Queen has a new dog named Lissy - and she's not a corgi

The cast of luminaries that first-time filmmaker Lisa Hurwitz assembles in documentary have one thing in common – extreme adoration for the famed Horn & Hardart eateries, whose soaring ceilings, famed coffee and wholesome vending-machine meals for a nickel dominated the food scene in Philadelphia and NYC through much of last century.

Addie Morfoot ContributorThis year’s documentary Academy Award feature race is historical on many fronts. Four of the five nominated films were directed by people of color; Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee” made history by scoring three Oscar nominations: not only the doc feature category but also in the animated feature and international feature categories; Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas’ “Writing With Fire” became the first feature doc from India to earn a nom in the race; and four of the six nominated helmers are first-time feature docu directors.But perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this year’s nonfiction feature Oscar race is the dominance of nascent doc distributors and production units.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has an adorable new furry member of the family.

Queen Elizabeth II is not dead. The long-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand is very much alive and well, Buckingham Palace revealed to CNN on Feb. 23, when they said she held an audience with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson over the phone from Windsor Castle on Wednesday. This news comes less than 24 hours after a report by Hollywood Unlocked claimed The Queen, 95, had died.

Britney Spears is introducing a new addition to her family! The singer announced that she adopted a new Australian shepherd puppy named Sawyer after she was on vacation in Hawaii.The iconic pop star admits she is obsessed with her new puppy, writing “Can you have two loves of your [life] because he comes in second !!!!,” with a clip of her blue-eyed pup.“I found him in Maui like a dream and took him home with me immediately,” she explained, “It’s funny … he doesn’t talk back but it’s like he understands what I’m saying.”Britney is known for being an animal lover, constantly sharing videos and photos of lions, tigers, pigs and horses, and previously confessing she has been doing “equine therapy” for her social anxiety.The superstar also explained that she has been working with Sawyer on house-training, writing “I think he understands me especially with those eyes,” adding, “He makes my heart melt … he needs me and I like that !!!!!”Britney also revealed that she adopted a French cat, describing him as a smart and “very peculiar” miniature cheetah, “She looks at food as if she is 30 for two min before she eats it,” she shared, “Me and security couldn’t find her for 2 hours and then when we did she would disappear again.”Britney’s mom, Lynne Spears, commented after seeing her daughter’s new puppy on Instagram, calling him “the most beautiful pup ever.”

Britney Spears has some new members in her family!

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are expanding their family! The 40-year-old pop star too to her Instagram page to share a precious new video of her Australian shepherd puppy, Sawyer. The little fuzz ball has piercing blue eyes and white and tan fur. «I'm introducing the new edition to my family… his name is Sawyer and he's a white Australian shepherd with blue eyes !!!!!» Spears captioned the video on Instagram. «I found him in Maui like a dream and took him home with me immediately.»Spears and her fiancé, Asghari recently returned from a trip to Hawaii in January.

center of renewed fervor in recent months, and Amy Poehler's new documentary on the pair aims to shine a different kind of light on their legacy.Poehler, who directed the forthcoming doc, spoke with ET's Matt Cohen at the film's Los Angeles premiere on Tuesday, and opened up about the difficulties she faced when helming the monumental project.«The challenge of this film, because Lucy and Desi are so known, is to figure out almost how to bring them back to life. Make them people again, rather than icons,» Poehler shared.

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Guy Lodge Film CriticReconstruction in documentary filmmaking is an eternally divisive technique: What some deem vivid and immediate, others find distancing and artificial, cloaking and blurring reality in the language of fiction cinema. Yet what if the reconstructions don’t just feature the documentary’s real-life subjects, but are expressly conceived and realized by them — not recreating reality so much as their lingering, haunted memories thereof? That’s a different proposition entirely, as is “Procession,” a risky, wrenching film in which celebrated docmaker Robert Greene frequently surrenders the directorial reins to his subjects and collaborators: six middle-aged, middle-American men living with the trauma of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic Church priests and clergymen.

How well does a daughter know her mother? Charlotte Gainsbourg attempts to answer that question in her directorial debut “Jane by Charlotte.” Unlike many who have found their lives outside of the spotlight, the filmmaker has always been in the public eye thanks to her famous mother Jane Birkin. A renowned singer and actress in her own right, Birkin is most known for work in films like the Antonioni classic “Blowup.” READ MORE: ‘Sundown’: Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg Play Siblings In Michel Franco’s Tragic Acapulco-Set Drama [Venice Review] Gainsbourg sits down with the legendary Birkin for a wide-ranging conversation covering everything from lack of sleep to the power as well as the pain that comes with being a celebrity.