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DAVIDO HOSTS LIV ON SUNDAY, THE BIGGEST CLUB PARTY IN THE WORLD!

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Sunday, March 24th will be a MOVIE in MIAMI.  For the first time ever, the biggest and best club in the world, “LIV ON SUNDAY” announces a special Spring Break ‘19 Edition with international superstar, @Davidoofficial!<br />
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If your in Miami this is definitely an event you cannot miss.  Early arrival arrival is highly suggested for this event.<br />
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DAVIDO HOSTS LIV ON SUNDAY, THE BIGGEST CLUB PARTY IN THE WORLD!

Breaking News!!! Sunday, March 24th will be a MOVIE in MIAMI. For the first time ever, the biggest and best club in the world, “LIV ON SU...

Call of Duty Infinite Warfare Zombies reveal set following Black Ops 3 DLC launch

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THE CALL of Duty: Infinite Warfare Zombies reveal has been set following the launch of the latest Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 DLC on Xbox One and PC.</h2>
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<strong>Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Zombies will get a big reveal next week, that according to a new teaser drop by developers Infinity Ward on Twitter.</strong></div>
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Posting a gif of a film reel case with a timer on it, it looks likely that the big reveal will occur on Tuesday, August 16.</div>
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It also came with a caption, reading: “It’s almost time for the big premiere! Grab the popcorn and get ready to scream.”</div>
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It puts it bang on target for Gamescom in Cologne and will also mean it’ll be going head-to-head with all the other huge FPS titles launching later in 2016.</div>
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Both Battlefield 1 and Titanfall 2 have events planned for the same day, meaning fans might have to choose between which broadcast or trailer to watch.</div>
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A new Destiny: Rise of Iron reveal is also set for around that time, and underscores a busy Autumn period, starting with the September release from Bungie.</div>
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The first teaser dropped by Infinity Ward in regards to the new zombies mode made a reference to “19-ATVI--85," almost certainly clue at what era and style it will include.</div>
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<strong>It follows the recent release of the Descent Black Ops 3 DLC for Xbox One and PC.</strong></div>
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Decent includes four new multiplayer maps and the latest Black Ops 3 Zombies chapter, Gorod Krovi, which takes players to an alternate-timeline of Stalingrad in which they must face-off against a swarm of mechanised zombie soldiers and avoid hell-fire from aerial dragon assaults.</div>
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<strong>Empire</strong>: Fan favourite map Raid returns, re-imagined in this classic, medium-sized map as an authentic Roman villa, where a classic map structure mixes with the new gameplay mechanics of Black Ops III.</div>
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<strong>Berserk:</strong> A Viking village frozen in time enlists players to fight through blizzards, for control of the centre bridge. This medium-sized map features wooden buildings, deadly rocky outcroppings and tight chokepoints.</div>
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<strong>Cryogen</strong>: Located far in the Dead Sea, this isolated compound holds some of the world’s most dangerous criminals in frozen isolation.  Sentry towers keep watch over the small map’s circular design as frenetic combat and wall running attacks abound.   </div>
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<strong>Rumble:</strong> Gamers battle amongst larger-than-life mechanised warriors in this medium-sized map, which funnels high-speed combat to the central arena, where players battle their way through fallen mechs and pyrotechnics. </div>
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Call of Duty Infinite Warfare Zombies reveal set following Black Ops 3 DLC launch

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Facebook has secret game hidden on its website, and this is how to find it

