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Silent Witness star Emilia Fox 'thinking about end of life' and major challenge
Silent Witness star Emilia Fox talks about parenting, perfect days and planning for the future - and explains why working on the show for 21 years has changed her views on life and death She's played Dr Nikki Alexander in BBC drama Silent Witness for the past 21 years, but it's clear Emilia Fox still loves her 'dream role', which she says fits in comfortably with her role as mother to 14-year-old Rose, her daughter from her relationship with actor and director Jeremy Gilley. The London-born actress – who is the daughter of actors Edward Fox and Joanna David – has been in a relationship with TV production company boss Jonathan Stadlen, 44, for the last four years. She turns 51 next month, but says she wasn't remotely fazed by her milestone birthday last year. 'I'm really, really in a happy place now, and feeling enjoyably busy in a full life,' she beams. Here, the unflinchingly positive star discusses the joys of bonding with her teenage daughter and reveals what makes her perfect weekend… You turned 50 last year. Did that feel daunting? When I turned 40, people asked how I felt, but I think I was so busy that I didn't really stop to think about it. Turning 50, I like the feeling of stopping to think about it and also being able to acknowledge all of life's experiences so far – the twists and turns. It's often said that there are fewer opportunities for actresses as they get older. Would you agree? For a different generation, this was a very hard time. I saw it with my mum where, as women got older, they were getting fewer and fewer parts but, in fact, the writing today is embracing women of all ages, so it's an exciting time to be part of this profession. You've worked virtually non-stop since your daughter, Rose, was born. Has that been tricky to balance? I'm so lucky that I've been able to work and look after Rose. Being able to be there for her has been massively important. Silent Witness used to be filmed around the corner from me and they were very conscious of how much I wanted to be a present mother, so they made it work so I could be home at a normal time. Rose is now 14. How are you coping with parenting a teenager? We've got a good, close relationship and I just really want to be alongside her. I think teenagers need you in very different ways. They need guidance and advice about school life and friends and relationships. So I'm very happy to be alongside her for that. You come from an acting dynasty. Do you think Rose might follow you into the industry? My mum and dad never encouraged me to be an actor. In fact it was the opposite. They knew I'd seen the profession without the rose-tinted spectacles on – I'd seen the highs and the lows. What I want to do for Rose is for her to feel that she's been given the broadest possible horizons. I was very lucky – I was waitressing and I got the chance to audition for Pride and Prejudice. I sort of fell into the job and I didn't really think about it. But I would like her to look at it and go, 'What do I want to do in my life? What are the opportunities and the choices?' I didn't really think about the choices until now – and I'm 50. There's been a running theme of crime throughout your career. Are you as fascinated by it as your audiences are? I was a voracious reader as a child and I was brought up on the mysteries of Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes. That evolved into things like Inspector Morse on TV. It's the mystery of the crime genre I love, and when I got offered Silent Witness, it was the dream role. You've been working on the Channel 4 documentary series In The Footsteps Of Killers since 2021. Is there a big difference between playing Dr Nikki Alexander and looking at real-life crimes? There's a massive difference. In Silent Witness, we wrap up a story in two hours and there's a conclusion. In The Footsteps Of Killers , which I do with the brilliant and fascinating criminologist Professor David Wilson, is about cold cases, because it's so hard to keep the spotlight on them, and the hope is that someone might come forward. There are bereaved families who have lost loved ones and don't have the answers. It's utterly heartbreaking for them. Switching off from such gritty work must be hard. What does your perfect weekend look like? When I'm working I like getting up early, around 5am, because it's a good time to learn my lines. The days are just packed, so it gives me that quiet time to have a coffee, which I love – maybe too much – and to get on top of things before the day's started. But my perfect weekend would be Rose being here and going to a market, picking up some food and bringing it home. We also have two Daschunds, Dolly and Clive, who are very much part of family life, and Rose and I are loving going to the theatre together at the moment. It's a real revelation that we can go to the same shows. We have so much fun, so going to a matinee show would be great, then supper with friends and an early night. The really simple things in life are the things I love the most. Tell us about the pension campaign you're involved in. As a nation, we're not very good at talking openly about money, are we? I learnt that only one in three people in their fifties is getting pension advice, so I want to help turn the topic into a positive message. Turning 50 is like entering a sort of Renaissance period. We aren't