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Mikey Madison Ravishes in Red Proenza Schouler Dress for Virtuosos Award Ceremony at 2025 SBIFF
Mikey Madison favored a caped silhouette at the Virtuosos Award ceremony during the 2025 Santa Barbara International Film Festival on…
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Lady Gaga Saved Her Pop Star Career With ‘Abracadabra’
Lady Gaga has cycled through many iterations in the time we’ve known her: disco diva, Warholian punk, country-inflected barroom balladeer,…
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Jeremy Strong on Poking Fun at Method Acting With Dunkin’ Donuts Super Bowl Ad: ‘I Had No Trouble Taking the Piss Out of Myself’
It could have been a cash grab, but Jeremy Strong prepared for his Dunkin’ Donuts commercial like an actor getting ready to play Hamlet.…
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Cease and Desist: When to Send the Legal Equivalent of 'Back Off'
Ever had someone step on your toes, legally speaking? That’s where a cease and desist comes into play. It’s like a formal way of saying,…
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Saudi Drama Against The Patriarchy ‘Hobal’ Beats Hollywood Titles Becoming Standout Local Hit
Saudi filmmaker Abdulaziz Alshlahei’s drama “Hobal” about clashes between tradition and modernity within a Saudi family during the early…
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‘Squid Game’ Actor Gong Yoo, Song Hye-kyo, Kim Seol-hyun, Cha Seung-won, Lee Hanee to Star in Netflix Period Drama ‘Show Business’
Netflix is expanding its Korean content slate with “Show Business” (working title), a sweeping period drama set against the backdrop of…
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Super Bowl Final Highlights: Philadelphia Eagles demolish Kansas City Chiefs 40-22
The Philadelphia Eagles deny the Kansas City Chiefs the 'three-peat' as they dominate the Super Bowl in New Orleans with a crushing 40-22…
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The Profile Hemingway Could Never Live Down
Throughout the profile, Hemingway, drinking hard, employs a kind of skin-tightening lingo that he called “Indian Talk.” It wouldn’t have…
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Alex de la Iglesia-Produced Dystopian Podcast Adaptation ‘Sanctuary’ Heads to Berlinale Series Market Selects
Wide-eyed expectant mother Pilar (Lucía Guerrero, “Money”) takes up residence at an idyllic domed birthing retreat after a climate-fuelled…
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The L.A. Chefs Keeping Their Neighbors Fed
On the Tuesday morning in January when Los Angeles began to burn, the Santa Ana winds whipped hard at Courtney Storer’s driveway gate, at…
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The Art of the New Yorker Cover
Since 1925, each issue of The New Yorker has been published with its own singular work of art, presented without the headlines or…
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Fifty Weird Years of “Saturday Night Live”
It is customary for a person in a situation like mine—preparing to hold forth on “Saturday Night Live”—to divulge which performers would…
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The Art of the Crossword
How do you build a crossword? In this hour-long seminar, the puzzle constructors Natan Last and Robyn Weintraub provide a hands-on guide,…
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The Art of Film Criticism
“Somebody asked me, ‘When you write a pan of a movie, are you recommending that I not see it?’ ” the film critic Richard Brody recalled.…
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Rea Irvin’s “Eustace Tilley” at One Hundred
A hundred years ago, The New Yorker emerged from the Jazz Age dreams of two young journalists, Jane Grant and Harold Ross. Fresh from…
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The Uneven Cross-Cultural Comedy of “Paddington in Peru” and “Universal Language”
Not every filmmaker is a cinephile, but, among those who are, that passion can manifest itself in unexpected ways. The driving pleasure of…
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An Arachnophobe Pays Homage to the Spider
Back in my footloose twenties, I lived for a year in Costa Rica, where I worked at a school in the central highlands and worked even…
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Lost and Found: A Newly Discovered Poem by Robert Frost
“Nothing New” was written in 1918, not long before “Dust of Snow,” which was first published in an English magazine, in 1920, under a…
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An Academic’s Journey Toward Reporting
Early in Ian McEwan’s novel “Atonement,” from 2001, a young girl sits on the floor, considering how strange it is to have a body. She…
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Korea Box Office: ‘Hitman 2’ Leads Again as ‘Nocturnal’ Debuts in Third Place
The South Korean box office saw “Hitman 2” continue its run at the top, though with a steep decline, while the new release “Nocturnal”…
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China Box Office: ‘Ne Zha 2’ Crosses $1.1 Billion as Market Surges Past $2 Billion in 2025
China’s box office continued its strong Lunar New Year momentum, with “Ne Zha 2” dominating the charts for the second consecutive week.…
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Fan Bingbing, Lee Kang-Sheng Star as Hong Kong’s HAF Unveils 15 Work-in-Progress Projects, Alumni Head to Berlin
Hong Kong International Film Festival Society’s (HKIFF)’s Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) has announced a slate of 15…
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Super Bowl 2025: Philadelphia Eagles demolish Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 to win NFL title
Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to attend America's biggest game, while Taylor Swift was among the many celebrities at…
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Super Bowl: What Happens With the Losing Team’s Championship Shirts?
An apparel collection celebrating the Philadelphia Eagles’ victory at the 2025 Super Bowl was released after the team beat the Kansas City…