15 h. ago Marvel films costume designer who raped a woman after she put a banana skin in the 'wrong bin' is jailed for 12 years

Marvyn Marques, 38, launched the sickening attack after raging that his victim had put the peel in the wrong rubbish bin and later raped her again as punishment.

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50 h. ago Jacob Elordi flirts up a storm with mystery woman after breaking down in tears over 13

The Australian 28-year-old beamed with delight as he chatted up the brunette while touring around Italy in a what appeared to be a van

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4 d. ago Rugby star who lifted up woman's skirt issues statement as influencer hits back

A former France international rugby union player has been filmed lifting up a woman's skirt at a festival in France, which has prompted him to issue a statement denying that his behaviour was 'sexist'

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4 d. ago ‘I want to earn my stripes’: Cooper Hoffman on ambition, anxiety, and following in his dad’s footsteps

He was never meant to be an actor – wary of comparisons with his late father Philip Seymour Hoffman. Now a rising star, he talks about growing up, embracing discomfort and forging his own pathWhen Cooper Hoffman was in his teens, he didn’t have any grand plans for the future, though there was one thing he knew for sure: he did not want to be an actor. Why? “I didn’t want to do it because my dad did it so well, and it felt like I’d be going up against him. It would feel like I was inherently stepping into something competitive.”Given Hoffman’s father is Philip Seymour Hoffman, Oscar-winning star of Boogie Nights, Almost Famous, The Master and Capote, you can see why he would feel that way. But then Paul Thomas Anderson, the Boogie Nights director who is a friend of the family, and whose children Cooper played with when he was growing up, asked him if he would read for a part. It was the lead in the 2021 film Licorice Pizza, about a teenage boy smitten with a woman in her mid-20s. It ...

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4 d. ago Rugby star filmed lifting woman's skirt as he issues statement

The former international says he 'immediately apologised' for the incident which has sparked outrage online

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5 d. ago Emma Stone says she believes in ALIENS and says only narcissists believe they don't exist as she promotes her extraterrestrial film Bugonia at Venice Film Festival

Emma Stone explained she believes in aliens at a press conference in Venice on Thursday, to promote a film in which she plays a woman who may - or may not - be an alien herself.

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5 d. ago Baffled bystander films discarded cigarette 'dancing and levitating'

A cigarette has become the subject of internet intrigue after a woman filmed it 'dancing and levitating' outside her workplace in Gateshead.

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7 d. ago Woman tourist faces five years in Turkish prison after filming viral dance video

A female tourist, who goes by the name of Merjem, has been warned by Turkish authorities that she could face up to five years behind bars

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7 d. ago The Woman in Cabin 10 Netflix release date and cast as trailer drops

Netflix has now dropped a trailer for its upcoming thriller film The Woman in Cabin 10, starring Keira Knightley, Guy Pearce, Hannah Waddingham and more.

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1 week ago If your husband’s having an affair, this woman will get rid of her: the gripping film about China’s ‘mistress dispellers’

Available for hire, professional persuaders deceive their way into the lives of cheating men – and see off the extra lover. We meet the maker of a jaw-dropping documentary about a growing phenomenonNot long into Mistress Dispeller, a quietly jaw-dropping new documentary from director Elizabeth Lo, the film’s eponymous character lays out her thesis for ridding marriages of troublesome extra lovers. “When someone becomes a mistress,” she says, “it’s because they feel they don’t deserve complete love. She’s the one who needs our help the most.”Wang Zhenxi, a mistress dispeller based in north-central China’s Henan province, is one of a growing number of self-styled professionals who earn a living by intervening in people’s marriages – to “dispel” them of intruders. “I was looking for a love story set in China,” says Lo, speaking from Hong Kong. “I thought it would be really interesting to [explore] the peripheral gaze of a mistress.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk review – shattering memorial to Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna

Sepideh Farsi’s devastating documentary follows the Hassouna through a year of video calls before a fate that, though well known, is too bitter to bearThe rule is this: don’t spoil movies by giving away the ending, even if the events depicted are part of the historical record. But in the case of this devastating documentary, knowing what’s coming at the end is a radical enhancement, a chilling message from the movie’s future that makes you read everything differently.So here’s the big reveal: Fatima Hassouna, the young Palestinian woman in this film, to whom director Sepideh Farsi talks to via video calls over nearly a year, is now dead, killed on 16 April by an Israeli airstrike along with several members of her family. In fact, the last we see of Hassouna is her being told by Farsi that the film we’ve just been watching will be shown at the Cannes film festival. This prompts a conversation about whether Hassouna will attend the premiere (“Of course!” she says, optimistically) and ...

