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Milly Alcock stars in the superhero feature for Warner Bros. and DC Studios that arrives on the heels of last summer's 'Superman.'
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San Francisco holds a special place in Colman Domingo’s heart. He called it home from 1991 to 2001 and it’s where “I became of age as an artist,” he says. It’s only fitting that Variety, in partnership with the Frameline Film Festival, honors Domingo with our Creative Conscience Award June 27 at the Castro Theatre. […]
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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains plot details, including about the ending, from DC Studios’ “Supergirl,” now playing in theaters. It took more than five-and-a-half years, and countless hours reading comic books, for screenwriter Ana Nogueira to get to this moment: watching Supergirl fly onto the silver screen in her full glory. “I’ve seen the movie […]
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Oscar voters…don’t forget to RSVP to “The Invite.” “The Invite,” Olivia Wilde’s third feature as a director and the most sleek and assured work of her career behind the camera, is an indie film with a lot to say. Oscar voters shouldn’t be afraid to listen. A24, the distributor that bought the film out of […]
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“Toy Story 5” held on to Friday’s box office crown, despite new competition from “Supergirl” and “Jackass: Best and Last.” Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5” made $21 million domestically from 4,425 screens as it entered its second weekend in cinemas. By Sunday, it’s expected to collect $70 million to $80 million, pusing it’s North […]
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Cena tells The Hollywood Reporter about joining Eric André in the wild Netflix film 'Little Brother,' the chances of more 'Peacemaker' and why "the credit has to be given to WWE" for his comedy success.
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The director spoke to Italian television in the wake of Amazon MGM dropping his Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial' months after Amazon entered into a $50 billion investment with OpenAI.
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The Irish actor will soon be reprising Oz Cobb for the third time in Reeves’ The Batman: Part II.
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As the Czech film festival gears up to celebrate its 60th edition in its 80th year, you can also rewatch favorites starring the likes of Jude Law, Benicio Del Toro, Casey Affleck and John Malkovich.
The Guardian Culture
Young people have chosen this six-month season, and though rebel classics such as Quadrophenia and If … are here, the picks show youth culture in fluxSeventy-five years ago, the Festival of Britain offered a vision of a modern, forward-looking nation emerging from the austerity of the second world war. It also coincided with the emergence of a new cultural figure in the US: the teenager. For the first time, young people were beginning to be recognised as a distinct social group with their own ta
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K. Bhagyaraj, the writer-director-actor widely regarded as one of Tamil-language cinema’s defining creative figures, died Saturday in Chennai following a cardiac arrest. He was 73. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, former actor C. Joseph Vijay, announced that Bhagyaraj’s final rites would be conducted with full state honors, describing his passing as an irreparable loss to Tamil […]
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Swiss filmmaker Antonin Niclass brings imagination to life in “Into the Forest,” a stop-motion short which won Friday the Young Audience Award at the Annecy Animation Festival. Produced by Milos-Films and shot at Hélium Films’ studios in Switzerland’s Lausanne, the short follows three handcrafted monkeys who transform a cold animation studio into a vibrant jungle […]
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There are glimpses of the Curb star at his razor-like best here – but they are desperately few. It’s mainly worth watching for the immaculate Obama introIt is always an emotional blow to see former US president Barack Obama pop up on one’s screen. The Instagram algorithm sends me a lot of him, because it knows I always click on him being charming with babies, statesmanlike in speeches, cool at rallies, articulate and witty at anything, endlessly composed, compassionate, intelligent, handsome, th
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Barging through the doors of the Poohniverse nose-first, Pinocchio has officially come to the company of Winnie the Pooh, Bambi and Peter Pan with Rhys Frake-Waterfield’s “Pinocchio Unstrung.” The latest addition to the ever-growing roster of twisted takes on childhood icons, which started with 2023’s “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey,” sees Carlo Collodi’s classic puppet taking […]
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Tipped by Lorde and Billie Eilish, the New York musician twists sublime folk and chaotic synths into bewitching new shapesAt first Shane Lavers can’t get through. Then he’s on video call but I cannot speak. When we finally make a clear connection over the phone, I can hear that he’s surrounded by nature, with faint snatches of birdsong at the edge of his measured, slightly gravelly speech. The musician who performs both in and as Chanel Beads (it remains unclear even to its core members whether
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Warner Bros. Animation, hugely active this year at Annecy, unveiled Friday at Annecy a new “Dark Shadows” animated series,  confirming the studio’s push in adult animation into other genres beyond adult comedy.  Reimagining the 1960s cult TV series, the show is in very early development stages, with Lisa Holdsworth, creator of Channel 4’s “Dreamers” and […]
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As his new novel is published, the US author talks about nurturing the next generation of creatives, debating Sam Altman – and why he writes on a boat in San Francisco BayAt Dave Eggers’s suggestion, we’re starting the interview by life drawing together. The novelist dropped out of art school but has been drawing for decades, and his new book is set in the art world. Prudence, our model, stands before us with her palms open, nude but for a pair of black knee-high socks. This, unsurprisingly, is
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Leeds PlayhouseIn a cavernous venue seemingly designed for a colliery-based story, Amy Leach directs Paul Allen’s adaptation of the 1996 filmIt’s odd that this most Yorkshire of stories has never been staged at Leeds Playhouse. That’s remedied with grit and humanity by director Amy Leach and her strikingly relevant production of the Paul Allen play based on Mark Herman’s 1996 film.The Playhouse’s Quarry theatre is an enormous, awkward space that demands epic storytelling. With a name that sugges
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It’s Curb Your Enthusiasm in britches and bonnets, poking hole after hole in American lore – and it’s so audacious it will make your jaw drop. Brace yourself! ‘I hear America singing,” wrote Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass. He didn’t say that the song was “USA! USA!” backed by a klaxon and accompanied by a foam finger. For a country evangelical about its superiority, there is a dark and sizable underbelly they would prefer to ignore. A pretty big overbelly, too. Yet every society has its truth t
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The first time I saw the film, I convinced myself I didn’t like it. Now it’s one of my favouritesI was 14 years old the first time I saw two men kiss on screen. It was 2006, and my mum had rented Brokeback Mountain from our local Blockbuster. She said it was a “special” movie night for “just the two of us”.For the next 134 minutes, I watched two sheep herders, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), fall in love in the beautiful Wyoming countryside, only for that