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Rupert Everett has been named among the competition jury members at this year’s Dinard Festival of British and Irish Film.

Everett will be joined by Rachida Brakni, Claire Chazal, Reda Kateb, Molly Dineen, Jennifer Saunders, and Ruby Wax.

Titles playing in competition include My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies, Mr Burton by Marc Evans, The Damned by Thordur Palsson, The Thing with Feathers by Dylan Southern, and Dragonfly by Paul Andrew Williams.

The festival’s opening film will be Kristin Scott Thomas’s My Mother’s Wedding. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller, and Emily Beecham. The film follows three sisters who return to their childhood home for a momentous weekend: the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother, Diana Frost. The three daughters are from very different walks of life: Georgina is a hospice nurse; Victoria is a Hollywood star; and Katherine is a Captain in the Royal Navy.

Here’s your at-a-glance guide to what’s hitting Hulu the week of Monday, September 1 through Sunday, September 7, 2025. It’s a busy stretch: legacy reality TV, true-crime chapters from ABC News Studios, A&e docuseries, a farm-to-table cooking show, a Turkish romantic dramedy, and a new Hulu Original climbing miniseries.

Below, you’ll find each title with concrete details—what it’s about, who’s in it, when it first premiered, key production facts—and the exact day it lands on Hulu this week. Titles are in single quotes throughout, and dates appear inside each section so you can plan your queue without digging.

‘America’s Next Top Model’ (2003–2018) Bankable Productions

Arriving Monday,...

I love when a project has a title that seems just a little off but offers a purposeful piece of wordplay.

It doesn’t have to be distractingly askew.

Take, for example, Everywhere Man: The Lives and Times of Peter Asher, the new documentary by Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine (Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song). It’s a title you could skim a dozen times without stopping and going, “Wait, isn’t the idiom ‘life and times’?”

It takes very little time into Geller and Goldfine’s slightly overstuffed and slightly imbalanced documentary to recognize what they’re doing.

Peter Asher is one of several figures who served as the Forrest Gump or Zelig or Chance the Gardener of the counterculture — people who pop up in the background of seemingly every photograph taken across several decades, whose names grace the liner notes of every significant album, whose accomplishments...

The premise of Glen A. Larson's 1978 sci-fi series "Battlestar Galactica" was high-concept and complex. It took place far from Earth, at the end of humanity's millennium-long war with a species of robots called the Cylons. The Cylons themselves were built by a long-extinct race of humanoid reptiles, and they seem poised to offer the same fate to humankind. Feeling that the writing was on the wall, a human named Count Baltar (John Colicos) betrayed humanity by siding with the Cylons, putting the robots hot on the trail of the Battlestar Galactica, a massive starship carrying most of the galaxy's last-known humans. Their goal is to find a long-lost "thirteenth tribe," a human colony that was said to have settled on a distant planet called Earth.

The assumption for viewers was that "Battlestar Galactica" was set in the distant future, but at the end of the 24th episode of its only season,...

Wimbledon is bringing out dozens of celebrities!

Plenty of stars were spotted in the crowd for Day 14 of the tennis championship on Sunday (July 13) held at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London, England.

Niall Horan and girlfriend Amelia Woolley, Ruth Wilson, Emilia Jones, Orlando Bloom, Nathalie Emmanuel, Nicole Kidman, Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Anna Wintour, and Keira Knightley and husband James Righton were among the stars seen sitting in the stands and posing for pictures at the event.

The stars were seen in the Royal Box during the Ladies’ Doubles Final match between Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens of Belgium against Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and Hsieh Su-Wei of Chinese Taipei.

Keep reading to find out more…

Harper’s Bazaar UK and Range Rover also welcomed an intimate group of VIP guests and friends of the brands for a celebratory lunch in the Range Rover suite at...

"Who you want to be. How you want to say who you are." Transmission Films from Australia has posted the official UK trailer for the documentary film titled Twiggy, which is out in cinemas in the UK and soon Oz. This first premiered at the 2024 London Film Festival last year, and it also played at the Thessaloniki Doc Festival earlier this year. This is the tell-all doc about the real story of the greatest "It" girl – known as Twiggy – and all she's been through. She was initially born as Lesley Hornby in a working-class London home, but when she changed her name to "Twiggy" as a teenager, she became the world's first international supermodel almost overnight. Twiggy was the iconic face of 1960s Swingin' London – a period when fashion and music changed the whole world forever. With her androgynous look & giant eyes, she might as well have landed from another planet,...

Sadie Frost’s documentary Twiggy charts the remarkable life of Lesley Lawson, who rose from a Neasden teenager to the world’s first supermodel and then forged careers in film, television and Broadway. Frost traces Lesley “Twiggy” Hornby’s transformation through a tapestry of restored fashion shoots, candid interviews and rare home movies.

