Across the history of the Academy Awards, hundreds of films have been nominated for the top prize, best picture. Only a small fraction of them were helmed by a woman director. The disparity is startli...
10.15.2026 Yahoo.com
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10.15.2026 Yahoo.com
Brands called in the big names this week: Bill Murray is back on Ghostbusting duty for Rivian, Kim Kardashian strikes a pose for DoorDash, and Kim Cattrall reprises her publicist role for Meltwater. P...
10.16.2026 Adweek.com and 5 sites
Controversial prediction market Polymarket is launching its first U. S. political campaign ahead of the midterm elections. Polymarket brought on Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow, known f...
10.14.2026 Adweek.com and 4 sites
By Peter Keough Two compelling documentaries at the Boston Palestine Film Festival trace Edward Said’s intellectual awakening and the unfinished search for justice for Alex Odeh. The Boston Palestine Film Festival. At the Museum of Fine Arts and the Coolidge Corner Theatre, October 16–25. A bureaucratic dispute epitomizes the dilemma faced by the subject of Maiken Baird’s thorough, engrossing, and conventional Edward Said: Between Worlds (2026; screens October 16 at 7 p. m. at the MFA, followed ...
10.14.2026 Artsfuse.org
By Emily Hatwell There is an almost infamous one-star review of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice which circulates periodically on social media; it states: “Just a bunch of people going to each other’...
10.16.2026 Palatinate.org.uk
Polymarket has spent years being talked about in headlines rather than in ad breaks. Its first US political campaign, launched on October 14, 2026, three weeks before the midterms, hires Kathryn Bigel...
10.17.2026 Dailycommercials.comBy Ed Symkus The provocative 1971 study of politics, religion, and sex in medieval France is back on the big screen—with its long-censored footage reinstated. The Devils, written and directed by Ken R...
10.15.2026 Artsfuse.org
By Peter Keough In Alex Gibney’s exhaustive documentary, Elon Musk emerges as a visionary, a menace, and a man determined to escape the world he has helped imperil. Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. At t...
10.16.2026 Artsfuse.org
Jenette Goldstein Interview (Supanova 2026) Few actors have left as indelible an imprint on iconic cinema as Jenette Goldstein. From her breakthrough, culture-defining role as the fiercely resilient Private Vasquez in James Cameron’s Aliens to unforg...
10.14.2026 Impulsegamer.com