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UPI
11 hours ago
- Entertainment
- UPI
Famous birthdays for Aug. 17: Sean Penn, The Kid Laroi
1 of 3 | Sean Penn attends the premiere of "September 5" at the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles on November 14. The actor turns 65 on August 17. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. They include: -- Mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1601 -- Frontiersman Davy Crockett in 1786 -- Movie producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1882 -- Actor Mae West in 1893 -- Watergate figure W. Mark Felt, known as "Deep Throat," in 1913 -- Actor Maureen O'Hara in 1920 -- Aviator Francis Gary Powers in 1929 -- Writer Ted Hughes in 1930 -- Writer V.S. Naipaul in 1932 File Photo by Gerry Penny/EPA-EFE -- Actor Robert De Niro in 1943 (age 82) -- Filmmaker Julian Fellowes in 1949 (age 76) -- Actor Robert Joy in 1951 (age 74) -- Actor Tim Bagley in 1957 (age 68) -- Musician Belinda Carlisle (Go-Go's) in 1958 (age 67) File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI -- Writer Jonathan Franzen in 1959 (age 66) -- Journalist Eric Schlosser in 1959 (age 66) -- Actor Sean Penn in 1960 (age 65) -- Musician Gilbert J. Clarke (Guns N' Roses) in 1962 (age 63) -- Musician Steve Gorman (Black Crowes) in 1965 (age 60) -- Musician Jill Cunniff (Lucious Jackson) in 1966 (age 59) -- Actor Helen McCrory in 1968 -- Actor/musician Donnie Wahlberg (New Kids on the Block) in 1969 (age 56) File Photo by Aaron Josefczyk/UPI -- Musician Posdnuos (De La Soul) in 1969 (age 56) -- International Tennis Hall of Fame member Jim Courier in 1970 (age 55) -- TV personality Giuliana Rancic in 1974 (age 51) -- Actor Mark Salling in 1982 -- Actor Brady Corbet in 1988 (age 37) File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI -- Actor Austin Butler in 1991 (age 34) -- Former WWE wrestler Saraya-Jade Bevis, who also competed under the name Paige, in 1992 (age 33) -- Musician Phoebe Bridgers (boygenius) in 1994 (age 31) -- Actor Taissa Farmiga in 1994 (age 31) -- Actor Won Ji-an in 1999 (age 26) -- Musician The Kid Laroi in 2003 (age 22) File Photo by James Atoa/UPI
Daily Mirror
07-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Paramount Plus adds 'gripping' thriller with 92% Rotten Tomatoes rating
The film received an Oscar nomination and was considered one of the best of 202 September 5 trailer Paramount Plus has just added a 'gripping' historical drama fans say will stop you from playing on your phone while watching. 2024 release September 5 has now been added to the streamer's library. It is accessible either via its own dedicated app, or as an add-on subscription through Amazon Prime Video. The film is also available to those who have Sky Cinema or a movie pass on NOW. Based on a shocking true story, according to the movie's synopsis, the title unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to impact live news today. Set during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics, the film follows an American Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage. Through this lens, September 5 provides a fresh perspective on the live broadcast seen globally by an estimated one billion people at the time. At the heart of the story is Geoff (John Magaro), a young and ambitious producer striving to prove himself to his boss, the legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard). Together with German interpreter Marianne (Leonie Benesch) and his mentor Marvin Bader (Ben Chaplin), Geoff unexpectedly takes the helm of the live coverage. As narratives shift, time ticks away, and conflicting rumours spread, with the hostages' lives hanging in the balance, Geoff grapples with tough decisions while confronting his own moral compass. September 5 registered an impressive 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It also received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay. One critic said of the film: "A solid thriller from start to finish whose Oscar-nominated script invites us to reflect on how and why the news media does what it does." Another added: "September 5 is absolutely riveting, a peek at the earnest and ambitious people who unwittingly changed broadcast television by trying their best under exceptional circumstances. Despite knowing the outcome, you can't look away." Film fans are full of just as much praise, with one going so far as to claim it is "one of the best movies of the year." Another posted: "Truly amazing. Gripping. Whether you already know the real events or not, it will keep your attention every second. This is not a movie to watch while you play on your phone." While someone else said: "Exceptional filmmaking that tells a heart-pounding and heartbreaking story from a new point of view. It explores universal questions while staying grounded in specific details. Outstanding."
