‘Cocaine Bear’ review: Coke addict animal kills — hilariously

Coronation Street actor Peter Ash is set to be at the centre of a motor neurone disease (MND) storyline and has shared his determination to "get it right" In a first for Corrie, much-loved character Paul Foreman (played by Peter) will be diagnosed with the terminal life-shortening illness and the storyline will follow the progression of the disease. Following weeks of speculation about what is causing the character’s clumsiness, Friday’s episode will see the builder referred to a specialist, before being given a diagnosis of MND in April.

Liam Payne , who rose to fame as a member of the boyband One Direction before embarking on a solo career, has been the subject of speculation regarding plastic surgery . While fans have followed his music career closely over the years, some have recently taken notice of changes to his jaw and overall facial structure. In March 2023, Liam, 29, attended the premiere of his friend and former bandmate Louis Tomlinson's All of Those Voices documentary in London, and pictures from the event prompted fans to question whether he had been under the knife.

A former employee of Britain’s biggest union has been sacked as a ‘trustee director’ of its pension scheme after alleging discrimination against 350 retired members of its staff who are in their 80s. Dave Marsh says he was informed he had been ‘removed’ from the role by Alex Ryan, the pension secretary of Unite the Union’s pension scheme (UPS) in a telephone conversation.

Rochdale councillors have backed a campaign to combat the rising levels of abuse being directed at local politicians across the country. But they also admitted the need to put their own house in order, amid claims some colleagues were guilty of bullying council staff, the public and fellow elected members.

Ofsted has reacted to calls for an overhaul in the wake of headteacher Ruth Perry's death.

After an 'awful' pregnancy, little Jacob was welcomed to the world six weeks early - and just hours later, doctors were forced to deliver yet more devastating news as they realised the baby had been born with leukaemia. 

As the clocks fast-forward an hour this weekend, it's clear spring is here. And, as well as brighter and warmer weather, the official change in season also brings with it plenty of gigs and shows to look forward to.

Samson Dingle teased his Emmerdale exit after finding out his exam results in Thursday night's episode. Samson, who is portrayed by Sam Hall, has been in the centre of village drama of late after blackmailing his cousin Noah Dingle for his inheritance money from the Tates. He also conceived a baby with Amelia Spencer last year, who gave birth in October – but Samson refuses to have anything to do with their child.

Boxing champion Tyson Fury has shared the happy news that he and his wife Paris Fury are expecting their seventh child. Paris and Tyson have been together since they were teenagers and already share six children; Venezuela, 14, Prince John James 10, Prince Tyson Fury II, five, Valencia Amber, four, Prince Adonis Amaziah, three, and one-year-old Athena. Sharing the happy news on Instagram Stories, Tyson wrote: "I get to do date night with my beautiful pregnant wife Paris, Gods is great.

Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady seemed destined to be together forever and the perfect pair: the GOAT NFL quarterback and a highly sought-after supermodel. But after 13 years, the couple called it quits somewhat unexpectedly in late 2022, prompting many to wonder what happened. Rumors swirled that the mother of two had given her NFL superstar husband an ultimatum amid his retirement and unretirement from football.

Find a PDF version of the guidelines here.“We developed these practical guidelines to try to standardise care for patients who have come from recreational nitrous oxide use,” said Alastair Noyce, a senior author of the report and Neurology professor at London’s Queen Mary university.“If implemented correctly, they will ensure that patients get the treatment they need. We hope they will also alleviate pressure on hospitals by improving efficiency in the emergency department and reducing unnecessary admissions.”Back in 2021, then-Home Secretary Priti Patel threatened to “take tough action” against young people found possessing laughing gas.“[Nitrous oxide] can cause serious long-term effects such as vitamin B12 deficiency and anaemia,” she said, later acknowledging the “devastating impact” it can wreak on communities.

