‘Allelujah’ Review: Not Enough Judi Dench In This Hospital Drama Searching For Urgency [TIFF]

READ MORE: 'I didn't realise my penis was big until jail – I thought girls were being nice'But women he had hooked up with encouraged him to get into porn due to the unusual size of his manhood."To be honest with you, I thought everybody's was the same size," he laughed.“I would take a [girl] to the house, whip it out on her and she would be like, ‘damn, eyes get big, ‘you’ve got a big-ass [penis], you need to do porn’.“It was crazy because every girl I would bring to my joint would be saying the same s***.”Slimpoke decided to try his hand at webcamming before he met another model who encouraged him to give full-blown porn movies a go.He continued: “I was doing webcamming back then, and a chick hit me up, she was already in the industry, and was like, ‘what’s up? I’m trying to see if we can record and do a video’.”Mistakenly thinking that the woman was offering to help with his webcamming, Slimpoke met up with her before quickly realising that he was actually being taken to a professional porn set.“We go to the destination, we pull up and it’s a big-ass mansion… We walk in and it’s a whole set. I’m not used to this so I’m like, ‘hold up’," he continued.And, although now a seasoned industry veteran, Slimpoke readily confessed that he had been nervous under the glare of the cameras during his first scene.To get more lifestyle stories from Daily Star delivered straight to your inbox sign up to one of our free newsletters here. “I had a problem performing,” he remembered.

King Charles III’s plans for a dramatically slimmed down coronation could be a huge mistake and waste the opportunity to show the UK’s soft power, experts have claimed. The new monarch is reported to favour a smaller and less extravagant ceremony with 2,000 guests instead of 8,000 and a shorter running time to showcase his vision for a more modern and slick Royal Family.But the radical idea for the coronation, set to take place in June next year, has sparked backlash from commentators who want to see a coronation more similar to Queen Elizabeth’s in 1953.READ MORE: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry 'intended to humiliate' royal family with portraitHistorian Andrew Roberts argued the event had the opportunity to offer Brits a much-needed celebration after the difficult winter expected amid the cost of living crisis.He told the Daily Mail: “Coronations come once in a generation.

Diego Maradona. The iconic Argentina captain passed away in 2020 at the age of 60, sending the football world into mourning. Even those still bitter about his ‘Hand of God’ goal against England in the 1986 World Cup could not refute his brilliance.

Britney Spears has come under fire after posing alongside a monkey attached to a lead in a clip posted on her Instagram. The singer, 40, was in Mexico celebrating nearly one year since her 13-year-conservatorship came to an end and she became a "free woman."In the video, the Baby One More Time hitmaker was playing with a chained monkey, holding and kissing it as she chimed: "The monkey's name is Justin Bieber."READ MORE: Britney Spears celebrates nearly a year since becoming a 'free woman'But the clip didn't go down well with thousands of her 41.9 million followers, with countless heading straight to the comments to accuse the star of "promoting animal abuse."One fumed: "This is animal cruelty.

Italian producer Lorenzo Mieli, whose recent credits include Luca Guadagnino’s Bones And All, Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand Of God and HBO’s hit TV version of My Brilliant Friend, has unveiled plans for a limited series adaptation of Italo Calvino’s classic Italian novel The Baron In The Trees.

Russians are fleeing the motherland in their thousands as they try to get away from Putin’s vile war, and some have developed unusual methods.Vladimir Putin announced he was introducing a ‘partial mobilisation’ – the conscription of 300,000 civilian men to join the ‘meat grinder’.Ukrainian officials have already claimed their forces have ‘liquidated’ over 62,000 Russian troops as of yesterday (Sunday, October 9). READ MORE: EXCLUSIVE 'Frightened' Putin 'getting closer to launching nuclear strike' warns ex-RAF chiefIn an understandable desire to avoid this, images have emerged of people leaving the country in droves.They’ve been spotted lining roads and walking in massive convoys as they try to leave the country.According to Reuters, hundreds of thousands of men have already left, but reports have come in of border crossings becoming increasingly difficult.In efforts to escape, some have been adopting desperate methods.

Eurovision fans have been warned after accommodation in Liverpool for next year’s contest has reached astronomical levels.In June, the event’s organisers said “with deep regret” that it will not be possible to provide the security and operational guarantees required to host the contest in Ukraine, after the country’s Kalush Orchestra won the 2022 contest.After securing second place at the event, the United Kingdom was chosen as host country. A shortlist of seven potential cities was announced in August before it was then confirmed that either Glasgow or Liverpool would be staging next year’s event on behalf of Ukraine.

In October last year, the teen went for a job interview at The Stockton Arms Hotel, in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, but soon after a war of words ensued between her mum and bosses of the establishment.READ MORE: Homeowner horrified at neighbour's note left on doorstep when they got back from holidayThe rattled 37-year-old mum told how her daughter was left "sobbing" after the landlady "made comments about her skirt" and questioned her on previous waitressing experience.But one of the bar's owners responded, claiming the teen was wearing the "shortest skirt I’ve ever seen" and "looked like she was going nightclubbing"."It wasn’t appropriate for an interview – it was very, very short," licensee Andrew Mark said.Although, he admitted: "Maybe we could have handled it a bit better."Following the interview for the bar position, the mum said she was "absolutely disgusted" at the way her daughter was "treated in a job interview" as she was "brought to tears".She added: "If you didn’t like what she was wearing as you mentioned as soon as she walked in, why not just end the interview there."The parent told how her daughter replied to the job advertisement on the employment website Indeed and confirmed an interview.She dropped her off at the pub on Darlington Road, but she "wasn’t in long" then called her "crying".To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.The mum described how she was "sobbing" in the car, explained what had happened and started the landlady had "made comments about her skirt".Her daughter wore a "brown skirt with flowers on, black tights, Dr Martens boots, high neck black top and an oversized leather jacket".The mum reported how she felt "uncomfortable"

iPhone 14 might call the police or ambulance on you while you're riding a rollercoaster. A glitch in the new smartphone's Crash Detection software is reportedly calling emergency services on users when they're zooming around on a high-speed rollercoaster.

