Cult actress of the 1980s Jill Gascoine has died at the age of 83, her family has confirmed. Gascoine passed away after having suffered from Alzheimer’s. Her husband, actor Alfred Molina, called it a “cowardly disease”. The actress most famously starred in ITV police drama The Gentle Touch as DI Maggie Forbes, a touchstone series which …
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Charlie Brooker is set to return to the BBC after three years away from our screens for a new episode of Screenwipe focused on the coronavirus pandemic. The lockdown special, aptly titled Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe, will focus on the ways that people are keeping themselves occupied while being stuck at home. The show will air on Thursday …
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Cult actress of the 1980s Jill Gascoine has died at the age of 83, her family has confirmed. Gascoine passed away after having suffered from Alzheimer’s. Her husband, actor Alfred Molina, called it a “cowardly disease”. The actress most famously starred in ITV police drama The Gentle Touch as DI Maggie Forbes, a touchstone series which …
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Dashboard Confessional have covered Post Malone’s ‘Circles’. The rapper’s song broke the record for the most weeks spent in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this week – but Dashboard actually recorded their version earlier in 2020 at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. It appears as a B-side to ‘Screaming …
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Marvel stalwart Karen Gillan has been cast in a double role in upcoming sci-fi clone movie Dual. The film, written and directed by Riley Stearns (The Art of Self Defense), is about a terminally ill woman who decides to clone herself for the benefit of her friends and family. Gillan will play both the woman with …
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It’s been a good couple of years if you’re into foreign arthouse horror dance movies with disturbing psychosexual undertones. Gaspar Noé’s hellish techno trip Climax kicked things off in 2018 – the same year Luca Guadagnino mixed headless witches with Thom Yorke krautrock in Suspiria – and now we have Pablo Larraín’s take on cinema’s …
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Blink-182 bassist and co-founder Mark Hoppus has ranked his favourite songs by the band after being challenged by record store and label Smartpunk. “Ok doing a @blink182 bracket and this sucks,” Smartpunk tweeted. “I’ve never hated myself more for some of these choices. But here I am. Self-loathing. Hey @markhoppus can you fill this out …
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