One of the longest-serving death row inmates in the US, Thomas Eugene Creech, faces execution
Idaho halted the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech on Wednesday after medical team members repeatedly failed to find a vein where they could establish an intravenous line to carry out the lethal injection.
What's streaming now: '1989 (Taylorโs Version),' Emily Blunt and 'Five Nights at Freddyโs'
This weekโs new entertainment releases include Taylor Swift's โ1989 (Taylorโs Version),โ a glossy look at opioid addiction with the movie โPain Hustlersโ starring Emily Blunt, Chris Evans and Andy Garcia, and the streaming horror flick โFive Nights at Freddyโs.โ.
New York Film Festival sets lineup for 60th edition
The New York Film Festival will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a robust 32-film main slate and a number of hometown tales, including James Grayโs Queens coming-of-age drama โArmageddon Timeโ and Laura Poitrasโ documentary โAll the Beauty and the Bloodshed,โ about artist Nan Goldinโs battle against the Sackler family.
Aronofsky, Iรฑarritu films set for Venice Film Festival
Darren Aronofskyโs โThe Whale,โ the Marilyn Monroe drama โBlonde,โ Alejandro Gonzรกlez Iรฑรกrrituโs โBardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truthsโ and Guadagninoโs โBones and All,โ with Timothรฉe Chalamet, will all have their world premieres in competition at the Venice International Film Festival this fall.
โSpencer,โ โThe Last Duel' set for Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival has unveiled a starry lineup of world premieres for September including Pablo Larrainโs โSpencer,โ starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana and Ridley Scottโs medieval drama โThe Last Duel,โ featuring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Adam Driver.
Yaphet Kotto of 'Live and Let Die,' 'Alien,' dies at 81
FILE - Actor Yaphet Kotto appears on his wedding day in Baltimore, Md. Kotto, the commanding actor of the James Bond film Live and Let Die and as Lt. Al Giardello on the 90's NBC police drama "Homicide: Life on the Street, died Monday, March 15, 2021 at age 81. Kottos wife, Tessie Sinahon, announced his death Monday in a Facebook post. (AP Photo/John Gillis, File)NEW YORK โ Yaphet Kotto, the commanding actor who brought tough magnetism and stately gravitas to films including the James Bond movie โLive and Let Dieโ and โAlien," has died. Kottoโs wife, Tessie Sinahon, announced his death Monday in a Facebook post.
Ethan Hawke tapes audio edition of acclaimed novel 'Gilead'
NEW YORK โ When she learned that Ethan Hawke was working on a special audio edition of her acclaimed novel โGilead,โ Marilynne Robinson's response was to get a better idea of who he was. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2005, โGileadโ is the first of four Robinson novels set in a rural Iowa community in the 1950s. Hawke has recorded an abridged narrative of โGileadโ that was commissioned by Manhattan's 92nd Street Y and can he heard Oct. 19-29 via www.92y.org/gilead. โIn โGilead,โ the Reverend John Ames contemplates โgrace as a sort of ecstatic fire that takes things down to essentials,'" he said. โGilead' is a great American novel, and Ethan Hawke is a great American actor."