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‘Cape Fear’ review: Amy Adams and Javier Bardem’s revival is a brutal summer thriller
Apple’s “Cape Fear” revival is slick, stylish — and brutal. It’s a star-studded crime drama with standout performances from Amy Adams, Patrick Wilson, and Javier Bardem. It’s also hard to see why this show exists, when there were two famous earlier “Cape Fear” movies – do we need a third version? But, if you ignore that element,…
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Odessa A’zion wants to play legendary singer for next role — and even has a tattoo to prove it
Odessa A’zion wants to give one specific musician a piece of her heart by playing her on the big screen. The “Marty Supreme” star professed her admiration for Janis Joplin while talking to Page Six at Monday’s Gotham Television Awards in New York City. Talking about her tattoo collection, A’zion mentioned she had a tattoo…
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China is Attached to a Doomed Economic Model
Some economists assumed that the buying power of China’s expanding middle class would ultimately fuel global growth. China has instead become a destabilizing force in the global economy. Chinese President Xi Jinping is running the country as a government-subsidized, export-driven manufacturing juggernaut. This policy is not just bad for whole industries around the world; it’s…
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Trump — approaching 80th birthday — vanishes from public for 8 days after hospital visit
President Donald Trump has not appeared at a single public event in eight days — and the White House isn’t saying when that will change. Trump’s last confirmed live public appearance was May 27, when he presided over a Cabinet meeting at the White House. Since then, his schedule has been a wall of closed-press…
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Fox One Prepares for Its ‘2nd Launch Moment’ With the FIFA World Cup
Fox One is rolling out new product features and enhancements as it prepares for one of its biggest stress tests since launching last year: the 2026 FIFA World Cup. “Internally, we’ve been viewing [the World Cup] as a second launch moment, and candidly, the most important product moment for us, both from a scale and…
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Anthropic and DeepMind Now Actively Investigating AI Consciousness
Are AI models conscious, and if not, could they be in the near future? The possibility is far-fetched, but AI companies seem to feel it’s in their best interests to keep the question as open-ended as possible. Now, the Financial Times reports that three of the industry’s top dogs — Anthropic, Google’s AI lab DeepMind,…
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Nelly Korda, Michelle Wie West and more: Who to watch at U.S. Women’s Open
Reaching the summit is a dream. But staying there? That’s an altogether different challenge. Maja Stark has a special appreciation for that now, a year after winning the U.S. Women’s Open at Erin Hills and feeling the hefty weight of expectation that came along with it. For her, the aftermath of that victory brought heightened…
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‘Broken’ Trump reduced to ‘festering ball of anger’ as he surrenders: Nobel Prize winner
President Donald Trump is on the brink of burnout from his “descent into rage-madness,” Nobel Prize-winning economist turned political commentator Paul Krugman wrote for his Substack on Wednesday — and is at risk of being rendered irrelevant to the very movement he created. The president, wrote Krugman, cannot ever admit he led America into disaster…
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Donald Trump’s Superficiality Is Bone Deep
Donald Trump is reluctant to anoint J. D. Vance as his successor, and understandably so. But The New York Times recently discovered a peculiar basis for the president’s concern. “Mr. Trump, always keenly attuned to the optics of the presidency, has zeroed in on moments when Mr. Vance might not look the part,” the paper…
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Shock loss by Trump candidate in Iowa has GOP insiders fearing the worst: report
A rare loss by a Republican who waltzed into Tuesday’s primary with a high-profile endorsement from Donald Trump has raised concerns that a change is in the air for November’s general election. According to a report from MS NOW, authored by Hunter Woodall and Alex Tabet, the fact that Rep. Randy Feenstra (R) lost the…