Helen Mirren on 'The One and Only Ivan': Nature and animals are a part of our life and our existence

People can’t go to a Bad Bunny concert right now, so Bad Bunny brought the concert to the people.

Love Island 2020 winners Paige Turley and Finley Tapp are currently enjoying a loved-up holiday in Pilos, Greece.The reality stars have been spending their days soaking up the sun in the luxurious Westin Resort and enjoying fancy dinners in the evening.The couple are staying near to the ocean, and last week the former girlfriend of Lewis Capaldi shared a snap of herself looking chic on the beach in a large black straw sun hat and a pink swimming costume.

Maggie Lee Chief Asia Film CriticThe devil is in the details in “The Dark and the Wicked,” a horror film that teases out the evil presence descending on a grieving family on a Texas farm, with the same ambiguous, psychological heft of Henry James’ “The Turn of the Screw.” Writer-director Bryan Bertino’s slender script translates into a low-humming, allusvie narrative (punctuated with occasional gore) of tingling terror.

Jessica Kiang When Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy “broke” the Cannes Critics Week selection six years ago with the devastating “The Tribe,” casting deaf actors in an institutional parable exclusively told through sign language, it seemed some sort of event horizon for authenticity and formal daring had been reached.

Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, one of Venice’s two Career Golden Lion recipients this year alongside Tilda Swinton, brings prewar Hong Kong to exquisite if restrained life in her latest historical drama, Love After Love (Di Yu Lu Xiang).

Alissa Simon Film CriticThe winner of Karlovy Vary’s East of the West prize for her debut, “The Wednesday Child” (2015), Hungarian multihyphenate Lili Horvát screens “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival after its world premiere in Venice Days.

Joss Stone made some new controversial statements on her podcast. The British singer, 33, was on her podcast "A Cuppa Happy" chatting with musician Nitin Sawhney about a trip she took to Libya and how the local militia “looked after” her.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIsabel Sandoval’s “Lingua Franca” is a visually gorgeous drama from the auteur filmmaker who also stars in the film, now streaming on Netflix.Sandoval plays Olivia, an undocumented Filipina trans woman who spends her days working as a caretaker for Olga (the late Lynn Cohen).

Click here for more news from the Airdrie and Coatbridge AdvertiserSam said: “I’ve decided to focus on films celebrating Scotland and its people, the small towns and their communities included – and this focus fits perfectly with From Scotland With Love.“Although cinema is back on the big screen at Macrobert, we’re continuing to explore the digital aspects of film programming and are exciting about this event.” The documentary showing is at 7pm this Saturday, September 12, immediately followed

You could dine on nothing but lard for twenty years and still not develop the hardness of heart necessary to avoid being won over by Roger Michell‘s “The Duke,” a ridiculously charming British comedy that dunks a gamely accented prestige cast into an appealingly milky true story like so many digestives into a warm, well-earned, early evening cuppa.

Guy Lodge Film CriticIf the improbably named Kempton Bunton hadn’t really lived, Ealing Studios would probably have written him into existence. A 60-year-old working-class Newcastle gent with a cheeky sense of humor and a cheerily rabble-rousing spirit, who just happened to be implicated in a headline-making London art heist, he was born to be the hero of a jaunty, crowd-pleasing British comedy caper.

Manori Ravindran International EditorRoger Michell, the British director behind Venice competition title “The Duke” and films such as “Notting Hill” and “Venus,” says he feels “great sympathy” for the BBC and its ongoing tensions with the U.K.

(CNN)The first days and weeks of quarantine seem so far away now. But we're reminded of how weird they felt in "Love in the Time of Corona," a new Freeform and Hulu series that takes us into the love lives of four different households during the pandemic.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Mika has announced he will be live-streaming an ‘I Love Beirut’ benefit concert on Saturday September 19.He revealed his plans for the performance a few days ago on social media, with tickets going on sale yesterday (August 24).

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorLebanese-British singer-songwriter Mika will stage a livestreamed concert to raise funds and awareness for relief in the wake of the explosion in Beirut last month that killed more than 200 people and devastated a large area in the country’s capital.His “I Love Beirut” benefit concert will take place on Saturday 19 September and will be live-streamed across four time zones via YouTube.

Movies featuring talking animals come in all shapes and sizes: the typical “dog is man’s best friend” movie, the “kid and his trusty pet” movie, the “dog is great at basketball and other sports” movie, and of course, the rapping chipmunk movies. “The One and Only Ivan,” directed by Thea Sharrock and based on Katherine Applegate’s children’s book, is what one might call a gorilla movie, even if it boasts a menagerie of furry friends.