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Rooms with Views Season 27: Episode Summary

A new episode of “Homes Under the Hammer” titled “Rooms with Views” is set to air on BBC One. This episode promises to showcase some impressive property transformations that highlight both creativity and hard work.

In this episode, a father and daughter team takes on an exciting project in Eastbourne. They are building three beautiful townhouses that offer lovely views of the surrounding area. Viewers can expect to see the challenges and triumphs that come with such a significant renovation. The bond between the father and daughter will also be a key focus, as they navigate the ups and downs of their building journey together.

Meanwhile, in Bilston and Croydon, other developers are hard at work. They are transforming an existing terrace and a flat into modern homes. This part of the episode...

Executive producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are turning their attention to a different type of political power play.

The 3 Body Problem duo is joining forces with creator Mike Makowsky (Bad Education), director Matt Ross, and executive producer Bernie Caulfield to adapt Candice Millard’s 2011 novel, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, based on the extraordinary life and death of 20th US president James Garfield, into a series for Netflix.

“It’s been the thrill of a lifetime seeing this crack team come together to bring James Garfield and his cohort back from the annals of long-forgotten history,” Makowsky tells Tudum. “Six years into working on this project, it’s a story I still can’t believe is true — in all its wild, tragic glory — and it...

This piece was originally published in Issue 6 of Notebook magazine as part of a broader exploration of the cinema of youth. The magazine is available via direct subscription or in select stores around the world.The first time I watched somebody die—really die—on film, I would have been about fourteen, surfing the web on the clunky, Frankensteinian experiment of a desktop computer that my father, an It guy, had made for me out of spare parts he had harvested from work. I can’t remember how I first came across a recording of the former Pennsylvania Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer taking his own life on television in 1987, but I do remember with surprising clarity exactly how I felt in the immediate aftermath of watching him, in the middle of a live press conference, put a bullet through his brain. I felt that something irreversible had happened: that there...

The Conjuring Universe movies are inspired by true events, with the Annabelle doll being a central focus. The real Annabelle doll is a Raggedy Ann doll, while the movie version is a vintage porcelain doll for horror effect. The movies take creative liberties, but some details align with the real-life story of the Warrens and the Annabelle doll. The real Annabelle doll is now in the Warrens' collection, occasionally displayed at events.

Most of the movies set in The Conjuring Universe, including Annabelle, are interestingly inspired by true events. The Conjuring movies are based on the case files of famed demonologist couple Ed and Lorraine Warren, who looked into numerous paranormal incidents, including the controversial true story of the Amityville haunting. One particular case, the Annabelle doll, has been the subject of three movies. All three films deal with a different event in the doll's timeline.

The Conjuring Universe began with the eponymous first movie,...

Bernard Hill, the actor known for playing King Théoden in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and Captain Edward Smith in “Titanic,” has died. He was 79.

Hill died early on Sunday morning, his agent Lou Colson confirmed to Variety. He was with his fiancée Alison and his son Gabriel. No cause of death was given.

Hill first came to prominence as Yosser Hughes in Alan Bleasdale’s 1982 miniseries “Boys From the Blackstuff”; his character was known for his “gizza job” catchphrase. That same year, he portrayed Sergeant Putnam in the Richard Attenborough-directed film “Gandhi.” Hill appeared in multiple British television series during the ’70s and ’80s, including “I, Claudius,” “Crown Court,” “Rooms,” “Fox” and “Jackanory.”

In 1997, Hill played Captain Smith in James Cameron’s “Titanic,” which won 11 Oscars. He then joined Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” franchise as King Théoden, appearing in 2002’s “The Two Towers” and...

In Challengers, Josh O'Connor portrays Patrick, a tennis player desperate to have Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) as his coach. But now, the actor is ready to team up with Luca Guadagnino once again for Separate Rooms, according to Variety. The adaptation of Pier Vittorio Tondelli's novel could be the acclaimed filmmaker's next project, and it would follow a tragic story of a man looking back at his past under a new perspective after suffering a devastating loss. While a release date for the project hasn't been confirmed, the fact that the gears are starting to turn behind the scenes could suggest that Separate Rooms could be Guadagnino's next movie.

Desperate times at the box office call for some desperate measures, and AMC always has some trick it has up its sleeve to lure new audiences into movie theaters. (Or simply to build revenue — remember the gold mine that wasn’t quite a gold mine? The retail-investment community on Reddit sure does.)

But AMC Entertainment has been in rare form this week, even for CEO Adam Aron.

On Friday, AMC announced a partnership with Blumhouse for a new film festival they’re calling “Halfway to Halloween.” Tickets went on sale today for a five-day run of different Blumhouse films starting on March 29. Tickets are just $8 (per film), and you can see M. Night Shyamalan’s “Split,” the original “The Purge,” “Ouija: Origin of Evil,” “Insidious,” and “The Invisible Man” all on the big screen.

