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In Idaho, wake-enhancing speedboats are making waves - perfect for the sport of wakesurfing. Photo: Dan Morris for The Wall Street Journal

The trend at Cannes this year so far has been English-language movies from foreign-language directors, often working in the language for the first time. We’ve already Matteo Garrone's "Tale Of Tales," and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Lobster,” with Paolo Sorrentino’s “Youth” and Michel Franco’s “Chronic” to come. But one of our most anticipated has been “Louder Than Bombs,” the third film, and first set in the U.S, for Norwegian helmer Joachim Trier. The director landed straight on our radars... Читать дальше...

Difficult to attract women when you're soaking wet and embarrassed.

A few minutes into Colombian director Ciro Guerra's "Embrace of the Serpent" we have met three of its four main characters, and they have encountered each other. In black and white, with period images of the Amazonian jungle reminiscent of Miguel Gomes' "Tabu," a canoe carrying a gravely ill white man, Theo ("Borgman" star Jan Bijvoet), is punted onto the bank by the loyal native tribesman who serves as his travelling companion. And on the bank stands a lone tribal shaman Karamakate (Nilbio Torres)... Читать дальше...

The specter of deflation is haunting more than just Tom Brady and the Patriots.

The reassuringly familiar show featured bursts of brilliance from the 70-year-old and his band

Osborne takes the reins in drive to squeeze billions of savings out of civil service

Sammy Hagar  and James Hetfield ’s second annual Acoustic-4-A-Cure benefit concert  took place Friday night at San Francisco’s the Masonic, and among the surprise collaborations delivering unexpected covers was one performance that no one could have seen coming: The Metallica  singer and his 16-year-old daughter Cali Hetfield sharing an acoustic rendition of Adele’s “Crazy For You.”

City has declined, with the defeat of bid for 2008 Olympic Games made worse by Tokyo’s 2020 success

Last week we looked at the top goalscorers in modern European football, focusing on the importance of remaining injury free for those who go on to become true greats.

MP wins support from Reeves while Watson becomes frontrunner for deputy

Clients were ‘cynically’ transferred to a support unit as banks sought to bolster balance sheets

If only you could take the supermarket bakery on a date.

Ramadi fell to ISIS on Sunday, despite intensified American airstrikes in recent weeks, The New York Times reports.

Not bad for a 9-month-old.

Newly appointed Cabinet Office minister Matthew Hancock to lead structural changes and spending controls

He claims to have even made the passenger plane move sideways.

Jessica Ennis-Hill will decide on Monday whether to compete in the multi-event Hypo-Meeting in Götzis, Austria, later this month as she continues to struggle to recapture her best form.

Buyout groups believe ageing founders of many small and medium-sized companies are ready to sell

If you had maybe cherished hopes of being able to go into the first (of 2) Cannes 2015 Competition titles to be directed by a woman, and not immediately viewing the story through the prism of gender, the themes of Maïwenn's "Mon Roi" would quickly shatter those illusions. After a short prologue, the the "Polisse" director places us firmly in battle of the sexes-type territory, where we witness the first meeting of the couple whose tempestuous and and passionate relationship the film will spend the... Читать дальше...

Research finds most expect company revenues and profitability to improve, but risk aversion rife