Arts & Life

Honor Swinton Byrne is an up-and-coming filmmaker who's mourning the loss of her older lover in The Souvenir Part II.

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'The Souvenir Part II' is a near-perfect sequel about loss and art

1:00pm November 01, 2021

by Justin Chang

Filmmaker Joanna Hogg conceived her 2019 semi-autobiographical drama The Souvenir as a two-part work. The second installment is a wonderfully generous movie, sardonic in tone but rich in emotion.

Edgar Wright (center) works with actor Anya Taylor-Joy and Matt Smith on the set of Last Night in Soho.

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Edgar Wright tells a different kind of ghost story in 'Last Night in Soho'

12:56pm November 01, 2021

by Sam Briger

Wright's new movie centers on a young woman who is transported in her dreams into the swinging '60s of London: "The film is sort of about having nostalgia for a decade that you never lived in."

NRA Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne LaPierre speaks during the leadership forum at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting on May 3, 2013 in Houston.

'Misfire' is a scathing look at nepotism, fraud and corruption in the NRA

12:37pm November 01, 2021

by Gabino Iglesias

The book by NPR's Tim Mak might be the final blow in terms of exposing the organization's rotten core and showing how a boundless love for money and power has eaten away at the group's foundations.

Logan (Brian Cox) just can't catch a break, now that he's committed all these terrible acts and alienated his kids and everything.

Arts

'Succession' recap: That (disastrous) meeting could have been an e-mail

10:10pm October 31, 2021

by Linda Holmes

Kendall crashes a meeting at Waystar Royco and upsets a delicate stalemate between himself and Shiv. Tom comes up with a new strategy, Greg doesn't get a watch, and the FBI is at the door.

The gaming platform Roblox is displayed on a tablet, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021 in New York.

The video game platform Roblox says it's back online after outage

8:03pm October 31, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

The California company said it was back online on Sunday evening after a multiday outage.

A slice of tiramisu at the restaurant Le Beccherie on August 24, 2013 in Treviso, Italy.

Ado Campeol, the man known as the 'father of tiramisu,' has died

1:54pm October 31, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

Although his restaurant has been credited as the birthplace of the popular Italian dessert, it was actually Campeol's wife and one of Le Beccherie's chefs that apparently invented it.

In 2015, Keyla "Nunny" Reece, felt a lump in her breast, got it checked out and was told it was a benign cyst. A new lump was discovered under her armpit. At the age of 39, on June 7, 2017, doctors diagnosed her with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, and

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This mother wanted her son to have photos to understand her breast cancer journey

9:53am October 31, 2021

Keyla "Nunny" Reece was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer at age 39. Photographer Angelica Edwards documented the hardships and moments of joy in Reece's experience with cancer.

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'Win Me Something' is full of little moments that pack a big emotional punch

5:00am October 31, 2021

by Michael Schaub

Kyle Lucia Wu's debut follows a young Chinese American woman who takes a job as a nanny to a wealthy white family and never feels like she fits in, even though she bonds with her precocious charge.

P.K. Subban of the New Jersey Devils skates against the Washington Capitals in a preseason game on Oct. 4 in Newark.

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'Wait Wait' for Oct. 30, 2021: P.K. Subban plays Not My Job

9:39am October 30, 2021

P.K. Subban is one of the best hockey players in world, so we invited him on the show to play a game we called, "That's icing! Delicious icing!" — three questions about bakeries.

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Ikaris (Richard Madden) and Sersi (Gemma Chan) in Eternals.

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'Eternals': A Marvel movie for everyone who complains about Marvel movies

9:20am October 30, 2021

by Glen Weldon

Indie director Chloe Zhao's influence is all over the new Marvel outing, a marked departure from the familiar MCU formula.