By Wyndham Hacket Pain Such are the difficulties faced by young people in China jobs can be very hard to find and there has been a trend for them to seek employment within funeral homes. This strange happening was spotted by director Carol Salter and is the subject matter of her...
By Sam Inglis Among the new releases this Friday is The Case For Christ, a biopic of Christian writer Lee Strobel. Like other films from US studio Pureflix, it's made to preach to the choir, with Christian audiences specifically in mind. I'm not the audience for this (though I would recommend...
Terror police have recovered '15 firearms and a bomb' from a house raided in connection with the Parsons Green attack, neighbours claim. An evacuated Cavendish Road resident said a police officer informed them of the terrifying find while they were moved to nearby Staines Rugby Club on Saturday night. A...
A globetrotting opium smuggler took a 7,000 mile-round car trip then got arrested with a stash of heroin - just a few miles from his final destination. Bungling drug mule Bahram Badiani, 47, was caught with 6kg of heroin hidden in the fuel tank of his BMW – which had...
A campaign officer for the Liberal Democrats has been suspended from the party -- after being convicted of stalking two university students. Ryan Lytwyn became besotted with his victims, showering one of them with unwanted gifts, grabbing him in the street and threatening to out the other as gay to...
By Michael McNulty Peter Bogdanovich, who had made a career as a film critic and historian, first dipped his toe into the filmmaking pool when he joined forces with B-movie master, Roger Corman, helping him to script The Wild Angels. But it wasn’t until 1971, after first taking the director’s...
By Jim Mackney Like all good folk songs, there is darkness at the heart of Rolando Colla's new film" Seven Days" (Sette Giorni). It is set on an idyllic Sicilian island and a pair of middle-aged dreamers act like a couple of horny teenagers, with predictable complications. Throughout the film...
The youngest Manchester Arena bomb victim Saffie Roussos who her parents say always wanted to be famous is to become a star in her own right. The eight-year-old youngster will be remembered inside a huge pink star at the top of a communal Christmas tree in the youngster's hometown of...
A "meek and mild" Muslim convert who tried to reach Syria to fight for Islamic State after being radicalised online was convicted today on Tuesday in just 35 minutes. Ismael Watson, 27, formerly known as Jack, left his pregnant wife to travel to the war-torn country last year. But he...