The Who‘s Pete Townshend has released his first solo single in 29 years in the form of ‘Can’t Outrun The Truth’.The track – released today (March 24) for charity – was composed and produced by Townshend’s partner Rachel Fuller under the pseudonym Charlie Pepper. All proceeds of the track’s vinyl sales, and an undisclosed portion of all digital downloads, will go towards the Teenage Cancer Trust.Listen to Pete Townshend’s ‘Can’t Outrun The Truth’ below.Townshend said of the track per a press statement: “The pandemic years were terrible for charities; the Teenage Cancer Trust was created in order to take the money from a series of concerts at the Albert Hall every year and various other things and that had all dropped out.”“So, the idea of doing this, which is it’s something that has sprung out of Lockdown about mental illness, but also for this particular charity.

TWICE member Chaeyoung has hinted that there might be more solo projects from the group’s members in the future.In a new interview with Newsweek, the K-pop idol touched on future projects for the girl group. Chaeyoung mentioned the upcoming Japan-based sub-unit MISAMO – comprising the members Sana, Momo and Mina – but also seemed to hint to even more different sub-unit combinations.“[The three of them] are planning on working as a unit in Japan, so that’s something that’s very new in our next chapter,” she says.

Foo Fighters‘ ‘My Hero’ in tribute to the band’s late drummer Taylor Hawkins – watch below.Tomorrow (March 25) will mark one year since Hawkins was found dead in a hotel room in Bogota, Colombia aged 50.To commemorate the anniversary, 100 drummers joined forces with Belgian rock band Black Box Revelation to play a special live rendition of the aforementioned 1998 Foos single.The performance took place at Belgium’s largest concert hall Sportpaleis Antwerp, which was the last venue in the country Hawkins played with Foo Fighters.In a statement, Black Box Revelation said: “Taylor Hawkins was the best drummer of our times. Honouring him with this tribute was an experience we will never forget.”Gino Kesteloot, one of the participating musicians, added: “It’s the first time I played together with 100 other drummers.

NCT Dream members Mark Lee and Chenle have revealed which UK artist they would like to work with.The boyband recently sat down to speak with the Official Charts Company ahead of the upcoming London show of their ongoing ‘The Dream Show 2: In a Dream’ world tour.During the interview the interview, the boyband were asked if there were any UK artists they would like to collaborate with at the moment. Mark Lee showed his love for London-born Central Cee, saying: “[He] is a rapper I recently got to listen to, and I imagine that it’d be interesting if we got to be on a song together.”Meanwhile, member Chenle said they he would like to work with English singer and television personality HRVY again.

Dalbeattie Star are gearing up for a packed end to the season.

St Cuthbert Wanderers came out on top in a “strange” game against Lochmaben.

She was named as Age Scotland’s Young Volunteer of the Year in 2019 for her contribution to the Golden Day Club in Castle Douglas.

A Creetown man is calling for better support for people suffering from long Covid.

The Limes in Kirkcudbright will be open to visitors on Sunday as part of the Scotland’s Gardens Scheme.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Hybe Corp., the talent powerhouse behind K-pop sensation BTS, said on Friday that it will sell its share stake in agency rival SM Entertainment. The move would finalize Hybe’s admission of defeat in a dramatic takeover battle in which it was out-gunned by Korean tech leader Kakao Corp. Hybe initially bought a 14.8% stake in SM in February from SM’s founder and K-pop pioneer Lee Soo-man. Hybe expected to be able to buy the remaining 3% tranche held by Lee according to agreed conditions and then launched an open offer to other shareholders to buy a further 15%. But SM’s management opposed Hybe’s quasi-takeover and harnessed Kakao and its subsidiary Kakao Entertainment with a range of measures. These included a content distribution deal and the sale of newly issued shares and bonds to the Kakao pair.

