‘Cusp’: A Beautiful And Bruised Teenage Summer Fling [Sundance Review]

Ant and Dec's Saturday Night's Takeaway has been entertaining Brits across the nation for an incredible twenty years.Giving audience members the chance to win prizes from advertisements, presenters Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly ensure they keep fans entertained along the way with their incredible skits and joyful humour.But although the light-hearted entertainment show runs fairly smoothly most weeks, there have been incidents where viewers have been forced to complain to Ofcom.And due to the fact that the show is considered to be family entertainment, occasionally things can get slightly out of hand.With the brand new series kicking off on ITV tonight (Saturday 19), Daily Star has taken a look at the show's most complained about Ofcom moments.The Pussycat Dolls are often known to turn up the heat with their performances, but in 2020, fans thought things were getting a little too hot for primetime TV.Lead by Nicole Scherzinger, the five ladies strutted their stuff in rather scantily clad attire which left little to viewers' imaginations while on stage.Singing a melody of their hit songs the women performed a steamy routine and presenters Ant and Dec also got in on the action by interrupting the gig and stripping off some of their own clothes.Trying their best to offer their clothes to the ladies, the presenters jokingly told them to "tone down" on their steamy act.Poking fun at their previous performance on The X Factor which received 802 complaints for their overly sexualised content, the ladies refused Ant and Dec's proposition. Although it was hilarious, some viewers felt it was a bit too much and complained online.

Mark Labbett roasted Bradley Walsh on Saturday night's episode of The Chase when he dubbed Brad and a contestant "Dev and Div".It was a coveted celebrity version of the popular gameshow, which saw the team against the chaser comprise of: Jacqui Oatley, Dev Griffin, Fallon Sherrock and Johnny Vegas.The celebs were up against chaser Mark 'the Beast' Labbett, who put on a tough show for the contestants.After Jacqui Oatley made it back to home with £1,000 and then Dev Griffin was up next to take on the chaser. The radio star secured a solid £5,000 in the cash-builder round before Bradley introduced Mark.Taking to his seat after the music played, Mark then introduced himself to who he was up against and said: "I think you two could form a double act – Dev and Div."The audience roared with laughter after The Beast made the hilarious jibe at Bradley Walsh, dubbing him a "div".Mark then offered Dev a huge £50,000 as the top offer, which Dev couldn't resist – explaining that he's got his "whole life ahead of him" so why not.

Sadio Mane made a special request to Liverpool after returning from the African Cup of Nations.Mane and Senegal prevailed when they went head-to-head with Salah’s Egypt in the AFCON final earlier this month.The club team-mates also meet again next month in a crucial World Cup qualifying playoff.So you could be forgiven for thinking that tensions between the two players are high, especially in light of a couple of on field spats.However Canal Football Club has reported that Mane asked Liverpool not to make any reference of his or Senegal’s AFCON triumph in Liverpool's first home game since the final as they welcomed Norwich to Anfield.Mane made the request out of respect to his team-mate Salah, who is still hurting after Egypt’s defeat.The final itself was a drab affair, but it was brought to life by the rivalry between the Liverpool duo.Mane dramatically scored the decisive penalty in the shoot out - after missing a spot kick in normal time - to clinch Senegal’s first ever AFCON title.The Senegalese hitman’s winning penalty also denied Salah the opportunity to take one, as he was due to take Egypt’s fifth spot kick.Can Mo Salah and Sadio Mane fire Liverpool to Premier League glory this season? Let us know in the comments section.Want to be on the ball with all of the latest football news?Well then sign up for the brilliant Daily Star football email newsletter!From the latest transfer news to the agenda-setting stories, get it all in your email inbox - don't miss a thing.It only takes a matter of seconds.Simply type your email address into the box at the top of this article and hit 'subscribe'.And that's it, job done.

