7 h. ago Woman, 66, held on suspicion of murder after London death of film director

Jennifer Abbott, 69, found dead with tape over her mouth in Camden flat and police say missing Rolex could be linked to stabbingA 66-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a film director was found dead at home in north London with tape over her mouth.The body of Jennifer Abbott, 69, who was known professionally as Sarah Steinberg, was discovered in her Camden flat on 13 June. She was last seen three days earlier, walking her pet corgi nearby. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Woman, 66, arrested on suspicion of 'Rolex' murder of film director in London home

Jennifer Abbott, 69, who had lived in Los Angeles and rubbed shoulders with the stars, may have been killed for her distinctive high-value watch

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8 h. ago Woman, 66, arrested over murder of film director, 69, found dead in her flat with diamond Rolex missing

Police arrested the 66-year-old on Wednesday in connection with the stabbing of Jennifer Abbott. She has been remanded in custody. The director was stabbed to death in her council flat.

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8 h. ago Woman, 66, arrested over death of film director linked to missing diamond

Jennifer Abbott, 69, was found dead at her north London home by her concerned niece on 13 June

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10 h. ago Jennifer Abbott: All we know on filmmaker fatally knifed at home 'for diamond Rolex'

Award winning film director Jennifer Abbott, 69, was stabbed to death and found gagged and wrapped in a blanket in her Camden home - here is everything we know about the case

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14 h. ago Murder investigation launched after 'defenceless' grandfather beaten to death in west London home

Family of John Murray say ‘we are struggling to comprehend why someone would harm a 75-year-old defenceless man in his own home’

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15 h. ago Film director found dead at London home may have been murdered for diamond

Jennnifer Abbott was last seen three days before her body was discovered with tape over her mouth

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15 h. ago Iranian film director tells of Tehran prison torture after fleeing to Scotland

Javad Daraei is now living in Glasgow after being imprisoned in Iran where his films are banned.

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31 h. ago Manhunt as film director, 69, murdered at home ‘for diamond encrusted Rolex watch’ near Regent’s Park

Corgi owner Jennifer Abbott had previously lived in Los Angeles where she ran a film production company and rubbed shoulders with the stars

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39 h. ago Holloway review – brave women go back to prison to unlock their stories

In this powerful documentary, six former inmates revisit their old cells to reflect on the childhood trauma and domestic abuse that led them to prisonYou can be told the statistics: 30% of women in prison spent time in care as children, and 70% have been the victim of domestic abuse. But what this powerful documentary from Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson (the latter of whom is the director of just-released film Lollipop) does is to demonstrate the cruelty and injustice of a system that incarcerates the vulnerable.Shot in 2021, it follows six women returning to HMP Holloway in London before demolition began a year later. In the first scenes, they walk back into the prison, some into their old cells. The building is abandoned, ivy creeps up through the floorboards, but it’s still Holloway: “Fuck, I remember this smell,” says one. During a week-long workshop the women – brave and unfailingly articulate – share their stories. All of them experienced trauma in childhood, most masked ...

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59 h. ago Bridgerton star Simone Ashley’s role in F1 film ‘didn’t make the final cut’

‘It happens on every film,’ said director Joseph Kosinski

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5 d. ago Monica Bellucci, 60, stuns in a dramatic black lace gown as she joins partner Tim Burton, 66, at the Taormina Film Festival

The Italian actress, 60, looked the picture of glamour in a black lace evening gown as she joined her film director partner, 66, at the Taormina Film Festival.

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7 d. ago Stormzy takes on Hollywood with Merky films and teams with Oscar winner

South London rapper launches #Merky films to champion new talent and lands his lead role debut in a short film by an Oscar winning director. The film is shot entirely on an Apple Iphone.

