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Movies

Ahmed Ezz and Karim Abdel Aziz turn enemies into allies in the $40M 7 Dogs

An Interpol agent and a wanted syndicate enforcer agree to chase the same target from opposite ends of the law, and that uneasy alliance is the engine of 7 Dogs. Directed by the Bad Boys duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah and built as the most expensive Arabic-language film ever mounted, it surrounds Egyptian leads Ahmed Ezz and Karim Abdel Aziz with an international cast and a record-setting arsenal of practical explosions.

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Movies

St. Elmo’s Fire moves from wish to script as Rob Lowe bets a coming-of-age film can grow up

Takuya Kimura and Chieko Baisho on a holiday-lit Tokyo street in the Yoji Yamada drama Tokyo Taxi

Takuya Kimura drives, Chieko Baisho remembers in Yoji Yamada’s Tokyo Taxi

Gael García Bernal as Ferdinand Magellan in the jungle in Lav Diaz's Magellan

Lav Diaz casts Gael García Bernal as a Magellan drained of glory

Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg faces Guillaume Marbeck as Jean-Luc Godard in a black-and-white street scene from Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague.

Richard Linklater restages the birth of Breathless in black-and-white Nouvelle Vague

TV Shows

Chris & Martina: The Final Set — Netflix reopens an 80-match rivalry that outlasted the tennis

Rebecca Gitlitz’s Netflix documentary sits Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova in front of their own old matches — eighty of them, decades of trying to beat each other — and finds the two rivals now facing cancer side by side. The final set, it turns out, is not the one with a trophy.

Agent Kim Reactivated on Netflix: So Ji-sub’s bank manager hid a black-ops past

Notes from the Last Row: Choi Min-sik returns in a Netflix thriller about a teacher hooked on a student’s writing

Avatar: The Last Airbender returns to Netflix with an Earth Kingdom season that belongs to Toph

The Bear Season 5: Carmy chases perfection, and the kitchen pays the price

Sports

A host-city landmark illuminated during the 2026 FIFA World Cup

Technology

Pragmata: Capcom’s action game where you can’t kill what Diana hasn’t hacked first

China bet it could beat the US in supercomputing without Nvidia. It did

Analysis

Music

Marina Comparato performing an aria from Juditha Triumphans by Antonio Vivaldi

Science

Gravitational lensing arcs in galaxy cluster Abell 2218

Business

Sanna Marin addresses European Parliament on strategic autonomy in energy, food, defence and technology — European Parliament (CC BY 2.0)

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Movies

“Best. Christmas. Ever!” (2023) Christmas Movie on Netflix: Yes, more of the same

Cowbois production photos, 2023: shoot 2. Photo credit: Charlie Josephine

Plays

Royal Shakespeare Company And The Royal Court Theatre Announce London Transfer Of Charlie Josephine’s Cowbois With Full Cast

The 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts From the void came gifts of the cosmos takes place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 15 September 2023 – 14 January 2024

Art

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