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As a new retrospective opens, collaborators of the Mikey and Nicky film-maker explain how she blazed a trail for female directors in Hollywood In 1975, after more than two years of sifting through footage, Elaine May was still in the weeds editing her deeply personal gangster film, Mikey and Nicky , and Paramount Pictures and its CEO, Barry Diller, were losing patience. In a desperate move to…
So You Want to See The President! depicts a procession of visitors waiting to see Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The original 1943 Rockwell suite of illustrations goes on public view Thursday in D.C.
A blooming new wave of musical theatre is exploring the plight of the planet with a playful and hopeful approach Earth is a single woman with a lot to give; Humanity is a charismatic bad boy who turns out to be an inveterate taker. Their toxic relationship is told in Hot Mess , a musical created by Jack Godfrey and Ellie Coote, which works both as an eccentric romcom with broad commercial appeal…
There’s more than a whiff of Taken in Kenji Tanigaki’s exhilarating martial-arts movie, in which a handyman goes after some evil people traffickers It keeps happening: every few years, usually during a run of lethargic Hollywood spectacles, the Overton window of screen violence gets recalibrated by a muscular wonder from the east. Thundering along in the bloody footsteps of the Raid films and the…
From global loanwords and garbled Italian, the slang of the children of millennials doesn’t just share elements with Minionese – it may have absorbed it I was four years old when Despicable Me was released in cinemas and the banana-coloured, overall-clad Minions took the world by storm. By the time I was seven, my siblings and I were using The Official Minion Manual to teach ourselves Minionese.…
Carol Allen-Storey’s intimate images capture the struggles mums face looking after kids with disabilities – but also the huge hearts of both parents and children Continue reading...
The State Fair rally was an empty celebration of a man instead of a country.
Experts say the cost of living, pandemic and boom in unhealthy food are behind the rise in cases.
Aldwych theatre, London Frank swings into the West End with a swaggering turn from Joel Harper-Jackson and plenty of style yet the script is flat Ol’ Blue Eyes is back: first staged in Birmingham three years ago and workshopped since, this Frank Sinatra bio-musical has now hit the West End with big band energy. Its intriguing premise is the star’s nadir, those messy years in the late 40s and…
Before he botched the Reflecting Pool, the president wanted the border wall black.
America’s foreign policy is about one man and little else.
Most presidents become chastened about their power over time. Trump is doing the opposite.
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “The Original Beef of Chicagoland,” the series finale of “The Bear,” now streaming on Hulu. The real restaurant was the friendships they made along t…
VarietyThey were a big 00s buzz band – but looked in danger of fading out. Empowered by fatherhood and anger at war and AI, the New Yorkers explain why they ‘really showed up’ again Suits. Gnomic poetry. …
The Guardian CultureThe Directors Guild of America has voted to ratify a four-year contract intended to preserve members’ jobs amid a historic downturn in film and TV production. Christopher Nolan, the DGA president, …
VarietyCrunchyroll has acquired the international streaming rights for the eagerly anticipated upcoming anime series “Kagurabachi.” Additionally, the streamer has confirmed actor Katsuyuki Konishi has joi…
VarietyWriter-director Taratoa Stappard is an artist who tells stories of his lineage, and his latest film, “Mārama,” is a tribute to the ancestral women who risked it all to do the same during a much mor…
VarietyWhen Netflix released the first “Enola Holmes” in 2020, audiences watched “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown reinvent herself as the eccentric, fourth-wall-breaking detective. They also met …
VarietyFor the second time this season, a “Love Island USA” contestant has been kicked off the show for using the n-word. Casa Amor participant Alannah Keyser will no longer appear on Season 8, Peacock ha…
VarietyAnn Blyth, who drew a 1946 Oscar nomination for her memorable performance as the spoiled, selfish daughter of Joan Crawford’s hard-working, devoted title character in the classic film “Mildred Pier…
VarietyAnd the award for best party at Cannes Lions goes to … There isn’t such a recognition (yet) from the annual festival of creativity for marketeers and advertisers in the South of France. But in 2026…
VarietyOne day that captures how Trump has gone from unpredictable to chaotic
The AtlanticThe president and the secretary of defense have a right to remove officers, but also an obligation to explain their actions.
The AtlanticSPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 2 of the live-action “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” now streaming on Netflix. Netflix’s live-action “Avatar: The Last Airbender” is back for …
VarietyPhoebe Bridgers released her first new solo single in four years, “Lost Boys,” on Thursday, accompanied by a music video that sees the singer doing some serious Renaissance Faire-style role playing…
Variety(Dead Oceans) The US singer took years off after becoming ‘world-weary’ of public life – and in the meantime, her silvery balladry reshaped pop. Her return is an ornate reinvention In the press mat…
The Guardian CultureHarsh sentences raise uncomfortable questions about equal justice under the law.
The AtlanticFalling approval ratings for the president haven’t dimmed their enthusiasm.
The AtlanticThe Reflecting Pool is an image so perfect, it feels as though symbolism as a whole gave up and decided to sign off.
The AtlanticPacked with fun memories from Ben Elton and Stephen Fry plus heartbreaking regret from his former partner, the Bottom star is so adored that this documentary risks descending into cringe – but his …
The Guardian CultureJudging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while Karen Bartlett wins the nonfiction prize for The Escape from Kabul American writer Ben Le…
The Guardian CultureIn some ways, the fifth and final season of The Bear feels less daring — but after four seasons, the small wins mean more.
NPR BooksTheir cultural campaigns reveal how brittle their art can be.
The AtlanticSadler’s Wells, London Molina says she wants a show that never finishes – this one is endlessly thrilling and surprising Rocío Molina has completely redefined what flamenco can be. Some purists say…
The Guardian CultureBBC Medical Editor Fergus Walsh speaks to St John's ambulance service about treating heat exhaustion.
BBC Health‘Ambitious and welcoming’ venue that opened in 2020 praised for ‘reimagining what being a museum can mean’ The Box in Plymouth has won the prestigious Art Fund museum of the year award, the largest…
The Guardian CultureFull emergency cover remains in place and patients have been told to attend all scheduled appointments unless advised otherwise.
BBC HealthExclusive: Unknown hand covered up artist’s depiction of diverse crowd during influx of refugees to Leiden in 1620s Layers of overpaint have been removed from a 17th-century painting, confirming th…
The Guardian CultureHow a weird, awkwardly fused creature became the meme of the summer
The AtlanticIn its final season, the FX show circles its end point.
The AtlanticThe Canadian musician, who achieved major hits such as Spinning Wheel and You’ve Made Me So Very Happy, died peacefully at a Toronto hospital David Clayton-Thomas, lead singer of 60s and 70s group …
The Guardian CultureThe director has spent decades telling stories about extraterrestrials, but his real focus lies on Earth.
The AtlanticThe blockbuster launch is expected to dwarf the box office takings of the year’s biggest movies with one industry analyst predicting it could make $1bn within an hour It is, quite simply, the most …
The Guardian CultureApollo theatre, London Stephen Mangan, Sarah Hadland, Ardal O’Hanlon and Janie Dee are seat-shakingly funny in this study of adultery Alice and Michel must conceal their affair from possibly suspic…
The Guardian CultureMatt Johnson and Jay McCarrol’s (non-Cobain affiliated) movie feels like Jackass via Back to the Future. They talk about how the supreme silliness was stressful to film, and how times have changed …
The Guardian CultureDo the games offer a lesson for politics?
The AtlanticResearchers are trying to improve how Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder is diagnosed
BBC HealthSo-called final outing for Johnny Knoxville and his daring, stunt-hungry pals might be close to a greatest hits reel, but there are enough laughs to warrant the nostalgia The boy-men of Jackass , a…
The Guardian CultureIn 1981, Australia launched a fight against skin cancer with help from a yellow cartoon seagull and a catchy jingle.
BBC HealthFreedom Under Grace will feature previously unpublished homilies and addresses from 2001 to 2013, letting readers ‘observe the development of Prevost’s thinking’ Robert Prevost – now Pope Leo XIV –…
The Guardian CultureFrom Merlin the duck to Thierry Henry’s panic and the goalie who broke the internet, here are the tournament’s most glorious TV moments The schedule-dominating football tournament has reached its m…
The Guardian CultureEurope cannot cope with this heat.
The AtlanticAs the former teen heartthrob turns 60, we look at his most intense, ironic, lovable roles – from a sympathetic scientist to a peevish puppeteer It’s the Great Depression à la Disney when a tomboy,…
The Guardian CultureIt turns out bots aren’t great teachers.
The AtlanticHe built an independent central bank that withstood many crises. That independence may not last forever.
The AtlanticI use a wheelchair and yearn to dance like I did when I was a kid. Could I possibly hold my own in a class led by inspirational disabled dance star Kate Stanforth? From ballroom to hip-hop, I tried…
The Guardian Culture(Warner) From Count Dracula organ to choirs crying in Latin, the Devon band are scenery-chewingly preposterous yet nuanced on this epic about extraterrestrial life Barely three minutes of Muse’s 1…
The Guardian CultureI bought the most confusing jacket in America.
The AtlanticThe banks of the Guadalupe River were an idyllic spot to park an RV. Then, last summer, it started to rain harder and faster than anyone could imagine.
The AtlanticNow supporting each other through cancer treatment, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova trace the ups and downs of their decades-long relationship at the summit of sporting achievement Here is a Ne…
The Guardian CultureAs a new retrospective opens, collaborators of the Mikey and Nicky film-maker explain how she blazed a trail for female directors in Hollywood In 1975, after more than two years of sifting through …
The Guardian CultureSo You Want to See The President! depicts a procession of visitors waiting to see Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The original 1943 Rockwell suite of illustrations goes on public view Thursday in D.C.
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