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Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
4 Must-Watch Thrillers on Peacock Right Now (July 2025)
Peacock may have a high turnover rate for films, but it's still got a killer lineup of thrillers to watch this month. Most notable, Peacock will soon be the streaming home for Drop, a critically acclaimed thriller that debuted in theaters earlier this year. You can find that film alongside the rest of the Watch With Us team's picks for the must-watch thrillers on Peacock in July. Note that not all of these movies will be on Peacock after July 31, so watch them while you can. 6 Must-Watch Movies on Peacock Right Now (July 2025) 'Drop' (2025) Getting back into the dating scene is a nightmare for Violet Gates (Meghann Fahy) in Drop. After years of being a single widowed mother, Violet's young son, Toby (Jacob Robinson), and Violet's sister, Jen (Violett Beane), encourage her to go on a date with Henry Campbell (Brandon Sklenar), a man she met through a dating site. Although Violet's date with Henry starts well, she is harassed by strange and alarming messages on her phone that ultimately threaten the life of her son. And if Violet doesn't cooperate with Toby's captor and act against Henry then she may never see her son alive again. Drop will stream on Peacock on July 11. 'The Outfit' (2022) The Outfit takes place almost exclusively in the tailor shop of Leonard Burling (Mark Rylance) in 1956. Leonard's primary clientele is the Irish mob, as led by Roy Boyle (Simon Russell Beale) and his son, Richie (Dylan O'Brien). Despite his misgivings, Leonard even lets Richie's girlfriend, Mable Shaun (Zoey Deutch), work at the shop. If You Have to Watch 1 Peacock Movie in June 2025, Stream This 1 Now Things start to unravel when Richie shows up at the shop badly wounded alongside his top enforcer, Francis (Johnny Flynn). The Boyle family is convinced that they have a rat in the organization, and the proof is waiting in the shop. As Leonard soon discovers, that intel is also worth killing over. The Outfit is streaming on Peacock. 'Black Bag' (2025) Steven Soderbergh's spy thriller Black Bag features Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as a pair of married MI6 operatives, George Woodhouse and Kathryn St. Jean. They're far from the only couple in MI6, but their relationship status hits some roadblocks after George is told there's a traitor in MI6. Someone close to George has leaked sensitive intel, and it's his job to determine who did it. Five people conceivably could be behind the leak, one of whom is his wife. As much as George would like to ignore that possibility, Kathryn's suspicious activities make her his No. 1 suspect. Black Bag is streaming on Peacock. 3 Underrated Thrillers You Should Watch in June 2025 'Memento' (2000) Before Christopher Nolan made his name directing the Dark Knight trilogy, his calling card in Hollywood was Memento. For his first trick, Nolan shows audiences the ending of Memento before they realize what it means. Then he lets the story unfold in two parallel narratives before catching up with the conclusion. The film revolves around Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a man who lost his wife and his ability to make new long-term memories due to a brutal attack. Now, Leonard's memories reset nearly every ten minutes, and he's not sure if he can trust the people around him, including Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Teddy (Joe Pantoliano). Everyone seems to take advantage of Leonard's condition, including Leonard himself. Memento is streaming on Peacock.
The Independent
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Sienna Miller and Katherine Jenkins attend day nine of Wimbledon
Sienna Miller, Katherine Jenkins and Sir Mark Rylance were among the famous faces to attend the ninth day of Wimbledon with Cameron Norrie in action on Centre Court. Layer Cake actor Miller attended the championships on Tuesday with her partner Oli Green while wearing a floral minidress. Welsh singer Jenkins arrived at the tournament wearing a pink summer dress while holding hands with her husband, the American filmmaker and artist Andrew Levitas. Wolf Hall actor Sir Mark was wearing a tan suit and tie as he arrived at the tennis tournament on Tuesday. The English celebrity chef Marcus Wareing was also pictured with his wife Jane at the championships. The Princess of Wales's parents, Sir Lenny Henry and Michael McIntyre were among the notable names to attend on Monday. Carole and Michael Middleton were seen in the Royal Box of the eighth day of the tennis championships, with the Duchess of Edinburgh and the Duchess of Gloucester also in attendance. Kate, who attended the finals weekend of last year's championships, is the patron of the All England Lawn Tennis Club. Last year, the Princess of Wales presented the Wimbledon men's final trophy to Carlos Alcaraz, in her second public engagement since she announced her cancer diagnosis. British singles hopes at Wimbledon rest on Norrie after his gruelling five-set win followed Sonay Kartal's defeat on Sunday. Norrie, a semi-finalist in 2022, is only the third British man to reach the last eight more than once in the last 50 years, after Tim Henman and Sir Andy Murray. He faces defending champion Alcaraz on Centre Court on Tuesday afternoon. Cricketer Sir James Anderson shook hands with Wimbledon veteran Roger Federer in the Royal Box on Monday, with Federer's old tennis rival Novak Djokovic in action on day eight. Katie Boulter was also on Centre Court to watch her fiance Alex De Minaur in action against the Serb, as King Frederik X of Denmark and cricketer Joe Root watched on from the Royal Box. Broadcaster Gabby Logan was another famous face spotted at the grounds of the tournament on Monday. Last week, a number of celebrities were spotted at SW19 including Sir David Beckham, Sir Gareth Southgate and Gary Lineker – who were all seen in the Royal Box. US music stars Olivia Rodrigo and Dave Grohl were also among the top celebrity names spotted at Wimbledon, along with adventurer Bear Grylls and actor Rory Kinnear.
