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Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
EastEnders' new Vicki Fowler actress has a very famous film star father
Actress Alice Haig has become the newest cast member of the BBC soap EastEnders after taking on the role of Vicki Fowler. Vicki had previously been played by Scarlett Alice Johnson, who left the show in 2004. It was previously announced that Vicki would be returning to the square following the death of Martin Fowler in the 40th anniversary live episode of EastEnders. Actress Alice may be new to the show, but she has some very famous connections, including her film star father, David Haig. David Haig is an actor and playwright best known for his role as Bernard in the hit 90s movie, Four Weddings and a Funeral. The actor has also appeared in the likes of My Boy Jack, The Thin Blue Line, Yes, Prime Minister, COBRA and the award-winning show, Killing Eve. David has starred alongside the likes of Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Robbie Coltrane, Rory Kinnear and Daniel Radcliffe. Alice is one of David's five children he shares with his wife, Juila Gray, who acts under the name of Jane Galloway. The new EastEnders star followed her father's footsteps by training as an actor at RADA. Before making her debut on the soap, the actress had roles in Rain Dogs, This is Going to Hurt and in the Disney+ series Andor. Recommended Reading: Call the Midwife legend surprises fans after landing new role on EastEnders EastEnders star confirms exit after 6 months saying 'I left a couple of weeks ago' EastEnders guest star Keith Allen nearly joined the soap as a major character When the BBC first announced that Alice would be taking on the role of Vicki, she said: "I am so excited. I have always watched the show, and I was born in February 1985, so I'm the same age as EastEnders! "It's so cool to be playing a character like Vicki - we think we know her, but a lot has changed." Vicki previously left the square to move to Australia in the noughties but has returned to EastEnders along with new boyfriend Ross following the death of Martin Fowler.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Tune Out the Noise: New Film Directed by Errol Morris Debuts on YouTube
Legendary director teams up with global asset manager Dimensional on a documentary chronicling the financial revolution that changed the way the world invests. NEW YORK, March 06, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line) turns his lens to an unlikely cast of upstarts who transformed the investment landscape in his new documentary Tune Out the Noise. The film chronicles a group of academics at the University of Chicago in the 1960s whose groundbreaking research challenged Wall Street's status quo and was used by firms like Dimensional to disrupt traditional methods of investing, ultimately reshaping the way the world views markets. Many of the prominent academic and financial leaders featured in Tune Out the Noise were instrumental in developing and applying research that showed how rules-based, broadly diversified portfolios could lower barriers to entry and reduce costs for investors. This new approach, which stood in stark contrast to the stock-picking and performance-chasing tactics that predominated, led to the invention of passive investing and the creation of the first index funds. The result was a revolution in finance that helped usher in a new era for investors. Shot in Morris's iconic style, the documentary unfolds through revealing interviews with Nobel Prize-winning economists who have long-standing ties to Dimensional, including Eugene Fama, Robert Merton, and Myron Scholes, as well as interviews with Professor Ken French, Dimensional Founders David Booth and Rex Sinquefield, indexing pioneer Mac McQuown, former US Senator Bill Bradley, and many others. "The evolution of modern finance is a story of innovation, disruption, and resilience," Morris said. "It's about the power of ideas, the courage to question convention, and the enduring impact of turning knowledge into action." Booth, for whom the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business is named, reflected on the film and its lessons: "Tune Out the Noise captures the energy and excitement of a series of breakthroughs that changed investing forever," he said. "I hope this film helps even more people discover that there's a smarter way to invest and anyone can benefit from it." Produced by Fourth Floor Productions and Moxie Pictures, Tune Out the Noise premieres today in New York City. It's available for US audiences to stream on