Ocean with David Attenborough, Forever and PinkPantheress: the week in rave reviews
Netflix; full series available now
Summed up in a sentence An adorable TV take on Judy Blume's banned teen sex classic.What our reviewer said 'As a teen drama, it works because, Heartstopper-style, its teenagers actually look and behave like teenagers. It's a romantic melodrama, so their young love is at the centre of this show's world, but to its credit for an older viewer, it comes across as knowing and self-aware too.' Rebecca Nicholson
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Further reading Judy Blume forever: the writer who dares to tell girls the plain truth
ITVX; full series available now
Summed up in a sentence The relentlessly tense drama returns with another doctor receiving a probe by the Medical Investigations Unit.What our reviewer said 'The new series promises to be as addictive and unsettling as the last, with another good cast and its doctor creator Grace Ofori-Attah still with plenty of material. Malpractice can surely run and run – which is great news for viewers, if less so for doctors and their patients out in the real world.' Lucy Mangan
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Netflix; available now
Summed up in a sentence Netflix's sport documentary strand examines two basketball players' struggle to cope with success. What our reviewer said 'Over the years the reliable US documentary strand Untold has found numerous variations on the sad old story of the young adult who gets to the big leagues then throws it all away, and it's turned up a devastating one in Shooting Guards' Jack Seale
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Apple TV+; new episodes Fridays
Summed up in a sentence Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are back for another epic motorbike travelogue, this time taking in the Arctic circle, the Baltic states and western Europe.What our reviewer said 'It may not entertain viewers less invested in McGregor and Boorman's friendship, or vintage motorcycles, or relentless rain. But the footage of them riding eventually becomes mesmerising, in a gentle, slow-TV kind of way, and while it is steady, it is also perfectly pleasant.' Rebecca Nicholson
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Summed up in a sentence Louis Theroux revisits the West Bank settlers he first encountered in 2011 documentary The Ultra Zionists, in what might be his most confrontational film yet.What our reviewer said 'I've been watching Theroux's films for more than three decades, since his days on Michael Moore's TV Nation, and watching him be this forthright feels like a true watershed moment in his career. This level of stridently editorialising just hasn't been in his toolbox until now. It suits him.' Stuart Heritage
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Further reading Palestinian activist says home raided 'in revenge' for appearing in Louis Theroux documentary
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Summed up in a sentence Visually stunning nature documentary protesting against the ruination of the seas.What our reviewer said 'He shows us an amazing vista of diversity and life, an extraordinary undulating landscape, a giant second planet of whose existence humanity has long been unaware but now seems in danger of damaging or even destroying.' Peter Bradshaw
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Further reading 99 ways David Attenborough has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman and more
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Summed up in a sentence A young man on the run from a mob boss lands an unlikely job in a love motel and starts an affair with the manager's wife.What our reviewer said 'This film is terrifically acted by its central trio: three intensely and unselfconsciously physical performances in which their bodies are frequently on show, sensual but fragile.' Peter Bradshaw
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Summed up in a sentence Barmy Australian thriller about would-be wave-chaser Nicolas Cage tangling with local bullies.What our reviewer said 'With a pleasing, no-frills intensity, The Surfer feels resolutely old-school. It's a low-budget, hard-hitting comic bruiser of a picture: a midlife-crisis movie dressed up as a 1970s exploitation flick.' Xan Brooks
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Further reading Nicolas Cage: 'I don't think a day goes by where I'm not mistaken for Nick Cave'
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Summed up in a sentence Dance/music film telling the story of a woman's secret affairs through a cache of love letters, soundtracked by Emilíana Torrini.What our reviewer said 'The Extraordinary Miss Flower is a real pleasure: luxuriant like a good glass of red wine. Partly that's down to the songs, vivacious pop-electronica numbers sung with seductive intimacy by Torrini, who is pretty extraordinary herself.' Cath Clarke
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Disney+
Summed up in a sentence Jesse Eisenberg writes, directs and stars in a masterpiece of a Holocaust tour comedy, which features a standout performance from Kieran Culkin.What our reviewer said 'It is a road movie which is partly about the Holocaust and about America's third-generation attempt at coming to terms with it, at confronting what their parents and grandparents found too painfully recent to revisit, or necessary to forget in order to survive. And partly it's about family, male friendship and growing older.' Peter Bradshaw
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Further reading 'A collective sigh of relief': how Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain went down in Poland
Reviewed by Sarah Crown
Summed up in a sentence A love triangle plays out over decades in this deliciously immersive American saga.What our reviewer said 'Puchner seduces us with a familiar narrative structure, only to undermine that structure, to force it to tell a tale of profound and fatal insecurity. But he tells his tale with such warmth and humour, that it's not until you set the book down that you can appreciate the breadth and brilliance of what he's done.'
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Review by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Summed up in a sentence A spiky tale of unexpected motherhood and chosen family from the author of Send Nudes.What our reviewer said 'Sams is a skilled writer, sometimes a sublime one. The way she relates labour, birth and newborns is a mark of her talent and will make you forgive her occasional lapse into cliche.'
