Author: UAP Staff

4 min readCannesMay 18, 2026 12:36 PM IST Sheep In The Box movie review: There cannot be anything more timely than the premise of Hirokazu Koreeda’s Cannes Competition entry, ‘Sheep In The Box’, which deals with the evolving nature of grief in the age of AI: a couple who’ve lost their young son bring home a humanoid android, who looks and sounds exactly like their boy. It is when Kakeru ( Rimu Kuwaki) begins to show signs of thinking like their son that Otone ( Ayase Haruka) and Kensuke ( Daigo Yamamoto) start wondering about the larger implications of their…

A Maritime Self-Defense Force captain was dismissed for leaking state secrets related to national security to his former boss, a retired vice admiral he deeply admired, the Self-Defense Forces announced on Dec. 26. The SDF’s Criminal Investigation Command also said the organization has sent files to prosecutors on suspicion he violated the SDF Law and the law on the protection of specially designated secrets–the first case to be exposed since the law took effect in 2014. The captain in question is Takashi Inoue, a 54-year-old with the MSDF Staff College. Another active MSDF member and two retirees from the MSDF also received disciplinary measures,…

3 min readNew DelhiMay 17, 2026 01:28 PM IST Ever since Amazon MGM Studios announced that it is searching for an actor to play iconic British spy James Bond, social media has been abuzz with speculation. Amid the ongoing chatter, filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has now backed John Abraham for the role. On Saturday, Shekhar took to his X handle and wrote, “As the search of the next Bond heats up, my vote for the next James Bond after Daniel Craig would be John Abraham. He has the cool ‘shaken not stirred’ persona and certainly good actor with the ‘Bond Charm’…

4 min readMay 15, 2026 12:46 PM IST Fatherland movie review: Black-and-white frames can be rendered either warm or cool, depending on what you’re going for. Pawel Pawlikowski manages to combine stateliness and intimacy in his signature look, where both those colours are given several shades of grey. As soon as ‘Fatherland’ (Cannes competition) begins, in which unfolds a fraught chapter of the famous author Thomas Mann’s life and times, we know we are back in Pawel territory. It is 1949. Mann (Hanss Zischer), who had fled Nazi Germany for the US, is back, readying for the Goethe prize to…

4 min readNew DelhiMay 15, 2026 11:53 AM IST A new era of James Bond is beginning. Nearly four years after Daniel Craig bid farewell to 007 in No Time to Die, the race to find Britain’s next superspy has officially started. Amazon MGM Studios has now confirmed that auditions for Bond 26 are underway, with fresh speculation swirling around who will inherit one of Hollywood’s most iconic roles. In a statement shared on X, the studio said, “The search for the next James Bond is underway. While we don’t plan to comment on specific details during the casting process,…

2 min readNew DelhiMay 14, 2026 10:21 PM IST Jane Fonda, who is currently attending the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, recently reflected on a deeply personal chapter of her life — her solo journey across India that ultimately shaped her into the activist she is today. During an interaction with The Hollywood Reporter India, Fonda opened up about how travelling through India in her early thirties completely changed the direction of her life. She said, “When I was about 32, I went to India by myself. And it changed me. I travelled all through India alone on buses, and I also…

3 min readLos AngelesMay 13, 2026 06:54 PM IST Comedian Conan O’Brien will return to host the Oscars for the third consecutive year in 2027, Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Lynette Howell Taylor have announced. O’Brien is set to reunite with producers Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan, who return as the show’s executive producers for the fourth consecutive year, while Jeff Ross and Mike Sweeney will return as producers for a third time. Sweeney will also serve as a writer. “We are thrilled to be working again with Conan, Raj, Katy, Jeff and Mike for the 99th Oscars,”…

4 min readMay 11, 2026 10:49 AM IST Benedict Cumberbatch has gotten himself involved in an embarrassing spat with a cyclist in London. As per a video captured by an onlooker, Cumberbatch got into a rather heated 10-minute row with the cyclist, who claimed the actor ran the red light thrice. The cyclist even labelled Cumberbatch “deluded” and claimed that he was lying, only for Cumberbatch to allege that he was “verbally abused”. What happened exactly? The incident took place this past Tuesday at 5:30 pm in London. As per the onlooker who captured the video, Cumberbatch, riding a cargo…

The U.S. Air Force disciplined 15 people in connection with an April 2023 leak of classified material, the branch’s inspector general said Monday.The Air Force said 15 people had failed to take action after discovering Airman Jack Teixeira’s suspicious behavior.The investigation showed in some cases, personnel had unsupervised access to classified material. In other cases, when people witnessed improper behavior from Teixeira or were responsible for correcting it, they failed to take appropriate measures.In one case in 2022, for example, Teixeira is said to have written notes from a classified document on a sticky note. He was confronted about the…

4 min readLos AngelesMay 10, 2026 07:10 PM IST Meryl Streep admitted she was on the verge of retirement when she was offered David Frankel’s seminal workplace dramedy The Devil Wears Prada (2006). But realizing the film wouldn’t be possible without her casting, she decided to negotiate her pay. She went on to prove her worth as the film, made on a budget of $35 million, amassed $326 million globally. Meryl Streep’s The Devil Wears Prada 2 pay revealed One would then imagine that given all the expectations and business prospects riding on the recently released, long-awaited sequel, The Devil…