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PolarisRooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix at the Oscars. Photograph: Mike Blake/ReutersPolaris will be the fifth feature film completed in the 25-year career of the unprolific yet consistently excellent Lynne Ramsay, and her first since 2017. She works with a glacial patience matching the one sentence of information known about her next project: “Set in Alaska during the 1890s, an ice photographer meets the devil.” With real-life couple Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara as the only announced cast, either one could conceivably…

Hannah Devlin / The Guardian: A UK study of 7,000 people born between 2000 and 2002: 48% agreed with “I think I am addicted to social media”; 57% of girls agreed, compared to 37% of boys — Exclusive: Millennium Cohort's finding raises questions about why a large proportion has a difficult relationship with social media Hannah Devlin / The Guardian: A UK study of 7,000 people born between 2000 and 2002: 48% agreed with “I think I am addicted to social media”; 57% of girls…

A cargo ship crosses the Suez Canal, one of the most critical human-made waterways, in Ismailia, Egypt on December 29, 2023. (Photo by Fareed Kotb/Anadolu via Getty Images)Anadolu | Getty ImagesThe threat to global trade in the Red Sea remains high, even with efforts to protect commercial vessels from attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi militants based in Yemen.Danish shipping giant Maersk's decision on Tuesday to pause Red Sea and Gulf of Aden transits until further notice underscores the difficulty for the U.S.-led…

Hallucination, Barbenheimer and acabó were among the new and breakthrough words of 2023, according to an analysis of the Guardian archive. And do you have “rizz”?Dozens of new words appeared on the newspaper’s pages this year. And while the majority of these relate to people and placenames previously unrecorded on the news pages, some words were truly newly minted.Foremost in this list was the unlikely phenomenon that was Barbenheimer, a portmanteau of two films released on the same day but light years apart in terms of…

“Enjoy this piano – it’s a gift!” When Elton John played a brief piano medley of his hits on the concourse of St Pancras railway station in 2016 – pausing to scribble a brief message on the instrument which, he announced, he was donating to the station – he can’t have known what he had started.In the years since, the upright black Yamaha, still bearing the singer’s message and autograph, has been played by many thousands of people passing through the central London station – and a stampede of well known faces too,…

Image: NetflixAlthough Marvel is often, perhaps rightfully, granted dominance over the superhero movie boom of the last decade and a half, it’s arguably Zack Snyder who has, for better or worse, defined that trend more than any other singular figure. But, on the precipice of launching is own new universe, the director seems like he’s well and truly done with comic book heroes.Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI Unlocked“We’ve been on the treadmill—it has not evolved. I don’t have the excitement for it that I used…

The Guardian has struck a deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment, the parent of the producers of content including The Crown, Doctor Who and Sex Education, to develop the media group’s content for adaptation to film and TV.The deal with Guardian Media Group, the parent company of the Guardian and Observer newspapers and international digital businesses, will give SPE exclusive first-look rights to Guardian’s global journalism.The collaboration agreement spans SPE’s production companies – which include Left Bank Pictures,…

Wayne is a fixture on the banger circuit – a rough style of racing in self-built cars. Now that his son Jai-Dee is nearly 13, his debut “full contact” race is finally in view.Jess Kohl’s new short film immerses us into the boisterous world at the same time as revealing a tender relationship between a father and a son. This cinematic coming-of-age story poignantly reframes expectations of masculinity in a tough sport.I spoke with Kohl about making the film, how she gained the trust of this family in order to authentically…

As a famous @dril tweet noted of the terrorist group ISIS, “You do not, under any circumstances, ‘gotta hand it to them.'” Yet amid the continuing horrors of the war between Israel and Hamas militants, as people struggle to make sense of the violence and escalating rhetoric, more than a few people are willing to give al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden credit for his 2002 polemic against the United States, published as an explanation of the ideology that led him to orchestrate the attacks of 9/11. “I need everyone to…

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