The great Albert Brooks film Defending Your Life, from 1991, imagines a bureaucratic heaven that prepares the recently departed for their next phase of existence. The movie is a wry look at the petty foibles of life, the fears and neuroses that can impede a person’s path to fulfillment and enlightenment. There’s a romance involved, but the film is more …
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I told myself that I wouldn’t say that “Eternity” is too long, but isn’t it always? If not the premise, that is at least the guiding principle behind David Freyne’s sincere, somewhat amusing, and sweetly overextended rom-com, which splits the difference between “After Life” and “Defending Your Life” with its story of a newly deceased woman named Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) …
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Ivy and Theo (Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch), chef and architect, meet on a whim in the Michelin-grade kitchen where Ivy works, after Theo bursts in unannounced to blow off steam mid-meal. Disappointed and distressed that their superiors can’t see their minor geniuses—dehydrated blueberries and cascading garden balconies, respectively—they bond over a distrust of the old guard and an immediate …
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Blake Lively is set to star in the romantic comedy “The Survival List.” Described as an “action romantic comedy,” the film follows a highbrow reality TV producer named Annie who is assigned against her wishes to a new show hosted by famous survival expert Chopper Lane. When a shipwreck strands them on a deserted island, Annie discovers Chopper is a …
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After working with Blake Lively on the Another Simple Favor films, Lionsgate has acquired the Tom Melia spec The Survival List as a starring vehicle for the actress that she’ll also produce, Deadline has confirmed. An action rom-com, the film follows Annie, a highbrow reality TV producer who against her wishes is assigned to a new show hosted by famous …
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Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix. The bug, tracked as CVE-2025-8088, is a path-traversal flaw that affects the Windows version of the decompression tool. It received an 8.4 CVSS rating and, according to WinRAR, has been patched in the newest version, 7.13, released on July 31. …
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ESET researchers have discovered a previously unknown vulnerability in WinRAR, being exploited in the wild by Russia-aligned group RomCom. This is at least the third time that RomCom has been caught exploiting a significant zero-day vulnerability in the wild. Previous examples include the abuse of CVE-2023-36884 via Microsoft Word in June 2023, and the combined vulnerabilities assigned CVE‑2024‑9680 chained with …
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“Love is a sickness full of woes,” wrote poet Samuel Daniel, an English Renaissance figure who matriculated at Oxford University in 1581. Though several centuries removed from the student cohort of romantic dramedy My Oxford Year—and the Victorian-era poets that they study—Daniel’s sentiment is echoed in this Netflix adaptation of Julia Whelan’s 2018 novel of the same name. Its cheeky …
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