Granted, there’s no bad time to do a horror-movie marathon, but it’s a bit...

Connections is always the best way to start a new week, and the March 4th puzzle is ready to ruin a few players' long-standing win streaks. The word groupings in today's answers are really enjoyable and take a bit of brain power to sus out. Make sure you focus on what word actually connects as there are a few tricky ones to knock you off your game.

There are tons of different once-a-day games available to players who are looking to add to their morning routine. Games like Quordle or Squabble are fun takes on the popular Wordle, while others, like Movidle, change the game up completely and have players guessing mystery films or television shows. Whatever you may be into, there is a daily game out there for you.

Related 9 Helpful Tips To Beat The Password Game (& 1 Useless One) The Password Game can be slightly frustrating as it uses...

Quentin Tarantino's 10-movie retirement plan has been derailed by a forgotten film adaptation of a Roald Dahl story he directed in 1995. The film, Four Rooms, is an anthology with different segments directed by Tarantino and three other acclaimed directors. Although poorly received, Four Rooms should be recognized for bringing together talented directors, including Tarantino.

Quentin Tarantino's 10-movie promise has been one of his defining statements regarding the beloved filmmaker's career, but one movie has completely thrown this plan off track. Quentin Tarantino is one of the most well-respected directors of the modern era, with him being the filmmaker behind classic movies like Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill. Almost all of Tarantino's movies are household names, but one of his movies has completely slipped through the cracks.

For years now, Quentin Tarantino has publicly explained that he will retire after his tenth film. Tarantino's 10-film plan will climax with his next project,...

Film is repped by Montreal-based H264.

Utopia has acquired US rights to Pascal Plante’s cyber thriller Red Rooms, which has also been picked up by distributor La Aventura in Spain.

Red Rooms world premiered in Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe competition in July and then had its North American premiere as the opening film of the Fantasia International Film Festival where it won five awards including best feature.

The film follows a tech-savvy overachiever who becomes obsessed with the high-profile trial of a serial killer.

Red Rooms is repped by Montreal-based movie distributor and aggregator H264 which launched a new sales division in June.

Red Rooms won a leading three awards including Best Feature at the 27th annual Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, with the thriller Femme taking Best Director for Sam H. Freeman & Ng Choon Ping and Outstanding Performance for Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. See the full list of winners below.

“The ultimate effect a film can achieve is to implant a significant and lasting emotional memory,” the genre fest’s jury said in a statement. “The jury was unanimously convinced that [Red Rooms] masterfully accomplished that goal.”

In writer-director Pascal Plante’s thriller from Nemesis Films, the case of a serial killer who streamed his murders in the “red rooms” of the Dark Web goes to trial, and Kelly-Anne (Laurie Babin) is obsessed. She goes down a dark path to obtain the final piece of the case’s puzzle.

In Femme, after drag artist Jules (Stewart-Jarrett) sees his closeted assailant (George Mackay) at a gay sauna,...

The new horror film, birth/rebirth, directed by Laura Moss, received acclaim when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier in the year, and now audiences will get to see the disturbing horror that's been a hit with critics. The film explores the darker sides of child-rearing with a twisted and queasily clinical approach. Marin Ireland plays a pathologist named Rose, who becomes obsessed with using science to bring a dead child back to life. The film explores the themes of birth, death, and the way beyond. The Hollywood Reporter writes that birth/rebirth is not for the faint of heart and takes cues from classic horror films such as Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator, Dracula, and Frankenstein in its grisly portrayal of two women who resurrect a little girl's corpse in the name of science and love. Check out the trailer below:

The story begins with a painful labor scene in which a midwife,...

Juliette Gariépy in Red Rooms. Director Pascal Plante: 'I do think about violence and its consequences. I prefer more psychological horror films which crawl under your skin and affect you' Photo: Courtesy of Kviff According to his research Red Rooms (Les Chambres rouges) director Pascal Plante has discovered than there are more than 5000 films or series out there listed under the category of “serial killer”.

The Quebec filmmaker - whose feature will open this year's Fantasia Film Festival - believes what he describes as “morbid fascination” with them has reached some kind of peak with the current enduring appeal of true crime series. He suggests his film is part cyber thriller, part courtroom drama, and almost anti the serial killer genre. It focusses on the trial of Ludovico Chevalier (played in a wordless performance by Maxwell McCabe-Lokos) who is accused of murdering teenage girls and then selling the videos of his exploits.

The unseen and the obscene are the subject of Pascal Plante’s disturbingly brilliant psychological horror Red Rooms, which takes an overused genre — the serial killer movie — and an often-misused technique — dark Lynchian surrealism — and somehow alchemizes the two into something new and original. It’s strong meat for sure, but word-of-mouth cult status beckons and a healthy nightlife on the genre circuit is assured.