The film opens with the 1966 Daily Express cover that anointed Twiggy “The Face of ’66,” and moves swiftly through her meteoric rise in London’s mod scene, her New York triumphs and her unexpected pivot into acting. Archival gems—such as Melvin Sokolsky’s Warhol‑esque images of Twiggy amid masked admirers—and fresh reflections from Twiggy herself bring texture to each era.

Interview segments intercut with sequences of Twiggy interacting with industry legends, offering a sense of how those dizzying years felt behind the scenes. Frost balances quick‑cut montages of catwalks and pool parties with measured...

The actor-models have made a documentary about Twiggy’s life that is as lively and sunny as her personality – but it doesn’t shy away from exploring the misogyny they both endured

The woman in the jade-green suede biker jacket and tartan trousers sticks out her hand. “’Allo, I’m Twig,” she says. The name still sounds funny after all these years, even for those of us who can’t recall a time when we hadn’t heard it. This perpetually effulgent figure was styled “Sticks” by a friend on account of her skinny legs, only for that to morph into “Twiggy” by the time her picture was splashed across the Daily Express, which named her “the face of 1966” when she was 16. Yet it feels stranger still to think of her as Lesley Hornby, the name inked on to her birth certificate 75 years ago.

Twiggy is not one for looking back,...

Batman movies have The Joker, the Scream franchise has Ghostface, and documentaries have… Woody Allen?

The disgraced comedian and filmmaker was the subject of the 2021 HBO docuseries Allen v Farrow, which re-examined the 1992 criminal investigation that was launched in response to allegations that Allen molested his daughter, Dylan Farrow. Now Allen has popped up in another doc, and, yet again, his role is that of an antagonist.

Hitting theaters in the U.K. this week is Twiggy, a new documentary from director Sadie Frost all about English model and “‘60s fashion icon” Twiggy, aka Dame Lesley Lawson.

Of course, the film covers Twiggy’s 1967 trip to New York City when she was just 17. She was accompanied by her manager/boyfriend who was 10 years older, and who, according to The Guardian, “became an oppressive and unfaithful controlling figure.” But clearly whoever put together this cheery newsreel footage at the time seemed...

Frost’s documentary follows the working-class Londoner taking bad luck in her stride as she progresses from fashion to film stardom and back again

This feelgood film directed by Sadie Frost is about the 60s fashion icon Twiggy; originally Lesley Hornby from Neasden in London, latterly Lesley Lawson after her marriage to actor Leigh Lawson, and then Dame Lesley Lawson with her Dbe in 2019. With comments from A-listers including Edward Enninful and Suzy Menkes, it tells us the story of a working-class heroine with an almost eerily beautiful gamine face who became a fashion legend with a pop-star status that eluded earlier figures such as Jean Shrimpton, though without the smouldering attitude of the supermodel generation that came later.

Twiggy made a glorious success of her life, and never conformed to any tragic narrative about how triumph in the ephemeral world of fashion and fame must surely be punished with disaster.

Universal’s “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” continued its reign at the U.K. and Ireland box office, pulling in £4.1 million ($5.2 million) in its third weekend, according to Comscore. The fourth installment in the “Bridget Jones” franchise has now grossed $45.6 million, maintaining a solid lead over the competition and proving to be one of the year’s biggest hits so far.

Disney’s “Captain America: Brave New World” held onto second place with $1.8 million in its third weekend, pushing its cumulative total to $19.8 million. While overshadowed by the continued success of “Bridget Jones,” the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is showing decent legs as it heads into its fourth week.

Universal’s “Dog Man” took third place, adding $861,838 in its fourth weekend. The animated family feature has now reached $15.2 million. Black Bear’s horror entry “The Monkey” earned $763,907 in its second weekend in fourth place, bringing its total to $2.7 million.

The Dublin Film Festival came to an end at the weekend after one of its most varied programs yet. Guests visiting the event included deep-dive documentary-maker Alexandre O. Philippe, attending with his Texas Chain Saw Massacre meditation Chain Reactions; director Jason Buxton, there with his acclaimed Ben Foster-starring thriller Sharp Corner, soon to be released by Vertical; Albert Serra, supporting his surprise San Sebastian winner Afternoons of Solitude; Palestinian director Elia Suleiman, honored by a curated retrospective; and British ’60s pop-culture icon Twiggy, subject of Sadie Frost’s film of the same name. From closer to home, director Lorcan Finnegan and writer Thomas Martin brought their cult Cannes hit The Surfer, and the UK’s Polly Steele came with Four Letters of Love starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan.

Under the always assured stewardship of artistic Gráinne Humphreys, the festival took a big swing by opening with The Return,...

As Cph:dox gears up for its 2025 edition, organizers have unveiled an audacious program of more than 200 films with a sharp focus on human rights under the theme “Right Here, Right Now.”

With 94 world premieres – 68 of them feature-length, the highest number in the festival’s history – Cph:dox continues to expand its global footprint.

