مسار منفصل للأخبار السياسية والعراقية والعالمية يظهر فور الجلب، بينما تبقى التقنية والذكاء الاصطناعي في الواجهة الرئيسية.
Just when the victim/villain discourse about sleeper smash “Obsession” was finally beginning to die down, along comes “Everybody Wants to Fuck Me” — another story of a young man’s desires getting violently over-satisfied — to start it all up again. Merging romantic comedy, body horror and gender-war satire as casually as its handsome, outwardly affable […]
U.S. President Donald Trump’s new hairstyle was heavily mocked in “Saturday Night Live U.K.’s” Weekend Update segment. “This week, President Trump stepped off Air Force One sporting a different hair color,” quipped co-anchor Ania Magliano. “He appears to be trialling a new shade of brown. Or, he’s shat his head.” “People are questioning, does the […]
Jeff Goldblum kicked off his hosting duties on “Saturday Night Live U.K.” by employing his musical skills in a jazzy number about spending time in London. “Can you believe this is Saturday night, first of all?” Goldblum asked the live audience after making his grand entrance. “And me, I’m hosting this gosh darn ‘SNL U.K.’ […]
At this late date, what the Pretenders accomplished is no mystery achievement. But it’s also a story that has never been extensively chronicled on film until “The Pretenders,” a Joss Crowley-directed doc that premieres Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. The band released what might rightly be considered the best rock ‘n’ roll debut […]
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s recent much-publicized return to England was mocked in the cold open of the first episode of “Saturday Night Live U.K.” Season 2. The cold open began with Larry Dean as King Charles II and Emma Sidi as Queen Camilla relaxing at Balmoral Castle in Scotland (“I do love our weekends […]
Belarusian director Andrei Kutsila’s “Letters from the Silenced Country,” a portrayal of contemporary Belarus seen through the lives of five individuals whose existence has been upended by state violence and political repression, is the winner of The Golden Globes Impact Prize for Documentary awarded in partnership with Artemis Rising Foundation at the Venice Film Festival. The […]
Mia Wasikowska fills out the screen in Kuba Dorabialski’s “Agata the Writer.” Metaphorically and figuratively, as one especially arresting sequence shows her in close-up looking directly at the audience and recounting the rest of the story. “I was so curious about it,” she says. “Luckily, when I’m doing something, I don’t think too much about […]
Maggie Gyllenhaal kicked off her term as Venice jury president by calling out the lack of women filmmakers in the running for the prestigious Golden Lion. And on Saturday night, she concluded it by awarding the prize to the only film solely directed by a woman: May el-Toukhy’s “Woman Unknown.” But at a press conference […]
Celine Dion shed tears as she kicked off her eagerly anticipated 16-date residency tonight at Plenitude Arena on the outskirts of Paris, marking her first major series of live shows since stepping away from the spotlight in 2022. “I had promised myself not to cry,” Dion told thousands of adoring fans in the opening moments […]
Tributes have begun flowing from across the film world for Jeremy Thomas, the legendary British producer who passed away on Friday at the age of 77. Terry Gilliam, who worked with Thomas on “Tideland” and “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” told Variety, “Jeremy Thomas loved making movies. He loved every aspect of the business, […]
Blizzard Entertainment will launch “World of Warcraft Forever,” a game set during the first year of the original 2004 “World of Warcraft,” Nov. 4. The “Forever” project was revealed as the final announcement during the opening ceremony of BlizzCon 2026 at the Anaheim Convention Center on Saturday, but rumors about the title (colloquially known as […]
The difficult teenage years are sometimes characterized as a wasteland, but more resemble a forest for the interdependent trio at the sinking heart of Jannis Lenz’s “Oasis,” the German-born, Austrian-trained filmmaker’s creepy, controlled debut feature. Retreating to the woods surrounding their German hometown, three ostracized high-schoolers create an arcane shared reality that provides them with […]
“Diablo V” is in development at Xbox’s Blizzard Entertainment. The new game is targeting a Spring 2029 release date, Blizzard announced Saturday during the opening ceremony for fan festival BlizzCon 2026 at the Anaheim Convention Center. “Diablo V” will be set a century after the events of “Diablo IV” (which released in 2023) and, in […]
The NFL is ready to kick off its first Sunday of a new season, but a good part of the game won’t be taking place on the field. Even as play-by-play stalwarts like Fox’s Greg Olsen, ESPN’s Joe Buck and Troy Aikman and Amazon’s Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit give fans real-time details and analysis […]
Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions partners with Dana White’s Zuffa Boxing for one of the biggest bouts of the year. In the main event, American Ryan Garcia (25-2-0) defends his WBC welterweight title belt against English fighter Conor Benn (25-1-0) in a marquee match. It’s scheduled for 12 rounds. On Saturday, Sept. 12, […]
A new “StarCraft” game is coming from Blizzard Entertainment in 2030 and a first look at the title has already been revealed. While technically “StarCraft III,” the game will be titled “StarCraft.” Per Blizzard Entertainment, “StarCraft” is an open-world, story-driven sci-fi shooter that takes place “decades after the events of StarCraft II” and is “a […]
Ang Geck Geck Priscilla spent more than a decade making “Ah Girl” before she ever made “Ah Girl.” Three short films and a decade of festival labs later, the Singaporean director’s feature debut is a Centrepiece selection at the Toronto Film Festival for its North American premiere, following wins at Rotterdam and Hong Kong. The […]
An animated TV series adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s popular “Diablo” video game franchise is in development at Netflix. “Diablo” is set the dark world of Sanctuary, where humanity is caught in the eternal conflict between the High Heavens and the Burning Hells. Per Blizzard’s official description of the project, “After decades of bringing entire universes […]
While Alan Rickman’s legendary “Harry Potter” character, Severus Snape, may have been notoriously hard on the children at Hogwarts, in real life, the actor couldn’t have been more different from the pupil-hating professor. In fact, Rickman would “bring in kids every single day” to the sets, said Gary Oldman, who played Sirius Black in the […]
Drake on Saturday released a teaser for “Fear of Missing Out,” a “not so short film” set for release on Sept. 15. Fans have long speculated whether “Fear of Missing Out” would be an album, a music video or a world tour. With the teaser’s release, Drake revealed that “FOMO” is some sort of film. […]
