The Seattle International Film Festival announced that it had bought the theatre, which has been closed since February of 2020, from the estate of Paul Allen, and will reopen it later in 2023. - Seattle Times
"Pema Tseden rarely depicted Tibet’s Chinese population, which swelled after the Red Army seized Tibet in 1951. To elude Chinese censors, he eschewed references to the Dalai Lama. ... This allowed him to avoid overtly political critiques while still tackling broader themes." - The New York Times
"The rampant and vocal factions of dissent among the WGA ranks that we saw during the last strike are functionally nonexistent. The unity within the Hollywood labor community feels true and water-tight and only growing in strength." (But there's still guilt.) - The Hollywood Reporter
The protagonists are cut from the same cookie cutter mold. "Readers, let us all take a moment to silently contemplate her self-sacrifice, the definitive characteristic of exemplary single motherhood." - LitHub
The mashup of clips, interviews, and what the director called "a wild ride" is "genre-defying hybrid that uses Fox’s own film and TV work to creatively illustrate key moments of his life ... and even reveal long-held secrets." - The New York Times
"Behind the hubbub that surrounds performers such as Harry Styles, Ed Sheeran or Little Simz, hides a small group of hitmakers, co-writing hugely commercial songs and rarely making headlines. These are the music industry’s secret weapons." - The Guardian (UK)
How could Britain host (for Ukraine) with a smart, cheeky song and yet score so low? Mae Muller "kept up the UK's momentum of sending non-terrible songs to the contest. Some of the acts that placed ahead of her were objectively worse." Wow, high praise. - BBC
"I can’t see getting round the course again. This was quite a tough one to do. My short-term memory is fading and my eyesight is not what it was, and then there’s all the natural shocks that flesh is heir to. ... It’s a hard job to give up." - The Observer (UK)
"Google’s Duet is surely in a different league, both in terms of its reading comprehension and the quality of the text that the generative AI spits out. But the basic spirit of Clippy — identifying what you’re trying to do and offering to help — remains." - The Verge
Sarah Sze, who is about to take over a huge unused railway station waiting room in London, is thinking abotu AI. "We’ve created a system that can destroy us. We know that, right? And that’s new. We’ve never had that before." - The Observer (UK)
One of the writers at the event "Strike Up a Romance" said, "This would be the perfect time to write a romcom, though, of, like, love on the picket line." - NPR
Lindsay Dougherty: "If we all want to get what's ours, we are going to have to fight for it tooth and nail. ... If you throw up a picket line, those f— trucks will stop, I promise you." The trucks have definitely stopped. - Los Angeles Times
