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Sydney Morning Herald
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Redeem free passes to see The Friend*
Based on the New York Times bestseller, The Friend stars Academy Award® nominees Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, and a 150-pound Great Dane called Bing making his big screen debut. As a subscriber, you have the opportunity to redeem 1 of 10 double passes to see it for free.* SYNOPSIS: After the unexpected death of her closest friend and mentor, New York novelist and writing teacher Iris becomes the caretaker of both his literary legacy and his beloved Great Dane, Apollo. Reluctantly bringing the enormous dog into her tiny Manhattan apartment, Iris develops a surprising kinship with the soulful animal—even though his outsized presence upends both her professional commitments and her daily routine. Together, the unlikely duo begins to move through their shared grief, tentatively embarking on a surprising path toward acceptance and healing. You can watch the trailer here. Offer Details Redeem one of 10, free double passes to see The Friend. The first 10 subscribers will receive an email to confirm their successful offer redemption and instructions for the use of their passes. Unsuccessful applicants will receive no communication. To redeem this offer, complete the form below.
The Age
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
Redeem free passes to see The Friend*
Based on the New York Times bestseller, The Friend stars Academy Award® nominees Naomi Watts and Bill Murray, and a 150-pound Great Dane called Bing making his big screen debut. As a subscriber, you have the opportunity to redeem 1 of 10 double passes to see it for free.* SYNOPSIS: After the unexpected death of her closest friend and mentor, New York novelist and writing teacher Iris becomes the caretaker of both his literary legacy and his beloved Great Dane, Apollo. Reluctantly bringing the enormous dog into her tiny Manhattan apartment, Iris develops a surprising kinship with the soulful animal—even though his outsized presence upends both her professional commitments and her daily routine. Together, the unlikely duo begins to move through their shared grief, tentatively embarking on a surprising path toward acceptance and healing. You can watch the trailer here. Offer Details Redeem one of 10, free double passes to see The Friend. The first 10 subscribers will receive an email to confirm their successful offer redemption and instructions for the use of their passes. Unsuccessful applicants will receive no communication. To redeem this offer, complete the form below.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Meet The New Wave of Celebrity Offspring Taking Over Fashion Week in 2025
The fashion industry loves a famous name. Fresh crops of celebrity kids-turned-runway-habitués spring up in tandem with the fashion seasons, some lucky enough to have more staying power than others. Hailey Bieber, Kaia Gerber, Lila Moss, and the Kardashian-Jenners have now become household names, with social media accounts and booming businesses that amass millions of followers and dollars (in Bieber's case, billions). Unsurprisingly, hot off the heels of the latest round of menswear and couture shows, there is a new generation of celebrity offspring to get acquainted with. Kai Schreiber, the 16-year-old model-actress and daughter of Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, stomped onto the fashion scene last March, walking the Valentino show in Paris. Shortly after that, she signed with IMG and scored a campaign for the Alessandro Michele-helmed French house alongside another rising star, Scarlett White (daughter of Karen Elson and Jack White). Just over a week ago, the leggy blonde with an affinity for pairing Adidas pants with Margiela Tabi boots proved she was more than a one-season wonder, spotted both on the runway at Michael Rider's Celine debut and front row at Demna's swan-song Balenciaga couture show alongside her mother just a few days later. It's safe to say that this is just the beginning of Schreiber's fashion industry takeover, with high expectations that she will be all over the runways (and campaigns) come September. However, Schreiber is certainly not the only new girl in town worth noting. Romy Mars, the 18-year-old actress, singer, and daughter of filmmaker Sofia Coppola and musician Thomas Mars, has been making waves while garnering thousands of views on TikTok since 2023. Her most viral moment was the result of her being grounded for trying to charter a helicopter using her rock star dad's credit