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‘The Guest’ Review: A Superb Trine Dyrholm Adds Unsentimental Value to a Piercing Family Drama
Variety’s Jessica Kiang has published a highly positive review of “The Guest,” the debut feature from Danish director Mads Mengel, which screened at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. The film is praised as an “impressively uncozy” Nordic drama that begins as a comedy of bourgeois social awkwardness before deepening into a tragedy about how a…
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Google confirms Pixel 11 to debut at evening event on 12 August
Google has confirmed that its next Made by Google launch event, at which the Pixel 11 is expected to debut, will take place on 12 August in New York City. Notably, the event will be held in the evening, beginning at 6pm ET, an unusual departure from the company’s typical daytime hardware showcases. The announcement,…
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Arc Raiders reveals it’s been successfully targeting item duplication exploits as the percentage of players with ‘unusually high profit per minute’ drops below 1% for the first time in months
Cheaters never prosper.
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Woman charged with murder after allegedly killing and eating her four-year-old son
A 32-year-old woman on the NSW Central Coast has been charged with murder after allegedly killing her four-year-old son and eating parts of his body, a case that has drawn national attention because child protection services had reportedly intervened over concerns for the boy but left him in her care. The woman, who cannot be…
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Karlovy Vary: David Chase reflects on Sopranos regrets and unmade HBO LSD drama
Speaking to reporters at the 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, The Sopranos creator David Chase discussed both his celebrated past work and his forthcoming HBO project. He confirmed he is in the early “story stage” of Project: MKUltra, a limited series adapting John Lisle’s nonfiction book about the CIA’s Cold…
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Manual controls give way to automated machines, eroding human touch
In an excerpt from his book *The Small Stuff*, writer Ian Bogost argues that people have gradually lost direct, physical control over the machines and objects in their lives. He contends that unseen choices in design, business and technology have automated away everyday tasks — replacing buttons, levers and manual effort with computers — so…
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Pete Holmes keeps screen time low and ignores 55,000 unread emails
Comedian Pete Holmes, star of HBO’s Crashing, spoke to WIRED for its “User Behavior” series about how he keeps his phone use unusually low and why he believes we are all on the verge of “slowly walking away” from our devices. He argues that much of modern digital life amounts to “manufactured urgency” that people…
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Farage under standards scrutiny over ties to fraudster George Cottrell
Daily Mail columnist Dan Hodges argues that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is facing his most serious political difficulty yet over his friendship with convicted fraudster George Cottrell, known as “Posh George”. Following an investigation by The Sunday Times, the association has grown from a curiosity into a full-blown scandal, and both this matter and…
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Zendaya learns of Odyssey casting through an unexpected route
Zendaya may play the all-knowing goddess Athena in Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation of The Odyssey, but the actress was not nearly so omniscient about her casting in the film. In fact, she didn’t even know she was up for it. Turns out, it was her husband who told her. “I was already excited,” she said…
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Aisling O’Reilly on gaining an unlikely following among GAA fans
Sports presenter Aisling O’Reilly has spoken to the Mail about the personal sacrifices involved in fronting a summer of Gaelic games coverage, and about the unexpected fanbase she has gained among young followers of rival sports. The piece offers a light behind-the-scenes look at the demands placed on broadcasters during the GAA Championship season. O’Reilly…