A Swiss tourist has been sentenced to one year in prison for insulting a sacred religious event on Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali. In a now-removed video, Luzian Andrin Zgraggen, 26, had filmed himself walking to an empty beach during the Hindu holiday of Nyepi, describing the scene as “crazy”. He was arrested in March
In Vietnamese director Lê Bảo’s new film, an extended family confronts various rifts and estrangements in its ranks; years of silence must give way, slowly and haltingly, to communication. That the film is called “Hearing” might sound awfully pat, but nothing is so obvious in this sensuous, intuitive mood piece, which consistently surprises with its
Paramount Skydance chief executive David Ellison has broken his silence, defending his company’s $110bn (£86bn) takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Opposition to the mega-merger relies on a vision of Hollywood that “no longer exists,” he wrote in an op-ed published by The New York Times. In his first public comments on the transaction, Ellison rejected
Last month, Adendorf showed his support for Adams ahead of his World Cup appearance in a lengthy tribute on social media. “Seeing you accomplish something so big has filled my heart with so much pride,” she shared in a May 27 Instagram post. “From the hard work, the sacrifices, the early mornings, the disappointments and
Actor Justin Baldoni and his wife, Emily, lamented the trauma and pain suffered by their family in their first public comments after a lengthy legal battle with co-star Blake Lively. In May, Lively and Baldoni settled a lawsuit following the 2024 film Ends With Us, ending a controversial streak of accusations. The lawsuit alleges that