Month: September 2026

Venice Film Festival 2026: What To Expect From Fall’s First Major Film Festival

Venice Film Festival 2026: What To Expect From Fall’s First Major Film Festival

Published by Sam Flores

On the documentary front, there’s already a lot of chatter about Alex Gibney’s nearly four-hour Elon Musk documentary, appropriately titled Musk, which will premiere at the festival on September 8. Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, a documentary featuring rare behind-the-scenes footage of hit rock band Oasis and the often feuding brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, premieres on September 5. There’s also the last-minute addition of NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the Oscar-winning filmmakers behind No Other Land. Shot in Tel Aviv at night, the documentary promises to explore the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza, resulting in the mass killing of Palestinian civilians. NAZA premieres in competition on September 10. Plenty of other interesting things are happening outside of competition at Venice as well. Fifty years after Taxi Driver, the seminal movie he penned, Paul Schrader is back with The Basics of Philosophy, a drama about a repressed philosophy professor, which premieres out of competition on September 4. Saoirse Ronan makes her directorial debut with a short film, Paper …

Death of Robin Hood review: A sombre take with no merry men in sight

Death of Robin Hood review: A sombre take with no merry men in sight

Published by Daniella Wilson

A star rating of 3 out of 5. Merry men are hard to come by in this sombre, pensive version of events surrounding the last days of one of cinema’s most enduring outlaws. The savagery of 13th century England means the law of the land is kill or be killed, leaving very little wiggle room for larking about in Lincoln green tunics, as countless earlier movies would have us believe was the norm. In dark contrast to the bulk of previous screen adventures, this particular Robin is a far cry from the photogenic folk heroes of yore, Hugh Jackman portrays him as aged, dirty, disheveled, with an unruly mass of hair and beard, like Robert Plant after mucking out a pig shed. He’s a troubled man, our Robin, coming to terms with the fact he’s no more than “a murderous brigand” who’s lost track of his personal body count, but is that a redemptive light he sees at the end of his long, grisly tunnel..? Want to see this content? This page contains content provided …

Summer of 2026 was UK’s hottest on record, Met Office says | UK weather

Summer of 2026 was UK’s hottest on record, Met Office says | UK weather

Published by Jenni Sidey

This year’s summer was the UK’s hottest on record, according to provisional data, and the Met Office said the season’s mean temperature was made 130 times more likely by the climate crisis. Record-breaking and back-to-back heatwaves have scorched much of Europe. In England, temperatures peaked at 38.1C (100.1F) at Kew Gardens in London on 13 August, and June had already been confirmed as the country’s hottest since records began in 1884. Scientists have said these heatwaves are only possible because of the climate crisis driven by burning fossil fuels. The Met Office said an average mean UK temperature of 16.5C made this summer provisionally the warmest on record as well as the warmest season in a series going back to 1884. England, Wales and Northern Ireland broke their respective mean temperature records for summer while Scotland recorded its joint sixth hottest summer. A study conducted by Met Office scientists showed this summer’s record-breaking heat was made about 130 times more likely because of human-induced climate change. The Met Office’s climate projections indicate that UK summers …

Kelly Osbourne breaks silence on dramatic weight loss: ‘I wasn’t well’

Kelly Osbourne breaks silence on dramatic weight loss: ‘I wasn’t well’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Living in the spotlight often turns private pain into public debate, a reality Kelly Osbourne knows all too well. Life as she knew it was flipped upside down on 22 July last year when her father, rock legend Ozzy Osbourne, died from a heart attack at the age of 76.  One year later, Kelly has moved back to the UK with her three-year-old son, Sidney, whom she shares with Sid Wilson, and is coming to terms with the grief of losing the late Black Sabbath frontman. During what she described as the “hardest year of my life”, Kelly has also dealt with relentless scrutiny about her physical appearance. In her first exclusive photoshoot and interview since the devastating loss of her father, the mother-of-one has broken her silence on her weight loss, admitting she “wasn’t well” and she’s begun the “slow process” of improving her wellbeing. Kelly faced intense body-shaming in February 2026 after attending the Brit Awards with her mother Sharon to accept the posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of Ozzy.  Kelly Osbourne …

