Memorial garden planned for Great Escape Spitfire pilot just yards from where stayed in Perthshire

Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s latest pic La Chimera has inked a series of international deals for The Match Factory following its well-received debut at last month’s Cannes Film Festival.

A collection of Manchester United supporters praised Marcus Rashford for the way he consoled some of his teammates after Saturday's 2-1 FA Cup final defeat to Manchester City at Wembley - but not all of them agreed.

Yungblud joined forces with Limp Bizkit at Rock Im Park today (June 4) – watch them perform ‘Break Stuff’ together below.The acts were playing the German festival together when Yungblud was invited to join the nu-metal icons on stage for their huge hit single.Footage shared online sees Dominic Harrison energetically screaming along to the hit with Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst.Check out the rendition of ‘Break Stuff’ below.YUNGBLUD cantando "Break Stuff" com Limp Bizkit durante o show da banda no Rock Im Park.pic.twitter.com/9eO5NHvTHI— YUNGBLUD Info Brasil (@yungbludinfo) June 4, 2023This weekend, Yungblud has also been teasing a new single of his own, titled ‘Lowlife’. Earlier this week, Dominic Harrison sent cryptic letters to fans with locations in London, Los Angeles and Germany, before posting the same directions on his social media accounts.Yesterday (June 2), those who showed up were then greeted with a snippet of a new single from the singer, while Yungblud himself appeared at the German event, ahead of his set at the Rock Am Ring festival.

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Tenacious D have released a recorded version of their viral cover of Chris Isaak‘s ‘Wicked Game’ – check out the video below.The fan-favourite cover, which was originally performed in December for SiriusXM, comes weeks after the duo of Jack Black and Kyle Gass released their first new track in five years titled ‘Video Games’.Directed by longtime collaborator Taylor Stephens, the video for the track features both Black and Gass frolicking by the sea while wearing their undergarments. It’s a homage to the original video of the 1989 hit which featured Isaak and model Helena Christensen.Their previous single, ‘Video Games’, was released last month.

An armed forces veteran has gone back into battle for a Wigan charity as he attempts to relive a real-life escape from Colditz.

following the 83-year-old icon’s death on May 24.Erwin Bach made his first appearance on Wednesday in front of their villa, Château Algonquin, in Küsnacht, placing flowers in front of a memorial for his late wife, whose decadeslong career brought in tributes from fans, her friends and peers in entertainment, politicians and even royalty.The 67-year-old German music executive was dressed in all black and wore sunglasses as he tidied up the many gifts fans left in front of their longtime residence.Swiss German-language newspaper Blick reported that Bach was silent but “drawn by grief” as he “looked calmly and visibly moved at the gifts from the fans.”“He read cards with interest and carefully picked up bouquets of flowers to place them with other bouquets,” the site wrote in German.Turner died from natural causes at home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland.A private funeral is planned for family and friends, according to a representative. The “Proud Mary” singer started dating music producer Bach in 1986, eight years after she ended her toxic marriage with Ike Turner.Turner knew it was “love at first sight” when she initially met Bach, she told longtime friend Oprah Winfrey in a 2013 interview.Bach proposed to the Grammy-winning “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” twice before she agreed to tie the knot.

The Little Mermaid has been criticized by a prominent media diversity advocate for failing to acknowledge the horrors of slavery in the Caribbean.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In a show of force, English-language “Spellbound,” the live-action tween series from “Find Me in Paris” creators and production partners will get a Season Two.  Produced by Cottonwood Media, with ZDF, ZDF Studios and the Opéra national de Paris, the 13 new episodes of the ballet/witchcraft series will go into production in August.  The “Spellbound” renewal news comes as Season One is set to roll out in international markets across broadcasters and streaming services from this fall.  Federation Kids & Family, the sales arm of Cottonwood Media parent Federation Studios, and ZDF Studios, the commercial company of German public broadcaster ZDF, will handle worldwide sales. 

