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Anna Friel started out singing. Now she is back, doing it again, for all America to hear. As a child in Rochdale she listened to her Irish father playing folk tunes on his guitar, and with her friends Clare and Louise started Cal, a band named after their initials.This month Friel’s image is up on hoardings across LA because she is at the centre of Monarch, a new, all-singing small-screen drama about another musical family – fictional country music stars the Romans.Friel, 46, plays Nicky, or Nicolette, the daughter of…

Imagine meeting the person you want to spend your life with—but you live in a community where partners are forcibly switched via a lottery on a regular basis, and no amount of true love makes any difference. That’s the premise of Heartless, an Icelandic sci-fi short directed by Haukur Björgvinsson, first spotted on Short of the Week.Heartless | Heartbreaking Dystopian Sci-Fi ShortOk, technically there is an out—couples who wish to stay together can test their relationships by “selfishly” remaining inside thategg-shaped…

Prefect is a global coordination plane for any data stack. It allows you to design, build, schedule, and monitor your dataflows, covering the full spectrum from observability to orchestration. Here is an example of a simple Prefect flow:With a single CLI command, you can build a scheduled deployment that can run on any infrastructure — a local process, a Docker container, a Kubernetes job, or a serverless task on ECS Fargate. In this post, we’ll focus on the latter. But before we can deploy flows, we need an agent that…

Image: Epic InkAs Disney’s 100th year approaches, Disney Animation Studios is celebrating its fairytale lore with some major releases. Among them is author Emily Zemler’s Disney Princess: Beyond the Tiara, a visual guide to the Disney Princesses, which will chronicle the impact Disney royalty has had on pop culture since 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Zemler sat down with io9 to share an exclusive look inside the book, chronicling the evolution of the Disney heroine, and to discuss the influence of their legacy…

“Alice, Darling” stars Anna Kendrick in her best performance she’s ever given, according to CinemaBlend’s Sean O’Connell. Watch as he dives into how her work in Director Mary Nighy’s film makes her an awards contender and the subtle choices the director made to tell this story in such a successful way.Video Chapters:00:00 - Intro00:45 - Anna Kendrick’s Performance03:07 - Subtlety Drives The Poignant Plot06:41 - Final Thoughts and Star Review08:03 - Outro “Alice, Darling” stars Anna Kendrick in her best performance…

Anna Kendrick isn’t afraid to give her witty commentary on personal events like the time her Twitter account got hacked and did so just recently. While at the Toronto International Film Festival, the star found herself in a dramatic situation. Believe it or not, Kendrick got stuck in an elevator while doing press at the event. But as usual, the Oscar nominee was able to find the humor in the unusual situation, especially when it came to a potential fashion emergency.Before the Pitch Perfect star reflected on that…

“But he doesn’t hurt me though,” Alice insists to her two oldest friends, both staring at her with combined sadness and exhaustion. In the unsettling and unvarnished drama Alice, Darling, Alice’s boyfriend does hurt her but probably not in the ways we often hear about and definitely not in the ways we often see on screen.Films about domestic abuse tend to rely on the aesthetic shock of seeing someone physically hurt their partner, an undeniable gut punch but one that too frequently takes precedent over the more insidious…

Anna Kendrick got “stuck in an elevator” at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend, and spent her time cracking jokes to fans on social media.Right before the 37-year-old actor was supposed to attend the festival to promote her new film, Alice, Darling, she got stuck in an elevator with her entire team.On Sunday (11 September), Kendrick posted clips of her and her crew members stuck in the lift. “Ah, the classic. I’m behind schedule at this film festival because I had to be rescued from an elevator,”…

Anna Kendrick makes almost every movie she chooses to appear in better, even if the movies that she chooses don’t challenge her too deeply (cough cough Noelle) or ask her to show that much range. Sometimes, as in say the Pitch Perfect movies, she’s playing a variation of the personality we often see from Kendrick on late-night talk shows or red carpet interviews. Snarky. Charming. Self-deprecating. It’s possible to forget that she’s an Oscar-nominated actress capable of going to toe-to-toe with George Clooney (in Jason…

Publicly, Anna Kendrick has been quiet lately outside of a few news items here and there (like when she apologized to camp counselors about the "Cups" song), but there appears to be a reason, as a new announcement shed light on Kendrick’s newest project. The Pitch Perfect alum is now jumping to make her feature directorial debut through a serious true crime thriller.Deadline revealed that Anna Kendrick will make her directorial debut with the true crime thriller The Dating Game. In addition to being behind the camera,…