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Metro
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Crying for more: readers react to the weepiest film moments list
Do you agree with our readers? Have your say on these MetroTalk topics and more in the comments. That was a very interesting list of the 'Weepiest film moments of bawl time' (Metro, Fri) – and I wouldn't argue at all. I'm from the older generation though and my own personal pick would simply have to be a Walt Disney movie that was released in 1957, when I was ten-years-old. It was the movie Old Yeller and the scene which made me cry (and many others in the Studio 2 cinema on Oxford Street) came when the young lad Travis (Tommy Kirk) had to shoot his dear dog, after it had caught rabies. I'm sure many others in my age group, the late 70s, will recall that moment, too. The main star in the movie was Fess Parker who many will remember as Davy Crockett. Mike Bondy, London I would say the Samsung weepy movies poll left two films out. Firstly, The Railway Children made by Lionel Jeffries. The scene at the railway station is first class. The camera is slow. The reaction of Jenny Agutter seeing her father and her cry of joy still brings a lump to the throat. Secondly, One Life. This is the story of Sir Nicholas Winton. The scene where he appears on That's Life for the second time is very moving. He discovers that the woman sitting next to him is someone he saved. The actress playing Esther Rantzen asks if there is anyone else in the audience whose life he has saved and for them to stand up. The entire audience stands up. Sir Anthony Hopkins, who is playing Sir Nicholas, stands and looks at the audience. For a brief moment, this really is Sir Nicholas. What makes the scene even more poignant is that every member of the audience is a child or grandchild of the children Sir Nicholas rescued. Chas Kenny, Essex I was surprised to see that Titanic was voted the top tear-jerker finale, as The Notebook was clearly the best. I'm a little old and remember crying at the start of The Last Snows Of Spring when I saw it at the pictures, too. Lorraine Hassan, via email The list of film tear-jerkers is a complete joke. Nothing earlier than 1982 – are any of the voters aware of what came before? I would place the end of Chaplin's City Lights (1931) in the top spot and his Modern Times (1936) not far behind. There's also the magnificent Brief Encounter (1945). How could anyone omit that? And director Leo McCarey's 1937 film Make Way for Tomorrow inspired Orson Welles to declare, 'It would make a stone cry'. Elia Kazan's A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (1945) pierces the heart with wistful sadness. Then there are foreign language classics: De Sica's gut-wrenching Umberto D of 1952, Fellini's 1954 offering La Strada (that ending gets me every time!), Demy's poignant Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (1964) and Ku-rosawa's haunting Ikiru (1952). The list goes on. How can you compile a rundown of the best movie moments to make you bawl your eyes out if you more or less ignore 70 per cent of cinema history? Maybe some of those in the listing deserve a placing, but certainly not all of them. William Barklam, Kent Charles EL Gilman (MetroTalk, Fri) is wrong to suggest that Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle should be left empty. Both are fully functioning State buildings and have been part of the UKs history for a very long time. More Trending Buckingham Palace is the official residence of the UK's Head of State as the White House is for America's Head of State. He talks of Henry VIII being a monster. What in fact Henry was was the sole leader of England and as such he was personally responsible for the security, peace and prosperity of a whole nation. He had to do everything he could to keep the country together and not let it be split asunder again by rival political and religious groups. We cannot judge a 16th-century absolute monarch by today's idea of what is good or bad behaviour. D Turberman, London I stood in line outside the shop for ages the other day, I was waiting to get my hair cut. Never mind I thought, it's a lovely day for a barber queue. John Coyne, Leeds MORE: 'Surreal' explosion as plane crashes moments after takeoff at Southend Airport MORE: Three in five Brits 'wouldn't even trust Starmer or Farage to watch their bag' MORE: Transfer raid on Manchester City can raise spirits at Nottingham Forest
