‘Armageddon Time’ Proves Not All Auteur Childhood Portraits Are an Oscar Slam Dunk

Adria Arjona gives Andy Garcia a kiss on the cheek at the premiere of their new movie, Father of the Bride, during closing night of the 2022 Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival over the weekend.

Eileen Davidson (The Young and the Restless), Loretta Devine (Grey’s Anatomy) and Vince Van Patten (7 Days to Vegas) are among the latest actors to join second chapter of Peacock’s original series Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem.

Married At First Sight cheating scandal broke, fellow reality TV alums Laura Byrne and Brittany Hockley have weighed in on the drama.WATCH: MAFS' Jackson Lonie caught kissing another womanEver since footage emerged of Jackson Lonie pashing a woman that was clearly not his girlfriend Olivia Frazer, fans have questioned how legit the whole situation really is.Many wondered if this could have been a move orchestrated by the couple and their publicity agent, a theory fellow MAFS star Domenica Calarco supported."I know there's going to be a lot of you who don't agree with me and that's ok but for someone who's been in the reality TV world for a long time, I just do not buy this," Laura revealed on her and Brittany's podcast Life Uncut.Jackson was caught kissing a woman who was clearly not Olivia."I don't think anyone's going to set up a publicity stunt that undermines their relationship because the most valuable thing that Olivia and Jackson have coming out of MAFS is that they are in love.READ NEXT: MAFS fans threaten to leak Olivia Frazer’s racy OnlyFans photos"When you're a reality TV contestant and you come out of a show and you're actually in a happy couple, it's almost like you two versus the world, you two against everything and the two of them are so much more valuable together than what they are if everybody in Australia thinks he's a cheater and she's a piece of s--t."Brittany also remarked that since Olivia and Jackson left the reality show as the season's villains, there would be no motive to incite more hate amongst MAFS fans.WATCH: The girl Jackson Lonie kissed breaks her silence"My personal opinion is I cannot see why anyone would want to blow themselves up anymore when you're in the situation Olivia is in.

Gallery: 20 celebrity interviews that never should’ve happened (Espresso)"I was at this club in Vegas and Seth Green had taken me there and he introduced me to Selma Blair and she took my hand. And I thought, 'Oh she's going to kiss my hand, like a chivalrous person of old,' and she bit my hand," he recalled. "And of course, I let out a yelp, because I'm not an alpha male.

The Bachelor, but his stepdaughter Georgia sees a very different side of him.WATCH: Osher Günsberg on the 2021 ACCTA Awards Red Carpet with WHOThe cheeky family man has had a special bond with her since he and her mum, Audrey Griffin, first crossed paths and fell in love in 2015.Osher knew from the get-go that Georgia would be a huge part of his relationship with Audrey, who split from her daughter’s father before she was born"Because Georgia was part of the picture we were very considerate and careful around how we would progress [our relationship],” he told The Australian Women’s Weekly in 2020.“Because you're not just dating someone – the stakes are much higher when there is a kid involved."Osher knew Georgia would be a big part of his romance with Audrey.Fortunately, Georgia was a big fan of the TV personality and before long she was as big a part of Osher’s life as Audrey was.In fact, his dad instincts began kicking in long before Georgia, who he affectionately calls G, officially became his stepdaughter."It was very early on that she went from being my girlfriend's kid to the next day being someone that, if she was standing in the road and a bus was coming, I would push her out of the way even if it meant I would die," he says."It was like a switch turned on and my DNA had activated some gene, some expression turned on that was it.

CANNES, France -- When the Cannes Film Festival audience stood to applaud James Gray's richly observed autobiographical drama “Armageddon Time," about the director's own 1980s childhood in Queens, Gray's voice quivered as he addressed the crowd.“It’s my story, in a way,” said Gray. “And you guys shared it with me.”“It took every last bit of control not to burst out into tears," Gray said, still recovering the next day in Cannes. “It’s been a really strange journey making the film and my father died two months ago of COVID.

Anne Hathaway steps out in a colorful outfit while out and about during the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, earlier this week.

Manori Ravindran International EditorLotfy Nathan, the director of Un Certain Regard title “Harka,” is set to make an elevated horror feature with the producers of “Armageddon Time.”Following the Cannes premiere of “Harka,” Nathan is moving forward with his sophomore film, which is tentatively titled “Son,” based on the apocryphal infancy gospel of Thomas, about the childhood of Jesus.The film continues the relationship between the U.S. director, Spacemaker Prods.

Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in France. The French model, 27, wore a baby pink tiered mesh floor-length gown as she walked the red carpet on Thursday.

Anne Hathaway is looking incredible on the Cannes red carpet!

