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Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticCANNES — The awards show for the 75th anniversary Cannes Film Festival is underway, bringing 12 days of competition between 21 international features to a close. “Benedetta” star Virginie Efira is hosting, while several directors can be spotted in the audience waiting to receive their awards, including Claire Denis (“Stars at Noon”), Park Chan-wook (“Decision to Leave”) and Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (“Tori & Lokita”).Guillaume Canet presented best actress honors to Zar Amir-Ebrahimi, who plays the reporter who risks her own life to catch a serial killer in “Holy Spider.” The tense true-crime thriller exposes the crimes and aftermath of a man who targeted prostitutes, and that portion of society which accepted his religious justifications he claimed for cleaning the streets.

The 75th Cannes Film Festival is coming to a close. The two-week festival saw some of the biggest stars and most anticipated films of the year come together to celebrate cinema.

Late actor Ray Liotta's devastated fiancée, Jacy Nittolo, has taken to social media to pen a tribute to him.The Goodfellas actor died in his sleep at 67 while in the Dominican Republic shooting the film Dangerous Waters. His rep confirmed the actor’s death to the Hollywood Reporter. The actor was father to daughter Karsen, and engaged to marry fiancée Jacy Nittolo.

A man has tragically died in a house fire in Aberdeenshire, police have confirmed.

Amanda Bynes has a new hair color!

Netflix has exclusive comedy specials with big stars like Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais, but the streaming service has faced backlash for working with them due to transphobic jokes included in the specials.

A campaigner is calling on Renfrewshire Council to help stop children taking up smoking.

Kelly Osbourne is celebrating a major milestone.

star Dominic Fike drew a chorus of boos at his own concert after he brought up disturbing comments centered around Amber Heard.The 26-year-old musician was performing at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois when, out of nowhere, he stopped mid-concert and brought up the actress.In video that has since gone viral, Fike can be seen and heard saying, «Yo, so I'm just gonna come straight out and say it. I'ma come out and say it.

Refresh for latest…: The 75th Cannes Film Festival draws to a close tonight as the main awards, including the Palme d’Or, are soon to be handed out in the Palais. Scroll down for the list of winners which is being updated as prizes are announced.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLola Quivoron wowed critics and audiences at Cannes with her bold first film “Rodeo” which picked up the Coup de Coeur prize at the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section.Following the world premiere of “Rodeo,” Quiveron started being courted by a flurry of U.S. agents while Les Films du Losange, which is selling her movie, is fielding several offers from top North American buyers.Produced by Charles Gillibert (“Annette”) at CG Cinema, “Rodeo” follows a hot tempered and fiercely independent young woman who infiltrates an underground dirt bike community in France.

J. Kim Murphy Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has offered further defense for the streamer’s curation of stand-up comedy specials from Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle, both of which have been criticized for including language that is considered transphobic.In an interview with Maureen Dowd at The New York Times, Sarandos reaffirmed his stance on airing the specials, saying that the way comedians figure out where the line is is by “crossing the line every once in a while.”“I think it’s very important to the American culture generally to have free expression, Sarandos told the Times.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentAs genre makes much of the running in sales at this year’s Cannes Film Market, Filmax, traditionally one of its biggest vendors, has swooped on “32 Gats,” the next feature from Hèctor Hernandez Vicens who broke out with the 2015 SXSW premiere, “The Corpse of Anna Fritz.”Filmax will handle distribution in Spain as well as sell international rights.Produced by Carles Torras at Zabriskie Films, ”32 Gats,” writer-director Hernández Vicens’ fourth feature, turns on a couple, Ana, 36, and Salva, 49, who move into a house in the country where there’s space for the 32 cats that Ana has adopted in the last years.Ana is two-months pregnant. The couple begins to rehabilitate the house for the baby’s birth, but Ana begins to sense a presence in the house, and she isn’t the only one, it seems.

