Last year’s Toronto film festival, a key stop on the fall circuit for some of the season’s biggest new movies, was a subdued edition, the strikes affecting both the films in the lineup as well as the stars who were unable to attend. But this year, things seem to be back to where they once … Read more
In case you missed it, Serial’s Sarah Koenig was recently interviewed by Fiona Sturges for the Guardian, on 10 years of Serial. It was an intriguing interview about how web sleuths had changed Koenig’s own view of the Adnan Syed case that made her podcast such a huge hit back in 2014. But one section … Read more
Romesh Wadhwani, chairman and founder of SAIGroup. Image: Timothy Archibald It’s an exciting time to be in AI (artificial intelligence), says Romesh Wadhwani, who has seen five generations of AI. The previous cycles were limited in capabilities. They were less flexible and agile, and the barriers to adoption at scale were high. On the contrary, … Read more
Brady Corbet’s amazing and engrossing epic The Brutalist is about the design of postwar America and what was mixed into its foundations at the building stage. It asks us to decide if and how the brutalism of the title applies to something other than architecture, and wonders about the future ruin of what we all … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature The Labour MP Kim Leadbeater has come out top in the Commons private member’s bill ballot, PA Media reports. The MP for Spen Valley in West Yorkshire will now have the first chance among MPs to bring forward a Bill of … Read more
Victor Osimhen could not wipe the smile off his face. As he stepped off the private jet that had been lined up several hours earlier by Galatasaray in anticipation of pulling off one of the biggest transfer coups made by a Turkish club, it was well past 2am. By the time the Nigeria striker was … Read more
The Karamchandanis of HyFun Foods: (from left) Haresh,MD & group CEO; Jayraj, director, Dhiraj, promoter; Kishanchand, director, Kamlesh, executive director Ahmedabad, 2010 … Read more
This will be the year of … Who else? Patrick Mahomes, pretty much like he has been the last five seasons, will be the NFL’s main focal point. Mahomes, entering his eighth NFL season, has led the Chiefs to three Super Bowl victories and another AFC title, and he won’t turn 29 until next month. … Read more
People have been trying to retire Luka Modric for more than six years. It was in the aftermath of the 2018 World Cup that friends first gently began to broach the subject: his contemporaries Mario Mandzukic and Vedran Corluka had called it a day after Croatia’s defeat in the final, and Modric himself knew there … Read more
Two months on from the Tories’ worst election result in its history, none of its prospective leadership candidates inspire confidence in a fast bounce-back. Research by More in Common found that 70% of the public either didn’t know who could win the next election for the Tories, or thought none of them could. James Cleverly, … Read more