Pete Davidson and Chase Sui Wonders have called off their relationship after about eight months of dating.
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Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic This year marks 30 years since Bob Byington’s first feature, though it’s only during the last 15 of those — since SXSW midnight-movie breakout “RSO: Registered Sex Offender” — that the Austin-based director has enjoyed “indie darling” status. During that same stretch, the cultural discourse has changed a great deal, while Byington’s voice remains remarkably (if somewhat frustratingly) consistent, churning out self-deprecating feature-length sitcoms about flaccid man-babies.
Those aren’t the kind of movies American festivals are looking for so much anymore, which could explain why his latest, “Lousy Carter,” wound up premiering abroad instead, at the Locarno Film Festival. Locarno’s programmers typically gravitate toward austere, experimental and/or formally audacious works of cinema (it’s the place where Lav Diaz, Wang Bing and Pedro Costa have each won the Pardo d’Oro).
“Lousy Carter” is none of these things, but nor is it lousy. That unfortunate moniker belongs to the film’s lead character, a lumpy failed animator turned tenured literature professor, who’s rendered all the more pathetic in the film’s opening minutes by the news that he has six months to live.
Typically, when characters get that kind of diagnosis in American movies, one of three things happens. Either they have a perfectly timed, life-changing epiphany before dying (“The Fault in Our Stars”), they use the news to motivate some heroic sacrifice (which is somehow less sad, since their days were numbered anyway) or they discover that the doctor screwed up the tests and they’re fine after all (like Queen Latifah in “Last Holiday”).
They never, ever wind up dying early. You can discover for yourself how Byington chooses to
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Channel 4 has renewed Simon Bird-starring apocalypse comedy Everyone Else Burns and greenlit a Rosie Jones sitcom titled Disability Benefits produced by Sharon Horgan.
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A supermarket has now been the cheapest for these shopping essentials for more than six months.
Katie Price has been attacked by 'mum police' on social media after she recently revealed her plans to have a sixth child with the help of IVF.The former glamour model, 45, has been accused of being an "attention seeker" and a bad "role model" by Instagram users who have been left shocked by Katie's latest revelation. The TV star, who is already a mum of five to children Harvey, 21, Junior, 18, Princess, 16, Jett, nine, and Bunny, eight, recently insisted that she "needs more babies." But her plans to her extend her family didn't go down well with her Instagram followers.
Amazon is offering a six month free trial for new university and college students to their Prime Student subscription.
Kevin De Bruyne could be out until February 2024, Pep Guardiola says, as he admitted that Manchester City's transfer plans have been altered by the Belgian's long-term injury.
Kellie Pickler is expressing her gratitude for all the love and support she’s received since the death of her husband, Kyle Jacobs.
Kellie Pickler is speaking out after her husband's death. In a new statement, the 37-year-old singer addresses her husband, Kyle Jacobs', death by suicide for the first time. Jacobs was found dead at their Nashville, Tennessee, home in February.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Iranian director Saeed Roustaee has been sentenced to six months to prison for showing his latest film, “Leila’s Brothers,” at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, according to an Iranian report. The Islamic Revolutionary Court convicted both Roustaee and Javad Noruzbegi for “contributing to the propaganda of the opposition against the Islamic system,” according to the Iranian daily Etemad.
Now is not the time to be vacationing in Hawaii!
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Back in the 1970s, when Korea was closed to the outside world, locals relied on black market dealers to get their hands on everything from American cigarettes to Ritz crackers. Though this illicit import racket was run mostly by men, it wouldn’t have been possible without half a dozen uniquely talented women — skilled divers known as haenyeo who fished the loot from the sea.
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic The “prince of England’s hearts” falls for the American president’s son (or is it the other way around?) in “Red, White & Royal Blue,” an effervescent gay rom-com that might be easily dismissed as a mere trifle, were it not for the still-historic novelty of its existence. Arriving less than a year after “Bros,” director Matthew López’s Amazon-backed, R-rated lark goes even further to normalize queer romance on-screen, taking a classic “chick flick” premise — the kind once reserved for Mandy Moore and Amanda Bynes movies, à la “Chasing Liberty” or “What a Girl Wants” — and recasting it with dudes.
Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Nearly two decades ago, “March of the Penguins” crossed a frontier hardly any nonfiction film ever does: not just the Antarctic Circle, but the even more remote $100 million mark at the global box office. A bona fide global phenomenon, Luc Jacquet wondrous nature doc — and its adorable, relatable emperor penguin stars — got audiences from practically every continent to turn their attention to the South Pole and the super-adorable, surprisingly relatable emperor penguins its director found there.
Bereaved parents are being warned that they only have a few months left to claim extra support from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
Clifton Oliver has sadly died at the young age of 47.
Broadway is mourning the death of one of their own. Clifton Oliver, who starred in Broadway productions of The Lion King, Wicked and In the Heights, died on Aug. 2, his sister, Roxy Hall, confirmed. He was 47.
The Lion King, Wicked and In the Heights, died on Aug. 2, his sister, Roxy Hall, confirmed. He was 47.«My baby brother, Clifton Oliver, has had his final curtain call,» Hall posted to Facebook on the day of his death.
on Facebook. “It was peaceful,” she continued.
Clifton Oliver, a stage actor who appeared on Broadway in The Lion King, In The Heights and Wicked, died yesterday following a lengthy illness.