slowing down, we're still busy and we still want to enjoy life. I got to 50 and there was a sudden moment of clarity, thinking, 'OK, that was the first half of my life – what do I want the second half to look like?' And, of course, there's an element of financial planning in there. What do you hope the next few years will bring? The main things are to spend time with Rose, keep working, be with my mum and dad as they get older, and also to learn something new and set myself some sort of fitness challenge – like the Appalachian Trail. It's all the things I love in life. My dad is 88, and working on Silent Witness makes you think about life – the living of it and also the end of it, which, hopefully for my dad, is far off. But I really do feel these are precious years. I'd also like to learn more about my passions, to learn more about flowers and horticulture. Oh, and learn to cook properly! * Emilia Fox is working with My Pension Expert to get one million more Brits seeking financial advice by 2030
Metro
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54 years of groundbreaking LGBT TV that shaped what we watch today
In 2025, LGBT+ representation on TV still isn't perfect – but a lot of hard work has been done over the years to make sure things are better than they were. To celebrate the work done to make TV more accessible for everyone in the LGBT+ world, Metro has compiled seven examples of storylines that made things that little bit better each time (with some honourable mentions). From one of the first-ever LGBT+ characters on TV to groundbreaking British dramas of the 2000s, all the way through to a flagship 2010s Netflix series. The storylines chosen for consideration all fall between 1968, when the Hays Code was abolished, and 2015, when same-sex marriage was finally legalised across the United States. Implemented in 1934, the Hays Code rigidly enforced what was acceptable (and unacceptable) to be shown on TV in America, and it had far-reaching consequences in the UK as well. In the days since the disgraceful and dated guidelines were finally repealed, TV has come a long way – here are some milestone episodes that got us here. Across its eight years on TV between 1971 and 1979, American comedy series All in the Family gained a reputation for tackling tough subjects sensitively (for the era anyway). With thousands of members from all over the world, our vibrant LGBTQ+ WhatsApp channel is a hub for all the latest news and important issues that face the LGBTQ+ community. Simply click on this link, select 'Join Chat' and you're in! Don't forget to turn on notifications! The series is credited with allowing the sitcom format to introduce more dramatic moments into episodic storylines while also dealing with serious topics in a lighthearted manner. It didn't waste any time, with its fifth episode – titled Judging Books by Covers – examining LGBT+ themes and introducing somebody who is widely believed to be one of the first openly gay characters on TV. In the episode, protagonist Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) makes disparaging remarks about an effeminate man named Roger and presumes he must be gay. However, later in the episode, Archie finds out that one of his old college football buddies, Steve (Phil Carey), is gay and learns a valuable lesson about how to treat other people. The brave episode was controversial from the get-go, with sitting US President Richard Nixon accusing the series of 'glorifying homosexuality' with its content. For its time, The Golden Girls had a subversive attitude from the beginning, focusing on four single, mature women sharing a house together in Miami, Florida. It wasn't afraid to tackle weighty subjects either, and often deftly handled tricky topics for the 1980s, with the writers facing sensitive plotlines fearlessly and head-on. In the season 2 episode Isn't It Romantic? – aired in 1986 – Dorothy (Bea Arthur) invites her friend Jean to stay at the house that she shares with Rose (Betty White), Blanche (Rue McClanahan), and Sophia (Estelle Getty). Soon it's revealed that Jean is a lesbian and that she has a crush on Rose, which instantly rubs Blanche up the wrong way – not because Jean is gay, but because Jean fancies Rose instead of her. The rest of the episode pokes fun at the scenario, but not at Jean's sexuality. Instead the script gets several big laughs out of how self-involved Blanche becomes. It wouldn't be the last time The Golden Girls took a glance at LGBT+ themes, with future storylines analysing the topic from different perspectives. To this day, The Golden Girls remains popular with the community, with one Reddit fan explaining: '[The girls] were confident, secure, and loved themselves for who they were. LGBT+ people who felt alienated with society identified with these outsiders.' In 2023, IndieWire reporter Wilson Chapman said that TV show Frasier's queerness went far deeper than many viewers realised during its 11-year run between 1993 and 2004. Originally conceived as a spin-off from Cheers, Frasier soon took on a life of its own and became a hugely successful and acclaimed comedy in its own right. That process was helped along by episodes like season 2's The Matchmaker, which was originally broadcast in October 1994. In the episode, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) invites a man named Tom for dinner at his home, unaware that Tom thinks the dinner is an official date between the pair. Over the course of the