RTÉ News
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Sienna Miller and Katherine Jenkins attend day nine of Wimbledon
Sienna Miller, Mark Rylance and Katherine Jenkins were among the famous faces to attend the ninth day of Wimbledon with Cameron Norrie in action on Centre Court. Layer Cake actor Miller attended the championships on Tuesday with her partner Oli Green while wearing a floral minidress. Welsh singer Jenkins arrived at the tournament wearing a pink summer dress while holding hands with her husband, the American filmmaker and artist Andrew Levitas. Wolf Hall actor Rylance was wearing a tan suit and tie as he arrived at the tennis tournament on Tuesday. The English celebrity chef Marcus Wareing was also pictured with his wife Jane at the championships. Lenny Henry and Michael McIntyre were among the notable names to attend on Monday. Broadcaster Gabby Logan was another famous face spotted at the grounds of the tournament on Monday. Last week, a number of celebrities were spotted at SW19 including David Beckham, Gareth Southgate and Gary Lineker – who were all seen in the Royal Box. US music stars Olivia Rodrigo and Dave Grohl were also among the top celebrity names spotted at Wimbledon, along with adventurer Bear Grylls and actor Rory Kinnear.
Daily Mail
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Katherine Jenkins is hand-in-hand with husband Andrew Levitas as they join Mark Rylance among the early arrivals on day eight of Wimbledon
A notoriously unpredictable British summer appeared to favour south-west London on Tuesday as a host of famous faces gathered for another day of Centre Court action at Wimbledon. Following a weekend of intermittent rain and occasional sun, the weather showed mercy on the latest crop of celebrity fans to attend the venue, among them mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins and actor Mark Rylance. Accompanied by filmmaker husband Andrew Levitas, Welsh singer Jenkins, 45, looked radiant in a pastel pink summer dress with a distinctive cinched waistline. With a floral print and short-sleeve detail, the floor-length outfit ensured she stood out while mingling with fellow guests at SW19 on Tuesday. Joining his wife, Levitas, 47, looked appropriately dapper in a three-piece single-breasted suit and polished black dress shoes. MORE TO FOLLOW
Daily Mail
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
The unsimulated oral sex scene that stunned cinema audiences and won the actress who performed it a major film award (but took its toll on the performers' real-life relationships)
Intertwined on the carpeted floor of a grubby London flat, a couple embrace in silence. For a moment they kiss and fondle each other as the camera slowly follows their movements, unflinching. And then, naked and exposed, with no props or prosthetics to fall behind, the most intimate scene of all. The shot is only brief, a few seconds at most, but it was enough to shock audiences and reviewers into speaking almost of nothing else. Intimacy (2001), directed by the late French filmmaker Patrice Chéreau, follows a chapter in the life of a man who finds himself living apart from his estranged family. Jay (Mark Rylance) begins a detached tryst with a woman, Claire (Kerry Fox), which becomes complicated by emotional attachment and is, finally, shattered by reality. Against the gloomy exploration of the characters, moments of crude intimacy - fumbling and spontaneous - colour their lives. But it was the inclusion of a particular moment between the two, in which she performs oral sex on him, that audiences were unable to turn away from. The act - at least that part of it - was real. In pursuit of authenticity, Chéreau took the bold decision to show the characters at their most vulnerable as he tried to tell their stories. But behind the characters were actors, real people with real partners who all became entangled in the film's verisimilitude. For some, Intimacy was a mistake, for others not. But all acknowledged the strain this ambitious venture placed on their real-world relationships. The opening scene of Intimacy paints a bleak picture of Jay's life since separating from his wife. 'Was this agreed?' are his first words to break the silence as Claire, a drama teacher and struggling actress, arrives on his doorstep. Jay appears dismissive, preoccupied, as he invites Claire into his run-down flat in south London. Within minutes, they are having sex. Much of the film is shot on hand-held cameras, but the sex scenes are still, focused and drawn out. Intimacy delivers on the promise implied in the title. The moments between the couple are close, fully exposed to the audience. Almost immediately, the viewer is confronted with full frontal male and female nudity. Told from Jay's perspective, we learn little about Claire in the opening scenes. In the same moments, we see everything. At this point, we do not know their names, what they do or how they know each other. And yet, we are invited into an unabridged screening of their sex lives. The contrast is key as their affair unfolds for the audience, ultimately contorting - for Jay, at least - into seemingly genuine romantic interest. Slowly, as Jay's interest piques, we learn more about both characters. As he seems to develop a genuine interest in Claire, the moments of intimacy become increasingly profound. The portrayal of sex in film is nothing new. But the unsimulated oral sex scene - arriving at the peak of the couple's intimacy, and the nadir of his reflections on his relationship with his family - caused quite the stir. Critics, broadly approving of the film in its totality, branded the scenes 'pornographic' and probed their 'justification'. 