Barbie movie breaks huge cinema record, beating Batman: The Dark Knight August 17, 2023 The new Barbie movie has become the highest-grossing Warner Bros. film in US cinema history, beating Batman: The Dark Knight’s record. 2008’s The Dark Knight previously held the record with $536 million in takings at the US domestic box office, but now Barbie has surpassed that record with $537.5 million. And globally it has taken [...]
The London boxing gym encouraging City workers to spar with former prisoners August 17, 2023 Marnie Swindells won Lord Sugar’s cash – now she’s winning hearts and minds with a boxing gym in Camberwell. Adam Bloodworth meets her Odds are you’ve either picked up a boxing glove recently or you’ve been around friends who won’t stop talking about it in the pub. The combat sport has become increasingly popular and [...]
Where to watch the Women’s World Cup final in London, England v Spain August 17, 2023 The Lionesses have made it to the finals of the Women’s World Cup! They play Spain in the big decider on Sunday morning at 11.00am. The match will be streaming on BBC, but if you want to celebrate in London, here’s where to watch the Women’s World Cup final in the capital this weekend. VINEGAR [...]
Your GP surgery is a gateway to a host of medical professionals there to help, whatever the issue August 17, 2023 | Sponsored It seems strange to think that as recently as the 1970s, ambulance drivers weren’t trained paramedics: they simply picked you up from the site of your emergency and drove you to the hospital – if you required triage on the way, you were generally out of luck. Today, of course, they’re highly trained professionals, your [...]
The Blackening film review: A fresh take on horror-comedy August 17, 2023 There are almost as many films that make fun of the conventions of horror as there are traditional horror films. It was fresh and smart 25 years ago when Scream became a cultural phenomena, but now anyone making the same statement has to dig a bit deeper. Tim Story, the director of Barbershop and Fantastic [...]
Lie With Me film review: A touching gay drama August 17, 2023 A big hit at least year’s BFI Flare Festival, Lie With Me is a story of confronting the past to heal the present. Guillaume de Tonquédec plays Stéphane, a successful author who returns to his hometown for the first time in 35 years to be the guest of honour at a corporate event. At a [...]
The Effect at the National Theatre: A pulse-quickening exploration of love in the age of medication August 16, 2023 Rarely does a play tackle quite so succinctly and powerfully our inability to reconcile the mass of grey jelly inside our heads with the impossibly complex tangle of desires and emotions that make us human. Jamie Lloyd, one of the finest directors working today, brings Lucy Prebble’s play kicking and screaming – often literally – [...]
Cocktails in the City is returning – here’s everything you need to know August 16, 2023 Raise a glass, or five: Cocktails in the City returns this week, which is your chance to drink unusual and high quality mixes from some of the best bars in London, all outdoors in Bedford Square Gardens. There’s a festival-like atmosphere as bar tenders and mixologists set up stands in the Square. Some of the [...]
Red, White and Royal Blue review: Choose Heartstopper over this August 16, 2023 We’re still very much living in an era where more LGBTQ representation on screen can only be a good thing, and that is certainly the case with Matthew Lopez’s first feature film, Red, White & Royal Blue. This fantastical story about an unlikely pairing between the son of the President of the United States and [...]
Trap Tox: the Botox trend going viral on TikTok August 16, 2023 Botox is typically associated with aesthetics, with changing the way we physically appear. But the latest Botox trend can have an impact on health and wellbeing more than anything to do with appearance. ‘Trap Tox’ is when Botox injections are sent into the Trapezius muscle to try to help alleviate shoulder pain. Trap Tox injections [...]