May the 4th be with you! Like many 'Star Wars' fans, we have loved and loathed the various parts of the space franchise. Here's what we've written over the last half a century or so.

Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun turns a shared obsession over a fictional TV series into an inchoate story of teenage semi-friendship and arrested development.

Don't tempt fate by trolling Tiffany Haddish online. She will hunt you down: 'Sometimes, I get so mad that I'll get they phone number and I'll just call them.'

At its best, director David Leitch's movie is a romantic comedy that coasts on the chemistry between Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. The stunts aren't bad, either.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker recalls the frenzy of awards season and discusses his mysterious new movie, "Evil Does Not Exist," an attempt to dodge expectations.

A Hulu documentary looks at the story of a Japanese comedian named Nasubi who became the unwitting star of a reality show in 1998.

A cinematic presentation of a London production of "Macbeth" starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma has a limited engagement in movie theaters.

More than 30 years after its release, the 1993 cult classic will be available on streaming for the first time.

Anne Hathaway put alcohol (and hangovers) on a shelf more than five years ago. Now, she's expressing gratitude for the gifts and opportunities she's been given.

Loaded with teenage confusion and intense fandom, 'I Saw the TV Glow' speaks to its audience in an intimate way. Its trans director made the film as a lifeline.

Founded by filmmakers who had been rejected by Sundance, Slamdance is stepping out of Park City's shadow, relocating to Los Angeles and picking February dates.

Paramount CEO Bob Bakish's ouster comes a day after David Ellison's Skydance Media sweetened its offer for Shari Redstone's National Amusements, with money earmarked for Paramount's Class B shareholders.

Blue Ivy Carter, 12, is making her feature film debut alongside her mom, BeyoncA(c), in Disney's upcoming film 'Mufasa: The Lion King.'

Russell Brand, finding solace in Christianity amid rape and sexual assault allegations, reveals he was baptized over the weekend. 'This is my path now,' he said.

'Challengers' scored more than $15 million at the box office, according to ComScore. But overall box office sales are still down from a year ago.

'Challengers' actor Zendaya, who played MJ in three recent 'Spider-Man' movies, reacts to a fan's viral comparison of past leads who've gone on to tennis films.

'Emma Stone' is not Emma Stone's real name. Now the two-time Oscar winner has decided she prefers to be called by her given moniker: 'I would like to be Emily'

Billie Eilish says she needed a break from the constant 'Barbie, Barbie, Barbie' questions that came at her on the movie's press tour and the awards circuit.

Junky, manic and action-laden in an enervating manner, director Moritz Mohr's debut feature doesn't seem to be made for audiences to enjoy so much as endure.

Rebel Wilson and team opt to keep parts of her book 'Rebel Rising' from hitting some shelves a to avoid legal backlash from former co-star Sacha Baron Cohen.

Brothers Joel and Luke Smallbone, better known as Christian pop duo For King & Country, dramatize their own rise in a movie that could use some distance.

Directed by Luca Guadagnino, the tennis drama stars Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor as longtime friends whose relationships combust on and off the court.

On the occasion of her receiving AFI's Life Achievement Award, the actor goes deep on the filming of one of her pivotal and signature roles.

Casting directors from Anne Hathaway's films 'The Princess Diaries' and 'Brokeback Mountain' denied conducting 'gross' on-screen chemistry tests in auditions.

Actor Terry Carter, who starred in television's original 'Battlestar Galactica' series and 'McCloud' and appeared in the movie 'Foxy Brown,' has died. He was 95.

Homer Laffoon, Anne Heche's son and the executor of her estate, said in legal documents that his mother's estate is 'not in a condition to be closed.'

Sydney Sweeney was behind those Glen Powell affair rumors to plug their rom-com: 'I was on every call. I was in text group chats. ... I couldn't stop with ideas.'

After being fired from the 'Scream' franchise, Melissa Barrera reclaims her scream queen status with 'Abigail,' the latest campy, gory romp from Radio Silence Productions.

