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Ten great things to watch this long weekend
We recommend the best TV, movies and other things to watch this King's Birthday weekend. This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. Hear ye, hear ye, the most regal of the public holidays is upon us. As we celebrate the King's birthday this weekend, it's time to do exactly what the King would want us to do, which is blob out on the couch and watch a bit of telly. We've scoured the streamers and scrolled through our watchlists to come up with 10 things to watch that we know you'll enjoy. From the outrageous hijinks of The Rehearsal to the tension of the national Scrabble championships, we've got your long weekend viewing covered. The Rehearsal S2 (Neon) The greatest trick the devil (Nathan Fielder) ever pulled is making such staggering, genre-bending, ambitious, artful and jaw-dropping television that it is nearly impossible to summarise in a tidy little set of paragraphs. The Canadian comedian rose to fame with Nathan For You, in which he saves small businesses in outlandish and novel ways (Dumb Starbucks, viral goat rescue videos, poo-flavoured yoghurt). But even more resonant than his joke solutions was what he revealed in the participants: a culture desperate to be on television at any cost. In The Rehearsal, this interest in fame, performance and television itself gets dialled up to 11. Season one saw Fielder obsessing over rehearsing moments of social life and domesticity, eventually simulating a home on an HBO sound stage for himself with a fake wife and child. Although season two begins with a more narrow focus – the number of plane crashes caused by miscommunication between pilots – it soon swings the emergency exit wide open and leaves you tumbling through all the horror, beauty, hilarity, tragedy and poetry that comes with being a person. If you thought The Curse finale was whacko, buckle up for this one. / Alex Casey Nomad (Whakaata Māori and Māori+ from June 2) This new show follows Kahurangi, a young Māori drifter carving out an off-grid life in Te Waipounamu, guided by the footsteps of his tūpuna. Equal parts rugged travelogue and lifestyle docuseries, it's a visually rich exploration of what it means to live off the land today. As he journeys from Kaikōura to the depths of the Haast bush, meeting cousins, friends, and fellow modern-day hunter-gatherers, Kahurangi taps into ancestral wisdom and reimagines it for the now – offering a fresh, distinctly Māori lens on sustainability, survival, and tino rangatiratanga. / Liam Rātana The 2025 NZ Scrabble Nationals (YouTube) I will be spending the entire long weekend playing Scrabble in a school hall in Hamilton, but if for some reason I wasn't doing that I'd probably be watching it live on the internet. The Nationals is the biggest event on the NZ Scrabble calendar – 69 players, six grades, 24 games over three days. This year's edition is the first time it's being streamed, and the first time you'll get to watch lower grade players like me and the 12-year-old boy who keeps beating me play alongside the experts. For a taste of the livestreamed Scrabble experience, check out this classic game from the Masters earlier this year between Howard Warner and Dylan Early. / Calum Henderson Dept. Q (Netflix) If you love a gritty, bingeable crime drama, then Netflix's new series Department Q should keep you going through the royal weekend. Based on the Danish book series by Jussi Adler-Olsen and created by the team behind The Queen's Gambit, Department Q follows brooding-but-brilliant detective Carl Morck as he joins a new cold-case unit in Edinburgh that's set up to fail. Matthew Goode (Discovery of Witches, Downton Abbey) stars as the troubled Morck, while the cast includes Shirley Henderson, Kelly Macdonald and Mark Bonner. This will tick all the usual crime drama boxes, but the dark humour and solid performances lift it beyond your standard police procedural. / Tara Ward Final Destination: Bloodlines (In cinemas) Sometimes you just really need to put your phone on flight mode, order a big popcorn and a choc top, and watch a bloody fun horror movie about a group of youngsters trying once again to cheat death's design. Final Destination was one of the defining horror properties of the early 2000s, and this 2020s requel breathes new life (and many, many new slapstick deaths) into the ghoulish franchise. Where some