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With two days to go until Christmas, I can’t think of a better gift for film lovers or those with an interest in iconic forces in the entertainment industry than the 2022 autobiography My Place in the Sun, which chronicles the life of George Stevens Jr — now 90 and still going strong in a remarkable career that has traversed the highest corridors of Hollywood to Washington, D.C.

Barbara Costello — known affectionately on TikTok and Instagram as Babs of Brunch With Babs — is the preeminent source for kitchen traditions and hosting in style.

Unapologetically fashionable! Lil Nas X’s style is just as over-the-top and extravagant as his songs.

After enormous success and Oscars for films ranging from Whiplash to La La Land to First Man Director/Writer Damien Chazelle returned to an early dream project first envisioned 15 years ago, a no-holds barred look at early Hollywood, a time when not only movies were transitioning from silent to sound, but Los Angeles itself was booming from desert to bulging metropolis. People were caught up in a turbulent time of change, and it didn’t always work out for some. As witnessed in the resulting film and years of meticulous research, Babylon is a sight to behold, a decadent, free wheeling, at times even poignant look at a series of dreamers, stars, fringe players, and all who wanted a piece of a world that felt out of control, uninhibited, and full of promise – and downfall.

Do you think that you live in a cool neighbourhood, with loads of fun places to go out, shop and stay in?

Greetings from the movies corner of the pop culture world. You remember movies, right? All of three years ago, the brightest and the best offerings shined on the big screen. (Your diverse 2019 offerings included universally acclaimed hits such as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Knives Out and Parasite.)

Will Hollywood embrace the Golden Globes? Is America even interested in who the Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominates anymore? We likely won’t know until the Globes return to NBC on Tuesday, January 10th, but the HFPA were up bright and early this morning to reveal their 2023 nominees. And, assuming they care, it was a very big day for “The Banshees of Inisherin” which earned eight nominations on the film side while “Abbott Elementary” took five in the television categories.

Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes won the top prize at the 38th IDA Documentary Awards in Hollywood tonight, cementing its status as an Oscar frontrunner.

Best Feature: “All That Breathes”Best Director: Shaunak Sen, “All That Breathes”Best Short: “Haulot”Best TV Feature Documentary or Mini-Series: “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America: An America ReFramed Special”Best Curated Series: “POV”Best Episodic Series: “Origins of Hip Hop”Best Multi-Part Documentary: “We Need to Talk About Cosby”Best Short-Form Series: “POV Shorts”Best Stand-Alone Audio Documentary: “Documenting a Death by Euthanasia”Best Multi-Part Audio Documentary or Series: “Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s”Best Music Documentary: “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues”David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award: “Requiem for a Whale”  (The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University)Best Cinematography: “Fire of Love”Cinematographers: Maurice Krafft, Katia Krafft, Pablo Alvarez-MesaBest Editing: “All That Breathes”Editors: Charlotte Munch Bengtsen, Vedant JoshiBest Music Score: “The Melt Goes On Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons”Composer: Ramachandra BorcarBest Writing: “Fire of Love”Writers: Sara Dosa, Erin Casper, Jocelyne Chaput, Shane Boris)ABC News VideoSource Award: “Riotsville, U.S.A.”Pare Lorentz Award: “All That Breathes”Pare Lorentz Honorable Mention: “Nuisance Bear”

A new survey has revealed Scots' fears over sewage pollution after untreated human waste was dumped in our rivers and seas 10,000 times in a year. Nearly seven in ten believe sewage and chemical pollution poses the biggest threat to the health of our seas, according to a Survation poll shared with the Record.

Every country in the world has place names that are difficult to pronounce even to people from there, and Scotland is no different.

Iraqi filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji picked up the Golden Yusr for Best Feature Film at the Red Sea Film Festival with his debut feature Hanging Gardens.

CNN plans to move its Los Angeles bureau from an office tower in Hollywood to Warner Bros. Discovery office space in Burbank.

So far, it’s fair to say that Disney+ is very happy with the performance of the various Marvel Studios TV series. Each streaming series seems to be fairly well-loved by critics and fans, with Marvel seriously committing to bringing new and existing characters to the world of streaming.