20 h. ago 'Visually audacious' period horror film with 'most talented' actor now streaming

Viewers should catch this period horror classic

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20 h. ago ‘Complete masterpiece’ period drama with 'most talented' actor now streaming

Audiences can’t afford to miss this classic movie during spooky season

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61 h. ago Britain's Got Talent's scramble to film auditions after Simon Cowell's illness

Contestants that missed out on the chance to audition for Britain's Got Talent over the past week may soon have their moment on the stage as bosses are planning to film the lost episode

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7 d. ago ‘Indolent and not photogenic’: can I make my reluctant cat a social media star in seven days?

Olly isn’t an obvious influencer – but that could be said of many of the felines who rule online. Here is what happened when I set out to turn him into a sensationA day at work for Mark Wardle can include accompanying cats to Hollywood film sets or high-end magazine shoots. As an “animal talent booker and fur whisperer” (a title that makes me immediately regret my own career path) Wardle manages about 60 pets, many of them cats, at the pet influencer agency Urban Paws.His is not a unique job. In the UK and beyond, pet influencer agencies – including one devoted to cats, Feline Stars – have begun to proliferate. The reason, Wardle notes, is simple: many of these animals now have “more reach and followers” than their human counterparts, with enough clout to land primetime TV spots. It is, after all, an industry riding the wave of a global pet economy projected to surpass $500bn by 2030. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Gripping Leonardo DiCaprio films to stream on Netflix as star's new film drops

Leonardo DiCaprio's new thriller has just landed in cinemas, here are four more films from the celebrated actor available to stream now on Netflix.

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3 w. ago American independent cinema owes much to Sundance king Robert Redford | Adrian Horton

With his Sundance film festival and institute, Robert Redford used his considerable power to bring generations of talented film-makers to a bigger audienceRobert Redford, who died at the age of 89 on Tuesday, will rightly be remembered as one of Hollywood’s finest leading men, a true-blue movie star and assured actor who was, to quote my mother and surely many others, “very, very handsome”. His many iconic performances – in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, The Way We Were, The Sting and more – certainly left an indelible mark on American movies. But he should perhaps be remembered more for his work behind the camera, as the country’s greatest benefactor of independent cinema.Through his Sundance film festival and non-profit institute, Redford lent his considerable star power and funds to American independent film, and created what is still its most secure and enduring pillar of support. He provided maverick, cutting-edge film-making with a freewheeling ma...

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3 w. ago Dreaming of You: The Making of the Coral review – the charming rise of the melodic noughties band

Lo-fi animation mixed with archive footage and home movies tell the story of a group of talented young mates from the Wirral with an eccentric, unpretentious charm Remember the Coral? These youthful rockers brightened up the early 00s music scene with their melodic mix of 60s Merseybeat and off-kilter psychedelia, before seemingly melting back into obscurity. In truth, they’re not really prime rockumentary material – they were never particularly huge in terms of either popularity or personal drama – but this film playfully captures the spirit of a bunch of talented young mates who just wanted to play in a band, and got their wish.Founding members James Skelly, his brother Ian, Paul Duffy, Bill Ryder-Jones and Lee Southall were all working-class kids growing up on the Wirral, between Liverpool and Wales, goofing around, living in their own world. “Probably the first incarnation of the band was a ghost-hunting business,” says Skelly. By their teens, they were playing guitars, smoking ...

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