YouTube here, and there are plans to expand availability to additional regions later this year. Watch the trailer and learn more at About Dimensional Fund AdvisorsDimensional is a leading global investment firm that has been translating academic research into practical investment solutions since 1981. Guided by a strong belief in markets, we help investors pursue higher expected returns through a systematic investment process that integrates research insights with advanced portfolio design, management, and trading while balancing tradeoffs that can impact returns. Dimensional is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has 15 global offices across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. As of December 31, 2024, Dimensional manages $777 billion for investors worldwide. For more information, please visit DisclosuresDimensional Fund Advisors LP is an investment advisor registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Investment products: • Not FDIC Insured • Not Bank Guaranteed • May Lose ValueDimensional Fund Advisors does not have any bank affiliates. "Dimensional" refers to the Dimensional separate but affiliated entities generally, rather than to one particular entity. These entities are Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Dimensional Fund Advisors Ltd., Dimensional Ireland Limited, DFA Australia Limited, Dimensional Fund Advisors Canada ULC, Dimensional Fund Advisors Pte. Ltd., Dimensional Japan Ltd., and Dimensional Hong Kong Limited. Dimensional Hong Kong Limited is licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission to conduct Type 1 (dealing in securities) regulated activities only and does not provide asset management services. View source version on Contacts Media Contact Taylor 1-502-641-7220 Sign in to access your portfolio
New York Times
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Chaos: The Manson Murders' Review: All You Ever Knew is Suspect
Two recurring inquiries — scary ones, entwined — characterize Errol Morris's decades-long directing career, which includes landmark documentaries like 'The Thin Blue Line,' 'Mr. Death,' 'The Fog of War' and 'Standard Operating Procedure.' The first question regards the nature of evil: what it is, where it comes from, whether it's invited into a man's heart or chooses to takes up residence there. The other is the fine membrane between truth and fiction, which dictates how we become deluded, by others and by self, and how those delusions come to rule the world. In Morris's more recent work, those themes are brought together most sharply in 'American Dharma,' a 2019 chiller in which Morris feeds ample rope to the Trump adviser Steve Bannon to explain his vision of the world and, in so doing, expose a kind of cruelly pompous vapidity. But other contemporary works by Morris — 'Separated,' about policies that tear migrant children from their parents; 'The Pigeon Tunnel,' about what the spy novelist John le Carré never really revealed about himself — are also held together mostly by these questions. At their heart is some primal fear: that evil, or evil people, can control us without our even realizing it. And for Morris, this is not a religious question so much as an existential and political one. Little surprise that his latest project, the Netflix documentary 'Chaos: The Manson Murders,' returns to the same arena. Based, sort of, on the hair-raising book by the journalist Tom O'Neill, the film winnows its central question to one recurring baffler: Why are we, as a culture drenched in true crime narratives, so obsessed with this particular set of murders, which occurred over 55 years ago? Most likely you know the outline of the case: Charles Manson, the failed musician and wild-eyed hippie, ordered his 'family' — drug-addled runaways, mostly, who had been living with him at a ranch full of old movie sets — to carry out a series of gruesome murders on the evenings of Aug. 8 and 9, 1969. Among the victims was the actress Sharon Tate, then eight and a half months pregnant with her first child. Her husband, the director Roman Polanski, was out of town at the time. The story includes all kinds of weird spiky bits, well-documented, from accidents and coincidences (who was there that night, who wasn't) to Manson's connections to Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys and his worship of the Beatles to the bizarre behavior he and his acolytes exhibited during the sensationalized trial. O'Neill, in his book, goes deeper, raising the specter of various conspiracy theories about potential covert government operations that seem, with the space