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Cannes 2025 Video #4: Brian Tallerico on Mission Impossible, The Phoenician Scheme, My Father’s Shadow, Secret Agent
The 2025 Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development. In today’s video, Chaz checks in with Managing Editor Brian Tallerico to talk about some of the most-buzzed about films at the fest, from the latest “Mission Impossible” to Wes Anderson’s most recent confection, “The Phoenician Scheme.” Watch…
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The Red Carpets of the 2025 Chicago Critics Film Festival
Celebrating its twelfth year, the Chicago Critics Film Festival returned with a robust lineup of over two dozen films and hosted the largest number of in-person guests in its history. On the red carpet, RogerEbert.com spoke with the talent in attendance for the opening-night title “The Baltimorons,” director Jay Duplass, stars Michael Strassner and Liz…
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Cannes 2025: The Secret Agent, The Love That Remains, Magellan
Bearing no relation to the Joseph Conrad novel, the competition entry “The Secret Agent,” from the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho (“Bacurau”), is a tricky item to discuss. Not only does it have the kind of convoluted plot—filled with double identities, assassins, and possible red herrings—that you would expect from a film with that title,…
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Lookin’s Free: Joe Don Baker (1936-2025)
Joe Don Baker was one of the first to teach me what screen acting was. As a kid, I was a “Mystery Science Theater 3000” obsessive, wearing out our VHS collection, buying the DVDs, taking near the entirety of my life to work out what every joke meant. As any other diehard will tell you,…
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“Nine Perfect Strangers’” Second Season is Less Insightful, Still Somewhat Fun
“Nine Perfect Strangers” started as a maximalist show, with Nicole Kidman bewitching those around her as Masha Dmitrichenko, the Eastern Bloc wellness entrepreneur who promised personal transformation with her custom psychedelic therapies. The second season duplicates that formula with a new set of nine strangers, this time in the snowy Swiss Alps. If you felt…
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A familiar playbook with a twist: 3AM ransomware actors dropped virtual machine with vishing and Quick Assist
Another adversary picks up the email bombing / vishing Storm-1811 playbook, doing thorough reconnaissance to target specific employees with fake help desk call—this time, over the phone.
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Sophos Partners with Capsule on New Cyber Insurance Program
The partnership rewards real-world, observable security controls, while removing the traditional barriers to insurance coverage.
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Humpback Whales May Not See Their Most Dangerous Threats
These gentle giants have poor eyesight and may not be able to see fishnets and boats with which they have fatal encounters.
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Google Unveils ‘A.I. Mode’ Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search
The tech giant is taking its next big step in artificial intelligence by adding interactive capabilities to its flagship product.
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Google Unveils ‘A.I. Mode’ Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search
The tech giant is taking its next big step in artificial intelligence by adding interactive capabilities to its flagship product.