For the third consecutive year, all main competition titles are world premieres. While this is not a formal selection criterion, artistic director Niklas Engstrøm tells Variety, “The fact that top directors chose to premiere their films with us speaks volumes about how the festival has grown.” He adds that shifting the festival from November to March in 2017 strengthened its global standing, positioning it as the go-to European launchpad for U.S. filmmakers after Sundance.

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Hot Sundance titles heading to Cph:Dox include “Mr Nobody against Putin,” “The Dating Game” and “Zodiac Killer Project.”

Among the world...

Cph:dox has selected 68 feature-length world premieres for its 2025 event – a record across the 22 editions of the festival.

The festival has unveiled its full programme, with out of competition titles including Animality, the new film from Germany-based Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei.

Animality examines humans relationship with animals, travelling through China, Egypt and to Danish mink farms.

The festival has added a new thematic strand, ‘Right Here, Right Now’, for films focusing on human rights and the rules-based international order.

The curated programme for the non-competitive section will include films, debates and talks with international guests including Ai Weiwei, Ukrainian activist Inna Shevchenko,...

Studio Soho have launched the trailer for their upcoming feature documentary ‘Twiggy,’ to be released in UK & Irish cinemas on March 7th.

Featuring contributions from Dustin Hoffman, Paul McCartney, Brooke Shields, Joanna Lumley and many more, the doc is an exploration of the model’s upbringing, career, relationships and everything else that has made her the woman she is today.

In 1966, a young Lesley Hornby became the face of an era. Changing her name to Twiggy, she turned the modelling world upside down with her unique androgynous style and famed large eyes, becoming a defining figure of the swinging 60s London. Out of this success, she built a multifaceted career. Director Sadie Frost charts Twiggy’s rise and her continued success in this fascinating documentary portrait.

Directed by Frost, following her hugely successful debut feature on fashion designer Mary Quant. Produced by Nick Hamson and Simon Jones, through Film Soho’s production arm Soho Talent,...

One thing that TLC fans know about Whitney Way Thore is that the My Big Fat Fabulous Life (Mbffl) star isn’t known for her decorum or subtle behavior. So, when she messed about with a ball, some critics claimed that she acted in a bratty way by giving the middle finger.

Losing Weight But Not Gaining Class?

For critics, the reality TV star could shed enough weight to look like Miss Twiggy, but she might not improve her personality. After all, she seems way too much of an exhibitionist for many viewers. Perhaps she remains so out there because of her midlife crisis when she turned 40.

Let’s not get it wrong, she does, indeed, have many fans who love her. However, some TLC viewers wish she would age gracefully. Then again, Whitney’s personality probably became the main drawcard and the network seems to love controversial cast members.

Twiggy was a famous English supermodel in the 1960’s, and has gone on to become an actress and singer.

Charities & foundations supported

Twiggy has supported the following charities:

Animal AidAnimal Defenders InternationalBook Aid InternationalBreakthrough Breast CancerCompassion in World FarmingCruelty Free InternationalEnvironmental Investigation AgencyEpilepsy ActionMines Advisory GroupNeurofibromatosis AssociationPETAProstate Cancer UKSmall Steps Project Read more about Twiggy's charity work and events. Related articles Celebrities Clean Out Their Closets For CharityStars Target Breast CancerBritish Stars Sign Favorite Books For AfricaCelebrity Clothes Get Ripped For CharityGeri Halliwell Donates To Charity Auction

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The classic Mary Jane shoe is easily identifiable: a low-cut, closed leather shoe with a strap over the top of the foot and fastened by a buckle, a button, or Velcro. It has a thin outsole or very low heel.

Also called bar or doll shoes, Mary Janes are usually associated with children’s school or formal footwear. However, they’ve also captivated adults, especially women, over the decades—so much so that they’ve even been enshrined in pop culture. Who could forget the moment Carrie Bradshaw, in Sex and the City, squealed with delight in the Vogue accessories closet, holding a pair of Manolo Blahnik Mary Janes, exclaiming, “I thought these were an urban shoe myth!”

This iconic scene highlights how Mary Jane shoes have evolved into a fashion staple. They are not only chic and versatile but deeply embedded in popular culture. Learn more about the different types of Mary Janes,...

Screenis listing the 2024 release dates for films in the UK and Ireland in the calendar below.

For distributors who wish to add/amend a date on the calendar, please get in touch withScreenhere.Screenis also running a calendar for festival and market dates throughout 2025here.

January

Wednesday, January 1

Nosferatu(Universal),2073(Altitude),Vanangaan(DJ Tech),Game Changer(Dreamz),We Live In Time(Studiocanal)

Friday, January 3

Nickel Boys(Curzon),Rocco And His Brothers(BFI),Diabel(Magnetes)

Wednesday, January 8

A Real Pain(Disney)

Friday, January 10

Babygirl(Efd),The Girl With The Needle(Mubi),Maria(Studiocanal),The Damned(Vertical/Miracle),It’s Raining Men...

