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Kärt Väinola, the head of the Just Film Industry Days, taking place during the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, also previews how AI and labels will be debated during its fourth edition.

Essentially a companion piece to McDonagh's debut 'In Bruges', 'Wild Horse Nine' can feel like familiar ground. However, John Malkovich makes every acerbic, funny and at times surprisingly moving line of dialogue a joy to watch, and he's a shoo-in for Best Actor at next year's Oscars.

Irish artist-turned-filmmaker Myrid Carten, who won three BIFAs for her feature debut and made the U.K. BAFTA Breakthrough list, talks to THR about her journey so far – and what lies ahead.

Engineers can 3D-print high-performance titanium parts for aircraft, medical implants and advanced machinery, but finding the right printing settings can still require costly and time-consuming trial and error. A new study shows how artificial intelligence could help narrow that search before production testing begins.

Actor who provided the voice for the ‘tin dog’ K9 in the BBC’s Doctor Who and also worked on ITV’s Beadle’s About John Leeson, who has died aged 83, was a genial character actor who provided the voice of the much-loved robotic sidekick K9 in the popular BBC TV series Doctor Who. Originally conceived to appear in just one story, The Invisible Enemy, in 1977, K9 was a mobile, dog-shaped computer who produced ticker-tape information from his mouth and had a laser gun in his nose. With a pinched voice, clipped delivery and a tendency towards pedantry, he served as both encyclopedia and guard dog, and was deemed successful enough a creation to retain as a regular character. K9 was the perfect foil for Tom Baker’s spiky, obtuse Time Lord: Leeson likened the character to King Lear’s fool – a wise and funny factotum licensed to call out his master’s faults and prick his pomposity. Off-screen Baker thought highly of Leeson, and felt that the intelligent, unassuming and witty actor was more interesting that the oft-malfunctioning K9 prop, which caused many delays on the studio floor. Leeson also won the appreciation of his colleagues by attending rehearsals and gamely performing on all fours. Continue reading...

As Donald Trump licks his wounds from a bruising set of midterm election results, the UK will look nervously to what he might do on the international stage in order to cement his legacy. Plus, Pippa and Kiran discuss what lessons Labour can take from the Democrats, and ask if they in turn can learn from Andy Burnham’s rise to power Continue reading...

A Korean family is willing to sacrifice everything for their children’s education, in the third book in Lee’s Diaspora Quartet “An excellent hagwon,” according to one of the characters in Min Jin Lee’s new novel, “is everything.” Every year, Korean parents pay hefty sums to send their children to these private after-school academies designed to turbocharge academic performance, where they spend evenings and weekends being drilled in mathematics, reasoning and essay technique. In the third book in what she has called her Diaspora Quartet – a follow-up to 2017’s Pachinko, recently named one of the New York Times’s top 100 books of the 21st century – she presents the fierce competition to snag a spot at those hagwons deemed the best as symptomatic of Korea’s scarcity mindset: in a country where university places and white-collar jobs are hard to come by, everyone’s looking for an edge. But over the course of the novel’s 650 pages, they also come to stand as symbols of pretty much everything you can think of: of country and culture; of failure and success; of responsibility, or the lack of it; of what it means to achieve, and of what, in the final analysis, the purpose of our achievements might be. The action in American Hagwon unspools over nearly three decades, and crisscrosses from Seoul to Sydney to California and back to Seoul again. At its centre is the Koh family: John, Helen and their three children, Bo, DH and Mido. When the novel opens in 1992, their life in Korea appears comfortably middle-class – John is a senior manager at a multinational corporation; Helen is an upmarket saleswoman, her commissions covering the children’s hagwon fees. But they are dramatically capsized: first by a personal betrayal and then again, in a brutal one-two, by the financial crisis that clobbered Asia in the late 90s. The family move, then later move once more: sometimes together, more often following their own trajectories; but always connected, and supporting one another as…

Dyson’s first electric toothbrush watches you brush and flosses for you, but there are far cheaper ways to get an effective clean • The best electric toothbrushes for every budget When Dyson announced it was entering the toothbrush market, the world responded almost as one: “Four hundred and twenty pounds? For a toothbrush!?” No, it wasn’t a stray decimal point – or if it was, Dyson is doubling down and leaning into the mistake. Unlike high-end brushes from Oral-B or Philips Sonicare, where the “recommended” in “recommended retail price” is doing a heroic amount of heavy lifting given the frequent discounts, the Dyson CameraJet will actually set you back £419.99. Continue reading...

