Variety

‘SNL U.K.’ Cast on Wanting ‘Bigger Swings and Some Sex Sketches’ in Season 2, Bloody Backstage Mishaps and if Jack Shep’s Princess Diana Will Return

“SNL U.K.” returns to screens on Sep 12 for season 2, Sky’s high-profile U.S. import splashing down into Britain’s nascent live TV sketch show waters for a second time. But while the first season was largely pre-empted by cock-eyed curiosity, not to mention a large dose of classic British skepticism, season two arrives with the […]

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The Guardian Culture

‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence

Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killingOn a darkened rooftop in Tel Aviv, Israeli intelligence officers outline the details of their work. These men tell us how they helped develop an AI mapping tool that trawled for phone signals and recommended apartment buildings in Gaza to bomb. Indirectly, they admit, they are responsible for thousands

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Variety

‘A Bit of Light’ Review: A Life-Affirming Drama About a Suicidal Iranian Doctor

Although its story unspools on the precipice of the U.S.-Iran war, Ali Asgari’s gentle family drama “A Bit of Light” was filmed in the conflict’s wake, under shellfire in Tehran. The production was eventually forced to relocate to Turkey, where Asgari and his team staged the numerous interior spaces that would serve as points of […]

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Variety

How Variety Covered 9/11 Attack and Its Aftermath 25 Years Ago

On Sept. 11, 2001, after the deadliest terrorist attack on the U.S. in history, Variety reporters and editors swung into action to put out the daily paper. This was the lede on the multi-bylined top story in the Sept. 12 edition of Daily Variety: “It was the day the world stopped. The real world and […]

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Variety

Venice Days Winners: Argentinian Director Maria Aparicio’s ‘Sadness Sometimes, Sometimes Rebellion’ Claims Top Prize

Argentinian director Maria Aparicio’s drama “Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion” — which mixes personal and political elements — has scored the Venice Days director’s award, the section’s top prize. “Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion,” which marks Aparicio’s fourth feature, follows a woman named Eva who is passing through Madrid. “She spends her days there alone: she doesn’t know anyone […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Venice Days: María Aparicio’s ‘Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion’ Wins GdA Director’s Award

Elsewhere, the Europa Cinemas Label has gone to Robert Guediguian's 'A Woman Today,' and Nicola Sorcinelli's 'Balcanica' stormed the People's Choice Award.

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Variety

‘Uptown Prep and Downtown Weirdness’ Meld in J. Crew and Ekhaus Latta’s New Limited-Edition Collection

J.Crew is heading downtown. The American retailer has teamed up with New York label Eckhaus Latta on a limited-edition collection that puts a downtown spin on some of its most recognizable prep-school staples — barn jackets, chinos, rugby shirts and Rollneck sweaters included. Launching Sept. 15, the 27-piece collection was designed by Eckhaus Latta founders […]

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The Guardian Culture

Liz Larner review – crystal comets crash to Earth yet fail to make much impact

Camden Art Centre, LondonThese portentous works, based on scans of a real asteroids, seem to warn of societal collapse, but this first UK exhibition of the US sculptor needed a simpler approachCorporations are already selling off mining rights to asteroids. These massive balls of rock and ore and minerals and ice up in space, far out of the reach of humanity, and mostly named after ancient Greek or Roman goddesses, are being traded like real estate by greedy suits with telescopes.There are half

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The Guardian Culture

Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy review – classical myth burns into modern England

Theatre Royal Stratford East, London In Ava Pickett’s tense play, Michelle Dockery’s heroine returns to a Towie-styled world where the violence and misogyny are all too recognisable‘And Zeus created … Essex.” Playwright Ava Pickett set her award-winning debut, 1536, in her home county during Tudor times: her latest has Helen of Troy returning home to a Towie-style living room at the end of an English civil war.An Adidas-clad Messenger functions as chorus, bringing us up to speed on this new Engl

