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‘Everytime’ Review: Sandra Wollner’s Delicate, Devastating Portrait of Grief Is One You Won’t Forget
There’s a sequence early on in “Everytime,” writer-director Sandra Wollner’s uncompromising, understated meditation on all-consuming grief and the ripple effects it can have on the rest of our lives as we try to carry on, that will stick with me forever. It’s also essential to understanding the immense power her film finds in confronting what…
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How Dropout Cracked Internet Comedy
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube How do you build a streaming service from scratch? On this week’s Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel speaks with Sam Reich, the CEO of Dropout, a comedy streaming platform that’s found success eschewing the growth-at-all-costs model of the mega streamers. The two discuss the pre-YouTube days of online…
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The expensive gas economy: Fewer nights out, more belt-tightening
Higher prices at the pump are making Avarisse Crawford rethink her spending. The 33-year-old has started scaling back her “fun budget,” meaning fewer steak dinners and happy hours with coworkers — instead, she’s seeking out free activities, like going to the park. “I’m making sure to cut open bottles to finish all of my products,”…
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‘Now he wants a thank you?’ Trump’s latest boast leaves critics dumbstruck
Critics were left dumbstruck on Friday after President Donald Trump characterized a taxpayer-funded settlement he reached as an act of selflessness, a remark that some noted had also severely undercut his own past remarks. On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump complained Friday morning that he “gave up a lot of money” after agreeing…
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SAG-AFTRA’s New AI Protections: What They Mean for Real and Synthetic Actors
As Hollywood transitions to four-year union contracts — at least for this labor cycle — SAG-AFTRA presented its new tentative agreement to members for ratification last week, and a lot of attention has been on AI. Specifically, the artificial intelligence protections that it says will guard actors against rapidly developing technology that is producing digital…
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Tulsi Gabbard resigns as Director of National Intelligence, citing husband’s cancer diagnosis
WASHINGTON — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard submitted her resignation Friday — citing her husband’s recent cancer diagnosis. Gabbard, a longtime skeptic of US intervention overseas, apparently did not cite the ongoing Iran war in a resignation letter first reported by Fox News. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard submitted her resignation from the…
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William Daniels, Bonnie Bartlett lift lid on ‘Boy Meets World’ cast’s ‘problems’ on set years before Ben Savage feud
Years before Ben Savage “ghosted” his “Boy Meets World” co-stars, there were “problems” among the cast and crew on the set of the beloved teen sitcom. In an exclusive interview with Page Six, William “Bill” Daniels, who portrayed Mr. George Feeny, and his longtime wife, Bonnie Bartlett, who eventually became Mrs. Feeny on the seven-season…
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Finance Bros Tremble in Fear That They Could Be Replaced by AI Too
It’s not looking good for finance bros as another major banker has sung the praises of AI automating their profession. On Monday, CEO of JPMorgan Jamie Dimon said that the multinational lender would likely hire less traditional bankers in the future, and instead favor bringing in more AI specialists. Out with the pencil pushers, and…
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Trump won over more Latino voters in 2024. Can he keep them?
PHOENIX — As Sandra Ramirez watched footage of immigration officers cracking down on migrants over the past year, she knew her 2024 vote for Donald Trump was a mistake. “There are a lot of people who are being harassed for the color of their skin, and that’s not right,” said Ramirez, who broke from her Democrat-voting family…
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Melania introduced Trump to his new ‘security blanket’: biographer
President Donald Trump‘s “latest questionable friend” — who even accompanied him to China last week — was introduced to him by his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, according to the president’s biographer. Author Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast that Melania’s close aide, Marc Beckman, connected her to “disgraced filmmaker Brett Ratner,” who also had…