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Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men review – Cuddly reassurance is favoured over deep analysis

Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men review – Cuddly reassurance is favoured over deep analysis

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter In eight years as England manager, Gareth Southgate took the team to two major international finals, as well as a World Cup semi. And yet his legacy as one of the national team’s most successful leaders remains contested. Was he too meek? Did he squander a generational chance to bring silverware back to Wembley? And was he too fixated with draining the macho atmosphere that has long surrounded the Three Lions? These questions will continue to spark debate, but it is the latter cause that provides inspiration for Sir Gareth as he tackles his first television documentary, BBC One’s Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men. Almost two years on from leaving his job as England manager, Southgate has a new mission: to improve outcomes for young men in society. “I’ve raised and highlighted a problem,” he says in this …

Gareth Southgate explains why he refuses to say Andrew Tate’s name in manosphere documentary

Gareth Southgate explains why he refuses to say Andrew Tate’s name in manosphere documentary

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Gareth Southgate is on a mission to help struggling young men in his new BBC documentary as more of them are sucked into the “manosphere” way of thinking – however, he won’t be mentioning Andrew Tate. The former England men’s football manager explores how an increasing number of boys are feeling lost after the pandemic in Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men. Speaking to young men across the country, the ex football coach looks at how many are overlooked in education, employment and family life, with some turning to influencers who peddle toxic masculinity online. While controversial social media personality Andrew Tate is often seen as a “manosphere” figurehead, Southgate has revealed that he won’t be talking about him in his new documentary. “I don’t want to give him the publicity,” he told The Times. “He’s not worth it.” …

Gareth Edwards Is Excited About AI Filmmaking

Gareth Edwards Is Excited About AI Filmmaking

Published by Daniella Wilson

Director Gareth Edwards isn’t afraid of generative AI and what it may portend for Hollywood. In fact, he’s pumped about it. The helmer of Jurassic World Rebirth and Rogue One has been experimenting with diffusion models in depth for the last nine months and even wants to create a hybrid generative AI film, he said on a panel on Thursday. But he isn’t doing so yet, because the rate at which technological developments are occurring might outpace the filmmaking process. “It feels like this stuff’s changing every three months,” he said. “It’s like we have to revisit the plan six months from now because it might be a totally different series of tools. And the things that … weren’t possible three months ago or six months ago, some of them are now possible.” His interest is perhaps unsurprising, given that he directed 2023’s The Creator, a sci-fi film that largely took a positive approach to the topic of artificial intelligence. But his public embrace of the technology is still rare amongst his cohort, a.k.a. directors …

Dear England review – Cringe-inducing Gareth Southgate drama makes even Ted Lasso look subtle

Dear England review – Cringe-inducing Gareth Southgate drama makes even Ted Lasso look subtle

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter “The important thing about football,” wrote the late novelist Terry Pratchett, “is that it is not just about football.” Any fan of the sport knows this innately: the 90 minutes of a football match can seem to contain humanity in all its multitudes. It’s an idea that playwright James Graham pushed to breaking point in 2023, when he wrote Dear England, a self-serious state-of-the-nation play about Gareth Southgate’s tenure as the manager of the England men’s national team. Now, that play has been made into a four-part BBC series – one that somehow makes Ted Lasso seem like a work of subtlety and restraint. Joseph Fiennes, reprising his Olivier-nominated stage role, bafflingly plays Southgate with the sort of tortured intensity usually reserved for films about war veterans. When he takes the England job, in 2016, he inherits a talented but discordant …

Coronation Street’s Gareth Pierce on Todd as murderer of Theo

Coronation Street’s Gareth Pierce on Todd as murderer of Theo

Published by Daniella Wilson

The cat’s finally out of the bag on Coronation Street as viewers found out last night (Friday 1 May) that Theo (played by James Cartwright) was the murder victim that was teased months ago. It won’t have come as too much of a surprise to viewers as he’s been abusive to Todd (Gareth Pierce) for a long time on the soap, with many of Todd’s friends ready to get revenge for the emotional and mental damage he had caused. While we still don’t know who dealt the final blow to Theo, Pierce has been speaking about the storyline to press including Radio Times, and how, understandably, eyes will be on Todd. He said: “I think definitely our audience will have those suspicions and actually we see that Todd certainly has plenty of motive, some might even go as far as to say justification after having to remain stoic in the face of such sustained provocation. Add Radio Times as a Preferred Source on Google Keep up to date on what’s worth watching with your favourite …