Julian Brodsky, a cable TV pioneer who was a co-founding partner of Comcast more than 60 years ago, has died. He was 93. Comcast announced his death Friday. According to the cable and media company, Brodsky died peacefully surrounded by his family while in hospice care on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026. Brodsky teamed with Comcast […]
The award-winning short film, directed by Teboho Edkins and produced by his father, dives into the mourning following the death of the filmmaker’s brother in a Boeing airplane crash over Ethiopia.
The 86-year-old singer told a crowd in Los Angeles on Wednesday (Nov. 4) that he had a near-death experience during his hospitalization.
According to Florence Pugh, Denis Villeneuve’s stunningly strange and breathtaking universe is the equivalent to George Lucas’ heroic space opera. Let’s hope not A long time ago, far far away, in a galaxy called the 1970s, kids dreamed of joining the rebellion, rescuing a princess and blowing up the Death Star. Peer into the cosmic tea leaves and it would become immediately clear that no amount of evildoing could withstand a neurotic gold butler, a dustbin with ideas above its station and a walking seven-foot tall shagpile carpet with a very low tolerance for disagreement. It is worth remembering this when considering Florence Pugh’s recent declaration, ahead of next month’s Dune: Part Three, that Dune is her generation’s Star Wars . And then wondering how much trouble we might be in if she’s actually right. “I think they brought back movie-going. What an event the second [Dune] was,” Pugh cheerfully told the New York Times. “It was just so lovely to be a part of something that we know is our generational kind of Star Wars.” Continue reading...
The country star has abandoned Nashville slickness for a set of raw, pared-back songs that reckon with the death of her mother and decades of personal struggles. ‘This is a labour of love,’ she says When Wynonna Judd appears on my laptop screen – hair a deep shade of crimson, makeup perfect and sporting a huge black baseball cap with Kentucky Queen spelt out across its brim – she looks both fabulous and confident. Which is a good thing, as the Nashville star has been off the radar for a decade. On the occasions her name has made the news, it’s more often been linked to family tragedy than music. “I’m in a good place,” says the woman Rolling Stone described as “the greatest female country singer since Patsy Cline”. “My life has been chaotic. I’ve had a lot of success and a lot of failure, and it’s music that keeps me going. Always.” Continue reading...
Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Revolution Against Death,” Maria Martínez Bayona’s “The End of It” and William Greaves and David Greaves “Once Upon a Time in Harlem” will screen at a Gôteborg Film Festival 2027 Focus on the fascination of youth and the dream of immortality. News of the Focus comes as Sweden’s Göteborg Festival, the biggest […]
The Canadian sketch show, now available on Netflix, featured a murderer’s row of comedians like John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin.
Two theater pieces that drill down from the polite society of the intelligentsia to the most primal animal urges, with acknowledgments to Freud.
The rock group discuss Parton's final recording before her death, and why they refuse to be censored on stage.
"It brings our family and her friends some relief to know that charges have been filed in connection with Christina’s death... Today I want to spend a little time remembering how much fun I had with her and how lucky I am that she was my sister," Fowlie wrote in a post for Downer's birthday.
The move comes on the same day the United States plans to execute three people, the second time this has happened in 2026
Kimmarie Johnson, a model who made inroads into acting during the late 1990s and early 2000s with a small role in Dude, Where’s My Car? and an episode of Beverly Hills, 90210, died Wednesday, November 4, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles following a cardiac emergency the week before. She was 50. Her death was […]
With attendance falling sharply in October, the amusement park chain's CEO gives an update on changes coming to the parks and reassures investors "any impact from [the tragedies] seems to be limited."
“Elden Ring,” one of the most popular video games of all time, takes place in a fantasy realm called the Lands Between — a space between life and death where humans battle gods and monsters for power. A24 has just wrapped production on the movie adaptation, representing the company’s biggest swing to date. The action […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cooper Tomlinson, fresh off Blumhouse/Focus Features’ global box office sensation Obsession, has found his next feature in the shape of mystery-thriller Seeker, opposite Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day) and Mika Abdalla (Off Campus). We first told you about the project six weeks ago with Adam Rehmeier (Carolina Caroline) on board to direct the original […]
Italian director Tinto Brass, known for the historic erotic epics “Salon Kitty” and “Caligula,” has died. He was 93. Brass’ family announced the news of his death on Wednesday to Italian press agency Ansa. Born in Milan in 1933 to a Venetian family of artists, Brass first studied law before veering towards film during the […]
Italian film director Tinto Brass, whose filmmaking spanned many genres but came to be associated internationally with his erotic films of the 1970s, has died in Rome. He was 93 years old. His wife Caterina Varzi and children Bonifacio and Beatrice Brass announced the news of Brass’ death on Wednesday to Italian press agency Ansa. […]
It took the Tony winner 20 years to bring his ‘showman’ tyrant to London. He reflects on its Trumpian parallels, the death of Spring Awakening’s Duncan Sheik and the horrific accident that led him to ancient classics Before Spring Awakening won eight Tony awards in 2007, its dramatist and lyricist Steven Sater had “been struggling financially and professionally for quite a while,” he remembers. “Everyone said at the time: this is where it all starts!” Sater and composer Duncan Sheik thought their next success would be Nero, about the Roman emperor who murdered his mother among many others, which had been produced in San Francisco in 2006. But only now, after two decades of workshops and showcases for potential backers, is Nero receiving its second full professional production. “I think maybe my work is too expensive for subsidised theatre and too risky for commercial theatre,” Sater says. “I don’t think that – audiences respond to my work – but I suspect producers may believe it.” Continue reading...
