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The Oscars race is well and truly in full gear, and the fight for supremacy in the Best Actor category is one of the most fascinating in recent memory. After taking home gold at the recent Golden Globe ceremony, Timothée Chalamet has perhaps now edged into poll position against the chasing pack, consisting of the likes of Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent, Michael B. Jordan for Sinners, and Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another. As the titular Marty Supreme, Chalamet delivers an electric, unmissable performance soaked in the flaws of a sports prodigy’s heavy ego, and fans have…

Page-to-screen adaptations are always tricky to master, and the changes in Netflix’s People We Meet On Vacation prove that despite Emily Henry’s book having the perfect rom-com flair, there were some things that had to shift to make the story work. Page-to-screen adaptations are nothing new. For as long as there have been stories, there have been adaptations, but page-to-screen is gaining new momentum in the streaming era. While Henry’s novel, a bestseller that debuted in 2021, is a brilliant work of fiction that brings together romance, comedy, and literary fiction, it was clear from the moment Netflix announced its…

This is a film about the constant sense of being slightly out of step with where you are standing, rendered with remarkable restraint. State of Statelessness is an anthology comprising four tales by the Drung Collective, a group of filmmakers working within the Tibetan diaspora. Each story is shaped by the same unresolved grief – for a distant land occupied and unreachable, for identities fractured by borders. Though the film travels across continents, its accounts are bound by a shared longing for a land lost not to time, but to erasure. Tsering Tashi Gyalthang’s Where the River Ends follows Pema, a young girl living in Vietnam with her Tibetan father, Tenzin. As…

Movies: Space/Time (2026) by Michael O’Halloran: When scientific ambition loses institutional trust, time itself becomes the last bargaining chip top of pagebottom of page

There’s that old expression: Dance with the one that brought you. In other words, when you succeed, remain loyal to those who supported you, and got you to that lofty perch in the first place. But in Hollywood, there’s another old expression: It’s show business, not show friendship.Need proof? Check out this list of ten major franchises that cut ties with their heroes — and sometimes their entire casts — to focus on new protagonists. The reasons why vary from series to series, and we’ll explore them below, but they do ultimately come back around to the old expressions above: When budgets get…

Hamnet has won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama, taking one of the night’s biggest awards after a season where the category never fully settled around a single frontrunner. It was a race defined less by inevitability than by debate, and the Globes ultimately sided with the film that left the strongest overall impression rather than the loudest one. This year’s Best Motion Picture – Drama nominees represented six very different approaches to serious filmmaking. Hamnet was intimate and restrained, built around grief, absence, and emotional quiet. Other nominees like Frankenstein carried the weight of a classic…

While Boruto Uzumaki was certainly born with potential for greatness, it’s impressive just the extent of his power by Boruto: Two Blue Vortex. The Naruto sequel manga has featured Boruto’s troubled return to a Konoha that has branded him a traitor who allegedly killed the Seventh Hokage, but this hasn’t stopped Boruto from showing innately Hokage-like qualities. As the grandson of Fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze, Boruto is bound to be weighed against his predecessors. While not wholly the same type of ninja as Minato, or even as his father, Naruto, Boruto has incorporated each of their teachings alongside his own…

Movies: Brides (2025) by Nadia Fall: British Muslim teens flee to Syria seeking belonging, exposing radicalization’s vulnerability exploitation top of pagebottom of page

The brutal gauntlet known as “awards season” lumbers toward its combustible conclusion at this year‘s Golden Globes, the extremely glamorous (and moderately prestigious) ceremony honoring the year’s greatest works and artists in the fields of film, television, and for some reason now, podcasts.Here are the full list of Golden Globes for 2025. The winners will be announced live on Sunday January 11 at 8PM ET (5 PM PT) on CBS. If you want to watch online, you can use the CBS app or Paramount+ — but only if you have a premium that comes with live TV. (If you are a Paramount+ subscriber at…

Some of the greatest ballads of all time are rock ballads, which offer a slower pace and more sentimental tone than the typical rock song. Think Queen’s “Love of My Life,” Jethro Tull’s “Wond’ring Aloud,” Led Zeppelin’s “The Rain Song,” Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Tuesday’s Gone with the Wind,” The Beatles’ “Yesterday,” or John Lennon’s “Imagine.” Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” is another big one, and these all are great enough to be on anyone’s top ten list. Also note that the songs shown below are going to be coming from the era of classic rock, so power ballads such as Metallica’s “Nothing Else…