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A broadcaster who identifies as the “world’s first transgender newsreader” reported J.K. Rowling to British police over “hateful” comments the author made on social media, sparking debate on misgendering issues and women’s rights.British police said that on Thursday (March 7), they had received a complaint from India Willoughby, who often uses her platform to advocate for trans rights, alleging J.K. Rowling had committed a hate crime for misgendering her.Willoughby made the accusation after Rowling posted on X (formerly…

A transgender journalist and reality TV personality in the U.K., India Willoughby, has reported Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling to police for misgendering her. “J.K. Rowling has definitely committed a crime,” she said in an interview with Byline TV. “I’m legally a woman. She knows I’m a woman, and she called me a man. It’s a protected characteristic, and that is a breach of both the Equalities Act and the Gender Recognition Act. She’s tweeted that out to 14 million followers.” Willoughby, who said that Rowling’s…

Ava DuVernay is a film-maker who has long been committed to a bracing cinema of ideas. Her 2016 documentary, 13th, was an investigation of the incarceration of black men and the constitutional mindset link between imprisonment and slavery in the US. It was to this film, I think, that we owed the larger revelation about the civil war: the Confederacy was not defeated like Germany was in 1945, but in fact like Germany had been in 1918 at the end of the previous world war – provisionally, and unstably.Now she has turned to…

Tim Burke, a freelance journalist and media consultant, has been charged with 14 federal crimes, including conspiracy. Burke was arrested this morning, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Last May, Burke’s home in Tampa, Florida, was raided by the FBI as part of the bureau’s investigation into how unaired clips of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight were leaked to Vice and liberal watchdog Media Matters.  The clips included video of Kanye West repeating antisemitic tropes, as well as embarrassing footage of…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSebastian Stan called out a journalist for using insensitive language when describing his new character during a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival on Friday (16 February). The Marvel star, 41, was attending a Q&A panel in support of his new A24 horror movie, A Different Man, in which he plays Edward, an aspiring actor who undergoes a radical reconstructive procedure to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJeanne du Barry director Maïwenn has been hit with a €400 (£344) fine for spitting on a French journalist last February ahead of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Last year, the French filmmaker, 47, who directed the Johnny Depp-starring biographical drama about the life of Louis XV and his mistress, Jeanne, made headlines after Médiapart magazine editor-in-chief Edwy Plenel filed a…

How many stories are hidden in the murals of Diego Rivera? What was it like to witness the creation of a modern Latin American nation, to sit in the classrooms of stridentism and surrealism? To travel in a tram through a capital city illuminated by the embers of a recent revolution yet disrupted by periodic presidential assassinations?These are just some of the questions that brought a young team of video game developers back 100 years to Mexico, 1921.Set in Mexico City following the Mexican revolution, Mexico, 1921: A…

Longtime entertainment reporter and editor Jethro Nededog is jumping the fence to work in public relations. Nededog has joined the Lippin Group as a vice president on the corporate communications team. The announcement was made Thursday by newly-installed managing directors Matt Biscuiti, Kevin Broderick and Katie Fuchs. Based in L.A., Nededog joins Biscuiti and Broderick on the corporate team and he’ll work closely with executives at the firm’s offices in L.A., New York and London (including Jim…

John Pilger, an Australia-born journalist and documentary filmmaker known for his coverage of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, has died, his family said Sunday. He was 84. A statement from his family, posted on X, formerly Twitter, said Pilger died on Saturday in London. “His journalism and documentaries were celebrated around the world, but to his family he was simply the most amazing and loved dad, grandad and partner,” the statement said. Pilger, who has been based in Britain since 1962,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeA Spanish journalist and author has filed a criminal complaint against Gérard Depardieu for allegedly raping her during an interview nearly three decades ago in Paris.Ruth Baza, 51, filed the complaint with Spain’s national police last week for the alleged rape, becoming one of more than a dozen women who have accused the French actor of sexual abuse.Baza has alleged that she was 23…