I revealed yesterday that the new Xbox Nano controller supports a Wi-Fi connection directly to Xbox Cloud Gaming, and now Microsoft is making it official today. Two new Xbox previews will let players try out using a phone as a controller on smart TVs, as well as cloud connect on the Xbox Nano to connect […]

Sonos is rolling out a big app update that includes new Presets and early access to its AI voice assistant. You can create a preset to play music at a specific volume in a certain room, which will appear directly on the homescreen so you can quickly start playback. If you're in the US, you […]

Creators in their sixties, seventies, and eighties have flooded adult platforms as the demand for mature content has skyrocketed, with some turning to online sex work as a retirement lifeline.

Many schools are pushing artificial intelligence out of the classroom, worried that students will use AI instead of thinking for themselves. But some educators are embracing the technology and say it is helping students learn. Meg Oliver reports from DREAM East Harlem Middle School in New York City.

Daniel MacPherson, who recently starred opposite Russell Crowe in “Beast,” has signed on for “Bluefly,” a science-fiction action thriller toplined by Crowe and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. “Predators” filmmaker Nimród Antal is directing. MacPherson will play Dugan, a Special Forces soldier toughened by years of combat, joining the film’s two leads. The film unfolds in the […]

‘On us to make it better this year,’ goalkeeper admits He credits self-belief as key to making decisive saves David Raya has said Arsenal are using the pain of losing on penalties against Paris Saint-Germain in last year’s Champions League final to “make it better this year”. The Spain goalkeeper produced an outstanding save to help Arsenal hold off Slavia Prague on Wednesday as Mikel Arteta’s side moved up to third in the league standings with 10 points from four matches. Continue reading...

The growth of artificial intelligence has increased demand for more efficient data storage. Instead of adding bulk to satiate this appetite, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are working to increase memory capacity by manipulating materials' characteristics at the atomic level.

NBCUniversal and Philo have reached a carriage deal adding Bravo to the low-cost pay-TV operator’s lineup. Along with the network home of reality franchises like The Real Housewives and Below Deck, the agreement will also bring a selection of NBCU FAST channels to Philo, the companies said. Philo, which carries more than 70 linear channels […]

Back in 1979, Sony launched the original Walkman TPS-L2 cassette player alongside the MDR-3 headphones, and together they helped popularize listening to music on the go. Today, the company is bringing those headphones back for the modern era with the MDR-3R, which keep the classic look but add USB-C. The MDR-3R faithfully recreate the original design, including the lightweight open-ear build and the iconic blue and orange ear pads, which you can swap around to match your mood. Even the packaging and the instruction manual are inspired by the MDR-3's. Under the hood, the headphones...

Big Bash League record runscorer handed one-month suspension 36-year-old tested after playing in England’s T20 Blast finals in July Big Bash League record-setter Chris Lynn’s one-month suspension for a positive drugs test has been revealed, two months after he served the ban. The revelation comes just days after the former Brisbane and Adelaide BBL big-hitter was linked with a move to the Melbourne Renegades for the season, which begins next month. Continue reading...

