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Judge Dismisses Justin Baldoni’s $400m Countersuit Against Blake Lively

©Sony Pictures, It Ends With US Justin Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit against actress Blake Lively has been squelched by a New York judge on the grounds that Baldoni failed to meet a deadline to move forward with his case. The legal brouhaha began in December of 2024, when Lively, who was Baldoni’s co-star in It…

Cannes Film Festival: Rapito (Kidnapped), Bellocchio’s Historical Drama Exposes The Violence Of Dogmatism

Marco Bellocchio, the secular director from Piacenza, has often explored the consequences of religious imposition — never being sententious yet remaining truthful to his laical perspective. In his 2002 film, My Mother’s Smile (L’ora di religione), he touched upon the sensitive issue of being baptised in treason. In that case it occurred to the son of the…