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FACEBOOK users can play against one another in the ultimate game of online chess by using this simple code in the Facebook Messenger window.</h3>
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Facebook Messenger recently announced it has over 800 million users, but many of its avid fans probably don't know about a game secretly hidden inside.</div>
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The classic game of chess can be played by sharing the simple message "@fbchess play" with any of your contacts.</div>
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As soon the message is sent a basic chess board appears on the screen – although playing the brain-testing game isn't quite as simple as finding it.</div>
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Gamers are able to play by typing in a specific Algebraic Notation – for example, @fbchess e4 or @fbchess Pe4 will move a pawn to e4 on the board.</div>
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B is used for bishop, R moves the rook, Q for queen, K for king, and, because K is already used in King, the letter N moves your knight.</div>
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It's pretty frustrating to begin with but learning the codes soon speeds things up.</div>
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If you're finding things confusing full instructions on how to play can viewed by typing "@fbchess help" into the messaging app.</div>
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The game can be played on both mobile and web versions of the popular social platform with no need to download any additional software.</div>
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And users can continue to chat without interrupting the match.</div>
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This isn't the first time games have been hidden inside the web.</div>
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<a href="http://newsnewsblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/are-you-brave-enough-to-play-google.html" target="_blank">Google have snuck an addictive running game into its hugely popular Chrome browser</a>.</div>
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The endless runner can be accessed when your computer drops its internet connection.</div>
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Hitting the spacebar whenever Chrome flashes up its "Unable to connect to the Internet" warning – the little dinosaur mascot will spring to life.</div>
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Tapping the spacebar makes the sprinting dinosaur jump.</div>
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Another neat game involves typing the words "Atari Breakout" into Google image search.</div>
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This instantly turns your browser into the popular retro game complete with 70s sound effects.</div>
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Facebook has secret game hidden on its website, and this is how to find it

FACEBOOK users can play against one another in the ultimate game of online chess by using this simple code in the Facebook Messenger window...

VIDEO: 'He was almost as white as me' Joseph Fiennes defends playing Michael Jackson

