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Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic Nearly two decades ago, “March of the Penguins” crossed a frontier hardly any nonfiction film ever does: not just the Antarctic Circle, but the even more remote $100 million mark at the global box office. A bona fide global phenomenon, Luc Jacquet wondrous nature doc — and its adorable, relatable emperor penguin stars — got audiences from practically every continent to turn their attention to the South Pole and the super-adorable, surprisingly relatable emperor penguins its director found there.

Sophia Scorziello editor Cineverse has acquired all North American rights to the reboot of the 1987 horror-comedy “Street Trash.” The remake of the cult classic is helmed by “Fried Barry” director Ryan Kruger. Over three decades after the slimy and grimy film’s debut, Kruger is moving this horror story out of Brooklyn and into a whole new continent with an even more potent message.

Climate change activists briefly halted the Locarno Film Festival’s honorary awards ceremony for environmentalist and documentarian Luc Jacquet on Monday evening.Jacquet, who won the Best Documentary Oscar in 2006 for The March Of The Penguins, was being feted with the Locarno Kids Award, followed by a screening of his new film Magnetic Continent in front of a 7,000-strong crowd on the festival’s landmark Piazza Grande.

Here we go again.

Brits are being warned to look out for a booze-loving insect with a painful sting that could make its way to the UK from continental Europe.

Taylor Swift is thanking those who worked on her Eras tour in a major way!

Forget the likes of Cornwall and the Cotswolds this summer, heading north to Scotland and the breathtaking scenery and warm welcome you’ll receive there has become one of the top staycation trends over the past few years.

Naman Ramachandran The multinational Cineworld cinema chain has secured a new revolving credit facility of $250 million as part of its restructuring process. Cineworld recently revealed details of a planned restructuring that will allow it to exit U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy strictures.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: This recap contains spoilers for “The Witcher” Season 3, Part 2, now streaming on Netflix. “The Witcher” fans knew Season 3 would be bittersweet. It’s the final installment of the Netflix fantasy series before Henry Cavill, who has starred as famed monster hunter Geralt of Rivia since Season 1, is replaced by Liam Hemsworth in an unexpected shake-up.

It’s almost time for “The Witcher” fans to say goodbye to Henry Cavill’s Geralt.

Netflix has released the final trailer for The Witcher season 3 volume 2.

Guy Lodge Film Critic As a female union rep in the oppressively male-dominated French nuclear industry, Maureen Kearney — the real-life heroine of Jean-Paul Salomé’s “The Sitting Duck” — is accustomed to keeping a cool head in a crisis. That doesn’t stop her male superiors from accusing her of the opposite, with then-President Nicolas Sarkozy allegedly branding her a “hysteric in a skirt”: In this men’s club, a woman’s mere presence is deemed her weakness. Yet when Kearney is raped and mutilated by unknown assailants, seemingly as a professional warning, it’s her lack of hysteria under the circumstances that is declared suspicious by men in power. As she’s first disbelieved, then charged without outright fabrication, Salomé’s film pivots from itchy whistleblower thriller to irate courtroom drama, with institutional misogyny as its binding thread.

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Going abroad on holiday is a chance to enjoy a change of scenery and discover a new place. Whether it’s exploring the coastline of a Spanish island or visiting a beautiful French city, a trip away can bring out your sense of adventure.

Warnings have intensified as a major heatwave continues across southern Europe bringing with it temperatures hotter than 40C.

Sam Lammers reckons there was no need to seek out his fellow countrymen for their references on Rangers. Not when the names on the list of Dutch Masters to have served at Ibrox speak for themselves.

Chris Cadden spent the last week hobbling round Hibs ’ Marbella training camp in a moon boot and on crutches knowing he couldn’t kick a beachball never mind a football.

Everything comes to a head in season 3 of “The Witcher”.

The end of Henry Cavill‘s version of The Witcher‘s Geralt of Rivia is near.

BreAnna Bell After her recent historic win on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Sasha Colby has signed with CAA for representation. She continues to be represented and managed by Full Scope PR. In what has been dubbed “the fiercest competition in franchise history,” the actress, dancer, trans advocate, and activist faced off against talents like Anetra, Luxx Noir London, and Mistress Isabelle Brooks among other names in Season 15 of the long-running competition and came out victorious as the the first Native Hawaiian and trans contestant to be crowned in “Drag Race” history. Colby is also recognized as the drag mother of Season 14 standout Kerri Colby. Colby started her career by performing in pageants while in her twenties and has been working as a drag queen for the last twenty years. She’s known for also winning the most prestigious title in the drag community in 2012, Miss Continental.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Five years ago seems aeons in an era so disrupted by COVID. So it comes as a surprise to realize that the original screen “Bird Box” arrived a full 14 months or so in advance of pandemic restrictions — becoming an early Netflix pop-culture phenomenon before lockdown made that sort of thing a regular occurrence. Susanne Bier’s film of Josh Malerman’s sci-fi horror novel was intriguing and suspenseful enough, even if its emphasis on psychological drama over thrills made for a somewhat unlikely breakout hit.  Inevitably, if belatedly, there’s now a follow-up — but not an adaptation of Malerman’s own print sequel, which continued the travails of the character played by Sandra Bullock. Instead, “Bird Box Barcelona” is a “parallel story” set on another continent entirely. Written and directed by Alex and David Pastor, whose prior genre efforts “The Last Days” (2013) and “Carriers” (2009) both had similar basic premises, it finds a different cross-section of humanity imperiled by unseen but presumed space aliens. When glimpsed, they induce immediate, overwhelming suicidal urges — or, in a chosen few, mind-controlled subservience that drives them to lead unsuspecting others to their doom.