Child Abuse, Mental Health Explored as Indian Shorts Seek Oscar Glory

Katy Perry was spotted showing off some new jewelry on a very important finger!

The late Mary Kay Letourneau‘s former partner Vili Fualaau is reacting to May December.

Sandra Bullock‘s sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado, has provided an update after the tragic death of Sandra‘s partner, Bryan Randall.

Nick Carter is speaking out about the tragic death of his younger sister Bobbie Jean.

Shia LaBeouf took an important next step in his faith, and it sounds like there’s another on the horizon.

As DC fans know all too well, there’s another cut of David Ayer’s “Suicide Squad” dubbed the “The Ayer Cut,” a longer, much darker version of the theatrical version that the filmmaker himself has basically disavowed (henceforth known as #TheAyerCut for the purposes of this article). Given the release of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” his very different, much darker version of the Joss Whedon directed “Justice League,” DC fans have been clamoring for an #AyerCut film, and it’s been discussed on social media for years.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor There’s a new senior player in TV’s true-crime industry. Paul Ryan has been named executive producer of NBC News‘ “Dateline,’ reporting to Liz Cole, who became the long-running newsmagazine’s senior executive producer last year. Both elevations come after David Corvo, the NBC News executive who had long overseen the series, moved to tackle consulting duties.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Legendary filmmaker Michael Mann is “worried about the future” of movies. But, he also declares, “Cinema is not dying.” A luminary auteur with a distinctive visual style and gripping storytelling, Mann calls this time following the end of the historic Hollywood strikes “a real watershed moment.” “The companies are split in ways they haven’t been before between streamers and legacy studios,” he tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “Those interests don’t sometimes align.

Two Motherwell-based mental health services are encouraging anyone seeking support with their mental health or wellbeing to get in touch this new year.

A heartbroken family have paid tribute to their "brilliant" grandad after his body was found by a hillwalker near a reservoir.

Need a dark and twisty thriller to open up 2024 with? Well, Showtime may have horror and crime fans covered there with “The Woman In The Wall,” ready to premiere on the network and streamer later this month. And readers across the pond may already be familiar with the series.

Carmel Dagan Staff Writer English actress Glynis Johns, who played the daffy suffragette mother Mrs. Banks in the classic film “Mary Poppins,” died Thursday at an assisted living home in Los Angeles, her manager confirmed to The Washington Post. She was 100.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Night Swim,” a supernatural thriller about a ghost-plagued pool, is attempting to start the 2024 box office with a splash. The Universal Pictures film, which marks the year’s first nationwide release, is targeting a debut of $9 million to $11 million from 3,200 North American theaters. It’s a decent start for the $15 million-budgeted movie, which won’t face competition on the horror front until March’s haunted-teddy-bear-inspired “Imaginary.” “Night Swim,” written and directed by Bryce McGuire and starring Wyatt Russell and Kerry Condon, follows a family who finds out that an otherwordly presence haunts the backyard swimming pool in their new home.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic A year ago, “M3GAN,” one of the snazziest films ever produced by Blumhouse Productions, was the exception to the rule of first-weekend-of-January trash thrillers. The movie was witty and shivery in a preposterous way, its robot doll scenario actually had a thing or two to say about AI, and it gave us the year’s most memorable android-girl dance meme — at least, until Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams danced with her hands to Lady Gaga’s “Bloody Mary.” But now, opening in the same junkyard weekend slot, we have another Blumhouse production, “Night Swim,” which restores a certain order to the cinematic universe by being as tepid and unscary as a proper early-in-January movie should be.

Strictly Come Dancing star Nadiya Bychkova has made an admission about her relationship with Kai Widdrington as they prepare for a move away from the show. The pair confirmed they were in a relationship in May 2022, months after Kai joined the hit show as a professional dancer.

A senior Greater Manchester councillor has 'stepped back' from his cabinet position 'for personal reasons'. Labour politician Tamoor Tariq - the deputy leader of Bury council - has had the whip withdrawn 'pending further investigation', but remains a member.

Coronation Street star Sally Carman-Duttine hasn't held back when asked about working with her co-star husband. It's been a while since the actress has had scenes with Joe Duttine in the ITV soap where they play Abi Webster and Tim Metcalfe.

Manchester City have confirmed their first exit of the January transfer window as goalkeeper Zack Steffen has left the Etihad on a permanent deal.

Channel 4 has gone behind the the scenes of one of the country's most popular tourist attractions. Secret Life of the Safari Park delves into the lives of the extraordinary animals at Knowsley Safari.

A man was arrested after reports of a break in at a Lidl supermarket in Standish in the early hours of Thursday morning (January 4).

Viewers have so far been gripped with new ITV drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, which follows the story of the Post Office Scandal and the impact it has has on the real lives of those affected by it. The miscarriage of justice saw those wrongly accused endure immense suffering. Alongside those who went bankrupt and the pregnant mum facing jail, there are the four people who died by suicide and the 33 others no longer here and so will never see justice. The scandal goes back to 1999, when the Post Office rolled out a new computer accounting system Horizon, put in place to improve efficiency. But software glitches led to false financial discrepancies. This resulted in hundreds of innocent postmasters being accused of theft, false accounting, and fraud, the Mirror reports.

Manchester United's captain, Bruno Fernandes, has wished Donny van de Beek good luck after the Dutchman sealed a January transfer window loan switch to Bundesliga outfit Eintracht Frankfurt.

A school caretaker is facing jail after he raped a schoolgirl and sexually assaulted another. The girls, who can not be named for legal reasons, spoke of their trauma after being abused by Mark Neary, 55, when they were 12 and 13 years old.

The Scout Association has apologised and said it "accepts responsibility" for the death of a teenage boy who died after falling 200 feet off a cliff edge, an inquest has heard.

Jerry performing at theaters, auditoriums, casinos and arts centers all over North America from January through September in 2024.As of now, the famed observational comic has 44 shows lined up including a dozen at New York City’s Beacon Theatre as well as a one-off at Atlantic City, NJ’s Borgata Casino Event Center on Saturday, March 16.For us though, we’re most looking forward to seeing him share headlining duties with Jim Gaffigan, Nate Bargatze and Sebastian Maniscalco at the Hollywood Bowl on May 1 and 2 as part of the Netflix is a Joke Festival.Want to see Seinfeld live this year? As of now, you can scoop up tickets for all of his 2024 shows as soon as today.There’s only one caveat — they will cost you.At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on tickets was $60 before fees on Vivid Seats.Other shows have seats starting anywhere from $72 to $624 before fees.Need a few more details before committing to a night with Jerry?We’ve got everything you need to know and more about Jerry Seinfeld’s 2024 tour below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets we could find are listed here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.They offer a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and your tickets will be delivered prior to the event.From May 1-12, 2024, the Netflix is a Joke Festival is returning to Los Angeles for over 300

Oppenheimer” told the room full of journalists that a movie of his was once criticized by a Peloton instructor mid-cycle.“I was on my Peloton. I’m dying,” Nolan, 53, said onstage at Tao.

I’m Just Ken” from his summer blockbuster smash “Barbie” at the Academy Awards in March. “Well, I haven’t been invited,” Gosling, 43, stated during an interview with W Magazine. “But thanks for pointing that out.”“And I wasn’t thinking about it until now,” he jokingly added.

Gerry Turner‘s runner-up on “The Golden Bachelor,” Leslie Fhima, will still be attending his wedding to Theresa Nist on Thursday.Fhima, 65, is set to make an appearance at the nuptials despite feeling ill and undergoing a recent surgery.She shared on her Instagram stories Wednesday that she spent her birthday — which is on Dec. 28 — at the hospital.“Yes, I had a bowel blockage, severe cramping, came into the ER,” she said, adding that the pain stemmed from scar tissue left by an appendectomy she underwent as a teen.“I’m definitely on the mend. I’m feeling so much better, that now I get to go to the wedding,” she dished.

wild Investigation Discovery docuseries, “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace,” ended its second season on Wednesday with a shocker. Titled “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks,” Season 2 features Natalia and Michael (her former adoptive father), having a confrontation in which he entirely blames his ex-wife, Kristine, for the couple’s abandonment of Natalia. He asks for forgiveness, which Natalia grants.

A sexy snap Halle Berry shared on Instagram weeks ago that went unnoticed is now doing the rounds again on social media after fans spotted a gross detail in the photo.The actress shared a pic of herself wearing racy black lingerie during a desert getaway recently, but her sultry pose was not enough to divert fans’ eyes from what appeared to be several piles of feces in the foreground.“Couldn’t hide these rocks,” the 57-year-old captioned the pic, in which she sat among giant rock formations in an unknown location.Berry added a wink emoji to her caption, letting fans know she was very aware of the “rocks” sitting by her feet.Still, her humor was lost on many who could not understand why she would choose that location to strike a pose.“Am I the only one who sees the poop?!” one follower asked, while another commented: “Those don’t looks like to rocks …”A third added: “Literally nobody sees the 3 giant mounds of human s–t?? Seriously, why post that photo with the s–t in it?”While others suggested the objects could just be dried seaweed or coral, the majority were convinced it was poop.“Dope pic, crop the poo that’s right in front of you out of this pic tho!” one suggested.As the commentary continued, The Catwoman star couldn’t help but respond to the hilarious outcry by letting her followers know she knew there was poop in her photo but she still chose to share it.“Why not? It is what it is,” she wrote, while also adding she doesn’t think it’s human droppings.“Ima say it was a wild animal. A human is not out there s–tting !!!! Just saying,” she commented.Berry is no stranger to the sexy selfie.

50 Oscar Nights Out,” according to People.Hollywood hunk Reynolds and Field, who met on the set of 1977’s blockbuster movie “Smokey and the Bandit,” dated for five years in the late ’70s and early ’80s.They were one of the era’s power couples and made four movies together before splitting in 1982.Still, Reynolds, who shot to fame in the 1972 movie “Deliverance” and was a major sex symbol, was jealous of Field’s career.According to “50 Oscar Nights Out,” he told Field he would not accompany her to the 52nd Academy Awards ceremony in LA — and didn’t want her to go to the Cannes Film Festival, where the movie was being screened.“He said, ‘You don’t think you’re going to win anything, do you?’ ” Field claims in the book.“When the Oscars came around, he really was not a nice guy around me then and was not going to go with me,” Field adds.She was at her wits’ end about not having a date to the highest-profile showbiz night of the year, she said, when her pal, comedian David Steinberg, came to the rescue.“Then David said, ‘Well, for God’s sake, we’ll take you,’ ” she says. “He and [his wife] Judy made it a big celebration.

testify to that.Rage Against the Machine fans won’t be seeing a reunion anytime soon, as the band has broken up — for a third time. Drummer Brad Wilk made the announcement in a lengthy statement on Wednesday. “I know a lot of people are waiting for us to announce new tour dates for all the canceled RATM shows,” Wilk, 55, wrote in an Instagram post.

Simon, Lord Lovat got the axe.The Scottish Jacobite was the last person to be beheaded in England, in 1747 — and the Oscar winner, 59, is apparently his descendant.Crowe took to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday to reveal that he’s related to the late, great chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat, who was executed for high treason in the 18th century. The “Beautiful Mind” star added that he had “been on the hunt to track down my Italian forebears” for a while now and has been researching his linage, which has led him down “a number of wrong tracks.”He explained that his great-great-great grandfather on his mother’s side was one Luigi Ghezzi.Ghezzi, who at one point worked in Argentina, later left on a ship bound to India.

the Catholic News Agency reported that the former “Even Stevens” child star was confirmed on Sunday by Bishop Robert Barron — of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota — in a ceremony at Old Mission Santa Inés Parish in Solvang, California.“We are thrilled to share that our dear friend Shia LaBeouf has fully entered the church this past weekend through the sacrament of confirmation,” the Western chapter of the Capuchin Franciscans said in a statement posted to Facebook.LaBeouf’s confirmation sponsor, Capuchin Alexander Rodriguez, told the Catholic News Agency that the “Transformers” star wants to become a deacon “sometime in the future.”“He just spontaneously said, ‘I want to become a deacon,’ and he still feels that way,” Rodriguez said.Unlike priests, deacons can be married — however, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, if LaBeouf were to become a deacon while he is not married, then he may need to remain celibate. According to LA Catholics, “at the Mass, the deacon proclaims the Gospel, may be invited to preach the homily, and assists at the altar.

Tool Army.Maynard James Keenan’s legendary alt-metal group is gearing up to embark on the second leg of their North American tour with special guest Elder from Jan. 10 through Feb.

Jeff Bezos was an incredibly successful businessman. In the ‘90s, he launched Amazon.com, changing the face of bookselling and the landscape of online shopping.