Much of the plot has already happened by the time the film starts. As the crimson opening credits roll over Vincent Biron’s stark, steely blue lensing, a young woman named Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy) wakes up and takes a bus to a tall, sterile building. Inside, the frame becomes alive with color as Kelly-Anne passes through security and takes her seat in a bright, white, fluorescent-lit courtroom. On trial is Ludovic...

Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, the Italian directing duo best known internationally for their Locarno premiere “Seven Acts of Mercy,” are developing a colonial-era drama that they’re presenting during the Rotterdam Film Festival’s CineMart co-production market.

“Prince Aden” begins in 1935, when a 16-year-old Somali boy passes the test to become a dubat, a soldier in the Italian army that has invaded Ethiopia on the orders of Mussolini. Aden Sicré is sent to the frontlines, but after being injured on his first day of service he’s forced to return home – where he is unexpectedly hailed as a war hero by the Fascist regime.

Five years later, Aden is recruited to take part in a recreation of the daily life of an African village at the newly built Mostra d’Oltremare exhibition center in Naples. But when Italy enters the Second World War, the “human zoo” suddenly closes, stranding...

Talk show host Ziwe, playwright Hilary Bettis and journalist Gabriel Sherman are among the 30 participants set for the WGA East’s first Showrunner Academy program.

The program aims to help established writers gain the training and skills needed to advance to showrunners. The academy will be led by veteran showrunners Diana Son (“Law & Order: Criminal Intent”) and Frank Pugliese (“House of Cards”).

The program, which runs through November, and will include a host of panels and workshops led by prominent writers and showrunners. The list includes: “Things to Know Before Running Your First Series” with Meredith Scardino, Rj Fried and Sarah Treem; “Crisis and Risk Management for Showrunners” with Glen Mazzara; “Managing Multiple Series in Development” with Tina Fey and Robert Carlock; “Hiring Writers” with Michelle King and Elizabeth Kruger; “Managing a Comedy Writers Room and Managing a Drama Writers Room” with Carly Mensch, Liz Flahive and David Simon...

Game Master Exposed In Exclusive Extended Cut Of Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions With Over 25 Minutes Of All-new Footage Including Alternate Beginning And Ending!

Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions is the sequel to the box-office hit psychological thriller that terrified audiences around the world. In this installment, six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive…and discovering they’ve all played the game before. Thenever-before-seen Extended Cut, available on Blu-ray and Digital, reveals the masterminds behind Minosand features even more deadly escape roomswith over 25 minutes of all-new footage!

Bonus Materials:

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• Theatrical and Extended Cuts of Escape Room: Tournament Of Champions

• Go Inside the Minos Escape Rooms•Meet the Players

• Director Adam Robitel on Raising the StakesDIGITAL

• Go Inside the Minos Escape Rooms•Meet the Players

• Director Adam Robitel on Raising the Stakes

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• Go Inside the...

Wednesday was more of the same in the “Big Brother 23” house as Britini carried on her futile campaign while the scheming continued for next week. Oh, and the houseguests enjoyed the annual halfway party.

Britini will probably get a heads-up sometime Thursday that she’s leaving, but she still believes she has a chance to stay. She campaigned again on Wednesday to everyone, most of whom fibbed and said they were still undecided. It’s cute how the broadcast show has been trying to drag out the drama with these Veto cliffhangers the past two weeks, but the truth is there isn’t much drama and hasn’t been this entire season. We all knew who was going every week once the Veto ceremony was over and then it was just a three-day waiting game. Last week was the closest there was to a vote-flip between Tiffany‘s shenanigans and Christian‘s valiant campaign,...

"In the darkest corners of the dark net, there are terrifying places where the abducted are held captive, psychologically tortured and live-streamed. Victims are given the chance to escape if they agree to confess their worst sins to the world, preserving them online for eternity. Paid subscribers watch, listen and vote on who has committed the evilest crimes against humanity. The winner lives. The losers die. These are the infamous "Red Rooms" and this terrifying new web series invites you to take part in this diabolical dark web reality show, where nothing is what it streams to be."

As part of Indie Horror Month here at Daily Dead, we have an exclusive look at the trailer and poster for Red Rooms!

"In this limited web series event of Red Rooms: Hollywood producer Leilah Black, Armenian hit man Alex Terzian, Republican Senator Sheila Larkin, former priest Stephen Bishop and international...

It was 3 a.m. in Nairobi, Kenya when a man named Paul Simon — no relation to the singer — strapped on his virtual reality headset and hosted a discussion about George Floyd. The small event in Altspace, a social community run by Microsoft, found about a dozen cartoonish avatars standing around an expansive digital room as Simon explained his intent. “You guys should know that we are watching you,” Simon explained. “We have CNN here in Kenya, we have Fox News, we have all of that. It concerns some of us on a level that may be even more than in the U.S. This is personal.”