Vice recently released The Shocking Truth About America's Next Top Model as part of their Dark Side of Reality TV series. In the documentary, previous contestants of Tyra Banks' controversial modeling contest opened up about their horrible experiences on the show. Having watched Antm as a child through my teens, I'd say Tyra may have been projecting her traumatic modeling experiences onto the contestants.

The supermodel—who was sued for alleged abusive conduct on America's Got Talent—has been open about facing many rejections in the industry, which she even pinned on a clueless Naomi Campbell in 2005. There have also been related statements from a former judge reportedly fired by Tyra, regarding her behavior on the show.

Here are the parallels between Tyra's career and the challenges she imposed on Antm contestants.

Tyra Banks Got Rejected By Multiple Modeling Agencies Due To Her Physical Appearance Tyra Criticized The Looks Of...

Peggy Moffitt, the iconic ’60s model who was also a contract player at Paramount and who appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, died at her Beverly Hills home on Saturday from complications of dementia. Her son, Christopher Claxton, confirmed the news to the New York Times. She was 86.

Moffitt’s wide-ranging influence can be traced to the persona she created, often in collaboration with others. Her gamine, modern look was a construct made up of her signature pale skin, harlequin eye makeup, five-point Vidal Sassoon haircut and a sense of humor, all of which she never abandoned.

She had a cultural moment when, in 1964, she posed in a topless swimsuit from designer Rudi Gernreich. The controversial look referenced a schoolboy’s shorts, with thin suspenders rising in a “V” between the cleavage, but nothing else above the waistline. The resulting image, which ran in publications across the world, was condemned...

On June 6, the 2024 IndieWire Honors ceremony will celebrate thirteen creators and stars responsible for some of the most stellar work of the TV season. Curated and selected by IndieWire’s editorial team, this event is a new edition of its IndieWire Honors event focused entirely on television. We’re showcasing their work with new interviews leading up to the Los Angeles event.

Carol Burnett can’t wait for you to get her drink right.

At 91 years old, the radiant history-making actress and producer of variety television isn’t so much an impatient icon as she is excited to see you shine. Ask “Palm Royale” executive producer and star Laura Dern, who by casting Burnett in the glittering period comedy for Apple TV+ snagged a front row seat to watch one of Hollywood’s most legendary scene partners at play.

“Carol doesn’t just have a favorite cocktail, she’s had a business card made up,...

Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! is a Dungeons & Dragons series featuring a new cast each week and impossible adventures. In the newest episode, the heroes must fight monsters and sacrifice their lives for the town's safety. Deborah Ann Woll talks about her love for Dungeons & Dragons, choosing silly voices for her characters, and her love for Dredevil's Karen Page.

Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill!, the Beadle & Grimm's Dungeons & Dragons series on the Dungeons & Dragons: Adventures Fast channel, which is available on Amazon Freevee and Plex brings together a new group of heroes each week for an impossible adventure. Every episode features a new cast, which includes Matthew Lillard, Deborah Ann Woll, Seth Gree, Aabria Iyengar, or Anjali Bhimani. The series was created by Beadle & Grimm's founders, Lillard, Bill Rehor, Paul Shapiro, Jon Ciccolini, and Charlie Rehor.

The newest episode takes place in a town called Waterdeep, where...

Mentions of torture, death, and abuse

Many popular kids' cartoon shows address serious topics to introduce children to important issues they may encounter in the future. The key to addressing serious issues in these shows is presenting them in a way that young audiences can understand without being too shocked. These episodes have been praised for their handling of serious topics, even though some of them were shocking and sad, but they served their purpose in educating children.

Animated kids’ TV shows are often fun and cheerful, but there are many popular cartoon shows for children that have tackled serious topics. Animated shows made for children are also appealing to a more mature audience, so much so that many of these often hide a couple of jokes that only grown-ups would understand. Many have also tackled more serious issues in a couple of episodes, though these are not just for their mature viewers to enjoy,...

Pop singer, actress Lily Allen, looking like 'Twiggy' poses for the October 2023 issue of "Glamour" (UK) magazine, photographed by Sabine Villiard:

Allen's first mainstream single, "Smile", reached number one on the UK Singles Chart July 2006. Her debut album "Alright, Still" sold over 2.6 million copies worldwide and bringing Allen nominations at the Grammy Awards, the Brit Awards and MTV Video Music Awards. 

In 2009, her second studio album "It's Not Me, It's You" debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and the Australian Aria Charts spawning hit singles "The Fear", "Not Fair" and "Fuck You" (seriously). 

She released more albums including "Sheezus" (2014), which debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, and "No Shame" (2018).

In 2008, she hosted her own TV Talk series "Lily Allen and Friends", on BBC Three before launching her own record label. 