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Further reading Writer Saba Sams: 'I wanted it to be sexy and really messy'
Review by John Mullan
Summed up in a sentence The definitive story of America's most famous writer, from the author of Hamilton.What our reviewer said 'Chernow makes out of a vast archive this admirably animated, readable account of one of the modern world's first literary celebrities.'
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Review by Clare Clark
Summed up in a sentence A high-concept sliding doors debut in which three different names given to a baby boy send him down three very different paths.What our reviewer said 'This compelling and original debut asks at least as many questions as it answers. In the end, despite the neatness of its premise, it is not so much about the impact of our names but about the implications of our decisions.'
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Further reading Love Groundhog Day and Russian Doll? These are the novels for you
Review by Steven Poole
Summed up in a sentence A whistleblower's no-holds barred account of Facebook.What our reviewer said 'Mark Zuckerberg turns out to be a giant man-baby suffering from a severe case of the Dunning-Kruger effect, whereby people overestimate their own cognitive abilities'
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Further reading Meta puts stop on promotion of tell-all book by former employee
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Summed up in a sentence Back after her TikTok-powered burst to initial fame, the singer-songwriter-producer is still making pithy pop – in longer form this time.What our reviewer said 'There's something infectious and gleeful about the way she stitches together her disparate influences, but her real skill lies in her ability to imprint her own identity on the results.' Alexis Petridis
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Further reading PinkPantheress: 'I don't think I'm very brandable. I dress weird. I'm shy'
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Summed up in a sentence Five years since her Grammy-nominated breakthrough record Miss Colombia, the singer and producer takes a radical shift in direction.What our reviewer said 'La Belleza (The Beauty) is a nine-track orchestral suite touching on everything from Gregorian chant to strings-laden love songs and dembow rhythms. The result is a moving work of remarkable depth.' Ammar Kalia
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Summed up in a sentence The underground New York rapper, celebrated for his leftfield linguistic invention, delivers one of his heaviest albums to date.What our reviewer said 'Through samples, guest verses and his own lyrics, Woods unearths innumerable images of inhumanity: from stories of CIA torture methods to '12 billion USD hovering over the Gaza strip'. Golliwog is dominated by inherited trauma and state-sanctioned terror, and Woods assesses it all with horrible clarity.' Shaad D'Souza
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Further reading Attenborough, weed and 'American apartheid': the awesome mind of rapper Billy Woods
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Summed up in a sentence John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in these live recordings.What our reviewer said 'There's a litheness to the approach, a refusal to get distracted by subsidiary detail from the essential symphonic argument, and a sense of always keeping the structure taut and purposeful.' Andrew Clements
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Summed up in a sentence The UK dance producer is devoted to tracks at the high end of the bpm scale, spanning footwork, jungle and technoWhat our reviewer said 'With her socially conscious projects that spread access and opportunity, Sherelle is building the future she'd like to see. Her music is charged with the same sense of determination.' Ben Beaumont-Thomas
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- The Sun
Love Island Kyle's replacement revealed as he's axed after machete arrest
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Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Gal Gadot 'reluctant to ever film in London again' after antisemitic protests
Gal Gadot has been left 'scarred' and 'reluctant to ever film in London again' following a wave of anti-Israel and antisemitic protests that have dogged the production of her latest film. The Wonder Woman star, 40, is currently in the UK shooting The Runner, a political thriller, but has faced persistent demonstrations from pro-Palestinian activists who accuse her of 'normalising war criminals' because of her past support for Israel and mandatory service in the Israeli Defence Forces. According to a source close to the production, Ms Gadot has told friends she is 'reluctant to ever film in London again' and has found the experience 'scarring'. The source added that those working on the film had become increasingly exasperated by the scale of the disruption, which began earlier this month, and by what they perceived as a lack of firm action by police. But last week the Metropolitan Police finally took action. They confirmed that five people were arrested at a filming site in Westminster for attempting to disrupt the production. Two of the arrests were for offences committed at previous protests, while three were for action on the day. The Wonder Woman star, 40, is currently in the UK shooting The Runner, a political thriller, but has faced persistent demonstrations from pro-Palestinian activists who accuse her of 'normalising war criminals' because of her past support for Israel and mandatory service in the Israeli Defence Forces 'While we absolutely acknowledge the importance of peaceful protest, we have a duty to intervene where it crosses the line into serious disruption or criminality,' said Superintendent Neil Holyoak. 