of time and some well-placed Freedom of Information Act requests, to at least have the potential of maybe being linked to the case. O'Neill, a dogged reporter who pursued the story for decades, is well aware in the book that he appears to be a bit deranged — but that's because, he insists methodically, the whole thing is kind of deranged. There's no strict evidence but the distinct possibility that Manson crossed paths, and maybe more, with United States covert operations that intersected eerily with the sort of mind control he was able to enact on his followers. The C.I.A., through initiatives like Project MK-Ultra and Operation CHAOS, for instance, spied on citizens and experimented with initiatives aimed at controlling minds and creating, as Morris puts it in cinematic terms, a Manchurian candidate. Similarly, the F.B.I.'s Cointelpro projects aimed to disrupt groups viewed as subversive, such as the antiwar movement, civil rights movement, Communist and socialist organizations, the women's movement and in particular the Black Panthers, on whom Manson's family explicitly tried to pin the murders. These covert operations on citizens are familiar territory for Morris, including his 2017 six-part series 'Wormwood,' of which he inserts a tiny clip into 'Chaos,' with little explanation. It's seemingly a way to remind his more dedicated viewers this isn't his first go-round on this topic. 'Chaos: The Manson Murders' features O'Neill, who says much the same thing onscreen — look, I'm not saying it did happen this way, we just can't say it didn't — but brings in other voices, too. The most notable is Bobby Beausoleil, a young musician whose path intersected with Manson's in unfortunate and grim ways, and who insists that Manson's motives in conducting the murders were much more pedestrian than people like O'Neill made them out to be. There's also archival footage of Manson himself, both during the trial and in several later interviews, and of several of his followers decades after their convictions. Yet the most significant other voice in the film is Morris's, both stylistically and literally — in typical style, we see and hear him interviewing O'Neill (on camera) and Beausoleil (on the phone). There are remnants of the now-established Netflix true crime style in 'Chaos,' most notably the irritating little introduction to what's about to happen in this documentary, a kind of mini-trailer for itself, that starts the film, perhaps the most visible indication that streaming has altered the way we not only watch but structure movies. But Morris has clout that exceeds most documentary directors, and this is mostly his movie: curious, skeptical, dependent on interviews conducted by the director. And it's obsessed with that single question: Why do we keep returning to this story? The answer the movie gives is that we're interested not so much in murder as mind control. It's a compelling answer: We want to know how Manson did it, how he brainwashed people and compelled them to lose all prior sense of morals, ethics and humanity. In archival clips, Manson's former followers, years after being deprogrammed from his influence, talk about his still being in their heads. How does someone do that? It's an interesting question to try to answer in the case of 'Chaos' because — though Morris never comes right out and says it — this anxiety clearly extends far beyond Charles Manson. It's obvious the proliferation of true crime and cult documentaries, so often one and the same, is keyed to a very modern fear: What if it turns out your beliefs, everything you think is true about the world, is not just wrong, but implanted in your mind by someone who wants to manipulate you? This isn't just about fringe cults on ranches anymore: It's about social groups, theories about the world, the bubble you float around in on the internet, the candidate you believe in an election. Thus, wrapping this story up in the bigger, now documented narrative of covert government operations seems purposeful, and accounts for its staying power. 'What else did they withhold from us?' O'Neill asks. Throughout the film, Morris is skeptical of O'Neill's narrative, but he won't discount it outright, in part because he can't. There's no way to put a bow on this one, or to find an answer to the questions Morris has been asking. In an exchange near the end of the film, O'Neill says that people watch drama because 'they want to find the truth beneath the surface, otherwise they're bored out of their mind.' 'You can always do things with fiction so there's a resolution,' Morris replies. 'Whereas, in real life, you can't.'
