Maggie Gyllenhaal on making ‘The Bride!’: ‘Something really alive was born’

Maggie Gyllenhaal on making ‘The Bride!’: ‘Something really alive was born’

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> It starts with the exclamation point, right there in the title. β€œThe Bride!” is a wild, willfully over-the-top double-barreled reinvigoration of 1935’s β€œBride of Frankenstein” that is always doing something a little extra in telling its unpredictable story of identity and the reclamation of the self. β€œI probably can’t definitively explain it,” says…

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UK terror threat ‘absolutely’ under review after Iran strikes, defence secretary says | Politics News

UK terror threat ‘absolutely’ under review after Iran strikes, defence secretary says | Politics News

The UK’s terror threat level is “absolutely” under review following US and Israel strikes on Iran, the defence secretary told Sky News. Since the strikes on Saturday, Iran has carried out retaliatory attacks on Israel, US military installations around the Gulf, and Gulf Arab states, including the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, and the global business…

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Commentary: Jane Fonda and Tucker Carlson agree on this: Trump’s Iran war is bad β€” and a betrayal

Commentary: Jane Fonda and Tucker Carlson agree on this: Trump’s Iran war is bad β€” and a betrayal

”America first” was Donald Trump’s promise on the 2024 campaign trail, but his administration broke that oath late Friday when it launched a joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran. Now the president’s staunchest supporters are echoing the anti-war cries of lefties. It’s an odd turn of events when MAGA mouthpiece Tucker Carlson and lefty icon Jane…

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‘American Classic’ review: Kevin Kline and Laura Linney’s theater love letter

‘American Classic’ review: Kevin Kline and Laura Linney’s theater love letter

The lovely, funny β€œAmerican Classic,” premiering Sunday on MGM+, is a love letter to theater, community and community theater. Kevin Kline plays Richard Bean, a narcissistic stage actor. He’s famous enough to be opening on Broadway in β€œKing Lear,” but he has to be pushed onstage and is forgetting lines. After he drunkenly assails a…

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