card. Famous kids, they're just like us. Except not. Coppola has been known to keep Mars and her younger sister Cosima, 15, out of the public eye, apart from Romy's appearance in her grandfather Francis Ford Coppola's film Megalopolis in 2024 and the release of her 'A-Lister' song and music video this past May (yes, Mom directed the project). But the three women embraced the spotlight together last week at the Chanel couture show in Paris, donning matching pastel looks that were very much to be remembered. And of course, Mars documented the experience for her collective 500k-plus following on Instagram and TikTok. On the menswear scene, it's Lennon, 25, and Gene, 23, Gallagher, sons of Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher (Lennon's mom is Patsy Kensit and Gene's is Nicole Appleton), who are on the style set's radar. It doesn't hurt that their father's band is currently having a reunion tour, the first after a 16-year hiatus—leading to a surge in press for all of the Gallagher kids. Last month, Lennon and Gene sat front row at Anthony Vaccarello's latest outing for Saint Laurent menswear. Gene is a newer face in comparison to Lennon, who made his modeling debut on the runway at Topman in 2017 before going on to work with Saint Laurent, Burberry, and most recently, Tod's. This past April saw the celebration of the Italian house's iconic Gommino loafer, with a campaign titled 'Italian Diaries' that was shot by Oliver Hadlee Pearch at Villa Talamo in Tuscany. In front of the camera were five children of Hollywood's elite: Lennon Gallagher, actress and singer Ella Bleu Travolta, daughter of John Travolta and Kelly Preston; writer and director Stella Banderas, daughter of Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith (which also makes her Dakota Johnson's half sister); model and artist Roberto Rossellini, son of Isabella Rossellini; and singer and actor Leo Gassmann, son of filmmaker Alessandro Gassmann. It's certainly not a new phenomenon, but a famous last name is still a hot ticket for teens and twentysomethings looking to break into the fashion industry. Front-row seats at runway shows and starring roles in seasonal campaigns seamlessly come along with the gig, often with no strings attached—apart from an Instagram story or TikTok video on their covetable platforms. But maintaining star power and expanding their reach to become the next founder of a brand like Rhode or the Fashion Awards Model of the Year is something that they will have to do on their own. After all, without the legacy, a name is simply a name. You Might Also Like The 15 Best Organic And Clean Shampoos For Any And All Hair Types 100 Gifts That Are $50 Or Under (And Look Way More Expensive Than They Actually Are)
Metro
3 days ago
- Health
- Metro
I'm a millennial - please stop sending me perimenopause memes
My friend sent me my first perimenopause meme about a year ago, when we were 41. I double-tapped it out of courtesy, not really knowing what it had todo with me. But after she sent three or four more, I finally asked her what she was talking about. 'Are we in perimenopause??' I wrote. The last time I checked, I was asprite young teenage woman, barely into the fifth decade of her life, easily passable for 37 and able to touch her toes. 'We are!' she replied. 'It starts at 35-38.' Slightly panicked, I typed back: 'Who said?' Her response: 'Everybody.' As someone being regularly tracked and monitored by Google Ad Services, of course I'd heard of perimenopause. My algorithm basicallygot down on all fours and started panting like a dog the second Iturned 40. Overnight, I was inundated with nonstop ads for pills andpotions all promising to reinvigorate my newly decaying corporeal form. But lately, maybe because I've clicked on one or two of those ads orbecause those memes have multiplied like maggots, I can't get away from it: Big Perimenopause is here and it's dragging me with it. According to Google, the perimenopause conversation exploded somewhere around late 2022, the same time several high-profile femalecelebrities were talking about (or investing in) its supercharged big sister, menopause. Naomi Watts launched her menopause-focused skincare line Stripes launched her menopause-focused skincare line Stripes Gwyneth Paltrow , Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore all invested in Evernow, a telehealth start-up focused on relieving menopausal symptoms , and all invested in Evernow, a telehealth start-up focused on relieving menopausal symptoms Michelle Obama opened up to People about needing moral support while she went through menopause Courtney Cox posted