makers address this by running a parallel commentary on the story beats and structure from one of the characters, a funny/annoying lemur, who is a horr...

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