As an actress, Allen has fronted numerous music videos, plus appeared in...

Glenda Jackson, who segued from a successful actress — Oscars for “Women in Love” and “A Touch of Class” and two Emmys for “Elizabeth R” — into a 23-year career as member of the U.K.’s House of Commons, has died. She was 87.

Jackson died after a brief illness at her home in London, her agent Lionel Larner said. “Glenda Jackson, two-time Academy Award-winning actress and politician, died peacefully at her home in Blackheath, London this morning after a brief illness with her family at her side. She recently completed filming ‘The Great Escaper’ in which she co-starred with Michael Caine,” Larner said in a statement.

Aside from her prize-winning roles, Jackson gave terrific performances in such films as 1967’s “Marat/Sade” (as Charlotte Corday), “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and on TV in “The Patricia Neal Story,” a 1981 work about that actress’s stroke and recovery with husband Roald Dahl. A defining role in...

Led by Fran Drescher's Fran Fine, The Nanny cast is composed of veteran actors from both television and film. The classic '90s sitcom The Nanny aired for six seasons and over 140 episodes on CBS between 1993 and 1999. It was the show that made star Fran Drescher a household name. Co-created with her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, The Nanny was partly inspired by a trip Drescher took to London to visit her former Princesses co-star Twiggy. After spending a lot of time with the British model-actress' kids, Drescher got the idea for a show riffing on The Sound Of Music but with her as a nanny instead of some Julie Andrews type.

And so The Nanny was born, with Drescher starring as Fran – the loud-mouthed nanny to the three children of a stuffy British widower and Broadway producer living in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It was a role that...

Model Twiggy will be making her debut at the Cannes film festival.

Sadie Frost’s documentary feature Twiggy is wrapping production in Cannes.

The UK model is making her debut visit to the festival to film the final scene at Film Soho’s virtual production stage on Wednesday (May 17), which will double up as London’s Carnaby Street in the 1960s.

Twiggy is being produced by UK studio Film Soho, who is teaming up with virtual production specialist Disguise and metaverse company Hadean for the end of shoot.

Twiggy is UK filmmaker Frost’s second documentary as director, following Quant.

Veteran British actor Murray Melvin who’s best known for his role in “The Phantom of the Opera,” “A Taste of Honey” and the “Doctor Who” spin-off “Torchwood,” died April 14 at St Thomas’ hospital in London. He was 90.

London-based creative director Kerry Kyriacos Michael made the announcement on Twitter and said Melvin died after taking a bad fall in December “from which he never fully recovered.”

“He was one of my closest friends and will be missed by so many of us who had the privilege to know him,” Michael wrote.

He had a fall in December, from which he never fully recovered. He died at St Thomas' Hospital on Friday, 14th April, aged 90. He was one of my closest friends and will be missed by so many of us who had the privilege to know him.

— Kerry Kyriacos Michael MBE (@1KerryMichael) April 15, 2023 Also Read:

Mark Sheehan, Guitarist of Irish Band The Script,...

Spanish-born fashion designer Paco Rabanne, who was best known for his metallic space-age outfits, has died in France at the age of 88 years old.

The self-taught designer broke into the Parisian Haute Couture scene in the early 1960s with a collection composed of 12 unwearable experimental metallic dresses.

His designs soon became favorites with stars and models of the time such as France’s Anouk Aimée, Françoise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot and the U.K.’s Twiggy.

He soon connected with the cinema world, designing the iconic costumes for Jane Fonda in Roger Vadim’s 1968 cult film Barbarella, which are still on display in MoMA in New York.

Other cinema credits included Roberto Enrico’s The Last Adventure and Joël Le Moigné’s Les Ponyettes.

Rabanne also created individual pieces for Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 drama Two Or Three Things I Know About Her…, Stanley Donen’s Two For The Road and John Huston’s Casino Royale.

Rabanne retired in 1999 but his mothballed label was revived by Spanish company Puig in 2011, which relaunched it as a fashion house and fragrance business that it now controls.

“The House of Paco Rabanne wishes to honour our visionary designer and founder who passed away today at the age of 88,” the company said in a statement posted on its website.

“Among the most seminal fashion figures of the 20th century, his legacy will remain a constant source of inspiration.”...

Debbie Johnson from 90 Day Fiancé is scandalizing viewers with her intimate scenes with her boyfriend Tony, but there have been times when her throwback photos have equally shocked them. Las Vegas resident Debbie is currently dating Canadian man Tony on 90 Day: The Single Life season 3. Debbie got a stunning makeover ahead of her Single Life debut in 2021.

She dyed her hair a fiery red, got a butterfly tattooed on her chest, and started wearing bold makeup. Debbie’s weight loss also gave her a fitter appearance, and she started to show off her long, shapely legs in short, tight skirts. Viewers who used to dislike Debbie for giving all of Colt’s wives and girlfriends trouble are now loving this new empowered look she’s serving on screen.