episode, stereotypes about gay men are thoroughly deconstructed – the show's writers received a GLAAD Media Award for the show's portrayal of LGBT characters. In 2022, Reddit user Barbourwhat explained: 'TV never really depicted [gay men] as what they are – ordinary people. Tom wasn't a cartoon version of gay people and Frasier didn't treat him differently. He was just another person.' By its fourth season, TV executives for The Ellen Show were growing frustrated with its reluctance to depict Ellen Morgan's (Ellen DeGeneres) dating life. To remedy this, they suggested to show writer Johnathan Stark that Ellen should buy a puppy in order to focus the show's plot and boost falling ratings. Instead, Stark had another idea: sticking with the title The Puppy Episode, the writers began negotiating with Disney to have Ellen Morgan come out as a lesbian that week. At the same time, Ellen DeGeneres came out in real life. The buzz around the upcoming Puppy Episode was huge – major TV star Oprah Winfrey applied to be a guest actress on the show and, in 1997, said she would 'go to Hell' to defend Ellen's rights. In an emotional scene from The Puppy Episode, Ellen confesses her sexuality to her new friend Susan (played by Jurassic Park star Laura Dern) and later reveals the truth to her friends and neighbours. The episode was watched by 42million people (a series high) and was initially well received. But the backlash from some quarters was swift and horrible: The Ellen Show was slapped with a parental advisory warning and was cancelled a few months later. Ellen and Laura Dern's careers also suffered in the aftermath – while Ellen was briefly blacklisted from TV, Laura was out of work for 18 months as a result of her association. The backlash arguably proved the episode's point – that coming out can be tough to confront, hard to navigate, and unbelievably risky. Section 28 – which prohibited the 'promotion of homosexuality' in British schools – might have been repealed in 2003, but its legacy deeply impacted kids in classrooms up and down the UK for years afterwards. Not to mention that the 2000s saw a widespread increase in Islamophobia across the country, sparked by the War on Terror and further fueled by the news media. Which is why it was vitally important for E4 youth drama Skins to focus on the story of openly gay teenager Maxxie Oliver (Mitch Hewer) and his Muslim best friend Anwar Kharral (Dev Patel). Close friends for many years, Maxxie's sexuality doesn't appear to matter to Anwar at all. However, after finding out that Maxxie has secretly drawn intimate portraits of Anwar, the two fall out over Maxxie's sexuality conflicting with Anwar's religious beliefs. Things come to a head in the season finale, when Maxxie refuses to attend Anwar's 17th birthday party unless Anwar tells his conservative dad, Istiak (Inder Monocha), the truth about Maxxie's sexuality. When Istiak finds out, the two kids expect the worst… only for Istiak to comfort Maxxie. Istiak tells Maxxie that, while his beliefs have prevented him from understanding homosexuality so far, it won't always be that way. The two friends make up and remain close until the first generation of the cast leaves college and starts their lives by heading off to different universities. On Reddit in 2024, Jytsma said: 'The way the story was done was perfect. They are best friends, their beliefs should in theory oppose each other – but they love each other nonetheless.' The Love Boat (1982) An early 80s episode of The Love Boat titled Gopher's Roommate has been celebrated for its sensitive portrayal of transgender character Rachel, played by cisgender woman Mackenzie Phillips. One Life to Live (1992) Long-running soap opera One Life to Live introduced Billy Douglas in 1992, who became the first openly gay teenage character on American TV. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1995) Groundbreaking season 4 episode Rejoined became famous for depicting one of the first ever lesbian kisses seen on American TV. Friends (1996) Friends was never great for LGBT representation, but season 2 episode The One With the Lesbian Wedding is credited by fans with finally treating Carol and Susan like a loving, genuine couple. The Simpsons (1997) In season 8 of The Simpsons, Homer's homophobia is exposed and his ways are changed thanks to loveable new friend John, played by none other than John Waters. Coronation Street (1998) Hayley Cropper was the first transgender character to appear on a British soap. She was played by cisgender actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, who later accepted she wouldn't be able to play the role these days. Queer as Folk (1999) Russell T. Davies' influential short-lived series about three gay men living in Manchester spawned a majorly successful American remake. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999) Hush, a mostly silent episode of Buffy, has been called 'an elegy for its gays' as fan-favourite characters Willow and Tara begin what would become one of the first long-term lesbian relationships on TV. The Wire (2002) Michael K. Williams' iconic stick-up man Omar Little was described as 'the most important queer character of the century' by TV critic Razvan Ion in 2023. The Sopranos (2006) Season 6 episode Johnny Cakes, which depicted the love and romance in Vito's relationship with Jim, brought up the ugly resentment and homophobia of Tony Soprano and his crew and exposed them as being unable to adapt to the modern world. Ugly Betty (2007) Season 1 episode Don't Ask, Don't Tell is a heartbreaking outing for Ugly Betty, as 'love to hate him' character Marc St. James unexpectedly comes out to his conservative mother. Glee (2009) Adorable Kurt Hummel was one of the most recognisable faces on TV during Glee's early days, which is why his father's touching acceptance of his coming out warmed so many hearts 16 years ago. Modern Family (2013) The season 5 premiere sees main characters Mitchell and Cameron celebrate the legalisation of same-sex marriage in California by proposing to one another. Syed Masood (Marc Elliot) made his first appearance on EastEnders in 2009, a year after Christian Clarke (John Partridge) had come to Albert Square. After initially marrying Amira Shah (Preeya Kalidas), Syed comes to terms with his sexuality and enters a relationship with Christian, despite the pressure from his family and his Muslim faith. Wanting to avoid stereotypical storylines about homosexuality, writer Diederick Santer said Syed and Christian's story was 'more about the inner turmoil and conflict [they] endure'. The storyline had a major impact on TV viewers, with Inside Soap readers voting Syed as their favourite member of EastEnders' Masood family in 2011. Christian and Syed ultimately resolved their 'inner turmoil and conflict', marrying each other during a 2012 storyline and eventually moving to America to start their life together. EastEnders producer Lorraine Newman thanked Marc and John and said: 'Their characters have been a huge success. Their storylines have broken boundaries that have not been seen in a soap before.' In 2024, a Reddit user commented on the storyline, saying: '[Syed and Christian] got me into the show, so I've got a lot of love for them, particularly as I was a closeted gay teen at the time.' While great strides were made with some queer storylines on TV in the 2000s, transgender representation in media was still a mixed bag (to say the least – and, honestly, it still is!). 2013 was a landmark year, though, thanks to the third episode of Netflix's flagship series Orange Is the New Black – titled Lesbian Request Denied and starring Laverne Cox as Sophia Burset. OITNB initially told the story of Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a privileged middle-class woman sentenced to time in prison for drug running. Once there, she met an incredible ensemble of diverse characters who slowly but surely surpassed Piper – while Piper became just another inmate at Litchfield Women's Penitentiary, the stories of everyone else became far more important. Among them was Sophia, a transgender hairdresser in the prison's salon, who had been jailed for using fake credit cards to pay for her medication and gender reassignment surgery. More Trending Flashbacks show Sophia's life before prison – when she was a firefighter dealing with gender dysphoria, the subsequent collapse of her marriage, and estrangement from her son Michael. Writing for The AV Club in 2013, Myles McNutt said of the episode: 'Sophia is elevated above Piper for a week as we learn Sophia's own story of becoming.' The role of Sophia turned Laverne Cox into a star, eventually winning a Daytime Emmy Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for her work on the show. View More » In 2014, Laverne became the first ever trans actress to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and the first transgender person to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine, for an interview titled 'The Transgender Tipping Point'. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. 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CNA
6 hours ago
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Alex Warren and Blackpink's Rose team up for a love song
American content creator-musician Alex Warren and Blackpink's Rose have released their surprise collaboration, On My Mind. The Ordinary hitmaker, as did Rose, had been teasing fans about teaming up in their social media accounts and the pair have now delivered a swoon-worthy love ballad. View this post on Instagram A post shared by ROSÉ (@roses_are_rosie) The track is a new addition to Warren's album You'll Be Alright, Kid. Set for release on July 18, 2025, the collection features all of the tracks from the 24-year-old star's debut LP You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1), alongside newbies such as smash hit Ordinary and Bloodline with Jelly Roll. You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1) focused on 'dealing with grief', while You'll Be Alright, Kid 'turns the page with healing, resilience and optimism'. February's Ordinary spent 11 consecutive weeks at number one on the UK chart, marking the longest-running number one in the UK by a US male solo act in more than 70 years, and the joint longest-running number one of the 2020s, tied with Ed Sheeran's Bad Habits. On the viral success of the TikTok hit, Warren told Variety: 'I am so forever grateful for all the support and will never stop saying thank you. 'I wouldn't have any of this if it weren't for my fans, so I am so appreciative.' Recounting how quickly Ordinary came to fruition, he shared: 'We wrote Ordinary in December last year, started teasing it in January, and released it in February. 'In the music industry, that's a crazy fast turnaround, but we did that because we knew immediately how good it was. I've never had a song so quickly 'click' and I just had to put it out as soon as possible.'
