Grace Passô’s ‘Our Secret’ Nabs the Best Film Kikito at the 54th Gramado Film Festival

GRAMADO, Brazil — “Our Secret” (“Nosso segredo”), the first feature from Grace Passô, nabbed the best feature film Kikito award at the Aug. 22 closing ceremony of the 54th Gramado Film Festival. The feature also scooped cinematography (Wilssa Esser) and art direction (Lucas Osório) plaudits.

Big Thief Preview New Album Live in Nashville: Five Things We Learned

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The trio brought out guests like Iris DeMent, Gillian Welch, and Lucinda Williams to play their forthcoming LP, Horsepower, in its entirety at the Ryman Auditorium

On Saturday night, Aug. 23, in Nashville, fans arrived to Big Thief’s show at the Ryman Auditorium prepared for a standard (but no less great) evening of songs. Instead, they were in for a pretty epic surprise: the band would be playing their new unreleased triple album, Horsepower, in its entirety, alongside some of the people who helped create it. And those people? An incredible array of Americana and roots icons including Iris DeMent, Gillian Welch, and Lucinda Williams, as well as a renowned cast of players.

Charlize Theron Reflects on ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ a Decade Later: “There’s a Deep Connection to This Film”

Ahead of her upcoming honor at the Academy Museum Gala this fall, Charlize Theron stopped by the museum on Saturday night for a discussion about one of her biggest — and most famously fraught — projects, in Mad Max: Fury Road.

Leslie Parrish, Actress in ‘Li’l Abner’ and ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Dies at 90

Leslie Parrish, who starred as the hopelessly in love Daisy Mae in the Paramount Pictures musical Li’l Abner and sported a Queen of Diamonds costume for The Manchurian Candidate, has died. She was 90.

The Lindsay Clancy Trial Is Sparking a Political Divide on the Right

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After Matt Walsh dismissed postpartum depression as women acting "selfish," many of them jumped in to correct him

Lindsay Clancy does not deny that she murdered her three young children. In her trial, which is set to wrap up in the coming days, the facts of the case are virtually undisputed: In 2023 following months of devolving mental health and attempts to secure mental health support, Clancy strangled her three children — ages five, three, and eight months — with rubber exercise chords. Shortly after, she attempted to end her own life by jumping out of the window of her family home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and was paralyzed from the waist down. 

‘Sentimental Value’ Sweeps Amanda Awards

Joachim Trier’s Oscar winner “Sentimental Value” became this year’s biggest Amanda Awards winner, taking home eight statuettes, including the top prize for best Norwegian film. 

Trier was also awarded for directing, as well as his screenplay written with longtime collaborator Eskil Vogt.

Meghan Markle Reportedly Dropped From Consideration to Join Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Gentlemen’

Meghan Markle‘s reported casting in Guy Ritchie‘s The Gentlemen has been withdrawn, according to Tina Brown, who reported that the decision came after intense backlash in the U.K.

In a column published Saturday on Substack, Brown, the former editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, wrote, “I learned this morning that the casting of Meghan Markle in season 3 of Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen has been withdrawn. The backlash in the UK was so intense, it became untenable to go forward. This does not bode well for Meghan’s acting comeback in the UK.”

How to Watch The Tragically Hip Farewell Show 10th Anniversary Special Tonight: Stream Here

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The Canadian band played their final concert in their hometown of Kingston, Ontario on Aug. 20, 2016 after lead singer Gord Downie announced his terminal brain cancer diagnosis

Netflix Sets Theatrical and Streaming Dates for Peter Berg’s World War II Drama ‘The Mosquito Bowl’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Peter Berg is bringing one of World War II’s most improbable true stories to the big screen, and now it has a date.

“The Mosquito Bowl,” directed by Berg (“Lone Survivor,” “Deepwater Horizon”), will open in U.S. theaters Oct. 30 before making its Netflix premiere Nov. 25, Variety can exclusively reveal, along with a first look image. The film will play in select AMC theaters during its theatrical run, along with additional locations across the country. It’s one of the few Netflix and AMC notable partnerships that has occurred, and the first since the release of the animated juggernaut “KPop Demon Hunters.”

Wladimir Klitschko Honors Hayden Pannetiere on What Would Have Been Her 37th Birthday

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"You are loved, you are missed, and you will never be forgotten," said Klitschko, the professional boxer with whom she shared a daughter

Just days after Hayden Panettiere died at the age of 36, her ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko, with whom she shared a daughter, is celebrating what would have been the actress’ 37th birthday.