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Variety

Box Office: ‘Practical Magic 2’ Makes $4.7 Million in Previews

After a record-breaking run at the box office, it turns out “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is no match for the witchy powers of “Practical Magic 2” stars Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. The Warner Bros. fantasy sequel has made $4.7 million in Thursday previews at the box office, and it’s expected to end “Spider-Man’s” six-week […]

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Hollywood Reporter

‘Ancestors’ Invites You to a Cinematic “Séance,” Led by Éanna Hardwicke, That Mixes Dream, Reality and Memory (Exclusive TIFF Clip and Chat)

Jack Wolfe, Jessica Reynolds, Christina Hendricks and Rupert Everett also feature in David Turpin's feature directorial debut, the poster for which we can also reveal ahead of its world premiere at Toronto.

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Hollywood Reporter

Why Hollywood Has Never Made a Great 9/11 Movie

Twenty-five years later, one of the worst days in American history remains an elusive subject for filmmakers.

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Hollywood Reporter

‘The Carol Burnett Show’: THR’s 1967 Review

On Sept. 11, 1967, the star's variety series premiered on CBS, kicking off a 278-episode run that claimed 25 Emmy wins.

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Hollywood Reporter

‘The Housewife’ Review: Naomi Watts Is Superb in an Initially Riveting, Increasingly Generic Portrait of Deceptive 1960s American Domesticity

Directed by newcomer Ben Shirinian, the TIFF-bowing thriller about a Nazi officer living in Queens also stars Tye Sheridan, Michael Imperioli, Luke Evans and Lena Olin.

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Hollywood Reporter

Watch Jimmy Kimmel’s James Talarico Interview That’s Been Banished to YouTube

There was no shortage of topics to discuss — nor a shortage of time.

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Variety

David Turpin’s TIFF Premiere ‘Ancestors’ Revisits the AIDS Crisis Through Love, Found Family and Movie Stars: ‘I Think a Lot of People of My Generation Feel This Absence of Our Elders’

With TIFF premiere “Ancestors,” Irish filmmaker David Turpin creates a story about the simple acts of human connection, love and how our dreams and fantasies can boost our spirits when everything else fails. Set in the late 1980s in London, when the HIV-AIDS crisis was killing off generations of primarily gay men, “Ancestors” asks the […]

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Variety

Filmax Takes Javier Giner’s Feature Debut ‘This Solitude’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Filmax has taken international rights to “This Solitude,” the feature debut of “I, Addict” creator Javier Giner. The Spanish sales company will introduce the drama to buyers at TIFF before its premiere in San Sebastián’s New Directors section. The pickup gives Filmax the first feature from a filmmaker whose profile rose with 2024 Disney+ series […]

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Variety

TIFF Premiere ‘Julián’ Finds Joy, Identity and Family in a Colorful Animated World

Cartoon Saloon animator Louise Bagnall makes her feature directorial debut with “Julián,” based on the children’s book “Julián Is a Mermaid” by Jessica Love. It tells the story of a 7-year-old boy who spends the summer with his abuela in Brooklyn. He digs into her colorful past in the Dominican Republic and follows his dream […]

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Hollywood Reporter

Xolo Maridueña Wasn’t Planning to Be an Actor, But Has Been “Pleasantly Surprised by the Journey”

Following his breakout turns in 'Cobra Kai' and 'Blue Beetle,' the 25-year-old is showing a new side of masculinity as Joey King's love interest in 'Practical Magic 2.'

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Variety

Water Crisis Documentary ‘Every Living Thing’ Sets Toronto Market Debut, Adds VIBE as Strategic Partner (EXCLUSIVE)

“Every Living Thing,” a Canada-India-U.A.E. documentary feature about the global water crisis, is making its international market debut at the Toronto Film Festival market, with VIBE (Visually Innovative Bold Entertainment) joining as strategic partner to the production. Directed by Uzair Merchant, the film is produced by BKreativ Prods. in Canada and Kleos Entertainment Group in […]

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