I Play Rocky review – Anthony Ippolito adds knockout sweetness to the story of Stallone’s Hollywood triumph

It's a movie of duplicates and surfaces and heartfelt imitations. Perhaps not very profound but, as Oscar Wilde's Lord Henry Wotton says, it is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. It is the story of the…

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Gender-critical feminist suggests parents should tell children they’ll face a ‘miserable life’ if they come out as gay

The philosopher and writer made the comments during an appearance on Times Radio , where she discussed the UK government’s proposed ban on conversion practices. Read next “I’m not saying the feelings are a choice, but…

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Dune: Part Three cast tease trilogy's ending as Zendaya confirms "departures" from novel Dune Messiah

And with the countdown now well and truly on until the film's release, that starry cast have begun to tease what we can expect to see in this latest film, which is adapted from the second book in Frank Herbert's sci-fi…

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Self Esteem records theme song for Channel 4’s new Christmas special ‘Mog’s Bad Thing’

The artist – real name Rebecca Lucy Taylor – has joined forces with James Bond composer David Arnold and Oscar winning lyricist Don Black for the wistful song ‘I Wish That Things Could Be That Way Again’ for the latest…

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Rare Renaissance masterpiece hidden for 70 years could fetch £5m at auction

It was completed around 1520 by Albrecht Altdorfer, who is widely regarded as Europe's first pure landscape oil artist. The Renaissance artwork – A Thickly Wooded Landscape With a Rainbow Behind the Trees and a Distant…

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Jimmy review – simple-minded James Stewart biopic is too straightforward

He also frequently ceded scenes to his scene partners, whether former teen idols like Luke Perry or newer, more dynamic personalities like Camila Mendes or Madelaine Petsch. Now he's taking on an even more beloved and…

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‘It’s so glossy and sexy!’: 10 movies (and one TV show) that inspired Grand Theft Auto

Over the past three decades, the games have studied and stolen the themes, conventions and visual dynamism of great gangster and action movies, applying them to open worlds filled with low-life characters and grand…

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Was one of the great novels of the Enlightenment written by a man who thought he was a werewolf?

Along the way he has an erotic encounter with two demonic Moorish sisters, falls foul of shape-shifting apparitions and is tested by a Jewish Kabbalist attempting to use mystical formulas to control spirits and decipher…

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Shemar Moore reacts to shock Hondo developments in SWAT: Exiles: "Life got hard for him"

Moore spoke exclusively with Radio Times about this new series, which not only features a brand-new supporting cast, but also introduces us to a very different version of Hondo, after a difficult two years after the end…

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Check out CMAT and Elton John’s reworked version of ‘Step Into Christmas’

The ‘Euro-Country’ artist and the music icon have put a fresh spin on the latter’s 1973 festive single for this year’s ‘Amazon Music Original’ holiday song. Advertisement “I’ve loved CMAT since I first heard her and saw…

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