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Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Is Stepping Up Efforts to Preserve Memories
With the survivor generation shrinking and antisemitism on the rise around the world, Israel’s Holocaust memorial is stepping up efforts to safeguard its vast collection of artifacts and testimony.
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A Children’s Hospital in Ukraine Becomes a Scene of Destruction
Families and patients were not unfamiliar with the sound of missiles flying overhead. But the Russian assault on the hospital marked one of the worst days of violence against civilians in months.
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How Swizz Beatz Climbed to the Top of Saudi Arabia’s Camel Racing Scene
“I’m just bringing the cool factor to it,” said the American hip-hop producer, who has spent millions of dollars on 48 camels for a team he calls “Saudi Bronx.”
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NATO’s New Boss: Affable, Pragmatic and Ready for Trump, if Required
When he takes over as secretary general in October, Mark Rutte will face strains over Russia, Ukraine and the potential return of Donald J. Trump.
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Anchorman Wouldn’t Have Been Nearly as Great Without Christina Applegate
When Jerry Seinfeld took the stage at the Kennedy Center in 2018 to pay tribute to Julia-Louis Dreyfus, who was receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, he told a story about the early days of “Seinfeld.” Before Louis-Dreyfus came aboard, NBC executives were concerned about the show’s viability. “You need a real female…
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Sausage Party: Foodtopia Goes Bad Long Before It’s Over
What if, like, food could talk, man? And what if they said swears and had orgies? Those sentences, I’m sure, billowed out of the presumably hotboxed pitch room of 2016’s “Sausage Party,” the too-raunchy-by-half adult animated comedy that featured rubbery food items bumping various simulated nasties and being torn apart in ways suggesting real human viscera.…
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Flying to the Moon: Ten Films About the Apollo Program
Filmmakers have dreamed about visiting the moon from the earliest days of cinema. French stage magician-turned-director George Méliès was the father of cinema special effects. His silent 1902 film “A Trip to the Moon” is still unsurpassed in whimsical charm, with delightful acrobatic moon creatures and space travelers who return to Earth simply by jumping off…
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Big, Big, Big, Big Movies: Jon Landau (1960-2024)
“I can’t act and I can’t compose and I can’t do visual effects, so I guess that’s why I’m producing.” That was what Jon Landau said when he accepted the Best Picture Oscar for producing James Cameron‘s “Titanic.” He made the job sound like a fallback. But as Cameron’s producer for almost three decades, Landau helped figure out how…
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On The Same Level: Paul Raci, Clarence Maclin, and Sean Johnson on Sing Sing
It is increasingly rare to find films in love with actors’ faces, and even rarer to find directors who know how to capture the way light contours around lines and eyes to tell the story of the character. Greg Kwedar’s “Sing Sing,” co-written with Clint Bentley, hasn’t forgotten the pleasure of watching a rich performance…
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Cysurance announces discounted cyber insurance program for Sophos customers in Australia
Expanding our successful partnership from the United States to Australia.