Chelsea fans want "virus" Romelu Lukaku sold after he produced a shockingly bad performance against Crystal Palace.Thomas Tuchel's side were 1-0 winners in the Premier League clash but the result was in no part thanks to Lukaku, who had just two touches of the ball in the first-half.And one of them came from kick-off.The striker finished the game with a total of seven touches, while he was twice flagged offside and also committed two fouls throughout the 90 minutes.Having already rubbed the club's fanbase up the wrong way with his bombshell interview earlier this season, his latest outing was the final straw for many Blues supporters.One tweeted: "Lukaku should be sold tbh . Cut our losses."Another claimed: "Literally everyone has become worse thanks to Lukaku.

Bolton Wanderers returned to winning ways with a 4-0 victory over AFC Wimbledon to keep their play-off hopes in League One alive.

Rob Kardashian is ending his years-long legal battle with ex-fiancé Blac Chyna.

Liverpool fans have already taken a shine to their new January signing Luis Diaz, and the Colombian winger was given his own chant on Saturday.Diaz has impressed since he made the switch from Porto last month, and Jurgen Klopp handed him a start against the Canaries.The Reds survived a scare after Milan Rashica broke the deadline for Norwich just inside the second half.But Klopp's side fired back quickly with goals through Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah, and then Diaz.And after getting off the mark for his new side, Diaz was serenaded by the Kop with his own song.However, the song awarded to the Reds' new star has been heard at Anfield before.The Kop reworked their old Luis Suarez chant, only changing the Suarez for Diaz."What a bright player we have in our hands. And that chant though for Diaz," one fan tweeted.Another added: "Anfield singing the Luis Suarez chant for Luis Diaz against Norwich.

Amir Khan once denied romping with glamour model Katie Price and admitted he was scared her ex-husband Alex Reid could “kill” him.The boxer, 35, is happily married to Faryal Makhdoom and a dad to two daughters, but was an avid party goer in his early days as a rising boxing star.Rumours emerged in 2011 after the Bolton boxer was spotted giggling and chatting to Price at a pre-Oscars bash atop West Hollywood’s London Hotel, shortly after her split from former Bellator fighter Reid.But Khan, a former unified light-welterweight world champion, played down the rumours by revealing he was too scared to "do anything" as he actually feared Reid.He told The Mirror in 2011: “I don’t know why people are saying we’re together because it is absolute, total b*******.“We’ve never been anything more than friends and we will never be - I am actually dead good mates with Alex.“He’s an MMA fighter and we’ve talked about training together and we are mates so I would never do anything to mess with that.

Strictly Come Dancing star John Whaite has undergone his second dramatic makeover in a matter of days after instantly regretting perming his hair.John, 32, took to his Instagram page to share an update with his fans after they saw him despairing over his decision to opt for a super curly blonde highlighted do.The devastated star hated his new look so much he has now shaved his locks down to an extremely short crop to get rid of the look.The celebrity chef debuted his updated appearance on his stories as he admitted feeling "much better" having got the chop.John previously showed off his styling disaster when he opted for the curly look on Thursday (February 17).He lay on his bed as he chatted to his followers and asked their opinion on his change of style.In the clip on his story, he said: “OK, guys. You know that I said I was doing fine after Strictly, no problems?“That might not be strictly true because I’ve done something and I think I regret it.”The Great British Bake Off winner continued: “So, I wanted a perm and I got one today.“And the colour’s wrong because it was brown and then I had to… Brown with highlights to it’s obviously a bit ginger at the minute anyway… And now I’ve got a very tight, very ginger perm.“I mean, once I’ve styled and relaxed it a little bit it might be a bit better, but should I shave it?“Is it time to shave the hair off and just accept that I don’t have curly hair? What do you think? Let me know.”John then saw the funny side as he posted a follow-up video pretending to be emotional.

Danniella Westbrook has spoken out about her upcoming surgeries as she gears up to complete her journey to rebuild her face.The four-part journey will consist of reconstructive surgery will see Danniella spend time in hospital on multiple occasions, which she has said so far hasn't taken a toll on her. Speaking to OK! Magazine, Danniella confessed that the ops are "very hard", but the first two didn't take a heavy toll on her.

