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Sarajevo Film Festival Boss Jovan Marjanović Owns Their Origin Story

Sarajevo Film Festival Boss Jovan Marjanović Owns Their Origin Story

Published by Daniella Wilson

Jovan Marjanović is aware just how special the Sarajevo Film Festival is. He would know, having worked for the Bosnian festival since he was just 19. Marjanović is 46 now, and comes into his fifth edition as the event’s sole director with buckets of confidence in what this fest has to offer European cinema. Sarajevo is a film festival born out of war — its first edition, in 1995, took place while the city was still under siege — and that sense of resistance, of using film to empower communities, still sits at the heart of the festival today. British actress Emily Watson has been tapped to head up the Sarajevo Film Festival jury this year, with the event running Aug. 14-21, alongside director of the European Film Academy Matthijs Wouter Knol, Yorgos Lanthimos’ producer Athina Rachel Tsangari, filmmaker Igor Bezinović and actress Sara Klimoska. Watson will also receive the prestigious Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, also being presented to Asghar Farhadi, Diego Luna and Woody Harrelson at this installment. “Because it is an award tied to the city, it …

American Horror Story season 13 crossover is shown off in new trailer

American Horror Story season 13 crossover is shown off in new trailer

Published by Daniella Wilson

A first-look teaser has been released for the 13th season of American Horror Story, which is set to be a landmark run for Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology. That’s because this season will act as a crossover, with Murphy previously telling Entertainment Tonight that “It is like The Avengers! Where they all come together to defeat the ultimate evil.” He explained: “It’s all the seasons. So Sarah Paulson is playing six or seven roles. Jessica Lange is playing all four of her iconic characters. Evan Peters is playing five characters. And of course Kathy Bates and Emma Roberts and Billie Lourde.” Paulson is seen in the trailer as Cordelia Goode, her character who has appeared in a number of previous seasons, while Lange is seen as her character from Murder House and Apocalypse, Constance Langdon. Peters is seen as Kai Anderson, his character from Cult, while Roberts is seen as Madison Montgomery, her character from Apocalypse and Coven. Others seen in the trailer are Angela Bassett as Marie Laveau, Jamie Brewer as Addie Langdon, Mena Suvari …

The New Siri’s Privacy Story Has a Google-Shaped Asterisk

The New Siri’s Privacy Story Has a Google-Shaped Asterisk

Published by skeptic

Apple’s whole marketing push is about privacy. It’s how it positions itself as the better option in a world full of other companies (Google included) offering you free services in exchange for access to your private data and information. With the new Siri AI, however, there are some cracks starting to show. Here’s what’s documented, what’s promised, and how the gap between the two of those things might affect you. Related Siri’s big AI upgrade is actually just Google in a trench coat Siri AI now has its own app, can understand what’s on your screen, uses more natural voices, and grab an address from a message What Apple actually announced A $1 billion deal, a 1.2-trillion-parameter model, and a WWDC unveiling Credit: Amir Bohlooli / MUO Back in January 2026, Apple and Google confirmed a multi-year partnership that added Gemini as the AI engine behind a new Siri and any new Apple Intelligence features. It will reportedly have Apple paying Google around one billion dollars a year, which is separate from the existing Google on …

Brad Pitt’s sobriety story deserves more scrutiny

Brad Pitt’s sobriety story deserves more scrutiny

Published by Sam Flores

Just personally speaking, if it were alleged in court documents that I abused my family in an alcohol-fueled tirade that culminated in my children seeing me pour a drink all over their mother’s head, I would not be so cavalier about parting with my very public sobriety. But I’m not Brad Pitt, and no one is doing sycophantic cover stories on me in Esquire. In the recently published profile, Pitt admitted to getting “back off the wagon,” but “in a more restrained manner,” admitting he can have a few glasses of wine. If he overindulges, he risks losing a morning to a hangover, and thus, the beautiful morning views outside his luxurious Los Angeles home. The piece continues to fawn over Pitt and his generous hospitality, with some observations on his legacy and a quote from Pitt calling AI “an interesting experiment” — which he interrupts to admire the hawks outside his window, a fluffy moment of color kept in the profile. In a sane world, Pitt would be challenged more, asked about his ongoing …

55-million-year-old fossil teeth rewrite the story of early primate evolution

55-million-year-old fossil teeth rewrite the story of early primate evolution

Published by Jenni Sidey

A newly identified primate species from Wyoming is challenging a long-standing model of early primate evolution. The species, Tetonius varleyorum, lived about 55 million years ago and combines primitive and advanced dental traits that do not fit the previously proposed straight-line evolutionary sequence. The fossils suggest early primate evolution involved branching lineages rather than simple, gradual transformation. Researchers say the new species likely split from an early Tetonius-Pseudotetonius lineage, with related groups later developing similar jaw and tooth features independently through parallel evolution. The discovery highlights the importance of looking beyond Wyoming’s famous Bighorn Basin. Fossils from Smiley Draw reveal a different and unusually diverse primate community, suggesting geography, habitat and timing played major roles in shaping early primate evolution across North America. Tiny fossil teeth from southern Wyoming are changing a familiar story about early primate evolution. A new University of Kansas study describes a previously unknown primate species and shows that ancient primates in North America followed a more tangled path than scientists once believed. The research focuses on fossils from Smiley Draw …

‘Disunion,’ a Short Story by Kurt Andersen

‘Disunion,’ a Short Story by Kurt Andersen

Published by Sam Flores

February 2045 I took longer than some people to start calling it the war. And by some people, I mainly mean my husband, Asher. “This is it, Natalie,” he said to me that first Friday, back in June 2036, after watching the news coverage from Oklahoma City for three hours straight. siege: more than 300 killed and 400 wounded in terrorist military attacks, the headlines read. “It’s started. The civil war.” He claims I rolled my eyes. I don’t think I did. “Well,” I said, “these idiots in Oklahoma obviously want us to think that’s what it is.” Ever since I met Ash, in 2021, he has both dreaded and expected this or that political nightmare just around the corner, some other ghastly shoe always about to drop. Occasionally, one did. To me, his sincere alarm often seemed mixed with a doomer’s touch of anticipatory relish. And he always thought I was too disengaged from politics, sometimes guilty of “willful obliviousness” and “toxic positivity,” generally “in denial” about the inevitable American apocalypse, the end, the …

How ‘Tony’ Food Stylist Christine Tobin Told Young Bourdain’s Story Through Chowder, Lobster, and Squid Stew

How ‘Tony’ Food Stylist Christine Tobin Told Young Bourdain’s Story Through Chowder, Lobster, and Squid Stew

Published by Jenni Sidey

Food isn’t immediately the focus of the Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony, a fictionalized account of how the celebrated chef and author fell in love with cooking in mid-1970s Provincetown, Massachusetts. But then, cooking and food wasn’t the focus of Bourdain’s life at 19, either. At the start of Tony — which is co-written and directed by Matt Johnson (BlackBerry, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie) and stars Dominic Sessa (The Holdovers) — Bourdain insists he’s a writer. When he doesn’t land his dream scholarship, Bourdain follows his crush Nancy (Emilia Jones) to Provincetown, gets a job in a random restaurant helmed by a mysterious man known only as Chef (Antonio Banderas), and learns how to cook alongside the rebellious Sal (Leo Woodall) and the acerbic Dimitri (Stavros Halkias). Seacia Pavao As the film progresses, Bourdain’s passion for gastronomy grows as he sees firsthand the creativity required to make a dish unique, the way food brings people together, and the role it can play in the community. Making that food look desirable was the job …

Ralphie’s Teacher in A Christmas Story Was 79

Ralphie’s Teacher in A Christmas Story Was 79

Published by Daniella Wilson

Tedde Moore, the actress who is best known as playing young Ralphie Parker’s teacher in A Christmas Story, has died. She was 79. Moore died Wednesday in Huntsville, Ontario, according to a post on her Facebook page. A cause of death was not given. “On Wednesday August 5th under sunny skies overlooking Fairy Lake, Tedde passed away surrounded by family physically and spiritually in her beloved Huntsville Muskoka,” the post reads. “Her bravery in this choice was almost overwhelming, beyond beautiful and also difficult. Forever the teacher, she had a quote for every occasion and a special way of touching the lives and hearts of everyone she met. Her magic and love will be remembered by all she took under her generous and welcoming wings.” Moore played Miss Shields in the 1983 Christmas classic opposite Peter Billingsley. She memorably gives Ralphie a bad grade on his paper about wanting the Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas and also has to deal with Flick (Scott Schwartz)’s getting his tongue stuck on a ice-cold flagpole. Moore was …

80-million-year-old snake fossil rewrites the story of snake evolution

80-million-year-old snake fossil rewrites the story of snake evolution

Published by Jenni Sidey

Scientists identified Tametara mirim, an 80-million-year-old fossil snake from Brazil whose unusually well-preserved skull and brain cavity provide new clues about early snake evolution. CT scans revealed features associated with burrowing, including a reinforced skull, reduced optic region and specialized inner ear, while comparisons with other ancient snakes suggest different species were already adapted to very different habitats. The findings challenge the long-running debate over whether snakes first evolved on land, underground or in water, suggesting instead that early snakes rapidly diversified across multiple environments and evolutionary pathways. A small fossil snake from Brazil is changing how scientists understand one of evolution’s most dramatic transformations. For decades, researchers debated whether the first snakes evolved their long, limbless bodies for burrowing underground or swimming in water. A new study suggests that question may be too simple. The research describes a newly identified fossil snake, Tametara mirim, from southeastern Brazil. It lived around 80 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period. Its rare preservation allowed scientists to study not only its bones, but also the shape …

The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised

The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised

Published by Daniella Wilson

Some 50,000 years ago, modern humans wandered into Ice Age Europe. The continent was new to us Homo sapiens, but not for beings of our general kind. Neanderthals and their ancestors had been living among Eurasia’s glaciers for ages, and in ways that would have struck us as familiar. Evidence suggests that they may have strung eagle talons together into necklaces and stained their bodily ornaments with pigments. They tended fires, cooked food, and maybe even made their own glue. On sandstone cave walls, they etched wavy lines, dots, and other geometric designs. After first contact, under social circumstances that we cannot possibly imagine, modern humans and Neanderthals had children together; around the same time, in Asia, our species also procreated with another species, the Denisovans. Scientists know this because they have sequenced DNA from Neanderthal and Denisovan remains, and they can see fragments of their code in our genomes to this day. Now we are learning that still more of these fusions of blood and culture may have shaped our lineage. Last week, a …