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TV has never been so nerve-jangling: 10 years of the agonising Motherland
The BBC sitcom Motherland is marking its 10th anniversary, prompting a retrospective on how the show reshaped depictions of motherhood on television. Created by Sharon Horgan, Holly Walsh, Helen Serafinowicz and Graham Linehan, and joined by Barunka O’Shaughnessy from series two, the sitcom stood out by focusing not on children but on the fraught adult…
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Laura Poitras Shares the Desperate Vision Behind Her ICE Documentary ‘They’re Here’: “What’s Happening in the United States Is a Nightmare”
Filmmaker Laura Poitras, speaking at the Venice Film Festival, has described the making of her new short documentary “They’re Here” as an urgent response to what she calls a “nightmare” of normalised violence under ICE’s immigration crackdown in the United States. The 25-minute film, co-directed with Minneapolis journalist Rachel Lauren Mueller, uses dashcam footage, crowdsourced…
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Multiple music Emmy debuts celebrated at 2026 ceremony
Winners across the seven music categories at the 2026 Emmy Awards, presented over two nights at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, have now been confirmed. In the headline music category, songwriters Gavin Brivik and Andrew Bird won outstanding original music and lyrics for “Need Someone” from The Pitt, beating high-profile nominees Lady Gaga (for…
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Betty Gilpin Recites “Manic Poem” To Accept First Emmy For ‘Widow’s Bay’: “Let’s All Lean Towards Sam Shepard & Less Toward Sam Altman”
Betty Gilpin won her first Emmy, taking the Guest Actress in a Comedy Series award for her portrayal of the tragic 18th-century character Sarah Westcott Warren in Apple TV’s breakout series Widow’s Bay. During her acceptance speech on Night 2 of the 2026 Emmys, Gilpin read out an unusual, poem-based speech she had written on…
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Bruce Campbell’s 10/10 Horror Classic Is Officially Back on Streaming
Bruce Campbell’s cult horror-comedy Army of Darkness has returned to streaming on Prime Video, the news coming shortly after Campbell revealed the extent of his ongoing cancer battle, prompting an outpouring of support from fans and colleagues. The 1992 film, directed by Sam Raimi, is the third instalment in the Evil Dead trilogy and remains…
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Robert Downey Jr.’s Forgotten Supernatural Horror Thriller Is Officially Back on Streaming
Gothika, the 2003 supernatural horror thriller that gave Robert Downey Jr. an early foothold in his career comeback, has been made available to stream on Netflix. The film arrived at a pivotal moment for Downey, who had recently left rehab after years of substance abuse and public trouble; producer Joel Silver reportedly withheld 40% of…
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Horrifying new video of fatal crocodile attack as beast performs death roll on wildlife worker – months after staff taunted them in enclosure
A wildlife worker at Adventure Park in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, has died after a crocodile seized him during a feeding and performed a “death roll” while horrified onlookers watched. The attack, which occurred on Saturday afternoon, took police roughly an hour and eleven shots to end, and comes just months after videos surfaced…
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Tim Burton’s Horror Classic Is Officially Free to Stream Before Sydney Sweeney’s Remake
Tim Burton’s 1999 gothic horror film “Sleepy Hollow” is now streaming for free on the ad-supported platform Tubi, giving audiences a chance to revisit the classic ahead of a new adaptation of Washington Irving’s tale starring Sydney Sweeney. That forthcoming film, titled “Hollow” and based on a debut novel by writer-director Lindsey Anderson Beer, is…
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Tim Curry’s Cult Horror Masterpiece Is Officially Doing the ‘Time Warp’ Again
Tim Curry, who died last week at the age of 80, is being remembered on-screen as his signature film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, surges up Amazon’s US streaming chart. Curry built a fifty-year career on scene-stealing turns, including Pennywise in Stephen King’s It, Darkness in Legend, Mr Hector in Home Alone 2 and Wadsworth…
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Jensen Ackles’ Scariest Role Is Now Streaming Free
Jensen Ackles, best known for playing Dean Winchester across 15 seasons of Supernatural, is highlighted for his lead role in the 2009 slasher remake My Bloody Valentine 3D, now streaming free on Tubi. The film offers a rare chance to see Ackles outside the Supernatural universe, taking on a darker, more violent horror role than…