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What sets writer-directorRian Johnson'sfilms apart from other franchises on the current movie landscape isn't just their ingeniously twisty scripts and A-list-packed casts, it's their distinctive take on the possibilities of serial filmmaking. As with the Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries that are among Johnson's primary inspirations, each installment starts the Knives Out universe anew: The full cast of characters turns over, with the exception of Daniel Craig's courtly private eye Benoit Blanc, and the locations and even the tone radically shift.

I do have tremendous amounts of peace and acceptance around what happened because of how we were able to make it for her. Winslet's eldest son, Joe, was then 13. For him as a child, seeing that love poured into this moment was huge. And then he discovered through conversations with friends that that's so rarely the case. Six years later, in 2023, Joe decided to turn the experience into a screenplay.

Moments after Geoff Keighley introduced the Street Fighter trailer, the film's main cast took to the stage. Andrew Koji (Ryu), Andrew Schulz (Dan Hibiki), Callina Liang (Chun-Li), Cody Rhodes (Guile), David Dastmalchian (M. Bison), Jason Momoa (Blanka), Mel Jarnson (Cammy), Noah Centineo (Ken Masters), Olivier Richters (Zangief), Orville Peck (Vega), Rayna Vallandingham (Juli), Roman Reigns (Akuma), and Vidyut Jammwal (Dhalsim) all took the stage to yap about ... nothing much, really.

The corpse of a man killed trying to rob the place days earlier lies in the dirt nearby, covered by a hunk of cardboard. The local cops roll up before Armando can depart and harass him, presumably because he's driving a Beetle and has a beard. Armando keeps his cool and continues on his way, Chicago's "If You Leave Me Now" coming out his car's speakers as he arrives in the northeastern city of Recife,

At a gas station en route, he tells inquisitive cops he's just traveling to attend the local Carnaval celebrations. But we suspect his mission is more urgent, a threat of discovery underlined not just by the officers' casual insistence on a bribe, but by the presence of a rotting corpse on the premises. The attendant says it's just a would-be robber who failed to get away.

We're living in a time of unprecedented media availability. If you have a hankering to watch an episode of The Love Boat that aired in 1979, you don't have to wait for a rerun; you just need to pull up Paramount+. But widespread availability also highlights what isn't available at the touch of a button, and the especially obscure stuff has been dubbed "lost media."

Gael Garcia Bernal plays a sociopathic outsider threatening the apparently perfect life of his long-lost preacher father (William Hurt). In what now looks like a dry run for There Will Be Blood, Dano is the earnest son campaigning for creationism to be taught at school, and sideswiped by the emergence of his sinister half-brother. Variety labelled the film noxious. It's undoubtedly nasty, but Dano helps to lend it a pulse.

I live in Los Angeles, work in the entertainment industry when I'm not moonlighting as a semi-reputable journalist and have done my fair share of lying or, more accurately, omitting the truth. One of the least pleasant experiences in town is being asked to give honest feedback to someone who is at best an acquaintance. It's worse yet if that person is a friend, lover or family member who actually takes your opinion seriously.

There are lots and lots of people in the world whose children go into a similar family business, whether it's being a judge or a lawyer or a doctor," she said. "Part of it actually is teaching them to ignore the white noise of silly terms like nepo baby, which you can't really do anything about.

There's a new documentary about Diddy in the wake of his recent criminal trial, in which he was sentenced to 50 months in prison after being found guilty of procuring sex workers. The documentary, titled Sean Combs: The Reckoning, has gotten a lot of buzz due to the fact that it was executive produced by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, who has had a longstanding public beef with Diddy.

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Nestled within that outrageousness was swift promotion of her beautiful new short film, A Friend of Dorothy. In it, she plays Dorothy, an elderly widow with limited mobility who meets young, closeted queer man JJ (played with startling fragility by newcomer Alistair Nwachukwu) after he accidentally kicks his football into her garden. A friendship blossoms, as they provide a sense of belonging and stability to one another at a time when, despite their different life stages, both are feeling cast adrift.

At a moment when independent cinemas across Europe are dimming their lights for good, Louis Denavaut breathes new life into the historic venue of the Elysées Lincoln cinema in Paris, France. The architect creates a sequence of atmospheres for this project, reflected in three distinct interior worlds that are clad in various materials and colors, from hushed velvet greens to saturated pinks and soft pastel tones.

Steven Spielberg's got his 2026 set. The still-unnamed UFO project he's been working on since 2024 is coming out in June, according to a billboard in Times Square. The billboards (there's one in LA too) are stingy with details. It's the silhouette of a bird, with the tagline "All Will Be Disclosed. Spielberg. 6.12.26." But what, exactly will be disclosed?

If the phrase "military industrial complex romantic comedy" rings your bells, Hailey Gates' feature directorial debut " Atropia" just might be for you. What if we told you it's also a bit of a satire? And it's based on real events and places? And it stars Alia Shawkat and Callum Turner, whose forbidden romance really blossoms inside the confines of, well, no spoilers here, but a decidedly unsexy space?

I find it easy to relax. I think confidence has an awful lot to do with it, and a certain degree of accomplishment. I don't mean that in a pompous sense. If I were struggling as a craftsman, I would tend to walk around with the tools of the trade in my hand. Now that I feel more wedded to my craft, I can put my tools down.

If you Google 'Madame Morrible' the browser takes you to a page of results about the character. But at the top, where it would usually provide a suggestion if you've spelt something wrong in your search terms, the web page reads: "Flip it around... Did you mean: wicked witch." Users can click on 'Wicked Witch' where they are taken to a new page all about The Wicked Witch of the West.

The recent Spanish-Italian movie El Cautivo (The Captive) tells the tale of Miguel de Cervantes's five-year captivity in Algiers in the 1580s. Cervantes had been captured at sea, and he was held for ransom with other Spanish nobles and men of means. His captors fail to realize that no one would put up the ransom they ask, and so Cervantes languishes in the Qasbah- with a view of the Mediterranean Sea but no freedom. His attempts to escape fail.

In the clip, the two actors sit for what appears to be an engagement photo shoot. It seems like they hardly know each other-despite a very funny Zoe Winters insisting otherwise while trying to get them to pose-and uncomfortable around each other. The few glimpses of their eventual wedding seems to be disastrous, with Zendaya's character taking swigs of liquor straight from the bottle and Pattinson's leaving the event with a bloodied face.

The three-year deal includes more than 200 characters from across Walt Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars; Mufasa to the Mandalorian, Buzz Lightyear to Black Panther. According to a statement announcing the deal, "The agreement does not include any talent likenesses or voices." This means that while you might see Elsa building an icy Death Star, you definitely won't hear voice actor Idina Menzel singing about how Princess Leia needs to let it go.

Nearly every Christmas film hinges on a seasonal, often kitschy surge of sentimentality in the final act. But for all the reunions, reconciliations and promises of renewal that occur at the end of the year, there is something to be said for the filmmakers who tap the rest of the winter months' potential as a backdrop for introspective, humanist storytelling.

The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its massive 2026 slate, with a lineup that includes Olivia Wilde's directorial follow-up to her 2022 film Don't Worry Darling and a project starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega about a gallerist attempting to sell a dead body at Art Basel. Starry narrative slate, aside, the lineup also includes a small but mighty group of music projects, including docs on Courtney Love ( Antiheroine)