Author: Michael

For her role as a kidnapped surgeon forced to perform one last operation in the action thriller “The Surgeon,” Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh took her training to the next level by learning how to actually perform surgery. She was in good hands though. Literally. The director of the movie, Roshan Sethi, is a practicing radiation oncologist, and also the creator of Fox medical series “The Resident.”  Sethi turned to his colleague Dr. O’Keefe, a surgeon at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, where the movie was shot, to train and prepare Yeoh. Dr. O’Keefe is also a teacher who…

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What is going on with the straights and sex in the year 2026? It’s one of the first questions I had in mind after watching director Jonathan Schey’s feature directorial debut, “Everybody Wants to F–k Me.” Its bold title, which at first reads like a brag or complaint but then feels recontextualized as a threat, is a striptease for a climax that never comes, one that mistakes being different for being profound. You extract four separate movies from Schey’s film, and the problem is he swipes right on too many of these ideas for the result to feel like anything but…

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Brandi Glanville is sharing her emotional reaction to learning that a friend created a GoFundMe campaign to cover The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum’s ongoing medical expenses. “I’m on all of this crazy medication, [and] even with my insurance, it’s $7,000 a week. Then, I have creditors calling me all day,” Brandi, 53, revealed on the Friday, September 11, episode of her “Unfiltered” podcast, sharing an update on her mysterious health condition. “[My friend], Gina, started a GoFundMe for me. I’m embarrassed, honestly, ‘cause I don’t like to ask for help.” Brandi has dealt with an unknown medical condition…

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