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Christian Slater has his family’s support on his big day!

The 55-year-old Mr. Robot actor was joined by his adorable daughter Lena as he posed with his new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday afternoon (June 9) in Los Angeles.

Also in attendance at the event was his eldest daughter Eliana, 23, and his wife Brittany Lopez.

“I have amazing and wonderful children [and] I can’t imagine my life without them. They are the greatest,” Christian said during the ceremony, via People. “Having a star on Hollywood Blvd is great, but none of this would have been possible without my family and the love I have today.”

Keep reading to find out more…Along with Lena, who was born in 2019, Christian and Brittany are also parents to a son born in 2024. Christian shares Eliana and son Jaden, 25, with ex-wife Ryan Haddon.

Also in attendance at the ceremony were...

Immerse yourself in the story of E-Soul, one of the many superheroes of To Be Hero X . Today, the Aniplex YouTube channel dropped a new music video focused on the hero, featuring his theme song. Musician and composer Kenmochi Hidefumi composed the track, titled "Neon Rain." Eliana, whose anime work includes the insert song for Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress , provides vocals: To Be Hero X - "Neon Rain" Music Video Related: Why To Be Hero X Gets Superheroes Crunchyroll currently streams To Be Hero X as well as the previous two series in the franchise, To Be Hero and To Be Heroine , and describes the current series like so: In a world full of brilliant heroes, it’s the trust of fans that turns heroes into superheroes. If a hero loses the people’s trust, they lose their special abilities. Trust value is collected, quantified, and used to determine a hero’s ranking,...

Unfortunately, few mainstream audiences have seen 2025's Best International Feature winner at the Oscars, I'm Still Here, which beat out the widely controversial Emilia Peréz. Due to a limited release in select theaters around the U.S., the film has remained largely inaccessible to American audiences. Thankfully, after the film earned an Oscar for Best International Feature, more audiences are seeking out independent cinemas that are screening the film.

I'm Still Here tells the riveting story of the Paiva family living in a beachside house in Rio de Janeiro in the 70s during Brazil's Military Dictatorship. Life for the Paivas seems normal and carefree until their father, Rubens, a former congressman, is taken for questioning and does not return. The film centers around his wife, Eunice, as she grapples with her husband's disappearance and fights for answers regarding what happened to him.

The Film Is a Brutally Honest Depiction of the Military Regime in Brazil.

Actor Adrien Brody appeared in the critically acclaimed epic period drama film The Brutalist. The film earned Brody several accolades, including a Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama win at the Golden Globes. As a result, Brody is the clear frontrunner to win the Best Actor Oscar at the upcoming 97th Academy Awards, which will soon reveal its final nominations.

Adrien Brody played László Tóth in The Brutalist (Credits: A24).

As The Brutalist prepares to take over the Oscars, the film has landed in some controversy thanks to its editor Dávid Jancsó’s recent comments. According to the editor, Brody’s performance in the movie was reportedly modified with the use of AI. Therefore, some fans were understandably upset and expressed their wish for Brody to be disqualified from the Oscars race on social media.

Editor of Adrien Brody’s The Brutalist revealed the film’s use of AI...

This review was originally published on October 26, 2024 as a part of our Middleburg Film Festival coverage.

I’m Still Here, Walter Salles’ latest film, is all about the profoundness of feeling in an unstable, tumultuous time, and how it rocks the boat of a seemingly stable family. The Brazilian film is a family drama wrapped in a political story. It’s focused primarily on Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) and her five children after her husband, Rubens (Selton Mello) — a former congressman who was ousted when the Brazilian Military Dictatorship took over — is disappeared in 1971. Written by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, I’m Still Here is an evocative, nuanced portrait of family and the lasting imprint of politics.

I'm Still Here is set during the early 1970s military dictatorship in Brazil, focusing on the Paiva family. As the regime intensifies, Rubens, Eunice, and their five children live in an open house by the beach in Rio.

Established via a coup in 1964, the Fifth Brazilian Republic had been in place for close to seven years when government officials showed up at the house of Rubens Paiva. He had been a former Congressman who’d been vocal about the regime change back in the day, but Paiva was out of politics now and working as an engineer in Rio de Janeiro. Still, the men had some questions for him in regard to leftist groups who may or may not have been involved with a recent kidnapping. They asked...

The dizzying part of living under an authoritarian regime is how it makes the very act of caretaking feel like a radical act. When maintaining a home in the face of encroaching fear and paranoia, surveillance and retaliation become emblems of opposition. Yet the mere appearance of normalcy can often also feel indistinguishable from capitulation.

Ayrton Senna may not have gotten the time to enjoy his fame and success of being one of the craziest Formula One drivers who won 41 Grand Prix across the 11 seasons he raced. However, he succumbed to death in a tragic accident. At the same time, he definitely enjoyed his time as a lover boy. It’s no secret now that he had relations with not one, but many women during the peak years of his life. But one of his relationships that remained secret for a long time has now been revealed, by his ex-girlfriend Adriane Yamin.

Ayrton Senna | Credits: Wikimedia Commons

From models to movie stars to grid girls, Senna used to be surrounded by gorgeous ladies all the time. However, he only married one, Lilian de Vasconcelos Souza, even though within three years of their marriage, they parted ways. That is when he met a 15-year-old Adriane and...

Walter Salles’ 1998 international breakthrough, Central Station, earned an Oscar nomination for the magnificent Fernanda Montenegro. Now in her 90s, the actress turns up toward the end of the director’s first feature in his native Brazil in 16 years, the shattering I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui), in a role that requires her to speak only through her expressive eyes. What makes the connection even more poignant is that she appears as the elderly, infirm version of the protagonist — a woman of quiet strength and resistance played by Montenegro’s daughter, Fernanda Torres, with extraordinary grace and dignity in the face of emotional suffering.

Many powerful films have been made about the 21 years of military dictatorship in Brazil, from 1964 through 1985, just as they have about similar oppressive regimes in neighboring South American countries like Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. The human rights abuses of systematic torture, murder and forced disappearances represent an...

As the title might suggest, Walter Salles’ first dramatic feature in 12 years is ultimately a celebration of Brazil — not only of the resilience of its liberalism under tyrannical rulers, but of its sunlight, its carnival spirit and the delicious blue of the sea that rolls onto Rio de Janeiro’s broad beaches. I’m Still Here tells the true story of the Paivas and their five children, whose easy, giggling closeness is documented by middle daughter Eliana with her Super 8 camera — the Christmas present of choice in 1970 — in a film we see within the film. The military dictatorship has its grip on the country. It is an act of rebellion to be happy.

So we watch the Paivas, a couple still visibly in love after a few decades of marriage, playing beach volleyball with their children, dad-dancing to pop songs and eating lavish dinners. Their rented house is already too small for them all,...

Christian Slater is now a dad of four!

On Saturday (August 10), it was revealed that the 54-year-old Mr. Robot actor and wife Brittany very quietly welcomed their second child together, People confirmed.

As of right now, no other details, including the baby’s name or sex, have been revealed yet. However, it was confirmed that they welcomed the baby in July.

Keep reading to find out more…This is the second child for the couple who have been married since 2013. They are also parents to a 4-year-old daughter. Christian is also dad to daughter Eliana, 22, and son Jaden, 25, whom he shares with ex-wife Ryan Haddon.

While attending the premiere of his new movie Blink Twice earlier this week, Christian opened up about being a dad at this stage in his life.

“Wow. I mean, it’s just different,” Christian told People. “The whole thing is different. I’m certainly a...

Christian Slater is going to be a dad again!

The 54-year-old actor’s wife Brittany debuted her baby bump while posing on the red carpet at the premiere of his new movie Unfrosted on Tuesday (April 30) held at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood in Los Angeles.

This will be the second child for the couple who have been married since 2013. They are also parents to a 4-year-old daughter. Christian is also dad to daughter Eliana, 22, and son Jaden, 25, whom he shares with ex-wife Ryan Haddon.

Keep reading to find out more…Also in attendance at the premiere were Christian‘s co-stars Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, Melissa McCarthy and husband Ben Falcone, Peter Dinklage, Adrian Martinez, Kyle Mooney, Felix Solis, Bill Burr, Sarah Burns, Dean Norris, Jack MacBrayer, Max Greenfield and wife Tess Sanchez, Thomas Lennon, Bobby Moynihan, Sarah Cooper, and Beck Bennett.

Jerry was also joined at the premiere by wife...

A painting in Hogwarts Legacy connects to lore from the older game Wonderbook: Book of Spells. Hogwarts Legacy draws on various corners of the Harry Potter franchise for worldbuilding, including obscure sources. The story of Illyuis in the painting has a detailed backstory from Book of Spells, adding depth to the Wizarding World lore.

A hidden secret in Hogwarts Legacy reveals a piece of lore that connects the game to a much older and less remembered Harry Potter game. Hogwarts Legacy is full of Easter eggs that both expand the lore of Harry Potter and connect the game to other aspects of the franchise, some more easily recognized than others. With such an expansive universe to draw on, it can even be surprisingly easy at times to mistake previously established lore for brand-new information.

