There’s a small and unremarkable park in a suburb just south of Dublin‘s city center, surrounded by modest semidetached homes and featuring a basketball court and a soccer pitch. A proposal to rename Chaim Herzog Park in Rathgar has become the nexus of a long-standing spat between Ireland and Israel, and a headache for the […]
The new psychological thriller starring Sydney Sweeney, The Housemaid, is one of those movies that is more interesting to talk around than about. In the film, Millie (Sweeney) is hired on as a live-in housemaid for a wealthy Long Island family, boarding in their #cottagecore aesthetic attic. The danger of being so young and blonde […]
Nearly 100 more nominees were confirmed by the Senate late Thursday, enabling President Donald Trump to close out his first calendar year back in the White House with more confirmations compared to the same time for his predecessor. A change in Senate rules earlier this year by Republicans paved the way to bypass Democratic roadblocks […]
A mystery that haunted the Republican Party during the 2022 midterm elections, under President Joe Biden, was why the party failed to achieve the congressional surge its members craved. Then, last month, when Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) and Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) won their respective states’ gubernatorial races, the pattern continued, and the same question remained. […]
The elusive original cut of Quentin Tarantino’s fourth and fifth films, known together as Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, had hitherto existed only on one print, personally owned by Tarantino. It screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and a handful of times since. Now, after decades of anticipation, it has hit cinemas […]
Over several decades, as Hollywood comedy has become mostly paint-by-numbers, Adult Swim, the nighttime programming block on Cartoon Network that has played host to weird ephemera alongside hits like Rick and Morty and The Boondocks, has long served as cringe comedy’s deep space region. It has aired shows that plumbed every possible emotional depth except […]
Rob Reiner was the leading light of what could be called the “sitcom generation” of filmmakers. In the late 1970s and into the 1980s, a raft of former sitcom stars maneuvered their way into director’s chairs, including Ron Howard of Happy Days and Penny Marshall of Laverne and Shirley (also Reiner’s first wife). Reiner, of […]
Friends turned foes, podcasters Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson took to the stage at Turning Point USA’s America Fest on Thursday night, headlining the event. Shapiro and Carlson, once Republican political allies, have grown apart in recent months, with each criticizing the other’s views, actions, and words on their respective podcasts. Infighting among those considered […]
The deceased gunman who authorities say murdered Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno Loureiro previously knew and studied with the victim at a Portuguese university. The suspect, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, was a former Brown University student and Portuguese national. Neves Valente is the suspect in both Loureiro’s murder and the Brown University mass […]
Law enforcement and local officials are holding a press conference to provide updates after the suspected gunman in the Dec. 13 Brown University shooting was found dead in a New Hampshire storage unit. The shooting left two students dead and nine others injured after the gunman opened fire on an economics final exam study session. […]
