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Vol. 2 Issue 21 – 24th May 2025
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Stand-out films at the Cannes Film Festival:
Sentimental Value- With a 19-minute standing ovation, Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value is receiving the most buzz out of any movie in the festival’s line-up. When talking about his film, the Norwegian director said, “tenderness is the new punk”.
Die, My Love- The Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson starrer received a 9-minute standing ovation, and J-Law is already said to be in contention for her second Best Actress Oscar win.
Nouvelle Vague- An homage to French New Wave cinema, the film chronicles the making of the movie Breathless.
Sirât- A critic favourite, it follows a father's search for his missing daughter in the deserts of southern Morocco.
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo- The winner of the Un Certain Regard competition at the Festival.
Also at Cannes, streamer/producer/distributor Mubi, won out on the bidding deals. Of the 21 competition films, gaining the rights to distribute 10 of them, followed by distributor Neon, holding rights to 5 films. Mubi’s dominance comes after they distributed the body-horror, Oscar-winning The Substance last year, but if Sentimental Value wins the Palme d’Or, it would be Neon’s 6th consecutive win at Cannes.
Avengers Doomsday and Avengers Secret Wars release dates have been moved up to 18th December 2026 and 17th December 2027, which means Doomsday and Dune: Messiah will be releasing on the same day.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 has a release date and will be coming out on 1st May 2026!
Here’s the trailer for the Netflix documentary about the OceanGate submersible.
The trailer for Caught Stealing starring Zoe Kravitz and Austin Butler.
First look at Zootopia 2.
Yes, chef! The trailer for The Bear Season 4 is out.
In other news
A fan snuck into the Avenger’s Doomsday shoot and posted the video on Tiktok!
Peppa Pig's new little sister Evie is born!
Taylor Swift’s Taylor’s Version of Look What You Made Me Do featured and debuted in a new episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, fuelling rumours and easter eggs that Swift will make an announcement at the AMA’s on Monday night.
Tom Cruise devouring popcorn. That’s it, that’s the story.
Hailey Bieber is the latest Vogue covergirl and husband Justin Bieber is being far from a supportive husband. His Instagram caption for her is a lesson in how NOT to congratulate ANYONE let alone your wife and he is being called out for the same. So much so, even his ex Selena Gomez apparently showed support to Hailey via a cryptic Instagram story.
Selena Gomez has a new collab with Oreo.
Elle Fanning and Keiran Culkin have been cast as Effie Trinket and Caeser Flickerman in the new Hunger Games movie. This may be the first time that all of Twitter/X’s fancast has materialised for a movie.
Kris Jenner's plastic surgery has been the talk of the town.
Kim Kardashian has finally claimed to have “graduated law school”, but in actuality she has completed California’s Law Office Study Program (an apprenticeship to become eligible to take the bar exam) but has not taken or passed the bar exam, which is required to become a licensed attorney in California.
Actress Saoirse Ronan is pregnant with her first child.
The cast of Materialists guess iconic dialogues from famous romance movies.
The Eurovision 2025 winner is JJ from Austria, for his song Wasted Love.
Indian author Banu Mushtaq has been announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize 2025 for her short story collection, Heart Lamp.
Author of the NYT bestseller and soon-to-be Netflix adaptation, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid has come out as bi.
Spotify has released its 2025 songs of the summer.
Fashion at Cannes this year has been nothing to write home about, but one person who is stealing the limelight with his appearances is Alexander Skarsgard, wearing leather boots, leather pants and sequins on the carpet.
