‘The Damned’ Review: A Chilly Horror-Drama That Clings to Its Atmosphere for as Long as It Can

Since she first shot to fame on the X Factor back in 2009, Stacey Solomon's career has gone from strength to strength, and she's won the hearts of the nation - but now, the star may well be setting her sights on cracking America, too. When the 34 year old emerged on screens with her rendition of What A Wonderful World and impressed music guru Simon Cowell, Stacey was a single mum who has spent years working at a fish and chip shop in Essex.

Historians Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway are back discovering hidden gems beneath our feet as Secrets of the London Underground returns for a fourth series.The duo visit the likes of London Paddington, Waterloo and even get the keys to South Kentish Town, an abandoned station which closed to passengers more than a century ago. But returning for another series isn’t the only big news from Siddy, as she’s also expecting a baby. “I’m 33-weeks,” says the actor and presenter.

EXCLUSIVE: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, the filmmaking duo behind BAFTA-nominated Nick Cave pic 20,000 Days on Earth, have just wrapped filming a new performance film dubbed The Extraordinary Miss Flower. The project brings to life the remarkable story of Geraldine Flower and the discovery of a suitcase of letters sent to her in the 1960s and 1970s that inspired acclaimed Icelandic singer-songwriter Emilíana Torrini to return to the studio. 

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Flow,” a director-driven animated feature which world premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and just swept three awards at Annecy Film Festival, has been embraced by a raft of major distributors in key territories, including the U.K., Japan, South Korea, Germany, Spain and Italy. The movie is represented internationally by Charades.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is looking to stay in business with two familiar faces as Purple Hearts star Sofia Carson and Queen Charlotte‘s Corey Mylchreest are set to star in the adaptation of the popular novel My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan. The Inbetweeners director Iain Morris will direct, with Temple Hill Entertainment producing. Laura Quicksilver and George Berman are overseeing the production.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large I think I can say this on behalf of the entire collective of reporters who cover television: Nothing makes us groan more than when a series star or producer refers to the setting as another “character” in their show. (Actually, I take that back, something else causes even heavier eye rolls: When a performer says their co-stars are “like a family.”) And yet, I may have to temper my cynicism.

Willow Shields, known for her role as Primrose Everdeen in The Hunger Games, is barely recognisable years after the film. At just 11 years old, she made her big-screen debut playing Jennifer Lawrence's character Katniss Everdeen's younger sister. Besides her notable role alongside the Hollywood star, she has also appeared in Netflix's Spinning Out, Beyond the Blackboard with Emily VanCamp and most recently, When Time Got Louder.

John Stones has admitted he was worried that he broke his foot during England's final Euro 2024 warm-up game and would be ruled out of the tournament.

She has two Best Actress Oscars and five nominations including one most recently for 2023’s Nyad. She received her first for 1976’s Taxi Driver when she was only 14. Add to these impressive accomplishments, three BAFTA awards, three Golden Globes, and an Honorary Palme d’Or among other accolades and honors. Still it is surprising to note she has never once been nominated for an Emmy for any acting role.

Courtney Howard The One Who Got Away is a romantic notion that’s been widely propagated by pop culture cinema. And for good reason, as heartfelt drama and compelling conflicts arise authentically from these confrontations with fate. Director-co-writer Baltasar Kormákur’s “Touch,” based on Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson’s novel of the same name, expands on this swoon-worthy idea, elegantly crafting an achingly poignant story centered on an elderly man searching for his true love amidst a time of uncertainty.

Manchester City defender John Stones was absent from England training on Wednesday due to illness ahead of their Euro 2024 opener against Serbia on Sunday.

Marta Balaga The “Spermageddon” is coming. Leading indie sales agent Charades has closed deals with Telepool and Square One Entertainment for rights to the CG-animated film for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Co-directed by Rasmus A.

We’ve teamed up with Iceland and The Food Warehouse to offer our readers £5 off when you spend £25 or more in-store from Thursday 13th June until close of stores on Monday 17th June 2024.

Composer Atli Örvarsson wrote the music for Silo, the Apple TV+ series about a post-apocalyptic society living within a giant silo so old they don’t even know who built it. For the tale, Örvasson said he thought of musical instruments that could represent loneliness.

Young Thug’s trial was thrown into chaos this week when a witness was arrested in court for refusing to testify.Young Thug is currently on trial for allegedly conspiring to violate Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations (RICO) Act, along with seven further drug- and gang- related felonies.It follows his 2022 arrest, when he was one of 28 people charged in an indictment that focused on the alleged street gang YSL (“Young Slime Life”), which is believed to have formed in Atlanta in 2012. Thug is suspected of being one of three of the alleged gang’s founding members.Prosecutors suspect that the rapper, whose real name is Jeffery Lamar Williams, took part in gang activity on or between May 12, 2018 and May 8, 2022.As reported by Rolling Stone, on Friday (June 7), Kenneth ‘Lil Woody’ Copeland, who is also an alleged associate of YSL, was arrested on the stand after refusing to give evidence on behalf of the prosecution.A member of rival gang YFN is alleged to have robbed Copeland at a nightclub in Atlanta in January 2015, which then escalated into a shooting war that allegedly resulted in the drive-by murder of Donovan ‘Nut’ Thomas days later.Copeland had been expected to be a key witness in the trial.

Chanel brought together a star-studded crowd from the annual luncheon to celebrate Through Her Lens: The Tribeca CHANEL Women’s Filmmaker Program.

Fans of A Murder at the End of the World rejoice! Brit Marling, who created the show with her longtime collaborator Zal Batmanglij, is game to take the limited series further. Possibly as far as Tokyo…

EXCLUSIVE: In advance of its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, scheduled for June 6th, the supernatural horror film The Damned, marking the feature directorial debut of Thordur Palsson (The Valhalla Murders), has locked in North American distribution with Vertical. The film will be released later this year.

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Anna Marie de la Fuente Germany’s ZDF Studios has teamed up with Iceland’s ACT4 to develop the Nordic crime thriller “Big Brother,” based on the award-winning debut novel ‘Stóri Bródir’ of Icelandic author Skuli Sigurdsson. A tale of revenge and justice, “Big Brother” centers on a mysterious figure in black who, every full moon, viciously attacks a person before vanishing into the night. The victims, all unpunished sexual offenders, are carefully selected.