of the later sequels got too bogged down trying to be serious and spooky, Bloodlines leans hard into splatter, satire and absurdity. When a young lass in the swinging 60s has a premonition about a brand new tower collapsing, she saves the lives of every groovy soul meant to perish that day. As Devon Sawa will attest, death doesn't like that, and soon makes a beeline not only for the survivors, but their children. And then their children's children. A perfectly corny and self-aware thrill ride. / AC Don't (TVNZ+) Beloved New Zealand comedian Bubbah is back on the telly, and this time, she's asking some tricky questions about life's big events. Assisted by fellow comedians Courtney Dawson, Bailey Poching and Rhiannon McCall, Bubbah investigates what having children, getting married and buying a house means to young people today. Does this generation want the same things as their parents, and what options are there if they don't? This three part docuseries sees big issues tackled with humour, and it's a great option to kickstart discussions if you're stuck inside with the whānau this wet long weekend. / TW Gossip Girl (Neon) At this time of year the weather is getting colder, days look darker and our resilience feels smaller, so now is the perfect time to disappear into the faux first world problems of the rich teens in Gossip Girl (the OG one, do NOT bother with the remake). There's about 121 episodes and six seasons of this thing, and if you commit to complete bed rotting over the long weekend, you'll be able to start season one by Friday and get a quarter of the way through season three by the time you go to bed on Monday night. And when you emerge from your Gossip Girl-induced hibernation, you will re-enter the world with a renewed respect for 2000s club-pop and indie rock (why did Dan lose his virginity to Serena while Elliott Smith was playing? Why not!), a keen interest in expensive Y2K fashion that kinda looks fugly now but in a cute vintage way, extensive knowledge of the rich lives of those on New York's Upper East side and a voice inside your head constantly repeating, 'you know you love me'. / Lyric Waiwiri-Smith Sirens (Netflix) This new five-part Netflix dark comedy is a perfect long-weekend binge, with standout performances from Meghann Fahy (The White Lotus season two) and Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon) as a pair of estranged sisters who are lured into the orbit of an intense and creepy rich lady played by the incomparable Julianne Moore. With its meditations on class, money, sex and family dynamics, plus some damn-I-wish-I-was-rich coastal scenery and a (spoiler alert) 'everyone loses' ending, it should at least partly fill The White Lotus-shaped hole in your viewing life. / Alice Neville Overcompensating (Amazon Prime) I've been a longtime Benito Skinner fan – from his early days doing Jonathan Van Ness as Jesus skits to his accurate star sign personality videos. I'm a dedicated Ride podcast listener, so I was especially excited when he announced his new comedy-drama series. Overcompensating draws from Benito's personal journey with identity and sexuality. He plays Benny, a closeted former football player trying to figure out where he fits in at college. The show is a hilarious time capsule of 2010s nostalgia, packed with emotional moments that sneak up on you. Who knew hearing Like a G6 today would still hit me exactly the way it did back then? It feels like a sharper version of the teen dramas we grew up on, like The OC and Gossip Girl. And if you're having Brat withdrawals, the Charli XCX-heavy soundtrack and a cameo from the Brat Queen herself will hit the spot. This show did not disappoint and I watched all eight episodes in one day while sick. / Jin Fellet The Crown (Netflix) Look, it feels a bit rude to be celebrating someone's birthday without giving him the gift of time, so this King's Birthday weekend, I'll be rewatching the first few seasons of The Crown. It's the award-winning family drama about a rich woman and her angsty offspring, as they struggle to balance their huge generational wealth, the demands of running an empire and their mum not letting them marry the people they want. If the rumours are true, this is exactly how King Charles himself will be spending the long weekend: remote in one hand, a slice of birthday cake in the other, and a big old smile on his dial. Plot twist: The King's birthday's actually in November! You got us good, Charlie. / TW