New York Times
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in March
Every month, Netflix adds movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for some of March's most promising new titles for subscribers in the United States. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.) 'The Leopard' Starts streaming: March 5 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's posthumously published 1958 novel, 'The Leopard,' is a rich reflection on the mid-19th century unification of Italy and how it affected the aristocrats who were reluctant to concede their land to the people. The book was adapted into a 1963 Luchino Visconti film, widely considered one of the best movies in cinematic history. Now it has been adapted again into a six-part mini-series. Kim Rossi Stuart plays Don Fabrizio Corbera, who is clinging to his prestige even as his ambitious, pragmatic nephew, Tancredi (Saul Nanni), sides with the revolutionaries. Like the novel, the series compares the larger sweep of history with the characters' personal desires, including the question of who Tancredi will marry: Don Fabrizio's daughter Concetta (Benedetta Porcaroli) or the more politically connected Angelica (Deva Cassel). 'Chaos: The Manson Murders' Starts streaming: March 7 The latest documentary from Errol Morris ('The Thin Blue Line,' 'The Fog of War') is partly a collaboration with the journalist Tom O'Neill, who spent decades investigating the crimes of the hippie guru Charles Manson and his 'family' of followers. O'Neill turned his research into the 2019 book 'Chaos: Charles Manson, the C.I.A., and the Secret History of the Sixties,' contending that the typical framing of the Manson Family's murders — as would-be revolutionary acts by an evil counterculture cult — does not line up with evidence that suggests a criminal conspiracy involving gangsters and the government. Morris anchors his film with an extended interview between himself and O'Neill, intercut with clips from old news reports about Manson and his disciples. Like a lot of Morris's work, 'Chaos' examines the myths society supports and how the official versions of some stories break down under scrutiny. 'Adolescence' Starts streaming: March 13 In this opening minutes of this British mini-series, a teenage boy, Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), is arrested on suspicion of murdering a classmate. Stephen Graham (who also wrote all four episodes of 'Adolescence' with Jack Thorne) plays Jamie's father, Eddie, who is named the boy's 'appropriate adult,' and watches helplessly as his son is swabbed, stripped, searched and questioned. Each episode of this procedural mystery takes place in real time and plays out entirely in one shot — an approach that the director Philip Barantini used previously in the 2021 film 'Boiling Point,' starring Graham. The format may seem gimmicky, but the creative team does not treat it that way. Instead it focuses on the granular details of the arrest and its aftermath, shifting between the perspectives of the police, the suspect and the suspect's family, all of whom are wondering not only what happened to the victim but also why. 'The Electric State' Starts streaming: March 14 In Simon Stalenhag's 2018 illustrated novel, 'The Electric State,' a teenage girl and her robot companion explore a drought-ravaged, decaying version of 1990s America, where the country has been divided into militarized zones and society has come to distrust the giant machines they used to rely on. In the Netflix movie adaptation — directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, from a screenplay by their 'Avengers: Endgame' collaborators Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely — Millie Bobby Brown plays the girl, Michelle, who thinks her robot friend may know something about her long-lost brother. Chris Pratt plays Keats, an ex-soldier turned smuggler, who travels with Michelle and tries to keep her safe. 'The Residence' Season 1 Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
The Independent
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
New on Netflix in March 2025: Every movie and TV show, including pivotal Manson family documentary
