78 m. ago Super Happy Forever review – glowing love story in reverse with echoes of Before Sunrise

In this beautifully acted film, a man returns to the Japanese seaside town where he met and fell in love with his wifeFor the first 40 minutes, this film’s title feels like a poke in the eye. There is nothing remotely happy about twentysomething Sano (Hiroki Sano). His wife has just died suddenly in her sleep, and Sano is visiting the sleepy Japanese seaside town where they met five years ago. He is rude and sullen, and obsessive about finding a red baseball cap he lost on that first visit. In the pain and anger of his grief, everyone sounds vapid and dumb, their words meaningless blah-blah-blah.It’s hard to see where the happy fits in, until the film flips back in time. In the same hotel five years ago, Sano first claps eyes on his wife Nagi (Nairu Yamamoto) in a chance meeting in the hotel lobby. Yamamoto gives the performance of the film as aspiring photographer Nagi: funny, scatty and earnest. She plays it so naturally, so true to life, that Nagi feels like someone you might hav...

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1 hour ago Voices: We banned cigarette ads for the good of public health – fossil fuels must be next

Ahead of a Commons debate that could see oil companies banned from sponsoring museums and sporting events such as Formula One, Jonathon Porritt, a former environmental adviser to King Charles, says it’s a vital next step in breaking our reliance on fossil fuels

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3 h. ago Voices: Elon Musk’s latest Trump spat could end the Maga saga for good

If the ‘train-wreck’ Tesla boss goes through with launching the America Party – bankrolling a new presidential candidate with his almost limitless wealth – it would do more than just derail Trump’s second term, asks Sean O’Grady

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3 h. ago Big Mo, the new voice of boxing, wants you to listen – no, really listen

Exclusive interview: Kody ‘Big Mo’ Mommaerts is the youngest MC at the top end of combat sports, and after announcing Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson, he tells Alex Pattle about fulfilling his Madison Square Garden dream

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3 h. ago Single man sends Facebook wild after accidentally revealing his six

A single man gained thousands of 'thirsty' female fans from all over the world after posting photos of a children's desk to sell on Facebook - and accidentally including his ripped physique.

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4 h. ago Zara McDermott and Louis Tomlinson branded 'couple goals' after wild PDA at Glastonbury

Zara McDermott and Louis Tomlinson were labelled 'couple goals' by fans after they were snapped with their arms around eachother and dancing during Sketpa's set at Glastonbury

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5 h. ago The Tree of Authenticity review – talking tree explains Congo’s struggle to overcome colonial past

Sammy Baloji’s experimental documentary juxtaposes observations from both sides of the divide in its exploration of European exploitation of the country’s natural resourcesIn his first solo directorial feature, photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji excavates the colonial legacies in the Congo basin, the second largest tropical forest in the world. Building on a decades-spanning archive from the Yangambi National Institute of Agronomic Studies and Research, the film is loosely divided into three sections, each guided by a different voice that speaks to the complicated environmental history of the area. The first segment is informed by the journal entries of Congolese agronomist Paul Panda Farnana. Working both within and outside Belgium’s colonial control during the 1910s and 1920s, Farnana wrote of his frustration with the extractive regime, as well as meteorological statistics related to rainfall and temperature, which are narrated in voiceover. This is combined with largely ...

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5 h. ago 11 wild stories behind Hollywood kissing scenes: ‘Would you two mind if I say cut?’

From Tobey Maguire almost suffocating on the set of ‘Spider-Man’ to the actors who wouldn’t stop smooching when the director called ‘cut!’, Ellie Harrison looks back on some of the most intriguing backstories to onscreen kisses

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7 h. ago Every One Still Here by Liadan Ní Chuinn review – an extraordinary debut

This brilliant short-story collection confronts the knotty truths of Northern Ireland’s bloody pastThe literature of the Troubles is a rich one, from Seamus Heaney’s North (1975), Jennifer Johnston’s Shadows on Our Skin (1977) and Bernard MacLaverty’s Cal (1983), to Eoin McNamee’s Resurrection Man (1994), Anna Burns’s Booker-winning Milkman (2018), and Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses (2022). The latest addition to the corpus, a slim debut story collection by nonbinary Northern Irish writer Liadan Ní Chuinn, shares the brilliance and burning energy of those other books, but there is a fundamental distinction. Ní Chuinn was born in the year of the Good Friday agreement, the 1998 power-sharing deal that delivered peace and brought an end to the Troubles; why, then, should their writing be so obsessed with them?“I believe, these things, they’re the making of us,” a character says at one point. He’s talking about a dead friend, but his words might apply to Northern Ireland’s past 50 or so ye...