a funny updated version of her 1985 Tampax commercial, this time about menopause 'eating you alive' Suddenly menopause was trending (and trendy), so it was the perfect time for perimenopause to tag along. Perimenopause is the time leading up to menopause that often begins inyour mid- to late-40s (though for some women it can begin in theirmid-30s). Symptoms include irregular periods, hot flashes, nightsweats, sleep disturbances, and mood changes, as well as other physical changes. It's not a single event – it's a continuous process, one that doctorssay can last several years. And even if a woman has experienced someor all of these symptoms, there's no one test or sign that will determine that she's officially entered perimenopause. So… clear as mud – it's a thing, for sure, but no one can tell you if you have it, you just sort of have to guess. Which could explain why half of the strangers in my algorithm havebeen so quick to grab the diagnosis and slap it on all of their problems – to the point where it's starting to feel like an identity. Weight gain? Perimenopause. Can't sleep? Perimenopause. Forgot your keys? Perimenopause. Suddenly bad at eyeliner? Perimenopause. Obviously women's health is important and chronically 1993, we were rarely included in clinical trials. Women'shealth research is woefully underfunded, and physically, the world hasbeen designed for and by men. Ask any woman under 5'5' who's ever put on a seatbelt—those car companies want us dead. But I do think it's important to ask: what if your symptoms aren't perimenopause? Or at the very least, what if they're not only perimenopause? The body changes for all of us after 40—we gain weight, our skin sags,our vision changes, our joints get stiffer. Not to mention lifetimehappiness reaches its low point in your 40s. The sting of nostalgiacreeps in and your life starts to look like all the decisions you made along the way. Your forties also place you in the 'sandwich generation,' where you mightbe simultaneously taking care of young and/or adult children as well as aging and/or ailing parents. It's a midlife mess and sometimes it really sucks. (Or as Carl Jung put it, 'The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.') As for me, it feels like a longer-than-usual rest stop where I'm reflecting on the first 40 years of my life, looking out over the next 40, simultaneously sad, happy, joyous and grieving, and wondering who the f*** stole the compass. Sometimes I lie awake wondering what I really want, if this is it, if I should be more grateful for what I have or more active in bracing for the sadness yet to come. So yeah—sometimes I toss and turn. But I am not only what is happening to my body. And as a semi-reformed former hypochondriac, I have no interest in labelling every physicalsensation sparking inside of me. I know Father Time will have his waywith me when it's my turn, but I'm not inviting him over before our appointment, are you crazy? Maybe, like American talk show host Candace Cameron said about scary movies, the memes are a portal. So I rebuke them – get them away from me! Maybe my refusal to laugh along with them is just delusion. Perhaps I'm in denial about my age and terrified about the closing of a chapter. It could be I'm just too scared to look it in the face. More Trending But can't that be fine, too? Men famously go kicking and screaminginto midlife. They cheat on their wives, buy Ferraris, get into MMA, and fly to Turkey for hair plugs. They buy presidential elections and become obsessed with space. And for the most part, we let them. Perhaps I'm just asking for women to give themselves a little more room, to steal some from the men, and to not get attached onto any more labels we just spent a decade unlearning. Especially one with such bad PR. And I guess while we're at it, I'm at least asking for better memes. After all, we're millennials, we invented memes. We gotta do better than this. You can read more from Nicole James here. 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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The 12 Strangest Movies We've Ever Seen
