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How Letterboxd Created a Haven for Unreleased Films
“It Ends” didn’t have a home after South by Southwest. The debut feature written, directed and edited by Alexander Ullom follows a group of young adults who find themselves stranded in a car on an endless, purgatorial road. Despite receiving rave reviews out of the festival in March 2025, “It Ends” failed to get distribution.
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A look back at royal family’s NYC visits as King Charles, Camilla head to Big Apple
King Charles and Queen Camilla will visit the Big Apple for a whirlwind tour Wednesday — marking the first time the pair has been in the five boroughs in 19 years. The royals will pay their respects at downtown’s 9/11 Memorial & Museum before popping into the New York Public Library in Midtown and a
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John Oliver Just Took the AI Industry Behind a Shed and Beat It With a Pipe Wrench
John Oliver just did what he did best: demolished a harmful industry piece by piece. On the latest episode of his HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver tore into AI chatbots, those oh-so helpful tools that can sure save us “significant time writing emails,” he opened, with the small cost of “everything else on Earth.”
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The U.S. is still killing people at sea. It must explain why.
Over the weekend, the United States conducted two lethal strikes on small boats in the Eastern Pacific, part of an ongoing campaign that has now killed nearly 200 people. The public explanation from U.S. Southern Command has become routine: a designated terrorist organization, a known trafficking route, confirmed intelligence. But the government did not explain,
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Distracted Trump put himself in danger by hampering his own security: ex-insider
Distractions over implementing President Donald Trump’s immigration policy are causing issues for vital services, a former Secret Service agent has claimed. Trump’s administration has prioritized mass deportations, workplace raids, and expanded detention operations targeting undocumented immigrants across the nation. The Trump administration has deported thousands of people to about a dozen countries, often to places
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Peter Jackson, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton Will Discuss Their Careers in Cannes Convos
The 2026 Cannes Film Festival lineup just grew by three, although this time it’s not screenings but meaty conversations with a trio of individuals from contemporary cinema. Sir Peter Jackson, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton will discuss their careers in three separate conversations as part of the “Rendezvous at the Festival de Cannes” program. Jackson,
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Broadway’s strange season gets a boost from 7 acting powerhouses
Broadway, top-heavy with musical parodies and attention-grabbing revivals, is having a strange season by all accounts. But actors from all quarters of the profession are still flocking to New York for the kind of substantive material that is becoming harder to come by on screen. It’s thrilling to see first-rate talents, such as Adrien Brody
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Trump’s after-shooting comments undermining DOJ probe as questions rise: MS NOW’s Lemire
Donald Trump’s effusive praise for the Secret Service after a would-be assassin stormed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend is creating stress at the Department of Justice, where officials are leery of contradicting him. Reacting to new reporting that the FBI has been unable to turn up the bullet fragment that struck a Secret
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L.A. considers expanding Airbnb-style short-term vacation rentals
Owners of second homes — and Airbnb — stand to reap a windfall under an initiative in Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ new city budget proposal. Tucked away in the more than 500 pages of city budget expenditures, the mayor calls for creating a new revenue stream by allowing people who own a second home
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‘I could barely speak’: Shock as GOP lawmaker nominates Nazi apologist for Holocaust board
A New Hampshire Republican tried to stack a local Holocaust remembrance board with a Nazi apologist who has been convicted of public lewdness at a children’s playground. According to NPR, at a January meeting of the New Hampshire Commission on Holocaust and Genocide Education, state Rep. Matt Sabourin dit Choinière “proposed an amendment to add