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It’s official: a handful of Britain’s celebrities will return to the Scottish Highlands in 2026 for a second season of The Celebrity Traitors. The hugely popular reality show — now an international success after installments in various territories, including in the U.S., Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Greece and India —is set to return to BBC…
John Oliver celebrated Zohran Mamdani‘s win in the New York City mayoral race on Sunday’s episode of Last Week Tonight. Mamdani prevailed over Andrew Cuomo, who’d been endorsed by President Donald Trump, in Tuesday’s election. Oliver showed footage of Mamdani’s victory speech, in which the mayor-elect stated: “I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in…
The Perfect Neighbor topped the 10th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which were handed out Sunday night in New York City. The film scooped up five awards, including best documentary feature, best director for Geeta Gandbhir, best editing for Viridiana Lieberman, best archival documentary and best true crime doc. Mr. Scorsese, Ocean With David Attenborough…
One feature of modern AI systems is that the model does not actually reason. Unlike the older “symbolic” approach, in which humans hard-program a machine to run through a series of options, the current Large Language Models simply synthesize lots of information and predict based on likelihoods. So the model (by definition) cannot conjure up…
There was a time when Hollywood Boulevard was a truly glamorous destination. During the 1920s, the film industry was booming and the municipality of Hollywood was freshly incorporated into the city of Los Angeles. Prospect Avenue was renamed Hollywood Boulevard, and a flurry of tony hotels, palatial theaters and glitzy boutiques opened along the stretch…
Betty Harford, who played Mrs. Nottingham, John Houseman’s secretary, on The Paper Chase and Mrs. Gunnerson, the Carrington family cook, on Dynasty, has died. She was 98. Harford died Nov. 2 in Santa Barbara, her friend Wendy Mitchell told The Hollywood Reporter. On the big screen, Harford cared for Sandra Dee’s Rosalie Stocker in The…
After officially kicking off the fifth and final season of Stranger Things with Thursday’s Los Angeles premiere, the team behind the sci-fi smash dropped some more hints about what’s to come at a For Your Consideration event on Saturday. Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo and Jamie Campbell Bower joined…
Stephen Colbert revealed why he tends to play “poorly informed” characters, including his Strangers With Candy character Charles “Chuck” Noblet, while celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Comedy Central series’ cancellation during the New York Comedy Festival on Saturday. During a Q&A at the event, the cast was asked what their characters say about their…
Whew. Dan Trachtenberg is the hero of the hour as his new movie, Predator: Badlands, has ended the drought at the domestic box office and kicked off November in high style. The movie opened well ahead of expectations to top the domestic box office chart with a franchise-best $40 million (prerelease tracking had it opening…
Writer and director Igor Bezinović (A Brief Excursion) grew up in Rijeka, Croatia. Formerly known as Fiume, which is still its Italian name, the city was the site of an experiment at a time of nascent fascism that many non-locals may not be aware of. But amid the rise of right-wing politicians around the globe…