A diet of rice and tofu, plenty of regular, gentle exercise and excellent hospitals: the Japanese have nailed the formula for getting old prolifically. With a little less than 30% of the population over 65, Japanese society is now officially termed as “super-aged.” Meanwhile, thanks to a low birth rate and an ingrained opposition to immigration, the total number of people is falling dramatically. Each year, there are fewer younger people to look after more older ones. It’s a slow-burn economic crisis.

The outpouring of grief over the sudden death of actor Ray Liotta was joined today by his fiancée, Jacy Nittolo. She broke her silence on an Instagram post, calling the late actor the most beautiful person inside and out that I’ve ever known.”

Amanda Holden has revealed that, even now, iconic pop star Kylie Minogue remains one of her best friends.The Britain’s Got Talent judge and Heart FM radio presenter spoke about how close their friendship is, calling Kylie her “best friend.”When Amanda starred in Neighbours earlier on this year, she revealed her best friend Kylie called her to check she was okay and offer support. Amanda said: “Kylie rang me while I was on set to say ‘hi, what’s it like! How is it going?” she told The Mirror.She said: “We call each other BFF’s.”Amanda, 51, who originates from Portsmouth, has been on television since 1991, and is well known for her appearance on safari drama Wild at Heart.

pageants... and tractor pulling.The 21-year-old has had plenty of people tell her she should only do “feminine” things, but refuses to let them stop her.She said: “There is an old-fashioned mindset that you can’t do modelling and motorsport.“What surprises me is often it’s other women who say to me, ‘You can’t do stuff like that if you’ve got acrylic nails on’.“Some people ask me who drives the tractor – when I say me, they’re surprised.”Ellie has had success in both worlds.Since first competing in motorsport tractor pulling aged eight, she has won two British championships.In two years of entering beauty pageants, she’s won four titles and been a finalist at Miss England.She said: “In tractor pulling it is about skill.

Charles Leclerc should be handed a 'drastic' punishment after the Ferrari driver missed the FIA weighbridge during qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix.In his home Grand Prix, Leclerc secured pole position for the second year in a row following a chaotic qualifying that ended prematurely after three cars crashed in the final minute of the session.Sergio Perez lost control of his Red Bull in the final corner before the tunnel section in Monaco, with Ferrari's Carlos Sainz then hitting him while he was stationary - and Alpine's Fernando Alonso hit the barrier elsewhere on the circuit.While Leclerc has predominantly been the fastest across the weekend, it wasn't a day without incident for the championship hopeful as he missed a message ordering him to attend the FIA weighbridge during Q2 and had to be pushed back by his Ferrari team.Leclerc would have been handed a significant punishment had he made his way to the Ferrari garage, with previous infringements seeing drivers start the race in the pit lane, but he escaped such punishment after the quick action from his team.However, Marko believes that shouldn't have been the case and that Leclerc should have been issued a 'drastic' punishment when speaking to Austrian outlet ORF, saying: "If you punish this consistently, as you do in the junior classes, then there will be a drastic penalty."He drove by. They didn't change the car, but according to the regulations, it should be a penalty.

Amid Cheryl Burke’s ongoing divorce from estranged husband Matthew Lawrence, Us Weekly can confirm she requested the proceedings go to trial.

Adam Sandler is known for playing a few beloved on-screen characters, but he proved to be just as charming off set and kept calm after a vehicle crash in Los Angeles May 22. The 55-year-old actor appeared to be involved in a minor fender bender while driving on San Vicente Boulevard in the affluent Brentwood area of Southern California. While most drivers exchange insurance and registration information after a crash, Sandler posed for a few selfies with the other driver involved.

When the ambitious and much-anticipated Viking epic “The Northman” came out earlier this year, director Robert Eggers seemed poised to be the talk of cinema’s discourse. While there were terrific reviews (including ours) in various interviews, Eggers seemed disappointed, expressing concern about his final cut of the film and the shelving of several of his ideas for future projects.