Anne Hathaway explains that chemistry tests from the early 2000s required her to kiss 10 guys. Now, as a producer, she runs her auditions differently.

Police arrest more than 200 students at UCLA as law enforcement clears camp at Dartmouth, arresting more than 90 students

More than 2,000 people have now been arrested during pro-Palestinian protests across dozens of US college campuses in recent weeks.

Police arrested more than 300 pro-Palestinian demonstrators on college campuses on Wednesday night into Thursday morning, pushing the total past 2,000, according to an Associated Press tally.

State supreme court had ruled that the near-total abortion ban could be enforced, unleashing unprecedented outrage

After weeks of national outcry and intense political warfare, Katie Hobbs on Thursday signed into law a measure to repeal an 1864 near-total abortion ban that was passed before Arizona even became a state.

The signature of the Democratic Arizona governor is the result of a stunning turn in Arizona politics and the white-hot debate over abortion rights post-Roe v Wade. The 1864 ban, which only permits abortions to save a womanas life, had long threatened to return to force, but in April the Arizona supreme court ruled the ban could be enforced.

Court hears that Keith Davidson texted National Enquirer editor on night of Trumpas 2016 victory to say aWhat have we done?a

Donald Trumpas Manhattan criminal trial enters its 11th day following raucous testimony about his increasingly unhinged underling and the tawdry business of celebrity sex scandals.

Keith Davidson, the attorney representing Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, returned to the witness stand on Thursday. Davidson was grilled on his communications with former National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard around the 2016 election and Michael Cohen, Trumpas then fixer.

Tourists delighted as pinnipeds congregate at cityas Pier 39, apparently attracted by feast of anchovies

More than 1,000 sea lions have gathered at San Franciscoas Pier 39 this spring, the largest herd in at least 15 years.

Mounds of floppy, delightfully ungraceful marine mammals have plopped themselves on to rafts along the cityas pier, displaying themselves to the thousands of tourists who pass by the area each day.

Israel has not said how it learned of the death of Dror Or, who was kidnapped on 7 October

Pro-Palestinian protesters were camped on university campuses across Australia on Friday, with some scuffling with pro-Israel protesters in Sydney, mirroring similar events in the US, reports the Associated Press (AP).

Students have set up encampments at universities in major Australian cities over the last two weeks to protest Israelas offensive in Gaza. According to the AP, the students are demanding that universities sever all academic ties with Israel and cut off research partnerships with arms manufacturers.

The news agency reports that no arrests were made, as the violence seen on some US campuses has not occurred in Australia.

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters on Friday met a counterprotest supporting Israel at the University of Sydney, Australiaas oldest university. The Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) reported a scuffle between the groups. Supporters of both sides later backed down because of a heavy security presence.

University of Sydney vice-chancellor Mark Scott said there was space for both groups of protesters.

aThey may strongly disagree with the matters that have been discussed a| We can host that conversation and we should be able to do that in a non-threatening way,a he told ABC.

Scott said not all of the protesters were students, and that some might not be committed to peaceful and productive engagement. aWe are working with security and police,a he said.

Move puts forces in close proximity at a time when military and diplomatic rivalry is increasing over Ukraine

Good morning and welcome to the blog. The time in Kyiv and Moscow is approaching 10.30am.

In a worrying sign of how tensions are spreading, Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting US troops, a senior US defence official told Reuters.

Weapons supplied by Britain to Ukraine can be used to strike inside Russia, David Cameron has said, as the UK foreign secretary promised APS3bn a year afor as long as it is necessarya to help Kyiv.

Emmanuel Macron has said the question of sending western troops to Ukraine would alegitimatelya arise if Russia broke through Ukrainian frontlines and Kyiv made such a request. In an interview with the Economist, the French president maintained his stance of strategic ambiguity, saying: aIam not ruling anything out, because we are facing someone who is not ruling anything out.a

At least eight children were injured in the town of Derhachi in Ukraineas north-eastern Kharkiv region on Thursday when Russian guided bombs struck a site close to a sports complex where they had been training, local officials said. An elderly man was also wounded.

