Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon shattered the world record in the women’s 5,000metres at the Paris Diamond League meeting on Friday in her first race at the distance in eight years, just a week after breaking the 1,500m record Last Updated: 09/06/23 10:22pm Keely Hodgkinson broke her own British 800metres record at the Diamond League meeting in … Read more
Review: Sony’s ‘Across the Spider-Verse’ Reinvents Visual Storytelling by Alex Billington June 7, 2023 “Everyone keeps telling me how my story is supposed to go. Nah. I’m-a do my own thing.” Yes, Miles, you tell them. This line is the key to Miles entire story – be you, stay true to you, don’t let anyone … Read more
For me, there is absolutely nothing that beats putting real pen to real paper. There’s also nothing that beats folding a paperback book, smelling the pages—and if you’re Team Jess from Gilmore Girls, maybe also writing in the margins. But sometimes, and I say this as someone who held out on using an e-reader until … Read more
Review: ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ is an Animated Work of Art by Manuel São Bento June 5, 2023 Regardless of the reasons, whenever I miss a new release, I still try to look at the situation from a positive perspective anyway. In 2018, I couldn’t catch Sony Animation’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse on its opening weekend. With … Read more
Cannes 2023: Modern Romance Reexamined in ‘Simple comme Sylvain’ by Alex Billington June 2, 2023 A taboo question about modern relationships – what is more important: sexual compatibility or intellectual compatibility? That’s the core of this smart new romantic comedy film from Quebec titled Simple comme Sylvain (in French) or The Nature of Love (in … Read more
Cannes 2023: ‘The Book of Solutions’ Teaches Us All About Creativity by Tamara Khodova June 2, 2023 One of the most delightful experiences at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Michel Gondry’s dramatic comedy The Book of Solutions, from the Directors Fortnight sidebar. The director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Be Kind … Read more
Highlights from day one of the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio.
Review: Rob Marshall’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Enriches the Original by Manuel São Bento May 31, 2023 Yet another Disney live-action remake, yet another short preamble about the original flick before diving into this new one. For me personally, The Little Mermaid from 1989 was not an animated movie that marked my childhood. The memorable songs, underwater musical … Read more
Rafael Matos Francisco Cabral Rinky Hijikata (15) Jason Kubler (15) 6–6 Hijikata and Kubler serving.
Cannes 2023: ‘How to Have Sex’ Party Film Doesn’t Discuss Anything by Alex Billington May 29, 2023 What can we learn and how do we become better if we refuse to have any conversations? One of the biggest disappointments for me at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival is this party film called How to Have … Read more