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All the pieces are in place for a gripping Slow Horses finale — season four antagonist Hugo Weaving certainly thinks so.

The Brit, best known for his role in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, joined this season’s cast of Apple TV+’s hit spy thriller based on the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron. Weaving stars as Frank Harkness, a former CIA agent-turned-cult leader aiming to populate the planet with trained killers (who will gladly do their father’s sinister bidding).

But as the season has unfolded, viewers have come to realize Harkness might be none other than River Cartwright’s (Jack Lowden) biological father — after all, the physical similarities between River and “Robert Winters” a.k.a Betrand, who Jonathan Pryce’s David Cartwright shot and killed, are pretty eerie.

Meanwhile, Gary Oldman‘s greasy, drunk yet impossibly wise Jackson Lamb has made it his mission to locate the elder Cartwright,...

Linda Blair says she will return in The Exorcist: Deceiver if fans help her in her mission to change the plight of animals. Blair is dedicated to ending pet overpopulation and finding homes for abandoned pets through her Linda Blair Worldheart Foundation. The Exorcist: Deceiver is the second part of David Gordon Green's new Exorcist trilogy and is set to be released in 2025.

Linda Blair has addressed her condition for returning in The Exorcist: Deceiver. The upcoming 2025 movie will be a sequel to the 2022 legacy sequel The Exorcist: Believer, which saw two new families fighting demonic possessions and featured the return of original characters Chris (Ellen Burstyn) and Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair). Chris was featured more prominently in the movie, having become an expert on possession who attempts to help desperate father Victor Fielding (Leslie Odom Jr.), while her estranged daughter Regan only appeared in a single scene for a heartfelt reunion.

They say "Never work with children or animals" – but director Josh Greenbaum crab and seagulls in the sand for dogs. Lots of dogs. Specifically, strays who are on a mission to, er, bite a guy's dick off.

As its R-rated trailer proves, Strays isn't exactly your standard talking dog movie. And that gave Greenbaum paws upon first receiving the script. “I was going into reading that with a little trepidation,” says Greenbaum. “I felt like I knew what all the jokes were gonna be.” But it turns out he was barking up the wrong tree, because Dan Perrault's (American Vandal) script wasn't what he expected at all. “I was really pleasantly surprised to see that it was not a spoof. It really functioned on its own, even though it had a couple of moments where we pay comedic homage to the great talking dog films of our youth.”

Homeward Bound this ain’t,...

Originally published in the Guardian on 15 March 1979

In an incident that not even a publicity agent would dare to manufacture, the star of a new French film, Les Chiens, was bitten and terrorised by an Alsatian dog as he left a restaurant. From all appearances it was a gratuitous attack after a minor row in which the drunken dog-owner says he did not recognise Gérard Depardieu, one of the rising stars of the French cinema. Deliberate or not, with the release of the film the whole question of 'dog bites man' has become news.

The Dogs is an attack on the growing use of German shepherds during a psychosis of fear that parallels the appearance of armed vigilante groups. After a three-year boom in guard dogs to combat the crime wave, there are nearly 800,000 registered Alsatians, representing 10 per cent of the French dog population. Most of them are owned by individuals for personal protection,...