RTÉ News
01-08-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
'Nurses have been ringing the alarm bells for years,' says Late Shift star Leonie Benesch
Leonie Benesch gives one of the best performances of 2025 in the hospital drama Late Shift, playing no-nonsense Swiss nurse Floria. The Teacher's Lounge and September 5 star tells RTÉ Entertainment about making the acclaimed film. Harry Guerin: A lot of scripts and projects come your way. What was it about Late Shift that had you hooked? Leonie Benesch: First of all, I knew about the project through Judith Kaufmann, the director of photography [on Late Shift ]. She was the director of photography on The Teacher's Lounge, and we've become friends. She mentioned this project to me, and I know that Petra (Volpe, Late Shift writer-director) didn't send it to me for a while because she was scared that it would be too similar to The Teacher's Lounge and I might not be interested. When she did eventually send it to me, I wanted to do it immediately, because it was such a well-researched script. All the characters, all the patients were very clearly drawn. There was a tonne of research in it. I think you can tell. She knew about all the diagnoses. She knew about all the routines, the blood pressure wagon, and, you know, there was a whole choreography about 'when is that thing where?'. I love reading a script that is so ready. It sounds very silly, but it doesn't happen very often. That gives me confidence that the director and writer - in this case the same person - she knows where she wants to go. And then it's easy for me to just do my part and let myself fall into her arms and completely trust her. You spent a week in a hospital with nurses to prepare. I was really nervous. I did five shifts - two morning shifts and three late shifts. They put me up in a hotel in Basle, but the hospital was a little outside of Basle, so I took the train there. I think I got up at 5:30am or something because I wanted to be on time. They (the nurses) had been told that someone was going to be there - that happens sometimes when people want to look at the profession to see if that might be something for them. They have people who are basically a fly on the wall with them. You just walk with them. Obviously, you can't do anything, but you just get a sense of what that profession is. I think by the end of the five days, someone - because we had a moment and they asked me - said, 'You're an actor? What do you mean, like? What's your name?' And then they Googled me. 'So you wear fancy stuff sometimes?!' The nice thing was no one cared or had the time to care that I was there, so I could just observe. It was really essential. It was all about soaking in the choreography. I was very interested in the way the nurses speak to each other as opposed to how they deal with the patients. Each patient is different - it's such a unique skill to walk into a room and have an immediate understanding of who the patient is and what they might need. Some want numbers, some want to show you pictures of their pets, some want to just be touched, some really don't want to be touched. Nurses walk into rooms and get to deal with these different kinds of worlds. That's amazing. It's really fascinating. I've spent a lot of time in hospitals with family. You make a very convincing nurse. I don't think there's many films or depictions of that profession where we get a clear picture of just the complexity of it and the amount of things you need to know on the medical scale, but also emotional and athletic skills. These people are athletes. We always talked about this character as an athlete. One of the striking things in Late Shift is how few of the patients and their families say thank you to your character, Floria. That did also strike me when I did the internship. There's quite a few people who treat their stay at the hospital like a stay at a hotel. It's not just the private patients. I think there's quite a lot of entitlement towards nurses because nurses are being looked down on because traditionally they've not been... the profession's not been getting the kind of attention it actually deserves. The idea is to paint an average-y shift, so we get an idea of what it is like to work a shift and not take the most horrific one. In Ireland, we think of our health service as being in permacrisis, so it is an eye-opener to see the statistics in Late Shift that Switzerland will be short of 30,000 nurses by 2030 - and 36% of trained nurses quit within four years. It's the same everywhere. I mean, us rich countries, we're still a bit better off. Petra (Volpe, Late Shift writer-director) talked about this recently because there's always a question of sexism. 