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The Herald Scotland
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Splashdown Poole named among the best UK waterparks
Splashdown Poole, which features 13 different rides to choose from, was named alongside spots like The Wave in Coventry and Alton Towers Waterpark. It was included alongside 13 others in a list from Time Out that highlighted a mix of indoor and outdoor waterparks. Introducing the article, they said: "Looking to make a splash with your next family day out? How about some wobbly water obstacle courses, chaotically fun wave machines and slides so long you're not sure where they end? "Waterparks come in all shapes and sizes in the UK, and luckily for us, most are open all year round – offering a great day trip to keep kids entertained for hours on end while you brush up your butterfly stroke." The full list of the best waterparks and swimming pools in the UK can be found on the Time Out website here. Why is Splashdown Poole among the UK's best waterparks? Splashdown Poole was included on the list thanks in part to the variety of rides people could try out. Time Out shared: "At Splashdown in Dorset, there are 13 rides to choose from, and planning your sliding schedule has never been easier with their handy, online, colour-coded guide ranking the rides. "Up at the top, you'll find your high-speed thrills from the Screamer and Velocity or the short, near-vertical drop of the Baron's Revenge. While only eight metres long, it'll have you hanging onto your trunks. "In summer, many rides divert to outside courses for alfresco water fun. The park closes during winter for general maintenance and upkeep." Alongside the slides, the centre's website shares that there is an outdoor splash pool - called Buccaneer's Beach - which is open in the summer for those under the age of eight. Splashdown Poole doesn't have a swimming pool, but has some splash zones for younger kids to enjoy (Image: Jaki A/Tripadvisor) What do visitors think of Splashdown Poole? Splashdown Poole has mostly earned positive reviews from visitors, with it having a 3.4/5 score on Tripadvisor from 929 ratings and a 4.2/5 score on Google Reviews from 2,682 ratings. One person wrote: "Recently went to the Splashdown Poole and it is a fantastic waterpark, which has a mix of indoor and outdoor attractions. "It's perfect for families, with thrill slides like The Screamer and more relaxed options like the Red River Roller." Recommended reading Another said: "Very good place for children. 3 flumes and the water is reasonably warm, not cold like most places. There is also a hot tub for adults to relax while their children go off and play. "Would highly recommend and would recommend buying in advance as it can get very busy (especially during half term)." A third posted: "First time visitors with partner and daughter, we really enjoyed it, loads of slides to go on although the outside area was closed (due to reopen in May) but still didn't disappoint, would recommend if you are in the area."
Daily Record
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
'Unique' waterpark just 25 minutes from Glasgow crowned best in Scotland
The iconic leisure complex has been named one of the UK's top waterparks by Time Out An iconic family favourite just a short drive from Glasgow has been crowned the best waterpark in Scotland. The Time Capsule has been named among the top fun-filled pools in the UK by Time Out. The Coatbridge venue has been a go-to destination for generations of families across Glasgow and the Central Belt. It earned its spot on the coveted Time Out list, alongside the likes of The Wave in Coventry and Alton Towers' Waterpark. Only a 25-minute drive from Glasgow city centre, the large leisure complex is well known for its flumes, wave machine, and "unique" rides - and it is now being recognised nationally for its impact. Speaking about the wonder of waterparks, the team at Time Out asked: "Looking to make a splash with your next family day out? How about some wobbly water obstacle courses, chaotically fun wave machines and slides so long you're not sure where they end? "From epic outdoor inflatables to weather-proof indoor pools with flumes galore, you'll find excellent waterparks dotted all over the country." In their guide to the UK's best sites, the publication highlighted everything from indoor flume-packed havens to open-air inflatable adventures, praising The Time Capsule for its stand-out attractions and nostalgic pull. Speaking about their Scottish inclusion, Time Out said: 'Glasgow might not be the first location that springs to mind when you think of waterparks, but at the Time Capsule, they have some unique rides. "The Tornado Tantrum flume is so large you could fit a Mini Cooper inside, so there's plenty of room for you and four mates to whizz down together. 'There's also the ten-metre-high Storm Chaser: twin flumes named Thunder and Lightning, where you can challenge a friend and see who comes out first…' The recognition comes despite the ever-popular waterpark being temporarily closed for essential upgrade works. Repairs began in March and are expected to last between four and six months, meaning it is likely to be shut for most of summer. The temporary closure affects only the waterpark, with the rest of the complex - including the 25-metre swimming pool, ice rink and gym - remaining open throughout the ongoing works. Speaking about the closure, Councillor Geraldine Woods, North Lanarkshire Council Convener of Communities. 'We know our loyal customers will be disappointed to hear that the waterpark will close for a few months, but the upgrades will guarantee its long-term future. 'We carried out a detailed survey of the waterpark, which highlighted certain areas requiring improvement. In order to complete these, the waterpark will need to close for between four and six months.' Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. The work includes essential upgrades to the water feature systems, new control panels, electrical repairs and pump replacements. Meanwhile, further improvements are on the horizon, with the gym, the busiest in North Lanarkshire, also set for a revamp next year as part of a wider enhancement plan. Despite the current closure, The Time Capsule remains one of Lanarkshire's most visited family attractions, drawing over 700,000 visitors annually, and after its refresh, it looks set to make an even bigger splash. To see the full list, go to the Time Out website.