Yahoo
12 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Tom Cruise: ‘All the Great' Actors Should Know the Technical Elements of Filmmaking
Tom Cruise is sharing his advice to fellow actors: Become a filmmaker. The 'Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning' star and producer said, while receiving the coveted British Film Institute Fellowship (via Times of London), that it is imperative for actors to understand the below the line elements of filmmaking to better their own craft. Cruise even pointed to how fellow stars such as Marlon Brando worked with the camera. 'I always tell actors: spend time in the editing room, produce a movie, study old movies, recognize what the composition is giving you, know what those lenses are, understand the lighting and how to use it for your benefit,' Cruise said. 'Understand the art form to that degree. Brando absolutely understood lighting; all the greats did.' More from IndieWire Neon Names Ryan Werner President of Global Cinema, Courtney Ott Replacing Him as Head of Cinetic Marketing Sydney Sweeney and Paul Walter Hauser Team Up to Steal an Indigenous Artifact in 'Americana' Trailer Cruise further pointed to how film schools do not widely teach production tools and filmmaking technology to acting majors. 'It is important to understand the tools around you,' Cruise said. 'There is tech. It is like understanding the stage as an actor but for a lot of artists, it is not taught in film school: How to understand the lens and what it can do, and why there is eye movement and recognize the effect it has.' Cruise, as his co-star and mentee Glen Powell shared in 2024, has his own six hour film school for colleagues. Powell told GQ UK that Cruise explained how cameras worked in the custom tutorial. 'He said, 'This is just for my friends',' Powell said. '[In the video Cruise] is like: 'Do we all agree that this is what a camera is? This is the difference between a film camera and a digital camera…' The funniest part is on flying. It was like he put together this entire flight school. So he would literally go, 'OK, this is what a plane is. Here's how things fly. Here's how air pressure works.'' Of course, for those who aren't part of Cruise's famous six hour film school, auteur Werner Herzog has another way to encourage aspiring artists to learn about filmmaking. Herzog hosts an 11-day workshop that he deemed a 'film school for rogues,' and recently told CBS that he tells attendees to embrace their rebellious nature to make features. 'You do not become a poet by being in a college. […] You have to go outside of what the norm is,' he said. 'You have to have a certain amount of, I say, good criminal energy [to make a film.] [Filmmaking is] not for the faint-hearted.' Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie The 55 Best LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now
Yahoo
12 hours ago
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Jafar Panahi Wins Cannes Palme d'Or for ‘It Was Just an Accident'
Dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi has won the Palme d'Or for best film for It Was Just an Accident at the 78th Cannes international film festival. Panahi, who just a few years ago was imprisoned in Tehran and under a 20-year travel and work ban, returned triumphantly to Cannes, accepting his award from jury president (and vocal Panahi fan) Juliette Binoche. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'Romería' Review: Carla Simón Dives Deep Into Painful Family History in an Act of Reclamation That's Equal Parts Shimmering and Meandering 'Magellan' Review: Gael Garcia Bernal Plays the Famous Explorer in Lav Diaz's Exquisitely Shot Challenge of an Arthouse Epic Cannes: Oliver Laxe's 'Sirat' Sells Wide Internationally Panahi's film, his first since being released from prison in 2023, is a direct assault on Iran's authoritarian regime. The thriller follows a former political prisoner who kidnaps a man he believes to be his torturer and then debates with other dissidents whether to kill or forgive him. The win marks the sixth time in a row a film acquired by Neon for North America has won the Palme d'Or. Tom Quinn's indie outfit kept its Cannes streak going by picking up It Was Just an Accident earlier this week. With his Cannes win, Jafar Panahi has now completed the rare festival triple crown, winning the top prize at all three major European film