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7 h. ago I found a wood fire sauna and wild bathing experience in a woodland 40 minutes from Wales

This rustic forest site whas changing rooms, outdoor shows, a large Finnish-style sauna and a natural spring water pool

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9 h. ago Young people in England’s coastal towns three times more likely to have a mental health condition

They are suffering disproportionately and without help, say researchers, and unless they are given a voice, problems will continue to mount upRead more: ‘We’re told we won’t amount to anything’: is it possible to change the fortunes of young people living in England’s coastal towns? Young people living in the most deprived stretches of England’s coastline are three times more likely to be living with an undiagnosed mental health condition than their peers inland, according to new research.This “coastal mental health gap” means that young people in these towns, which include areas of Tendring on the east coast and Blackpool and Liverpool to the west, are suffering disproportionately, often alone and with no help, said the researchers who conducted the study. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Anne Reid on fame, desire and ambition at 90: ‘The most wonderful things have happened since I was 68!’

In her 20s, the actor says, casting directors didn’t rate her. In her 60s, she got her big break. She discusses fun, family, optimism, regrets – and wild sex on screen with Daniel CraigAnne Reid wants to get one thing straight from the off. She adores working with the director Dominic Dromgoole. “He treats actors like grownups. Some directors feel as if they’ve got to play games and teach you how to act. But a conductor doesn’t teach a viola player how to play the blooming instrument, does he?” She talks about directors who get actors to throw bean bags at each other and go round the room making them recite each other’s names. “Blimey! I want to be an adult. I think I’ve earned it now.” She pauses. Reid has always been a master of the timely pause. “You can’t get more adult than me and be alive really, can you, darling?”Reid turned 90 in May. She celebrated by going on a national tour with Daisy Goodwin’s new play, By Royal Appointment. I catch up with the show at Cheltenham’s Every...

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13 h. ago Zara McDermott and Louis Tomlinson pack on the PDA with some wild dance moves at Glastonbury

The Love Island star, 28, and One Direction singer, 33, were spotted dancing in the crowd at Worthy Farm during Sketpa's set at Worthy Farm.

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18 h. ago Voices: Eradicating drugs from prisons may be unrealistic, but it should be the goal

Editorial: The removal of drugs from Britain’s prisons needs to be pursued with a lot more urgency and application than governments have shown thus far

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18 h. ago Eradicating drugs from prisons may be unrealistic, but it should be the goal

Editorial: The removal of drugs from Britain’s prisons needs to be pursued with a lot more urgency and application than governments have shown thus far

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20 h. ago Netflix viewers 'can't stop sobbing' as 2024 romantic drama lands on streaming site

Netflix has added the romantic drama We Live In Time to trtheir streaming platform and viewers are not only obsessed by it but revealed they can't stop 'sobbing'

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20 h. ago Lando Norris wins British GP amid wild weather at Silverstone: Formula One – live

Lap by lap updates on the action from SilverstoneMcLaren now headline act at HQ | Email JohnOh, and Vin Diesel was there, too, as the former Quentin Cook signs off with a version of the Stones’ Satisfaction.Tony Hawk - skateboarder not member of Morris Minor and The Majors - is here. He has his board with him. Tom Holland – actor not popular historian - is also there. “I am going to try and catch Lewis. I am always wary not to be a distraction,” he tells Martin Brundle. Damson Idris – of the Brad film – will be waving the chequered flag. “I’m so glad everyone has supported the movie.” It stops raining. Nigel Mansell – from the Isle of Mad – is there with Jackie Stewart. “Lewis has an outside chance,” says Nige. Sebastian Coe is cheering for “anyone who can master the circumstances. Clarkson’s here, Clarksoning along. “There’s 20 drivers, and 17 I like them.” Someone called Kaleb – a Clarkson acolyte? – is there with Jezza. Sam Ryder – the world’s most excitable man – gives Brundle a...

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22 h. ago Wimbledon match halted abruptly as voice shouts ‘stop, stop’ and umpire accused

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova's match with Brit Sonay Kartal threw up a hugely controversial moment in the opening set

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23 h. ago My phone was stolen on London vacation in wild mugging scheme — here’s the insane way I got it back

My phone was stolen on London vacation in wild mugging scheme — here’s the insane way I got it back  New York Post

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23 h. ago As ambulance leaders turn to technology, how will the NHS navigate the ‘Wild West’ of AI?

The government has promised that the NHS will become the most AI-enabled health system in the world. But how will it work for the emergency services, when getting it right is a matter of life or death? Rebecca Thomas speaks to health leaders navigating the issue

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