These are the strangest movies we've ever seen — some of which are also among the best movies we've ever seen. Think we forgot one? Let us know in the comments. The strangest thing about Mulholland Drive, arguably David Lynch's best movie, is that it seems almost conventional, at the start. Naomi Watts plays an aspiring actress, Betty Elms, who turns out to be shockingly good. She goes with Rita (Laura Harring), who has amnesia, to look for a woman named Diane Selwyn, because Rita remembers her name. Related Headlines The 12 Most Captivating Prison Movies We've Ever Seen Why We Spent Our Wedding Fund Making Our Horror Movie, Sight Unseen 12 Movies About the Adult Entertainment Industry That Don't Sugarcoat a Thing But soon Watts is playing Diane, And Rita is Camilla. But so is Melissa George. The mafia is involved. Billy Ray Cyrus pops up in the role of Gene. Lynch, who passed last month, always refused to explain what it all means, but the original DVD release did include a card containing 'David Lynch's 10 Clues to Unlocking This Thriller.' Among them: 'Pay particular attention in the beginning of the film: At least two clues are revealed before the credits' and 'Notice appearances of the red lampshade.' It would be easy to fill this list with David Lynch movies, but we're opting to go with the one we like best. At least today. Suffice it to say that almost anything he made — except for The Straight Story — would fit easily on a list of the strangest movies we've ever seen. Riding high off the success of their previous collaboration, the lovely Jerry Maguire, writer-director Cameron Crowe and star Tom Cruise could do almost anything they wanted — and opted to remake the fascinating 1997 Spanish film Abre Los Ojos (which translates as Open Your Eyes), and to do it with one of that film's stars, Penelope Cruz. Both are deliciously bold and strange films, but Vanilla Sky is especially daring, shifting from a complicated romance to serious sci-fi. We don't want to give too much away, but this is a movie that finds room for a visual shoutout to a 1963 Bob Dylan album, a discussion of your favorite Beatle, and a song by one of those Beatles. It's one of the strangest movies, but is also, oddly, a comfort watch. It also features a very good Cameron Diaz and Kurt Russell. Todd Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story is a biography of The Carpenters' singer Karen Carpenter, including her tragic 1983 death from heart failure due to complications from anorexia. If that sounds straightforward, it's because we left out a key detail: It's all acted out with Barbie dolls. It was pulled from release after a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Karen's brother and musical partner, Richard Carpenter, who objected to the use of The Carpenters' songs. If you think the film sounds disrespectful, it's not: The film is deeply empathetic toward Karen and admiring of her artistic legacy, and the use of the dolls feels like a commentary on Karen being manipulated and objectified. But Richard and his and Karen's parents are decidedly unlikable in the film, which may explain Richard's objections to Superstar. A very DIY, very microbudget movie about depressed thrill-seekers who seek out the exciting new high of… worms. Director Alex Phillips and a team that includes producer Ben Gojer, who created the film's unsettling creatures, fills the screen with horrible behavior, but uses all the tools of moviedom — the expectation of catharsis, uplifting music — to make us root for people we know we shouldn't be rooting for. It's easily one of the strangest movies we've ever seen, but but also an intoxicating cinematic experiment. No list of the strangest movies we've ever seen would be complete without at least one film by David Cronenberg, the king of body horror whose obsessions are perfectly encapsulated in Videodrome. We have no idea how to explain what happens in this film, released during the rise of home video, expect to say that it fascinatingly anticipates reality TV, the internet, and VR and AR advancements that meld humanity with technology, never more directly than when James Woods' character, Max Renn, inserts a Betamax tape into his torso. We also love Blondie singer Debbie Harry (above) as the mysterious Nikki Brand. The debut film from Boots Riley, leader of the brilliant rap group The Coup, stars LaKeith Stanfield as Cassius 'Cash' Green, a young Black man who starts to excel at his telemarketing job when he begins adopting a white phone voice (a dubbed-in David Cross). None of the above is what makes it one of the strangest movies we've ever seen. Things get weird when Cash starts investigating what is company actually does… and we aren't about to spoil it for you here. Suffice it to say it's one of the wildest twists in any movie. Before he gained much deserved acclaim for films like Carrie, Scarface and The Untouchables, Brian De Palma was best known for scrappy experimental films like Hi Mom and Sisters. The Phantom of the Paradise was an apparent attempt at a commercial breakthrough. But some audiences were weirded out by its garish ambience, and some