This year’s festival celebrated the rich Indian cinema being made outside of popular Bollywood. Founded in 1952, the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) is one of Asia’s most prestigious film events. Its slogan from the Upanishads captures a truly global mission: “for those who are broad-minded, the entire world is one big family.” The […]
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In its seductive second season, Mike White’s Emmy-winning The White Lotus welcomes a new crop of wealthy Americans into the gilded halls of its beachfront Sicilian outpost, where the ornate paintings are frescoed and the ice-cold Aperol Spritzes are bottomless. It’s a glamorous life designed for tourists rather than the local Italians just outside its […]
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By Paige Gawley, ETOnline.com. Published: 21 secs ago The Halls made things official before their Maui ceremony. On Thursday’s season 5 premiere of “Christina on the Coast”, Christina Hall revealed that she and her husband, Josh Hall, had a secret courthouse wedding before saying “I do” in Maui. The revelation came in the opening moments of the […]
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Spoilers below. Welcome back to House of Time Jumps the Dragon, where yet another few years have passed between episodes. That means the younger characters, like Rhaenyra, Alicent, and Daemon’s children, have again been recast to depict the passing of time, but it can be confusing with their parents not visually aging at all. That’s […]
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Netflix has dropped its terrifying new show The Midnight Club just in time for Halloween. Co-created by Mike Flanagan of The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass fame, the new series follows a group of young adults with terminal cancer who decide to live out their final days at Brightcliffe Hospice. Every night, the […]
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House of the Dragon’s seventh episode opens with Daemon Targaryen doing the most Daemon thing he can: tittering—nay, I say giggling—at his late wife’s funeral. To be sure, Daemon is a complex character; to believe he finds actual amusement in the death of Laena Velaryon, his companion for the past 10 years, would be to […]
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Spoilers below. Imitation, a flattery, should not always be met with ire. Sometimes mimicry is powerful, even transcendent; this is occasionally the case with Ana de Armas’ performance as Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s much-derided new film, Blonde. But it is in this power that a certain responsibility resides in the hands of the imitator—and, […]
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Spoilers below. Targaryens might come from a long line of warriors, but not all of them seem so comfortable with the nastiness of bloodshed. Episode 3 of House of the Dragon is largely about brutality, and the manner in which various members of House Targaryen wield it. At different points throughout “Second of His Name,” […]
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“That’s not who we are,” Nori tells her friend Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards), when the latter suggests they abandon a naked star-man in the meteor crater he created. It’s a sentiment that could easily veer mawkish, too virtuous to maintain its authenticity, but Markella Kavenaugh’s delivery makes Nori’s words ring true. That’s always been the […]
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By ASI EFROS Two highly anticipated and magnificent trade shows, Salon International de la Lingerie and Interfilière, reigned over Paris for three days from June 18th to 20th, 2022, to share the beauty of creation with the world. For the first time after the confinement of the COVID-19 pandemic, the halls of the Porte de […]
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