Will They Match the Oscars?

The Directors Guild of America’s (DGA) five nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film do not always line up with the Oscars. Over the years, Ben Affleck (“Argo”), Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”), Ron Howard (“Apollo 13”), and Steven Spielberg (“The Color Purple”) did not follow up DGA nominations with Oscar nods. Last year, DGA…

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Why won’t Yvette Cooper criticise Trump over Venezuela? Look no further than Ukraine | Venezuela

Anyone trying to understand why Yvette Cooper studiously avoided saying whether the UK viewed the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro as a breach of international law only needs to look to what was planned in Paris a day later. After the foreign secretary’s 90-minute humiliation in the House of Commons on Monday night, a joint statement…

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‘Honey Bunch’ Shudder Exclusive Trailer

Shudder is fueling its post–10-year-anniversary momentum with an instantly unnerving trailer debut — exclusive to IndieWire. Recalling the antiseptic dread of Gore Verbinski’s “A Cure for Wellness,” but steeped in the lush, suffocating inferno of the deep-green Ontario woods, “Honey Bunch” comes from Canadian filmmakers Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli. The nightmare begins as a…

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Banaz Mahmod was murdered 20 years ago; the fight for a law on ‘honour’-based abuse goes on | Domestic violence

“I’m always looking over my shoulder. I’m never going to let my guard down,” Bekhal Mahmod said. For two decades she has been in hiding, living under a new identity, away from her Iraqi-Kurdish family. In 2007 Bekhal testified in the trial of her father and uncle for the “honour”-based murder of her sister Banaz…

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