Clayface review – flesh-stretching DC body horror is very gory but not very good
Liverpool makes for an unconvincing Gotham City in this effectively gross but otherwise middling attempt to milk money from a lesser-known Batman villain
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'Clayface' review: A pretty good R-rated revenge thriller-horror romance
DC Studios has turned to an unlikely character for its next feature movie, says AP critic Mark Kennedy. “Clayface,” directed by James Watkins, is a revenge thriller-romance and...
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‘It feels quite frightening’: readers rush to snap up Sally Rooney books as stocks dwindle amid Palestine Action ban
Booksellers have reported selling out of the Irish novelist’s works after it was announced that her books would be withdrawn from sale in the UK Booksellers have reported...
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‘A vehicle to expose prejudice, bias, and stupidity’: Sacha Baron Cohen defends Ali G as satire
The actor defended his new film, Ali G: Who Iz I?, saying his aim is to bring people ‘face-to-face with the danger of fanaticism and conspiracy theories’
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Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine review – turgid tribute to pioneering star
Barbican Hall, LondonJulia Bullock is magnetic in this discourse on Josephine Baker, but the 100-minute piece is slow-moving and lacking in intimacy
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Seth Meyers on Elon Musk: ‘Nobody likes him’
Late-night hosts discussed Donald Trump’s praise for Elon Musk as well as the physical appearance of several male US Senate candidates
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‘He had this electrical charge’: the short life and long legacy of Jason Molina, master of Americana
As a documentary celebrates the late US musician, friends and collaborators describe an incomparable storyteller who brought ‘myth and magic to everyday life’
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Popcorn with your Puccini: can opera on screen ever work?
Composers have harnessed TV and cinema since Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors pulled in five million viewers 75 years ago but for my money Kombat Opera’s satire showed us...
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‘I’m always being real’: what on earth persuades disgraced people like Elizabeth Holmes to let the cameras in?
With You Can See Everything, Holmes joins other such high-profile subjects as Lance Armstrong, Imelda Marcos and Anthony Weiner to allow film-makers to document their lives...
Hollywood Minute: Liverpool’s ‘The Beatles Story’ is expanding
A huge new Beatles attraction in Liverpool, honors for 'East of Eden,' and Idris Elba in 'Above the Below.' David Daniel reports.
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High School Musical review – Disney fave is sweet, slick and as squeaky clean as ever
Harry Judd is the coach while KayCee Stroh from the original movies is back to play a teacher in the hoop-shooting, pompom-waving romance
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Wonderhaul: has Liam Gallagher really got into metal detecting?
The Oasis frontman and famous fibber has claimed on social media that he is a budding detectorist. Some might say it’s a perfect fit, but either way, the gentle pastime is...
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Scream review – Wes Craven meta horror remains super smart and scary 30 years on
Self-aware romp through the genre is redolent of the 90s but its ghost-masked killer is as alarming as ever The 30th anniversary re-release of the original Scream, from...
Making Marie Antoinette review – sweet Coppola home movie indulges the family business
Shot by Sofia’s mother Eleanor this documentary shows something of the strain of shooting a period piece, but is a far cry from the tumultuous portrait of her husband in Hearts...
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Ghosts: The Possession of Button House review – new levels of giddiness unleashed in spooky spin-off
Picking up not long after the events of the final episode of the BBC’s haunted house comedy, this glorious new film is every bit as warm and comforting as the TV sitcom
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Standup Jon Richardson on turning his dark teenage diaries into a tearjerking memoir: ‘I couldn’t sugarcoat those years’
While facing grief, illness and a very public breakup, the comic reached for his diaries – and found a happy kid who spiralled into despair. Inspired by a Nobel laureate, he...
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Mariah Carey wins dismissal of brother’s defamation lawsuit over her memoir
Morgan Carey sued his sister over claims in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, which he said falsely portrayed him as a violent drug dealer
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Stacey Dooley: Down the K Hole review – the weird tale of how you can order ketamine quicker than pizza
From incontinence to reconstructive bladder surgery, ketamine’s popularity with the young is a public health crisis in motion. But is Dooley the right person to get to grips...