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Weekend OTT Watchlist: Are you planning to make your weekend a cozy affair indoors? Look no further as we bring you a curated list of the latest OTT releases across platforms like Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, ZEE5, and more. Maamla Legal Hai, Sunflower Season 2 to Shogun, there's something for everyone. Grab your popcorn and get ready for a weekend of binge-watching!1. Maamla Legal Hai - NetflixJoin Ravi Kishan in this eight-part series as he navigates through quirky legal cases at the Patparganj…

It is an iron law of art history that any critic who has a book or two in them will sooner or later wind up writing about the Renaissance. Moody, hard-living Jackson Pollock is all very well, and let’s hear it for the formidable Tracey Emin. But at art’s palace of varieties, it’s Leonardo and Michelangelo that the people come to see. If you only know Jonathan Jones from these pages, it may surprise you to find him tripping down this primrose path with his own book on the era, almost as big as a Domino’s box. Do the…

It’s the film that the revered animator and co-founder of Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki came out of retirement to make, and it’s arguably one of his most personal. The Boy and the Heron is a strikingly beautiful, densely detailed fantasy that revisits themes and devices familiar from previous films and ties them together with elements that have a clear autobiographical resonance for the director. The dream logic of the narrative seems to have been born from the untrammelled imagination of a child rather than that of a man…

Night isn’t the only time to see gorgeous things in the sky. Some of the most awe-invoking heavenly phenomena can only happen during the day, when the sun is shining.If you live in a place where you (1) can see our home star and (2) have an atmosphere above your head—statistically speaking, I think that covers most of our readers—then you can see some truly lovely daytime apparitions, such as giant rings around the sun, glowing arcs and ethereal flattened rainbows. There are many different kinds of these visual delights…

The director Paul King, the magician behind the two Paddington movies and now Wonka, has a formula. Sweet-natured, sweet-toothed dreamers arrive in a strange land where they are forced to overcome adversity by employing, among other things, their passion and skill for creating sugar-based foodstuffs. King’s trademark box-of-delights storytelling approach combines showy, gymnastically agile editing and a disarmingly handmade, artisanal quality to the production design. At times, his films can venture a little too far…

KDE Plasma 6 will also be shifting to the Wayland display server protocol. As well, the new release will use the latest version of the Qt GUI toolkit.Other features that have already been added to KDE Plasma 6 include:Overview and Desktop Grid effect have been combined into one with improved gesture support.Color management support for sRGB applications has been added for Wayland.HDR support has been added for Wayland.Custom sort ordering for KRunner search results.Desktop Cube effect (similar to that found in Compiz)…

Twilight star Robert Pattinson and his girlfriend, Suki Waterhouse, are preparing for parenthood as they anticipate their first child. The Daisy Jones & The Six actor revealed her pregnancy during a stellar performance at the Corona Capital Festival in Mexico, proudly displaying her baby bump for the first time. A circulating video captures the moment Suki paused during her set, donning a sparkling outfit. She humorously remarked, “I’m wearing something sparkly today because I thought it might distract…

Screenshot by David Gewirtz/ZDNETMicrosoft today previewed some new features for its Dev Box coding-machine-as-a-service offering. It looks like Dev Box is replacing Visual Studio Codespaces, which replaced Visual Studio Online. A visit to the Visual Studio page now discusses coding in the cloud with Dev Box.Also: Microsoft Build 2023: How to watch and why you shouldBut it's Dev Box that looks to be the most robust. Dev Box is the only one that provides a full Windows login environment. Microsoft plans to make Dev…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDespite dropping out as host days earlier, Drew Barrymore opened the 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards as her Never Been Kissed character Josie Grossie.Sunday’s (7 May) ceremony was pre-recorded after the ongoing Hollywood writers’ strike led to the live event’s cancellation.Find a full list of this year’s winners here.Barrymore performed in a number of pre-recorded sketches throughout…

Under a cloudless sky, 20,000 eclipse chasers crowded a tiny outpost to watch a rare solar eclipse plunge part of Australia's northwest coast into brief midday darkness on Thursday while temporarily cooling the tropical heat.The remote tourist town of Exmouth, with fewer than 3,000 residents, was promoted as one of the best vantage points in Australia to see the eclipse that also crossed remote parts of Indonesia and East Timor.An international crowd had been gathering for days, camping in tents and trailers on a red,…