Meltdown

Psychological horror films love digging into the minds of artists—a pursuit that becomes self-reflexive when the troubled character is a filmmaker. Stopmotion explores that trope from a visually dynamic point of view, following a young stop-motion animator on a dangerous downward spiral.Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis VilleneuveDirected and co-written by Robert Morgan, who also crafted the film’s eerily tactile stop-motion sequences, Stopmotion introduces us to Ella (The Last Voyage of the…

Matthias Glasner’s epic is a black comedy of Franzenesque family dysfunction; maybe not profound exactly but terrifically watchable and entertaining. It is about the time-honoured subject of what we inherit from our parents and what is gained and lost by rejecting that inheritance. The film features that always formidable German actor Lars Eidinger as an orchestra conductor - and it will be no surprise that when he takes to the podium at the Berlin Philharmonic, it is the scene of the biggest and most embarrassing fiasco…

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A tumultuous moment where Travis Kelce bumped into The Kansas City Chiefs’ head coach sparked concerns about his aggression, while Taylor Swift‘s presence at the Super Bowl brought more attention to their relationship.After the Chiefs’ tight end forcefully collided with his coach, Andy Reid, on the sidelines during his Super Bowl game against The San Francisco 49ers, people flooded social media with concerns, labeling him a “red flag” to his girlfriend.Travis had been temporarily removed from the game because of an…

Barbie (which can be streamed with a Max subscription) was arguably the biggest movie of last year. Barbie was a massive box office hit and it stands a chance of going home from the Oscars with more than one statue. Barbie received several major 2024 Oscar nominations, despite its star and director both being criminally overlooked. The movie is a staggering achievement, being both an IP-driven tentpole based on a popular toy, and a serious look at just what that toy means to the culture at large. It's incredible the…

This satellite image from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission reveals the rapid retreat of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier. Since the 1980s, it has retreated over 20 km and lost about half of its volume. Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2023), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGOAlaska’s Columbia Glacier has significantly retreated over 20 km since the 1980s, with climate change being a major factor. Satellite imagery from 2023 highlights the glacier’s dramatic transformation and the advanced technology used for…

Chaka Khan has been named as the latest music star to curate the Meltdown festival at London’s Southbank Centre, following in the footsteps of David Bowie, Grace Jones, Yoko Ono and more.The festival will take place from 14 to 23 June, with the artist programme still to be announced. Khan said the festival would be “where magic of music meets the warmth of community … We’re going to funk it up, rock every crowd, and touch every soul.”The Southbank Centre’s head of contemporary music, Adem Holness, said: “I’ve learned how…

God, Mom! You’re ruining my life! You’ll never understand me! Slams bedroom door.Any parent of a teenager probably knows exactly what it feels like to hear something along those lines, but just because it’s expected at a certain point doesn’t make it sting any less. That’s why one parent recently reached out to Reddit to find out if they’re actually ruining their pre-teen daughter’s life by refusing to buy her the phone she wants. Below, you’ll find the full story, as well as some of the replies readers have shared.It’s…

Christmas and families are intrinsically interlinked, but there’s also a fair share of challenges that arise when you combine the two.For Reddit user Any-Might7823, they turned out to be too big to handle.A few days ago, she shared a raw and personal account of her holidays, during which her father and his second wife pushed the teenager to accept the lady as her new mother, and continuously ignored her boundaries.It got so bad that she had a full-blown meltdown in front of everyone.When communication breaks down within…

By DAVID KOENIG (AP Airlines Writer) DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines will pay a $35 million fine as part of a $140 million settlement to resolve a federal investigation into a debacle in December 2022 when the airline canceled thousands of flights and stranded more than 2 million travelers over the holidays. Most of the settlement will go toward compensating future passengers, which the U.S. Department of Transportation considers an incentive for Southwest to avoid repeating last winter’s mess. The government said the…