REVIEW: 'The Outpost'

John Oliver is out of the void and returning for the ninth season of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with a studio audience and a desire to tackle tricky subjects.

“The White Lotus” and “Euphoria” — but Hollywood’s power players didn’t always believe Sydney Sweeney was fit for television. In a new interview with British GQ, the 24-year-old talked about her teenage years spent struggling to secure gigs, leaving her cash-strapped family living out of a budget motel room. “A casting director told me once that I will never be on a TV show,” the Spokane, Washington native revealed.

Miguel took to Instagram to reveal that they'd repaired their relationship nearly four months after they announced their separation. The couple split in September after nearly three years of marriage and 17 years together, but, according to their Instagram posts, they've healed those wounds. Nazanin posted a slideshow of photos with her and the singer playfully posing in a stairwell and an armchair.

Clayton Echard's journey hasn't always been easy. The current franchise lead appeared on the latest episode of Nick Viall's podcast, and revealed that he regretted signing on to the show when it started airing on TV.«I think the first three weeks of the show airing, I definitely thought that, because you just don’t know what to expect going into it,» he said of regretting his decision to become the Bachelor, immediately after appearing on Michelle Young's season of .«Having no frame of reference, not really watching prior shows. I went straight from Michelle's season to jumping into my own, so I didn't have that time in between to really reach out to [past] Bachelor, Bachelorettes, ask them these questions that now I'm asking,» Clayton explained.

Gemma Collins proved hers and Rami's relationship is going from strength to strength as they enjoyed a romantic Valentine's Day.The loved-up couple stayed in for the special day and enjoyed a delicious meal, with the TOWIE star documenting the evening on Instagram.The blonde star, who recently posted a rare snap from her childhood, shared a photo of herself with a huge bouquet of red roses, with her 2.2million followers. Flashing a smile, the 41 year old penned: "Lovely surprise whilst doing my house work.

Emmerdale's Meena Jutla, Dawn Taylor and Billy Fletcher stars have shared behind-the-scenes secrets from the ITV soap's chilling hostage scenes on Tuesday night. In a video released after the explosive episode, Paige Sandhu, who plays Meena, Olivia Bromley, who plays Dawn, and Jay Kontzle, who plays Billy, gave fans a tour on set.

Molly-Mae Hague sent tongues wagging as fans noticed a huge clue she could be starting a family soon with boyfriend Tommy Fury.The former Love Island star, who has penned an autobiography at the age of 22, has previously revealed she is not on contraception and instead relies on an app to monitor her fertility. And the 22 year old continued to hint at baby news as she celebrated Valentine's Day with Tommy on Monday evening. Molly gifted the professional boxer a scrapbook of all their smitten pictures, and fans couldn't help but notice that she had written a note in which they referenced parenthood being at the top of their list.

Kanye West sounded much differently in the message he posted on Tuesday (Feb. 15) than on the prior weekend. First off, Ye, 44, was had taken off Caps Lock. “I’ve learned that using all caps makes people feel like I’m screaming at them,” wrote Ye, who then acknowledged that he is “working on my communication” after he spent a weekend attacking Pete Davidson, turning on Kid Cudi, taking a shot at Machine Gun Kelly, and leaking the private text messages between him and his estranged wife, Kim Kardashian. That last offense — particularly how Kim, 41, was afraid that Ye’s antics would get Pete, 28, hurt – got West thinking.

Jessica Kiang Take one glance at the spectacular landscapes of Greenland and you understand why in Inuit the word for snow has so many variations and derivations. The aerial establishing shot that opens Peter Flinth’s “Against the Ice” alone challenges the descriptive powers of the English language; inhabiting such an environment continually, you would have to find new exotic coinages to communicate the sheer variety of textures that freezing water can exhibit.

 chronicled the stranger-than-fiction story about the multiple kidnappings of Jan Broberg, the story is being revisited as a scripted, true-crime series starring Anna Paquin and Jake Lacy.Adapted by showrunner and executive producer Nick Antosca and directed by executive producer Eliza Hittman, will recount the real story of the teenage girl who was abducted not once, but twice by the same man in several years. That man was the Broberg family’s trusted neighbor, Robert Berchtold, who ended up manipulating and exploiting the parents before turning their daughter against them. “Nick Antosca has created a compelling series in that explores one family’s unimaginable experience with great insight and sensitivity,” said Lisa Katz, president scripted content, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming.