Selma Blair is all about a reboot! The star sent fans wild when she teased a continuation of one of her most iconic movies, Cruel Intentions.ALSO: HELLO! launches Jubilee T-shirt collection to celebrate Queen Elizabeth in styleThe actress has been participating in several events to promote her new book, Mean Baby, and opening up candidly about her childhood, life as a mother, and her heartbreaking 2018 multiple sclerosis diagnosis.As she continues to make speaking appearances, fans couldn't help but ask about one of her most iconic roles, young and naïve Cecile Caldwell, and whether she would revisit it.WATCH: Selma shares incredible horseback riding achievementMORE: Selma Blair's vibrant home is the perfect haven amid health battleThough a reboot or sequel has never been confirmed, fans were as close as it gets to good news after Selma's latest revelation.During a book event for Mean Baby, pop-culture expert Donny Wood took one for the team and posed the question: "Would you ever do a Cruel Intentions sequel?"Though he didn't seem to get a chance to actually ask it, it didn't stop him from trying to get Selma's attention via Instagram, and he succeeded.The exciting revelationHer answer couldn't be more heartfelt and exciting. She confessed: "I would only love to do a Cruel Intentions anything."MORE: Selma Blair makes difficult revelation about her mother to emotional Savannah GuthrieMORE: Selma Blair granted a restraining order against ex-boyfriend after alleged attackShe gave a sweet shoutout to her equally iconic co-stars, writing: "I love Sarah Michelle Gellar, Roger Kumble, and Reese Witherspoon so much.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen I watch a movie by the writer-director James Gray, I often have the sensation that I’m seeing two films in one: the story being told and the one hovering offscreen — the one that’s all about his aspiration to be something larger than a mere storyteller. Early Gray films like “The Yards” (2000) and “We Own the Night” (2007) were modest tales suffused with his desire to be making “a ’70s movie.” “Ad Astra” (2019) was a lavishly scaled outer-space thriller suffused with his desire to be making “2001: A Space Odyssey.”“Armageddon Time,” Gray’s eighth feature, marks a break from most of what he has done before.

Audrey Diwan’s planned English language directing debut, the erotic tale Emmanuelle starring Lea Seydoux, has buyers buzzing as much as any Cannes Market package being shopped this week on the Croisette. But her last film Happening (which didn’t make the cut as France’s choice for Best Foreign Language Film, though many felt it would have won) might have the most lasting impact. The film is just released in the U.S. smack in the middle of revelations that the Supreme Court plans to overturn Roe V Wade.

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up. "What do I do in public situations where I admire someone, but feel as if I don't bring anything to the party? I bit him on the hand. 'Whoa!' he yelled.

Selma Blair has had an emotional past few weeks promoting her new book Mean Baby, which releases today, and she sat down with Today's Savannah Guthrie to talk all about it.MORE: Selma Blair's vibrant home with son is the perfect haven amid health battleALSO: HELLO! launches Jubilee T-shirt collection to celebrate Queen Elizabeth in styleDuring the interview, they hit on a particularly gut-wrenching subject, that being the actress' relationship with her mother and the ways in which it hurt her.VIDEO: Selma Blair shares incredible horseback riding achievementSavannah, in her voiceover, described their relationship as "demanding, critical, and sometimes cruel," then mentioning to Selma that she showed a lot of grace towards her in the book."She was a damn fine, funny, dramatic, amazing woman," the actress shared. "And I was hurt that she didn't love me enough.

"Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up,” by Selma Blair (Alfred A. Knopf)Most people probably know Selma Blair from her memorable roles in late ‘90s/early '00’s hit films such as “Cruel Intentions," “Legally Blonde” and “Hellboy.”Perhaps others are familiar with her work as a model, gracing the covers of fashion magazines and enjoying a stint as a collaborator with and muse to the famed designer Karl Lagerfeld.Or maybe they've heard about her mid-life multiple sclerosis diagnosis and the recent documentary, “Introducing, Selma Blair,” that details how the actress is adapting to life with the disease.What they don't know — and couldn't until now — is the devastating trauma the Michigan-born Selma Blair Beitner has suffered during her 49 years.Blair details all of it in her captivating and unflinching memoir, “Mean Baby."Her addiction to alcohol, including getting drunk on Passover wine as an elementary school student.

Mean Baby, and in it she talks about some traumatic moments from her past including multiple times she was raped.In excerpts from the book which were published in People magazine on Wednesday (May 11), the Cruel Intentions actor has opened up about her problems with alcoholism – which started at the age of seven – and how after a day of binge-drinking, she was raped by at least one if not two people.“I don’t know if both of them raped me. One of them definitely did,” Blair writes in the book, according to People. “I wish I could say what happened to me that night was an anomaly, but it wasn’t.

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