Asa Butterfield, Peter Strickland Talk Berlinale Selection ‘Flux Gourmet’

REALITY TV star Traci Braxton has died at the age of 50. The Braxton Family Values star and singer passed away after having lost a year-long battle with cancer, according to various reports.

Halyna Hutchins’ estate is calling out Alec Baldwin’s “shameful” attempt at deflecting any responsibility for the killing of the cinematographer on the set of Rust.

An Ayrshire husband and wife team snapped up the coveted 'wedding videographer of the year' title at this year's Scottish Wedding Awards.

J. Kim Murphy With no major new wide releases for the weekend, Warner Bros.’ “The Batman” has an easy path to repeating its top performance at the domestic box office.

DMX's fiancée is revealing that their 5-year-old son, Exodus, is battling stage 3 kidney disease, but thankfully he is «stable.»Desiree Lindstrom made the revelation during an interview on the podcast during National Kidney Month. She added that Exodus goes to the doctor «very often» because of the diagnosis and the family works hard to keep his potassium down because «you can't eat high potassium foods» with the disease.«I make sure that his creatine levels are at the levels he needs to be to keep him stable,» Lindstrom added.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor“Power of the Dog” star Jesse Plemons is speaking out about Sam Elliott’s recent rant against Jane Campion’s award-winning Netflix film.“I laughed when I heard. I don’t know why,” Plemons told me at premiere of his new Charlie McDowell-directed thriller “Windfall” on Friday night at the London West Hollywood hotel. ”I haven’t listened to it so I’ve heard it from what people have told me.

The seductive spy thriller Killing Eve is back with its fourth and final series.

You could be fined up to £100 for parking near your home at night.

Strictly Come Dancing professional dancers have allegedly been told to condemn Russia and Vladimir Putin, or 'never come back' to the BBC show.

Frankie Bridge has told of how a school trip left her with anxiety throughout her childhood.

Police are hunting a gang of crooks following a terrifying armed raid on a a convenience store in Heywood.

Warner Bros.’ The Batman, as expected, is leading the weekend box office in what is expected to be a three-frame No. 1 streak with a very healthy hold of 51% and $66M on its way to $238.5M by Sunday. Already the Matt Reeves directed movie is over $400M WW.  Yesterday clocked $18.7M, -47% from last Friday (-67% if you compare against pic’s first Friday+previews).

Traci Braxton, the sister of singers Toni and Tamar Braxton, died on Friday at age 50.The singer and reality star had been in a quiet cancer battle throughout the past year, TMZreports.She was reportedly joined by her sisters and her mother in her final moments. Saying goodbye: Traci Braxton, the sister of singers Toni and Tamar Braxton, died on Friday at age 50; seen in 2019 in Los AngelesBraxton had been joined by her famous sisters on Braxton Family Values, which she appeared on for its full run from 2011 to 2020.Last year, Toni had announced that the show would return for an additional season after moving from its original network We TV to a new channel, but those plans fizzled out last month, with Traci's sister Towanda Braxton confirm that the show was done for good last month.

Heidi Klum, 48, recently turned heads when she was photographed in an eye-catching stylish fashion choice while on her way to the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The model was joined by her husband Tom Kaulitz, 32, as she walked out of the 50th Street subway station in the Big Apple while wearing a dark purple velvet jacket over a black top, patched flared out jeans, and leopard print ankle boots. She also added a long gray velvet scarf with a floral pattern to her outfit and carried a red purse across her shoulder.

supports HTML5 videoActors Tom Hanks and Connor Ratliff have a very…unique history.Over 20 years ago, at age 24, Connor auditioned for the miniseries Band Of Brothers, which was directed by Tom – who rejected him for the role on the basis that he had ‘dead eyes’.Two decades on, Connor, now 46, has told the story many times and even has his own podcast titled Dead Eyes – the most recent guest being none other than Tom.Yep, the pair finally hashed out the ‘dead eyes’ situation, with Tom saying he doesn’t remember it happening but nonetheless apologising.‘Let me take full responsibility for doing this to you,’ Tom, 65, said on the podcast. ‘This was without a doubt the act of the director, and that was me.‘There was something stuck in a craw or one of those very, very subtle sort of decisions that aims the story in the direction you want it to go.’‘In the inner sanctum of whatever this casting session was on Band of Brothers… I’m sure I said, “I don’t know man, that guy’s got dead eyes,”‘ he continued.‘I could’ve said, “He’s got too blond of hair; he’s too tall and I can’t have the aide be taller than Captain Winters.” I could’ve said, “He’s too short and slight … I could’ve said any of these things, and they would have been true and they would’ve been the opinion.’Tom also recalled being ‘aghast’ when he was told about the podcast’s origin, but it seems the pair have well and truly buried the hatchet.

Outré horror maestro Peter Strickland is back. The filmmaker behind such Eurotica, vintage, throwback classics such as “Berberian Sound Studio” (2012), “The Duke of Burgundy” (2014), and “In Fabric” (2018), returns to the Berlin Film Festival this week (today, in fact), with his latest deliciously bizarro offering, “Flux Gourmet.” The premise? Something like beef within the culinary/sonic art collective world and a whole set of egos and intestinal issues.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticEvery so often, a movie comes along that sends culinarily inclined audiences into rapture — “Babette’s Feast,” “Big Night” or “Like Water for Chocolate” spring to mind — getting eyes glistening and mouths watering in anticipation of a meal that only the characters will ever taste. “Flux Gourmet” is not that foodie movie.

The adage “write what you know” works well for writer-director Peter Strickland with his Berlin Film Festival Encounters feature Flux Gourmet. The former member of The Sonic Catering Band makes rich work of a fictional culinary performance collective, while also tackling taboos in the depiction of stomach problems on screen.

Just as the Tiktok-ers and Instagrammites of the world had completed the mainstreaming of ASMR, master of the tactile Peter Strickland has returned to restore the unsettling, alien quality to sensation. In “Flux Gourmet,” his latest and most bizarre film — a hotly contested title he earns with this feverish stew of murdered turtles, torrid orgies, and heartrending fart-tending — texture is everything.

Outré horror maestro Peter Strickland is back. The filmmaker behind such Eurotica, vintage, throwback classics such as “Berberian Sound Studio” (2012), “The Duke of Burgundy” (2014), and “In Fabric” (2018), returns to the Berlin Film Festival this week (today, in fact), with his latest deliciously bizarro offering, “Flux Gourmet.” The premise? Something like beef within the culinary/sonic art collective world and a whole set of egos and intestinal issues.

SEX Education star Asa Butterfield looks unrecognisable in a first look at the new film Flux Gourmet. The actor - who plays Otis Milburn in the popular Netflix series - has landed a new role in the upcoming feature film directed by Peter Strickland.