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Travelling to film sets in France and the US, Elena Avdija’s revelatory documentary follows Virginie, Petra and Estelle, female stunt professionals who are at different stages of their career: fearless in their commitment to their craft, they brave countless battles both on and off screen. There’s a feel of the spaghetti western to how their names are introduced in big, splattery red letters while a guitar riff reverberates through the frame. They are, indeed, fierce riders in an industry still dominated by men.The…

It’s not hard to understand why Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors) has anger issues. He’s working a low-paid job, living with and caring for his ailing grandfather, enduring micro- and macro-aggressions as a Black man in America and as he explains to a court-appointed therapist in the opening scene, he’s trapped in one of the country’s many food deserts, raging at a system that forces working-class people to eat themselves to death. And then there’s his primary passion …Killian is an amateur bodybuilder, pushing his body to…

Startups had a dismal year by nearly every measurement in 2022, from plummeting investment to scarce public listings, and data point to a 2023 that could be even more difficult.As markets tanked in early 2022, many startup executives and investors were confident that a record amount of venture capital waiting to be spent—known as dry powder—and a lingering enthusiasm for new tech trends would buffer Silicon Valley. No such luck. As 2022 closed, startup founders and investors were licking their wounds from plunging…

Kanye West recently appeared at Paris Fashion Week over the weekend. The rapper made his runway debut at the semi-annual fashion conference in France on October 2 for the Balenciaga show. Ye opened the show, wearing an oversized black hoody with a military-style cargo jacket over the top and a pair of baggy pants and boots. However, his cool look was not something that attracted fan’s attention. The Grammy Award winner sparked concern over a bloodied lip and bruising on the side of his face. The rapper appeared to be…

Post Malone promised fans that he would “continue kicking ass on tour” after he fell through a hole onstage and bruised his ribs during a truncated performance in St. Louis over the weekend.Video of the fall on Twitter showed Malone performing at the Enterprise Center amid a sea of fans on a small circular stage, singing his hit single “Circles,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2019. After singing the lyric, “I got a feeling that it’s time to let it go,” bending to greet his fans with their hands outstretched,…

Post Malone spoke out earlier today after bruising his ribs from a fall through a trap door onstage during his performance in St. Louis on Saturday. “Whenever we do the acoustic part of the show, the guitars on the guitar stand...it goes down, and there’s this big ass hole, so I go around there and I turn the corner and bust my ass,” Malone explained. “Winded me pretty good. Got me pretty good. We just got back from the hospital and everything’s good. Everything’s good. They gave me some pain meds and everything and we…

Released amid a hail of controversy – some of it stemming from an incident in which its author was shot, allegedly by rapper Tory Lanez – Megan Thee Stallion’s 2020 debut album Good News was an exercise in optimism from its title down. Two years on, there’s more controversy – the Texan rapper is currently engaged in a bitter legal battle with her record label – but her mood has clearly changed. The title of Good News’ follow-up is derived from “a chemical released in the brain when it is forced to deal with painful…