Was it lockdown that did it? Forcing filmmakers to sit at home, contemplate their lives, and conclude that just as soon as the masks came off, it was time to shine a light on their youth? Since Covid struck, we’ve seen Kenneth Branagh’s growing-up-in-the-Troubles memoir Belfast, Richard Linklater’s nostalgic animation Apollo 10 1/2 : A Space Age Childhood, and The Souvenir Part II, in which Joanna Hogg mines her film student days yet again.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by former Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen accusing the U.S. government and former President Donald Trump of retaliating against him for publishing a book.
New York Supreme Court Justice Robert Reed on Monday ruled that Mary Trump waived her right to sue her uncle and aunt, former federal judge Maryanne Trump, in a 2001 settlement.
Mary Trump had claimed that the former president and other relatives had cheated her out of tens of millions of dollars. A judge dismissed her lawsuit.