Isabelle Huppert has yet to be pushed aside by AI, the French star said at the Busan International Film Festival, though she has heard she may soon be speaking Korean and Japanese.
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Riftbound’s final set of the year, Radiance, is finally upon us, and I went hands-on with the cards at a very early Pre-Rift tournament. This marks the League of Legends TCG’s fifth set, and features musically-inspired designs and brand new mechanics poised to disrupt the meta.
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The sophomore feature from Hirokazu Kore-eda protégé Nanako Hirose, “Between Two Lovers” tackles a variety of potential hot-button issues, from polyamorous relationships to same-sex parenting, in its contemporary Japanese setting. The film stars Masami Nagasawa as a free-spirited children’s author who invites her doting husband and secret girlfriend to enter into a three-way relationship of convenience, when both partners simultaneously express their desire to start a family. But what begins as a bold and daring attempt to broach progressive issues in a notoriously conservative society ultimately loses its nerve, acquiescing to a number of eyebrow-raising narrative compromises.
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“SNL U.K.” once again skewered the royal family in this week’s cold open, showing a contentious reunion between Prince William and Kate and Prince Harry and Meghan at Sandringham Estate.
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Pushing Boundaries
Both songs are from the Spanish singer-songwriter's highly praised album, Lux
Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía performed two songs from her acclaimed album, Lux, on Saturday Night Live.
Rosalía, who trained with a professional ballerina to prepare for the choreography on her tour for Lux, appeared to sing all of “Reliquia” while on her toes, as shadows of orchestral musicians were cast on the white curtain behind her.
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Rosalía Performs an Entire Number En Pointe on ‘SNL,’ Then Cools Off With a Nice Shower
With Grammy ballots going out Monday, the Spanish singer was well-timed to make a big impression on whatever pockets of voters might not already have been wowed by her.
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“Midday Meal” isn’t necessarily about the art of cooking, but it is in part about the rituals of food, rituals which become more precious with scarcity. But more than that, the new film from director Majid Majidi — best known for his 1997 drama “Children of Heaven”, the first Iranian production ever nominated for the Best International Feature Oscar — is about the right to have food, a punishing struggle to find and provide it in the absence of governmental care.
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Shane Gillis returned for his third Saturday Night Live hosting stint, where he revealed the nickname Joe Rogan and Theo Von came up for him (“gas station egg”) and his gripes with his “Adolf Hitler haircut.”
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You cannot fault Treasure Island, MGM+’s new take on the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, for a lack of effort. Where some adaptations of beloved literary works might be content to recreate the source material beat for beat, creator Robert Murphy reimagines it wholesale.
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Prime Video released a new Blade Runner 2099 trailer during the upcoming series’ New York Comic Con panel on Saturday.
Michelle Yeoh, Hunter Schafer, Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben, Matthew Needham, showrunner Silka Luisa, and executive producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson appeared on the Saturday evening panel, where the cast and creative team teased what’s in store for fans of the franchise and how the series will be different than its film installments.
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