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Season 23 of American Idol continued the audition phase on Sunday night as judges Carrie Underwood, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan traveled to New York, Los Angeles, and Nashville to find music's next superstar. The two-hour episode aired Sunday, March 23 (8 p.m. Et/Pt) with Ryan Seacrest hosting.

The night's most memorable moment belonged to Freddie McClendon, the 19-year-old son of Davis McClendon, a 46-year-old father of three who was murdered in 2023. "One of my favorite memories — I was around 15 years old and my dad took me to Nashville for the first time," Freddie said prior to his audition. "Seeing Music City and Broadway — he said, 'You know Freddie, that's gonna be you one day.' It's happening today!"

"I've been writing music since I was a freshman in high school," he told the judges. "I really started doing it seriously about a year ago when my dad passed away. My...

This article talks about topics of an active shooter.

Grey’s Anatomy may be a medical drama but the long-running TV series has never shied away from bringing some high-stakes drama to the table. From bombs in human cavities to active shooters, the Grey’s Anatomy catastrophes have always been intense and heartbreaking. Most of these disasters come bearing a couple of character deaths and gut-wrenching revelations, which alter the course of the story.

While the audience may feel that everything that could possibly go wrong in the world happens at Seattle Grace/Grey Sloan Memorial, these misfortunes often leave a lasting impression. These unfortunate incidents have tested relationships, shaped beloved characters, and left deep scars on the viewers.

The Bus Accident Left the Hospital Traumatized Season 5, Episode 24, "Now or Never" Image via ABC

During the golden era of Grey’s Anatomy, when the Famous Five were the heart of the show, their...

Exclusive: Actor Lior Ashkenazi has boarded Israeli-American filmmaker Matthew Mishory’s Mosolov’s Suitcase, exploring the life and legacy of Ukrainian, early Soviet era, avant-garde composer Alexander Mosolov.

Ashkenazi, who is Israel’s biggest acting star, is known for his award-winning performances in Israeli features Late Marriage, Footnote, Foxtrot, Walk On Water and Karaoke as well as HBO series Our Boys.

He is currently appearing opposite Helen Mirren in Guy Nattiv’s Golda Meir bio-pic Golda.

Mosolov’s Suitcase is a joint production between Alvaro Fernandez at L.A.-based Monolithic Films; Gidi Avivi at Vice Versa Films in Tel Aviv, and Rubber Ring Films, the joint Santa Monica-based company of Mishory and Bradford L. Schlei.

The upcoming picture is described as a hybrid, black-and-white meditation on the titular’s subject’s controversial life, told through three stories about creation and individualism in the face of state power.

In the first of three intersecting plotlines,...

Jared Leto is taking Paris Fashion Week by storm while attending various shows this week. He sat front row at the Off-White Womenswear Fall/Winter 2023 show, where the new creative director designer Ib Kamara made his much-anticipated Paris debut on Thursday.

The “Walk on Water” singer attended the show wearing an all-white look featuring a long leather bomber jacket, a two-piece embellished suit, and bedazzled boots. The 51-year-old actor completed the look with black leather gloves and sunglasses. Fans are wondering whether Leto is using his time in Paris to browse for a new label after his long-time collaborator Alessandro Michele left Gucci.

Jared Leto at Off-White. #Pfw surfing for his next look, since Alessandro Michele has left Gucci? pic.twitter.com/qsKfOdZTfy

— Vanessa Friedman (@VVFriedman) March 2, 2023

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Expansive Paris-based media group Mediawan has picked up international sales rights to the Jerusalem-set ultra-orthodox drama “The Rabbi,” which participates in this year’s Series Mania Forum at its Co-Pro Pitching Sessions.

Abuses of power aren’t unique to any one nationality, gender, sexual orientation or religion. With “The Rabbi,” celebrated filmmaker Eytan Fox proposes a fictionalized drama inspired by a true story which shocked Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community that proves that such abuses can happen almost anywhere.

“The Rabbi” turns on a powerful and well-known university professor from Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox community who uses his position to influence his male students into physical relationships. Although the students are all in their 20s and the relationships consensual, there is uproar when the truth comes out, both regarding the Rabbi engaging in relationships with his subordinates and the fact that this superstar clergyman is a closeted gay man.

Stylistically and thematically,...

A middle-aged gay American travel writer rents an apartment in Tel Aviv from a laid-back film student in Eytan Fox’s formulaic audience-pleaser, “Sublet.” Venturing ever so discreetly into the kind of darker ruminations that marked his best-known films, . With two screenwriters (including the director) and three script editors credited, it may be a classic “too many cooks” situation, as the whole structure is as risk-free and standardized as a TV film, though newcomer Niv Nissem provides a freshness that papers over the conventionality of it all. Fox’s name recognition and the easy way the film goes down made it a festival success whose popularity will increase once streaming begins.

The first glimpse of Michael (John Benjamin Hickey) arriving in Israel tells everything about the guy: late 50s, blue Oxford shirt, white undershirt, “travel ready” cream-colored jacket. His conservative wardrobe doesn’t change, reflecting his rigidity. This is the...

After earning acclaim with Yossi & Jagger, Walk on Water, The Bubble, and more, Israeli director Eytan Fox is returning to feature filmmaking for the first time in nearly a decade with Sublet. A selection at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the film will now arrive next month and the first trailer has landed.

Starring Tony Award-winning and Emmy-nominated John Benjamin Hickey and featuring the debut of Niv Nissim, Sublet focuses on a New York Times writer (Hickey) who visits Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The city’s energy and his relationship with a younger man he meets there (Nissim) bring him back to life.

“With rich, nuanced work by both lead actors, subtle writing and an unhurried pace, as the two men get to know one another they each make an indelible impression on the other,” said The Queer Review‘s James Kleinmann. “Along the way, Michael...

“The Bubble,” “Walk on Water,” and “Yossi and Jagger” director Eytan Fox returns to the terrain of gay introspective dramas with the new film “Sublet,” which opens on June 11 in theaters from Greenwich Entertainment. It will also be available on demand on July 9. The film offers a sort of Israeli spin on “Weekend,” with a writer arriving in Tel Aviv to reflect on life and love with a younger man. John Benjamin Hickey and Niv Nissim star. Watch the trailer below.

Michael (Hickey), a travel columnist for The New York Times , goes to Tel Aviv to write an article after suffering a tragedy. He is still grieving and the loss has caused problems between him and his husband. He just wants to do his research and go home. But when he sublets an apartment from Tomer (Nissim), a young film student, he finds himself drawn into the life of the city.

"Don't think it's too late for you." Greenwich Entertainment has released the first official trailer for an indie drama titled Sublet, from Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox. This originally premiered last year at the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival & Vancouver Jewish Film Festival, and it also stopped by BFI Flare, after originally being set to premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. In Sublet, a NY Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy, and he meets a young man who becomes his local tour guide. The energy of the city and his relationship with Tomer bring him back to life. The film features two stellar performances – from the Tony award winner John Benjamin Hickey and a breakout role from Niv Nissim as Tomer. The small cast includes Lihi Kornowski, Miki Kam, Peter Spears, and Tamir Ginsburg. This looks like a heartfelt, authentic look at the charm & beauty ...

There's no question that Grey's Anatomy is the number one medical drama. It boasts numerous accolades and an unending list of seasons. 

It's too difficult to choose even the top five episodes when there are literally hundreds to choose from, so don't make us!

Instead, we've challenged ourselves to choose a must-see episode from each of the 16 seasons.

Whether it's an episode dedicated to a major disaster, a farewell to a long-lasting character, or a nail-biting cliffhanger, find which ones landed on our list. 

And if you're looking to binge-watch some old memories, don't forget to include the episodes below! 

No Man's Land (Grey's Anatomy Season 1 Episode 4)

Season 1 is the shortest of the seasons, making this an easier choice. It would be cheating to say the first episode was our favorite, so we're going smack dab in the middle.

The show was still finding its bearings, but making strong cases...

“Walk on Water” was supposed to be too big to fail. The saccharine and sentimental 2017 collaboration between Eminem and Beyoncé had all the surface-level machinations of two pop stars trying to engineer a surefire hit without ever asking if there was a reason for their song to exist. Apathy to the song was widespread — with Tyler, the Creator summing up the consensus by tweeting, “this song is horrible sheesh.”

Almost a year later, when most people had forgotten “Walk on Water” and Tyler’s tweet, Eminem responded on “Fall” by...

Eddie Money, the star of the Axs TV reality series Real Money and the classic rock mainstay behind 1970s and 1980s hits like “Two Tickets to Paradise,” “Take Me Home Tonight,” “Think I’m In Love,” “Walk on Water,” “Shakin'” and “Baby Hold On,” died Friday, less than a month after announcing his esophageal cancer diagnosis. He was 70.

Money, born Eddie Mahoney, died at his home in Los Angeles. A statement provided by his family: “The Money Family regrets to announce that Eddie passed away peacefully early this morning. It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our loving husband and father. We cannot imagine our world without him. We are grateful that he will live on forever through his music.”

Real Money premiered in April 2018 and followed the singer’s life both at home and on the road and featured his wife, Laurie, and their five children.

Michal Aviad on Glenn Close and Michael Douglas in Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction and Demi Moore and Douglas in Barry Levinson's Disclosure: "Before writing and while writing and researching I looked for films that deal with sexual harassment." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

Michal Aviad's Working Woman, co-written with Sharon Azulay Eyal and Michal Vinik, shot by Daniel Miller, stars Liron Ben-Shlush (Asaf Korman's Next to Her), Menashe Noy (Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz' Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem), and Oshri Cohen with Irit Sheleg (Rama Burshtein's Fill The Void), and is produced by Amir Harel (Eytan Fox's Walk On Water which starred Lior Ashkenazi) and Ayelet Kait.

Michal Aviad on Liron Ben-Shlush as Orna in Working Woman: "I want to know how does it feel to be inside the female protagonist and try to look at it from her point of view.

Eminem tries to outrun the spectre of internet trolls in the video for “Fall,” a controversial song from his surprise new album, Kamikaze.

“Fall” is a relentless diss track that finds Eminem taking aim at a host of perceived foes. The video opens with the rapper scrolling through his phone, reading negative critiques of his 2017 album, Revival, and one of its singles, “Walk on Water.”

Fed up with the criticism, Eminem tosses his phone and begins to roam the streets, but he soon finds himself running from a shadowy figure...

Eminem unveiled surprise album, Kamikaze, at midnight on Thursday. The LP includes a song from the Venom soundtrack, which he teased on Twitter prior to Kamikaze‘s release.

The 13-song set follows 2017’s Revival, which included the songs “Framed,” “River” featuring Ed Sheeran and “Walk on Water” featuring Beyoncé. Earlier this year, he dropped a remix of album track “Chloraseptic” featuring 2 Chainz and Phresher.

Kamikaze includes features from his Bad Meets Evil partner Royce 5’9″ (in June, Eminem appeared in Royce’s “Caterpillar” video), Joyner Lucas and two tracks feature Jessie Reyez.

Travis Scott performed a rousing medley of “Stargazing,” “Stop Trying to Be God” and “Sicko Mode” at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards. Electro-soul singer James Blake joined Scott for a brief vocal cameo during “Stop Trying to Be God,” though the studio version’s other featured artists, Kid Cudi and Stevie Wonder, did not appear onstage.

All three tracks were highlights from the rapper’s recently issued third LP, Astroworld. The album debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200 and recently edged out Nicki Minaj’s Queen to stay on top for its second week.

The 2018 MTV Video Music Awards were presented at Radio City Music Hall in New York City during a live telecast that aired on Monday night, August 20. This was the 35th year of these kudos, which have honored the best achievements in music videos from the early 1980s when video killed the radio star to the present day when the most popular videos rack up hundreds of millions, or sometimes billions of views on YouTube. So who were this year’s big winners? Scroll down for the full list, updating live as they’re announced.

The biggest nominee going into these awards was breakthrough rapper Cardi B, who picked up 10 bids including Artist of the Year, Best New Artist and Video of the Year for “Finesse,” her collaboration with Bruno Mars. (She had 12 nominations when you count her two later-announced bids for Song of the Summer.) But the one video that...

The MTV VMAs are airing next month, and we finally have the full list of nominees. While Cardi B is leading the pack with 10 nominations (including best new artist and artist of the year), Beyoncé and Jay-Z (aka The Carters) aren't too far behind with eight nominations for their music video "Apes**t." Who will take home a "Moon Person" this year? Tune in on Aug. 20 to find out!

Video Of The Year

"No Tears Left to Cry" by Ariana Grande

"Finesse (Remix)" by Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B

"Havana" by Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug

"Apes**T" by The Carters

"This Is America" by Childish Gambino

"God's Plan" by Drake

Artist Of The Year

Ariana Grande

Bruno Mars

Camila Cabello

Cardi B

Drake

Post Malone

Song Of The Year

"Finesse (Remix)" by Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B

"Havana" by Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug

"God's Plan" by Drake

"New...

Travis Scott and Post Malone are the latest performers slated to take the stage at Radio City Music Hall for the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards. This year’s show will take place on Monday, August 20th.

Scott will perform a medley of songs from his latest album Astroworld, which was released last Friday. Malone will deliver an as-yet-unannounced single from his Number One album Beerbongs & Bentleys. Scott performed at the VMAs last year, joining Thirty Seconds to Mars for the song “Walk on Water.” This will be Post Malone’s Vma debut.

MTV has announced the nominees for the 35th Annual MTV Video Music Awards, which include a few new categories and are missing a couple of others. Just like the MTV Movie and TV Awards, which consolidated the races for Best Male Performance and Best Female Performance into Best Performance in a Show and Best Performance in a Movie, the 2018 VMAs have done away with gendered categories.

Instead, fans can vote online for Video of the Year, Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and many more regardless of sex. Men have a slight majority in the top category, where there are five men and four women represented, counting collaborations. Those Video of the Year nominees are Ariana Grande (“No Tears Left to Cry“), Childish Gambino (“This is America“), Drake (“God’s Plan”), Beyonce and Jay-z (“Apeshit”), Bruno Mars and Cardi B (“Finesse”), and Camila Cabello and...

Thirty Seconds to Mars is No. 1 at Alternative Radio this week with the track “Dangerous Night,” the second consecutive chart-topper in the format (following “Walk on Water”) for the rock band fronted by Jared Leto, with a peak audience of 11.1 million, according to Mediabase.

That Thirty Seconds’ recent success aligns with the arrival of manager Evan Winiker of Full Stop Management, the firm that’s home to Harry Styles, Meghan Trainor, Mark Ronson and Charli Xcx, is apt considering both have fostered good will from the greater music industry over many years — Leto having stayed true to his vision for the group across multiple labels and a two-decades-long career, and Winiker from his time playing bass alongside hitmaker Jack Antonoff in the indie rock group Steel Train, which the New Jersey natives formed in 2002 (Winiker also appears on a Bleachers track and in a video by Antonoff’s band).

“There...

Adam Rippon, Josh Norman, and Tonya Harding went toe to toe in a dance-off for the Mirrorball trophy on Dancing With the Stars: Athletes Season 26 Episode 4.

Honestly, I thought the shortened, blink and you missed it, season would be more fun, but it's actually been exhausting, and I'm not even dancing.

However, I enjoyed the lack of filler. I'd prefer to get straight to the dancing, and that's what this abbreviated season did. On the downside, there were definitely dancers I wish had gotten more of a chance to grow, especially Arike Ogunbowale.

Related: The Rookie First Look: Nathan Fillion Returns to ABC!

Although many fans were outraged by last week's ouster of figure skater Mirai Nigasu, I have to say that I loved this final three. Every dance blew me away, except for one ... and that one shocked me.

So let's get on with the dancing!

Tonya Harding and...

Voting for the winner of “Dancing with the Stars: Athletes” opens as soon as the final three couples have completed the first of their two dances on the live broadcast which starts on Monday, May 21 at 7 p.m. Ct/8 p.m. Et. (Those in the West and Mountain time zones won’t see the show live but can follow along on Twitter and vote based on these reactions).

The three athletes still in the running to win season 26 of “DWTS” are two Olympic figure skaters — Tonya Harding and Adam Rippon — and Washington Redskins cornerback Josh Norman. Each will dance twice on the “DWTS” final: once as a tribute to their time on the show and in freestyle form. Scroll down if you want to know the songs and dance styles in advance.

You can show support for your favorite sports star by going online and casting your ballot at dwtslivevote.

The “Dancing with the Stars: Athletes” finale airs live on ABC beginning at 7 p.m. Ct/8 p.m. Et on Monday, May 21. Only three sports stars are still competing to win the season 26 Mirror Ball: two figure skaters — Tonya Harding and Adam Rippon — and Washington Redskins cornerback Josh Norman. Each of these athletes will dance twice over the course of the hour-long show: once in tribute to their time on the show and then again in freestyle form. We’ve done some digging and discovered the songs and dance styles for each routine in the show. Scroll down if you want to know these in advance and to learn how to vote for your favorite.

The only viewers who’ll get to vote on the finale are those tuning in live in the Eastern and Central time zones. They can cast their ballots either online at ABC.com or via Facebook.

All things, even of the living dead variety, must come to an end, and while revealing their 2018-19 primetime schedule, The CW announced that iZombie's fifth season will be the series' final one.

The premiere date for iZombie Season 5 is not yet known, but it will make its debut during the midseason schedule shifts for the network. An updated synopsis has yet to be revealed, but in the meantime, you can read The CW's primetime schedule press release below, as well as iZombie star Rose McIver's heartfelt tweet about the show's final season and what's still to come.

So the fifth season of #iZombie will be our last. I am therefore committed and excited to make it the best one yet! Really proud to be on a show that celebrates the misfits and I pinch myself every day that I get to be a part of the iZombie world with you guys.

As usual, The CW batted last during upfront week, showing off its new slate Thursday morning at the New York City Center.

But network president Mark Pedowitz ended this week-long slog of presentations for ad buyers (and reporters) with the best present possible gift: An upfront that lasted under an hour. The brief show featured trailers for new series “All American,” “In the Dark” and their reboots for “Charmed” and “Roswell,” as well as a bit of news for its “Arrow-verse” (more on that below), but sadly no Gina Rodriguez.

Read TheWrap’s five takeaways from the final upfront presentation of 2018 below.

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Holy contractually obligated performance, Batman

It just wouldn’t be a CW upfront without a rock band to kick off the proceedings. And this year it was 30 Seconds to Mars (who feature a...

Batwoman will make her first live-action appearance on any screen in CW’s Arrow crossover event next season, a four-legged actor could not get into the country, and other headlines were made at CW’s Upfront presentation this morning.

CW chief Mark Pedowitz walked media buyers through network’s expansion to six nights a week, with the add of a Sunday slate, for 12 hours of original scripted programing – trailing only CBS.

Making good on its promise to use existing series and recognizable franchises to return to Sundays nine years after turned it back to affiliate stations, Supergirl got elected to kick off the night. And, it’s paired with a re-imagining of Charmed, returning to the night it last was seen on in 2006.

Arrow darts over to Mondays. Jane the Virgin warms the bench until midseason when it returns to say so-long. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and iZombie also are set for swan-song seasons.

The one-hour finale of “Dancing with the Stars: Athletes” is on Monday, May 21 and will air live beginning at 7 p.m. Ct/8 p.m. Et. The three sports stars still in the running – Olympic figure skaters Tonya Harding and Adam Rippon as well as NFL player Josh Norman — will each take to the dance floor twice during a jam-packed 60-minute show.

Their first dance will be inspired by their time on “DWTS.” Harding and her partner Sasha Farber will glide through a Viennese Waltz set to the song “The Time of My Life” by David Cook. Norman and his partner Sharna Burgess will dance the foxtrot to the tune “Conqueror,” which was recorded by Estelle with Jussie Smollett from the cast of the Fox drama “Empire.” And Rippon and his partner Jenna Johnson will perform a jazz number set to the Irving Berlin standard “Anything You Can Do” from the...

As the closing headliner of the Coachella 2018 festival, Eminem had a tough act to follow after Beyonce’s world-beating two-hour set on Saturday night, and he rallied an all-star team to join him on some of the biggest hits of his career: Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Bebe Rexha, Skylar Grey and Kehlani all joined the Mc at various points during the set.

But the setlist didn’t just focus on his own hits: Dre performed his own “Still D.R.E.,” Snoop Dogg’s “Nothin’ but a G Thang” and nodded back to his own headlining set at the festival — where he was sort-of joined by a hologram of Tupac — by covering his 1996 tag-team with Pac, “California Love.” 50 Cent teamed up for a medley of “In Da Club” and “My Life,” while longtime collaborator Grey joined in on “Stan,” “Walk on Water” and “Love the Way You Lie.”

Variety will...

The fifth annual iHeartRadio Radio Music Awards took place on March 11 at the Forum Arena in Los Angeles. These kudos honored artists across a range of music genres including rock, country, dance, hip-hop, latin and regional Mexican music. DJ Khaled and Hailey Baldwin hosted, with the telecast airing live on TBS, TNT and truTV beginning at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt, In addition, the award ceremony was simulcast on iHeartMedia stations nationwide.

Among the big winners were Ed Sheeran, who claimed the top prize of Song of the Year for his hit “Shape of You” as well as Male Artist of the Year and Pol Album of the Year (÷), and Taylor Swift who was named Female Artist of the Year and debuted the video for her new hit single “Delicate.”

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Song of the Year

“Despacito” – Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee...

Eminem has released a brand new music video, and it stars Ed Sheeran. Related: Eminem Drops Music Video For ‘Walk On Water’ Featuring Beyonce In the video for his latest single “River”, Eminem is working through his relationship difficulties. The video comprises various scenes involved unhealthy relationships, arguments, and on-camera interviews. Sheeran sings the song’s hook...

Last Thursday, Thirty Seconds to Mars premiered their new single, "Dangerous Night," on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert using an advanced robotic camera that moved with the beat of the thumping song and captured the band in striking, cinematic angles. The Jared Leto-led outfit released a behind-the-scenes clip that offers a different view of the performance and how it came together.

The new video highlights the Bolt robotic camera in action as it zips around the stage, capturing both Thirty Seconds to Mars and an interpretive dancer moving energetically to "Dangerous Night.

Eminem’s hatred for U.S. President Donald Trump knows no bounds. The “Walk On Water” rapper had a feeling Trump would win the U.S. Presidential election as soon as he saw the sort of support Trump was generating. “I called it just from the rallies he was having when he first started running,” Eminem told Billboard.

The Coachella lineup is here!

The iconic Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicked off 2018 by dropping this year's lineup on Twitter early Tuesday evening.

It was already well known that Beyonce would be a headliner. The 36-year-old singer was supposed to take the stage last year, but had to drop out due to her pregnancy and was replaced by Lady Gaga, but she'll be in formation this April, hitting the desert stage on Saturday.

The Weeknd will headline on Friday, and Eminem will close out the festival on Sunday. Fingers crossed this means we'll be seeing Queen Bey and Marshall Mathers perform their single, "Walk on Water," during one of their sets -- because we will not be seeing The Weeknd and Selena Gomez relive their last Coachella weekend.

This year's lineup has a solid mix of indie, alt-rock, R&B and rap performers, plus, as per usual, a few throwback acts. Sza, Kygo, [link...

Eminem’s first music video from his new album “Revival” has arrived. The visuals for the album’s lead single, “Walk on Water”, premiered Friday night on Apple Music. Related: Eminem Originally Wanted Adele On ‘Walk On Water’ Stop what you’re doing.@eminem x @Beyonce#WalkOnWater music videoWatch first on Apple Music.https://t.co/l64cpVEC3Z pic.twitter.com/wRG3AgPHzw — Apple Music (@AppleMusic) December 23, 2017 […]...

Richard Gere (Norman Oppenheimer) with Lior Ashkenazi (Micha Eshel) at Lanvin: "It's almost like theater."

Star of Joseph Cedar's Footnote and Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer, Lior Ashkenazi, spoke with me on growing up seeing Kirk Douglas, Steve McQueen, and Paul Newman movies with his father, Burt Lancaster in Robert Siodmak's The Crimson Pirate being his first, shooting Eytan Fox's Walk On Water at Berlin's Tempelhof airport, meeting Son Of Saul director László Nemes at the Cannes Film Festival, and performing a silent scene with Richard Gere.

Lior's upcoming films include Julie Delpy's My Zoe (with Gemma Arterton, Richard Armitage, Daniel Brühl); Dragos Buliga's The Wanderers (Armand Assante); Eran Riklis's Refuge (Golshifteh Farahani, Neta Riskin), Samuel Maoz's Foxtrot (Sarah Adler), and José Padilha's Entebbe (Rosamund Pike, Brühl), where he portrays Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Directors of Oh Boy, Persepolis and Cinema Paradiso among those to join omnibus film; Ai Weiwei shooting remotely this weekend from Beijing.

Jan Ole Gerster (Oh Boy), Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Pardiso) and Oren Moverman (The Messenger) are among the filmmakers attached to direct episodes for the Berlin I Love You omnibus film.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will shoot his eight-minute segment via distance directing from Beijing this weekend.

Speaking by Skype from his studio in Beijing, the world renowned artist explained that his contribution is “based on the experiences of a newcomer - my son Ai Lao - coming to Berlin [the six-year-old and his mother have been living there for the past six months] and the way we communicate these days through virtual digital reality”.

“I am not using the film to help myself,” he stressed. “It is more about people being apart, a similar condition for so many in the world because of wars, political or economic reasons. But they can still communicate through art, film...

If you still have an affinity for books, there can be few more choice summer reads than Edmund White's 2005 autobiography, My Lives. Divided into nonlinear sections devoted to his relationships with his parents, his hustlers, and his female entanglements, there's also a chapter entitled "My Europe." Herein White notes how while in the Paris of the 1980s, he became aware that petite green beans are tastier than their larger cousins. He also recounts how the social theorist Michel Foucault, a pal of his, noted that while "'gay philosophy' and 'gay paintings' were meaningless notions...writing gay fiction was legitimate since it enabled us to imagine how gay men should live together."

Foucault apparently "felt that relationships between gay men were tenuous, undefined, still to be invented, and that gay fiction was the place where a vision of association could be worked out in concrete detail."

The same could be said of Lgbt cinema,...

Big Bad Wolves will hit the market later this year. The crew behind the film just so happen to be the same talented individuals responsible for the 2010 surprise smash Rabies so expect a treasure here. The new poster alone conjures high hopes From the looks of this new poster which really is a cool piece of imagery that feels very Alfred Hitchcock Lior Ashkenazi (Walk on Water) Tzachi Grad (The Flood) Rotem Keinan (The Exchange) and Dov Glickman (Ultimatum) star.

Yossi

Eytan Fox's superb sequel to his award-winning love story, Yossi & Jagger (2002), has finally arrived. The original told of two Israeli soldiers situated on the Lebanese border, whose clandestine love affair was struggling to survive in a friendly yet homophobic atmosphere. Jagger, who was a little more out there, did his darnedest to loosen up Yossi (Ohad Knoller), begging him to quit the army and live with him in a more tolerant ambiance such as the one Tel Aviv could furnish. The rosy vision unsettled Yossi, but not for long. Jagger was killed in an ambush - - and buried as a brave heterosexual, at least in the eyes of his parents and his compatriots.

Now jump a decade ahead. Dr. Yossi Hoffman is a highly respected cardiologist, yet a lonely, slightly out-of-shape homosexual. A workaholic, he refuses to take vacations, and his free evenings are neatly eviscerated by TV shows with laugh tracks.

A lovingly rendered slow burn of a character study, Yossi impresses its message upon viewers with a quiet fortitude. In this sequel to Yossi & Jagger, we find Yossi (Ohad Knoller), a 34-year old heart surgeon in Tel Aviv, still mourning the loss of Jagger, his lover from a decade prior. A former fellow officer in the Israeli Defense Force. More than both a little oversensitive and a little overweight, Yossi’s obsessive inability to break from his state of grief leads him to an unending cycle of malaise. Dalliances in outdated pornography, junk food binges, and Internet dating prove to be an unsurprisingly poor substitute for love. Unsure of how to navigate his psychical shortcomings in the dating sphere, he posts photos of his healthier, younger self so as not to scare off potential suitors on dating sites. As Yossi is Eytan Fox’s (The Bubble, Walk on Water) touching follow-up to the controversial Israeli film illustrating...

Film: Footnote (2011) Cast includes: Lior Ashkenazi (Walk on Water), Shlomo Bar-Abe (Witness in the War Zone) Writer/Director: Joseph Cedar (Beaufort) Genre: Comedy | Drama | Satire (103 minutes) Hebrew with subtitles It's the "most difficult day in Professor Eliezer Shkolnik's life." Today his son, Professor Uriel Shkolnik, is being inducted into Israel's National Academy. It's obviously a family of academic over-achievers, who inhabit a world of scholars, measuring their self-worth by the academic organizations they've been invited to join, the prizes they've won and the scholarly works they've published. So why is it such a difficult day for Eliezer Shkolnik? Well, "there are a few things worth knowing about Shkolnik (father)." On the brink of publishing the findings of 30 years worth of Talmudic research, his efforts were undermined and rendered worthless by that scoundrel, Grossman. Today, all Shkolnik (father) can boast is an obscure footnote citing him in someone else's research paper.

With just six days until Oscar nominations, the Academy has released the finalist list for Best Foreign Language Film. Iran's wondrous A Separation (see my top ten list) might just go all the way. While it's true that most pundits are already predicting just that, I've been more cautious. Masterpieces are often tripped up in this category by more heartwarming or traditonally baity mass-appeal films in the final heat. The biggest surprise here might be the omission of Lebanon's 'can't we all get along' musical Where Do We Go Now? which some pundits, including myself, had suspected might be a real threat given its populist pull. It won the People's Choice at Toronto which generally bodes well for Oscar traction. Not this time.

Poland's "In Darkness" is "A Separation"'s chief rival now; it's a Holocaust drama.

The Finalist List

Belgium (5 noms) "Bullhead" Michael R. Roskam Canada (5 noms | 1 win) "Monsieur Lazhar...

Sega’s Sonic Generations arrives on shelves in just under a week, and we now have an (admittedly unconfirmed) list of achievements that give some indication of what players can expect from the gameplay experience.

Needless to say, what follows is pretty Spoiler Heavy! Read on only if you’re happy with that, but don’t go blaming us if you read something you didn’t want to…

The Opening Act (10G)

Race through the first stage.

All Stages Cleared! (50G)

Clear Sonic Generations.

Greased Lightning (10G)

Clear Green Hill Act 1 within one minute.

Bright Star (15G)

Get Rank S in an Act.

Shooting Star (20G)

Get Rank S in three Acts.

Blazing Meteor (30G)

Get Rank S in seven Acts.

Blue Comet (40G)

Get Rank S in twelve Acts.

Big Bang (50G)

Get Rank S in all Acts.

Trickstar (10G)

Pull off a seven or more trick combo or...

Reviewer: James Van Maanen

Rating (out of 5): ****

Back in the spring of 2002, a film from Ussr-born Israeli writer/director Dover Kosashvili opened in New York City, later arriving on DVD and cable channels. Late Marriage (Hatuna Meuheret) -- an enormously sexual, smart and angry broadside against Israeli fundamentalism -- knocked the socks off a lot of us, though it may have appeared at the time that its strong and sexy leading man Lior Askenazi (Walk on Water) was the linchpin many of us remembered most. For his part, Kosashvili went on to make Matana MiShamayim (English title: Gift from Above) in 2003, which, though nominated for eleven Israeli Film Academy awards, was not much seen outside its home country.

New York (May 13, 2011) -- Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they have acquired all North American and Latin American rights to Joseph Cedar’s Footnote from WestEnd Films. The film is a contender for the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or. Cedar’s last film Beaufort was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 2008. Footnote follows a great rivalry between a father and his son, their need for each other and their need for respect and recognition in the world. The film stars Shlomo Bar Aba and Lior Ashkenazi, and was produced by David Mandill (Beaufort, Campfire) and United King (Lebanon, Walk On Water). “Sony Pictures Classics represents the best in world cinema,” explained WestEnd chairman and co-founder Sharon Harel. “They are the perfect home for this wonderful film and very special director.” “When we met Joseph Cedar a few years ago, we knew he was a director of extraordinary talent.

Brad Pitt in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life (top); Naomi Kawase's Hanazu no tsuki (bottom) As usual, the Cannes Film Festival's Official Competition film line-up is overwhelmingly centered on European (co)productions: British, French, Austrian, Italian, Spanish, Danish. The five "outsiders" hail from Israel, Australia, the United States, and Japan. In other words, barring one American entry, the Americas were completely ignored this year, and so were Africa, most of Asia, and — barring Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish-Bosnian Once Upon a Time in Anatolia — what used to be known as "Eastern Europe." (Remember, Bosnia-Herzegovina was part of Yugoslavia.) The non-European entries are listed below: Joseph Cedar's Footnote (Israel), a father-son drama set at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with Walk on Water's Lior Ashkenazi; Newcomer Julia Leigh's Australian mix of mystery, sex, and fantasy Sleeping Beauty, starring Sucker Punch's Emily Browning (who replaced...

Tawfik Abu-Wael is a 35 year-old Arab-Israeli filmmaker who appears to be set for a second splash in Cannes. Born and raised in the northern town of Um El Fahm, at an early age, he went against his family wishes, and moved to Tel Aviv, where he studied the art of filmmaking. In 2004 his feature debut Atash-Thirst received heavy critical praise and it won the Fipresci award in Cannes that year. Domestically, it won an Ophir Award (Israeli Oscar) for Best Cinematography and another award for Best Israeli Feature at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Atash-Thirst was a highly stylized story of an Arab family living in a secluded location, struggling with a lack of running water. The film opened a window to the lives of Arabs in Israel, not often depicted on the screen by their own sons. In the seven years since his debut, Abu-Wael has been painstakingly raising funds for his second feature.

It seemed like director Eytan Fox disappeared from the public eye, but this year he's planning a comeback. 20 years ago his short film After made a name for him as someone who put homosexuality at the center of his works. He moved on to direct a few other features and TV series, his breakthrough came a decade later, with Yossi and Jagger, a 65 min TV film that broke out from the little screen to be shown at movie theaters locally and internationally. His follow-up was the hugely successful Walk on Water, and after that came 2007's The Bubble, which was a local commercial success, but became a punching bag for most of the critics. Almost four years later, Fox is back: earlier this year it was announced that a Mamma-Mia type TV series he directed was re-cut into a feature length film, and sold to distribution in the U.S.

Maria Helena Vianna attending the Forever21 Walk on Water Fashion Show in New York City.Photo copyright by Charles Norfleet / PR Photos. Kayla Michel and Bre Sylvia attending the Forever21 Walk on Water Fashion Show in New York City.Photo copyright by Charles Norfleet / PR Photos. Maria Helena Vianna attending the Forever21 Walk on Water Fashion Show in New York City.Photo copyright by Charles Norfleet / PR Photos. Bianca Bell and Michele Bell attending the Forever21 Walk on Water Fashion Show in New York City.Photo copyright by Charles Norfleet / PR Photos. 06/07/2010 - Brandon Miree - Forever21 Walk on Water Fashion Show - Arrivals - Frying Pan, 205 12th Avenue at West 26th Street, Pier...