Hope Gap (cinemas, Curzon, 12A) Verdict: A marriage cliffhanger Rating: Matthias And Maxime (MUBI) Verdict: A friendship overheats Rating: She Dies Tomorrow (cinemas, Curzon, 15) Verdict: As tedious as it sounds Rating: Bill Nighy and Annette Bening messily uncouple three decades of middle-class marriage in Hope Gap. The problem is that Edward (Nighy) knows the break-up … Read more
The Salisbury Poisonings Rating: Every night on the news, as reporters investigate a stabbing or a suburban drugs bust, you will hear a bystander say: ‘That sort of thing just doesn’t happen around here.’ It’s the universal cry of the baffled neighbour. It could have been a slogan on the T-shirt of every character we … Read more
What was supposed to be a getaway to repair their marriage turned into a living nightmare for one couple in the upcoming horror film, You Should Have Left. The bone-chilling new trailer shows Theo (Kevin Bacon) traveling to a remote Welsh house with his much younger wife Susanna (Amanda Seyfried) and their daughter Ella (Avery Tiiu … Read more
Haunting images show an abandoned mansion that appears to have been deserted in a hurry as chess and snooker games have been left half finished. The imposing house in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, is just a stone’s throw away from Watford and has been strangely well preserved. A watch stuck in time lies untouched on a … Read more
There are few places in all of France as forbidding as this abandoned 19th-century prison – as these eerie pictures show. They were taken by French photographer Romain Veillon inside the city of Autun jail, which has a design much-dreaded among prisoners – panopticon, a word derived from panoptes, the Greek for ‘all-seeing’. The cylindrical … Read more
Radiohead’s Thom Yorke delighted fans on Wednesday as he debuted his haunting new song on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The singer, 51, performed Plasticine Fingers on the piano via video link- and viewers took to Twitter to describe how the eerie lyrics resonated with them amid the coronavirus pandemic. Yorke teased fans earlier in … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Hooray for a dark, haunting and blissfully bamboozling thriller! By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 02:09 BST, 30 April 2020 | Updated: 02:09 BST, 30 April 2020 Blood Rating: Absolutely India: Mancs In Mumbai Rating: Let that be a lesson to all mechanics and grease monkeys who … Read more
North America’s Great Lakes are a recreational mecca, offering all manner of watersports and scenic cruises. They’re also a gigantic graveyard – of shipwrecks, with these mesmerising, haunting photographs showing some of the 6,000 or so that lie in lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie and Ontario, which collectively cover an area larger than the entire … Read more
MIT researchers use AI to translate the coronavirus’s core protein structure into a calming musical arrangement that conveys the virus’s deceptive nature as it invades human cells A team of MIT scientists have translated the COVID-19 virus into a musical score The team trained a machine learning tool to translate the virus’s amino acids The … Read more
Chilling video filmed by one of the Dubai ruler’s two daughter’s now being held captive in their father’s palaces revealed how she faced ‘constant torture’ after a failed escape bid. Princess Latifa appeared in the clip posted to YouTube in March 2018, in which she gave a disturbing account of her abduction and imprisonment ordered … Read more