Author: Miles Donavan

Monsters: Menéndez Brothers star Cooper Koch has revealed what his reaction was when producer Ryan Murphy presented the idea for episode five of the Netflix-topping series to him.The latest season of the TV super-producer’s true crime series Monsters centres around Erik and Lyle Menéndez, who are both serving life sentences for killing their parents in the late 1980s.At the time, the siblings claimed they were acting in self-defence after years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, while the prosecution argued that the Menéndez brothers’ motivations were financial.Episode five – titled ‘The Hurt Man’ – features a 35-minute single shot of…

I reckon most people hold a Richard E. Grant film close to their heart (for me, it’s the 2018 gem Can You Ever Forgive Me? co-starring Melissa McCarthy). But according to the actor himself, not all of his classics have been fun to film. Speaking to Metro about his career, the Loki scene-stealer ― who says his character in the upcoming Sky series The Franchise is a “complete narcissist” ― revealed “The most chaotic film that I ever worked on,” calling the ’90s “box office bomb” a “disaster.” “The most chaotic film that I ever worked on was a disaster…

I don’t think I could go a week without using my grater. But by “using my grater,” I mean what most of us mean: using the one, coarse grating side that’s perfect for shredding Cheddar. When I’m making a dressing or baking, the finer testing side does get some use. But the flat, wide, slicing side of my box grater has never been used ― and as for the spiky side, I won’t even touch it for fear of losing a knuckle. If Reddit’s r/Cooking is anything to go by, it looks like I’m not alone.Site user u/Hansekins recently posted…

A former Tory cabinet minister has been enlisted by Labour to help reduce the size of the prison population.David Gauke will head up a sentencing review after being drafted in by justice secretary Shabana Mahmood.Gauke, who was justice secretary himself when Theresa May was prime minister, will report his findings next spring.The sentencing review comes in the wake of the crisis which saw the government release thousands of prisoners early to free up space in England’s jails.Gauke, who was one of 21 Tory MPs stripped of the party whip by Boris Johnson after rebelling over Brexit, said: “Clearly, our prisons…