World » 3 weeks ago
This kind of behavior from the Trump administration has gone on for so long that it is hard to rouse the media to cover itIt certainly looks as if policy is for sale in the Trump administration. After all, the president’s primary domestic policy deputy, Elon Musk, gained ...
World » 3 weeks ago
Americans could have a psychological edge – but British people have a high tolerance of physical discomfort, which could provide all sorts of advantages ...Shall we take a brief moment to forget the hellworld outside and focus on something utterly inane? That was a rhetor...
Entertainment » 3 weeks ago
The star, who at 62 performed his own stunts for the forthcoming Final Reckoning, tells Cannes press conference ‘I don’t mind encountering the unknown’Tom Cruise got stuck on the wing of a biplane shortly before it ran out fuel during the filming of Mission: Impossible – ...
Entertainment » 3 weeks ago
As many films struggle to find distribution, Watermelon Pictures has stepped in to help tell stories from Palestine and other marginalized communitiesIn March, ...
Entertainment » 3 weeks ago
One of Hollywood’s most independent and original Oscar-winning writer-directorsCultured, modest, intelligent: not words that immediately spring to mind when describing most Hollywood moviemakers. But for the writer-director ...
Entertainment » 3 weeks ago
Cannes film festival Told in four different timeframes in the same rural family home, this story of national guilt and yearning is powerfully unsettlingHere is a mysterious and uncanny prose-poem of guilt, shame and yearning in 20th-...
Entertainment » 3 weeks ago
Oscar-winner says that a cinematographer remarking on her ‘baggy’ eyes led to a procedure that she regrettedJamie Lee Curtis has revealed that she had plastic surgery at the age of 25 be...
Entertainment » 3 weeks ago
Cannes film festival This powerful drama from the late film-maker and his longtime collaborator Robin Campillo, who directs, charts the growing pains of a teenager from a privileged family The directors fortnight sidebar of...
Entertainment » 3 weeks ago
Shot almost entirely inside their car, Pike and Rhys play a splintering couple trying to save their terrified teenagerHow encouraging that whatever state our film industry is considered to be in, it can still find space for a crackingly good script from a supersmart, disc...
Entertainment » 3 weeks ago
Documentary follows the 1988 anti-audism revolt in the US after the world’s first deaf university appointed a hearing person to head it‘It’s awfully difficult to talk above this loud noise,” says the chair of the board of trustees at a liberal arts university. It’s the la...