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Yahoo
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Screen Talk's Winners and Losers of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival
As IndieWire wraps up our Cannes Film Festival coverage — see our favorite films of the festival here and our annual critics survey here — so does the Screen Talk podcast. This week, hosts Anne Thompson and Ryan Lattanzio debate the late-breaking premieres like 'The History of Sound' and 'The Mastermind,' finally get a chance to gush over 'Sentimental Value,' and speculate on what countries might submit Cannes premieres for the International Feature Oscar. Since Iran will never submit its dissident director Jafar Panahi, who's back in his home country post-Cannes despite legal battles and decades of censorship attempts by the Islamic Republic, for Palme d'Or winner 'It Was Just an Accident,' we're going with Luxembourg as the country to pick this film for the Oscars. Both France and Luxembourg have production stakes in the film, though France will have plenty of other contenders to work with. More from IndieWire Cannes 2025 Films Sold So Far: Kino Lorber Buys 'Amrum' from Director Fatih Akin Ariana Grande Joins 'Meet the Parents 4' Cast with Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro Norway, no question, will submit Grand Prix winner 'Sentimental Value' from Joachim Trier, which Anne says has one of the great onscreen sister bonding moments of all time shared by actresses Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas. Both could be in the Oscar running with the right Neon campaign. (Check out our no-holds-barred interview with Tom Quinn on the ground here.) Anne finally saw 'Sîrat,' the French-Spanish co-production directed by Oliver Laxe, another late-festival Neon pick-up, despite watching some of it with her hands over her eyes. She compares the film to 'The Wages of Fear' and its remake 'Sorcerer' as a road odyssey in which trucks plow across the Moroccan desert. The great Sergi López stars as a father who, traveling with his young son, searches for his missing daughter amid marauding throngs of drug-fueled ravers. Ryan rewatched the film and has a better grasp of what it's trying to say now. That morning in Cannes, he just wasn't in the mood for this particularly fatalistic, dance-until-we-die apocalyptic vision. The hosts are split on Kelly Reichardt's anti-heist movie 'The Mastermind,' which rigorously stages with impeccable 1970 detail a story of a clumsy art thief (Josh O'Connor) falling down the hole of his own poorly hatched plan. Anne points out that Reichardt is 'slow as molasses' as ever, while Ryan lapped up the period elements and casting, even if the charismatic Alana Haim is gravely underused. Also, we wanted more heat (i.e. sex) from Oliver Hermanus' 'The History of Sound,' which features a great O'Connor performance as well as another moving turn from Paul Mescal. Ryan likes this film more than Anne, though they both admit it's a perhaps too handsomely made period love story. Finally, we share thoughts on the season finale of 'The Last of Us,' which ends with a soap-operatic-level cliffhanger that will keep us on edge for the show's return more than a year from of IndieWire Nightmare Film Shoots: The 38 Most Grueling Films Ever Made, from 'Deliverance' to 'The Wages of Fear' Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 65 Films the Director Wants You to See The 19 Best Thrillers Streaming on Netflix in May, from 'Fair Play' to 'Emily the Criminal'
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
The Morning After: Apple might skip iOS 19, straight to iOS 26
According to Bloomberg, the next versions of Apple's operating systems may be labeled by year, starting now. It makes sense. At this point, we've got VisionOS 2, watchOS 11, macOS 15, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. Instead, they might all be tagged 26 — even if they launch this year. It's not the first tech company to align new products with the year of release. Samsung started naming its phones by year of release in 2020 with the S20, which followed the S10. We'll learn for sure in under two weeks: WWDC kicks off June 9. — Mat Smith Get Engadget's newsletter delivereddirect to your inbox. Subscribe right here! Fujifilm GFX100RF review: A powerful, fun camera that's far from perfect Can you still buy a Switch 2 on launch day? Maybe Weber Smoque review: A simplified smart grill that's still a workhorse Video Games Weekly: Grand Theft Auto is no friend to the queer community Volkswagen review: A head-turning EV microbus with unfortunate flaws One of the standout deals of this year's Days of Play sale is the PS5 DualSense Edge controller. You can pick one up for $169, which is 15 percent off its usual price. The deal is available on Amazon and directly from Sony. The Edge resembles a regular DualSense controller, but there's a lot more to it. For instance, there are function buttons below each thumbstick and rear paddles, and you can choose between a set of levers or shorter half-domes. If you haven't jumped on the PS5 yet, the PS5 Pro also gets a $50 discount. Continue reading. Opera has launched another… Opera browser. Neon is its first fully agentic browser. That means it's baked in AI chat with users and can surf the web on their behalf. It… clicks for you. It can even fill out forms and shop for you. If you're feeling more ambitious, you can ask Neon to build websites, animations, even games, and it can continue chipping away at big projects while you're offline. Will that all be enough to swing you away from all your Chrome plugins or Safari passwords? According to recent figures, just over 2 percent of internet users use Opera. You can try it for yourself now. Oh wait, no, there's a waitlist. Continue reading. Pulsar's latest competitive gaming mouse features a premium tiny fan from Noctua, the renowned fan brand. (Apparently, no one makes fans quite like the Austrians). With a skeletal shell designed to enhance airflow, it's for sweaty-palmed professional gamers. Like the original Feinmann mouse from Pulsar, it has a 32,00 DPI sensor and an ultra-fast 8,000 Hz polling rate. Due to the fan, it's a little heavier than the original at 65 grams. And the price of dry palm calm? $180. Continue reading.
