Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Success hasn’t spoiled “Succession,” as the Emmy-winning drama returns with all its Shakespearean and Murdochian overtones intact, with a bruising father-son battle over its fictional media empire. Stripped of that, the HBO series remains enormously fun, filled with cringe-inducing moments and the kind of vicious insults that would make the
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Coming not long after the splendid Val Kilmer documentary, “Introducing, Selma Blair” provides more deeply personal access to an actor in the throes of a health crisis, following her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2018. In this case, the focus is less on her career than her struggles and treatment, with
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN For anyone who watched “I Know What You Did Last Summer” or “Night of the Living Dead” and thought, “I wish that movie was four times longer,” Amazon and Syfy have series for you, because it’s that time of year for scary shows, and as things currently stand in TV/streaming,
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN The moment Adele fans have been waiting for has finally arrived — the singer has released her first music in six years, dropping the single “Easy On Me” on Friday. The song, the first from a hotly anticipated album due in November, begins to do exactly what the singer promised: to
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Previous offerings include a yacht in the form of a swan and another devised to resemble a shark, but Lazzarini Design Studio’s latest superyacht concept may be one of its most daring yet. The Rome-based design team has just unveiled renderings of a brand new 69-meter yacht design with a “gaping hole”
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By Jack Guy, CNN The owner of a bakery in northern England has been left with a bitter taste in his mouth after authorities told him he had to stop using banned sprinkles sourced from the US. West Yorkshire Trading Standards said the sprinkles contained an artificial coloring which isn’t approved for use in sprinkles
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN At 91 years old, Jasper Johns is one of the most important living artists today, with auction sales worth tens of millions of dollars and a seven-decade career credited with changing the course of 20th-century art. But the American artist has always been reluctant to engage with interpretations or even showings of
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Story by Reuters Sydney will end its Covid-19 quarantine for fully vaccinated international travelers from November 1, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet said on Friday, October 15 foreshadowing the full return of overseas travel after more than 19 months. Australia closed its international borders in March 2020 in response to the pandemic, allowing entry
Continue Reading Story by Reuters Sydney will end its Covid-19 quarantine for fully vaccinated international travelers from November 1, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet said on Friday, October 15 foreshadowing the full return of overseas travel after more than 19 months. Australia closed its international borders in March 2020 in response to the pandemic, allowing entry
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Gloria Estefan is getting candid in a whole new season of “Red Table Talk: The Estefans.” “I think it’s a great opportunity to show a multi-generational view of different topics that everyone is somehow affected by in our world,” The singer said in a recent interview with CNN. The latest episode,
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN CMT honored the year’s biggest country music performers in an invitation-only ceremony from Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Wednesday. It was the first time since 2019 “CMT Artists of the Year” aired. The artists honored were Chris Stapleton, Gabby Barrett, Kane Brown, Kelsea Ballerini and Luke Combs, alongside “Breakout Artist of
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By Dana Joseph and Jen Rose Smith, CNN October 14 is National Dessert Day. In celebration, CNN Travel did a delicious dive into its archives to uncover six of the best desserts spread across the nation: Apple pie According to the American Pie Council, apple really is the US national favorite. Not to burst the
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Dionne Warwick is not on board with the forthcoming Whitney Houston biopic. Warwick, who is a cousin of the late singer, who died in 2012 at the age of 48 after an accidental drowning, told the Los Angeles Times, “I want them to let Whitney rest in peace.” “Leave her
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Netflix head Ted Sarandos has reiterated his support for Dave Chappelle and the comic’s controversial stand-up special, “The Closer” in an email to company staff. In the email dated Monday and obtained by Variety, the co-chief executive officer responded to the backlash by writing, “We know that a number of
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN When it comes to instantly recognizable cinematic universes, “The French Dispatch” director Wes Anderson has it nailed. Now the auteur known for his distinctively hued vintage whimsy has entered into a chef’s-kiss-perfect design partnership with luxury travel company Belmond. Anderson has redesigned the 1950s-era Cygnus carriage aboard the world-famous Belmond British
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Vin Diesel may have viewed his highly publicized feud with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as a bit of “tough love,” but Johnson is not backing down from what he said about Diesel. In a new cover story for Vanity Fair, Johnson talked about the role he played in the conflict.
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Jamie Lee Curtis honored her mother Janet Leigh at the recent “Halloween Kills” premiere by replicating Leigh’s costume from her iconic role in “Psycho.” Curtis, who stars in the latest installment of the popular “Halloween” horror movie franchise, wore a pale blue dress and complimented it with a blonde wig,
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “Halloween Kills” is a strange name for a 43-year-old franchise that positively refuses to die. Then again, this 12th film in the series — a direct sequel to the 2018 reset “Halloween” — is odd on various levels, starting with the wholly misguided attempt to weave a half-baked message into
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “The Last Duel” of the title doesn’t disappoint in director Ridley Scott’s latest period epic, but the protracted buildup to it somewhat does. A “Rashomon”-like tale that tells its story from different perspectives, this fact-based adaptation of Eric Jager’s book is muddy, bloody and grim but too drawn out in
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN “The Last Duel” of the title doesn’t disappoint in director Ridley Scott’s latest period epic, but the protracted buildup to it somewhat does. A “Rashomon”-like tale that tells its story from different perspectives, this fact-based adaptation of Eric Jager’s book is muddy, bloody and grim but too drawn out in
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