Longlegs director Osgood Perkins takes us on a dark journey to the woods in a creepy and visually inventive nightmare with a killer lead performance
For the past few years, horror cinema has sometimes felt as fraught with toxic romance as a particularly cursed dating app. From manipulated meet-cutes (Fresh; Companion) to long-term codependence (Together) to the occasional success story (Heart Eyes), it’s clear that romantic relationships are mostly blood-stained hell, and a couple going to a secluded location together is a fresh level of it.
So it’s not surprising when Liz (Tatiana Maslany) starts to feel uneasy on her weekend away with Malcolm (Rossif Sutherland) early on in the new and much-concealed horror movie Keeper. Liz and Malcolm have been together for about a year, which we gather early on has marked the time Liz has bolted from past relationships. Still, she seems optimistic about this one. She thinks she knows Malcolm pretty well, and their early scenes together are neither as dotted with red flags nor as suspiciously idyllic as other recent characters in the doomed-couple genre. Liz has a wary, deadpan sense of humor, and Malcolm has a slightly slurred-together accent as he explains some oddities about his family-owned cabin in the woods (like the fact that he has a creepy cousin who lives nearby). But their awkwardness levels are complementary. They seem comfortable together.
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It’s a difficult second album for the chart-topping singer, in more ways than one – but her sombre songcraft ends up being spectacular
In theory, the making of Celeste’s second album should have been plain sailing. Boosted by a win in the BBC Sound of 2020 poll, and her single A Little Love appearing on the John Lewis Christmas ad the same year, her debut album Not Your Muse entered the charts at No 1, spawned two big hits – Stop This Flame and Strange – and ultimately went gold. That’s the perfect starting place from which to make a second album: success, acclaim and attention, but not on the kind of overwhelming scale that seems ultimately paralysing, where it’s impossible to work out how you can follow it up.
And yet, the making of Woman of Faces has clearly been attended by some difficulty. Celeste has talked openly about butting heads with its producer, Jeff Bhasker, whose hugely impressive CV includes work with Harry Styles, Taylor Swift and Kanye West: she commissioned string arrangements from British composer and conductor Robert Ames, but Bhasker “didn’t let me use [them]”. Last month, she was on Instagram, protesting that her label was showing “very little support of the album I have made” and had threatened to drop her entirely if she “didn’t put two particular songs” on its track list. This accusation caused a certain degree of eyebrow-raising, not least because Celeste is signed to the same label that singer Raye complained about in 2021, insisting they had refused to allow her to release a debut album: Raye subsequently left the label, released the album herself to vast success and noted that record companies might be better served allowing artists to “always create with a sense of purpose, rather than the means to sell”.
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© Photograph: Erika Kamano
© Photograph: Erika Kamano
Cyril Hanouna était aux commandes d'un nouveau numéro de Tout beau, tout neuf sur W9 ce mercredi 12 novembre 2025. Au cours de l'émission, l'animateur a appelé Christine Bravo. Celle-ci a dévoilé pourquoi elle est fâchée contre Matthieu Delormeau.
Billionaire populist Andrej Babiš insists he will meet legal obligations before taking office but does not explain how
Andrej Babiš, the self-proclaimed “Trumpist” billionaire who won last month’s Czech election, has refused to sell his huge business empire, but insisted he will resolve a conflict of interest that threatens to bar him from becoming prime minister.
Babiš, whose ANO party finished a comfortable first in the October vote but failed to secure a majority in parliament, said in a social media post on Thursday he would not sell his Agrofert farming, food processing and chemicals conglomerate.
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Le Black Friday arrive à grands pas, et Cdiscount prend une longueur d’avance avec une sélection de promos qui s’annoncent particulièrement explosives — surtout pour les amateurs de cuisine maison et de performance. Cette année, une marque se distingue clairement : Ninja. Réputée pour ses appareils robustes, polyvalents et innovants, Ninja s’invite dans les cuisines françaises en promettant gain de temps, qualité professionnelle et plaisir culinaire.
Le Black Friday arrive à grands pas, et Cdiscount prend une longueur d’avance avec une sélection de promos qui s’annoncent particulièrement explosives — surtout pour les amateurs de cuisine maison et de performance. Cette année, une marque se distingue clairement : Ninja. Réputée pour ses appareils robustes, polyvalents et innovants, Ninja s’invite dans les cuisines françaises en promettant gain de temps, qualité professionnelle et plaisir culinaire.
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