If you’ve missed the recent Kate Winslet drama, Mare of Easttown, then quite simply, you’ve missed out. The series has been stunning audiences with its raw tale of a detective on the hunt for a small-town murderer, and its final episode is reported to have broken viewing records.
Bond film director Michael Apted dies aged 79
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British director Michael Apted, best known for the generation-spanning TV documentary series
Up and a 1990s James Bond film, died on Friday at the age of 79, an industry group said.
He directed many films, including 1980’s
Coal Miner’s Daughter, 1988’s
Gorillas in the Mist and the 1998 Bond film
The World is Not Enough.
But he was best known for
Up, a pioneering documentary series which followed the lives 14 Britons from different backgrounds, starting from when they were seven in 1964.
The series checked in on the 14 every seven years until they turned 63 in 2019, the work spanning an astonishing 56 years.
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Actor Tom Cruise is facing fallout from leaked audio of him unleashing an expletive-ridden rant on the crew of the seventh “Mission: Impossible” film.
On Tuesday, the British tabloid the Sun released a clip of the action star and producer berating and threatening to fire his employees for supposedly violating COVID-19 protocols during production. The viral audio was later cross-confirmed by the New York Times.
Based on the recording, Cruise seems to be reacting to an incident in which crew members failed to keep a safe distance while gathering around a computer on set.
“They’re back there in Hollywood making movies right now because of us because they believe in us and what we’re doing,” Cruise says in the recording. “I’m on the phone with every f studio at night insurance companies, producers. And they’re looking at us and using us to make their movies. We are creating thousands of jobs, you motherf .
Last night, the internet was abuzz after audio surfaced of megastar Tom Cruise berating the crew of
Mission Impossible 7 for not following COVID protocols. The three minute-plus rant contains many an F-bomb, screaming, and more than a little megalomania, but at a time when COVID cases are surging and Hollywood is on the line, it’s also kind of cathartic to hear someone taking things seriously.
This audio of Tom Cruise screaming at the Mission Impossible 7 crew for breaking COVID rules is kind of … great?https://t.co/IvcgnX93AApic.twitter.com/x59cikDdgO
The reactions that this rant inspires are complex. On the one hand, yeah, people need to take COVID-19 seriously, and Cruise is right about that. And there is a lot of pressure on movies like