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9 d. ago Even Elysium’s director thinks his film is a mess – but a decade on, it deserves a second chance

Matt Damon runs around the US in 2154, when civil liberties are eroded, healthcare is for the rich and wealth inequality is soaring. But its sci-fi!Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen director Neill Blomkamp followed up his acclaimed debut feature, District 9, with the cyberpunk dystopia Elysium in 2013, it was met with a resoundingly mediocre reception. It’s a movie that even Blomkamp has disavowed. “I fucked it up,” he said bluntly in a 2015 interview. But I think he’s too hard on himself: a decade on, Elysium might be worthy of re-appraisal.In 2154, Earth is an overpopulated, polluted dust bowl. The wealthy elite live on the luxurious space station Elysium, where they have access to advanced medical technology and other essentials denied to the surface population. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Way We Talk review – sensitive drama explores deafness via three friends’ infectious warmth

Each character uses a different method of communication in Adam Wong’s drama, which benefits from the chemistry of its lead performersAn incisive film-maker with a keen eye for contemporary youth culture, Hong Kong director Adam Wong has returned with another sensitive ensemble drama. The film follows three twentysomething friends as they navigate various degrees of deafness. Alan, played by first-time deaf actor Marco Ng, is a cochlear implant (CI) user. He is also an ambassador for the surgery, which can help restore sound perception for those with hearing loss. Wolf (Neo Yau), his childhood friend, is a staunch user and supporter of sign language, which at one point was prohibited in local deaf schools; such institutions prioritised speech training, then believed to work better for hearing-impaired students. Sophie (Chung Suet Ying) is at a crossroads: she is a CI user who cannot sign, but yearns to learn.It would, of course, be simplistic to portray these different forms of comm...

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1 week ago Netflix’s Frankenstein might be the most urgent and timely blockbuster of 2025

Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of a 200-year-old book has uncanny relevance to our present day. And it’s a film that the acclaimed director of ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Hellboy’ has been rehearsing for his entire career, writes Xan Brooks

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1 week ago Bryce Dallas Howard says director of 2005 film ‘insulted’ her father and threw water in her face

Lars von Trier directed Howard in the 2005 film ‘Manderlay’

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2 w. ago Every Guillermo del Toro film: All of the Frankenstein director's films ranked, from best to worst

With the release of Frankenstein looming, here are all of Guillermo del Toro's films ranked from best to worst according to Rotten Tomatoes.

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2 w. ago The Seven Year Itch at 70: a comedy about infidelity ruined by the Hays code

Marilyn Monroe is incandescent in Billy Wilder’s comedy about a tempted married man, but it’s a film hampered by restrictions of the timeOne of the patterns that emerges in Conversations With Wilder, a delightfully candid 1999 interview book that the director Cameron Crowe did with his film-making hero, Billy Wilder, is that Wilder tends to look more fondly on his hits than his misses. To him, commercial flops were rarely the result of audiences misunderstanding his work, but a regrettable failure on his part to connect with them. So it’s notable that Wilder didn’t have kind things to say about the Marilyn Monroe comedy The Seven Year Itch, a box-office sensation that’s rightfully settled a few tiers below classics like Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment and Some Like It Hot, his brilliant second go-around with Monroe.A work-for-hire job for Darryl Zanuck at 20th Century Fox, The Seven Year Itch didn’t originate with Wilder, but George Axelrod’s 1952 Broadway comedy a...

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2 w. ago Goebbels and the Führer review – private life of propagandist shows grotesque heart of Nazism

Joachim Lang’s bleak film shows a preening Goebbels and a careworn Hitler as they battle to convince the German public, and themselves, they will win the warIn an appropriate spirit of cynicism and bleakness, German director Joachim Lang has made a film about the private life of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, the Hexenmeister or chief sorcerer of lies, and his always strained relationship with Hitler. Robert Stadlober plays the preening and self-pitying Goebbels and Fritz Karl is a careworn Hitler. Franziska Weisz plays Goebbels’s wife Magda, who at first resented his infidelities with showbusiness starlets but for the sake of the Fatherland submitted to the public image of a good Nazi wife and mother of six adorable children – whom Joseph and Magda finally murdered in the bunker before killing themselves.In its subversive, austerely satirical way, the film feels almost like a B-side to Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Downfall from 2004, and Lang has perhaps even inhaled, just a little, t...

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