Spring is en route – and while it might (hopefully) be getting warmer outside, Netflix has plenty of options to keep you fixed to your sofa. Among the highlights for March, which will see the removal of Netflix's 'best' original film, are new adventure film The Electric State starring Millie Bobby Brown, a new Meghan Markle cookery series previously delayed due to the Los Angeles wildfires, and one-shot drama Adolescence from Boiling Point duo Stephen Graham and Philip Barantini. This month, Errol Morris, who directed seminal true-crime documentary The Thin Blue Line (1988), will also release his latest, which sees him question 'the complex narrative of the Manson family murders' by 'challenging the official accounts of the most infamous killing spree of the 1960s'. Morris told Netflix: 'I've found myself trapped in a number of different true-crime stories, and the Manson murders are peculiar. You could encapsulate the mystery in just one question: How is it that Manson managed to convince the people around him that killing was OK?' Below, we've run through every movie and TV show set to be released on Netflix in March 2025. The Independent compiled this list with assistance from What's on Netflix. ORIGINAL Movies 7 March Delicious – UK/US Nadaaniyan – UK/US Plankton The Movie – UK/US 14 March The Electric State – UK/US 21 March Little Siberia – UK/US Revelations – UK/US 28 March The Life List – UK/US 31 March Promised Hearts – UK/US TV 1 March The Potato Lab season one (weekly episodes) – UK/US 4 March With Love, Meghan – UK/US 5 March Just One Look – UK/US The Leopard – UK/US Medusa season one – UK/US 6 March Love is Blind: Sweden season two – UK/US Tyler Perry's Beauty in Black season one part two – UK/US 7 March Formula 1: Drive to Survive season seven– UK/US When Life Gives You Tangerines season one – UK/US 12 March Temptation Island season six – UK/US Welcome to the Family season one – UK/US 13 March Adolescence – UK/US Love is Blind: Sweden season two– UK/US 17 March Inside season two (daily episodes) – UK/US 19 March Until You Burn season one – UK/US Woman of the Dead season two – UK/US 20 March Bet Your Life season one – UK/US The Residence season one – UK/US Wolf King season one – UK/US 21 March Go! Season one – UK/US High Tides season two– UK/US 26 March Caught – UK/US Million Dollar Secret season one – UK/US 27 March Survival of the Thickest season two – UK/US 28 March The Lady's Companion season one – UK/US 31 March Rhythm + Flow: Italy season one – UK/US Documentary 6 March Larissa: The Other Side of Anitta – UK/US 7 March Chaos: The Manson Murders – UK/US 10 March American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden – UK/US 19 March Twister: Caught in the Storm – UK/US 25 March Con Mum – UK/US 27 March Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn's Treasure – UK/US 31 March Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer – UK/US Comedy 4 March Andrew Schulz: Life – UK/US 12 March Everybody's Live With John Mulaney (LIVE) – UK/US 18 March Bert Kreischer: Lucky – UK/US 25 March Chelsea Handler: The Feeling – UK/US Sport 2 March Elimination Chamber (WWE Premium) Anime 1 March SAKAMOTO DAYS season one (weekly episodes) – UK/US 6 March Blue Box season one (weekly episodes) – UK/US Kids 3 March Hot Wheels Let's Race season three – UK 6 March Barbie & Teresa: Recipe for Friendship – UK/US Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go season three – UK 17 March CoComelon Lane season four – UK/US Games Steel Paws (iOS and Android) – UK/US LICENCED Movie 1 March Annie (2014) – US Beginners – US Black Hawk Down – US Blade Runner: The Final Cut – US Blood and Bone – US Cell 211 – US Do the Right Thing – US 11 Rebels – UK 50 First Dates – US Friday – US High-Rise – US The Holiday – US Ma – US Mercy – UK Midnight in the Switchgrass – US National Securit y – US Next Friday – US Pride & Prejudice (2005)– US Runaway Jury – US See No Evil, Hear No Evil – US Sicario – US Ted – US Vampires – US Wedding Crashers – US 2 March How To Have Sex – US 6 March Power Rangers (2017) – US 8 March Dampyr – UK Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – UK Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – UK 18 March The Outrun – US Sisu – UK 20 March Den of Thieves 2: Pantera – US 26 March Dongeng Sang Kancil – US 28 March Talk to Me – US TV 1 March Halo season one – UK Henry Danger season one – US Hirugao season one – UK/US iCarly season one – US Resident Alien – UK Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle s season one – UK Yamato Nadeshiko season one– UK 2 March The Other One season one and two – UK 7 March Japan's Number One Jerk Salaryman season one (weekly episodes) – US 17 March The Walking Dead: Dead City season one – US 18 March 1883 season one – UK Love & Hip Hop New York season three and four – US 26 March I Survived a Crime season two – US Documentary What Killed the Ice Age Giants? – UK Anime 1 March Cells at Work! Code Black season one – UK/US C.I.D. season one (weekly episodes) – US Frieren: Beyond Journey's End season one – UK/US Naruto season four – UK 2 March C.I.D. season one (weekly episodes) – US 5 March The First Frost season one (weekly episodes) – US 7 March Dragon Ball DAIMA season one (weekly episodes) – US
