‘Rye Lane’ Sundance Review: A Sunny, Irreverent Tribute To British Rom-Com Forebears

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off the heels of their Sundance premiere of Rye Lane, writers Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia have teamed up with Vertigo Films for their next romantic comedy The Whole Hog. 

KATIE Price is embroiled in a fresh row with the council after reuniting with her ex Carl Woods. The TV star was first warned last year after sparking a council probe into if salesman Carl was storing motors at her mucky mansion.

Scottish Labour have criticised the SNP for planning to cross the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union picket line outside the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday.

Rick Astley has filed a multimillion-dollar suit against Yung Gravy, saying that the rap artist was unauthorized in using an imitation of his vocals from 1987's Never Gonna Give You Up for the 2022 single Betty (Get Money).The English singer and songwriter, 56, filed legal docs in Los Angeles that were reviewed by TMZ, saying Yung Gravy and his team had only licensed the instrumentals of the pop classic.Astley's legal team told the court that the Rochester, Minnesota-born musical artist, 26, and his production team, including Dillon Francis, and impersonator Nick 'Popnick' Seeley were not authorized in reproducing the vocals of his hit, which triggered the online 'Rick-Rolling' phenomenon.  The latest: Rick Astley, 56, has filed a multimillion dollar suit against Yung Gravy, 26, saying that the rap artist was unauthorized imitation of his vocals from 1987's Never Gonna Give You Up for his single Betty (Get Money)The group 'conspired to include a deliberate and nearly indistinguishable imitation of Mr. Astley's voice throughout the song,' Astley's legal team told the court.Astley said that Yung Gravy cost him potentially lucrative future collaboration opportunities in using Never Gonna Give You Up as the basis of his 2022 track.

Anyone who has traveled to seaside resort areas around the world will recognize them, the obvious foreigners who spend their days approaching tourists with assorted trinkets to sell and are most often ignored or shooed away by Westerners. Precious few films have put such figures centerstage, but Drift does that and quite a bit more as it examines a young woman whose currently forlorn position in the world masks the very different sort of life to which she was once accustomed.

EXCLUSIVE: RRR and Thor star Ray Stevenson has been set to lead cast in historical drama 1242: Gateway to the West, which is now filming in Budapest, Hungary.

“Scrapper” starts in a dreary English flat with a child all alone but not incapable. That seems to be the M.O.

SEETHING judges Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon vowed to quit Britain’s Got Talent over pay — hours before filming began for the new series. They were unhappy about newcomer Bruno Tonioli’s rumoured deal and made a pact to walk out of contract talks on Monday night. However the hugely popular pair, said to be making a principled stand for women, were persuaded to stay by frantic ITV bosses.

BRUNO Tonioli has been seen for the first time with the Britain’s Got Talent cast. The 67-year-old was pictured arriving at auditions alongside Amanda Holden, Alesha Dixon and Simon Cowell  - following a huge pay row. Long-standing judges Amanda and Alesha were furious that Bruno’s salary matches their own — said to be £850,000.

Ira Sachs’ latest feature film, ‘Passages,’ has been acquired by MUBU for all distribution rights in the US, UK, Ireland and Latin America. “Passages” will be released theatrically in 2023. The picture, set in modern-day Paris, concerns a filmmaker who impulsively has an affair with a young school teacher.

Mubi has taken the U.S., UK, Ireland and Latin America on the Ira Sachs directed title Passages which made its world premiere in the premiere section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

JAMES Corden's extravagant plans to build a pool at his £8million pound home face being scrapped in a planning row. The Gavin and Stacey star's mansion is set to be knocked down and rebuilt ahead of his return to the UK.

Grey is the nation's favourite car colour for the fifth year running, according to new data.

BRITAIN’S Got Talent judges Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon are refusing to sign new contracts in a pay row over Bruno Tonioli. The long-serving pair are furious that the newcomer’s salary matches their own — said to be £850,000. It has plunged the ITV show into crisis, with filming due to start on Tuesday.

JG Ballard meets Ben Wheatley in Brandon Cronenberg’s latest. Which is a bit of a surprise, since the two have already met: in 2015, in the latter’s dystopian satire High-Rise. There are (literal) shades of Nicolas Winding Refn, too, and a healthy smattering of body horror inherited from the old man, whose filmography Cronenberg Jr. raids to make an unlikely fusion of Videodrome and A History of Violence, two very opposing milestones in his father’s career.

AMANDA Holden was all smiles as she left the Heart radio studio today after a bitter Britain's Got Talent pay row was revealed. The Sun told how Amanda, 51, and her fellow BGT judge Alesha Dixon, 44, are furious that newcomer Bruno Tonioli's salary matches their own - thought to be £850k. But despite this Amanda appeared in high spirits when snapped in London.

It's being reported that Britain's Got Talent judges Amanda Holden and Alesha Dixon are allegedly refusing to sign their contracts over a pay dispute.

Premiering in the World Dramatic Competition, Adura Onashile’s debut feature Girl takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, but, given its themes of identity and belonging, this tender story of a refugee mother and daughter might as well be happening anywhere. Though the production values are exceptional for a low-budget British movie, there is also the sense that, by leaning into her restrictions, Onashile has found an interesting way to tell her story, taking us into the claustrophobic, fishbowl lives of these two loners so that it is the outside world that seems strange and ‘other’ to us whenever we are faced with it.

A poll carried out amid the row over Westminster stepping in to block reforms of the gender recognition process in Scotland has found a majority in favour of independence.

In what reps the first acquisition of this year’s Sundance Film Festival by a streamer, Prime Video is taking global rights to Kenneth Dagatan’s Filipino horror movie In My Mother’s Skin which is premiering in the Midnight section on Friday, Jan. 20. A Q4 drop date in several countries is currently scheduled.