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, it seems like square nails are the most often overlooked. But in my honest, beauty editor opinion, they really shouldn’t be—they’re so cute! They are my preferred nail shape, so I’m not not biased, but there are so many reasons to embrace the retro style.For one, square nails have finally started to make their well-deserved comeback.

William Earl administrator SPOILER ALERT: This story contains light spoilers about “Longlegs,” now playing in theaters. Nicolas Cage and Maika Monroe are the stars of the serial killer movie “Longlegs,” yet the duo rarely share the screen — except for one key interrogation scene near the end. Director Oz Perkins had a unique strategy to ratchet up the tension on set, which was to keep the pair away from each other during the duration of filming until their onscreen meeting. “The whole lead-up to that was crazy,” Monroe said.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Elon Musk announced on social media that he will be moving the headquarters to his companies X and SpaceX out of California after state Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law that prohibits school districts from informing parents if their children decide to go by a different gender. “This is the final straw,” Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter).

Ethan Shanfeld “Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire,” “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” and a handful of other AMC shows are coming to Netflix as part of a new deal between the network and the streamer. The deal, which will put prior seasons of 13 AMC series on Netflix for one year, begins Aug. 19.

Nicole Kidman has some built-in cheerleaders.The actress recently spoke about her career and family in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.Reflecting on her role as Alice Harford in 1999’s “Eyes Wide Shut,” she revealed that while she will never watch the R-rated film with her teenage daughters, Sunday Rose and Faith Margaret, they caught a glimpse of a memorable scene at the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award Gala. Kidman was awarded this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award in April.“At the AFI tribute, they saw the scene where I get stoned,” Kidman said in the story, which published on July 16. “They showed that and I was like, ‘Ooooh.

Phoebe Bridgers’ record label has announced singer-songwriter jasmine.4.t as its first UK signee – listen to her single ‘Skin On Skin’, produced by Boygenius, here.Manchester-based Jasmine is Saddest Factory Records’ first signing from the UK, and the signing came about after a support slot with Bridgers’ Boygenius bandmate Lucy Dacus.She shared ‘Skin On Skin’ on social media earlier today (July 16), and said: “I can’t believe this is finally out in the world, it’s one that I wrote early in my transition about T4T [trans for trans] love and it’s a dream come true to have @julienrbaker’s solos on it, as well as her, @phoebebridgers and @lucydacus producing, and my trans comrades @_eobr, @vixens_diary and Bobby Gruska performing alongside me with @phoenix_rousiamanis on spiritual guidance!”Saddest Factory shared a post, too, writing, “Classic first day mistake, our new employee @Jasmine.4.t forgot her badge. Check out her new single, “Skin on Skin,” to soothe the burn of not being able to get into the building tomorrow morning!”A post shared by jasmine.4.t (@jasmine.4.t)A post shared by Saddest Factory Records (@saddestfactoryrecords)Jasmine began playing the guitar after her late uncle gave her his instrument, and she began playing in “silly skate punk bands” and releasing material on Breakfast Records, a label she co-founded with friends.She was going to release her new music on her own, too, but decided to submit demos to Saddest Factory Records after touring with Dacus.

's “Boys.”On Monday, July 15, the singer performed the National Anthem before the MLB Home Run Derby in Arlington, Texas, and it was obvious from the start that she wasn't doing well.Unlike, say, , which went viral after being intentionally/unintentionally different, Andress was pitchy, slurred her words, and appeared genuinely out of it. The crowd was not enthusiastic, and the video began to be joked about online.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.The next day, however, Andress took responsibility for her performance and announced that it was due to being inebriated, also announcing that she would go to rehab immediately.“I'll let y'all know how rehab is I hear it's super fun,” she wrote, finding a healthy way to have a sense of humor about the situation.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.On social media, most comments were supportive of her decision to seek treatment, though there were of course plenty of people still mad that she disrespected America (?) or claiming she was making excuses, which, no.If you're thinking about cutting back on drinking or cutting out alcohol, take a look at o.

several districts in conservative-leaning areas of the state.Under those policies, school personnel were required to inform on transgender and nonbinary students to their parents if a student either “came out” to a teacher or administrator or asked for various accommodations based on their transgender or nonbinary identity.Proponents of the policies argued that it was important to keep parents informed about decisions made regarding their children and that not having parental notification policies in place would make school districts more vulnerable to lawsuits.But LGBTQ advocates argued that outing students against their will, or before they’re comfortable coming out more publicly, might heighten their feelings of isolation, depression, or suicidal ideation.

. He will serve a minimum of 20 years before being eligible for parole. “The court finds that the actions in their entirety are so serious that the maximum sentence should be applied,” the court said in its ruling last week.Matapour was also ordered to pay compensation amounting to around 112 million Norwegian Krone ($10.6 million) to survivors and relatives of the victims he killed or maimed.

