Vanessa Williams is the kind of grandma you’d expect her to be.
23.05.2023 - 19:05 / variety.com
Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The disturbing thriller “Club Zero” that played at Cannes will divide audiences and critics with a scene of a teen eating vomit, but director Jessica Hausner gets one crucial thing right: It starts with a trigger warning for attendees, stating that the film features scenes regarding eating disorders. Of course, there will be many opinions on the auteur’s execution and theme, but in the same way her villainous lead character promotes “conscious eating,” Hausner delivered a “conscious warning.” This practice should become the norm for content, whether movies or television. Not only should an advisory be shown at the beginning, but marketing departments should brainstorm ways to include it on posters, trailers and other campaigns. We, and studios, cannot rely solely on the MPAA rating system to inform viewers of brutal scenes that could be triggering. “Club Zero” involves scenes and topics of bulimia, while many other films and shows casually depict scenes featuring rape, school shootings and more.
Australian auteur Hausner, whose six previous features screened at Cannes, wrote the movie with Géraldine Bajard. It tells the story of a nutrition teacher named Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska), who starts a new job at an elite prep school and begins helping her students to “eat consciously.” However, her calm and warm demeanor takes a troubling turn as she coaches them toward removing food entirely from their diet to be healthier and save the environment. The dark dramedy generated quite a response when it screened for critics and audiences at Monday night’s premiere. The first half features dry wit and dark humor, which garnered laughs from attendees. But midway through a scene showing a
Vanessa Williams is the kind of grandma you’d expect her to be.
Jana Kramer announced on Thursday she is expecting a baby with her fiancé, former soccer player Allan Russell. Kramer, 39, shared the exciting news on Instagram with a photo of her and Russell, 42, holding a pregnancy test. "We’ve been keeping another secret from you guys (I promise this is the last Announcement...at least for a little while ) but I’m pregnant!!!!" the country singer posted. "Beyond blessed and grateful for this baby to be a part of our story. I never thought I would see the word pregnant again on a test, but thankful for @clearblue for making it as clear as ever." The "Whine Down" podcast host admitted she "didn’t think it would ever happen again" in a candid new interview.
television show, and in later years, his televised pronouncements of God's judgment on America for everything from homosexuality to the teaching of evolution.The money poured in as he solicited donations, his influence soared, and when he moved directly into politics by seeking the GOP presidential nomination in 1988, he brought a huge following with him.Robertson pioneered a now-common strategy of courting Iowa's network of evangelical Christian churches, and finished in second place in the Iowa caucuses, ahead of Vice President George H.W. Bush.His masterstroke was insisting that three million followers across the U.S.
The explosive season 10 reunion of Vanderpump Rules reunion has come to an end.
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Quentin Tarantino is no stranger to violence on screen. This is a filmmaker who loves to be pretty shocking when it comes to the gore associated with death, and it’s a staple of his work dating back to his first feature, “Reservoir Dogs.” And apparently, his depiction of violence on screen was enough to force Cannes to introduce a new warning label for some films.
cancer. His friend Marcus Stead confirmed the news to Mail Online with a tribute to the ‘great British eccentric. ’He said Page was ‘a lovely man to speak to and a man of great principle and integrity.
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She sent fans wild back in January when she was seen on the Coronation Street cobbles for the first time in years - but fans of the ITV soap shouldn’t expect Brooke Vincent to return to the street full-time any time soon.
Andie MacDowell was having the best time on the red carpet at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival!
Doing what it best for her. Kelly Clarkson made a rare comment about her upcoming plans to move to New York with her children — and her talk show.
Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera absolutely charmed the Cannes Film Festival audience at its world premiere in competition this afternoon, receiving a 9-minute standing ovation inside the Palais’ Lumière theater. For those keeping score, that ties for the longest of this year’s event with Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon which played out of competition.
A Chimera is something one tries to achieve but alas, never manages to find. It is the heart and soul of a quest in life, in different ways, for the cast of characters in writer/director Alice Rohrwacher’s beautiful new film La Chimera premiering today as one of the last entries in competition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. It also happens to be one of the best.
Jana Kramer announced on Thursday she’s engaged to former soccer player Allan Russell after just six and a half months of dating. After teasing that she’s "had a few things that I have been not been talking about," she announced that Russell, 42, had proposed to her. "He took me and the kids – we had some people over during the day -- like a little pool party thing, summer hang. And he took me and the kids, he said it’s a beautiful night, let’s go for a walk," she said on her "Whine Down" podcast. She said they walked up to her new Tennessee house, set to be completed in August, and sat on the front porch steps. "It was a really beautiful night and me and the kids were all … looking out at the view because the view is, I mean, just stunning," the country star, 39, explained. Russell then said her name and the next thing she knew he was on one knee. "And Jolie just started jumping up and down," Kramer said of her 7-year-old daughter whom she shares with ex-husband Mike Caussin.The former couple also share son Jace, 4.
Madeleine McCann's family have been given fresh hope thanks to a new investigation into her disappearance.
If you thought Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had spilled everything there is to say about royal life, think again - the pair are said to be in talks for yet another tell-all feature, this time as a Netflix movie. They've already given a revealing look at their version of events of life inside the palace in their Netflix documentary series, Harry & Meghan, released in December, but they are now said to be keen for a repeat performance The new venture is likely to focus on their experience of living inside the palace and was reportedly inspired by Netflix's announcement that it's developing a film around Prince Andrew’s infamous car crash BBC interview with journalist Emily Maitlis.
Asteroid City, Wilson and Hanks were photographed in the midst of what appeared to be a heated conversation with an unknown man in a tuxedo. With his pointer finger raised (though, notably, not directed toward the man) and his brow furrowed, Hanks appeared quite angry in the pic. Wilson, for her part, also had her pointer finger raised, while the anonymous man appeared to be gesticulating rather ambiguously. The tabloids, being the tabloids, were quick to sensationalize the photographs, with Page Six writing the headline, “.” wrote, “Raving Private Ryan! Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson remonstrate with a red carpet staffer as they attend the 76th Cannes Film Festival premiere of Asteroid City.” One of the aforementioned photos of Hanks and Wilson on the red carpet.But Wilson has spoken in the form of an Instagram Story.