Daily Record
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Esther Rantzen's daughter blasts sickening fake AI photos showing star in coma
The former That's Life host Esther Rantzen is battling lung cancer. Her daughter has blasted cruel trolls who put up fake AI photos online. The daughter of Dame Esther Rantzen has blasted 'appalling' online trolls after they posted fake AI photos online claiming to show the TV host in a hospital bed looking close to death. Becca Wilcox appeared on BBC One's Morning Live show to insist her mum was doing as well as she could be dealing with lung cancer at home, and did not look anything like the fake photos, reports the Mirror. She said: 'I was just appalled by them. And I just want to say, first off, obviously these are not real pictures, they are fake pictures of what mum supposedly looks like. 'There is one I really hate because I think she is supposed to be dead or in a coma. It is an extraordinary thing to do I mean, a weird and horrible thing. She doesn't look like that. 'She's been very private about her battle with cancer. She knows that this is something that people are probably interested in, and she tries to do as much audio as possible. But for her, this journey is one that she wants to take with the privacy of her family, like lots of her friends haven't seen her for months and months, so that's the first thing they're seeing. 'I've had to warn my brother to tell his kids that these pictures are out there, that they're not they're not real. That's not what she looks like.' Giving an update on Esther's health, Becca added they had a birthday celebration for her last weekend and showed new unseen photos of her mother alone and alongside her. Becca added: 'She looks great. You know, she has terminal cancer. She looks different to how she didn't fall but she looks incredible. 'What I'm really grateful is to show you these pictures, which is how she really looks. This is her Sunday (showing photos on screen). It was her birthday party. We had a huge half pavlova cake. And you know, this is, this is her walking around her garden, completely different. Yes, some people are in hospital beds, some people are unwell, but that was a fake picture. This is what she looks like. This is literally last Sunday. I wanted you to see Mum looking well. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community! Get the latest news sent straight to your messages by joining our WhatsApp community today. You'll receive daily updates on breaking news as well as the top headlines across Scotland. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Daily Record team. All you have to do is click here if you're on mobile, select 'Join Community' and you're in! If you're on a desktop, simply scan the QR code above with your phone and click 'Join Community'. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. To leave our community click on the name at the top of your screen and choose 'exit group'. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. 'I just want to put the record straight that she if she's not on a hospital bed, she's not dead. They're not real, they're not real pictures.' In May 2023, Esther Rantzen has revealed her lung cancer, which she was diagnosed with in January, was in stage four. In as about her health, Dame Esther told the Mirror: "I'm on one of the new medications, and nobody knows if it's working or not. But I will have a scan fairly soon which will reveal one way or another." At the time she explained she had gone public with her lung cancer diagnosis "because I find it difficult to skulk around various hospitals wearing an unconvincing disguise'. Since then she has been a prominent supporter of the bill giving terminally ill adults in England and Wales the right to an assisted death. Stage four is the most advanced stage of lung cancer, and means the cancer has spread beyond the lungs or from one lung to the other. Dame Esther, who turned 85 on Sunday, enjoyed a successful TV presenting career which included hosting BBC consumer show That's Life! for 21 years. In the segment on Morning Live, presenters pointed out that fake photos are becoming more of a problem online.