Related: 90 Day Fiancé: Are Debbie & Tony Still Together In 2022? (Spoilers)

Debbie's confidence has shown in her relationship with Tony,...

“Nightclubbing,” the first-ever documentary about the legendary New York City nightclub Max’s Kansas City, which from 1965 through 1981 was a hotbed for the city’s rock, glam, punk and new wave scenes, has announced a series of screenings across the globe in July and August.

The film — the full title of which is “Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC” — will screen along with another doc from Chip Baker Films, “Sid: The Final Curtain,” which is a brief documentary about the late Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious’ final concert, which took place at Max’s.

“Nightclubbing” is the sixth music documentary from Spanish filmmaker Danny Garcia (others include “The Rise and Fall of The Clash” and “Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of Brian Jones” about the group’s founder and original leader). It premiered at the Dock of the Bay Film Festival in San Sebastián, Spain last month...

Throughout his film career, John Carpenter was always ahead of the curve; whether finalizing the blueprint for the modern slasher or offering an ever prescient political take on alien invasions, Carpenter always seemed to be ahead of what the next big thing would be, often to decreased box office receipts. So it came as a surprise to many (myself included) that he started up Body Bags (1993), a would-be anthology series ala Tales from the Crypt for Showtime. The bigger surprise though is that it didn’t fly, because this one off is terrific entertainment.

Originally televised on Showtime on August 8th, Body Bags was met with critical approval and fans of the genre enjoyed it. However, the brass had already decided that this would be a one and done, hence the truncated anthology film format for the three segments already filmed. What a shame, because while Carpenter in front of...

It’s hard to think of a musical that would benefit more from a Blu-ray boost than Ken Russell’s kaleidoscopic all dancing, all singing send-up of theatrical clichés on the music hall stage, circa 1925. We’re just happy that the adorable Twiggy got to be put in a film like this, to be enjoyed forever. The Russell crowd is all aboard, led by Glenda Jackson and Murray Melvin. Gosh!

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The Warner Archive Collection

1971 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 136 min. / Street Date February 21, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99

Starring: Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin, Moyra Fraser, Georgina Hale, Sally Bryant, Vladek Sheybal, Tommy Tune, Brian Murphy, Graham Armitage, Antonia Ellis, Caryl Little, Glenda Jackson.

Cinematography: David Watkin

Film Editor: Michael Bradsell

Production Design: Tony Walton

Costumes: Shirley Russell

Written by: Ken Russell from the musical by Sandy Wilson

Produced and Directed by: Ken Russell

Some...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains details of last night’s America’s Next Top Model series finale. After over a decade of diamonds in the rough, flame-outs and judges like Janice Dickinson, J. Alexander, Niger Barker, Kimora Lee Simmons and Twiggy, the Tyra Banks led America's Next Top Model (0.3/1) came to an end with a first last night. Cancelled on the CW in October, the 22nd cycle of the series declared Nyle Dimarco its winner, Antm's first Deaf contestant and now…...

The CW just confirmed that "America's Next Top Model," arguably the most consistently entertaining reality series of the 21st century, is over. The Tyra Banks-hosted catwalk competition will end after its 22nd cycle airs. But we'll never forget the single best "Antm" moment. Forget Tyra screaming, "We were rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!" Forget the greatness of YaYa DaCosta and Eva Pigford. Forget the range of unforgettable judges, including Janice Dickinson and Twiggy. Just remember this. Remember that "Antm" physically knocked a model off a runway with a pendulum. And that the judges pretended to recoil in horror when that snafu is exaaaaactly why they staged it in the first place. Unforgettable TV. Thanks for the greatness, Tyra and crew. We know you'll make a loving, fantastic statement even though you're not here to make friends.

Ann-Margret movies: From sex kitten to two-time Oscar nominee. Ann-Margret: 'Carnal Knowledge' and 'Tommy' proved that 'sex symbol' was a remarkable actress Ann-Margret, the '60s star who went from sex kitten to respected actress and two-time Oscar nominee, is Turner Classic Movies' star today, Aug. 13, '15. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” series, TCM is showing this evening the movies that earned Ann-Margret her Academy Award nods: Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge (1971) and Ken Russell's Tommy (1975). Written by Jules Feiffer, and starring Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel, the downbeat – some have found it misogynistic; others have praised it for presenting American men as chauvinistic pigs – Carnal Knowledge is one of the precursors of “adult Hollywood moviemaking,” a rare species that, propelled by the success of disparate arthouse fare such as Vilgot Sjöman's I Am Curious (Yellow) and Costa-Gavras' Z, briefly flourished from...