80% of the people in this profession are women, and that usually means they're overlooked, underpaid, and underappreciated. Petra was telling this story of how there was a threat of a pilot shortage in Switzerland a few years ago. The government immediately stepped in, something like 60,000 francs extra per year. They made it really attractive to become a pilot, the crisis was averted. It's mainly men in that profession. And it is possible, it's a rich country - they could throw money at this (nursing). Nurses have been ringing the alarm bells for over 10 years, and it's only getting worse because hospitals are run like businesses in Switzerland and Germany. And they're run by people who studied in Oxbridge and Harvard, and they studied business. None of them has ever been by a bedside. And they're not interested in putting people in charge who know about nursing because they will always advocate for more staff. It's so mind-boggling because we know if you have better care, people are in hospital [for a] shorter [time], and it will actually benefit the hospital financially to invest more into workers. I don't really understand why it's not happening. Many people say after a stay in hospital that they will completely change their outlook on life and cultivate a sense of gratitude. Having played a nurse in Late Shift, has it changed how you deal with stress in your own profession? What I do is very easy. The amount of money I get paid for a couple of months' work and the amount a nurse gets paid for years and years and years of work and crazy shifts and not being able to have a weekend, doing night shifts - there is no correlation. It's very strange what we as a society deem worthy of paying a lot of money for and what jobs we don't pay a lot of money to. It's very arbitrary. Judging by the coverage, Late Shift has deeply resonated with anyone who has seen it. It's amazing. Judith (Kaufmann, cinematographer), Petra (Volpe, writer-director), and I have never had this amount of feedback for anything we've done. It's been really, really moving. We've been sent emails to our agents that they're forwarding to us from people in that profession (nursing). We always said that if people in the healthcare sector, if nurses feel seen, if nurses watch this film and go, 'That's what it's like, and thanks for seeing me', then we've done something right. That does seem to be the case, and it's very moving.
RTÉ News
31-07-2025
- Health
- RTÉ News
Nurses get their big-screen due in must-see Late Shift
As our health service lurches through the seasons, the compare-and-despair temptation is ever present. Surely, everything has to be brilliant in, say, Switzerland? Well, as Late Shift shows, the Swiss have their own share of troubles. By the year 2030, they will be short of 30,000 nursing professionals - and 36% of trained nurses quit within just four years. Those shocking statistics are hammered home in this night-in-the-life portrait of one nurse, Floria (Leonie Benesch), as she, a disaffected colleague, and a first-year student deal with close to 30 patients on their ward. If you enjoyed the Stephen Graham-starring restaurant drama Boiling Point, then this is one to see for all the same reasons - fast-moving, filled with tension, superb characterisation - albeit with much higher stakes. Floria's eight hours start manageably, but director Petra Volpe starts to ramp things up as darkness falls, and the calls, requests, and plates in the air increase by the half-hour. It's shocking how few people say thank you as Floria goes above and beyond. This is one of the performances of the year from Benesch, who was so good in another must-see, September 5, a few months back. Come to think of it, you won't get a classier double bill. A small film with big things to say, Late Shift closes with a chilling postscript from the World Health Organisation. It estimates a shortage of 13 million nurses by the year 2030.
