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Individual Canadian Cigarettes to Be Labeled With Health Warnings
Tobacco companies must soon label individual cigarettes sold in the country with a health warning, in what Canada is calling a global first.
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Ireland Worries That Brexit Will Ruin Fishing Industry
Along Ireland’s coast, fishing has been a way of life for generations. But changes to the industry — including a cut in quotas after Brexit and a government plan to scrap boats — may see a way of life disappear.
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Fear Sets In Among Turkey’s L.G.B.T. Community After Erdogan’s Attacks
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vilified gay people during his re-election campaign, calling them a threat to society and rallying conservatives against them. It has left people feeling threatened, and alone.
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Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues
In her first museum show in the United States, this Finnish artist uses her own XL body to bring a new emotional depth to the genre of setup photography.
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KVIFF 2023 Announces Competition Titles, Premieres, and More
This end of June marks the beginning of the 57th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), which will run from June 30 thru July 8. Based in the Czech Republic, Karlovy Vary is among Europe’s most storied festivals ripe to quench cinephiles fascinated by the world and, more specifically, Eastern European cinema. …
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Cannes 2023: How to Have Sex, Los Delincuentes, The New Boy
Molly Manning Walker’s confident, vivid, and emotionally charged feature debut “How to Have Sex” emerged as an early word-of-mouth breakout at Cannes even before it won a top prize from the festival’s Un Certain Regard section. Following three 16-year-old best friends on a post-exam group holiday to Crete, the film—which was acquired by MUBI out…
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Cannes 2023: Highlights of the Year’s Festival
It may be symptomatic of a very busy festival schedule over the last several months, the aging process wreaking havoc on my stamina, or the fact that there were far more films over three hours this year than usual, but I’m more exhausted after Cannes 2023 than I have ever been at its conclusion. Cinema…
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Five Great Tales from Cannes’ Past
This special Cannes 2023 edition Thumbnails, our roundup of brief excerpts from notable articles, spotlights our coverage of the festival from past years, with the exception of the first article, which is newly published below. For the rest of the articles, we provide links to the original sources for you to read in their entirety.—Chaz Ebert 1. …
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
My esteemed colleague Christy Lemire opened her review of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” with a quote from her nine-year-old asking if he could see it again, so I think there’s some synergy in quoting my nine-year-old to open this one: “That might be the best movie I’ve ever seen.” “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” explodes onto…
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Serious Security: That KeePass “master password crack”, and what we can learn from it
Here, in an admittedly discursive nutshell, is the fascinating story of CVE-2023-32784. (Short version: Don’t panic.)