He straps some of his 60,000 bugs to his arm and works while they suck his blood (Picture: SWNS) A scientist studies bed bugs by sleeping with thousands of them in a laboratory at the bottom of his garden. Entomologist Dr Richard Naylor, 45, breeds the insects to test pest control products from all over the world. During a ‘feeding day’ twice a week, he straps some of his 60,000 bugs to his arm and works while they suck his blood. He then sleeps with them on nights when he needs to test out new devices or repellents – in a self-contained two-bedroom suite in his garden. Dr Naylor has been bitten ‘millions and millions’ of times – and says he is now immune, but gets anaemia symptoms every now and again. Dr Naylor says he’s immune, but still takes part for science (Picture: SWNS) Dr Naylor, who lives in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, runs a not-for-profit business called the Bed Bug Foundation. And he says his wife doesn’t get jealous of his bed mates – as she is a former biology teacher who works in the business too. He said: ‘I don’t react to the bites anymore. Apparently it takes something like 40,000 bites to stop reacting to bed bugs. ”And that for me was more than a decade ago. So I haven’t reacted for a long time. Over time, your immune system just stops reacting to it. ‘For most people, it’s something like an angry mosquito bite, a bit more severe than a mosquito bite. But gradually it gets less and less, and I don’t get any swelling or inflammation anymore now.’ Dr Naylor, who has worked on bed bugs since 2001, has set up a lab in his garden with his wife Alexia. Naylor says he doesn’t ‘react’ to bed bug bites anymore. (Credits: Getty Images) They produce research into insects and conduct product trials for the pest management industry. Follow Metro on WhatsApp to be the first to get all the latest news Follow us to receive the latest news updates from Metro (Picture: Getty Images) Metro’s on Whatsapp! Join our community for breaking…

According to Florence Pugh, Denis Villeneuve’s stunningly strange and breathtaking universe is the equivalent to George Lucas’ heroic space opera. Let’s hope not A long time ago, far far away, in a galaxy called the 1970s, kids dreamed of joining the rebellion, rescuing a princess and blowing up the Death Star. Peer into the cosmic tea leaves and it would become immediately clear that no amount of evildoing could withstand a neurotic gold butler, a dustbin with ideas above its station and a walking seven-foot tall shagpile carpet with a very low tolerance for disagreement. It is worth remembering this when considering Florence Pugh’s recent declaration, ahead of next month’s Dune: Part Three, that Dune is her generation’s Star Wars. And then wondering how much trouble we might be in if she’s actually right. “I think they brought back movie-going. What an event the second [Dune] was,” Pugh cheerfully told the New York Times. “It was just so lovely to be a part of something that we know is our generational kind of Star Wars.” Continue reading...

Where oceanic crust subducts beneath continental crust, belts of volcanoes known as continental arcs can form. Located around the world, these arcs may undergo episodic magma flare-ups—dramatic surges in the flow of magma into the continental crust at rates up to 20 times higher than normal. However, what triggers these extreme surges, which last tens of millions of years, can be unclear.

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA winner Simon Pegg (Mission: Impossible and Star Trek franchises) has joined two-time Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti in horror pic Boutique. The film will follows an American tourist (Giamatti) who travels to the eerie English seaside town that inspired the work of his favorite reclusive author (Pegg), only to become entangled with a murderous […]

“Enjoy Your Stay,” the Berlin Film Festival drama from “Goliath” director Dominik Locher and Filipino filmmaker Honeylyn Joy Alipio, has been acquired by Indonesian distributor Falcon and has its Indonesian premiere at Jakarta World Cinema. The film follows Luz, an undocumented Filipina cleaner at a Swiss luxury ski resort. “We heard about [stories of] Indonesian […]

Ruffled gowns, sequins and a werewolf hunter dressed in layers of wool are among this year’s costume designs audiences will see on screen. Contemporary designs are seen in Olivia Wilde in “The Invite,” while a nod to the Regency era is made in “Sense and Sensibility.” And there are numbers. Marci Rodgers delivered over 3,000 […]

A dry scalp can be treated with the right products and tweaks to your daily hair routine. Here, experts break down the easy ways you can keep your scalp moisturized and hair healthy.

‘Burnham has the same values as he always had, and is arguing for the same things he always did. Yet in other ways he is not the same person,’ writes Alastair Campbell