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12 12 12 review – Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan’s super fun heist hunt

From the moment a contortionist crawls out of a bank vault, the 12-hour hunt for the culprits is a thrilling ride. Just suspend your disbelief a bit and strap in for a fantastic time A contortionist crawls out of a safety deposit box in the wall of an underground Swiss bank vault, legs wrapped around his waist, feet resting on his lumbar spine, landing on hands and displaced knees on the tiled floor. You know what? SOLD. You have just earned my undivided attention for the next hour of whatever you want to present to me. Under such highly promising circumstances does the new heist thriller 12 1

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Business

‘Women are pitted against each other. It’s a blood sport’: Billie Piper on industry infighting, Elsinore’s Oscar buzz and thriving on personal crisis

The teen pop star turned Olivier-winning actor stars as Andrew Scott’s best friend in the acclaimed Ian Charleson biopic. She talks kindred spirits, social media and trying to channel a ‘mad storm of grief’ The late Billie Whitelaw, whom Samuel Beckett considered “a perfect actress”, was on stage in the middle of rehearsals one day when she asked the playwright: “Where should I be looking?” To which Beckett replied: “Inwards.” Hearing this story, another Billie – the teen pop star turned Doctor Who companion and Olivier award-winning powerhouse Billie Piper – lets out a laugh so raucous and ex

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Entertainment

Cunk on Cinema review – Diane Morgan baffles Hollywood with some of the stupidest jokes ever told

This sensationally idiotic guide to film history is hilarious. From a crude Mary Poppins gag to confusing the hell out of Michael Bay, I could listen to Cunk’s surreal tosh all day In a world of slow-burn, jargon-littered dramas, there’s something to be said for the TV programme that sets out its stall within the first 12 seconds. Cunk on Cinema is one such programme. The latest series from Diane Morgan’s sensationally idiotic documentarian is a three-part history of film that begins with our host reeling off some of humanity’s greatest achievements in her deadpan Bolton tones. Specifically, “

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Finance

Jensen Huang built an AI kingdom. Now he’s gone, will Nvidia’s ramparts be breached?

CEO’s affair and resignation has brought company’s murky corporate contracts and supply chains into sharp focus Can the AI economy survive without its “central bank”? What does Jensen Huang’s fall mean for the world’s second-most valuable company, and what might a tremor in its fortunes mean for the world? Nvidia’s sky-high valuation is based on the fact that it designs and sells the advanced AI chips, called graphics processing units (GPUs), that underpin the AI economy. Without these, AI models such as ChatGPT and Claude could not be trained and would not run. Continue reading...

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Duran Duran drummer Roger Taylor leaves band due to tinnitus

‘I must now listen to my body and my doctors’, says Taylor, who was one of the earliest members of the new wave hit-makers The drummer for Duran Duran, Roger Taylor, is to step down from the band due to worsening tinnitus. In a statement, Taylor said: “This is one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make. Playing drums in this band has been the joy of my life, and I’ll never be able to properly thank the fans for the love they’ve shown us over the years. But the truth is that my tinnitus has been getting steadily worse, and I’ve reached the point where I must now listen to my body and my

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Business

Ebenezer review – Johnny Depp’s Scrooge tries to exorcise ghosts of business past

The latest film version of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol is decent enough, though its star is rather better as the legendary miser before redemption arrives Here for lovers of Dickens – and fans of subtext – is an unexpectedly watchable new movie version of A Christmas Carol starring a top-hatted and heavily madeup Johnny Depp; it is a film about whether it’s possible for a man to earn redemption before it is too late. (The answer is … sure, as long as you say sorry and change your ways. But Mr Scrooge never launched a libel action against the Sun for calling him an un-Christmassy old

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Military

‘Goats are good. They listen’: the herder who defeated Montenegro’s military – and can identify her cows’ herby burps

To Hold a Mountain tells the incredible story of a woman whose way of life was threatened when she heard her pastures were set to become a Nato training zone The star of To Hold a Mountain is having trouble with her goats, which keep escaping. So my interview with Mileva “Gara” Jovanović is rescheduled to a moment where the animals are under control and Gara can descend from the peaks to her small winter residence in a small village near the capital of Podgorica, for a video call. “You have to take care of them because they are always searching for their paths,” says Gara, whose Montenegrin is

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