There are small pleasures to be had in this straightforward retelling of the boxing champ’s life but there’s not much most viewers haven’t seen before The Greatest is a new limited series that repackages the life of Muhammad Ali for generations born too late to remember when the sporting icon was the world’s most famous man, or too lazy to seek out one of the many books written about his boxing rise, his exile from the sport for refusing the draft, his improbable late-career comeback and his steely resilience in the face of a seismic Parkinson’s diagnosis . That this TV adaptation comes from Amazon is both a stroke of vertical integration and an indictment of a viewing public whose patience for source material wears thinner with every scroll. The Prime Video drama says it’s based on “the life of Muhammad Ali”, a credible claim given the extent to which Ali’s cultural ubiquity made him a public figure of eminent domain. The first-ever “authorized scripted series” also has the backing of Ali’s widow, Lonnie, who serves as an executive producer. But the show clearly takes its direction from the definitive tome authored by Muhammad Ali’s brother, Rahaman Ali. The younger brother was a lifelong sparring partner, sharing a room in their childhood Kentucky home and remaining a prominent member of his entourage until the champ’s death in 2016, aged 74 – an occasion for global mourning . Continue reading...
This insider’s history of the CIA explores the last 50 years of US foreign policy with granular detail and mordant humour The 250th year of the American experiment seems to invite a reckoning. For a young country, the United States is overblessed – or burdened – with myths about its foundation and how the nation has conducted itself at home and abroad. William T Vollmann’s 3,000-page novel A Table for Fortune is an epic attempt, 15 years in the making, to engage with the US’s past and present at an institutional and a personal level. The four simultaneously published volumes offer both a family story and an insider’s history of the CIA, in order to show the consequences of the quest for liberty and the belief in American exceptionalism. Vollmann’s previous novels have explored the ideological basis of American society, most notably those of the Seven Dreams series, published from 1990 to 2015, which depict the generally disastrous encounters between American settlers and Indigenous peoples. A Table for Fortune continues this project by investigating the last 50 years of US foreign policy, at the heart of which is 9/11, with the book “tracing the roots of that crime in one direction and its poisoned harvest in another”. Though the CIA has been fertile ground for many great American novelists – Don DeLillo, Norman Mailer – Vollmann is perhaps the first to represent the culture and daily activities of the agency in granular detail. His great gambit is to frame this as a dark workplace comedy of minor resentments, sexual tension and office banter. These sections are narrated by the institutional voice of the CIA itself in a relentlessly sardonic tone rife with acronyms, codenames and jargon rendered in multiple fonts. The mordant humour of the narrator, who regards all forms of death and suffering as “ fun ”, has a seductive quality that allows Vollmann to educate the reader about a broad sweep of geopolitical subjects ranging from the Angolan civil war to the interroga
Not only did Craig insist his 007 die at the end of his run, but now we learn from Dench’s memoir that it was his idea to kill her off too. How will the next Bond top that? Shoot a puppy? Now that the next James Bond actor is on the brink of being unveiled , it may be a good time to take a proper look at the prior 007 with clear eyes. Because, while the reputations of all the previous Bonds have ossified over the years – in chronological order: sexy, wooden, camp, boring and silly – the Daniel Craig era is finally coming into focus. And it turns out that he was actually the angel of death. Obviously anyone who saw No Time to Die knows this, because that film ended with Bond being exploded in a hail of missile fire. But according to Judi Dench’s new memoir Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It? , it was also Craig’s decision to kill off M, too. Continue reading...
Spencer Pratt says death threats and armed security costs during the Los Angeles mayoral race made the Hotel Bel-Air the cheapest option available.
Nicole Taylor's sisters Nika and Natalie shared an emotional TikTok video announcing the Taylor Red singer's death after a cancer battle.
Steve Ellis, the singer for the British pop band Love Affair best known for the 1967 hit “Everlasting Love,” died Friday, October 30, following complications from a chronic illness. He was 76. His death was announced on his Facebook page. Ellis lived in Brighton, England, and the family statement notes that he passed peacefully in […]
The actor, who played the handsome Dr. Mark Sloan on the ABC medical drama, worked on the book up until his death in February from A.L.S.
Both DeGeneres and former 'Ellen' executive producer Andy Lassner said the news was shocking as a GoFundMe, which aimed to raise money for a funeral, called Wright's death an "unfathomable tragedy."
