To the sound of the Gipsy Kings’ Spanish-language rendition of “Hotel California,” Joel and Ethan Coen took the stage at Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival on Friday evening to receive the Lumière Award, celebrating four decades of filmmaking with a characteristically irreverent tribute to the inventors of cinema. “Thank you to the Lumières for inventing the
During an investment summit in Toronto, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recounted the time when US President Donald Trump gifted him a gold key to the White House. Carney said the president told him he could bring the key and he would be let into the building, but that “maybe they’ll shoot you”, an exchange
A US Air Force pilot has described “free-falling” to the ground with a damaged parachute after his plane was shot down over Iran, leading to a dangerous rescue operation. “At one point, when I looked up and saw no parachute, that was the most terrifying thing I’ve ever seen,” said the pilot, who was not
Lerma, who works in construction, is from Leyte province. He had travelled to the capital Manila with five of his neighbours, where they boarded the ferry to bring them to work at Coron, a popular tourist spot in Palawan province. According to the Philippine Coast Guard, the MV June Aster departed Manila’s Port of Baseco
The Owen sisters may be back in “Practical Magic 2” 28 years after Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock first played the sibling witches, but that doesn’t mean the first movie’s outing doesn’t still sting a little. The original “Practical Magic” was a critical and box office failure before earning cult classic status over the last
Taylor Swift opened up about the process of writing and recording her 2012 hit “I Knew You Were Trouble,” revealing that it was initially penned as a “really sad ballad” before she was encouraged to incorporate dubstep. Swift reflected on the song’s creation during a Q&A at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles last week,
