Author: Rahul M

PARIS — I have never been asked to sign an NDA for a bonbon before.But this is the kind of thing that happens when negotiating with stars like Cedric Grolet, arguably the most famous pastry chef on the internet and, increasingly, in the real world.Grolet has nearly 13 million Instagram followers, more than Martha Stewart (5.8 million), Ina Garten (4.8 million) and Bobby Flay (2 million) combined. His polished, mesmerizing videos unveil the craft behind his celebrated flower tarts, chocolate chip cookies and trompe l’oeil desserts resembling apples and lemons. They’ve drawn people from around the world to his shops…

Sunset Boulevard/Getty Images Before the various controversies that would dull Mel Gibson’s shine in recent decades, he was one of the biggest and most beloved movie stars around in the 1980s and ’90s. He also intended to become one of the best filmmakers, though his directorial output would end up being fairly small — likely due to those aforementioned controversies — and quite inconsistent quality-wise. But in 1995, the Venn diagram of Mel Gibson the actor and Mel Gibson the director saw its ultimate intersection with the release of “Braveheart.” Dramatizing…

Prime Video Amazon’s latest hit is “Play Dirty,” a raucous action movie starring Mark Wahlberg and LaKeith Stanfield. The film is written and directed by Shane Black, who is at his best when he mixes action and comedy. In some ways, he’s this era’s Elmore Leonard (whose own work has been adapted into more than two dozen films and TV shows), as both of them often combine sharp, snappy dialogue with eccentric characters and zany plots mixing eye-popping action with real, raw violence in their work. But “Play Dirty” is…

Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images Whether by sheer coincidence or the result of two different studios conspiring to engineer the strangest double feature for moviegoers in big cities, two very different movies both starring Ethan Hawke opened on October 17, 2025. “Black Phone 2,” the sequel to the terrifying 2022 horror hit “The Black Phone,” is playing nationwide. Hawke’s serial killer character, The Grabber, died at the end of the first film, but, as his ghost announced in the film’s trailers, “dead is just a word.” His spirit now haunts Finney (Mason Thames)…

Elisabetta A. Villa/Getty Images Mayim Bialik often praises the cast of “The Big Bang Theory” for being talented. When it came time to write and direct her very first movie, 2022’s “As They Made Us,” Bialik called upon one of them to appear — and not the one you’d imagine. Simon Helberg, who played Howard Wolowitz in “The Big Bang Theory,” was cast as Nathan, a prodigal son who is estranged from his family and copes poorly with fitting back into the fold when his father (Dustin Hoffman) is placed in hospice care. Dianna…

Ryan Murphy tasted critical acclaim with his shows “Glee” and “American Horror Story,” but his latest Netflix venture — a new installment in his biographical anthology series “Monster” — didn’t go over well with the critics. To find out what went wrong with it, and for more details on other bad Hollywood true crime adaptations, check out Looper’s video above. The third season of “Monster” is a dramatization of the life of notorious murderer Ed Gein, played here by Charlie Hunnam in his latest TV role. Also known as the Plainfield Ghoul because…

Title – TIMEPASS, Producers – MH Krishnamurthy, Gundur Shekar, Kiran Kumar Shetty Direction – K. Chetan Jodidhar, Cinematography – Rajeev Ganeshan, Music – DK, Cast – Imran Pasha, Rathsharma, Om Sri Exhif, Chetan Jodidhar, Prabhakar Rao, Naveen Kumar, Ashwini, and others. The debutant director, with a title like Timepass, has really given a good time to pass, especially in the second half. Although it is a bit difficult to pass time in the first half, the director’s vision and his hit-back style, even towards the media and the Kannada cinema industry, are understandable. Like most directors who fail to give…

LONDON (AP) — Prince Andrew said Friday he is giving up his royal title of the Duke of York and other honors after his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein returned to the headlines.The younger brother of King Charles III said he and the royal family had decided “the continued accusations about me distract from the work of His Majesty and the royal family,” Prince Andrew said in a statement released by Buckingham Palace.It comes as excerpts have been published of an upcoming posthumous memoir from Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has alleged she was trafficked by Epstein and had sex…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Patna: Election fever gripped Bihar on Friday as the filing of nomination papers for the first phase of Assembly polls concluded, with the ruling NDA projecting a resolute campaign in sharp contrast to the disarray seen in the opposition INDIA bloc. According to the Election Commission, more than 1,250 candidates filed their papers for the 121 seats which go to polls on November 6, and the number was likely to go up as data was still flowing in from districts. In at least half-a-dozen constituencies, more than one INDIA…

One of the year’s best-reviewed movies,  Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” has been acclaimed as a stirring triumph that dares to confront the modern world with incredible performances. Unfortunately, like countless other weighty classics, “One Battle After Another” wasn’t a box office champion. On its opening weekend, the title only grossed $22 million, marking “Battle” as one of star Leonardo DiCaprio’s lowest theatrical debuts, coming in beneath the bows of “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “The Departed.” All hopes of the immense pre-release critical hype and Warner Brothers’s great box office year catapulting “One Battle After Another” to unexpectedly…