The National
25-05-2025
- The National
Time Capsule near Glasgow named among best UK swimming pools
The leisure centre, which is complete with flumes and a wave machine, was named alongside spots like The Wave in Coventry and Alton Towers Waterpark. Introducing the ranking, the writers over at Time Out said: "Looking to make a splash with your next family day out? "How about some wobbly water obstacle courses, chaotically fun wave machines and slides so long you're not sure where they end? The swimming and leisure centre contains various flumes and even a wave machine (Image: North Lanarkshire Council) "Waterparks come in all shapes and sizes in the UK, and luckily for us, most are open all year round." Swimming baths less than 25 minutes from the city centre of Glasgow named one of the best in the UK The Time Capsule, which is less than 25 minutes from the city centre of Glasgow, was named the top pool in Scotland and among the best in the whole of the UK by Time Out. Discussing the location, which has been a major childhood memory for generations of kids across Glasgow and the Central Belt, the publication said: "Glasgow might not be the first location that springs to mind when you think of waterparks, but at Time Capsule, they have some unique rides. The Time Capsule near Glasgow has been a major childhood memory for generations of kids (Image: Google Maps) "The Tornado Tantrum flume is so large you could fit a Mini Cooper inside, so there's plenty of room for you and four mates to whizz down together. "There's also the ten-metre-high Storm Chaser: twin flumes named Thunder and Lightning, where you can challenge a friend and see who comes out first..." It should be noted that those wanting to visit the Time Capsule will have to wait for essential repair works, which started in March, to be completed.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sebastián Lelio Talks Musical Film ‘The Wave' About Chile's 2019 Feminist May Protests: 'It Was An Iconic Moment'
Sebastián Lelio's has touched down in Cannes this year with musical film The Wave (La Ola), inspired by the wave of feminist civil disobedience that swept Chile in the spring of 2018. The mass protests and university rallies, sparked by a collective desire to bring attention to widespread harassment and abuse against women in Chile, came to be known as the 'Feminist May'. More from Deadline Spike Lee Says 'Highest 2 Lowest' Is Potentially His Last Collaboration With Denzel Washington: "This Is It-Five" Breaking Baz @Cannes: Spike Lee Croons Rodgers & Hammerstein On The Beach But Tunes Out As Talk Turns To Him Making A Movie Musical His Next Project Lynne Ramsay On How Critics Are Misreading Her Buzzy Cannes Title 'Die My Love': "This Postpartum Thing Is Bulls***t" Daniela López stars in the film – which debuted in Cannes Premiere – as a music student who joins the cause, haunted by an incident with her voice teacher's assistant. She is joined in the cast by a raft of young Chilean acting talents including Paulina Cortés, Lola Bravo and Avril Aurora. The musical film marks Lelio's first film in his native Chile since his 2017 Oscar winner A Fantastic Woman, with feature credits in between including Gloria Bell and The Wonder. Deadline sat down with Lelio in LELIO: I happened to be in Chile during the Feminist May. I was very impressed by the marches that took place, the demonstrations. The female students would march with masks, some with their breasts exposed. It was a very iconic moment. I remember seeing a photo on a newspaper with all of them on the street and it very impressive, very powerful. After A Fantastic Woman, I was starting to think about what I could do again in Chile. The idea of using this movement as a background to explore these themes, using the language of a musical film started to take shape. I thought it was a great opportunity to use the musical to talk about things that for which words are insufficient, to mix politics and spectacle DEADLINE: The WaveEmilia Pérez LELIO: We are in a moment in the history of humanity, but also cinema, where things cannot be that innocent anymore. So, if you're going to work within a genre, it's almost your duty, not to necessarily subvert it, but to expand it, to make self-aware narratives. So, when you're working with the musical genre tradition, you need to think about the genre and why you're using it. You need to push boundaries, so it's not an exercise of nostalgia, which is what has been happening for the last 25 years, with some exceptions, but rather an act of now. DEADLINE: Emilia Pérez LELIO: It does step into musical territory, unapologetically. The thing is the tone. It is something more than just finding a way to express things through dance and movement, movement and singing. This