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Oscars 2024 live updates: Best Actress nominee Emma Stone arrives at the Oscars.Oscars 2024 live updates: Jamie Lee Curtis, Rita Moreno, Simu Liu and other stars gathered on Sunday to celebrate the best performances in film at the annual Academy Awards, a ceremony expected to turn into a toast to blockbuster atomic bomb drama Oppenheimer. Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was set to return for the fourth time to emcee the film industry's highest honors from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The live broadcast on ABC starts at 4…

Baftas 2024: Best British film nominees you need to watch | Binge WatchGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe Baftas 2024 are almost here, with the biggest film stars in the world set to attend.In the next few days, Hollywood actors, including Emma Stone, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, will make their way to London for the ceremony, which is taking place at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday (18 February).The winners…

The Beverly Hills Police Department closed off a prime intersection in the 90210 to investigate an “active threat” from an unnamed individual at the Waldorf Astoria just before noon on Thursday. A source on the scene told The Hollywood Reporter that a major police presence surrounded the corners of Santa Monica and Wilshire boulevards including a SWAT vehicle and helicopter circling above. A steady stream of sirens could be heard from miles away as both the Waldorf Astoria and the adjacent Beverly…

Golden Globe Awards 2024 live updates: Margot Robbie, Oprah Winfrey and Leonardo DiCaprio will mingle with other top stars on Sunday (Monday morning in India) at the Golden Globe awards, Hollywood's first big celebration since twin strikes shut down most of show business last year. Golden Globe Awards 2024 live updates: Gillian Anderson arrives at the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.(Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) The red carpet, champagne-fueled awards ceremony will honour the best of film and television…

In Men We Reaped, her memoir about growing up poor in the American south, and the five men close to her who died too soon, Jesmyn Ward writes of a niggling dissatisfaction with her first novel. She knew that the twin boys in Where the Line Bleeds, who graduate high school only to face the invidious choice of minimum-wage dead-end labour or drug dealing to pay the bills, “were failing as characters”, because she couldn’t figure out how to “look squarely at what was happening to young Black people I knew in the South, and…

The impact of human activity on the Earth system could result in unpredictable chaos from which there is no return, physicists have calculated.Using a theory conceived to model superconductivity, a team of physicists led by Alex Bernadini of the University of Porto in Portugal showed that, after a certain point, we will not be able to restore equilibrium to Earth's climate.A finite amount of human activity could result in a Hothouse Earth from which there is no return. They detailed their work in a paper made available…

Indiana Jones is not the only octogenarian swinging triumphantly back to Cannes this year – though thanks to de-ageing technology, he may be the most fresh-faced.Harrison Ford’s archeologist takes the coveted “blockbuster spot” in the 2023 edition of the festival, which begins on Tuesday. Last year that honour went to another returning hero: Tom Cruise, with Top Gun: Maverick, which went on to dominate the box office and score multiple Oscar nominations.Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is a fifth and final outing for…

A 77-year-old grandmother opened her door to a SWAT team earlier this year because they thought that a stolen truck and guns were being hidden in her garage. They thought that solely because someone had used Apple's Find My network to locate it. But there was a problem.That problem was the big blue circle that was shown on the Find My app, highlighting that it wasn't sure exactly where the truck was because a firm location wasn't available. But that didn't stop a police officer from getting a search warrant and letting a…

Listen to article(2 minutes)Media and technology titans are gathering this week in an Idaho ski town to discuss the future of their industry as it faces a potential global economic meltdown.Business leaders and politicians will convene at the Sun Valley Lodge in Idaho for investment bank Allen & Co.’s annual conference, often called the “summer camp for billionaires.” Listen to article(2 minutes)Media and technology titans are gathering this week in an Idaho ski town to discuss the future of their industry as it…