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for September 1, 2026

Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for September 1, 2026

Published by Jenni Sidey

Today’s Featured Book Deals $1.99 Molka by Monika Kim Get This Deal $2.99 What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall Get This Deal $2.99 House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias Get This Deal $1.99 We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris Get This Deal $2.99 Celestial Lights by Cecile Pin Get This Deal $1.99 Into The Blue by Emma Brodie Get This Deal $2.99 The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong Get This Deal $2.99 The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont Get This Deal Source link

Canada invests 5m in Xanadu to advance quantum manufacturing

Canada invests $195m in Xanadu to advance quantum manufacturing

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The Government of Canada is investing $195m in Toronto-based quantum technology company Xanadu to expand its R&D operations and build advanced quantum manufacturing capabilities. The investment was announced by Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. Provided through the Strategic Response Fund (SRF), the funding forms part of Xanadu’s $893m Project OPTIMISM, which will establish new facilities for developing, manufacturing, assembling and testing the photonic and semiconductor components used in quantum computing. The project will transform a 158,000-square-foot Toronto site into a combined research, development and manufacturing facility called Inception. The site is expected to feature specialised photonics infrastructure, including cleanrooms, high-precision equipment and dedicated testing and measurement facilities. The investment is expected to create 275 high-quality jobs while expanding Canada’s domestic capacity to manufacture quantum technologies. It will also support partnerships between Xanadu, Canadian research institutions and small and medium-sized businesses as the country seeks to build a stronger quantum technology supply chain. Solomon believes the investment will propel Canada …

Tracking the fatal Tesla Autopilot and FSD crashes hidden in its data

Tracking the fatal Tesla Autopilot and FSD crashes hidden in its data

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Tesla reports its Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” crashes to the federal government, as it’s required to — and then blacks out almost everything in those reports, so the public never learns what happened in those crashes. Tesla always end up blaming the driver. We’re matching those redacted reports, one by one, to real fatal crashes that were covered in the news as ordinary accidents. This is a running investigation, and we’ll add each crash we confirm to this page. You can view this as an investigative hub keeping track of our ongoing investigation. What the data shows Under a 2021 NHTSA Standing General Order (SGO), automakers must report crashes where a Level 2 driver-assist system was engaged within 30 seconds of impact and someone was hurt, killed, or a vehicle was towed. Tesla accounts for roughly 85% of the entire industry’s reports — nearly 4,000 crashes — and the count climbs every year. Tesla ADAS crashes reported to NHTSA, by incident month. Source: NHTSA SGO 2021-01 / Electrek analysis. We believe that between FSD and …

Silo fans shouldn’t miss these 5 suffocating sci-fi movies

Silo fans shouldn’t miss these 5 suffocating sci-fi movies

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Silo, Apple TV’s dystopian drama, set in an underground bunker, is as claustrophobic as it is riveting. With its gripping mysteries, gradually unraveling plot, and a constant feeling that someone is hiding the truth, it transcends the sci-fi genre while making the walls feel like they’re closing in around you. If you’re a fan of this type of tense, immersive sci-fi, there’s a host of films that also capture the same claustrophobic tension that makes Silo so addictive. And, like Silo, many of them leave you guessing until much later in the game. Related The best new sci-fi shows worth watching right now Shows that just wrapped up, shows that are on right now, and shows coming around the corner. 10 Cloverfield Lane The safest place on Earth might actually be a prison Credit: Paramount Pictures 10 Cloverfield Lane is likely the movie that’s most directly comparable to Silo, as it perfectly recreates the atmosphere of paranoia in a subterranean bunker. In it, a young woman survives a car crash and wakes up confined underground, where …

Hunting down the last cases of sleeping sickness

Hunting down the last cases of sleeping sickness

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Sleeping sickness once killed tens of thousands of people every year. Now, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, EU-backed researchers are testing a simpler way to find and treat the last remaining cases and eliminate the disease for good. Sleeping sickness has been all but eradicated, but a couple of hundred cases still continue to appear across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – the second-largest country in Africa. Missing even a few could allow the disease to flare back to life. To track these cases down, mobile health teams travel from village to village, searching for the last people carrying the parasite. During the 1990s, the insect-borne disease is thought to have claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across western and central Africa. In 1998 alone, over 34 000 cases were reported, but the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the true number of cases to be 10 times higher. Today, after decades of intensive screening, improved surveillance and better treatments, just 471 cases were reported worldwide in 2025, most of them in the DRC. For …