'They're really doing it, and it's really them doing it,' began Peter Bradshaw in his review for the Guardian. 'Patrice Chereau's controversial new film Intimacy begins with thirty-five minutes of graphic sex,' opened Alan A. Stone's for the Boston Review. Rotten Tomatoes, aggregating film reviews, gives the film a score of 66 per cent from 71 critic reviews, and 58 per cent from more than 2,500 ratings. Some talk of the lofty themes of alienation and the appeal to 'authenticity'. Others felt the 'real' sex did little to make the characters' 'vacuous' lives seem less vacuous. In an audacious effort to present fiction as reality, it was perhaps inevitable the lines, at times, became blurred. Richard Linklater, boyfriend at the time to actress Kerry Fox, wrote candidly about the challenges of being on the periphery of the film as his partner left for rehearsals each day, knowing what the performance demanded from her. Initially, they had both wondered how the director would dupe the audience into believing that Jay and Claire had performed the act without breaking the suspension of belief. Chéreau's answer was that there would be no deception. There was 'an impulse to know how far I could extend the boundaries of my possession of Kerry, and still feel the same about her,' Linklater assessed in a 2001 comment piece for the Guardian. 'Or, rather, I knew I wouldn't feel the same about her. Ahead lay an obscure destination of the heart. Would it be better, or worse? If it didn't ruin us, would it make us stronger? 'Frankly, neither I nor (despite her experience) Kerry had any idea what it would be like, or what effect it would have on us.' Before the film had been shot, Linklater realised that if it did go ahead, he would have to wait and wonder as she rehearsed. Eventually, he would have to watch the scenes - with the public - and see everything they had done together. 'Or, after editing, not quite everything. Which is the worst? Seeing nothing, or something, or everything?' Shooting put a strain on Fox, too. The film's motifs are difficult to reconcile, but there was 'no question' that the sex scenes were the most demanding, Linklater said. He said his partner, who he had only known for six months at that point, would come home from shooting exhausted and almost ill. The erotic scenes were all said to have been shot in a single week of filming. Fox would return with carpet burns from the coarse, grey floor in the flat. Asked by Metro in 2012 whether she regretted a real sex scene in the film, she gave a pithy response. 'I absolutely have no regrets and it's one of the best pieces of work I've ever done,' she said. Twenty four years on, Fox and Linklater are still together and have two children. According to Linklater, Kerry had said that she had wanted to take a chance on these kinds of scenes 'because I've never seen it done before'. The film is realistic, honest in its portrayal. As Linklater himself suggests, the 'need' to show real oral sex, 'even if briefly', stems from a directorial desire for 'integrity'. 'Although brief, it completes the illusion for the audience,' he added. 'Because we can see this thing happening, we are allowed to feel that everything is.' 'The movements' between the pair, Linklater says, 'are gentle and humane'. They reveal something about the characters. As Jay reckons with the loss of his wife and children, the detail helps explain the entanglement that follows. The point of the art and its composites can be rationalised. But the cast and their extensions were aware that such an intimate act, even as part of a performance, had the impact to shake the real world. Kerry, Linklater said, 'attracted a particular kind of British press attention' for her role as the elusive paramour of the lead in the run up to the film's release. Rylance, too, resented that the performances were overshadowed by a few moments of raw intimacy. 'It soured me on my life two months,' Rylance told the Wall Street Journal in 2015. He felt that he had given everything to the performance - which was acknowledged when the film won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001 - but attention crowded the sex scenes instead. The moments between Rylance and Fox on stage - particularly the oral sex scene - sent the actor into what the outlet described as a 'deep funk' and caused 'understandable stress on his marriage'. 'It's my mistake,' he told the WSJ. 'But I felt Patrice [Chéreau] put undue pressure on me on set to do that. 'And at that point I didn't have the confidence as a film actor to say no.' In fact, immediately after the release of the film, critics raised the same concerns. Charlotte Raven, writing for the Guardian, said 'the real issue' with the film's portrayal of '"real" sex' has 'nothing to do with the way the actors felt about doing it'. 'Far more important is the issue of what the director was thinking of and whether his decision to push the envelope was well founded.' Intimacy is a compelling exploration of the intersecting lives of two ordinary people in London dealing with their own strained relationships. Scenes of closeness between two people, moral judgements aside, stood vibrantly against their misery beneath the surface. So compelling were the performances that the film, unprecedented in ambition, was recognised with mulitiple awards at festivals around the world.