Russia said on Thursday it had captured the village of Berdychi which lies about 12km (7 miles) north-west of Avdiivka a a week after Ukrainian forces pulled out.

Joshua Dean, 45, former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, alleged agross misconduct by quality managementa

Joshua Dean, a Boeing whistleblower who warned of manufacturing defects in the planemakeras 737 Max, has died after a short illness, the second Boeing whistleblower to die this year.

Dean, 45, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems, filed a complaint with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) alleging aserious and gross misconduct by senior quality management of the 737 production linea at Spirit.

In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org

After a long spell of intense heat and little rain, water levels have fallen to reveal parts of a sunken church, tombstones and foundations at Pantabangan

Ruins of a centuries-old town have emerged at a dam parched by drought in the northern Philippines.

After a prolonged spell of intense heat and little rain, water levels in the dam have fallen to reveal parts of a sunken church, tombstones and the foundations of structures from the 300-year-old town in Nueva Ecija province.

The launch of the uncrewed Changae-6 is part of Chinaas effort to put a human on the lunar surface by 2030

China will attempt another mission to the far side of the moon on Friday, the first of three planned over coming years as part of its goal to land a human on the lunar surface by 2030.

The launch of the uncrewed Changae-6 is expected sometime between 8.30am GMT and 11am GMT and the mission a if successful a would go far to bolster Chinaas ambitions to put a man on the moon by 2030.

Unesco joint research dating back 15 years found violence and intimidation against about 750 reporters and 44 murders

More than 70% of environmental journalists have been attacked for their work since 2009, according to a Unesco report, which warns of rising threats against those covering the climate crisis.

At least 749 environmental journalists have faced violence and intimidation in the last 15 years, the UN body found. It said that 44 reporters were murdered between 2009 and 2023 but that resulted in just five convictions.

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• Recommendations serve to avoid possible aprovocationsa

Ukraineas athletes have been urged by their Olympic chiefs not to have any contact with their Russian and Belarusian counterparts at the Paris Games in July and August.

Ukraine had threatened to boycott the Games after the International Olympic Committee decided Russians and Belarusians who do not openly support the invasion of Ukraine and have no army connections can compete as neutrals.

Ex-central banker Lady Shafik, the universityas president, now faces calls to resign due to her handling of campus unrest

Steering Columbia University through the choppy waters of anti-Israel student protests was never going to be easy for Minouche Shafik, a member of the UK House of Lords who took over as president of the university in New York after a period of relative calm running the London School of Economics.

During her tenure as LSE director between 2017 and last year, academics largely refused to join the industrial action that dominated campuses across much of the UK.

Four in 10 politicians report low or very low mental wellbeing, and some are being driven out. What can be done to ease the burden?

It was a political bombshell, one that prompted shock and set off debate across much of Spain. But for the film director Pedro AlmodA3var, news that the prime minister, Pedro SA!nchez, was considering resigning last week did not come as a surprise.

aThereas no human being who can resist what the most resistant of our presidents has been suffering in recent years,a AlmodA3var wrote in an open letter, published days before SA!nchez announced he would stay on, depicting SA!nchez as a politician who had potentially reached his breaking point.

Franceas Macron stands firm on potentially sending troops; sanctions on Russian gas leave Gazprom with record annual loss. What we know on day 800

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Threats from the state have led many journalists across the world to flee their home countries to report from elsewhere. But for many the intimidation did not stop when they left

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Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International

The history of how the all-American breakfast snack was created is served up with lashings of goofiness in this comedy caper

Standup veteran Jerry Seinfeld makes his directing debut with this decent family comedy that puts a surreal twist on the history of Pop-Tarts, one of the USas most beloved snacks: the sheer goofiness and disposable pointlessness are entertaining.

