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The “Cupertino” star enjoys walks with a bit of eavesdropping on passers-by: “I love those snippets of conversation. You hear some really great ones.”

Cannibalism has become an increasingly popular trope in contemporary fiction, with female authors leading the charge. Our reporter Alexandra Alter dives into why female authors are drawn to the taboo topic as an expression of female rage.

The data scientist Lauren Leek says predictive algorithms are flattening the everyday world, from pub menus to pop lyrics.

A show at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian highlights art made by Indigenous veterans, especially those who served in the Vietnam War.

A $195 million expansion of the Rock Hall features a new entry plaza, an amphitheater and a 40-foot-tall wall of glass.

Over the next two years, the Los Angeles institution must pack, move and unpack 3.5 million fossils, while modernizing to meet this critical moment.

A new documentary looks back on the Canadian sketch show Second City Television . If SNL was a smirking upperclassman in a private-school uniform, SCTV was a lovable dirtbag in a denim jacket and jeans.

The Tokyo International Film Festival’s Tokyo Talk program presented a masterclass with Zeze Takahisa, director of the festival’s opening film, “Sukiyaki.” Held before a full-house crowd at Tokyo Midtown Hibiya, the talk focused on Zeze’s early “pink” (softcore porn) and indie films, followed by questions about his more recent work. Born in 1960 in Oita […]

Japan’s production committee system, in which a group of companies jointly finance a film and share its rights, has helped spread risk across the industry. But it can also cap budgets at what the industry itself can raise, make it harder for overseas investors to take part and slow decisions when every rights holder must […]

A new Japanese anime award planned for 2027 should put the people who make anime in the spotlight, industry leaders said at TIFFCOM, the market of the Tokyo International Film Festival. The session was moderated by Fujitsu Ryota, programming advisor for the festival’s animation section. Shimizu Akira, a director of the Association of Japanese Animations […]

Known for her dark relationship dramas, including the 2017 multiple-award-winner “Dear Etranger,” Mishima Yukiko has taken a different approach with her latest film, “Two Cigarettes, Three Nights,” which is in competition at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival. Based on a 2014 novel by Chihaya Akane, it stars Matsuoka Mayu as Kanna, a picture book […]

JioStar, the Indian media giant backed by Reliance Industries, grew revenue from operations 10.1% year-on-year to INR68.1 billion ($710 million) in the July–September quarter despite a weak advertising market. Profit after tax fell 13.2% to INR11.5 billion ($120 million). Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly hosted the first-ever “Bigg Boss Bangla,” which launched this quarter […]

The singer recreated his 2010 audition look for the Stevie Wonder cover at Madison Square Garden, the penultimate night of his 30-show residency.

After a buzzy debut almost eight months ago in Berlin, Teodora Ana Mihai has finally begun the international launch of her latest feature, Heysel 85, and this week the Romanian-Belgian filmmaker is at the Tokyo Film Festival, where the film has received its Asian premiere. Directed by Mihai, from a screenplay she co-wrote with Lode […]

Kevin Parker said the ‘Batman Forever’ soundtrack was the first CD he ever bought; the band also played a stripped-back “Dracula”

Keanu Reeves joined Japanese stop-motion feature “Hidari” after watching the project’s pilot film, with his team getting back to the filmmakers about a week after the screening was arranged to set up a Zoom call, director Kawamura Masashi said at the Tokyo International Film Festival, where he also updated the film’s fundraising push. Kawamura, who […]

Livestream the SEC college football rivalry game on Saturday, Oct. 31 — and possible celebrity sightings at the game.