The Green Party has urged Stockport residents to send a message about the climate crisis by backing its candidates in the general election.
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French director Leos Carax returned to the Cannes Film Festival in full force back in 2021 with “Annette” (and we’ll forgive the reader if it feels longer ago than that; COVID was a weird time). Carax’s film was Best Director on the 2021 Croisette, a slew of Césars (including another Best Director win), and made several annual top 10 lists by the time 2021 ended.
The Green Party has urged Stockport residents to send a message about the climate crisis by backing its candidates in the general election.
The National Weather Service in Los Angeles/Oxnard just issued a Flash Flood Warning for Southwestern Los Angeles County until 10 p.m. A flash flood warning means flash flooding is in progress, imminent, or highly likely.
Rita Moreno is looking back at her life to draw inspiration in her new film. This week, Moreno was featured on “The View,” where she discussed her film “The Prank.” In it, she plays a mean teacher, and explained how she was inspired to create the role by some of her personal memories and experiences with women in show business. Rita Moreno celebrated her 92nd birthday by singing while standing on top of a chairRita Moreno, Bad Bunny, and more stars added to the Oscars presenter listMoreno shared that her role is one of the best she’s had in years.
Actor/comedian and filmmaker Jonah Hill is looking to return to the director’s chair with a Hollywood-set thriller/drama titled “Outcome” that has been picked up by Apple Original Films. Hill was already able to coax “John Wick” franchise star Keanu Reeves to lead it last year, and today, Deadline adds that Cameron Diaz is now in talks to take a leading part in the Apple drama.
French filmmaker Leos Carax discussed the sacred nature of the image and the challenge of retaining its power on the big screen in the digital age in an on-stage conversation at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra event on Monday.
Jim Sheridan has dispelled rumors around a possible return to acting by Daniel Day-Lewis, who gave an Oscar-winning performance in the Irish director’s drama My Left Foot and also starred in his subsequent films In The Name Of The Father and The Boxer.
Hairy Bikers' Dave Myers planned his own funeral before he died and had an important wish for guests. The BBC star, who passed away aged 66 after being diagnosed with cancer, had plans already in place for his funeral.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Oscar-winning directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known professionally as Daniels, will debut their cinematic follow-up to “Everything Everywhere All at Once” in 2026. Universal Pictures, which recently signed an exclusive first-look deal with the filmmakers, added to its release calendar an “Untitled Event Film Directed by Daniels” on June 12, 2026.
Sam Heughan has shared some snaps of his trip to Australia where he was reunited with his Outlander and The Couple Next Door co-stars.
K.J. Yossman Matthew Vaughn is already deep into producing his next feature film, a caper titled “The Stuntman,” Variety has learned. Helmed by stunt performer turned director Damien Walters, the film tells the story of two brothers who both become stuntmen.
Landlords must listen to complaints and treat tenants with fairness and respect under new standards aimed at better regulating the sector in the wake of the death of past failings - including the death of Awaab Ishak in Rochdale.
Nick Cave has shared a cover of Édith Piaf’s ‘La Vie En Rose’ from Jack Antonoff‘s soundtrack to The New Look – listen below.The Bad Seeds frontman’s heartfelt rendition of the song was produced by Antonoff for the new Todd A. Kessler-created historical drama, which premiered on Apple TV+ on February 14.Released as a single in 1947, the original version of ‘La Vie En Rose’ is the signature track of French singer Piaf.
DIIV have shared their latest single ‘Brown Paper Bag’ with a video featuring Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst.The band – comprised of Andrew Bailey, Colin Caulfield, Ben Newman and Zachary Cole Smith – released ‘Brown Paper Bag’ on Friday, February 15 as the lead single of their forthcoming LP ‘Frog In Boiling Water’. Today (February 26), they released the track’s accompanying video.The video sees Durst introduce DIIV as they play a fake Saturday Night Live performance.
Carey Mulligan and Adam Sandler are hitting the red carpet at the 2024 Berlinale International Film Festival.
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Goldberg, star of CBS’s crime drama The Equalizer, has signed with Buchwald for representation.
EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall has rouned out the ensemble cast of 20th Century’s Ella McCay, the new movie from filmmaker James L. Brooks. Lowden joins a cast that includes Emma Mackey, Jamie Lee Curtis, Woody Harrelson, Ayo Edebiri, Albert Brooks, Kumail Nanjiani, Jack Lowden and Spike Fearn.
Scotland is home to one road that is so dangerous motorists could be charged just for driving on it.
Apple TV+ series traces the modern French fashion world through the eyes of acclaimed haute couture designers Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) and Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) amid Nazi-occupied Paris and how each of them, and their compatriots, dealt with that adversity with different shadings of complicity.Created by Todd Kessler (“Bloodline”), “The New Look” co-stars John Malkovich as Lucien Lelong, Dior’s first boss; Maisie Williams as Dior’s French-resistance fighter sister, Catherine; Claes Bang as Nazi operator Spatz, with whom Chanel consorts; Emily Mortimer as Chanel’s sketchy friend Elsa Lombardi; and Glenn Close as powerful Harper’s Bazaar Editor-in-Chief Carmel Snow. Mendelsohn, Binoche and Malkovich spoke to The Post about their characters’ motivations.When we first meet Dior, he’s happy working for Lelong and somewhat ambiguous about the Nazis, designing ball gowns for officers’ wives but refusing to meet with any of them in person. But when Catherine is taken prisoner by the Nazis — and sent to Ravensbrück, a deadly work camp — Dior’s attitude toward the war changes.Mendelsohn: “[Getting Catherine back] becomes his absolute raison d’etre from that point on.
Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor In the months since it has premiered at Cannes, “The Taste of Things,” a lushly romantic love letter to French cooking, has quickly been anointed one of the best food-focused movies ever made. The film, now playing in selected theaters, revolves around the romance between Juliette Binoche‘s Eugénie and wealthy gourmet Dodin Bouffant, played by Binoche’s former real-life partner Benoît Magimel.
Seven-time Oscar nominee Mike Leigh has reteamed with British actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who led his 1996 Oscar-nominated Secrets & Lies, on his latest feature, Hard Truths. We can share a first look at the feature above.