Duncan Sheik, the Tony-winning composer of Broadway’s Spring Awakening and singer behind the 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” has died in Manhattan, reports the New York Times. He was 56. According to Sheik’s mother, the cause of death was cardiac arrest. Earlier this week, the musician was reported to be in critical but stable condition following
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Like so many stories, the Transformers movie relies on three-act structure, though some arcs are more successful than others. That said, I will happily die on the hill that the first third of the film (aka the setup) is nearly flawless. The movie sets the scene just outside Autobot City while introducing Daniel and Hot
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Governor Gavin Newsom attends the 94th Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors in Long Beach, California, June 4, 2026. Myraneli Fabian | Anadolu | Getty Images California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday issued an executive order aimed at addressing the potential dangers related to artificial intelligence. Newsom is part of a group
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The first known Filipino American memoir, Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart, was published in 1946. The next wouldn’t appear on the American literary landscape for nearly 60 years. Then, starting around 2018, something shifted: a surge of memoir and hybrid writing by Filipino American writers that hasn’t slowed down since. What connects this
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There’s a reason Billy Reid has lasted so long in the fashion business. His clothes have a certain ease to them. Handsome without trying too hard, familiar without feeling boring, they’re built with enough character to stand apart from the usual menswear staples. It’s the sort of stuff that slips easily into your existing wardrobe
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Saoirse Ronan stars in ‘Bad Apples’. Opening in theaters on September 18th is the new dark comedy ‘Bad Apples‘, which was directed by Jonatan Etzler and stars Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (‘Lady Bird‘). Bad Apples “It only takes one.” Release Sep 18, 2026Runtime 1h 40m Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with Saoirse
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Seen one way, the title of HBO’s new Youth is clearly ironic. Its protagonist, Alex (creator Sharon Horgan), is not some bright-eyed 20something making her way in the big city, but a 50something divorcée; her driving concern is not what to do with a future that stretches endlessly before her, but how to make the
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Philadelphia police continue to probe a home in the city’s Olney neighborhood that is linked to at least seven missing women, five of whom are presumed dead. The investigation into their disappearances is centering around a father-son duo who lived in the house. Inside the home, authorities said they recovered a trove of digital images
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Matt Bell, 52, has been farming for more than half his life in central North Carolina. He grows soybeans, corn and wheat and raises beef cattle on more than 1,000 acres. But Bell, who voted for President Trump, says soaring prices for fuel, fertilizer, and equipment are hurting his farm and leading some of his
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Troye Sivan has dropped his new She’s the Best single, “Party.” Built around a prominent sample of Madonna’s Y2K single “Music,” the track comes with a risqué, baroque video directed by Gordon von Steiner. Sivan plays a Medieval knight in the clip, which also features a voiceover courtesy of Sir Ian McKellen. That’s right: Gandalf
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A United Nations fact-finding mission said there was evidence to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes during the Iran war, lending credibility to Tehran’s similar claims. There are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Washington’s forces “committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or
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