festivals, following his Golden Lion win in Venice for The Circle (2000) and Berlin's Golden Bear for Taxi (2015). Panahi is only the fourth director — after Henri-Georges Clouzot, Michelangelo Antonioni and Robert Altman — to win the big three. The 2025 Cannes jury included actors Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong and Italy's Alba Rohrwacher; directors Dieudo Hamadi, Hong Sang-soo, Payal Kapadia and Carlos Reygadas; and French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani. The festival got its own dramatic twist ending early on Saturday when a regional power outage shut down the electrical grid serving Cannes and much of the surrounding region. The outage, apparently caused by deliberate sabotage on the electrical infrastructure, disrupted early morning screenings and forced hotels, shops and cafes in the city to close. But the festival was largely unaffected. The Palais, where the closing ceremony is held, switched to emergency power and carried on much as before. Cannes had a particularly strong lineup this year, with no single film the overall frontrunner going into the awards. Binoche began the ceremony by bestowing a special prize on Chinese director Bi Gan for Resurrection. Rohrwacher gave the Camera d'Or trophy for first feature to The President's Cake director Hasan Hadi, who is the first Iraqi director to win a prize in Cannes. John C. Reilly, in Cannes for the Un Certain Regard film Heads or Tails?, added a musical touch to the ceremony, breaking out into an English-language rendition of 'La Vie en Rose' when presenting best screenplay prize to two-time Palme d'Or winners Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for the Belgian social drama Young Mothers. Brazilian actor Wagner Moura took best actor for his starring role in The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho's 1970s-set Brazilian political thriller. In a rare double award, Filho also took best director for the feature. Newcomer Nadia Melliti beat out Jennifer Lawrence's turn in Lynne Ramsay's Die, My Love to take the best actress honor, playing the lead role in Hafsia Herzi's Muslim lesbian coming-of-age story The Little Sister. German director Mascha Schilinski won the Jury Prize for Sound of Falling, only her second film, an epic family drama set across four generations in the same rural farmhouse. She shared the honor with Spanish director Oliver Laxe for Sirat, a techno-infused apocalyptic drama set in the Moroccan desert. A full list of winners follows: Jafar Panahi for It Was Just an Accident Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value Mascha Schilinski for Sound of Falling and Oliver Laxe for Sirat (tie) Kleber Mendonça Filho for The Secret Agent Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for Young Mothers Nadia Melliti for The Little Sister Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent Resurrection, dir. Bi Gan The President's Cake, dir: Hassan Hadi I'm Glad You're Dead Now, dir: Tawfeek Barhom Ali, dir. Adnan Al Rajeev Un Certain Regard PrizeThe Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, dir. Diego Céspedes Jury PrizeA Poet, dir. Simón Mesa Soto Best DirectorOnce Upon a Time in Gaza, dir. Arab & Tarzan Nasser Best ScreenplayPillion, dir. Harry Lighton Best ActressI Only Rest in the Storm, dir. Pedro Pinho Best ActorFrank Dillane in Urchin, dir. Harris Dickinson Caméra d'Or for best first filmThe President's Cake, dir. Hassan Hadi Special MentionMy Father's Shadow, dir. Akinola Davies Jr La Cinef First PrizeFirst Summer, dir. Heo Gayoung (KAFA, South Korea) Second Prize12 Moments Before the Flag-Raising Ceremony, dir. Qu Zhizheng (Beijing Film Academy, China) Third PrizeGinger Boy, dir. Miki Tanaka (ENBU Seminar, Japan); Winter in March, dir. Natalia Mirzoyan (Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia) (Tie) The Higher Technical Commission for Sound and Images CST Award for Best Young Female TechnicianÉponine Momenceau, director of photography for Connemara, dir. Alex Lutz CST Artist-Technician Award Ruben Impens, Director of Photography, and Stéphane Thiébaut, Sound Mixer, for Alpha, dir. Julia Ducournau Best of The Hollywood Reporter 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts Hollywood Stars Who Are One Award Away From an EGOT 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now
News18
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This New AI Web Browser Can Help You Write Code, Do All Your Work And More
