The Trump administration is reportedly in talks with Romania to lift travel restrictions for Andrew and Tristan Tate, the right-wing social media influencers whose human trafficking, sexual misconduct and money laundering case has become a rallying point among conservatives and who are unable to leave the country amid the legal battle. On Monday, citing three sources the outlet said were …
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More details about Christopher Nolan‘s forthcoming movie version of Homer’s The Odyssey have been revealed. Matt Damon, it was announced Monday, will be playing the lead role of Odysseus. Universal shared the update with the below first-look photo of the actor in character in the epic. Damon is joined in the star-studded film by Tom Holland, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita …
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Sometimes, at least when you’re 14, the whole world hinges on getting to a party — and the urgency only mounts when life keeps throwing roadblocks your way. For the title character of the low-key charmer Olmo, those roadblocks shape a day of pivotal reversals and revelations, life-changing in the moment, perhaps, but especially in retrospect. Beginning with his 2004 …
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris will receive the NAACP’s prestigious Chairman’s Award during the 2025 NAACP Image Awards. The award recognizes people who have excelled in public service and leveraged their platforms to drive meaningful change. It has previously been given to such figures as Samuel L. Jackson, Tyler Perry, Danny Glover, Ruby Dee, Amanda Gorman, Rev. James Lawson, then-Senator …
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Last week, a new Instagram account posted its first group of seemingly random photos with the caption “All my girls are glitter girls,” along with the hashtags KiiiKiii and “Who is KiiiKiii?” The account — reminiscent of aesthetic Tumblr blogs from the late aughts — belongs to KiiiKiii, the latest girl group from Korean entertainment company Starship Entertainment. The teenage …
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Romance for indie filmmakers Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer blossomed in the most unexpected of places — as they shot their 2020 debut feature Violation, a relentlessly violent and gory revenge drama set in cottage-country Canada. “After making our first film, which really dealt with trauma and was very dark, very painful to make and really delved into the dark …
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If you watch Austrian writer-director Florian Pochlatko’s feature film debut How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World (Wie man normal ist und die Merkwürdigkeiten der anderen Welt) in the Perspectives program of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, you may catch yourself rubbing your eyes and wondering: Is Ed Sheeran really in this movie? And how …
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John Oliver returned with his Season 12 premiere of Last Week Tonight on Sunday night, where he took aim at Donald Trump and Elon Musk for their dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development. Last week, the Trump Administration instituted a funding freeze of USAID, which oversees humanitarian aid and development work around the world, and reportedly put …
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Steve Martin kicked off the SNL 50th anniversary special on Sunday night with a monologue in which he made jokes about topics ranging from his age to President Trump’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Following an opening performance by Paul Simon and Sabrina Carpenter of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound,” Martin took the stage to introduce himself as …
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Adam Sandler performed a song that paid tribute to Saturday Night Live’s 50 years on the air during Sunday night’s anniversary special, but not before he was introduced by retired Hollywood veteran Jack Nicholson. Nicholson introduced the Grown Ups actor before he began his referential track, where he highlighted infamous SNL moments, pondered when Lorne Michaels will retire and quipped …
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