Andrew Scott

Pressure review – Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser can’t save lower-tier D-day drama

A behind-the-scenes second world war drama focused on the importance of weather is too stodgy and repetitive to work as anything but a so-so TV movieIn a world of increasingly segmented audiences, the new movie Pressure cleverly brings together two adjacent demographics: weather dads and history dads. Those designations are honorifics, not gender-essentialist; spiritually dad-curious people of all ages (but, let’s be real: mostly over 50) may be interested in a behind-the-scenes story set in...

Pressure review – Andrew Scott and Brendan Fraser can’t save lower-tier D-day drama

'Pressure' Review: Brendan Fraser is Dwight D. Eisenhower in gripping WWII drama on run-up to D-Day

There are literally hundreds if not thousands of films about World War II. You'd think by now that everything there is to know about it has already been depicted on the big screen. But not so fast!"Pressure" revisits the turbulent planning of D-Day, specifically the attempt to track the weather for the invasion of Normandy.

A Surprising Spin On the World War II Drama

The World War II drama has been a hearty staple of the film industry’s diet for more than 80 years—even as Hollywood has turned away from the kind of meat-and-potatoes offering that the genre represents. And after so many decades, directors somehow still keep finding new narrative nooks and crannies to explore. Take Anthony Maras’s latest movie, Pressure, which asks a question that had never occurred to me: Just how stressful was it to be the person tasked with picking the opportune moment...

Entrepreneur loses court battle over £1m fortune after judge rules late partner’s family ‘mattered more’ to him

Entrepreneur loses court battle over £1m fortune after judge rules late partner’s family ‘mattered more’ to him Tibor Matyas had sought maintenance from fashion guru Chris Liu’s estate - Bookmark The partner of a millionaire man-bag designer has lost a High Court battle over his late partner’s £1m fortune, after a judge concluded the fashion guru's family "mattered more" to him. Tibor Matyas, described as Chris Liu's "romantic and business partner", had sought maintenance from Mr Liu’s...

Prison board boss sent sexual images to inmates and had killer's face on pillows

Prison board boss sent sexual images to inmates and had killer's face on pillows Helen Spree, 63, was chairwoman of HMP Liverpool’s Independent Monitoring Board when she had inappropriate relationships with three inmates and smuggled drugs into the jail The boss of a prison watchdog engaged in inappropriate relationships with three inmates and had cushions at her home with the face of a convicted killer on them. Helen Spree, 63, also smuggled drugs and phones into HMP Liverpool, where she...

Prison watchdog boss who sent sexual vids to killer and smuggled drugs learns her fate

Prison watchdog boss who sent sexual vids to killer and smuggled drugs learns her fate Helen Spree, 63, also kept pillows with pictures of the face of a convicted killer who she ended up sending sexually charged messages too as well as smuggling drugs into prison on his behalf A corrupt prison watchdog boss who sent explicit messages to a killer and smuggled drugs has been jailed. Helen Spree, 63, began a sexual relationship with Dylan Westall, 35, where she sex explicit messages and videos...

Bessent readies Trump $250 bill as one big hurdle stands between Treasury and making it reality

The Treasury Department is preparing a $250 note bearing President Donald Trump’s portrait for the nation’s 250th anniversary, but the bill can only move forward only if Congress changes federal law barring living people from U.S. currency. "It’s all up on Capitol Hill. At Treasury, we prepare things in advance.

Bessent readies Trump $250 bill as one big hurdle stands between Treasury and making it reality

The Treasury Department is preparing a $250 note bearing President Donald Trump’s portrait for the nation’s 250th anniversary, but the bill can only move forward only if Congress changes federal law barring living people from U.S. currency. "It’s all up on Capitol Hill. At Treasury, we prepare things in advance.

Al Sharpton compares White House UFC fight night to 'fights for the slave masters'

Rev. Al Sharpton accused President Donald Trump and Republicans of trying to return the country to a more racist era during a Thursday appearance on MS NOW's "Morning Joe," tying the dispute over redistricting to Trump's planned UFC event on the White House lawn and his admiration for Andrew Jackson. "Trump and others are trying to bring us back to an America that we struggled to get out of," Sharpton said. Sharpton argued that Trump’s embrace of a White House UFC event was connected to the...