U.S. granting visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and family Axios Flavio Bolsonaro and family to receive US visas after leaving Brazil, State Department says Reuters Flavio Bolsonaro Lands In US After Losing Brazil Election: Reports NDTV Flávio Bolsonaro flees Brazil after presidential election loss, reports say The Guardian Trump approved allowing Flávio Bolsonaro to enter US after Brazil election loss,…
Israel election: Exit polls suggest no clear winner with Eisenkot’s bloc neck and neck with Netanyahu BBC What to Expect Now That Polls Are Closed in Israel The New York Times Israeli voters have given Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition a drubbing The Economist Israelis vote in record numbers in first national election since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre Fox News…
Two Nordic leaders urge Putin to end Ukraine war in rare direct contact by Europeans Reuters European Leaders Split Over Phone Call to Putin The New York Times Norway and Finland hold rare call with Putin to discuss ending war BBC Kyiv hopes for ‘new momentum’ in peace talks after Finnish and Norwegian leaders’ call with Putin –…
Variety has amassed 62 nominations for the Los Angeles Press Club’s 19th annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards, including nods for Print Journalist of the Year for Chris Willman and Online Journalist of the Year for Ethan Shanfeld. In the criticism category, Owen Gleiberman was nominated for film critic (over 1,000 words) as well…
Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan have made their first film together. “The Land of Jinn,” a supernatural horror feature directed by Kevin Rahardjo (“Smothered”), was unveiled at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market as the first co-production between the two countries. The story centers on a young Indonesian woman who journeys to Kyrgyzstan in search of a mystical healer…
Twitch streamer Hasan Piker sued conservative commentator Scott Jennings on Tuesday, alleging that Jennings had defamed him by misconstruing a quote to make it sound like Piker endorsed lynchings. On his own podcast on Aug. 11, Jennings played a mashup of clips of Piker, including one in which Piker referenced going “back to a better…
The opening film of the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival, Zeze Takahisa’s “Sukiyaki” tells the story of how the title tune became a worldwide hit in 1963 as well as a beloved standard that has been recorded in foreign-language versions that have also topped charts. The film goes beyond the song itself to delve into…
James Gunn pushed back on the idea that DC Studios’ approach to telling standalone and overarching DCU stories has changed since 2023.
Full spoilers follow for VisionQuest Episodes 5 & 6, which are streaming now on Disney+. At this point, I’m fully on board with VisionQuest and the story of robotic reinvention it’s telling. But as compelling as Paul Bettany’s White Vision is, he’s small potatoes compared to the series’ real star, James Spader’s Ultron. Episodes 5…
We’re quickly approaching winter travel season, and there’s no harm in starting to think about cold-weather airport outfits now. A great place to look for inspiration is undoubtedly the stylish celebrities who are regularly spotted at airports around the world, and Katie Holmes is one of the latest, as she paid a visit to JFK…