Movie Review: Steve McQueen's WWII drama 'Blitz' is more unconventional than it appears

Steve McQueen's “Blitz” feels stuck between a conventional war drama and something more adventurous and probing

Entertainment - ABC News - 7 hours ago

Steve McQueen on making WWII personal with 'Blitz': 'It's about us fighting ourselves'

The Oscar-winning director's complicated relationship with Britain informs his latest film, which follows a mixed-race boy during the bombing of London.

Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - 6 days ago

12:30 Report — Harris’s unconventional media blitz

🐼 Plus: The National Zoo got new pandas! {beacon} 12:30 REPORT It’s Tuesday. Have you heard the exciting news?! Two pandas 📹 just landed in Washington, D.C. They flew from China last night! ...

Politics - The Hill - October 15

More Republicans Appear to be Voting Early

Also, Israel said it killed a top Hezbollah leader. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 22

The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar’s stylish end-of-life drama feels emotionally empty

Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore seem constrained in the Spanish director’s uneasy first English-language film, winner of this year’s Venice Golden Lion prize. The latest film from Spanish director ...

World - The Guardian - 4 days ago

Movie Review: A musical, pulpy crime thriller, ‘Emilia Pérez’ swings for the fences

There's a lot going on in Jacques Audiard's “Emilia Pérez."

Entertainment - ABC News - 10 hours ago

Christopher Lee's Saruman Will Appear In Lord Of The Rings Movie, 10 Years After His Death

Christopher Lee lived a life that was almost out of legend. He was friends with both JRR Tolkien and Ian Fleming and eventually portrayed iconic characters from their respective worlds. Lee ...

Tech - GameSpot - Yesterday

More Republicans Appear to Be Voting Early, Despite Trump’s Mixed Messages

In 2020, Donald Trump convinced his supporters that anything but a vote cast in person on Election Day could not be trusted — and lost. In response, Republicans shifted their stance.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 23

Movie Review: Strippers, oligarchs and a fairy tale gone sideways, ‘Anora’ is a wild ride

“Anora” is a fairy tale that spoils

Entertainment - ABC News - October 15

Movie Review: 'Smile 2' nicely targets pop star fame with the terrific Naomi Scott

“Smile 2” lands as unsettling grins are plastered on pumpkins and politicians alike as we approach Halloween and Election Day

Entertainment - ABC News - October 16

Movie Review: Is the killer bachelor No. 1 or No. 2? Anna Kendrick's chilling 'Woman of the Hour'

How women are forced to handle, and suffer, the bruised egos of men fuels Anna Kendrick's directorial debut, “Woman of the Hour."

Entertainment - ABC News - October 16

Movie Review: ‘Memoir of a Snail,’ a stop-motion charmer, examines the shells we build around us

“Memoir of a Snail” is a stop-motion movie that is most definitely not for kids

Entertainment - ABC News - October 22

Movie Review: An unmoving camera and de-aging technology make 'Here' with Tom Hanks painful to watch

Robert Zemeckis’ latest movie is insanely ambitious, starting with the dinosaurs and ending in present day with the Roomba

Entertainment - ABC News - Yesterday

Movie Review: A mercurial Kieran Culkin shines in Jesse Eisenberg’s deft, accomplished ‘A Real Pain’

Writer-director Jesse Eisenberg's “A Real Pain” strikes an almost impossible balance

Entertainment - ABC News - 6 hours ago

Will the Polls in 2024 Be More Accurate Than in 2016 and 2020?

Can you trust the polls this year? Kaleigh Rogers, a polling reporter at The New York Times, describes how pollsters have tried to fix past mistakes.

Top stories - The New York Times - October 17

This Watch Line Says It’s More a ‘Gathering’ Than a Brand

‘We’re just friends having fun, doing something that we would like for ourselves,’ one Kollokium founder said.

Lifestyle - The New York Times - October 18

'Sorry' water boss has plan to end sewage spillages

Water UK chief apologises for the industry's performance as the sector faces a "root and branch" review.

