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Award-winning Actress Salma Hayek Once Shared Her Honest Thoughts On Menopause ( Photo Credit – Instagram ) Mexican and American star Salma Hayek never shies away from calling a spade a spade and is always willing to speak about issues concerned with women. While appearing on The Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smith in 2021, the actress gave insights on menopause and how it was considered a problem rather than something normal every woman experiences. Scroll to read more. Salma Hayek is a mother to Valentina Paloma…

A closed Bed Bath & Beyond store in San Francisco, California, US, on Monday, April 24, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIn strip malls across the country, Bed Bath & Beyond stores have "Closing Soon" signs.For other retailers, those may as well be "For Rent" signs.The home goods retailer, which filed for bankruptcy Sunday, won't only create opportunities for competitors to gain new customers and market share. Its shuttered stores will kick off a land grab for retailers hungry for additional…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWhen sisters fight, it can be ferocious. But Polite Society, the debut feature of Nida Manzoor, creator of Channel 4’s We Are Lady Parts, takes those squabbles to a new extreme. When Ria (Priya Kansara) and Lena Khan (Ritu Arya) butt heads, they do so literally. They palm strike. They calf kick. They hurl each other through doors. It’s one of the many fight sequences in Manzoor’s…

Johnson & Johnson is poised to begin a roadshow to pitch shares of its consumer-healthcare business, the producer of household names such as Tylenol, in a test for an IPO market that has been in the doldrums for the past year. Kenvue Inc. plans to start meeting with prospective investors as early as Monday, people familiar with the matter said. The goal is to raise $3.5 billion or more in the offering at a valuation close to $40 billion, the people said. IPO roadshows typically last anywhere from…

A few years ago, Priya Kansara was working in an ordinary office communications job for a healthcare pharmaceutical company. Now she’s fulfilling her childhood dream of being a leading actor, scaling buildings, learning jiu-jitsu and doing backflips in her latest film, Polite Society. With no previous stunt experience, Kansara describes the process as “jumping into the deep end”.“The shooting schedule was so intense,” she says, recalling the third and final shot of one particular Friday evening. With 15 minutes left of…

International pop star Nicki Minaj came to the rescue after streamer Kai Cenat faced a ban from Twitch on April 17. His Twitch account currently shows a message, “temporarily unavailable due to violation of Twitch’s…terms of service.” Kai’s career has now hit a roadblock and stomped. This is his second twitch ban. Image Credit: Christopher Polk In a very recent Q&A, Nicki Minaj was interacting with her fans when someone asked her about Kai Cenat’s recent scenario. Due to chat flows most of the time it's…

Part-timers and weekend drivers are expected to be among the key points of debate as the Teamsters and United Parcel Service Inc. begin talks this week on the largest collective bargaining agreement in the U.S. The parcel-delivery industry has changed since the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and UPS last signed a five-year agreement in 2018. UPS and rival FedEx Corp. have become more focused in recent years on delivering more profitable packages rather than increasing volume.…

Metallica frontman James Hetfield has said their 11th studio album is rooted in the past, its title a reference to “the first 18 years of our lives, that form our true or false selves … Much of our adult experience is re-enactment or reaction to those childhood experiences”. You could take this as the talk of a man who has spent a lot of time in therapy. In 2019 Hetfield entered rehab again, an experience that clearly informs a chunk of 72 Seasons’ lyrics. “Temptation, temptation,” he keeps repeating as If Darkness Had a…

Resident Evil 4 is finally out and it’s one hell of a remake. Capcom spared no expenses with the ambitious project, reinventing the horror classic and making one of the series’ best games (again) in the process. For newcomers, it’s a perfect way to experience one of the best games of all time without some dated mechanics, while old fans will get a kick out of seeing the original radically reimagined. That surprising approach might also present some challenges upfront. If you know the original like the back of your…

Image via Marvel Studios In a shocking turn from what has been the status quo of the Marvel fandom in the last few years, fans are reminiscing about and celebrating all the bold choices the Marvel Cinematic Universe has made that stray from its comic book source material. The discussion started when one Reddit user asked the community about their most disliked adjustment from paper to screen, prompting another resident of the Marvel Studios subreddit to ask the exact opposite — and arguably more interesting —…