Glenda Jackson: Actress and former Labour MP. Two-time Oscar winner and former Labour MP Glenda Jackson returns to acting Two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner Glenda Jackson set aside her acting career after becoming a Labour Party MP in 1992. Four years ago, Jackson, who represented the Greater London constituency of Hampstead and Highgate, announced that she would stand down the 2015 general election – which, somewhat controversially, was won by right-wing prime minister David Cameron's Conservative party.[1] The silver lining: following a two-decade-plus break, Glenda Jackson is returning to acting. Now, Jackson isn't – for the time being – returning to acting in front of the camera. The 79-year-old is to be featured in the Radio 4 series Emile Zola: Blood, Sex and Money, described on their website as a “mash-up” adaptation of 20 Emile Zola novels collectively known as "Les Rougon-Macquart."[2] Part 1 of the three-part Radio 4 series will be broadcast daily during an...

Ron Moody as Fagin in 'Oliver!' based on Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist.' Ron Moody as Fagin in Dickens musical 'Oliver!': Box office and critical hit (See previous post: "Ron Moody: 'Oliver!' Actor, Academy Award Nominee Dead at 91.") Although British made, Oliver! turned out to be an elephantine release along the lines of – exclamation point or no – Gypsy, Star!, Hello Dolly!, and other Hollywood mega-musicals from the mid'-50s to the early '70s.[1] But however bloated and conventional the final result, and a cast whose best-known name was that of director Carol Reed's nephew, Oliver Reed, Oliver! found countless fans.[2] The mostly British production became a huge financial and critical success in the U.S. at a time when star-studded mega-musicals had become perilous – at times downright disastrous – ventures.[3] Upon the American release of Oliver! in Dec. 1968, frequently acerbic The...

Update: Yoko Ono released a statement on the death of Cynthia Lennon, writing on her website: "I'm very saddened by Cynthia’s death. She was a great person and a wonderful mother to Julian. She had such a strong zest for life and I felt proud how we two women stood firm in the Beatles family. Please join me in sending love and support to Julian at this very sad time."

Cynthia Lennon, the former wife of John Lennon, died Wednesday in her home in Mallorca, Spain. She had been...

No one would accuse the Hollywood Foreign Press Association of being a refined institution, but when you think about the kinds of movies, TV shows, actors, and actresses who've ended up with Golden Globes, it's actually staggering how the HFPA has gotten away with maintaining its image as a must-see event. Drunk people at the dais is, I guess, still a sufficient enough reason to tune in. Let's celebrate today's nominations with a fond look back at some silly things that have won Golden Globes. 1. "Green Card" (Best Motion Picture -- Comedy) What a classic. Nothing says "comedic wonderful good times" like Gerard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell mixing it up in an immigration romcom. Fun fact: My aunt saw this movie in Germany, noticed the reaction of the crowd, and was embarrassed on America's behalf. 2. Twiggy (Best Newcomer of the Year, Actress) I love Twiggy! She was great as a...

Unlike most of what Scream Factory puts out there, this would be my first exposure to The Doctors and the Devils. I had never even heard of the film, if I’m being entirely honest. One thing I like about the label is that every so often, they challenge my prejudices when it comes to the type of films I usually watch. I’ve always gone out of my way to avoid period movies, unless there is a really good reason to watch them. Depending on the subject matter, and the period that is being recreated, of course. Anything that takes place during the 1800s, that isn’t about Jack the Ripper, is going to have a hard time keeping my attention.

From Shoutfactory.com:

Synopsis

Murder was just the beginning…

“A gothic thriller!” – The Hollywood Reporter

Based on Dylan Thomas’ original screenplay, this shocking horror-thriller stars Timothy Dalton as Thomas Rock,...

October may be over, but that doesn’t mean horror and sci-fi fans don’t have anything to look forward to this month. November 4th will see the release of Brett Ratner’s Hercules 3D and a few cult classics, including The Doctor and the Devils and The Ninth Configuration. There are also several indie horror movies making their debut this week, including The Taking of Deborah Logan, Ghost Bride and Dead Girls.

And for those of you looking to add a few Blu-ray collections to your home library, Amazon is releasing an exclusive set in honor of Stanley Kubrick (which looks stellar) and there’s also a new Doctor Who box set to look forward to as well.

Spotlight Titles:

The Doctor and the Devils (Scream Factory, Blu-ray)

Based on Dylan Thomas’ original screenplay, this shocking horror-thriller stars Timothy Dalton as Thomas Rock, a brilliant young anatomy professor in 1820s Edinburgh.

It’s impossible for me to hide the fact that Scream Factory is one of my favorite boutique media labels. As far as content goes, they give me the type of films that I really want to see on the Blu-ray format. They’ve had a strong first couple of years, and I see no signs of them slowing down anytime soon. Two of the biggest… neigh, The two biggest releases of the 2014 Halloween Seasons is coming from these guys. I’m speaking, of course, about the Director’s Cut of Nightbreed, as well as the Complete Halloween Collection. But you’ve already heard about those, and pre-ordered them, right? Well, here is their entire fall(Sept/Oct… And some November, cause shut up.) lineup, in case a few have slipped by you.