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JOSEPH FIENNES has spoken out after a huge race row erupts over the white actor playing Michael Jackson in new one-off comedy. Watch the video here.</h3>
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"I’m a white, middle-class guy from London. I’m as shocked as you may be, " Fiennes told Entertainment TonightWeekly over his casting as Michael Jackson.</div>
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"Michael Jackson definitely had an issue — a pigmentation issue — and that’s something I do believe. He was probably closer to my color than his original color." </div>
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Fiennes also told The Wrap that the filmmakers cast a white actor because they didn’t have the budget to pay for prosthetics.</div>
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"I was like, ‘Wait a minute, I think someone’s got this wrong. I mean, really?’” Fiennes said. "The budget was too low to do prosthetics or anything, so it literally is straight-forward makeup. And it’s really saying, ‘Look, audiences, it’s tongue-in-cheek.’</div>
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"No one’s trying to do an exact impersonation, but it’s just a sense of the fun of the road trip. If it did happen, maybe it happened like this. That’s all it is, a lighthearted take."</div>
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<strong>WATCH JOSEPH FIENNES TALK TO ET NEXT:</strong></div>
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Michael Jackson may have sung that "It don't matter if you're black or white," but race and colour are at the centre of the latest Hollywood row.</div>
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The new Sky Arts one-off comedy Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon riffs on the urban myth that the stars took a spontaneous road trip across the country after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.</div>
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Despite no concrete evidence for the trip, all three stars were together in New York for the 30th Anniversary Michael Jackson tribute concert at Madison Square Gardens on September 7, 2001.</div>
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Stockard Channing and Brian Cox are perfect choices to play Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando, but the unexpected casting of Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson has started a huge media storm.</div>
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“It’s a challenge," Fiennes said about the new role, which may be the understatement of the cinematic century.</div>
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"It’s a comedy. It doesn’t poke mean fun but it’s a story, possibly urban legend, whereby Michael, Marlon Brando, and Liz Taylor were all together the day before 9/11 doing a concert.</div>
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"Airspace was shut down and they couldn’t get out and Michael had the bright idea to go to hire a car and drive.</div>
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“So the three of them got in a car and drove 500 miles to Los Angeles. It took them a while because they had to stop at a lot of Burger Kings for Marlon, but they got out!”</div>
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Social media immediately erupted with angry and mocking comments, referencing the current <a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=451019" rel="tag nofollow" target="_blank">Oscars racism row started by Jada Pinkett Smith</a> and the recent controversy over <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/607357/next-james-bond-white-not-black-pierce-brosnan-idris-elba" rel="tag" target="_blank">Idris Elba's suitability to play James Bond.</a></div>
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"Joseph Fiennes can play Michael Jackson. (A real person). But Idris can't play James Bond (a fake spy for a fake agency)?  Cool, cool, cool," mocks one comment.</div>
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Some users take it even further with a call to protest against the new film.</div>
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"Who's on board with boycotting the whitewashing of Michael Jackson in a show where Joseph Fiennes has been casted to play him?" asks one angry voice on Twitter.</div>
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 </div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Joseph Fiennes can play Michael Jackson. (A real person). But Idris can't play James Bond (a fake spy for a fake agency)? Cool, cool, cool.</p>— Prentice Penny (@The_A_Prentice) <a href="https://twitter.com/The_A_Prentice/status/692172285554331648">January 27, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Whose on board with boycotting the whitewashing of Michael Jackson in a show where Joseph Fiennes has been casted to play him?</p>— 2/18✨ (@LeifEmill) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeifEmill/status/692169689225625600">January 27, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">still hoping this is some awful joke: apparently joseph fiennes to play michael jackson... ht <a href="https://twitter.com/marcuswstow">@marcuswstow</a><a href="https://t.co/Xjhv9OlgrZ">https://t.co/Xjhv9OlgrZ</a></p>— Knox (@knox_o) <a href="https://twitter.com/knox_o/status/691726448772698112">January 25, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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The timing of the news is particularly incendiary as Hollywood is rocked with claims of racism and the under-representation of minorities in films and at awards ceremonies.</div>
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Jada Pinkett's Smith outrage at the absence of any minority nominees in the main categories at this year's Oscars has prompted a boycott of the ceremony by the star and her husband, Will Smith. </div>
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Michael Jackson's ever paler face was a result of vitiliogo, which causes the skin to lose pigment, but casting a white actor to play the role seems unnecessary and ill-judged.</div>
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It's not the first time that British stars have been slemmed over race issues. Jennifer Lawrence and t<a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=451019" rel="tag nofollow" target="_blank">he Ab Fab team were accused of "Yellowface</a>" recently.</div>
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The upcoming <a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=451019" rel="tag nofollow" target="_blank">Absolutely Fabulous film was also slammed by Mararet Cho for casting Jeanette Tough from the Krankies as an asian character.</a></div>
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Sky Arts have been quick to counter accusations of inappropriate casting.</div>
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“Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon is a Sky Arts comedy which takes a light hearted look at a reportedly true event; Joseph Fiennes is cast as Michael Jackson," a spokesperson said.</div>
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"It is part of a series of comedies about unlikely stories from arts and cultural history.</div>
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"Sky Arts gives producers the creative freedom to cast roles as they wish, within the diversity framework which we have set."</div>
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<em><strong>Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon will come to Sky Arts later in 2016 (date TBC).</strong></em></div>
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<span data-mce-mark="1" lang="EN-US">Finding Nemo's adorable blue bubble-brained hero is about to set off on a quest of her own. </span>It suddenly seems that there is something so important that the notoriously forgetful fish must finally face.</h3>
