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Update — September 17, 07:30 Am: A 26-year-old man has been charged with murdering the wife and two daughters of BBC commentator John Hunt.

Kyle Clifford from Enfield, North London, appeared this morning at Westminster Magistrates’ Court where he was remanded into custody. Clifford was also charged with false imprisonment and two counts of possession of offensive weapons.

Clifford is accused of murdering Carol Hunt and her daughters Louise and Hannah in a crossbow attack at their home in Hertfordshire on July 9. The BBC reported this morning that the court was told that Louise and Hannah had been shot with a crossbow and their mother Carol had been stabbed with a knife and suffered multiple injuries.

A trial date has yet to be set.

Previous, July 10, 10:36 Am: A man wanted in the killings of the wife and two daughters of BBC commentator John Hunt has been found in North London, police confirmed.

Liz Truss, who left the UK’s highest office in October 2022, is no longer a completely familiar face.

Truss was the UK’s Pm for just 49 days before her abrupt departure, so it was perhaps forgivable that she was not immediately recognised by an ITV presenter at the Goodwood Racecourse this week.

This is incredible in several ways, not least of which that I don't think there is another former Pm that could go entirely unrecognised through an interview.

But also – mainly – because it results in the Best Improvised Put Down/Segue Ever on television. ~SS pic.twitter.com/qsdLzRAuCa

— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) August 2, 2024

Racing specialist Matt Chapman was doing the rounds in the parade ring, asking spectators for their tips when he chanced upon successful racehorse owner Jim Hay and got a few words on the day.

Standing next to him was a smiling woman, whom Chapman didn...

Spend enough time charting the corners of any subgenre and you’ll quickly discover that not all entries are created equal. Due to the sexually charged nature of Erotic Thrillers, a common mistake that Hollywood suits make is believing that so long as there’s an adequate amount of sex and skin, the mechanics of the plot and the characters don’t matter.

What’s wild about Richard Rush’s 1994 film Color of Night is that it both does and does not fall into this trap. There is sex, yes, and it is ridiculous, but the carnal relations are condensed into a single part of the film, leaving long stretches of the thriller without its accompanying eroticism. And while there are a few murders, the thrills are also spread out and tend to be fleeting.

Which begs the question: without the sex and without the thrills, what becomes of an Erotic Thriller?...

*full disclosure: a DVD of the film was provided by the director, for this review. Director/writer: Keith R. Robinson. Cast: Howy Bratherton, Tony Eccles and Eleri Jones. Sniper Corpse is a film from Keith R. Robinson (Silverhide). His latest title, shot in the United Kingdom, took three years to complete. From the initial scriptwriting to the end of production, Robinson wore many hats to finish this micro-budget feature. Shot for a mere $38K, Sniper Corpse is a great sounding film, with the score produced by Matt Chapman. As well, the story is intriguing as a soldier is brought back from the dead, to keep killing in the present. However, the director's fascination with headshots is not enough to distract from the film's flaws. Overall, Sniper Corpse is a very static film, despite this title's dark subject matter. The first film element that stands out is Chapman's compositions. The music...

“One Dollar” is not a show that has an easy, recent analogue to anything in the film and TV world. For the director behind the CBS All Access drama, that was both an exciting prospect and a bit of an indictment of the kinds of stories that have made it to screens in recent decades.

“When we started referencing other movies that are telling a story like this, they’re all like ‘Norma Rae,’ ‘Blue Collar.’ They’re all ’70s stories. People haven’t been making very many stories in that culture in a while actually,” director Craig Zobel told IndieWire.

What came from the process was a 10-episode season set in the western Pennsylvania town of Braden. Set against the backdrop of a mysterious death at a steel mill, the resulting story winds its way through a factory town kaleidoscope of individuals, all via the path of a single dollar bill.

Homestar Runner, once a preeminent and influential series in the web video space, has recently been limited to a few sporadic uploads from its creators, The Brothers Chaps. For their latest videos, the brothers have revived one of their former segments and delivered a 30-minute string of answering machine messages.

A recurring feature on the Homestar Runner website was Marzipan’s Answering Machine, in which the titular character -- the main cast’s only woman and one of its few voices of reason -- combed through the messages she had received from the series’ kookier personalities. The most recent Answering Machine episode came out in 2009; that is, until The Brothers Chaps brought it back with a new segment that arrived on April Fools’ Day.

In clearing out her answering machine for the first time in seven years, Marzipan has a lot of emails to go through, and the result is...

The International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for the 43rd Annual Annie Awards and "Inside Out" and "The Good Dinosaur," both Pixar movies, led the pack! "Inside Out" received fourteen nominations while "The Good Dinosaur" got nine.

My pick of the year for best animated feature is "Inside Out" but I love Charlie Kaufman's "Anomalisa" as well which picked five noms.

We'll find out the winners of the Annie Awards on February 6th!