September 9, 2014 Pumpkinhead (Collector’s Edition) Srp $29.93 Bd

Scream Factory has announced a September 9 Blu-ray release of a...

Two grave robbers supply dead bodies to anatomists in 1820’s Edinburgh, but when the delivered bodies appear to be too fresh, one of the scientists suspects with mounting horror that their cadavers are not coming from coffins in 1985’s The Doctor and the Devils. Scream Factory is bringing this tale of morbid obsession and deadly dealings to Blu-ray, and we have a look at the cover art and list of bonus features.

Los Angeles, CA – “A man of medicine… A pair of murderers… An unholy alliance. Scream Factory has announced a November 14 Blu-ray release of the murderous thriller The Doctor and the Devils.

Directed by Freddie Francis, Executive Produced by Mel Brooks, and based on Dylan Thomas’ original screenplay, this shocking horror-thriller stars Timothy Dalton as Thomas Rock, a brilliant young anatomy professor in 1820s Edinburgh. At first accepting only the cadavers provided him for study – those of a few...

Did you know that funnyman Mel Brooks produced a horror film back in 1985? It was called The Doctor and the Devils, and just about ten years after hitting DVD for the first time, Scream Factory grants the cult gem its Blu-ray debut. Read on for all the details!

From the Press Release

A man of medicine… A pair of murderers… An unholy alliance. Scream Factory has announced a November 14th Blu-ray release of the murderous thriller The Doctor and the Devils.

Directed by Freddie Francis, executive produced by Mel Brooks, and based on Dylan Thomas' original screenplay, this shocking horror-thriller stars Timothy Dalton as Thomas Rock, a brilliant young anatomy professor in 1820s Edinburgh. At first accepting only the cadavers provided him for study – those of a few hanged criminals per year – Rock eventually recruits two grave robbers (Jonathan Pryce and Stephen Rea) to secure a better supply of corpses.

With the return of America’s Next Top Model, we are revisiting our favorite moments, including all the winning photo shoots, from the first 20 cycles of the series. While we ranked the cycles according to Tyra Banks’ hair, we didn’t take into account of all the judges that have served on the show’s panel. Since they’ve helped Tyra decide who would become America’s next great fashion hope, it’s important to examine all 13 of them.

Note: The number one judge is and always will be Tyra herself so she was not included in this list.

13. Bryanboy, Fashion blogger and social media correspondent

Cycles 19-20

Representing the social media score, Bryan wasn’t so much of a judge as a judgey person at the panel who really had nothing to say.

12. Eric Nicholson, Senior Editor at Jane magazine

Cycle 2

Sure, he fought with Janice — how could you not,...

With the return of America’s Next Top Model, we are revisiting our favorite moments, including all the winning photo shoots, from the first 20 cycles of the series. While we ranked the cycles according to Tyra Banks’ hair, we didn’t take into account of all the judges that have served on the show’s panel. Since they’ve helped Tyra decide who would become America’s next great fashion hope, it’s important to examine all 13 of them.

Note: The number one judge is and always will be Tyra herself so she was not included in this list.

13. Bryanboy, Fashion blogger and social media correspondent

Cycles 19-20

Representing the social media score, Bryan wasn’t so much of a judge as a judgey person at the panel who really had nothing to say.

12. Eric Nicholson, Senior Editor at Jane magazine

Cycle 2

Sure, he fought with Janice — how could you not,...

Robin Williams has died at the age of 63.

The stand-up comedian and actor shot to fame appearing in television series Mork & Mindy between 1978 and 1982, before embarking on a movie career.

As friends, co-stars and fans from across the globe pay tribute to Williams, Digital Spy looks back at his career on the big screen:

1. Robin Williams made his film debut in 1977 comedy Can I Do It 'Till I Need Glasses?:

2. After his debut, he then starred in the lead role of Robert Altman's musical comedy adaptation of Popeye in 1980:

3. Robin Williams starred alongside Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close and John Lithgow in 1982's The World According To Garp:

4. In 1983, Robin Williams joined Walter Matthau in The Survivors:

5. His performance in 1984's Moscow on the Hudson earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor:

6. Robin Williams starred in Harold Ramis's Club Paradise with Peter O'Toole,...

Robin Williams’ long filmography has more than its share of high-profile roles—but IMDb lists 102 total acting credits stretching all the way back to 1977. (That first one? A pair of parts in something called Can I Do It ‘Till I Need Glasses?, which the site describes as “a comedy are comprised of short sexually suggestive skits.”) Williams’ triumphs (Good Will Hunting) and failures (Popeye) are well-known, but it’s worth digging through some of his less-heralded work to find the occasional gem.

1. Insomnia (2002)

Williams had been an animated Disney character, a silly cross-dressing nanny, Peter Pan, and an Oscar-winner before...