Seinfeld created the film with co-writers Spike Feresten, Andy Robin and Barry Marder, the same writing team that worked on Bee Movie, the animation that Seinfeld starred in, produced and co-wrote in 2007. Unfrosted doesnat quite have the flair of Bee Movie, but thereas a steady stream of excellent gags, creating a rising crescendo of silliness similar in effect to Seinfeldas own distinctive falsetto-hysterical declamation at the moment of ultimate joke-awareness. There are also nice supporting roles and cameos, including an extraordinary dual walk-on from Jon Hamm and John Slattery, recreating their ad exec Mad Men personae Don Draper and Roger Sterling.

As humans enter what has been termed the athird space agea, itas private companies a not governments a leading the charge

If the 20th-century space race was about political power, this centuryas will be about money. But for those who dream of sending humans back to the moon and possibly Mars, itas an exciting time to be alive whether itas presidents or billionaires paying the fare.

Space flight is having a renaissance moment, bringing a fresh energy not seen since the days of the Apollo programme and, for the first time, with private companies rather than governments leading the charge.

From excessive travel to food waste, weddings can have a huge carbon footprint. Hereas how to plan an eco-friendly celebration

A wedding is a coupleas big day. Unfortunately, it can also have a big carbon footprint.

The average American wedding creates around 60 metric tons of CO₂ a the carbon equivalent of 71 round-trip flights from New York to LA. Youad need to plant roughly 60 trees and let them grow for 100 years to sequester that amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. And with more than 2m marriages taking place in the US alone in 2022, the wedding industryas environmental impact adds up.

The ADA just settled an explosive legal case accusing the organization of betraying people with diabetes

A cloak of silence has descended over the recent whistleblower lawsuit claiming that the American Diabetes Association, or ADA, accepted corporate money in return for recommending recipes that threatened the health of people with diabetes.

Elizabeth Hanna, the ex-ADA chief nutritionist who alleged that her former employer fired her over her refusal to endorse Splenda-filled salads, has quietly settled her case. In a statement to the Guardian, Hannaas attorney, Lauren Davis, said that athe matter has been resolveda. No details were provided either by Davis or by a spokesperson for the ADA, which declined to comment.

She may not realise the effect sheas having on you, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith. Try to be clear with her about what would help

I had my first child around one year ago and the previously amicable and warm relationship with my mother-in-law has since become cool and standoffish. I feel my mother-in-law is emotionally manipulative and puts a lot of pressure on my husband, and in turn me, to spend time with my daughter. I think these feelings initiated for me when she was too present in our home in the first hours and days of my daughter coming home. On reflection, it feels as though she was invading a space that was very private and intimate at a time when I was exhausted, sore and vulnerable and unable to hold my boundaries myself. Since then I have been resentful and felt she was taking advantage of my exhaustion to get intimate time with her newborn granddaughter, as opposed to respecting what was the right thing for me. I now feel a need to keep her at armas length for fear she will again overstep.

My husband is supportive but ultimately feels pulled by his motheras emotional manipulation. All in all, she is a kind woman, and I donat think she will have even considered that her behaviour was an overstep. I donat really know where to go from here, as I do want my daughter to have a relationship with her grandmother, but I also donat want my mother-in-law being involved in as many aspects of my life as I know she desires. What can I do?

Once dismissed as a lesser art form, the still life has been reinvented as a radical form of expression, as a thrilling new show makes clear

Still life is the lowest form of art. So declared the French Academy when it established its Hierarchy of Genres in the 17th century. Historical scenes and portraiture were the noblest genres, whereas landscapes and still lifes were considered lowly. According to the art institute, biblical frescoes required a higher level of mastery; an inanimate fruit bowl, or a bunch of wilting flowers? Anybody could paint those.

This categorisation shaped the perception of still life as a marginal genre. Four centuries on, the discourse has pivoted. aThe careful and meticulous depiction of objects has always been an element of art, but generally this was something you saw in the backdrop of a religious scene or a portrait,a says Melanie Vandenbrouck, chief curator at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. This month, the Chichester museum will present a comprehensive survey of around 150 still lifes made in Britain. Chronologically charting its development, the exhibition presents it as a fundamental genre of British art, one that has historically grappled with the universal human experiences of love and grief, but also provided a radical commentary on gender inequality, the climate crisis and war.