Considering just how many small details are included in Hogwarts Legacy, it is unsurprising that the...

Miami– Gaumont USA, producer of “Narcos,” is powering up new series from both Oscar-winning “Birdman” co-writer Armando Bó and also Spain’s Manuel Martin Cuenca, director of Toronto winner “The Motive,” as well as multiple other talents. It is also readying it first movie slate.

Gaumont USA already co-produced the Bó showrun Amazon Original “El Presidente,” with Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fabula and Argentine powerhouse Kapow, both partners on “La Jauría.”

News of new series projects comes as Gaumont USA is advancing on Lucía Puenzo’s near future android family saga “Futuro Desierto” (“Desolate Future”), part of a 2020 multi-project development pact with the Argentine writer-director.

Gaumont USA is currently developing titles with Jimena Montemayor (“Wind Traces”), Pedro Amorim (“The Dognapper”), Sebastian and Emiliano Zurita (“How to Survive Being Single”), Katina Medina Mora, Belen Macias (“Verano en Rojo”), among other top-level filmmakers. Other projects are from screenwriters Ruth García...

It's important to remember the ongoing controversial statements by the creator of the Harry Potter franchise. Cbr supports the hard work of industry professionals on properties fans know and love and the wider world of Harry Potter that fans have adopted as their own. You can find Cbr's continuing coverage on Rowling here.

The Patronus charm is one of the more symbolic and spectacular spells in Harry Potter. The spell plays a considerable role in the books and movies from The Prisoner of Azkaban onward and serves as a benchmark demonstration of the purity and power of its caster. It physically demonstrates the perpetual struggle between good and evil, with the spell a blast of untainted energy and its target, the Dementors, the closest thing that exists to pure malice and wickedness.

As a result, a Patronus is not only a tough spell to cast; it is also only able...

Ralph Yarl’s classmates gathered for a unity walk Tuesday, April 18, to show their support for the Black 16-year-old, who was just released from the hospital after being shot twice by a white man last week.

Per Kshb 41 in Kansas City, about 1,500 students and some staff marched around the Staley High School campus, holding posters and chanting, “We love you Ralph” and “Justice for Ralph.” A spokesperson for North Kansas City Public Schools said the march was “intended to support Ralph in his recovery and have a positive impact on the community.

In the end, I will end up becoming annoying, but I have to say once more that documentaries prove that “Truth is stranger than fiction” repeatedly in the most pointed way. “Under the Sky of Damascus” a movie focusing on a group of young Syrian women who decide to produce a play using anonymous statements of women that have suffered in the hands of men, while also making the particular documentary about their efforts, is definitely one of those films, as the result is as meta as it is shocking.

While the consequences of war in Syria are known throughout the world, the misogyny and overall violence against women, both domestically and in the workplaces, is not something that is exactly discussed. Five young women, Farah, Eliana, Inana, Souhir, and Grace come together to highlight the issue through a stage play, despite the fact that they realize the problems this...

A sense of foreboding haunts Under the Sky of Damascus, a sobering documentary directed by Syrian filmmakers Talal Derki, Heba Khaled and Ali Wajeeh.

The film opens with a vindicating interview: The Syrian actress Sabah Al-Salem takes a long drag of her cigarette before recounting how her refusal to sleep with a high-ranking military officer landed her in prison. She looks down at the dining room table as she answers the gentle prodding of her interviewers. “You must have heard of the problems I encountered,” she says in response to their inquiries.

The interviewers — Farah and Souhir — respond with nods. Yes, they have heard of the abuse Al-Salem faced. They know that she was abandoned by friends in the film industry and all but disappeared from public life. They also understand, on a personal level, how their deeply misogynistic country offers no recourse or salvation for women. When Al-Salem says...

Millions of women in the Muslim world live under the dominion of men, subject to their rules, confined by their power. The documentary Under the Sky of Damascus, making its world premiere tonight at the Berlin Film Festival, examines the alarming gender politics in one ancient locality — the capital of Syria.

“Women are more enslaved than ever in these times,” actress Sabah Al Salem declares in the film directed by Heba Khaled, Oscar nominee Talal Derki and Ali Wajeeh. “The biggest exploitations we face are of a sexual nature.”

The film documents an attempt by a female-led theater company to create a bold play about the power imbalance in Syrian society, based on interviews conducted with women from a variety of backgrounds. Many of those testimonies are seen in the documentary, offering stark insight into the reality faced by Syrian women.

“When my dad gets mad, he tends to be aggressive,...