The Metamorphosis of Birds review – a lyrical love letter to family
Portuguese visual artist Catarina Vasconcelos’s debut is a gorgeously shot fictionalised documentary about longing and loss
Berlin film festival 2022 roundup – earnestness, joy, and the best film won
At an unusually quiet, Covid-strict festival, it was a good year for the French, and female directors – and we…
Omicron deals one more blow to schools that have weathered COVID and violence
The St. Louis Park Public Schools in suburban Minneapolis held in-person learning all semester, with no school closures for COVID-19…
Thousands protest as Italy’s Covid pass becomes mandatory for workers
A mandate for all workers in Italy to show a government-issued Covid-19 pass came into force on Friday, triggering protests…
A pill to treat Covid-19: ‘We’re talking about a return to, maybe, normal life’
Within a day of testing positive for covid-19 in June, Miranda Kelly was sick enough to be scared. At 44,…
Bitcoin plummets after China intensifies cryptocurrency crackdown – wordandfilm.com
China is intensifying its crackdown on cryptocurrencies.
Second Qatar Airways passenger flight takes off from Kabul
A second Qatar Airways passenger flight, which arrived in Afghanistan on Friday, has now departed from Kabul airport, a day…
Right-wing media pushed a deworming drug to treat Covid-19 that the FDA says is unsafe for humans
Public health officials are aggressively dispelling claims by right-wing media personalities who have been promoting an anti-parasitic drug used for…
‘Plan B’ might be this year’s ‘Booksmart’ — a teen comedy with a morning-after message – wordandfilm.com
Hulu might be the home of this year’s “Booksmart” with “Plan B,” a bawdy coming-of-age teen comedy that also comes…
The 10 best TV shows to watch on Paramount+ right now, from ‘The Good Fight’ to ‘The Real World’
Yup, there’s another new streaming service. If you saw all those Super Bowl ads with disparate TV characters at the…