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1 week ago Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk review – shattering memorial to Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona

Sepideh Farsi’s devastating documentary follows Hassona through a year of video calls before a fate that, though well known, is too bitter to bearThe rule is this: don’t spoil movies by giving away the ending, even if the events depicted are part of the historical record. But in the case of this devastating documentary, knowing what’s coming at the end is a radical enhancement, a chilling message from the movie’s future that makes you read everything differently.So here’s the big reveal: Fatma Hassona, the young Palestinian woman in this film, to whom director Sepideh Farsi talks to via video calls over nearly a year, is now dead, killed on 16 April by an Israeli airstrike along with several members of her family. In fact, the last we see of Hassona is her being told by Farsi that the film we’ve just been watching will be shown at the Cannes film festival. This prompts a conversation about whether Hassona will attend the premiere (“Of course!” she says, optimistically) and perhaps u...

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1 week ago Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk review – shattering memorial to Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona

Sepideh Farsi’s devastating documentary follows Hassona through a year of video calls before a fate that, though well known, is too bitter to bearThe rule is this: don’t spoil movies by giving away the ending, even if the events depicted are part of the historical record. But in the case of this devastating documentary, knowing what’s coming at the end is a radical enhancement, a chilling message from the movie’s future that makes you read everything differently.So here’s the big reveal: Fatma Hassona, the young Palestinian woman in this film, to whom director Sepideh Farsi talks to via video calls over nearly a year, is now dead, killed on 16 April by an Israeli airstrike along with several members of her family. In fact, the last we see of Hassona is her being told by Farsi that the film we’ve just been watching will be shown at the Cannes film festival. This prompts a conversation about whether Hassona will attend the premiere (“Of course!” she says, optimistically) and perhaps u...

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2 w. ago Laughing woman filmed dog’s 'sadistic' attack on cat before posting on Snapchat

The woman was sentenced to 10 months immediate custody for the animal welfare offence

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2 w. ago Woman told to 'run' from 'cursed' Airbnb after people notice spooky detail

A woman who filmed the inside of the Airbnb she was staying in has been told to 'run' from the property, as people say it could be 'cursed' thanks to one spooky detail

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2 w. ago Helen Mirren says next James Bond has to be male even though she’s ‘such a feminist’

‘You can’t have a woman, it just doesn’t work,’ actor said

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2 w. ago Magaluf has been 'stripped of all energy' as footage shows 'dead atmosphere'

A British woman filmed the deserted strip as she strolled down the now quiet area

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3 w. ago DWP and HMRC making major change to 10 benefits including Universal Credit

The DWP is to make changes to ten benefits payments within days - following the bank holiday adjustment, parents with children continuing their education have been warned to update HMRC by this date

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3 w. ago ‘Aggressively provocative’: test screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction

An early test showing of Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming Brontë adaptation suggests the unfinished film features horse-rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nunsEqual parts intrigue and scepticism had already dogged the forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emerald Fennell – whose first two films, Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, displayed a love of mordant and explicit envelope-pushing.As reported by World of Reel, a first test screening for the film, which stars Margot Robbie and Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi, took place earlier this week in Dallas, and audience reaction was “mixed”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Aggressively provocative’: first screening of Saltburn director’s Wuthering Heights gets mixed reaction

An early test showing of the forthcoming Brontë adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi reveals film features horse rein sex, suggestive egg yolks and necrophile nunsEqual parts intrigue and scepticism had already dogged the forthcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emerald Fennell – whose first two films, Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, displayed a love of mordant and explicit envelope-pushing.As reported by World of Reel, a first test screening for the film, which stars Margot Robbie and Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi, took place earlier this week in Dallas, and audience reaction was “mixed”. Continue reading...

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