San Francisco Chronicle
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
What to Stream: 'Mountainhead,' Bono documentary and Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel play sisters
NEW YORK (AP) — 'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong's satirical drama 'Mountainhead' and Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel playing dysfunctional siblings in the murder thriller series 'The Better Sister' are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time, as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists: a new concert special featuring Aretha Franklin, U2's frontman reveals all in the documentary 'Bono: Stories of Surrender' and multiplayer gamers get Elden Ring: Nightreign, sending teams of three warriors to battle the flamboyant monsters of a haunted land. New movies to stream from May 26-June 1 — Armstrong makes his feature debut with the satirical drama 'Mountainhead,' streaming on HBO Max on Saturday. The film stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef and Cory Michael Smith as tech titans on a boys' trip whose billionaire shenanigans are interrupted by an international crisis that may have been inflamed by their platforms. The movie was shot earlier this year, in March. — The story of hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics has been told in many films, but 'September 5' takes audiences inside the ABC newsroom as it all unfolded. The film, from Tim Fehlbaum and starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Ben Chaplin, is a semi-fictionalized telling of those tense 22 hours, where a group of sports reporters including Peter Jennings managed to broadcast this international incident live to the world for the first time. In my review, I wrote that news junkies will find much to enjoy in the spirited debates over journalistic ethics and the vintage technologies. It's also just a riveting tick-tock. 'September 5' is now available on Prime Video. — The directing team (and real life partners) behind 'Saint Frances' made one of AP Film Writer Jake Coyle's favorite movies of 2024 in 'Ghostlight,' streaming Friday on Kanopy. The movie centers on a construction worker who joins a community theater production of 'Romeo & Juliet' after the death of his teenage son. Coyle called it 'a sublime little gem of a movie about a Chicago family struggling to process tragedy.' — AP Film Writer Lindsey Bahr New music to stream from May 26-June 1 — Celebrate the late, great, eternal Aretha Franklin with a glorious new concert special, 'Aretha! With Sheléa and the Pacific Symphony' airing on PBS. The title is a giveaway: Sheléa and the Pacific Symphony team up to perform the Queen of Soul's larger-than-life hits: 'Respect,' 'Natural Woman,' and 'Chain of Fools' among them. It's now available to stream on and the PBS App. — 'These are the tall tales of a short rock star,' U2 frontman Bono introduces 'Bono: Stories of Surrender,' a documentary film based on his memoir, 'Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.' The project will become available to stream globally on Apple TV+ now and for the tech heads among us, it is also the first full-length film to be available in Apple Immersive on Vision Pro. That's 180-degree video! — For film fans, Yeule may be best known for their contribution to the critically acclaimed 'I Saw The TV Glow,' which featured their dreamy cover of Broken Social Scene's 'Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl' as a kind of theme song. On Friday, the singer-songwriter-producer will release their latest album, 'Evangelic Girl Is a Gun' via Ninja Tune Records — an ambitious collection of electronic pop from a not-to-distant future. — Music Writer Maria Sherman New television to stream from May 26-June 1 — Sheri Papini, a woman who pleaded guilty and served jail time for lying to law enforcement about being kidnapped, is sharing her story for the first time. A new docuseries features interviews with Papini herself, her family, attorneys and psychiatrist. She also takes a lie-detector test on camera and participates in reenactments. Papini maintains she was kidnapped by an ex-boyfriend, but says they were having an emotional affair at the time. She claims he held her against her will, sexually and physically abusing her, before letting her go. 'Sheri Papini: Caught in the Lie' is a four-part series airing on ID. It will stream on Max. — Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel are Nicky and Chloe, dysfunctional sisters in the new Prime Video series 'The Better Sister.' It's based on a novel by Alafair Burke. The two are estranged and Chloe is raising Nicky's son as her own — and also married to her ex. When a murder occurs, the sisters must become a united front. It's now on Prime Video. — In 'Downton Abbey' and 'The Crown,' Matthew Goode plays a charming English gentleman. In his new series 'Dept. Q' for Netflix, he's ... English. Goode plays Carl, a gruff detective who is banished to the police station basement and assigned to cold cases. He forms a rag tag group to solve a crime that no one, not even himself, thinks can be cracked. 'Dept. Q' is from the writer and director of 'The Queen's Gambit.' It premiered Thursday. — A new PBS documentary looks at the life and impact of artist George Rodrigue. He's known for paintings of a big blue dog with yellow eyes (called Blue Dog) but also is credited for art that depicted Cajun life in his home state of Louisiana. Rodrigue's paintings helped to preserve Cajun culture. What people may not realize is how the Blue dog is connected to Cajun folklore. 'Blue: The Art and Life of George Rodrigue' debuted Thursday and will also stream on New video games to play week of May 26-June 1 — Tokyo-based From Software is best known for morbid adventures like Dark Souls and Elden Ring — games that most players tackle solo, though they do have some co-op options. Elden Ring: Nightreign is built for multiplayer, sending teams of three warriors to battle the flamboyant monsters of a haunted land called Limveld. Your goal is to survive three days and three nights before you confront an overwhelming Nightlord. This isn't the sprawling, character-building epic fans would expect from the studio, but those who are hungry for more of its brutal, nearly sadistic action will probably be satisfied. Take up your swords on PlayStation 5/4, Xbox X/S/One or PC.
