NEW YORK, NY.- Actors often have more than one project on the boil. French actress Isabelle Huppert takes multitasking to the next level. For 11 days (Wednesday through Sept. 7), Huppert is heading up the jury of the Venice Film Festival, watching nearly two dozen movies (together with the other jurors) and handing out awards, including the coveted Golden Lion.

Isabelle Huppert believes festivals are crucial to cinema's future

Of the various genres that have seen success in film over the years, few have been as succinctly emblematic of their era as the enigmatic thriller. Being able to tap into the heightened sense of anxiety and tension as characters traverse various high-stakes scenarios has always made for exhilarating cinematic experiences, with the genre evolving a multitude of times according to the trends of the generation. A handful of perfect thrillers have so effectively displayed these notions of nail-biting excitement, including M and Vertigo.

10 Thriller Movies That Are Almost Perfect

Movie audiences have always found the lure of the crime genre irresistible. Stories about crooks and mobsters and the people who bring them to justice are undeniably thrilling, and cinephiles tend to find gripping. Indeed, it's unsurprising that many of what are usually considered the greatest films ever happen to be stories about crime. The genre has also been around since the dawn of cinema, producing many all-time classics throughout the past 70+ years.

The 10 Best Historical Crime Movies, Ranked

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It's all Clint Eastwood's fault. 1992's Unforgiven reinvented and rebooted the western, a genre that had long fallen into cliché. Unforgiven took the tired tropes and turned them around, showing the shades of gray that we didn't see in our matinee movies of good guys in white hats and bad guys in black. And filmmakers have been following that lead ever since, with western-style movies telling much more nuanced stories with much more complex characters and often, much more violence too.These three films all use the western genre, they're all on Netflix and they all have 90% plus on Rotten...

3 modern western thrillers on Netflix with over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes

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From Old Hollywood classics to recent hit thrillers.

The 32 Best Film Noir Movies Ever

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One of the best psychological thriller movies just landed on Netflix — and it’s 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Netflix just got one of the best psychological thriller movies — and it's 92% on Rotten Tomatoes

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‘This is a game changer.’ Ordering off the kid’s menu comes with a certain set of expectations. Small portions, lower prices—possibly an age restriction—but generally, nothing too off-base as far as ordering food.

‘For $6, who cares?’: Applebee’s customer shocked after ordering both adult and kids’ cheeseburgers

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I forget who said it first (maybe it was Thomas Edison?) but it really is true: We come to the movies for magic. We need that, all of us, that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim and we go somewhere we’ve never been before. For...

The Best Summer Movies of 2024

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NEW YORK, NY.- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s landmark 1959 building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, has always presented singular opportunities for living artists to engage with its sculptural spiraling ramp and central oculus illuminated by a domed skylight. “It’s an institution that gives agency to solo exhibitions in...

Rashid Johnson will have career survey at Guggenheim starting in 2025

A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

PARIS.- In Inner Dialogue, Leidy Churchman’s first show at Galerie Chantal Crousel, images from previous exhibitions come back around amid new narratives, vantages, and technologies. Taken together, the paintings index the everyday in order to transcend it, making the real spiritual, the material magical, and showing us what it’s like to see, feel, and live in this particular moment. Here, the potent energy of an idea becomes an animal, a sign becomes a refuge, a feeling state a shade of blue, a credit card a meditation on death and transformation; everyday sights and sensations are first themselves and then so much more than themselves. With deft and evocative brushwork, Churchman works with figuration as a means to abstract—to help us to see beyond what we see—translating Buddhist concepts, symbols, and stories into familiar and unfamiliar compositions. In this way, paint becomes a spiritual medium, a mechanism to mediate spirit, flow, birth, death, and life continuously into and out of the frame.

Galerie Chantal Crousel to open 'Leidy Churchman: Inner Dialogue' this fall

There’s a slight discrepancy when discussing commercial entertainment that suggests that films that are widely popular at the box office cannot be artistically minded. While there are certainly some truly terrible films in recent years like Transformers: Age of Extinction and Jurassic World Dominion that managed to cross over $1 billion at the global box office, it's easy to forget that many of the older films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture were considered to be the “blockbusters” of their day.

The 10 Best Blockbuster Movies With Great Acting, Ranked

UPDATE: The trailer has been pulled because the quotes used were fabricated. In a statement, Lionsgate said, "We offer our sincere apologies to the critics involved and to Francis Ford Coppola and American Zoetrope for this inexcusable error in our vetting process. We screwed up. We are sorry." Early screenings...

MEGALOPOLIS: New Trailer Calls Out The Critics Who Hated Francis Ford Coppola's Previous Movies

"They get more than us, Why nobody told me about this?". If you're looking for a tasty option that won't break the bank, a Chick-fil-A's kids' meal might be just what you're after. It seems like a great deal. In fact, some people argue it's a better deal than a regular adult meal. This TikToker took the audience through the ins and outs of this meal.

Chick-fil-A customer says they’ll never order a full meal again after seeing kids’ meal

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'American Hustle' boasts an A-list cast including Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence and is a must-watch on Netflix ahead of its removal from the streaming service this week.

Netflix is about to lose one of the best crime drama movies — and it’s 92% on Rotten Tomatoes

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When I learned the brown tarantula is also native to Missouri, I gasped, and when I say I'm not too fond of spiders of any genus is an understatement. It's psychological. They have too many legs.

It's mating season for the Texas brown tarantula also known as the Missouri tarantula

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If you’ve ever craved a delightful chicken salad, you might have heard of Chicken Salad Chick, the spot famous for its mouthwatering “Fancy Nancy” chicken salad. Named the best in the country back in 2020, this place was a go-to for anyone looking to enjoy a tasty, healthy meal. But one of their Florida locations just shut its doors unexpectedly. Let’s dig into what happened and what’s next for Chicken Salad Chick.

A Popular Chicken Restaurant in Florida Closed Suddenly, but New Locations Are on the Way

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[Note: Unless otherwise indicated, the commentary and quotes that appear in this article are from the author's direct interview with those mentioned.]. The original Perry Mason TV series starring Raymond Burr initially aired on CBS from 1957 to 1966. All these decades later, the show remains popular in syndication (and was recently reimagined in a new edition starring Matthew Rhys).

'Perry Mason' Actor Raymond Burr told co-star Richard Anderson, it's "all about the casting."

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This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

It’s the end of August, which can only mean one thing: there are bad movies debuting at the multiplex. It’s a time-honored tradition that in the last two weeks of every August, Hollywood dumps its worst products into movie theaters in the hope that audiences are too busy preparing for the arrival of fall to notice their bombs-in-waiting.

3 underrated (HBO) Max movies you should watch this weekend (August 23-25)

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Congratulations! You made the film festival. Now finish your movie.

NEW YORK, NY.- When a movie is selected to premiere at a festival, it’s a time of celebration for the filmmakers. But it’s not an end...

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