Irish Examiner
15-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Lionel Messi shows glimpses of his genius on Fifa's stage of fakery as Club World Cup begins
Well, this was at least a first. Gianni was right on that front. On a clammy, boisterous, vaguely hallucinogenic night at the Hard Rock Stadium, the opening act of Fifa's billion-dollar death star, the newly bulked and tanned Club World Cup, did produce something new. This was surely the first major sporting event where the opening ceremony was infinitely more entertaining, and indeed comprehensible as a basic human activity, than the sporting spectacle that followed. By the end, the best team in Africa, Al Ahly, had drawn 0-0 with a largely incoherent Inter Miami, who looked in the first half like they had a dim idea what this sport is meant to look like, but who were also struggling through a terrible wall-eyed hangover to remember which way is forward. The second half was better, mainly because some element of the Lionel Messi identity began to assert itself, a muscle memory of genius, like watching the aged Frank Sinatra still tootling out That's Life on stage in Vegas, still drawing huge gales of applause for nodding a lot and pointing at the crowd. This was the only significant emotion here: a deep sadness at seeing this spectacle play out, the post-Messi Messi, wheeled on to this stage of fakery, an instrument of sporting beauty weaponised in his dotage to promote a power grab. Inter Miami's Lionel Messi reacts as he falls during the Club World Cup group A match between Al Ahly and Inter Miami in Miami. Pic: AP Photo/Lynne Sladky. And watching this you really got the scale of Fifa's act of deception, its betrayal of sport, the cynicism of its methods. Because everybody loves Messi, because there is a hard-wired emotional response, because you cannot resist. We will bolt the aged Messi to the front of our project, will play with your feelings, will in effect produce a targeted sporting crystal meth. Actually that sounds a bit too exciting. The football here was largely abysmal. Does this matter? This thing isn't really built to be a robust sporting entity. It is simply product, an attempt to capture a global market. This is Fifa enabling the foreign policy aims of Saudi Arabia, sticking a flag in the middle of the world's greatest popular culture megaphone. It's the projection of a single random Swiss administrator. Although, to be fair, lots of things that were supposed to be bad were actually fine here. The talk of half-empty stadiums always seemed a bit over the top. The Fifa marketing machine is a juggernaut. Americans are good at turning up to stuff. And mainly it was never going to be empty because Messi was here, Miami loves Messi, and America loves stars. The Hard Rock is a castle-on-the-hill kind of structure, with its crisp, white, flying roof, dumped down in a vast expanse of shimmering tarmac. By the time the opening ceremonials came around the stands were pretty much full. The great Sir David appeared, looking graver now, hands folded like the fourth Earl of Sandwich, producing one of those expensive-looking regal waves, not really a wave at all, just a power-flex. Inter Miami co-owner David Beckham waves prior to the match. Pic: AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell. A DJ played club tunes, which was fun and infectious and gleefully received, not because of Fifa or football but because this is Miami and something about the air, the heat, the light, just makes this a place of fun and pleasure and show, and because Miami is full of beautiful glowing people who look like they're probably eternal. The ceremony was good, not the stiff, mannered stuff these affairs often dish up, but loads of people dancing and playing horns and looking like they actually enjoy doing this. A terrifying horror movie-style voice shouted 'take it to the worrrlllldd', in a manner that suggested its owner was in the process of being expertly throttled. Messi was last out on to the pitch. Everyone went predictably nuts, a shared static field of excitement, event glamour, the sense of being present at some kind of celebrity miracle. He started in a non-position, just walking about vaguely, like a man having a stroll while listening to a podcast. Messi does, though, still have the shuffle the little switch, the groove, the music in his head. Watching him you got that feeling of a truly great footballer who can still see it all, but just can't call the shapes into being, Mozart with tinnitus, Hemingway staggering about the Florida Keys in his soggy late days, still feeling his own greatness, still the matador, even while he's sinking pisco sours in a crab shack There was something frustrating and even slightly offensive about seeing Messi like this. It expresses perfectly the deeply manipulative nature of this event, of owners and political interests who will take that thing you love and use it to move the world around, who know you simply cannot resist. That thing that gives you pleasure and feels like freedom and joy? We will inject it into your eyes like a forced stimulant, a kind of footballing pornography. Al Ahly should have scored at least twice in the opening 20 minutes. They missed a penalty. The YouTube overlord IShowSpeed appeared in the half-time break and prodded a ball toward the goal a few times, trailed by a man with a camera coiled into a furious crouch as though preserving the last recorded sighting of the snow leopard. Messi woke up in the second half. Miami were better. They might have won, or at least scored. But a goalless draw felt right. The people in the stadium were the only winners here, in a city that just loves its nights. Otherwise, Saturday in America was a day for a divisive, autocratic president to stage his own hugely overblown and narcissistic Grand Parade. It was in the end a pathetic spectacle and, in every sense of the word, the ghost of something great and pure and much-loved, out there being sold back to you like an empty replica shirt. Guardian