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</section><section class="text-description">Ellen DeGeneres returns as the voice of everyone's favourite blue tang – although, let's face it, it's not like we have a selection of them to choose from.</section><section class="text-description">Finding Dory also stars the voice talents of Dominic Moore, Diane Keaton and Modern Family stars Ty Burrell and Ed O'Neill.</section><section class="text-description">The brand new teaser trailer starts with Dory dreaming. As usual she's not making much sense.</section><section class="text-description">   </section><section class="text-description"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">"Hand me the ratchet wrench, I can fix it," she mutters, which defies the laws of fishy physiology and basic home improvements on so many levels</span></div>
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<span data-mce-mark="1" lang="EN-US">“I just used the word 'before', which means I’m<span data-mce-mark="1" lang="EN-US"> </span>remembering something," she exclaims, quickly followed by the inevitable, </span>"What was I talking about?”</div>
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<span data-mce-mark="1" lang="EN-US"><o:p>And then things start to get emotional.</o:p></span></div>
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"My family," she cries. "They’re out there. I have to find them.”</div>
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<span data-mce-mark="1" lang="EN-US">But it clearly isn’t going to be as simple as that.</span></div>
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“I remembered something important," she tells Marlin (Albert Brooks).</div>
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Of course, he is guaranteed frustration when he asks her what exactly she remembers.</div>
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"Something important about a clam or… NO, an oyster…Mollusc..something..." she splutters.</div>
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Ah well, we suspect it will probably take the whole film to actually get to the point.</div>
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But if it is as good as Finding Nemo, we'll be more than happy to tag along for the ride.</div>
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Until then, keep swimming...</div>
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<em><strong>Finding Dory is out later this year.</strong></em></div>
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<section class="text-description">The scene shows Nicole Kidman taking a bath in the desert while wearing a long white shift.</section><section class="pull-quote on-right"><blockquote class="nointellitxt ctx_blocked" id="nointellitxt">
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Unsurprisingly, everything is revealed as the thin material become transparent when wet.</section><section class="text-description">The scene seems in keeping with the bold, unorthodox character portrayed by the Aussie actress in the film.</section><section class="text-description">Victorian explorer Gertrude Bell broke the conventions of society at the time, travelling through North Africa and taking lovers, including Lawrence of Arabia.</section><section class="text-description">As an adviser to the British Empire and a trusted ally of the desert tribes, she was instrumental in the creation of the modern state of Iraq in 1921 after the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War.<br />
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 </section><section class="text-description">Bell was known as the unofficial Queen of the Desert for her pioneering and political achievements.</section><section class="text-description">Although remours persist that she also gained the name thanks to her rumoured role as the lover of the first King of Iraq, Faisal bin Hussein.</section><section class="text-description">Queen of the Desert tells the story of Bell's incredible life and features Robert Pattinson and James Franco as her lovers, T E Lawrence and Henry Cadogan.</section><section class="text-description">"She's the female Lawrence of Arabia," says Nicole Kidman.</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">"She was English, and basically defined the borders between Iraq and Jordan that exist today, borders that she negotiated between Churchill and different Arab leaders, " Kidman continues.</section><section class="text-description">"She went out to the desert with the Bedouin and all the different tribes that were feuding at the turn of the 20th century."</section><section class="text-description">Despite the incredible souce story, the actress is not having very much lucky recently with grand biopics.</section><section class="text-description"><a href="http://go.ad2up.com/afu.php?id=451019" rel="tag nofollow" target="_blank">Kidman's recent outing as the ill-fated princess in Grace of Monaco was savaged and ridiculed by critics and bombed at the box office.</a></section><section class="text-description"><br />
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 </section><section class="text-description">Queen of the Desert has also had a troubled route to the big screen and was actually shot back in 2013 and 2014.</section><section class="text-description">Although it debutted at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival it will only make it to cinemas in the US in March this year, with no international release dates confirmed yet. </section><section class="text-description">It currently has a disastrous rating of 6% on Rotten Tomatoes with reviewers calling it "a bit of a plod," and "a passionless trudge that lacks both sweep and psychological complexity."</section><section class="text-description">However, most reviews have also praised the performances of Kidman and her co-stars</section><section class="text-description">    <br />
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 </section><section class="text-description">"Kidman convincingly manages to play Bell as a delicate yet determined twentysomething, forging her way across untamed deserts, but still fragile enough to fall in love on two separate occasions," says Variety.</section><section class="text-description">"She carries the film more than competently," adds the Hollywood Reporter.</section><section class="text-description">Bell herself died in 1926, aged 59, from a suspected overdose of sleeping pills.</section><section class="text-description">She was buried in Baghdad and her funeral was a major political event, attended by British dignitaries and the kind of Iran.</section><section class="text-description"><em><strong>Queen of the Desert has not yet received a UK release date.</strong></em></section><script async src="//
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"Whatever they did to me made me totally indestructable," he groans. "And completely…unfuckable."</div>
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Deadpool then turns on the sinister forces who turned him into an indestructable killing machine and wreaks some havoc and vengeance of his own.</div>
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Heads explode, blood splatters and Deadpool turns the air blue with X-rated aplomb.</div>
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"Uhh, I'm touching myself tonight," he says after one particularly bloody encounter.</div>
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Which brings us back to the point, ahem, in hand. Deadpool's new infomercial supports <a href="http://ballboys.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ballboys.org.uk</a>.</div>
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"Our aim is to educate men everywhere on how to check themselves for signs of testicular cancer and what to do next if worried."</div>
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Penélope Cruz bares all in hard-hitting, emotional new drama Ma Ma