The ensuing conversation found Simon recapping his country’s history with colonialism, and juggling questions from the room. A stately man identified only as Tom, who helped Simon organize the event after meeting him at a weekly Vr town hall event called “The Evening News,...

Netflix, we wish we could quit you. You bring us so much joy via procrastination and binge-watching, but something you really tear our hearts apart. Just when we are flying high on a Friday the 13th horror movie marathon, you pull the rug out from under us! And even though we always threaten to cancel our subscription, you know we'd never go through with it. We haven't finished Doctor Who yet! Anyway, here are the 47 films that we all must prepare to say goodbye to come April: April 1 28 Hotel Rooms  Annie  Astonishing X­-Men: Dangerous Astonishing X-­Men: Torn Astonishing X­-Men: Unstoppable Baby Genius: A Trip to the...

My mother Pat Ashton, who has died aged 82, was an actor for over four decades. Probably her most important TV role was that of Annie, wife of a burglar (Bob Hoskins) who comes out of prison to find that his old friend (John Thaw) has moved in, in Thick As Thieves (1974). When Yorkshire TV declined a second series, the writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais took the idea to the BBC, where it was developed into the much-loved series Porridge.

Pat was born and raised in Wood Green, north London. During her early years, the piano was the focus of entertainment at home, with her brother Richard playing all the popular songs of the day. Her grandmother had been a trapeze artist, performing in front of the tsar in Russia, and Pat quickly became fascinated with music hall, learned to tap-dance from an early age and went on to...

Last night, Gallery 1988 opened a cool new art show that focused on the many Judd Apatow movies and TV shows.   If you're in the L.A. area and want to see artwork inspired by Freaks and Geeks, Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Superbad, Walk Hard, Funny People, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and more from his great resume, I suggest heading over to the Melrose Gallery before December 30 (it's open Wednesday - Sunday, 11-6 Pm).  However, for those that won't be able to make the show, I took over 80 pictures and shot almost everything on display.  Hit the jump for more. Some of the artists featured are Jeff Boyes, Rocco Malatesta, Graham Pilling, Jon Defreest, Ridge Rooms, Blain Hefner, Tera Krebs, Samuel Ho, Veronica Fish, Ian Glaubinger, Kevin Luong, Jason Edmiston, Mike Mitchell, Dave Perillo, Priscilla Wilson, Kiersten Essenpreis, Ryder Doty, J.R. Barker, Scott Derby, Brad Hill, Jason Liwag, Dave Quiggle,...

First off, I have to tell you that this page may load slow. We're making an awful lot of calls to the Amazon Api here, and that's bound to monkey with things. If you have no idea what that means... it's shiny. Please note also that, for the same reason, you may find, depending on traffic, that not all of the Amazon details will load properly. I apologize for that, it's just the nature of the beast, and the fact that the Api wasn't really meant for such things. If you refresh, it will probably fix.

You may have heard me mention this giveaway quite a while ago, and it's taken me a long time to figure out what sort of format to put things in, and I kept added things. Eventually it became too much to really give any kind of run down on the items, so I decided...

The Brontës are often dismissed as up-market Mills & Boon. But with the release of two films this autumn, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, they look set to rival even Jane Austen in the public's affections

Ours is supposed to be the age of instantaneity, where books can be downloaded in a few seconds and reputations created overnight. But the Victorians could be speedy, too, and there's no more striking example of instant celebrity than Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë posted the manuscript to Messrs Smith and Elder on 24 August 1847, two weeks after the publisher had expressed an interest in seeing her new novel while turning down her first. Within a fortnight, a deal had been struck (Charlotte was paid £100) and proofs were being worked on. In the 21st century a first novel can wait two years between acceptance and publication. Jane Eyre was out in eight weeks, on 17 October, with Thackeray...

Wuthering Heights star, Bond girl and Leslie Phillips's wife

Angela Scoular, who has died aged 65 after reportedly taking her own life, was known as the wife of the actor Leslie Phillips, but she also had several acting roles of her own that brought her public attention.

She twice played a "Bond girl". First, she took the part of Buttercup, sharing a bath with David Niven as James Bond, in the spoof, "unofficial" release Casino Royale (1966). Then she was the flirtatious farmer's daughter Ruby, bedded by once-only-007 George Lazenby, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), which also featured the former Avenger Diana Rigg and the future New Avenger Joanna Lumley.

Scoular later had a regular role as Lady Agatha Shawcross in You Rang, M'Lord? the "upstairs, downstairs" sitcom set in the 1920s, from the Dad's Army creators Jimmy Perry and David Croft. As the mistress of Lord Meldrum (Donald Hewlett...