The Hindu
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Kamal Haasan interview and ‘Karate Kid: Legends' review
Around Tinsel Town Cannes Film Festival 2025 comes to a close Power outages may have shrouded the French Riviera in literal darkness on the final day of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, but the Palais still managed to deliver an electric finale. Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi took home the Palme d'Or for his absurdist drama, It Was Just an Accident, marking both a personal and political victory for its maker, but also for U.S. distributor Neon, now six-for-six in Cannes' top prize. Here's a collection of stories from the Cannes Film Festival 2025: > Jafar Panahi's 'It Was Just an Accident' wins Palme d'Or, a staggering sixth straight triumph for Neon > Chilean AIDS drama 'The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo' wins Un Certain Regard while India's 'Homebound' leaves empty-handed > Complete list of winners from the closing ceremony > The true story behind Neeraj Ghaywan's 'Homebound', inspired by a pandemic-era New York Times essay > India's appearances on the red carpet and beyond, in pictures > Alia Bhatt attends the closing ceremony red carpet in custom Gucci gown > Panda wins the 2025 Palm Dog award at Cannes — and a look-alike accepts > Power outage hits Cannes region during film festival Bollywood Sandeep Reddy Vanga fires back after Deepika Padukone's exit from 'Spirit' 'Son of Sardar' actor Mukul Dev passes away at 54 'Hera Pheri 3' controversy: Paresh Rawal responds to Akshay Kumar's suit, says exit from film was 'rightful' CBFC clears 'Dhadak 2' after 16 cuts, including altered anti-caste references Abhishek Banerjee-led crime thriller 'Stolen' gets premiere date Hollywood HBO's 'Harry Potter' finds its Harry, Hermoine and Ron from a pool of 30,000 'Andor' Season 2 submitted in 23 Emmy categories as Disney positions frontrunning contention 'The Wheel of Time' gets cancelled after three seasons Chris Hemsworth's Thor tribute fuels MCU exit rumors ahead of 'Avengers: Doomsday' Miley Cyrus reveals she caught 'brutal infection' on kneecap after shooting 'Something Beautiful' on Hollywood Walk of Fame Regional Cinema Kamal Haasan sparks outrage with 'Kannada came from Tamil' claim, BJP demands apology Actor Unni Mukundan booked for allegedly assaulting manager Mani Ratnam responds to Anurag Kashyap's criticism of English lyrics in Tamil songs Hombale Films of 'KGF' and 'Kantara' fame announces project with Hrithik Roshan 'Kannappa' hard drive containing crucial movie VFX visuals gets 'stolen': The perpetrator's identity is known, say producers Trailers Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh are murder suspects in the trailer for 'Housefull 5' The Straw Hats throw a slumber party as Netflix teases Chopper ahead of TUDUM in teaser for 'One Piece' Live-Action Season 2 Keanu Reeves plays a downcast angel in Aziz Ansari comedy in teaser for 'Good Fortune' YouTubers investigate a haunted property in Srinidhi Bengaluru's found footage thriller in teaser for 'Video' Vijay Antony investigates a 'devil' in this unique investigative thriller in the trailer for 'Maargan' Essential reading 1) Kamal Haasan interview: On 'Thug Life', AI in cinema and his unrealised projects >> Kamal Haasan on reuniting with director Mani Ratnam for 'Thug Life', releasing on June 5 2) Silambarasan TR interview: On Kamal Haasan's 'Thug Life' and making a 'fanboy sambavam' with Ashwath Marimuthu >> The star opens up on a lesson he learnt from Kamal Haasan's approach to stardom, why he no longer seeks validation from the results of his films, and the criticism he has faced as a star who doesn't push himself enough 3) Interview | Basharat Peer on the story that became 'Homebound' >> As 'Homebound' evokes global interest, writer and journalist Basharat Peer takes us to the origins of the moving tale of friendship and upholding human dignity in the face of tragedy 4) Roshan Mathew interview: On 'Kankhajura' and feeling at home in Hindi cinema >> Actor Roshan Mathew opens up on his upcoming web series 'Kankhajura', playing complex roles and picking the right scripts for Hindi web series 5) Malayalam filmmaker Manu Swaraj on his directorial debut, 'Padakkalam', a sleeper hit at the box office >> Manu Swaraj, who has assisted Basil Joseph in 'Kunjiramayanam' and Minnal Murali, talks about his directorial debut, 'Padakkalam', a fantasy entertainer 6) Lights, Camera, Kathipara: Chennai's vanishing role in Tamil cinema >> Since the '60s and '70s, Tamil filmmakers have found fascinating ways to celebrate Chennai on celluloid. However, in the last five years, filmmakers have largely refrained from using the city as a storytelling instrument 7) Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2025: Fan-favorite action spectacle 'Solo Leveling' topples fronturunner 'Frieren' in massive populist upset >> Straddling the demands of blockbuster appeal and the yearning for introspective artistry, the 'Solo Leveling–Frieren' face-off offers up a microcosm to the state of the anime community today 8) 'Tintin'-style comic book makeover for 'Lakadbaggha' film action hero >> With an eye on young readers and audiences, actor Anshuman Jha turns his 2023 indie film into a comic book 9) Rajesh: An actor who could traverse the arc of emotions >> When Tamil cinema moved from the MGR-Sivaji Ganesan era and stepped into the decades shaped by Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan from the late 1970s and early 1980s, Rajesh carved his own unique space What to watch 1) Read the full review here 2) Read the full review here 3) Read the full review here 4) Read the full review here 5) Read the full review here 6) 'The Last of Us' Season 2 finale is a somewhat jumbled set-up for Season 3 Read the full review here 7) Guy Ritchie's Indiana Jones-wannabe, Fountain of Youth' is a mealy mouthed bore Read the full review here 8) Narivetta is an uncomfortable story that needed to be told Read the full review here
Engadget
a day ago
- Engadget
The Morning After: Apple might skip iOS 19, straight to iOS 26
According to Bloomberg , the next versions of Apple's operating systems may be labeled by year, starting now. It makes sense. At this point, we've got VisionOS 2, watchOS 11, macOS 15, iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. Instead, they might all be tagged 26 — even if they launch this year. It's not the first tech company to align new products with the year of release. Samsung started naming its phones by year of release in 2020 with the S20, which followed the S10. We'll learn for sure in under two weeks: WWDC kicks off June 9. — Mat Smith Get Engadget's newsletter delivered direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! One of the standout deals of this year's Days of Play sale is the PS5 DualSense Edge controller. You can pick one up for $169, which is 15 percent off its usual price. The deal is available on Amazon and directly from Sony. The Edge resembles a regular DualSense controller, but there's a lot more to it. For instance, there are function buttons below each thumbstick and rear paddles, and you can choose between a set of levers or shorter half-domes. If you haven't jumped on the PS5 yet, the PS5 Pro also gets a $50 discount. Continue reading. Opera has launched another… Opera browser. Neon is its first fully agentic browser. That means it's baked in AI chat with users and can surf the web on their behalf. It… clicks for you. It can even fill out forms and shop for you. If you're feeling more ambitious, you can ask Neon to build websites, animations, even games, and it can continue chipping away at big projects while you're offline. Will that all be enough to swing you away from all your Chrome plugins or Safari passwords? According to recent figures, just over 2 percent of internet users use Opera. You can try it for yourself now. Oh wait, no, there's a waitlist. Continue reading. Pulsar's latest competitive gaming mouse features a premium tiny fan from Noctua, the renowned fan brand. (Apparently, no one makes fans quite like the Austrians). With a skeletal shell designed to enhance airflow, it's for sweaty-palmed professional gamers. Like the original Feinmann mouse from Pulsar, it has a 32,00 DPI sensor and an ultra-fast 8,000 Hz polling rate. Due to the fan, it's a little heavier than the original at 65 grams. And the price of dry palm calm? $180. Continue reading.
The Spinoff
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Spinoff
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