Atlantic
13 hours ago
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The College-Major Gamble
This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a new machine age. Sign up here. When I was in college, the Great Recession was unfolding, and it seemed like I had made a big mistake. With the economy crumbling and job prospects going with it, I had selected as my majors … journalism and sociology. Even the professors joked about our inevitable unemployment. Meanwhile, a close friend had switched majors and started to take computer-science classes—there would obviously be opportunities there. But that conventional wisdom is starting to change. As my colleague Rose Horowitch writes in an article for The Atlantic, entry-level tech jobs are beginning to fade away, in part because of new technology itself: AI is able to do many tasks that previously required a person. 'Artificial intelligence has proved to be even more valuable as a writer of computer code than as a writer of words,' Rose writes. 'This means it is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it. A recent Pew study found that Americans think software engineers will be most affected by generative AI. Many young people aren't waiting to find out whether that's true.' I spoke with Rose about how AI is affecting college students and the job market—and what the future may hold. This interview has been edited and condensed. Rose Horowitch: There are a lot of tech executives coming out and saying that AI is replacing some of their coders, and that they just don't need as many entry-level employees. I spoke with an economics professor at Harvard, David Deming, who said that may be a convenient talking point—nobody wants to say We didn't hit our sales targets, so we have to lay people off. What we can guess is that the technology is actually making senior engineers more productive; therefore they need fewer entry-level employees. It's also one more piece of uncertainty that these tech companies are dealing with—in addition to tariffs and high interest rates—that may lead them to put off hiring. Damon: Tech companies do have a vested interest in promoting AI as such a powerful tool that it could do the work of a person, or multiple people. Microsoft recently laid thousands of people off, as you write in your article, and the company also said that AI writes or helps write 25 percent of their code—that's a helpful narrative for Microsoft, because Microsoft sells AI tools. At the same time, it does feel pretty clear to me that many different industries are dealing with the same issues. I've spoken about generative AI replacing entry-level work with prominent lawyers, journalists, people who work in tech—the worry feels real to me. Rose: I spoke with Molly Kinder, a Brookings Institution fellow who studies how AI affects the economy, and she said that she's worried that the bottom rung of the career ladder across industries is breaking apart. If you're writing a book, you may not need to hire a research assistant if you can use AI. It's obviously not going to be perfectly accurate, and it couldn't write the book for you, but it could make you more productive. Her concern, which I share, is that you still need people to get trained and then ascend at a company. The unemployment rate for young college graduates is already unusually high, and this may lead to more problems down the line that we can't even foresee. These early jobs are like apprenticeships: You're learning skills that you don't get in school. If you skip that, it's cheaper for the company in the short term, but what happens to white-collar work down the line? Damon: How are the schools themselves thinking about this reality—that they have students in their senior year facing a completely different prospect for their future than when they entered school four years ago? Rose: They're responding by figuring out how to produce graduates that are prepared to use AI tools in their work and be competitive applicants. The challenge is that the technology is changing so quickly—you need to teach students about what's relevant professionally while also teaching the fundamental skills, so that they're not just reliant on the machines. Damon: Your article makes this point that students should be focused less on learning a particular skill and more on studying something that's durable for the long term. Do you think students really will shift what they're studying? Will the purpose of higher education itself change somehow? Rose: It's likely that we'll see a decline in students studying computer science, and then, at some point, there will be too few job candidates, salaries will be pushed up, and more students will go in. But the most important thing that students can do—and it's so counterintuitive—is to study things that will give you human skills and soft skills that will help you endure in any industry. Even without AI, jobs are going to change. The challenge is that, in times of crisis, people tend to choose something preprofessional, because it feels safer. That cognitive bias can be unhelpful. Damon: You cover higher education in general. You're probably best known for the story you did about how elite college students can't read books anymore, which feels related to this discussion for obvious reasons. I'm curious to know more about why you were interested in exploring this particular topic. Rose: Higher ed, more than at any time in recent memory, is facing the question of what it is for. People are questioning the value of it much more than they did 10, 20 years ago. And so, these articles all fit into that theme: What is the value of higher ed, of getting an advanced degree? The article about computer-science majors shows that this thing that everyone thought is a sure bet doesn't seem to be. That reinforces why higher education needs to make the case for its value —how it teaches people to be more human, or what it's like to live a productive life in a society. Damon: There are so many crisis points in American higher education right now. AI is one of them. Your article about reading suggested a problem that may have emerged from other digital technologies. Obviously there have been issues stemming from the Trump administration. There was the Claudine Gay scandal. This is all in the past year or two. How do you sum it all up? Rose: Most people are starting to realize that the status quo is not going to work. There's declining trust in education, particularly from Republicans. A substantial portion of the country doesn't think higher ed serves the nation. The fact is that at many universities, academic standards have declined so much. Rigor has declined. Things cannot go on as they once did. What comes next, and who's going to chart that course? The higher-education leaders I speak with, at least, are trying to answer that question themselves so that it doesn't get defined by external forces like the Trump administration.