Pink Villa
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
BTS' RM gears up to be 'back on top in June' following military discharge, appreciates fans' messages near base
BTS' leader, RM, is renowned for his artistic inclinations and refined musical taste. As he got discharged from the military on June 10, he seamlessly blended his creative side with his intellect to craft a clever tribute to BTS' profound impact on the global music landscape. By using a jazz song, he wittily shared his recent experiences as a military trainee and hinted at his post-discharge plans. RM shares first updates post military discharge Kim Namjoon, aka RM, shared four lines from the song That's Life – 2008 remastered by popular traditional pop and jazz singer Frank Sinatra on his Instagram story. The lines included, "You're riding high in April, shot down in May / But I know I'm gonna change that tune." They suggest the unpredictability of life's fortunes, where one might experience success or happiness in one moment, only to face setbacks or challenges the next. It might be RM's way of indicating how hard his life as a military trainee was. But the BTS leader is sure to "change that tune (situation)" with resilience and determination. The following lines say, "When I'm back on top, back on top in June / I said that's life (that's life)." The return in June is self-explanatory, as RM and the remaining BTS members are all set to return to their civilian life and reclaim their position as top K-pop stars. Through this, he subtly alluded to the exciting developments that await him following his discharge. Fans loved his witty nod and reaffirmed his global influence, saying, "you never left the top king, now you're finally physically there for it." RM also appreciated the fan efforts to make his comeback special. He shared pictures of banners and balloon-attached flying posters arranged by BTS ARMY for him near his Chuncheon base. He also added a purple heart emoji to express his gratitude to the fans, whose unwavering love and support had kept him going during moments of hardship. Thus, it is once again proven that the bond between BTS and their fandom is truly one for the ages.
Extra.ie
28-05-2025
- Business
- Extra.ie
Recycling paid off: Man buys his dream home with bottle return cash
The Deposit Return Scheme can be a bit of a nuisance, but what if we told you it was possible to buy a home out of your earnings? Damian Gordon, 36, from New South Wales, Australia was able his two-bedroom house after seven years of saving his money earning from a similar initiative in Australia. The new homeowner began to take recycling seriously when he noticed so much rubbish on the beach during his walks. The Deposit Return Scheme can be a bit of a nuisance, but what if I told you it was possible to buy a house out of your earnings? Pic: Sam Boal/ Sharing his story on That's Life, he admitted he found it 'impossible to ignore' and was spurred on my the Return and Earn scheme in his area. The scheme paid out 10c for every can returned, as well as glass bottles and plastic containers. Damian recalled how he made it his mission to collect rubbish during his walks and then had the idea of going to festival grounds after the events to collect empties. Damian recalled how he made it his mission to collect rubbish during his walks and then had the idea of going to festival grounds after the events to collect empties. Pic: Shutterstock One 2017 festival saw Damian and other volunteers collecting 40,000 recyclable containers, resulting is an earning of $4,000 (€2,273). Realising he was making money from the scheme, Damian sought out to use the earnings for a house deposite and managed to save $20,000 (€11,369) within the first three years. Damian revealed the sum of earnings 'spurred' him on to continue with his endeavour. Damian has since bought his very own house with the savings from recycling along with a little bit extra. Pic: Shutterstock Last January marked seven years since Damian began his savings fund, earning $45,000 (€25,000) from it. Damian has since bought his very own house with the savings from recycling along with a little bit extra. He has been able to find other treasures out and about for his home such as a fridge, microwave and a juicer. The new homeowner has confirmed he doesn't plan on stopping collecting containers any time soon, noting mortgage repayments are 'coming hard and fast.' He told the publication he is now 'paying off my dream home, one bottle at a time.'