Ryan Reynolds has revealed that he watched the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine with his nine-year-old daughter James, despite it having an R rating in the US.The film is set to be released worldwide on July 26, and was co-written by Reynolds, who reprises his role as the regenerative antihero, alongside Hugh Jackman as the mutant X-Men figure.Deadpool & Wolverine will see both characters finally integrated into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it serves as the latest entry in Phase Five of the saga, following on from November’s The Marvels.Speaking to the New York Times, Reynolds said that although the film has a rating that requires all under-17s to be accompanied by an adult, he opted to watch the entire movie with his daughter.“Well, I’m not saying that other people should do this, but my nine-year-old watched the movie with me and my mom, who’s in her late 70s, and it was just was one of the best moments of this whole experience for me,” he said.“Both of them were laughing their guts out, were feeling the emotion where I most desperately hoped people would be.”James is Reynolds and partner Blake Lively‘s eldest child – they are also parents to Inez (seven), Betty (four) and a fourth child, who was born in February 2023.He elaborated that he felt comfortable doing so because he watched similar films at the same age.“When I saw rated-R movies when I was a kid, they left a huge impression on me because I didn’t feel like people were pulling punches, and it’s been a huge inspiration to so many of the things that I look to make now,” he said.Reynolds recently said that wrapping on the film left him feeling “depressed”, given how much he had enjoyed the process of making it.“Deadpool is one of those characters who’s very

Japan Times.The plaintiff in the case, a trans woman in her 30s, had sought to legally change their gender, but the Hiroshima High Court and the family court ruled that she failed to meet the “surgical requirement.”The woman’s lawyers then appealed to the Supreme Court, which ruled last year that the sterilization requirement was unconstitutional.The court subsequently sent the case back to the Hiroshima High Court so it could rule on whether requiring surgical interventions to meet the “appearance requirement” was legal.On July 10, the court ruled that a person assigned male at birth can legally change their gender without undergoing surgery.The high court found that the plaintiff already resembles a female in bodily appearance due to hormone therapy and that there is no need for her to undergo sterilization.The court also found that the plaintiff has a right to avoid undergoing invasive and often expensive gender confirmation surgery that would cost over a million yen ($6,190 dollars), according to the newspaper The Mainichi.“[The law] gives them a tough either-or choice of having the surgery, thereby eliminating the right not to damage one’s body, or eliminating the right to enjoy the legal benefits based on their gender identity,” the ruling reads.There are differences in how Japanese courts look at the law’s application to transgender men versus transgender women.For example, it tends to be easier for trans men, simply by undergoing hormone therapy, to meet the “appearance requirement,” while for transgender females, removal of male genitalia has generally been thought necessary to meet the same requirement.In the particular case of the trans plaintiff, the changes that her body underwent due to hormone therapy were

Machine Gun Kelly has shown fans his new vampire fangs in a new Instagram post.The rapper and singer, who now goes by the name mgk, shared three photos in a post yesterday (July 15), showing off his vampire fangs in the second. After the photos, he included a video in which he smiles to show his fangs off again and display some tooth gems too.Cosmetic dentist Dr.

Jamie xx has shared that The xx are currently working on their new album and are “having a good time” while doing so.The DJ and producer appeared as a guest on MistaJam’s evening show on Capital Dance (which you can listen to via Capital Dance on Mondays to Thursdays from 7pm – 10pm and on Global Player).During the show, Jamie opened up about how he and his bandmates – Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sims – are back in the studio and working on their “difficult” forthcoming album.After being asked by MistaJam about what it is like to be reunited and work again with his fellow bandmates since they have all embarked on solo paths, he said: “Yes, it is like The Avengers! We’ve said it ourselves. It’s always so nice to get back together with them.

Variety, using data analysed by Hub Entertainment Research, shows that mobile phone screens are becoming the first-choice screen to watch video, one percentage point ahead of connected TV.It continues that the gap between the two screen types is more exaggerated among younger viewers, many of whom already consider their smartphones as their go-to for watching content.The nature of the type of content that is being consumed via connected TV is also shifting, with social media platforms such as YouTube now becoming a major competitor to more traditional streaming video platforms.

Matthew McConaughey has said he is considering running for political office, three years after he seriously considered a run to be Texas governor.The Magic Mike and Dallas Buyers Club star, 56, appeared on a panel at the National Governors Association in Salt Lake City this week, alongside both Democrats and Republicans.When asked if he was actively considering running for elected office, he replied (via Politico): “Yes, I have thought about running for office, getting into this category.”“I’m on a learning tour and have been for probably the last six years of understanding what this category means.”“Do I have the instincts and intellect that it would be a good fit for me and I would be a good fit for it,” he added. “You know, would I be useful?”He later expanded on the challenge of moving from the entertainment world to politics.

Without a doubt, Samuel Beckett is one of the most influential and inspirational literary icons. But he was also a flawed human.

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Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic On day one of the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump tapped JD Vance to be his vice-presidential running mate. And with that announcement, a four-year-old movie — the Ron Howard-directed adaptation of Vance’s memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy” — leapt almost instantly into the Netflix top 10.

DC’s future Superman, David Corenswet.Without a doubt, these characters’ backstories and drives are vastly more compelling than those of 28 years ago. And the main trio’s opposing auras — Edgar-Jones’ damaged soul, Powell’s sensitive jock and Ramos’ heart of gold — marry beautifully. There’s greater moral complexity this time, too.

Natalie Portman was going THROUGH IT with her divorce from Benjamin Millepied… And then Rihanna came into the equation!