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Following his Best Actor wins at the Golden Globes and SAG awards, it wasn’t a big surprise that Malek took the same gong at the BAFTAs. While he missed out on the Critics’ Choice Award to Christian Bale for Vice, Malek now looks incredibly likely to pick up his first Oscar later this month. The […]
The US’s status as the biggest G7 economy has customarily allowed it to steer the agenda of the club’s summits from its place at the top, the other countries following its lead. But Donald Trump chose a different tactic. Flouting protocol There were too many flagrant deviations by the US delegation from established etiquette to […]
Jared Leto never shies away from intense and disturbing roles. His recent turn as the Joker in Suicide Squad was chilling enough but now he is unleashing an evenmore violent side in teh new Netflix drama. The Outsider is set in Japan in the years after World War II. Leto plays Nick Lowell, an American […]
The yakuza, Japan’s rough equivalent to the American Mafia, have inspired some of the best crime movies of all time: Sonatine, Tokyo Drifter, Branded to Kill, Dead or Alive, Graveyard of Honor, Battles Without Honor & Humanity, Outrage, Youth of the Beast, The Wolves, Street Mobster, and, um, The Yakuza. “Oh sure,” said no one […]
Netflix has released a trailer for The Outsider, a bloody noir starring Jared Leto as a former American POW set in post-World War II Japan. Leto gets to Last Samurai it up as an American soldier who becomes indebted to the Japanese yakuza, a catch-all for the country’s organized crime, and is forced to navigate Japan’s seedy criminal underworld […]
If we’ve learned anything about global politics this past year, it’s to expect the unexpected. Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to run for another six-year term in 2018, and the 64-year-old has no obvious successor — by design. But what would happen if we awoke to a world without him? This week, OZY examines […]
A state assemblyman campaigning as a true progressive is up against a city official who distinguishes himself as “not a professional politician,” as the two Democrats contest a vacant US House seat in a special election in California tonight. Voters are to choose a new member of the US House of Representatives in California’s 34th […]
– After 28 years as a loyal company man, Mark Fields was asked to resign from his post as president and CEO of Ford Motor Company on Friday. He’s retiring at age 56 and has been replaced by former Steelcase CEO Jim Hackett, a board member since 2013 who has been heading the Ford Smart […]
Donald Trump at Liberty University LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) — Delivering his first commencement address, President Donald Trump on Saturday urged graduates of a Christian university to follow their convictions but to also be willing to stand up to criticism from others who don’t have the courage to do what is right. Trump kept to an […]
The 35-year-old actress, who joined the cast for the television adaptation of the 2014 stage production, said she was “nervous” coming onto the project at such a late stage. However, she soon found that she could channel her outside status into her character, who is in some respects also an outsider to the aristocracy and […]