jaded critics considered it a ho-hum satire of the music industry. In retrospect, it's simply one of the strangest movies we've ever seen — and one of the coolest. Music producer Swan (Paul Williams, who also provides much of the haunting music) makes naive songwriter Winslow Leach (William Finley) sell his soul and his songs so that they can be performed by Swan's pet protege, Phoenix (Jessica Harper). He seeks justice by becoming The Phantom of the Paradise. The atmospherics are incredible — doomed and portentous, without ever veering fully into camp. It's also fun to note that Williams would, just a few years after this, co-write 'The Rainbow Connection' for Kermit the Frog — and to wonder if, considering that De Palma and George Lucas traveled in the same circles, The Phantom influenced Darth Vader. People who think movies are too safe today just aren't watching enough indie movies. This Canadian horror hit, made for about $10,000 in U.S. dollars, features just four actors, and follows the perspective of small children whose parents have disappeared. Then other things disappear, too: windows, doors, a toilet. It tries to make you experience time the way it passes for a child — have seconds gone by? Or years? Demanding your full attention, it's very divisive, to be sure: Many viewers find that the only way to fully appreciate it is in a theater, with others going through the same baffling experience. It's part horror movie, part art exhibit, and one of the strangest movies we've ever seen. What is Donnie Darko about, exactly? Richard Kelly's masterpiece follows Jake Gyllenhaal as a troubled teen haunted by a man named Frank in a rabbit suit — or is it a suit? — who informs him that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. With a stacked cast including Jena Malone, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze, and Noah Wyle, Donnie Darko is worth watching just to see who will appear next. But it also works on your psyche, especially when you watch it knowing that it premiered ahead of the Sept. 11 plane attacks. It feels very much like the end of the dream of the '90s. We don't claim to understand it, but we've never doubted its commitment to Sparkle Motion. We love A24's Under the Skin, in which Scarlett Johansson appears to play a mystery woman who seduces lonely men in a dark, dreamy Scotland. But things take an inky, trippy, majestic turn we don't want to ruin. It's also fascinating that the film's director, Jonathan Glazer, went on to make the Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest. We like everything Paul Schrader does, but couldn't be more surprised that he followed up 1980 — a year when he wrote Raging Bull and wrote and directed American Gigolo — with the sensationalist in the best sense Cat People. After opening with a women being sacrificed to a black panther, the film cuts to modern (in 1982) New Orleans, where strange things are afoot at the zoo. Meanwhile the innocent Irena (Nastassja Kinski, above) reunites with her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell), and a string of cat-adjacent murders. Then things get much stranger from there. You'll never look at your cat the same way again. The newest film on this list stars Vera Drew as a struggling performer who becomes someone called 'Joker the Harlequin' to dismantle the comic tyranny of Batman and Lorne Michaels, who is kind of like the Lorne Michaels who created Saturday Night Live, but different. The film has layers of metaphor — the search for a comic identity parallels Vera's coming out as trans — and it's loaded with inside jokes about Batman, but also about alternative comedy and singer-songwriter Ben Folds. It's very funny, and — here's the unexpected part — igorgeous. Drew enlisted a team of friends to create her own beautiful version of demented Gotham. The parody of Warner Bros. characters drew a legal warning from the studio when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, but no one would ever mistake The People's Joker for a studio film. It's completely independent and original, and one of the strangest movies we've ever seen, in all the good ways. Thanks for reading our list of the strangest movies we've seen. You might also like this interview with Vera Drew, creator of The People's Joker, or this list of Gen X Icons Gone Too Soon. Main image: Videodrome. Universal Pictures Editor's Note: Corrects main image. Related Headlines The 12 Most Captivating Prison Movies We've Ever Seen Why We Spent Our Wedding Fund Making Our Horror Movie, Sight Unseen 12 Movies About the Adult Entertainment Industry That Don't Sugarcoat a Thing