More than 60 die in Spanish floods

Worst European flooding since 2021 raises questions about how residents were alerted to forecasts of intense rain

World - Financial Times - 13 hours ago

Oura Ring 4 Review: A More Accurate and Wearable Smart Ring

Many software and hardware updates to the latest Oura ring make it more accurate, useful, and easier to wear.

Tech - Wired - October 15

iPhone 16 review: more buttons and speed for Apple’s standard phone

Smallest and cheapest new model plays catchup to Pro iPhones with strong battery life but familiar design. Apple’s latest iPhone bucks the trend of buttons vanishing from phones, gaining not one ...

World - The Guardian - October 17

Kylie: Tension II review – more of the same is much, much less

(BMG) Kylie Minogue’s follow-up to 2023’s euphoric Tension – and smash hit Padam Padam – fluctuates between sparkle and self-doubt, generic pap and two stone-cold bangers. It is impossibly easy to ...

World - The Guardian - October 19

North Korea says front-line units ready to strike South Korea if more drones appear

North Korea says its front-line army units are ready to launch strikes on South Korea after accusing its rival of flying drones over the capital Pyongyang

World - ABC News - October 13

Unconventional relationship holds answers to violent Florida murder

Investigators were puzzled when the beaten body of an unidentified woman was found dumped near a Florida highway. The next day, a bloody motel room was discovered. Were the crime scenes connected?

Trump calls Democrats more dangerous than U.S. foreign adversaries

Donald Trump called Democrats who have opposed him "the enemy from within," describing them as more dangerous than major foreign adversaries of the United States, including Russia and China.

Israel says 4 soldiers killed by Hezbollah drone attack while Israeli strike in Gaza leaves 20 dead

Israel’s military says four soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah drone attack on an army base Sunday evening

World - ABC News - October 14

More than 60 hurt in Hezbollah drone attack in Israel

More than 60 people have been injured according to Israeli rescue services, due to a Hezbollah drone attack in northern Israel. NBC News' Matt Bradley reports on how the U.S. is stepping in to aid ...

Drone attack kills four Israeli soldiers and injures 58

Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in response to Israeli strikes in Lebanon.

Biden announces more than $600 million for Milton recovery

President Biden gave remarks in a St. Pete Beach neighborhood damaged by the storm.

Israeli airstrike kills more than 20 in northern Lebanon as UN peacekeeping row grows

Hezbollah fires rockets at Tel Aviv in wake of Israeli attack on Christian town, as UN security council voiced strong concern over IDF attacks on peacekeepers. More than 20 people have been killed ...

World - The Guardian - October 14

Jane Street interns make more than Keir Starmer and Jay Powell

More Money Than God 2.0

Business - Financial Times - October 15

Today’s Axis of Evil is bigger and more dangerous than ever

All these lethal interactions and collaborative efforts are operationalizing the mutual diplomatic and ideological declarations of a joint anti-U.S., anti-Western strategy.

Politics - The Hill - October 15

Pound falls as UK inflation declines more than expected to 1.7%

First reading below Bank of England’s target in 3 years opens door to more rate cuts this year

Business - Financial Times - October 16

Sara Sharif had more than 70 injuries, court hears

Sara,10, had more than 70 new external injuries, along with internal injuries and older wounds.

Fuel tanker truck explosion kills more than 140 people in Nigeria

Dozens of people in northern Nigeria were killed in a massive explosion as they tried to scoop up fuel from a crashed tanker truck.

More than 100 killed in Nigeria fuel tanker explosion

Incident comes as citizens in Africa’s most populous nation struggle with end of petrol subsidies

World - Financial Times - October 16

Explosion kills scores of Nigerians collecting fuel from crashed tanker

People were collecting fuel from tanker that had crashed when it blew up, according to local police. More than 140 people have died in an explosion while rushing to scoop up fuel from a crashed ...

World - The Guardian - October 16

More than 1,500 physicians call on Trump to release health care plan

More than 1,500 physicians around the country are calling on former President Trump to release his health care plan with three weeks until election day. In the new letter authored by the Committee ...

Politics - The Hill - October 16

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