Here is the full list of nominees in all categories of the 43rd Annie Awards:

Best Animated Feature

Anomalisa

Paramount Pictures

Inside Out

Pixar Animation Studios

Shaun the Sheep The Movie

Aardman Animations

The Good Dinosaur

Pixar Animation Studios

The Peanuts Movie

Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Animation

Best Animated Special Production

Elf: Buddy.s Musical Christmas

Warner Bros. Animation

He Named Me Malala

Parkes-MacDonald / Little Door

I Am A Witness

Moonbot...

Homestar Runner, one of the web’s first great series, has been reduced to a relic since Matt and Mike Chapman (aka The Brothers Chaps) ceased regular updates on their most famous website in 2010. While Homestar Runner may be a thing of the past (a few occasional updates notwithstanding), The Brothers Chaps are still active, and their latest creation has arrived at your local computer screen. It’s called Two More Eggs, and you can find it on the Disney Xd YouTube channel.

The Brothers Chaps have had a development deal with Disney since at least 2012, and Two More Eggs is one of the projects born out of that deal. It’s a series of 40 animated shorts that will make their debut online before heading to the Disney Xd TV channel later this year. At launch, the first three episodes of Two More Eggs are live. The best one so...

Homestar Runner is kinda sorta back. The Og online video series about a ragtag group of flash animations that brothers Mike and Matt Chapman bestowed upon the internet in 2000 just released its latest installment in what the world hopes will be a slate of more regularly scheduled programming. The video, dubbed “Fisheye Lens”, is Coach Z, The Cheat, and Strong Bad’s attempt to give the people a new number one jam, as well as a solid, early 1990s Beastie Boys impression. Bizarre lyrics, random visuals, and an un-embeddable flash player will assuredly sate nostalgic Homestar fans, reminding them nothing much has changed in the past 14 years, while also give them hope of more new videos to come. Homestar Runner’s last video before this most recent Fisheye Lens hit the internet on April 1, 2014. And that April Fools’ Day installment was the first since December 2010. Matt Chapman told the host...

Back in April, the internet was delighted to be presented with a new Homestar Runner cartoon for the first time in years. Now comes big news for fans of the pioneering web series: Co-creator Matt Chapman says there's more new Homestar on the way. "When we did that April Fools update this year, way more people looked at it than we ever even imagined would have at this point," he said on this week's Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show podcast. "Our goal — we did that thing as sort of a test to get back into doing it. We'd love to start making things again," Chapman says. The April cartoon proved how many fans are still out there, so consider the ball rolling: The Brothers Chap have already started developing ideas for a new Strong Bad email, and there are lots of possibilities beyond that. "It depends on how whole-hog we...

It may be April Fools Day, but this story is no joke: Homestar Runner is back. The humor/animation website has released its first new video since December 2010. Mike and Matt Chapman's creation was one of the first great web series, scoring millions of views back when YouTube was nothing more than a gleam in Chad Hurley's eye. Fans fell in love with the dim-witted-but-loveable Homestar Runner, the nefarious Strong Bad, and the rest of the characters in Homestar's colorful, goofy world. Homestar Runner has maintained a strong fan base since its last update, with viewers reliving their favorite 'toons and Strong Bad E-mails through the site's old video portal (It also has an established YouTube presence.) Despite continued adoration, it seemed as if Homestar would never run again. That changed on April 1st, when visitors to the Homestar Runner website were greeted by the titular character. They...

What’s Decemberween, you ask? Why, it’s only the world’s greatest holiday — the most sanitary time of year!

Back in olden times, celebrants would observe Decemberween — a festival held 55 days after Halloween, on December 25 — by piling up all the dead rats they’d accumulated throughout the year. These days, folks are more likely to celebrate by decorating an evergreen, feasting upon the traditional Decemberween bunny, and exchanging gifts; appropriate presents include sponges, some Chex Party Mix, a DVD of Deep Impact, gift cards for fashion, and half-digested gazelle carcasses. Also, sometimes it’s celebrated in July.

Fine, so...

Craig Zobel and Matt Chapman are going on a "Monster Safari."

The screenwriting pair and three directors from the effects/production company Screen Novelties -- Mark Caballero, Chris Finnegan and Seamus Walsh -- will create the stop-motion animation project for the Jim Henson Co.

"Safari" began life as a short film from Screen Novelties that Henson execs Lisa Henson and Jason Lust decided to spin into a feature.

"What's great about Screen Novelties is their look and feel is very Henson-esque," Lust said. "There was a stylistic similarity."

The "Safari" story revolves around what happens when the Earth's monsters come out of hiding and a pair of bumbling crypto-zoologists spring into action to save them from a ruthless big-game hunter.

Zobel and Chapman, who founded the animation site Homestarrunner.com with Chapman's brother Mike, had been shopping an animation spec titled "Ron Planet." The Henson execs read it, liked it...