Last Updated: AI agents are taking over the web browser to help you do basic and complex tasks and giving you the time to focus on other stuff. Web browsers help you do the work, search for content and browse other sites. But what if they can help you with writing code for games, or even handle all your tasks? Yes, that's what Opera is promising with its new Neon AI web browser that will do more than just surfing the web. In fact, there is a good case for Opera Neon to be called as one of the AI agents that you might have heard a lot about these days. AI agents have become the talk of town recently, and AI is taking away jobs of software engineers because of how good they have become at coding. Opera Neon claims similar traits and promises that the web browser can code for you to create games, make reports and even analyse them if you ask. Like most AI tools, Opera Neon responds to basic text prompts and it can get the job done at any time. The company is relying on local and cloud-based AI tech to offer these features. AI agents are known for their multi-tasking prowess and Opera Neon will be at the top level with these tasks, especially when you are busy with something else and the job gets done. It goes without saying that Opera sees the Neon AI browser to be a premium product which means people will be charged a fee to use the platform. The company has not shared those details as of now and using Neon is limited to people who have been cleared from the waiting list to try out the beta version. First Published: May 29, 2025, 12:34 IST
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- See - Sada Elbalad
Olivia Cooke Replaces Maika Monroe in Movie "Brides"
Yara Sameh Olivia Cooke is set to star in the Neon thriller "Brides" from Watcher director Chloe Okuno, who will direct from a script she wrote. It will be produced by Anthony Bregman and Stefanie Azpiazu through Likely Story. Neon will release "Brides" theatrically. The pic follows Sally Bishop (Cooke) and her husband, who travel to a remote Italian villa whose owner, a mysterious count, takes a peculiar interest in Sally. Cooke steps in for Maika Monroe, who had scheduling issues with her Universal film "Reminders of Him". As a filmmaker, Okuno's feature debut was the psychological thriller "Watcher", starring Monroe and Burn Gorman, which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and went on to play several other festivals. Drawn to genre-based material that aims to excite and unsettle, her other works include writing and directing the 'Storm Drain' segment of the anthology series "V/H/S/94", as well as directing episodes from Showtime's "Let the Right One In" and the James Wan-produced series "Teacup". Best known for her roles in "Ready Player One", "Me, Earl", and "The Dying Girl," Cooke is coming off the second season of HBO's "Game of Thrones" prequel series "House of the Dragon". She recently wrapped production on the Amazon series "The Girlfriend" opposite Robin Wright. read more New Tourism Route To Launch in Old Cairo Ahmed El Sakka-Led Play 'Sayidati Al Jamila' to Be Staged in KSA on Dec. 6 Mandy Moore Joins Season 2 of "Dr. Death" Anthology Series Don't Miss These Movies at 44th Cairo Int'l Film Festival Today Amr Diab to Headline KSA's MDLBEAST Soundstorm 2022 Festival Arts & Culture Mai Omar Stuns in Latest Instagram Photos Arts & Culture "The Flash" to End with Season 9 Arts & Culture Ministry of Culture Organizes four day Children's Film Festival Arts & Culture Canadian PM wishes Muslims Eid-al-Adha News Egypt confirms denial of airspace access to US B-52 bombers News Ayat Khaddoura's Final Video Captures Bombardment of Beit Lahia News Australia Fines Telegram $600,000 Over Terrorism, Child Abuse Content Arts & Culture Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's $4.7M LA Home Burglarized Sports Former Al Zamalek Player Ibrahim Shika Passes away after Long Battle with Cancer Sports Neymar Announced for Brazil's Preliminary List for 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers News Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly Inaugurates Two Indian Companies Arts & Culture New Archaeological Discovery from 26th Dynasty Uncovered in Karnak Temple Business Fear & Greed Index Plummets to Lowest Level Ever Recorded amid Global Trade War Arts & Culture Zahi Hawass: Claims of Columns Beneath the Pyramid of Khafre Are Lies