is more of depiction of political cacophony. DEADLINE: LELIO: We're going through a backlash globally. It feels like a betrayal and revenge against all sorts of advances is being orchestrated in a very conscious way. I think the pendulum still has a few meters to go in that direction before things hopefully start to get more balanced again. Globally, it's a moment where you know the demands of society, women's demands, used to sound like commonsense three years ago, and now they sound like crazy things. That's what they are doing. It's just part of the never-ending cycle of the dance between the attempt to change things and the way in which power deals with that. DEADLINE: LELIO: Yes and no, or I would say maybe 'no' and 'yes'. The way in which these things tend to develop is that a certain amount of energy is accumulated, the conditions for negotiation manifest and then politics and power make the move. Usually the movement, I'm talking history here, not this particular movement, is appropriated by politics, and then there is a sort of arrangement. Things have the facade of change but do not necessarily really change. It's a slow process. DEADLINE: LELIO: We did a very big casting process. Some of the biggest numbers feature 400 people in total. The average age of the woman in the story is around 22, or something like that. They were all very young. It's basically the introduction of a whole generation of artists and performers. For the protagonist Julia, we saw hundreds and hundreds of faces. Daniela's just out of drama school. It's her first role. DEADLINE: LELIO: I found the first exercise I did in film school on a tape a few a while back. I was around 20, and it's about four women. I understood it has always been there as a genuine interest. It was never programmatic. And then, the world changed, and this dimension became more prominent. DEADLINE: ? LELIO. My first intuition was that we needed to find a correspondence between the subject we were talking about and the way in which we were going to generate the pieces of the film. It had to be coherent. I called three female writers so I could write it being a minority, I called people I really admire, some I knew more, some less, but they belong to different aspects of the feminist spectrum. It took five years to finish the script. The first year was like them talking. I would contribute a lot, but clearly, I wasn't the one that was going to have many, many, many, things to say… the film expresses ideas and points of view that I agree with, but it's also a sort of like political and spectacular device that gives space to many points of views. It's more of an analytical portrayal of a moment than my own little thesis. DEADLINE: How did your long-time collaborator composer Matthew Herbert fit into the process? LELIO: This is fifth film we do together, and Matthew had the same question on how to create coherence. He said, 'It can't be just my score or my composition for the numbers'. He suggested we set up some sort of music camp and we invited 17 women songwriters. That's where the music came from, and where Matthew took many, many things from, from that experience with two big camps. So there is a collaborative, co-creatiive approach, with the spirit of sharing power. DEADLINE: LELIO: For me, he one of the choreographers working today. I said to him, 'We don't have a musical tradition. These actresses are very young. They don't have experience. We've never done musical films in Latin America, in Chile, so you would have to work with that. We won't have, like, professional dancers.' He said professional dancers would ruin this film. He has this approach that everyone can dance. He found ways to make those people, those bodies, change with what they had. It's not really belonging to the highly professionalized style of a more traditional film. There is something a little more raw about the aesthetics of the dance. It's the same with the music, most of it is coming from street chants. DEADLINE: LELIO: It's a dance, we've danced before. They are very supportive, but at the same time understand you need some space to create something that has certain uniqueness.. This is our fourth film together, but first film I've shot in Chile since A Fantastic Woman. Working with them in Chile feels like home. Best of Deadline Sean 'Diddy' Combs Sex-Trafficking Trial Updates: Cassie Ventura's Testimony, $10M Hotel Settlement, Drugs, Violence, & The Feds All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies In Order - See Tom Cruise's 30-Year Journey As Ethan Hunt Denzel Washington's Career In Pictures: From 'Carbon Copy' To 'The Equalizer 3'
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Chile Heads to Cannes: Sebastian Lelio, Diego Céspedes, Nicolás Acuña, Julio Rojas, Present Latest Buzz Titles
