The Wimpy-verse is expanding again thanks to the dutiful animated feature “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” The characters created by Jeff Kinney in his best-selling books here enter middle school, a potential minefield of embarrassments and threats to friendship. These uncool degenerates are prone to reckless driving and, oddly, listening to Judas Priest’s 1980 hit […]
The abrupt turn after just six months is likely to anger investors, who bid up the price of the company this summer when it listed. In a statement in China, Didi said its board had authorized beginning the process of delisting from the New York Stock Exchange. Beijing’s top leaders are also moving to assert […]
But the warm-and-fuzzies promised by this Christmas comedy depend on a display of suppressed passion from Peter and Nick that would propel family members to scheme for their romantic union. Peter and Nick are exceedingly polite, and frequently kept at a respectful distance from each other within the frame. This lack of chemistry makes for […]
The ruling also let Meghan off the hook for misleading the court in denying that she engaged with the authors of a flattering book about the couple. The statement, the court said, had no bearing on the legal question of whether The Mail violated her privacy. Lawyers for The Mail’s publisher, Associated Newspapers, argued that […]
Both networks promoted videos shot within Xinjiang that sought to portray the region as one of prosperity and freedom. In a separate statement released late Wednesday, Facebook said it had taken down more than 500 accounts after they had helped to amplify posts from a fake Swiss biologist named “Wilson Edwards” who alleged the United […]
Mania, masochism and a sex toy whittled from a figurine of the Blessed Virgin, they’re all here and more in this tale of a randy nun whose religious visions and lustful cravings are rolled into a single ball of blasphemy. Immediately, the miraculously unharmed youngster latches on to Our Lady’s bared plaster breast: To Benedetta, […]
He wrote great shows, but Stephen Sondheim was also a mentor, a teacher and an audience regular. In the fictionalized movie version of his life, Jonathan Larson ignores the ringing phone and lets the answering machine pick up. Sondheim scripted that voice mail for the film himself, and goodness knows he’d had decades of practice, […]
The basketball star Jimmy Butler, who plays for the Miami Heat, was injured at a game on the weekend and sent along a video message instead. The Mood: “It’s my first time in Miami, and it’s been a blast,” Ms. Cline said. Jean Paul Gaultier’s name was on the invitation, but Mr. Gaultier himself was […]
Abimbola Osundairo, the younger of the two brothers who have said they took part in what they describe as a hoax, said the strange request came after Mr. Smollett showed him an image of a threatening letter he had received. Mr. Osundairo, 28, said his friendship with the actor started in 2017 and grew to […]
Alex Farquharson, the director of Tate Britain and the chair of the Turner jury, said in an interview that Array won for street interventions and artwork that “brings a sense of light and hope and humor” to protests about abortion and gay rights. At recent abortion-rights rallies in Northern Ireland, Array turned up with lighthearted […]
Mr. Baldwin was practicing drawing an old-fashioned revolver that he had been told contained no live rounds when it suddenly fired, killing the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, 42, and wounding its director, Joel Souza, 48. In the clip of the interview, Mr. Baldwin said he does not know why a real bullet — which was […]
As hard and isolate, open and defended as the land, Phil has been playing cowboy his entire adult life: He rarely bathes, picks a banjo and castrates bull calves using a blade he then holds in his teeth so he can finish the merciless procedure with his bare hands. You feel bad for the poor […]
It was bitingly cold in London on the evening of the Fashion Awards, Britain’s glitziest annual style event, and on the red carpet the model Jourdan Dunn snuggled into the makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury for warmth. Inside, Rick Owens, svelte in black, posed with the model Adriana Lima, in plunging white. The mayor of London, […]
The apology came eight days after the conviction of the man, Anthony J. “I am sorry most of all for the fact that the life you could have led was unjustly robbed from you,” she wrote. In “Lucky,” which was published in 1999, she gives a searing account of the assault and of the trauma […]
On Wall Street, the end of the pandemic appeared tantalizingly close just a week ago. After a solid rally on Monday — the S&P 500 rose 1.3 percent, recovering some of the ground lost in a panicky slide on Friday — global markets were sliding again on Tuesday. “We just have to deal with this, […]
The donation from a trustee, Oscar L. Seven years after announcing ambitious plans to rebuild its wing for Modern and contemporary art — which then had to be put on hold because of financial problems — the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday announced that it had finally secured a lead donation of $125 million, […]
And two sign-language interpreters were stationed to make sure that deaf and hard-of-hearing attendees could celebrate in real time. The Gothams, presented by the Gotham Film & Media Institute, have always prided themselves on being the first significant awards show of the season: They fete winners before most groups have even announced their nominees. This […]
“The Nutcracker,” the classic holiday ballet, is back after the long pandemic shutdown. “Everybody learned a lot this year, and I just want to make sure there’s absolutely nothing that could ever be considered as insulting to Chinese culture,” said Mikko Nissinen, artistic director of Boston Ballet, who choreographed the ribbon dance. At least one […]
On Friday, markets fell on fears that the fast-spreading strain of the coronavirus first detected in South Africa, and which has now been found in more than a dozen countries, could throw the global economic recovery into reverse. But as more information emerged about the new “variant of concern,” the World Health Organization’s most serious […]
He was variously termed kaleidoscopic, a Renaissance man, a protean force in the history of fashion, and yet, looking back on his brief tenure at the apex of the business, what seems clear is that the word that best describes Mr. Abloh was there all along. Mr. Abloh was prismatic, a designer capable of capturing […]