Yahoo
14 hours ago
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Eva Victor's Sundance Darling ‘Sorry, Baby' Debuts In Limited Release
A24's black comedy , comedian and actor Eva Victor's feature writing and directing debut produced by Barry Jenkins, opens at Lincoln Square and Angelika in NY, and the Grove and Century City in L.A.. This was one of the buzziest titles in Sundance and one of the few there to sell in a major deal — for about $8 million. 'A star is born, and so is a born filmmaker,' said Deadline's review, with Pete Hammond calling it 'one of the most assured and heartfelt films I have seen in a very long time.' It went on to close the Directors' Fortnight section at Cannes. More from Deadline Venice Prize Winning 'Familiar Touch's Fresh Take On Aging, Caregiving; Korean Hit 'Hi-Five'; Marlee Matlin Doc & Rebel Wilson In 'Bride Hard' - Specialty Preview Sundance Audience Award Winning 'Prime Minister', Israeli-Iranian Sports Drama 'Tatami', 'Sex' & 'Simple Minds' Hit Theaters - Specialty Preview TIFF People's Choice Award Winner 'The Life Of Chuck' Latest Indie To Test Box Office Revival With Neon Gifting Campaign - Specialty Preview The film lands amid a box office boom with another big weekend led by F1 and M3GAN 2.0. Indie distributors have been carefully evaluating whether the rising tide of the past few months lifts all boats and has been rather upbeat so far. Victor, a standup comedian whose credits include HBO's Billions, also stars as Agnes, a young woman who begins to work through a trauma when a beloved friend on the brink of a major milestone visits, and the non-linear narrative keeps audiences guessing. Also stars Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, Kelly McCormack. Sorry, Baby is Rotten Tomato Certified Fresh with critics at 97%. IFC Films debuts Berlin premiering at 375 theaters. See Deadline review. Rose (Fiona Shaw) and her daughter Sofia (Emma Mackey) travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almería to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gómez, a physician who may hold the cure to Rose's mystery illness, which has left her wheelchair bound. In the sun-bleached town, Sofia, who has been trapped by her mother's illness all her life, starts to shed her inhibitions, enticed by the persuasive charms of enigmatic traveler Ingrid (Vicky Krieps). Hope Runs High Films is out with Tomás Gómez Bustillo's at IFC Center. July 5 in L.A., July 6 in Seattle, July 19 in San Francisco. Nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards (Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, and Best Cinematography). Chronicles is set in a tiny Argentinian town where a pious yet competitive woman decides that staging a miracle could be her ticket to sainthood. After discovering a lost statue, she orchestrates a grand reveal that will finally anoint her as the most admired woman in town. But before the unveiling, a jarring event forces her to reevaluate everything she once took for granted. At 100% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes (31 reviews). Greenwich Entertainment's on the iconic British band blur (Song 2, Girls & Boys). Directed by Toby L. Follows friends and bandmates Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree coming together to record its first album in eight years, the chart-topping The Ballad of Darren, and prepare for the biggest concerts of their career, two sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium. With footage of the band in the studio and on the road, plus performances of their much-loved, seminal songs. World premiered at Sheffield DocFest. Greenwich also acquired the director's sister film blur: Live At Wembley Stadium. Abramorama opens Elliot Kirschner doc on Robert Reich at the Quad Cinema. In LA July 10 at the Landmark Nuart, adds other cities thereafter and is holding one-day theatrical screenings June 30 (and July 14 and September 17) powered by Gathr at arthouse theaters in Seattle, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Berkeley, Phoenix, Miami and Washington, D.C. The event cinema company helps indie helmers self-distribute their films. Restoration, re-releases: Wong Kar Wai's romantic masterpiece from Janus Films opens at the IFC Center and Film at Lincoln Center this weekend, at LA's Laemmle Royal and Glendale next. Fathom is re-releasing Amy Heckerling's thisSunday on the film's 30th anniversary. MORE Best of Deadline 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery 'The Buccaneers' Season 2 Soundtrack: From Griff To Sabrina Carpenter
