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‘The Interview’: Arundhati Roy on How to Survive in a ‘Culture of Fear’  The New York Times ‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ Review: A Difficult Parent’s Gift  The Wall Street Journal Arundhati Roy on her fugitive childhood: ‘My knees were full of scars and cuts – a sign of my wild, imperfect, fatherless life’  The Guardian Recalling the life of Mary Roy, mother …

Austin Butler is clearing up some misconceptions surrounding his acting approach. Butler has been called a method actor, but he stops short of using that term when describing his process, no matter how admittedly “obsessive” he gets. His so-called method acting reputation began with the filming of Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 film Elvis, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. The role …

FRIDAY AFTERNOON: New Line/Warner Bros’ Weapons can claim its third No. 1 weekend, though in its fourth frame, with a 4-day of $12M-$13M at 3,416 theaters, sending its running stateside cume to $135M by Monday. Weapons soon will topple the running domestic take of the original The Conjuring ($137.4M in 2013), and it’s already past 2016’s The Conjuring 2 ($102.5M) …

Lauren Gunderson — who is credited for contributing “additional screenplay material” for “Lightyear” — revealed on Threads that she “created” the lesbians when, while writing early versions of what would later become the film back in 2018, “a key character needed a partner.” “It was so natural to write ‘she’ instead of ‘he,’” wrote Gunderson in part of a series …

The first time we see Agnes (Jessie Buckley), she’s curled up asleep at the mossy base of a giant tree. Dressed in red and purple, she looks like a flower, or perhaps an organ — a heart out in the open, ready to be plucked up and held close. Next to her lies a void, a hollow beneath the roots …

A man who previously 95 percent of his body covered in tattoos has revealed his jaw-dropping transformation after having the ink lasered off. Leandro de Souza was once known as Brazil’s most tattooed man, was covered from the top of his head downwards in hundreds of tattoos after beginning his journey into body modification at the age of 13. His …

“It threw me for a loop,” he continued. “These are kids, that we have to show that at this age? They’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answers.” During an August 25 appearance on TMZ Live, trans reality star Ts Madison questioned why Snoop took issue with Lightyear, which is a Buzz Lightyear origin story, featuring two moms, …

Oldboy and The Handmaiden director Park Chan-wook has premiered a “bleakly hilarious” comedy about economic anxiety at the Venice Film Festival, and it could be a huge international hit. In 2019, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to awestruck acclaim, and went onto be an Oscar-winning international hit. No Other Choice could be this year’s equivalent. The …

The secret meanings behind Taylor Swift’s engagement Breaking news alerts were pinged to phones around the world; Swifties screamed in the street; the Prince and Princess of Wales delivered their royal approval; Donald Trump wished them luck. By now it will not have escaped your attention that Taylor Swift, the reigning queen of pop, is engaged to Travis Kelce, a …

Influencer Emilie Kiser is taking “full accountability” for her son Trigg’s drowning in her first statement since the 3-year-old died on May 18. Trigg was found unresponsive in his family’s backyard pool, according to a statement shared by the Chandler Police Department in Arizona, which oversaw the investigation of the toddler’s drowning. “Loss of this magnitude feels impossible to put …