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Jemal Countess/Getty Images Since their first appearance on “Sam and Friends” in 1955, the Muppets have come to leave an indelible mark on not just the entertainment industry, but the entire world. After all, you’d have to look pretty hard to find someone that doesn’t know about Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the rest of the gang. In that time, the Muppets have appeared in countless movies, books, video games, theme parks, live performances, and, of course, TV shows. Some of those shows, however, were better — and more successful —…
Writer-director Cédric Kahn is perhaps best known outside France for helming tense, extremely bleak thrillers — Red Lights, Roberto Succo and L’Ennui — bathed in both film noir and existential angst. But he’s also tried his hand at several other genres, including a supernatural kids flick (The Plane), a gritty tale of rehab and religion (The Prayer), an engrossing courtroom drama (The Goldman Case) and, for his memorable second feature from 1994, a striking coming-of-age story called Too Much Happiness. It’s that last movie that most comes to mind when watching A Place to Heal, which marks another impressively performed…
China Disaster Rocky Afternoon Outing … Tourists Run From Rockslide!!! Published September 4, 2026 7:57 AM PDT Play video content Shangri-La may be a state of mind … but that paradisal mindset was wrecked when people at a monument named after the famous city had to run for their lives from a massive rockslide! You have to see the video taken at the Shangri-La Tiger Leaping Gorge scenic area in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China’s Yunnan Province from earlier this week … which shows huge rocks tumbling down the mountain — while people just taking in the view…
One of the most intriguing subplots of the 2026 Emmy Awards is Beef vs. DTF St. Louis in the various limited series categories. Each show is favored over the other in a handful of races. Yesterday, we broke down the directing race, where DTF St. Louis has the edge. Today, we’re digging into Best Limited Series/Movie Writing, which flips the script. Unlike directing, no show had multiple nominees, so there might be a clearer link between the winner here and the ultimate winner for Best Limited Series. The category includes two full limited series (i.e., every episode had the same…
Emilia Clarke’s Brain AneurysmEmilia Clarke filmed battle scenes for Game of Thrones, but in 2019, she published an essay in The New Yorker titled “A Battle for My Life.”Having a bad headache at the gym, “I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill,” the actress wrote. “Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, constricting pain—was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”She was taken to the hospital for a brain scan.”The diagnosis was quick and ominous: a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), a life-threatening type of stroke, caused by bleeding into…
French director Cédric Kahn hits the Venice Film Festival’s this evening with Golden Lion contender A Place To Heal (15/18) set against the backdrop of an adolescent psychiatric ward. It promises to be one of this Venice’s most youthful red carpets as the director is joined by the dozen young actors at the heart of the production in which he also co-stars as the head psychiatrist of the unit. “They’re all very excited and I’m very happy about it because I’ve attended a lot of films festivals in my time but to experience a festival through their eyes will be a pleasure,”…
The Runner has many hallmarks of the ideal straight-to-streaming thriller. It’s short, punchy, a little bit silly, and the theoretically-perfect combination of unpretentious – it’s about a woman forced to run across London and commit a murder in order to save her kidnapped son – and ambitious, as a movie that unfolds in something resembling real time. It also features what so many streaming movies like to boast about: a big-name star. And that, as it happens, is the movie’s unexpected undoing. It simply cannot fully survive the mixed blessing that is international movie star Gal Gadot. Plenty of people…
Paul Schrader has spent half a century writing men who sit alone in rooms, filling notebooks with confessions no one asked for. On Friday in Venice, the 79-year-old writer-director offered a simple explanation for why he has never been able to put the subject down: he was programmed early, and the program still runs. “I was raised a Dutch Calvinist, and, you know, Freud said you’re programmed by the time you’re five or six, maybe it’s even as late as eight or nine,” Schrader said at the press conference for The Basics of Philosophy, which has its world premiere Friday…
Credit: Getty Adéla is getting attention for one of the standout new songs from her debut album! The 22-year-old rising “Ain’t in LA” pop star released her debut album PRIMA on Friday (September 4), and the new song “Hitachi” is already generating buzz online. The track is a stripped-down ballad about a relationship that has lost its physical intimacy, but its title might leave some listeners wondering exactly what Adéla is referring to. So, what does “Hitachi” mean and what is the song actually about? What Does “Hitachi” Mean? The song’s title is a reference to the Hitachi Magic Wand,…
The 83rd Venice Film Festival is off to a running start, promising plenty of glamour, a smattering of awards-bait movies, and lots and lots of spritzes — be they Aperol or Campari. Spritz of choice may be one of the few things folks are civilly agreeing to disagree on as Venice has a low rumble of angst-ridden gossip this year. As Day 1 goes into the books you can hear the rumble: Where is Hollywood? Where is Iñárritu and Digger? Where is Luca Guadagnino, who is here, but with a seven-hour documentary about Italian maestro, Bernardo Bertolucci, and not with the…