Fatih Akin’s new German drama about a woman hellbent on seeking revenge after the murder of her family is a rather contrived, facile and at times overly melodramatic production that could have easily benefited from losing some schmaltz in favour of a more nuanced narrative. Staring Diane Kruger and co-written by Akin (Soul Kitchen, Goodbye Berlin) and screenwriter Hark Bohm, In The Fade presents an interesting enough premise, but sadly falls at the first hurdle by failing to come across...

Billy (Alex Lawther) is a flamboyant gay kid, largely estranged from his father (Larry Pine), until he has to move for the last year of high school when his beloved mother (Bette Midler) is ‘taken ill’. In a conservative school, Billy doesn’t fit in and is at one point beaten so badly that he ends up in a coma. When Billy recovers Flip (Ian Nelson), the high school football star he has become unlikely friends with, suggests that he tone...

Researchers say their findings suggest that a controversial hypothesis that viruses are involved in dementia may be correct

Today, on Clear Air Day, the Chelsea and Fulham MP Greg Hands who has always told his constituents he would oppose athird runway at Heathrow announced that he was forced to resign as Theresa May is insisting on bringing out the whips to get the majority she needs in a vote on the airport's expansion on Monday. The minister's resignation over the Heathrow vote leaves Boris Johnson in a major pickle The Foreign Secretary has also always expressed his very...

Read about Jay Williams's first week in northern Corsica here  We begin our second week on Corsica with a trip to St Florent, a cosmopolitan marina town known as the ‘St Tropez of Corsica’, armed with a picnic lunch. Although it’s always nice to shop local, I have to admit that the Spar stores here are amazing, with endless charcuterie choices. I found the general rule to be that the gnarlier looking the salami, the tastier, if that helps. Some...

"Vote Wallace" message being shouted out in Glasgow city centre today (Thur) as an actor, dressed in full Braveheart regalia, encouraged people to back the Wallace

They combine facial expressions and voice tones to perceive our emotions, say psychologists

Research suggests that our four-legged friends know us even better than we do ourselves at times

Rich Renton, from Duns in the Scottish Borders, was driving with two colleagues on his usual collection route when the looming cloud caught his eye.