The figure skating community is up in arms over Russian skater Kamila Valieva‘s failed drug test.

“Inventing Anna” may be based on true events, but it heightened the drama according to Jessica Pressler.

Kanye West is working on his communication skills.

A Lanarkshire schoolboy has been announced as the youngest artist on this year's TRNSMT festival bill.

Family first. Randall Emmett spent his first Valentine’s Day following his split from Lala Kent celebrating two of his favorite ladies: his daughters.

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Proud parents! While Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas have stayed pretty private since welcoming their daughter, Willa, they have given glimpses here and there of life with their little one.

The National, Father John Misty, Brandi Carlile, and more have been announced for the first Sound on Sound Music Festival.Organized by Founders Entertainment, the same people behind Governors Ball, the festival will take place September 24 – 25 in Bridgeport, Connecticut’s Seaport Park. Tickets will be available to the public Friday (February 18).

Foo Fighters have announced the launch of a new merch line to celebrate the forthcoming release of their new film, Studio 666.Directed by BJ McDonnell, the upcoming “horror-comedy” will follow Dave Grohl and co. as they move into a mansion in Encino, California that is “steeped in grisly rock and roll history” to record a new album.Once they arrive, however, frontman Grohl “finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the band”.To coincide with its release, the Foos have announced an exclusive merch collection that includes a selection of t-shirts and accessories – a mug, blanket and pins all featuring signature artwork from the film.You can see some shots of the collection below:Fans can purchase pieces from the Studio 666 collection at Shop.FooFighters.comStudio 666 will be released exclusively in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on February 25 via Sony Pictures UK.Meanwhile, Foo Fighters have expanded their upcoming North American tour with 10 new shows, set to take place this September and October.The tour, in support of the band’s 2021 album ‘Medicine at Midnight’, will now include additional stops primarily through Canada – including cities such as Winnipeg, Edmonton and Vancouver.

Dave Grohl hasn’t sat still for more than 30 years, so it’s not much of a surprise that he’s ended up creating and starring in his own feature film.

Rod Lurie Editors Note: Journalist-turned-filmmaker Rod Lurie just oversaw the release of The Outpost, an adaptation of a book by CNN host Jake Tapper on the courageous stand made by a small group of U.S. soldiers against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorThe stock of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment surged more than 20% in mid-day trading Monday following the company’s release of chart-topping film The Outpost over the weekend.Rod Lurie’s Afghanistan war thriller, which Deadline’s Pete Hammond lauded as the equal of modern classics like Dunkirk or The Hurt Locker, was the No. 1 movie on iTunes on its opening day Friday.

Todd Gilchrist Based on CNN reporter Jake Tapper’s nonfiction book of the same name, Rod Lurie’s new film “The Outpost” recreates the Battle of Kamdesh – a bloody 2009 showdown in Afghanistan between 53 U.S. soldiers and more than 400 enemy insurgents – with startling authenticity.When the time came to mount his re-enactment of this dramatic conflict, Lurie, a West Point graduate, knew he’d face an uphill battle enlisting the Department of Defense for assistance.

The recent revelation about Russia-paid bounties to Taliban forces for killing American soldiers adds an eerie and tragic timeliness to The Outpost. Rod Lurie's film depicting the real-life story of one of the bloodiest battles of the Afghan War possesses an inevitably haunting quality due to the strategic blunders that led to vastly outnumbered U.S.

but just another day.A riveting combat movie that aims to put viewers alongside American soldiers in the midst of one of the bloodiest battles in the long-running war, “The Outpost” takes the measure of what a few dozen men endured and finds heroism not in enemies killed but in compadres saved.In telling the story of an attack by hundreds of Taliban fighters on 53 U.S.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticJust a few minutes past the midway mark of “The Outpost,” director Rod Lurie re-creates the Battle of Kamdesh, and for nearly the next hour of this intense, immersive modern-day combat thriller, audiences experience how it must feel to be caught in a sustained Taliban siege on a virtually indefensible location in Afghanistan.Situated at the bottom of three tall mountains in hostile territory, exposed to daily attack from all sides, Combat Outpost Keating represents a terrifying example of an indefensible military position — what children, in their playground games, proverbially refer to as “the mush pot.” Adults might call it a suicide mission. And yet, on Oct.