Conflicting narratives. Tom Sandoval accuses ex-girlfriend Ariana Madix of insulting his intelligence throughout their relationship in a first look at Peacock’s extended version of part 2 of the Vanderpump Rules Reunion: Pumped Up Edition.

Manchester City will look to sign Bayern Munich defender Alphonso Davies if he leaves the German side and could rival Real Madrid for his signature.

The Scottish Government has been urged to help a mum and her son to find lifesaving treatment for Lyme disease.

Asda is to buy the majority of EG Group's UK and Ireland operations in a deal worth over £2bn.

Rotten Tomatoes. There’s a good chance that “Little Mermaid” can keep legging out even against Sony’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and Paramount’s “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” given the female-majority audience doesn’t have significant overlap with those films.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor In “The Old Oak,” which played in Competition in Cannes, Ken Loach portrays a village in the North-East of England where the indigenous white community comes into conflict with Syrian refugees – a conflict fuelled by the despair, deprivation and decline of the rust-belt region. Such conditions can be a seed-bed for far right groups, the director tells Variety. Such issues have not been explored sufficiently in film and television, Loach says, and he draws a parallel with the portrayal of the rise of Nazism in Germany in the mass media. “We have endless programs about the Second World War, about the horrors of Nazism and fascism, about the racism, about the Holocaust. Quite properly, we have endless programs about that, but what they refuse to point out is that that arose from alienation, anger, feeling cheated, and finding scapegoats. And that’s how we ended up with Hitler, and that’s the ground in which the far right flourishes. One of the points of the film is to say: This is the cause of fascism. This is where it comes from. This is its seed-bed, and it comes as an inevitable consequence of our economic system. Because if the neoliberal agenda was an essential development for capitalism, to use the old-fashioned word, then that’s where fascism comes from. Implicit in that is that the far right will rise because that’s how people will be heading. And they know that and yet the mass media, the press, just turn their backs on that. They’ll tell us all about the horrors of Hitler. Sure. But they won’t tell us how he came to power. And that’s the huge lesson. And we see it in essence now all the time.”

It’s a wrap for the 2023 edition of the Cannes Film Festival, where French director Justine Triet’s courtroom thriller “Anatomy of a Fall” has won this year’s Palme d’Or for best film.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” one of the best reviewed films of the Cannes competition, which was bought by Neon, examines the collapse of a marriage and a mother-and-son relationship in a documentary-style courtroom drama. The chamber piece is driven by Sandra Hüller’s (“Toni Erdmann”) nuanced performance as a successful German novelist on trial for the murder of her husband (Samuel Theis), who died in mysterious circumstances in a remote corner of the snowy French Alps. Their visually impaired 11-year-old son (Milo Machado Graner) is called on the witness stand, prompting a dissection of Sandra’s conduct as a wife and a mother. Supporting roles are played by Swann Arlaud and Antoine Reinartz.

death of Tina Turner at age 83, a clip of the singer explaining why she renounced US citizenship and moved to Switzerland has resurfaced.“I have left America because my success was in another country,” the rock ‘n’ roll legend said in a 1997 CNN interview with the late Larry King.“‘Private Dancer’ was the beginning of my success in England. And basically, Europe has been very supportive of my music.”When asked if Europe was more supportive than America, Turner responded, “Yes, hugely.”King pointed out that Turner was a superstar in America, but she retorted back, saying she was “not as big as Madonna” in the States.“I’m as big as Madonna in Europe,” she shared with a smile on her face.

troubled Waters strikes again. Controversial rock frontman Roger Waters is back in hot water after seemingly cosplaying as a Nazi SS officer — and comparing deceased Al Jazeera journalist Abu Akleh to Anne Frank at a recent concert in Germany.The inflammatory performance, which went down last week at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, opened up with an announcement on a screen that read: “On a matter of public interest: a court in Frankfurt has ruled that I am not an antisemite.““Just to be clear, I condemn antisemitism unreservedly,” the message continued, the Jerusalem Post reported.

The heroic steps of a Stirling World War Two ambulance driver who escaped capture three times are set to be retraced by his family in a poignant gathering later this year.