Married at First Sight UK's Matt Murray and Whitney Hughes strip off for a romantic bubble bath in upcoming scenes. A first-look video from Monday's (October 10) episode of the E4 dating series shows the pair getting hot and sweaty with barely any clothes on.Barber Matt can be seen popping a bottle of champagne as he enjoys a relaxing dip with Whitney in a fancy hotel room.READ MORE: MAFS UK's Gemma admits she gets very unusual requests from horny OnlyFans usersSpeaking to the camera, Whitney says: "I've never had a bath with a big, bearded, tattooed man.

Dame Judi Dench was given two pairs of "powerful" glasses on 'The Repair Shop' to enable her to see her late husband's watch. The 87-year-old actress - who was married to actor Michael Williams from 1971 until his death in 2001 - took a timepiece once belonging to her late husband onto the BBC One craft show, but she was unable to see the team's work until horologist Steve Fletcher loaned her his spectacles. Steve said: "She was looking at the watch and couldn’t see the engraving we’d put on the back.

Toronto International Film Festival.Unless, of course, you holler, “Allelujah! It’s time to go home!”That’s because the dinky drama, about a struggling hospital for the elderly in England, gets steadily more depressing as it plods along. There’s nothing wrong with some silver screen sorrow, but not when it amounts to indecisive mush. Sure, it is a pleasure to see the boffo acting talent together — Jennifer Saunders, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi and more — but they deserve so much better than hospital Jell-O. The creaky film began as a play at London’s Bridge Theatre by writer Alan Bennett, who also penned “The History Boys,” and much like the 2006 screen version of that show, “Allelujah,” directed by Richard Eyre, doesn’t comfortably make the leap to cinema.

Brent Lang Executive Editor “Allelujah,” Richard Eyre’s latest film, unfolds in a Yorkshire geriatric hospital, following a group of patients as they make peace with or rage against the indignities of old age. It’s a story that resonates with Eyre, a legendary stage and screen director. “I’m about to be 80,” he says. “So old age isn’t my consuming passion, but it’s a subject that has been forced on me and that has become difficult to ignore. I’m acutely aware of having outlived both my parents and many of my friends.” Perhaps unwittingly, “Allelujah,” which premieres this weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival, also serves as a showcase for a generation of English actors such as Judi Dench, David Bradley, and Derek Jacobi, who have all entered their ninth decades.

The Inspection,” one of the festival’s opening night films and the story of a gay man who enlists in the army during the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” era. Director Elegance Bratton drew on his own service to craft the picture and sees it as an important corrective. “For most of our country’s history, we were forced to be silent, to suffer in silence,” Bratton told Variety.

The major studio romcom is back with a flourish, but it took Billy Eichner and Nicholas Stoller to prove the format still works, even if this time it is two gay men who are the ones who  find love against all odds.

TORONTO – Contrary to popular belief, there have been more gay romantic comedy movies than you might think. Many of them were released independently and a few even by the mini-majors (Searchlight, Focus Features, Sony Classics, etc).

Billy Eichner’s “Bros” just make history at the Toronto International Film Festival? It certainly felt like it. The Universal movie is breaking all kinds of barriers: It’s the first gay rom-com ever made by a major studio, the first with an all openly LGBTQ cast and Eichner is the first openly gay man to ever write and star in a studio movie. Audiences finally got to see the movie for themselves in Toronto on Friday night and, judging by the shrieks of laughter throughout the screening, it was a hit. “I want to thank TIFF for letting a comedy into a movie festival!” Eichner yelled into the audience before the film rolled, making a valid point about the dearth of studio comedies that world premiere at top international film festivals.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic If you’re a fan of “The Trip” and its sequels, those semi-improvised road comedies in which Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play slightly exaggerated versions of their real-life selves, you’ll know that they’re about more than just two men driving through the European countryside, eating fabulous food, trying to top each other with their Al Pacino impersonations. Coogan, in particular, comes off as a fellow who, for all his larkish narcissism, is so steeped in history that it’s literally alive for him. And that’s the feeling that courses through “The Lost King,” the new movie written by Coogan and Jeff Pope and directed by Stephen Frears. They’re the team that gave us “Philomena” (2013), the sharp-tongued heart-tugger that cast Judi Dench as a real-life Irishwoman tracking down the son she’d been forced to give up for adoption 50 years before. That movie was fine (a tad too sentimental in my book), but “The Lost King” is a growth ring, a richer, stronger, and more moving piece of work, a historical detective story that carries the kick of a true-life “Da Vinci Code.”

Deadline launched Day 1 of its photo studio at the Toronto Film Festival, as cast members of TIFF-premiering films stopped by including Nicolas Cage, from Butcher’s Crossing; Luke Macfarlane and Billy Eichner from Bros; Gabrielle Union and Jeremy Pope from The Inspection; and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery.