‘God is a Woman’ Review: A Moving, Time-Bridging Reflection on Documentary-Making and Who It’s Really For

On another sleepy autumn weekend at the box office when actors can’t promote their movies due to the strikes, Millennium Media and Lionsgate are rolling out the latest in their long-in-the-tooth Sylvester Stallone-Jason Statham franchise, Expendables 4, to a weekend take between $15 million-$17 million.

EXCLUSIVE: Three-time Emmy winner Bradley Whitford (The Handmaid’s Tale) has lended his voice to Mina & Lucy’s Guide to Slaying Dracula, a 20-episode serialized podcast from Gen-Z Media, producer of audio programming for tweens, teens and families. Whitford stars as the legendary vampire hunter, Professor Van Helsing, in the series, which launches Sept. 21 across all podcast platforms, with additional episodes releasing in the lead-up to Halloween.

If you haven’t seen “John Wick: Chapter 4,” then you should probably skip this article. Long story short, there’s still no decision about whether or not a fifth film is being made.

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. Was she spelling out SLUT!? LUST!? Or delivering a different kind of clue? Is this the damn Enigma Code?Twenty-four hours and later, we have all our answers.

pointed out, this tacit promotion may be a bit of quid pro quo; Kardashian stars in the , which premieres today, and is produced by…Paltrow's husband Brad Falchuk. And since Paltrow and Kardashian are both barred from promoting the show due to the current SAG-AFTRA strike, maybe shouting out the clothing line is the next best thing?Last we checked in with Gwyneth Paltrow's Instagram, she was , which she announced August 2. It was a short-lived break and she has uploaded to the grid six times since then, but so what.

are real New Yorkers by the fact that their off-duty ’fits make them look like they’re actually off-duty. They’re not trying to slay. They’re trying to get to the bodega.The couple were photographed together on September 20 looking extremely comfortable and, dare I say it, almost normal.

and planning, with a new season comes the opportunity to get your “back-to-school” fall haircut (even if you're not a student anymore). You know, that fresh new look that switches gears for the season ahead and makes you feel a bit more productive.We've already told you about all the major autumn haircuts and that look set to be major for this season (lash-skimming bangs, soft layers and slinky bobs are all on the menu), but if you feel overwhelmed by the choice and want to plump for the one back-to-school haircut for autumn, we've got you., a hair stylist at has declared the “'90s bouncy bob” as the cut you should opt for if you're seeking that back-to-school energy.“One haircut we will be seeing a lot of is a kind of '90s bouncy bob—something that’s fun, cool, and has movement but is super easy to style," she says.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Cook says the cut works for everyone—from those with fine and thick hair to those with curly hair too.“It looks expensive and chic, and with a few styling hacks, you can take it from cool girl vibes to a mature blown-out look," she notes.Cooke adds: “The length can vary and that’s something you and your stylist should discuss depending on wether you want to be able to tie it up or let it be.

Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, an illustrated adaptation of Frank’s indispensable, historic book The Diary of a Young Girl. In the passage, the then-teenaged author and victim of the Holocaust described her genitals and attraction to other females.Frank, a German-born Jewish teenager who died in 1945, just months before Germany’s defeat in World War II, wrote the diary during a two-year time period when she and her family were in hiding to avoid being sent to Nazi death camps, remaining ensconced in a secret annex above the Amsterdam warehouse for the company that her father had owned.The graphic novel, which hews closely to the text of the unedited, original version of Diary, contains portions of Frank’s diary that had previously been edited out of the book’s 1952 English edition, but were restored in the book’s 1989 republication, reports The Dallas Morning News.Those censored sections included passages where Frank wrote about her understanding of male and female genitalia — including the development of her own body during puberty — and where she expressed feelings of attraction toward a female friend.Pulling from those passages, the graphic novel adaptation depicts Frank asking a female friend if she’d feel comfortable exposing their breasts to each other, with her friend declining.

Former Britain's Got Talent drag star La Voix has made a tearful plea to her followers after her van, containing all of the equipment for her shows, got stolen.The 43 year old, who rose to fame when she appeared on BGT in 2014 as part of The London Big Gay Band, which made it to the semi final, posted a video to Instagram asking for help to find the van. Dressed in a red silk robe, adorned with her act initials, La Voix could be seen in full makeup with her red hair teased into glamorous curls as she talked to the camera, with tears swimming in her eyes.

EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick proudly introduced his baby niece to his fans on Wednesday, sending his co-stars wild for the adorable post.The 28-year-old star, who plays grieving Jay Brown in the BBC soap, posted a gorgeous black-and-white photo to his socials, promising the newest member of the family lots of "laughs". "She don’t know how lucky she is I’m her uncle!," he joked.

With just three months left to go until EastEnders' Christmas murder flash forward storyline reaches it’s exciting conclusion, fans have been on the edges of their seat as they tried to decipher the mystery victim’s identity. However, in a brand new twist, the popular BBC soap delivered yet another cryptic clue to fans as a pair of ‘cursed’ cufflinks transferred to a Walford favourite.

Lorraine Kelly has spoken about the “uncomfortable” moment Russell Brand touched her leg and called her a derogatory name on TV. The iconic daytime TV presenter, 63, revisited the incident on her ITV show on Wednesday after allegations of rape and sexual assault were made about the 48 year old comedian at the weekend. Lorraine started her show by addressing a clip of her and Russell appearing together on The Graham Norton Show in 2007.

The CEO of Adidas still has plenty of nice things to say about Kanye West.

The internet got it wrong on this one.

The new season of Celebrity Race Across The World will air on BBC One tonight after its initial launch was pushed back.

Rylan Clark fans say they 'can't wait' to watch his new series focusing on couples being reunited with their exes. The TV personality promoted the start of the new E4 series Sex Rated on Instagram, with the message: "Tonight, #SexRated Starts on @e4grams at 10pm. I’ll be joined by the lovely @rubyrare . Tune in to witness the start of the end of my career."

The parents of a boy of nine removed their child from a primary school over the way staff handled allegations he was subjected to inappropriate behaviour including sexual assaults by another pupil during lessons.

Coronation Street star Jodie Prenger has joked she's after someone else's job as she enjoyed spending her time away from the cobbles with some very adorable friends. It may be no secret to fans of the actress that she is a huge animal lover.

Erik ten Hag has started Facundo Pellistri for Manchester United's match against Bayern Munich because of tactical reasons.

Paul Scholes has questioned whether Manchester United's summer signings have made them stronger after seeing another poor start to the season under Erik ten Hag.

Pete Davidson can’t get enough of the Garden State.After gigs in Atlantic City and Montclair earlier this year, the “King of Staten Island” just added two more NJ shows to his tour schedule later this year.First up, the “Saturday Night Live” alum is slated to headline at Red Bank’s Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre on Saturday, Nov. 18.After that, Davidson will take the stage the following night at Englewood’s Bergen Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Nov.

Matthew McConaughey was a guest at Jason Bateman’s podcast, “Smartless,” where the two discussed their career and McConaughey’s new book, titled “Just Because.” The two discussed their lengthy careers and Hollywood experiences, including a “meltdown” that Bateman had when the two tried to record a podcast together.Camila Alves recounts the heated fight she had with Matthew McConaughey’s momMatthew McConaughey and his son Levi share plans to aid MauiThe incident occurred around two years ago when Bateman and McConaughey were together trying to record a podcast. Bateman got very stressed due to technical difficulties and got upset when he heard McConaughey laughing.

EXCLUSIVE: Taye Diggs, known for his five-season run starring as the beloved Billy Baker, former NFL player turned high school football coach, on CW’s All American, has signed with A Management Company and Global Artists Agency for representation. 

Guy Lodge Film Critic Frank Marshall’s film “Alive” has never exactly been a classic, but for a certain bracket of moviegoers who saw it in 1993, it remains a vivid memory. A heart-in-mouth recreation of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crash — from which 16 people eventually survived 72 days stranded in a remote, snowy stretch of the Andes in western Argentina, while 29 perished — it visualized the events past the remit of worldwide news reports and magazine stories.

Guy Lodge Film Critic There’s a faintly between-worlds air to the coastal luxury spa in which the bulk of “Out of Season” is set: Spartan and depopulated, decorated in assorted shades of oyster white and palest aqua, it’s half sanatorium and half heaven’s gate, made uncannier still by the empty, forbidding sprawl of the wintering beach outside. That makes it an apt place for burnt-out actor Mathieu (Guillaume Canet) to come and consider where his life has led him thus far; it also proves a kind of corridor to the past, minus any actual time travel, when his visit reunites him with Alice (Alba Rohrwacher), a spurned lover from years before.

Guy Lodge Film Critic There will come a time, perhaps not even too far from now, when films like “Woman Of…” may feel, if not old hat, at least familiar, part of a genre unto itself: not a coming-of-age story but a coming-of-self one, tracing the particular life stages of identifying oneself as transgender, accepting oneself as such, and finally living that truth out loud. Spanning decades in its closeup portrait of a Polish trans woman traveling that trajectory in a social climate hostile to her very existence, Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s heart-on-sleeve film isn’t aiming to be revolutionary — there’s an old-fashioned melodramatic heft to its episodic construction, setting its heroine’s tale in a pointedly mainstream context.

Guy Lodge Film Critic When Holly’s classroom peers call her “the witch,” she meekly shrugs it off. It’s not the least flattering slur with which the shy, soft-spoken 15-year-old has been bullied, and it beats people complaining about how she smells.

Guy Lodge Film Critic Though it’s become a convenient catch-all term for journalists covering the subject, the phrase “European migrant crisis” can’t help but leave a sour taste in the mouth — implying as it does that Europe, the destination for so many hard-up voyagers from variously ailing or hostile countries, is the disadvantaged party in all this. That bias carries through to the bulk of well-intended films on the matter, which tend to pick up migrants’ stories, however sympathetically, on European turf.

Guy Lodge Film Critic If we’ve learned anything from the last few years of polarized political discourse surrounding everything from gun control to gender identity, it’s that when somebody pulls out the “won’t somebody please think of the children” card, the children are rarely the first thing on their mind. Even as it plays out on a specifically Hungarian social landscape, the satire of Gábor Reisz’s astute, drily funny third feature “Explanation for Everything” — in which an underachieving high-schooler becomes a right-wing cause célèbre on the strength of some dicey tabloid reporting — resonates more widely.

Guy Lodge Film Critic About 20 minutes pass in “Enea” before someone asks the young, handsome, splendidly attired title character what he does for a living, during which time audiences are likely to be wondering the same thing. This, to be fair, is not a negligent omission in writer-director-star Pietro Castellitto’s script, which tells us early on that Enea, the elder son of a wealthy Roman family, ostensibly manages a high-end sushi restaurant, atop an assortment of more underhand dealings.

Guy Lodge Film Critic The mythology around Japan as a nation of everyday ghosts — where the living and the dead share space, occasionally in view of each other — can lead certain western filmmakers into dubious territory: If you don’t recall how Gus van Sant floundered with the mawkish, condescending exoticism of “The Sea of Trees,” trust that it’s best forgotten. Centered on a long-grieving Frenchwoman who finally makes peace with her husband’s death over the course of a Japanese work trip, “Sidonie in Japan” risks similar pitfalls — but Élise Girard’s droll, bittersweet romance mostly dodges them with grace and good humor, plus a pointed awareness of the limitations of its outsider perspective.

Guy Lodge Film Critic It does rather feel as if the universe — or at least the French film industry — is trying to tell us something when 2023 has turned up not one but two loose Gallic adaptations of Henry James’s “The Beast in the Jungle.” That 1903 novella was about a man, John Marcher, who fails to fully live his life because he’s seized by premonitions of catastrophe that never visibly come to pass. It feels glumly relevant in an age of climate change, artificial intelligence and other obvious but indefinite signals of human demise; perhaps we should count this highly specific cinematic mini-trend as another.

Guy Lodge Film Critic It’s a failing of our society that we’ve allowed “interesting” to become a euphemism, a blandly veiled insult, something to say when no other praise comes to mind. Little in life is more important than interest: having it, attracting it, identifying it in any crevice of the everyday, making it strange and fresh in the process.

Guy Lodge Film Critic “The Promised Land” deserves a sexier title than “The Promised Land”: It’s hard to hear those well-worn words and not expect something as beige and starchy as the spuds grown on its titular terrain. It has one, in fact.

Guy Lodge Film Critic Among all working U.S. filmmakers, few have built as faithful and fervent a following of critics and cinephiles as Michael Mann.