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PENELOPE CRUZ goes topless in the daring and emotional new Spanish film Ma Ma, about a young mother facing breast cancer.</h3>
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Penélope Cruz shows why she is one of the most powerful and fearless actresses in the world in her new film.</div>
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The Spanish family drama Ma Ma takes an unflinching look at a woman who is diagnosed with breast cancer.</div>
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Cruz plays unhappily married mother Magda who finds a lump in her breast.</div>
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Magda embarks on a life-shattering, but ultimately life-affirming journey as she is confornted with cancer and her own mortality.</div>
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In the trailer we see Magda going in to see a doctor after she finds a lump in her breast.</div>
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The radiant actress casts aside vanity and modesty as she exposes not only her body, but her raw emotions as she faces her worst fear.</div>
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"I don't know what to say to my son," she cries.</div>
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In fact, the title of the film, Ma Ma, plays on both the word for mother and the word for breasts.</div>
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The film is also a celebration of family, of the bonds between parents and their children.</div>
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On the same day that Magda recives her diagnosis, Arturo, a talent scout is watching her son's football match.</div>
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Suddenly he hears the tragic news that a car accident has killed his daughter and left his wife in a coma. Magda steps in and rushes him to the hospital</div>
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The fact the film is as much about motherhood as it is about illness is reinforced as Magda and Arturo find strength in each other.</div>
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"Do you know what is the greatest love that exists in the whole world?</div>
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"The love that a mother feels for her child," Arturo (Luis Tosar) tells Magda.</div>
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Get your tissues ready for the trailer next.</div>
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Believe us, you won't need to speak Spanish to understand the painfully universal themes of love, fear, loss and hope.</div>
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<strong>WATCH THE MA MA TRAILER NEXT (IN SPANISH): </strong></div>
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Thi sis not a film that seeks to simply depress and demoralise us. Magda is a fighter and Penelope Cruz sweeps us along as she stares into the camera in her hospital gown and declares "Vamos."</div>
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It means "Let's go" and, sure enough, Magda picks herself up and faces forward into her future.</div>
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"Promise me one thing, that the soul never dies," Magda's son says.</div>
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""Done," she replies.</div>
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Yup, hankies at the ready again... </div>
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Film reviews: Spotlight, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi and Youth