Pier Paolo Pasolini was found bludgeoned to death in 1975. A young escort confessed to the crime but changed his story over the years, creating uncertainty.
John Leeson, the British actor who voiced Doctor Who’s iconic companion K9, has died aged 83, his family has confirmed. In a Facebook post, Leeson’s son Guy Ducker said his father died yesterday “after a summer of illness.” “I regret to announce the death of my father, John Ducker, a.k.a. John Leeson, at 3:03pm today […]
John Leeson, the English actor who voiced “Doctor Who’s” beloved robot dog K9, died on Sunday. He was 83. Leeson’s son, Guy Ducker, announced his death in a Facebook post. “I regret to announce the death of my father, John Ducker, aka John Leeson, at 3:03 p.m. today after a summer of illness. The end […]
Written by Vicar of Dibley co-creator Paul Mayhew-Archer, who has the disease, Onwards and Sideways sees the actors play a couple who bond over their diagnoses – a devastating subject but laced with humour too, they say Ahead of production on their first job together, Rhys Ifans and Laura Linney didn’t undergo the standard “chemistry read” to make sure they got on. Which is remarkable, given what their characters would have to do to each other in Onwards and Sideways. In the Norfolk-set BBC film directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love), Ifans would have to nearly throttle Linney while in the grip of night terrors, she’d have to collapse in his arms in a weeping mess having bankrupted herself with a gambling addiction; both situations arising from the neurological condition afflicting their characters: Parkinson’s disease. Continue reading...
There are plenty of ways to tend to your garden, but launching a freshly harvested potato at a friend probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Proverbial death by roots is the entertainingly offbeat premise behind Cloth Cat Games’ Planted!, a quirky combat game that turns gardening into an all-out competition starring your […]
Milcho Manchevski, the North Macedonian director whose 1994 debut “Before the Rain” won Venice’s Golden Lion and earned an Oscar nomination, is back in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival with “Sister Brother Manhole Cover,” a project stalled for years after he accused his country’s film agency of corruption. The dark comedy centers on […]
Joshua Jackson is teasing his new HBO Max series, “How to Survive Without Me.” Co-created by husbands Greg Berlanti and Robbie Rogers along with Bash Doran, the series follows a family after the death of matriarch Beverly. “The show starts six months after the matriarch of this large family has passed away, and because she […]
Sanjay Gupta, the Indian director best known for the crime drama films Kaante and Shootout at Lokhandwala, died Friday, October 30, after a fall at his home in Mumbai. He was 57 (though some sources put his age at 59). His death was confirmed by friend and fellow director Milap Zaveri to the Press Trust […]
Nearly a year after she went missing, LAPD has arrested two men in connection to the death of Christina Downer, the late sister of Saturday Night Live writer Jimmy Fowlie. On Thursday, officers took 41-year-old Delorean Bijon Brandon, who is believed to be Downer’s boyfriend, and Kaylee Markowski, 34, into custody for allegedly murdering and […]
Eric Bauza had more than 400 acting credits, voicing dozens of Looney characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig, Road Runner, Elmer Fudd and Marvin the Martian and many more prior to his unexpected death on October 25 at the age of 46. But one iconic animated […]
Lauren Bennett, who featured on LMFAO's hit song, was found dead by her husband.
Three years after the death of Paul Cattermole, S Club is reuniting once again for a tour across the U.K. and Ireland. On Thursday, the remaining lineup of the 90s British pop group announced the dates of their 12-city Ain’t No Party Like an S Club Party Tour, which kicks off Oct. 8, 2027 at […]
The show’s electronic dance-influenced music perfectly suits its story about a young man’s death and the rush to carry out a heart transplant.
The actor died in Los Angeles following a "a brief and poignant journey" with Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia.
The film by Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans examines the 1985 pipe-bombing of a Palestinian activist in California, tracing the case to suspects in Israel.
Fight carnival bears bent on hugging you to death. Flee Scottish monsters. And view the frightening Antarctic through penguin eyes.
Robert Kelker-Kelly complained of chest and left arm pain after landing at Spirit of St. Louis Airport before his death from heart disease at 62.
The brother of the singer's late personal assistant said she would not have wanted the items to be sold.
In their latest documentary, the directors of “Free Solo” track some adventurers trying to ascend the hazardous north side of Mount Everest.
Barbara Barrie, Oscar-nominated star of "Breaking Away" and "Barney Miller," died at 95 after a medically assisted death at her New York home.
Police in South Carolina say they have closed their investigation into the overdose death of actor Hayden Panettiere following a coroner’s findings that it was accidental
The Heroes and Nashville star died in August from the toxic effects of fentanyl, Xanax and several other drugs.
Greenville police closed Hayden Panettiere death investigation after medical examiner determined the "Remember the Titans" star's death was accidental.
A South Carolina coroner previously confirmed Panettiere died from an accidental drug overdose that included fentanyl.
