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Mayobridge to Madden – Smyth enjoying next level in NFL
As he enters his first pre-season as an NFL starter, County Down’s Charlie Smyth says he is getting used to being a player rather than fan of the sport.
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‘Men have 30 seconds to get a laugh. Women have 10’: standup Bella Hull on proving herself in rough clubs
Comedian Bella Hull, now 28, talks about a decade spent building her standup career the hard way, starting on the open-mic circuit at 17 and working “unsafe basements” and rough clubs rather than relying on the university comedy pipeline. She studied history of art at Cambridge but deliberately avoided the Footlights route into comedy, preferring…
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‘Letters From the Silenced Country,’ Documentary About Oppression in Belarus, Boarded by Filmotor Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
Filmotor has acquired world sales rights to “Letters From the Silenced Country,” a documentary by exiled Belarusian filmmaker Andrei Kutsila, ahead of its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. The partly animated film portrays contemporary Belarus through the stories of individuals who have suffered imprisonment, repression and exile under the country’s autocratic regime, using…
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John Oliver Eviscerates The “Bizarro World” Of Trump’s DOJ On ‘Last Week Tonight’
On his HBO show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver criticised what he called the “bizarro-world version of civil rights” being pursued by Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. Oliver argued that while high-profile political prosecutions have increased under Trump, more substantive DOJ work has been neglected or mishandled, a shift he says has attracted far less…
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Space Agencies Are Trying to Keep Astronauts From Losing Their Sight
The European Space Agency has commissioned British startup Siloton to develop a compact eye-scanning device to help understand and eventually treat spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS), a condition that damages astronauts’ eyesight during long missions. The work is being done ahead of the Artemis programme’s crewed missions to the moon and other deep space journeys, where…
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TV tonight: killer fridges on the loose in a new sci-fi comedy
Tonight’s TV highlights include the new sci-fi comedy Warren’s Vortex on Sky Comedy, in which an ordinary man’s shed portal leads him and his teenage daughter into a chaotic time-travelling adventure involving killer refrigerators. The Guardian’s TV listings also cover a range of other programmes across terrestrial and satellite channels, from documentary and reality shows…
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How Liverpool are shaping up under Iraola
Andoni Iraola, who has taken over as Liverpool head coach following Arne Slot’s departure a year after winning the Premier League, is beginning to imprint his tactical style on the team, with many observers noting parallels to the intense “heavy metal” football Anfield favoured under Jürgen Klopp. Analysis of Liverpool’s pre-season matches suggests Iraola is…
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Helaena dies as House of the Dragon finale reveals prophecy
House of the Dragon’s showrunner has explained why the season three finale did not deliver the revenge killing many viewers had been anticipating, saying “that would be no fun.” The remark clarifies the creative thinking behind an ending that favoured psychological weight over straightforward retribution, capping a finale that killed off several major characters and…
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Even though John Stewart will be in Man of Tomorrow, Lanterns showrunner says he didn’t have “any specific landing point”
The showrunner of DC’s “Lanterns” series, Chris Mundy, has confirmed that John Stewart’s appearance in the upcoming James Gunn film “Man of Tomorrow” was not planned with a specific outcome for the character in mind when the TV show was written. This clarifies how the two DC Studios projects, which both feature the Green Lantern…
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John Oliver Takes Shots at Own Company’s DC Superhero Movies on ‘Last Week Tonight’
On his HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” John Oliver mocked the US Department of Justice’s poor track record under Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche, before turning his mockery on his own corporate parent, Warner Bros., over its recent run of underperforming DC superhero films. The segment began with Oliver criticising the DOJ’s handling of cases…