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AT LAST, an Oscar contender to get excited about. Few, if any, of this year’s batch of Oscar hopefuls feel like future classics while some (The Martian, Mad Max) will be forgotten by next year. Not so Spotlight.</h3>
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<em><strong>Director: Tom McCarthy</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong>Stars: Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber</strong></em></div>
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A beautifully crafted old school journalistic drama, Spotlight tackles a Big Subject (abuse by paedophile priests and the Catholic Church’s systemic cover up) without any hint of worthiness, allowing the facts to speak for themselves during a fast-moving investigation conducted by an appealing collection of dogged reporters. </div>
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Directed and co-written by Tom McCarthy, the picture manages to avoid the cliches of the genre by refusing to lionise its “crusaders” or demonise the villains and is all the more authentic and powerful for it. </div>
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Indeed, the actual perpetrators of abuse are barely glimpsed while the most senior Catholic dignitary featured, Cardinal Law (Len Cariou), who is culpable in a cover up stretching back decades, is presented as a popular and effective leader. </div>
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It is the system that is insidiously corrupt, not any individual, and the gradual exposing of that system fuels the drama and sense of outrage. Not that any of us, including the reporters, can sit back and feel smug about ourselves. Society itself is in the dock.</div>
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Even The Boston Globe, investigating the story over 2001 and 2002, was not blameless in ignoring the scandal in times past. In the words of Stanley Tucci’s resolute attorney Mitchell Garabedian: “If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one.” </div>
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It’s an outsider to the “village” of Boston who initiates the investigation, the paper’s newly appointed editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), a Jewish man from Florida. </div>
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The reporters who pick up the baton are the small investigative “Spotlight” team led by Michael Keaton’s well regarded Walter “Robby” Robinson, while chief reporter Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo) latches on to the case like a bloodhound.</div>
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Some of the most powerful moments come from victims who open up to the reporters. Their testimonies demonstrate the ease with which vulnerable children could be preyed upon and the damage inflicted. </div>
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The performances are unshowy but riveting, including John Slattery from TV’s Mad Men as Ben Bradlee Jr, the section editor in charge of Spotlight. His father was the late Ben Bradlee, editor of The Washington Post played by Jason Robards in All The Presidents Men. Spotlight can stand shoulder to shoulder with that classic.</div>
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<em><strong>13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi (15, 143mins)</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong>Director: Michael Bay</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong>Stars: John Krasinski, David Costabile, James Badge Dale, Toby Stephens</strong></em></div>
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When did Hollywood become so keen on commemorating military disasters? Black Hawk Down depicted the calamitous events of a 1993 raid in Mogadishu and several Iraq and Afghanistan-set projects have focused on botched missions, including Lone Survivor with Mark Wahlberg.</div>
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Now Mr Hollywood himself, director Michael Bay, has quietly (for him) slipped out an action film in between Transformers movies about the deadly 2012 attack on the US compound in Benghazi, Libya, in which US Ambassador Christopher Stevens died. </div>
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The man so often accused of flag-waving here chronicles a story of abject failure of intelligence, communication and readiness. The Americans are redeemed only by the bravery of a few ex-army special operatives (private guns for hire) who took on dozens of militia in a brave last stand. When we do see the Stars and Stripes it is floating half burnt in the Ambassador’s swimming pool. </div>
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There is not much to cheer about then, but 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi is a sombre military action film that steers clear, at least in Bay terms, of stoking up unwarranted patriotism or exploiting the scenario for cheap sentiment.</div>
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The picture’s big selling point, aside from the intense action, is the not widely known story of “private army” special operatives who rarely receive their due. They include John Krasinski’s ex-Navy Seal Jack Silva who is back in the Middle East to make some extra money for his family.</div>
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Silva joins the security team at a secret CIA outpost in Benghazi presided over by an arrogant chief (David Costabile) who insists there is “no real threat here”.</div>
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A few blocks away is the US consulate where boyish Ambassador Stevens (Matt Letscher) is optimistic about building relationships with the local community. </div>
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Hours later, on the night of September 11, the sparsely protected compound is attacked by a well-armed mob. The film details the events of the following hours with clarity and excitement as the CIA security team tries to rescue the Ambassador before falling back to its base and preparing to face down the advancing mob while efforts to raise support from US military bases in Italy and Croatia founder on issues of protocol and lack of resources. </div>
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The action is blistering, if a little repetitive, and for those who aren’t familiar with the story it is an eye-opening balls up in which the Americans aren’t the cavalry. </div>
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The film is studiedly apolitical (like a Paul Greengrass movie sucked of attitude) but if there is a moral it’s that on the ground you can only trust real men to make the right calls. The fancy pants bosses? The agents? The Harvard-educated analysts? No clue. </div>
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<strong>VERDICT: 3/5</strong></div>
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<em><strong>Youth (15, 118mins)</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong>Director: Paolo Sorrentino</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong>Stars: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong></strong></em>Michael Caine has justly won praise for his performance as an ageing conductor coming to terms with mortality, and his questionable life, in Youth but the film itself is meandering and inconsequential. </div>
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Directed by Paolo Sorrentino who made the gorgeous but overrated The Great Beauty, Youth stars Caine and Harvey Keitel as two old friends ruminating over past, present and future in a luxury alpine spa. </div>
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Unfortunately, attempts at comedy misfire and the insights and pronouncements are less than profound. Says Caine of one girl who got away: “I would have given 20 years of my life to have slept with her.” Oh dear.</div>
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<strong>VERDICT: 2/5</strong></div>
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Film reviews: Spotlight, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi and Youth

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