'I hope today's operation shows we will not tolerate the harassment of or unlawful interference with those trying to go about their legitimate professional work in London.' Protests have taken place over at least 20 days, with activists sharing filming locations on social media and attempting to block access. One poster, circulated ahead of filming at YY London earlier this month, read: 'Last time her filming location was circulated, filming was successfully interrupted and activists made the point loud and clear. No to IDF soldiers in our city. No normalising war criminals!! Free Palestine.' Last month, protesters targeted Ms Gadot while she was filming on Waterloo Bridge, waving Palestinian flags and placards, banging saucepan lids, and blaring sirens. Chants included 'Gal Gadot, you can't hide,' while signs read 'Trash Gadot not welcome in London' and 'Stop starving Gaza.' Officers from Scotland Yard dispersed the group, but no arrests were made at that time. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson confirmed the recent operation followed weeks of similar disruption 'solely because an actress involved in the production is Israeli.' Ms Gadot has not commented publicly on the protests, but her treatment has sparked widespread condemnation. The Campaign Against Antisemitism has condemned the sustained targeting of Ms Gadot, a mother-of-four, warning it reflects a wider climate of hostility toward Jewish people in the UK. A spokesperson told the Mail: 'We welcome the arrests of individuals who have allegedly been harassing Gal Gadot and her colleagues during filming. At least the financial cost of allowing the mob unfettered freedom to spew their bile is motivating the authorities to act, even if the social cost has yet to be acknowledged. 'With Ms Gadot reportedly reconsidering her business in the UK, it remains to be seen whether this is too little too late. Our polling shows that less than half of British Jews feel welcome in the UK. 'Here is an example of a foreign Jew being made to feel unwelcome. We have all learned the hard way that 'Free Palestine' activism does not end with mere rhetoric. The time has come to clamp down once and for all.' The experience stands in stark contrast to her previous time filming in the UK, including work on Wonder Woman 1984, which shot scenes in London in 2018 without incident. Her latest visit has unfolded against a backdrop of growing concern over antisemitism in Britain, with the UK increasingly viewed as a hotbed of hostility toward Jewish figures in public life. Ms Gadot has also faced similar protests in the US. Demonstrators disrupted her Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony in May, chanting 'Shame on Gal Gadot' and waving Palestinian flags. Days later, her star on the Walk of Fame was defaced, with vandals scrawling 'Baby killer' and altering her surname to 'Greestien'—a misspelling of her family's original Jewish name, Greenstein. Stickers with inflammatory messages like 'Israeli snipers target children' were also found. The Campaign Against Antisemitism called the graffiti 'a modern manifestation of medieval antisemitic tropes,' likening it to the blood libel.
Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
New Love Island contestant REVEALED after Kyle Ashman was axed from the line-up following machete attack arrest
Conor has been announced as the new Love Island contestant after it was revealed Kyle Ashman had been axed from the show on Tuesday evening. The 23-year-old from Stafford threw the show into chaos after The Sun reported that he was involved in a machete attack in February when masked thugs stormed a wake and hacked at a dad with a blade. Kyle was one of two arrested by police but he was released with no further action. And now it has been revealed Conor will be taking his place as he swoops in last minute ahead of Monday's launch episode. The professional rugby player, 25, from Limerick is ready to find the woman of his dreams and is looking for 'Someone who is really sure of themselves, ambitious, a bit of a go-getter and good craic. I like dark eyes and I don't mind a dominant woman.' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Revealing his biggest ick ahead of the series Conor revealed: 'Being too needy, or needing to do everything together. 'I like someone to be independent and do their own thing and then we come together and do our thing.' Conor's entry in the villa comes after Kyle was cited to be leaving the show for 'personal reasons'. Following the reports, Kyle confirmed he had no involvement in the incident, but has chosen to leave the ITV show regardless. He told MailOnline: 'I fully cooperated with this police investigation and made it very clear that I had no involvement in this incident. 'I am not a violent person and any suggestion otherwise is a mischaracterisation.' Meanwhile ITV added: 'For personal reasons, Kyle will not be entering the Love Island Villa as planned.' The Love Island line-up was announced on Tuesday so Kyle's departure will have plunged the show into chaos ahead of Monday's launch episode. The Sun have revealed they alerted bosses on Kyle being questioned in the attack but ITV said they were unaware of the incident and he was not flagged during the contestant checks. The incident on February 28 saw the victim, 38, nearly lose his arm after he was rushed to hospital for emergency treatment and kept it for around two weeks. Another mourner was reportedly glassed, one hit with a metal pole, and two people were run over by a car during the 15 minute attack at the The White Eagle Club in Stafford. Sources said the victim was attacked by three balaclava-clad thugs over an alleged £3,000 debt. He was injured by a blade that left him with a deep gash and has suffered tendon damage and is now unable to drive. Police confirmed yesterday that after the matter had been investigated Kyle and another individual were released with no further action only last month. A show source told the publication: 'ITV were entirely unaware of Kyle's past and, as he was not charged, it was not flagged as part of Love Island's stringent DBS checks. 'It's only right he can now return home to the UK to share his side of the story and therefore bosses took the decision that it was best for him not to enter the villa.' Staffordshire Police said on Monday: 'A 22-year-old man, from Stafford, was arrested on suspicion of wounding and affray. Another man, also 22 and from Stafford, was arrested on suspicion of affray. 'Both were questioned in custody and bailed with conditions while our enquiries continue.' Love Island returns Monday 9th June at 9pm on ITV2 and ITVX
