4 d. ago Saint Laurent blooms with oversized drama and ’80s power at Paris show

Anthony Vaccarello has brought drama to Saint Laurent's show at Paris Fashion Week

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5 d. ago House of Guinness' future 'confirmed' after 'captivating' Netflix viewers

Netflix's new period drama House of Guinness follows the powerful family who founded the biggest brewery in the world, and the legacy handed to four siblings

Economics

5 d. ago Rangers hero claims Ibrox chiefs have ‘duty of care’ to Russell Martin & asks ‘how does any human being cope with that?’

RANGERS hero Derek Ferguson reckons club chiefs have a 'duty of care' to Russell Martin amid fan anger towards the manager. Pressure from the stands has been growing and growing towards Martin amid a horror start to his reign as manager. Rangers have won just four of their 14 competitive matches since the 39-year old...

Politics

8 d. ago Brides review – teenage girls head to Syria for IS and marriage in powerful and poignant drama

Two friends leave the UK and head to the Turkey on their way to marry Islamic State jihadis in this spirited drama directed by Nadia FallThe phenomenon of Islamic State brides, which became a press preoccupation with the case of Shamima Begum – who 10 years ago left the UK at the age of 15 to join IS and is still in a Syrian refugee camp – is now filtering through to fictional representations; they are striving for a sympathetic, intimate way of intuiting the motives and feelings of young women who were hardly more than children when they were radicalised, and somehow get more pruriently disapproving media coverage than the male jihadis. Nussaibah Younis’s hit comic novel Fundamentally tells the story of an aid worker tasked with bringing IS brides home to the UK, and now there is this watchable comedy-drama from screenwriter Suhayla El-Bushra and director Nadia Fall.It is about two teenage girls: shy, thoughtful Doe (Ebada Hassan) and stroppy, lairy Muna (Safiyya Ingar), who make t...

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2 w. ago Why random lines of video game dialogue get stuck in our heads

From famous Street Fighter lines to quips from 90s classics, these are the quotes we hear again and again – and even incorporate into our own livesSome snippets of video game dialogue, like classic movie quotes, are immediately recognisable to a swathe of fans. From Street Fighter’s “hadouken!” to Call of Duty’s “remember, no Russian” to BioShock’s “would you kindly?”, there are phrases so creepy, clever or cool they have slipped imperceptibly into the gaming lexicon, ensuring that whenever they’re memed on social media, almost everyone gets the reference.But there are also odd little phrases, sometimes from obscure games, that stick with us for seemingly no reason. I recall most of the vocal barks from the second world war strategy game Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, even though I haven’t played it for 20 years. Why is it that I’ll lose my headphones, wallet and phone on a daily basis, but I have absolute recall when it comes to the utterances of burly soldier Samuel Brooklyn? Why ...

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3 w. ago The Newsreader review – if this powerful Aussie drama were a US show, it’d be a smash hit

This 80s-set Australian show about rival newscasters is the best kind of period drama. It’s soapy, highly dramatic and wonderfully campThe Newsreader is the best kind of period piece in that it makes you reflect not only on the past but on the present. The first two seasons of this Australian drama about rival newscasters managed to cram in some of the biggest events of the 80s: the Challenger disaster; the Aids crisis; rumours of the end of Charles and Diana’s marriage.As well as seeing the impact those stories had on the world, the series hinged on some perennial themes, too – women being sidelined in the workplace; homophobia; mental illness; and what drives people to stay in their jobs even when everything around them is dripping with toxicity. To watch The Newsreader in an age of boundaries and therapy-speak is to feel at once privileged not to be working in broadcast television in the 1980s, and acutely aware that many of the problems still persist today. As unsettling as it i...

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3 w. ago Join a murder of crimewriters at Bloody Scotland in Stirling

Authors and readers are set to flock to Stirling this weekend to share their love of the genre, from tense psychological thrillers to cosy mysteries to beloved police procedurals, writes Louise Fairbairn

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3 w. ago 'Truly unpredictable' police drama that captivates audiences streaming for free

The film has been branded a "must watch" for fans of Line of Duty.

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3 w. ago 'Thrilling' police drama with a 'powerful punch' perfect for Line of Duty fans

Line of Duty fans have been urged to watch a "timeless masterpiece" that is coming to BBC iPlayer.

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3 w. ago Cristiano Ronaldo pushes fan who broke through security and ambushed him for selfie in hotel after legend checked in for Portugal duty

Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo was seen pushing a fan who attempted to take a selfie with him. The supporter managed to get past security and went up to Ronaldo.

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