The Duchess of York, 63, proved that she can still party with the best of them as she was spotted finishing a night out on the town at 2am.The Royal - born Sarah Ferguson and nicknamed 'Fergie' - was joined by her daughter Princess Beatrice at a central London soiree, which ended the mother-daughter duo being photographed swanning out of a private members' establishment in the early hours of Thursday morning.The pair had seemingly relished a night away from royal responsibilities in the popular Mark's Club in Mayfair, a venue which in the past has hosted many fashion events and counts many members of the British establishment as patrons. Styling her signature auburn locks in a trendy half-up-half-down do, Fergie - former wife of Prince Andrew - donned a sophisticated button down turquoise tweed dress, which she paired with a simple black beaded clutch bag and gold jewellery.

John Bishop has been showered with support as he told fans his beloved mother, Kathy, has died. The comedian said he is experiencing a "pain like no other" after her death this week, just a couple of weeks after she got to watch him in his latest role in theatre production Mother Goose.

A new five-floor Sports Direct opens in the Arndale today — and includes high street fashion brands, an e-sports centre and a bra-fitting studio.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director The cocaine bear in Elizabeth Banks’ “Cocaine Bear” is an impressive feat of visual effects wizardry, but there was an actual person behind the 500-pound, drug-addicted beast. Meet Allan Henry, the motion capture performer who played the bear on set so that actors such as Keri Russell, Ray Liotta, and Alden Ehrenreich had something real to interact with during scenes. When Liotta fights the bear in the film’s third act, for instance, he was actually facing off with Henry on set. Henry is a motion capture veteran who already has experience playing animals thanks to his work on the “Planet of the Apes” trilogy. But the actor said said in an interview with /Film that “Cocaine Bear” was a different beast because the eponymous animal is not as humanistic as the apes in “Planet of the Apes.”

Ray Liotta's family and famous friends gathered on Friday to pay tribute to the late actor as he received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.The actor died in his sleep on May 26, 2022, while in production on an upcoming film,, in the Dominican Republic, but he was aware of the Walk of Fame honor prior to his death.Liotta's daughter, Karsen, spoke at the ceremony, and she shared exclusively with ET's Will Marfuggi how much the honor meant to her father. «It was a huge honor for him and he was proud of himself, as me and my whole family were,» she noted. «I know it was definitely very special to him and it was a monumental moment in his career.»The proud daughter also said her dad would have been «surprised» by the outpouring of support following his death.«I mean, of course everybody loved him, but he didn't look at his life and his work as if everybody's watching all the time,» she explained.

Pusha T has shared a new remix of of Melle Mel’s anti-drug classic ‘White Lines’ for the new Cocaine Bear movie.The new rework of the 1983 hit is among a host of tracks by different artists which feature in the horror-comedy, which was released in cinemas today (February 24). You can listen to it and view a trailer featuring Pusha T’s remix below.Other songs which appear on the soundtrack include Jefferson Starship’s 1979 hit ‘Jane’ and ‘Too Hot Ta Trot’ by the Commodores.

a briliant binge of comedy horror.” Here’s what you need to know about the movie, which is directed by Elizabeth Banks and stars Keri Russell, Ray Liotta and O’Shea Jackson Jr.It was released on Friday, Feb. 24 by Universal Pictures.Like other Universal, DreamWorks, Illumination, and Focus Films, it will stream exclusively on Peacock within four months of its theatrical debut.

Bear hits cinemas today (February 24) – and is expected to scare up a storm at the box office.Based on the 1985 story about an American Black Bear that ingested a duffle bag’s worth of coke, Cocaine Bear doesn’t stick to the facts. Instead of being found dead by police shortly after its drug binge, the furry beast goes on a murderous rampage, attacking anyone who gets in its way.