As Kong continues to terrorise us in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we rate some chilling chimps

Despite the English title, thereas only one aapea in this cheesy slice of Mexploitation, once labelled a video nasty. A mad doctor transplants the heart of a gorilla into his dying son; the youth turns into a homicidal simian creep who sexually assaults women. Also features a lady luchador.

Researchers visited the Chicago Cafe to find out if itas really 121 years old a and entered a chop suey parlor filled with memories

On a warm morning in March, a group of researchers entered an unassuming chop suey parlor in the Sacramento suburbs for a rare field trip.

The six history enthusiasts affiliated with the University of California, Davis, had gathered at the Chicago Cafe in Woodland, California, with one goal in mind: to determine the exact age of what may be the oldest Chinese restaurant in the country.

The viral Glasgow event made children cry and adults seethe. Could a California tribute provide some measure of absolution?

She was the sad Oompa Loompa seen around the world. Inside a bleak warehouse in Glasgow, a supposed celebration of Wonkaas delectable world of chocolate left children crying and parents calling the police. Attendees paid APS35 to visit a bleak warehouse with a handful of props and posters; inside, they were treated to two jellybeans each and a few poorly costumed actors. Images of the event went extremely viral, making international news and inspiring a horror film and an hour-long documentary.

Two months later, I found myself walking toward another grim-looking warehouse, this time in downtown Los Angeles. I was here for Willyas Chocolate Experience LA, a tribute to the Glasgow disaster promising live entertainment, a red carpet-style photo op and a rare chance to meet the celebrity Oompa Loompa herself.

Slow response from authorities left students shocked as people wearing white masks attacked pro-Palestine protesters

When Meghna Nair, a second-year student at the University of California, Los Angeles, saw a masked group of people headed toward the pro-Palestine encampment on campus late on Tuesday evening, she expected trouble.

aI knew where they were going. I had an idea what they planned to do,a she said. aI didnat know what to do.a

Shifting atmospheric circulation patterns have placed US state in frontline of climate crisis

Changing weather patterns might not have been foremost in Bob Dylanas mind when he wrote The Times They Are A-Changina, but his lyrics seem apt now. Rising greenhouse gases are altering the worldas weather patterns and new research demonstrates how increased emissions have shifted atmospheric circulation patterns, resulting in more frequent extreme weather events around the world.

California in North America has ended up being at the frontline of the climate crisis in recent years, lurching between extreme drought and excessive rain. To understand what might have triggered these extremes, researchers modelled the interplay between the three major drivers of the weather in this region and the impact that greenhouse warming has had on these drivers.

In history, as in romance, beginnings matter a so what we do now will be crucial in shaping the future

In these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin Niblett, the former director of the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House, proposes in a new book? Is this bringing us towards the brink of a third world war, as the historian Niall Ferguson has argued? Or, as I have found myself suggesting on occasion, is the world beginning to resemble the late 19th-century Europe of competing empires and great powers writ large?

Another way of trying to put our travails into historically comprehensible shape is to label them as an aage of a|a, with the words that follow suggesting either a parallel with or a sharp contrast to an earlier age. So the CNN foreign affairs guru Fareed Zakaria suggests in his latest book that we are in a new Age of Revolutions, meaning that we can learn something from the French, Industrial and American revolutions. Or is it rather The Age of the Strongman, as proposed by the Financial Times foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman? No, itas The Age of Unpeace, says Mark Leonard, the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, since aconnectivity causes conflicta.

Useful idiots keep parroting provably false Israeli talking points. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me a|

aThe Italians having a proverb,a wrote the 17th-century British courtier Anthony Weldon, aaHe that deceives me once, its his fault; but if twice, itas my fault.aa

Today, we commonly summarize that old Italian proverb as: aFool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.a

Timeline on repeat:

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