Month: August 2020

“Rebuilding Paradise” initially felt too optimistic of a title for a documentary about the devastating 2018 Camp Fire, Ron Howard said about his new film. The National Geographic title features devastating first-hand footage of the violent wildfire ripping through the Butte County town and emphasizes the immense feelings of loss and grief Paradise residents faced.
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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is finalizing an acquisition deal that will move The Woman in the Window out of Disney-owned 20th Century Studios and into a new window, as a global Netflix event film. The thriller, which stars Amy Adams and is directed by Joe Wright, is the last of the splashy book-based movie projects left behind
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On August 1st, Game of Thrones author and living embodiment of failure to meet deadlines George R.R. Martin virtually hosted the Hugo Awards, the most prestigious award in science fiction. Many people watching worldwide, including finalists and winners, were horrified by Martin’s hosting, in which he repeatedly mispronounced names, waxed rhapsodic about exalted figures from
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Grime artist Wiley last month went on a 48-hour antisemitic social media tirade. The characteristic failure of Twitter and Instagram to immediately stop him in his tracks underlines once again that – despite its reputation as the world’s “oldest hatred” – anti-Jewish racism is too often misunderstood, tolerated and excused. Once the social media giants
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Thomas Brogan is on the run. He’s killed people – quite a few, it turns out – and the police are on his tail. As he legs it through the streets and alleys of the urban sprawl somewhere in the UK, he runs past a terrace of houses. The one on the end seems empty,
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Last week, we were treated to the first explosive extracts of Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand’s royal biography, Finding Freedom (out 11 August). It’s revelations of a schism in the royal family, between the Sussexes and…everyone else, has reopened the gaping wound that is Harry and Meghan’s royal departure. What was interesting about the claims
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Microsoft said Sunday evening it will continue to pursue a takeover of TikTok in the U.S. as President Donald Trump backs off of threats to ban the service, a development that could see the software giant running the hugely popular video sharing app by mid-September. The Redmond, Washigton-based company announced its intentions following a conversation
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