Stretching the phrase “inspired by true events” to its bare limits, Cocaine Bear (★★★☆☆) takes off from the stranger-than-fiction real-life tale of a Kentucky drug runner who, in 1985, dumped bundles of cocaine from a plane over Georgia, then perished trying to parachute after the drugs, a large, expensive portion of which were found and somehow consumed by a 500-lb. black bear deep in the Georgia woods.Anyone interested in the dead-serious facts of the case can grab a copy of Sally Denton’s comprehensive chronicle The Bluegrass Conspiracy, originally published in 1990.This movie, on the other hand, takes a bold leap off that plane with Thornton’s duffel bags full of brown paper-wrapped bricks of blow, and never looks back.Directed by Pitch Perfect mogul Elizabeth Banks, and scripted by Jimmy Warden, Cocaine Bear leaves no gruesome gag unturned, no outrageous one-liner untold, serving up the sort of anything-goes big-screen comedy that comes along rarely.Mid-rampage, the coke-fueled bear snorts a line off someone’s severed leg.

“A bear did COCAINE!” screams a frazzled Eddie (Alden Ehrenreich), trying to explain a patently absurd concept like a rational person – and exposing the vast capacity for humor that lies between the two. “Cocaine Bear,” a film that really puts the high in high-concept comedy, contains promise and peril in its premise.

Cocaine Bear is a dark action-comedy film set in a small town in Georgia.READ MOREThe synopsis reads: “After ingesting a duffel bag full of cocaine, a 500 lb American black bear goes on a killing rampage in a small town of Georgia where a group of locals and tourists must join forces to survive the attack.”Directed and co-produced by Elizabeth Banks, Cocaine Bear features an ensemble cast that includes  Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Christian Convery, Alden Ehrenreich, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Brooklynn Prince, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Kristofer Hivju, Hannah Hoekstra, Margo Martindale, and Ray Liotta in one of his final performances before his death in 2022.Oh, absolutely. According to the official website, Cocaine Bear is “inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner’s plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it.”Dubbed Pablo Eskobear (after “the king of cocaine” Pablo Escobar), the real life bear was a 150lb American black bear who was discovered on a hillside in Fannin County, Georgia next to a duffel bag and 40 half-consumed packs of cocaine.Well, rather than heading out “on a coke-fueled rampage for more blow and blood,” Pablo Eskobear overdosed on cocaine and was found dead on the scene.According to the Washington Post, an autopsy found the bear had around three to four grams of the drug in its blood stream. The narcotics investigators who made the discovery believe the drugs were ditched months earlier by trafficker Andrew Carter Thornton II who had planned to return.However, Thornton died after falling out of a plane in September 1985.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor “Cocaine Bear” director Elizabeth Banks is worried about her mother seeing the horror comedy when it opens on Friday. “I’m going to be honest with you, no one knows what to make of it when I tell them about it,” Banks told Variety at the movie’s premiere Tuesday night at Regal LA Live. “My poor mother is the least informed. She’s going to go with my aunts and they’re going to lose their minds. I told her she’s going to be mad. She will laugh and she’s going to love Margo Martindale and Isiah Whitlock Jr. and the dog. Not enough people talk about the dog, Rosette. She’ll love those parts, but she’ll close her eyes for a lot of it.”

Elizabeth Banks and O’Shea Jackson Jr. are stepping out for the premiere of their new movie!

Elizabeth Banks is sharing her fond memories of working with the late Ray Liotta on what would be his final film.The actress and filmmaker walked the red carpet at the premiere of her new film,, in Los Angeles on Tuesday, and she spoke with ET's Ash Crossan about getting the chance to work with Liotta shortly before his death last May.«He never saw the final movie, but he did see all of his scenes,» Banks shared. «And he saw the bear, which is the most important thing, because the poor guy like everyone had to act with, you know, a guy in a black suit and a stuntman and just sort of hope that it looks cool.»In the high-energy action horror comedy, the titular cocaine bear — for obvious reasons — was created entirely with CGI, and Banks explained that Liotta came in to re-record some audio, which is when he was able to see the finished product, or at least his part.«He came in for ADR eight days before he passed away, actually, and he loved it. He was so happy.

Margo Martindale is one of the stars of Cocaine Bear, the dark comedy action film directed by Elizabeth Banks. The story is based on true events from 1985 when an American black bear ingested a duffel bag full of cocaine.