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Duong, his son Andy, and scores of family members, friends, and powerful supporters crowded Oakland's Regal Jack London theater on Saturday to see " The King of Trash," a new documentary that chronicles how the Duongs lost everything and then rose from impoverished refugees to become the owners of an international trash and recycling empire headquartered in Oakland. The movie opens with archival footage of American soldiers and bombers spraying the Vietnamese countryside with munitions.

We've all watched a film or series and wanted to step straight into it. So, it's hardly surprising that set jetting'is shaping up to be a top travel trend again for 2026. We've already seen it in recent years with the White Lotus effect-the Four Seasons Maui reported a 425% year-on-year rise in website visits after the first season aired. Set jetting seems to be a particularly big hit with Gen Z and millennial travelers-81% now plan their getaways based on what they've seen

Another brick has been laid in One Battle After Another's impenetrable fortress this awards season. Tonight, the film won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, capping off a stellar week for its awards run. The film won four total awawrds, also taking Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture, for Teyana Taylor. If it wasn't already the frontrunner for Best Picture at the Oscars, it would be now.

For those of us who love the works of William Shakespeare, his reputation is both a blessing and a curse. Yes, there are abundant fellow travelers along the lifelong road of understanding his plays, and you rarely have to justify your passion for him, even to our anti-human tech overlords. And yet, it can be nearly impossible to see his plays clearly underneath the thick crust of received wisdom that covers them,

It's hard to ignore a film's message when the main character is addressing you directly down the barrel of the camera. Granted, the first time I watched the 1986 teen comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, I was the impressionable age of 11 and Look people in the eyes when they're talking to you was on constant rotation in my household. So my green eyes met Ferris's brown ones and I took it all in.

To quote Teyana Taylor's own song "WTP": "I believe that there's a big future out there with a lot of beautiful things." Oh, like winning a nationally televised acting award? Taylor won Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for her work in One Battle After Another at this year's Golden Globe awards, making her the presumptive front-runner at this year's Oscars.

In 1992, the original Lawnmower Man was way ahead of its time. Loosely based on the Stephen King short story of the same name, the cyberpunk film turned a neurodivergent gardener into a kind of pre- Matrix badass in a virtual world. Starring Jeff Fahey as Jobe and Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Lawrence Angelo, The Lawnmower Man was a haunting, bizarre sci-fi horror movie, which is utterly unlike anything else in cinema history.

Nicole Chi Amen, a Costa Rican woman of Chinese descent, has always been on the outside looking in. The opening scene of her moving debut feature replicates this predicament visually: her face pressed against a metal barricade, she looks through a hole in the opaque facade with interest. The camera is observing, too, and the sight of a house being torn down gradually comes into view. This was once the home of her maternal grandmother, a Guangdong native.

There's a palpable buzz around the 2026 Golden Globes, which is proving to have one of the strongest nominee rosters in history. In the women's categories alone, Hollywood's most resounding names, including Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, Cynthia Erivo, Emma Stone, Ariana Grande, and Amanda Seyfried, are vying for awards. So, regardless of who wins, the red carpet will be the most stacked it's been in years.

It appears that the Golden Globes are as obsessed with Heated Rivalry as the rest of the world. Despite Hollywood's Beverly Hilton hotel brimming with the type of blue-chip talent that could, say, win a Golden Globe - we're talking Leonardo DiCaprio, Ariana Grande, Timothée Chalamet - it was newcomers Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams who stole the show at last night's glitzy awards ceremony. And that's before the pair had even got inside the venue.

Life is finite. There is no fighting that - as much as people like to put themselves into ice, hoping that they might wake up in 50 years. It's a dream and a fantasy. It's very strange to me. I don't call it growing old. I call it growing up. You constantly grow up through life. But the tech bros who cannot face the idea that they will get old and die just can't deal with it. I think it's so funny. They just haven't grown up yet.

Fans planning to watch the 83rd Golden Globe Awards are plowing money into prediction markets, hoping for a windfall if they correctly choose a winner. Millions have so far been bet on Golden Globe winners on Polymarket, one of the leading prediction market platforms. This year, Polymarket partnered with the Golden Globes, which airs on CBS and Paramount+ on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.