Chile heads to Cannes with an ambitious lineup. The country's a proving ground for cross-industry talent, set to converge at this year's fest with illustrator Alberto Montt designing the delegation's stand, and musician Javiera Parra on-site performing songs from Sebastián Lelio's Cannes Premiere title 'The Wave.' The range of Chilean filmmakers at Cannes ranges from Lelio and Diego Cespedes to new titles from established talent — Nicolás Acuña, Julio Rojas, René Ballesteros — to emerging cineastes such as María Paz González and Constanza Majluf. More from Variety Chile Launches New Perks, Asian Outreach as it Debuts Oscar-Winning Sebastián Lelio's 'The Wave' at Cannes Cannes Launches With Muted Opening Night Short on Star Power - And Cleavage Prestige Acquires Worldwide Rights to Action Sci-Fi Film 'Heavens: The Boy and His Robot' (EXCLUSIVE) 'The Wave' (Sebastian Lelio) A world sales pickup by FilmNation playing Cannes Première, the return to Chile of Oscar laureate Lelio ('A Fantastic Woman'), a musical capturing the good-humored outrage of Chile's biggest wave of feminist protests in history. From Chilean powerhouse Fabula, headed by Pablo, Juan de Dios Larraín. 'The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo' (Diego Céspedes) Quijote Films ('The Settlers') produces the Western that centers young Lidia and her queer family, blamed for an illness gripping the town. Ignorance reigns, vengeance is imminent, in the Charades-backed feature debut from the Cannes Cinéfondation winner, now selected for Un Certain Regard. 'Box 205' (Pablo Díaz del Río) Chile's Storyboard Media produces this thriller that sees Carmen Frei unravel the investigation into the suspicious death of her father, former Chilean president Eduardo Frei Montalva. 'The Devil's Wells' (Jairo Boisier Olave) A 2023 Ventana Sur Proyecta selection, this genre-bender follows Estrella, living in a drought-stricken town. Her divine gift for locating underground water sources leads her to a sinister plot. 'To Die On Your Feet' (María Paz González) The 'Lina From Lima' director presents a warped drama following Cruz, fleeting witness to a death, as she sets out to recover tempered emotions. Quijote Films, Txintxua Films ('Intimacy'), among producers. 'Erratics' (Thomas Woodroffe) Unearthed from the Patagonian tundra, the spirit of filmmaker Lucien Castlenau nods to a trip made by Paul Castelnau and Lucien Le Saint in 1925 — documenting the region's first nations. 'The Frame Maker' (Sahand Sarhaddi) The Berlinale Talents alum calls on history to reveal truths about the 1979 Iranian revolution's cross-generational impact, piecing together a narrative using his uncle's photos. 'The Grand Illusion' (Sebastián Pereira) A hazy experimental film that centers Cuban actor Roberto, who winds down Havana's boulevards in pure hallucination — believing he's part of a Netflix series. 'Landless Children' (René Ballesteros) Daniel and Juan, adopted in Europe, unravel long-buried truths in this documentary from Ballesteros, whose feature 'La Quemadura' scooped the Joris Ivens Award at Cinéma du Réel. 'Left Unsaid' (Ricardo Valenzuela Pinilla) It's 90s rural Chile, and Margarita and her peer Cucho hawk cell phones while wryly maneuvering personal and professional hurdles amidst a slew of communication mishaps, as irony ensues en route to connection. 'The Letelier File' (Rafael Valdeavellano & Nicolás Acuña) An anticipated true crime series that explores the assassination of Pinochet adversary Orlando Letelier, unmasking a clandestine conspiracy network, penned by Julio Rojas ('Case 63') and produced by La Ventana Cine ('Chicago Boys'). 'My Independence Day' (Constanza Majluf) Independence day, 1988 — Manuela dreams of winning her school's 'best dress' competition, while her older brother takes to the streets to protest Chile's vicious dictatorship. 'No Money, No Honey' (Nicole Costa) NYC non-binary sex-worker Máxima takes a nostalgic journey after unearthing tapes from their youth. From Argentina to Miami, themes of reclamation, community and identity converge. 'The Red Hangar' (Juan Pablo Sallato) An Iberseries & Platino Industria pitch participant, the film tracks an Air Force captain ordered to take part in a coup during the Pinochet dictatorship. 'The Tiger of the East' (Jorge Acevedo Carrasco) A doc following a musically-gifted Chilean cowboy sifting through adversity to achieve his dream — journeying to Mexico to play with Los Tigres del Norte. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Emmy Predictions: Talk/Scripted Variety Series - The Variety Categories Are Still a Mess; Netflix, Dropout, and 'Hot Ones' Stir Up Buzz Oscars Predictions 2026: 'Sinners' Becomes Early Contender Ahead of Cannes Film Festival
