Michael

‘I am not the story,” says Michael J Fox, kind, and firm and, for the only time in our conversation, unpersuasive. “The story is the power of optimism. That it’s really a choice. Acceptance doesn’t mean being resigned to something. You look at it and say: ‘What does this truth require of me?’”He leans over for a sip of Diet Coke. “It’s like with our glorious ex-president: the only answer to that is truth. You can get caught up in the mythology being presented. In the nativism and the hatred, the resentment and the…

The King of Pop is getting the biopic he deserves – here is what we know about Michael. Plenty of music icons have received the movie treatment over the last several years. We could talk about Bohemian Rhapsody and its awards, and the fact that Rami Malek won an Academy Award for it. Or we could speak about Rocketman and the wonderful music of Elton John. We could bring up the new movie One Love as an example. But today, we are talking about the one and only Michael Jackson and the fact that he's getting the music biopic…

As artificial intelligence starts to reshape society in ways predictable and not, some of Colorado’s highest-profile federal lawmakers are trying to establish guardrails without shutting down the technology altogether. U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a Windsor Republican, is cosponsoring legislation with California Democrat Ted Lieu to create a national commission focused on regulating the technology and another bill to keep AI from unilaterally firing nuclear weapons. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, has publicly urged the leader of…

September 11 didn’t feel like ancient history by the time Martin Amis published The Last Days of Muhammad Atta in 2006 or Don DeLillo’s Falling Man came out in 2007. Yet – at least as a subject for fiction – the onset of the pandemic in spring 2020 already has that air. It’s partly because novelists were so quick to respond, from Ali Smith to Sally Rooney to Elizabeth Strout and more besides. It’s partly, too, that fictionalising those events doesn’t require the bravado Amis mustered when he sought to get inside a…

American actor and writer Colman Domingo is all set to play the late Joe Jackson in the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic `Michael`, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Domingo, who recently received critical acclaim and an Oscar nomination for his portrayal in Rustin, will appear in Michael, a Lionsgate biopic set to be released worldwide on April 18, 2025. Joe Jackson, the father of Michael, Janet, and their eight siblings died in 2018 at the age of 89. Michael Jackson`s nephew, Jaafar Jackson, will portray the pop…

Colman Domingo has been professionally acting for nearly 30 years, and now he’s hit a major milestone for any performer in the business. When the nominees for the 96th Academy Awards were shared earlier this week, it was revealed that Domingo will compete in the Best Actor category for his performance as Bayard Rustin in Rustin, which some of you may consider to be one of the best movies on Netflix. While we have a little over a month to go until we learn if the actor will take home an Oscar, fresh off his nomination…

Phil and Rita from Groundhog Day are just two of Dakota Randall’s portrait subjects.Image: Dakota Randall/Hero ComplexSometimes you just want a portrait of your favorite characters from TV and movies on your wall. And when that happens, artist Dakota Randall is there. In conjunction with the Hero Complex Gallery, Randall has been creating beautiful, affordable, realistic-looking portraits for a few years now, inspired by dramas, comedies, sci-fi, fantasy, you name it. And after years of simply admiring the work, we…

The day of the title is a composite of three days: a morning in 2019, a locked-down afternoon in 2020, and an evening in 2021, when it is possible to travel and gather again. On 5 April in each of these years, Michael Cunningham takes his samplings, or specimen hours, minutely observing the lives of the people he finds in a Brooklyn apartment. A quarter century after The Hours, with its three Mrs Dalloways in different times and cities, Cunningham returns to a solidly tripartite structure across which contrasts and…

LOS ANGELES — A woman charged with killing a high-profile marketing consultant and social justice advocate in film pleaded not guilty Monday. Jameelah Elena Michl, 36, entered the plea in Los Angeles Superior Court to charges of murder and burglary, with additional allegations that she used a firearm to commit the felonies. Prosecutors say she knocked on the door of the Los Angeles home of Michael Latt — then forced her way in and fatally shot him with a semi-automatic handgun on Nov. 27. He was later declared dead at a…

On an unnamed island in the Caribbean, a cartel boss named Manuel (Edoardo Costa) kills bartender Akeem (Tristan Duncan) merely because he spills a drink on Nora (Cami Storm), a young singer Manuel was planning to lock up in his villa and force to sing only for himself, like a canary. The murder is not only grisly and bad management practice, but also consequential because it brings down the wrath of Akeem’s brother Mark (action movie star Michael Jai White, from Mortal Kombat and Black Dynamite), an LA policeman. It…