The desperate last message a dad sent before dying alongside his family in suffocating temperatures has been revealed - but tragically it never went through.

her directing debut, however, is its soulfulness. Her character, Edee, isn’t some spoiled brat stranded in the woods like Tea Leoni in “Six Days Seven Nights”; she is a traumatized woman trying to rebuild her life from the ground up.Edee’s reality has been shattered by a family tragedy, so she packs up the car and leaves the city behind for a cabin deep in the Wyoming wilderness far removed from civilization.

Get Out” in 2017, and he hasn’t let up since. His performances in “Black Panther” and “Queen & Slim” were every bit as forceful as his horror hit, but he’s topped them all with this one.

Fran Kranz’s “Mass” is likely one of the most emotionally pulverizing films ever made about America’s gun-violence epidemic – but across its 110-minute runtime, not a single shot is fired. READ MORE: ‘Mass’: An Impressively Depressing Four-Way Powerhouse, Until the Walls Close In [Sundance] Instead, this intimate chamber piece centers on the parents of two teenagers involved in a school shooting, who come to the table six years later in hopes of finding a way forward from the unfathomable tragedy that’s ripped their lives apart.

Take the nomad out of “Nomadland,” and you’re left with “Land,” Robin Wright‘s feature-directing debut (she previously directed 10 episodes of “House of Cards“), in which she also stars, as a grieving woman who, somewhat ironically given the film bows in the era of mandatory isolation, moves way up into the mountains “to get away from people.” Problem is, take the nomadic element out of “Nomadland” (she moves only once and has done with it) and you’re also left with a less interesting, much more obvious movie, in which not only are we not introduced to a radically different way of living, we’re ultimately confirmed in our safest and most simplistic assumptions about how we live right now.

I did), you will see genius (I did), but you generally won’t see the highly anticipated mega hits found in Toronto, where “Joker” and “Hustlers” premiered. At Sundance, you’re just as likely to encounter “Call Me by Your Name,” a rapturous love story, as you are “Swiss Army Man,” a little-known flick in which Daniel Radcliffe pals around with a farting corpse.

A sun-flared and bong-addled tumble into a teenage Texan summer rife with bombshells and boyfriend problems, “Cusp,” from debut directors Parker Hill and Isabel Bethencourt is one of those fractal-style documentaries, in which any given sliver contains all the colors and contours of the whole. The opening is a case in point: Long-haired girls lounge on a swing in the park, scoffing, wriggling, idly shooting the shit – it could be any year from any of the last five or six decades, except for the phones they glance at every now and then.

It’s remarkably rare that anyone makes a hand-drawn animated feature for adults, let alone one as strikingly surreal and seriously minded as Dash Shaw’s “Cryptozoo.” READ MORE: 25 Most Anticipated 2021 Sundance Film Festival Premieres This Sundance premiere – honored with the fest’s Innovator Award in its NEXT section for “pure, bold works distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling” – takes place in an alt-history 1960s secretly populated by “cryptids,” including fantastic beasts like the Kraken, the Loch Ness monster, and Sasquatch.

Irene (Tessa Thompson) rarely passes for white. She fears for her safety too much to do so.

Female trauma’s been given a serious workout in cinema, liberally exercised in the fantasy genre of late. The celebrated “Promising Young Woman,” while dark satire, uses hot pink revenge fantasy to acerbically explore unresolved trauma (its we live in a society bias nicely unpacked here), and fellow Sundance film, “The Blazing World,” attempts to fall down the rabbit hole of make-believe and similar flight-or-flight responses to emotional scars, only to grotesquely exploit it with its awkward tumble.

What does dismantling the American carceral state look like? How can meaningful and radical police reform actually be enacted? After years of tireless work by activists, acting upon decades of injustice against the poor and People of Color, these issues of now part of mainstream political platforms. On a federal level, President Joe Biden’s recent executive order to phase out the use of private, for-profit prisons is a clear indication of how far things have come….and how much further they need to go.