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The press notes for Netflix‘s new action drama Last Samurai Standing are careful to mention that the series “has been in development since 2022, a vision…

“Do you know how hard it is to play yourself”? George Clooney’s affable, classy, Hollywood actor Jay Kelly asks, and is asked, frequently in Noah Baumbach’s…

Desperate migrants are forced to leave Greenland after a malevolent force makes their island uninhabitable. No, it’s not tomorrow’s headline about Donald Trump, but rather the…

First, a confession: I’ve never read the manga series by Tatsuki Fujimoto on which this film is based. Nor have I watched the hit animated television…

Charlotte Tilbury’s Hollywood Flawless Filter glides on with a thin, serum-like texture. The sheer coverage is closer to a veil than a foundation. So it didn’t…

Revolving around three generations of women — played by Anna Calder-Marshall, Juliette Binoche and Florence Hunt — within one troubled family, Berlinale competitor Queen at Sea…

The interiority brings to mind the award-winning All We Imagine As Light by Payal Kapadia (one of the executive producers of Shape of Momo), another tender…

The 60th Super Bowl drew, as usual, a gigantic audience — but it had to settle for coming in just behind last year’s record-setting telecast. NBC and…

For Grammys weekend (and, as I’m told, every weekend), West Hollywood is the place to be at night. During my visit, I stayed on the Sunset…

“An exciting departure from [his] previous work,” claims the publicity for Simon Amstell’s new standup show – but it’s a claim that proves hard to substantiate.…