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“I stand up for your right to be religious. But please know that you’re wrong … you’re living in a fantasy land, and after you die…

Marc Maron, who wasn’t invited to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, has spoken out against participation in the event, owing to Saudi Arabia’s appalling human…

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsDuring the post-Soviet 1990s, a popular political-satire show called Kukly ran on the Russian…

The Atlantic Festival includes Richard Ayoade, Ken Burns, Tom Hanks, Allison Janney, Arvind Krishna, David Letterman, Tekedra Mawakana, and Lt. General H.R. McMaster, plus screenings of…

Benvenuto a Venezia! The Venice Film Festival 2025 kicks off this week, which means that Hollywood has landed in northeastern Italy. That’s right: Celebrities are boarding…

On Friday night in Venice, the grande dame hotels lining the Grand Canal were abuzz with parties as the film world headed back from premieres on…

The 2025 Venice Film Festival 2025 began in a state of grace. Grace, after all, is the title of the opening film: La Grazia, by Italy’s…

She was the No 1 box office star in the late 50s, but for decades Kim Novak, the star of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo, has lived…

Riley Keough stole the show on the second day of the Venice Film Festival in a sparkling Cartier necklace, in which precious sapphires are juxtaposed with…

Prince Nikolai of Denmark brought royalty to the first red carpet of the Venice Film Festival 2025. On the red carpet of the festival’s opening film,…