‘Closing Night’ Review: Sarah Paulson and Naomi Watts Lead a Deluxe Cast in a Shrill Family Melodrama in Search of a Binding Tone

Is actor-turned-director Cody Fern’s debut, Closing Night, intended as a refraction of John Cassavetes’ Opening Night, the 1977 Gena Rowlands vehicle about an actress grappling with a debilitating personal crisis? Seems likely, though that would be just one of several instances of the filmmaker’s aim exceeding his reach. For at least half the movie’s running…

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Matt Van Wagner shares what’s changed, what disappeared and what PPC still gets wrong

Paid search veteran Matt Van Wagner reflects on 20 years of Google Ads, lost PPC tactics, rising automation and more The search marketing industry has gone from an entrepreneurial “gold rush” to an era dominated by automation, AI and increasingly consolidated platforms. Looking back over that transformation, paid search veteran Matt Van Wagner reflected on…

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Inherit the Winds TV Anime Spotlights Side Characters in Latest Trailer

The latest trailer has been released for the Inherit the Winds anime series during the Aniplex One Focus online event last weekend, spotlighting some previously announced characters and their voice actors. The upcoming anime will premiere in Japan in January 2027.  The characters highlighted in the trailer include Yamanami Keisuke, Harada Sanosuke, Nagakura Shinpachi, Todo…

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When software starts shaping family memory

There is a particular kind of question that families postpone for years. It is difficult not because the answer is secret, but because the question is too large: Tell me about your life. Faced with it, even a willing storyteller may retreat into generalities. A childhood becomes “happy”. A marriage was “good”. A migration, a…

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Finneas & The Rest Of Ed Sheeran’s Tour Openers Quit In Solidarity With Macklemore — Read Their Statements

Ed Sheeran just lost more support. Hours after the Perfect singer released his statement on the controversy surrounding his Loop tour and Macklemore, the rest of his opening acts are quitting in solidarity with Macklemore. Finneas, Lukas Graham, Aaron Rowe, and Beoga have all voluntarily dropped out. (To get the backstory on how we got…

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BIS paper finds major gap in Bitcoin onchain transfer estimates

A BIS study found widely used crypto metrics can obscure economic activity, with measurement challenges spanning Bitcoin, Ethereum and stablecoins. Researchers at the Bank for International Settlements found that estimates of Bitcoin onchain transfer values can vary by as much as sixfold depending on how transactions are measured. The finding concerns onchain Bitcoin transfer values,…

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