Most popular Valentine’s-themed baby names including Amy and Romeo

Baby name lists are reading material for most expectant Mums looking for inspiration on what to call their new arrivals. The popular names can seem to be ever-changing, as parents to be draw inspiration from everything from nature to their favourite TV shows. With Valentine's Day fast approaching, there is a new source of inspiration […]

Berlin Film Festival Opens Amid Tight COVID Restrictions

The 72nd Berlin Film Festival got off to a promising if somewhat subdued start Feb. 10 amid strict restrictions due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, which put a major damper on this year’s festivities and kept crowds to a minimum. While only some 800 guests attended the opening night ceremony at the Berlinale Palast — […]

Black Diamond With Unknown Origins Sells For $4.5 Million

The world’s largest uncut diamond, better known as ‘The Enigma,’ has officially sold for $4.3 million. The diamond was put up for sale on Wednesday during an online sale by London’s Sotheby auction house. It didn’t take long for the 555-carat diamond to sell, with an anonymous buyer securing it for a little over $4 […]

End to income test would deliver ‘grey army’ of workers: seniors

Retirees could work without having their government payments sharply reduced under a plan put to the federal government aimed at unleashing a “grey army” to fill staff shortages across the economy. As housing advocates called on the government to boost funding for social housing, lobby group National Seniors said axing the income test on the […]

Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche to Play Christian Dior and Coco Chanel in Apple’s ‘The New Look’

Apple TV Plus has landed “The New Look,” Todd A. Kessler’s (”Bloodline”) period drama series about the meteoric rise of French fashion designer Christian Dior, starring Ben Mendelsohn (“Bloodline”) and Juliette Binoche (“The English Patient”). A World War II-era thriller, “The New Look” opens in Nazi-occupied Paris, when Coco Chanel’s (Binoche) reign as the world’s […]

Małgorzata Szumowska, Hype Film Roll Dice With ‘The Gambler Wife’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Two-time Berlinale prize winner Małgorzata Szumowska (“Body,” “Mug”) will write and direct “The Gambler Wife,” a revelatory portrait of novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s wife Anna Snitkina, to be produced by Russia’s Hype Film, Variety can reveal. Adapted from Andrew D. Kaufman’s book “The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved […]