Author name: Rebecca Ramos

Rebecca Ramos is an Australian journalist and writer who has written extensively on arts, construction, automotive, travel, and fashion. She loves to travel and has been to over 18 countries around the world.

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After a string of dramatic roles, Matt Bomer needed a comedy. Enter 'Mid-Century Modern'

Matt Bomer is funny. Quite funny, in fact. You’d be forgiven for not really associating the “White Collar” and “Fellow Travelers” actor with having a funny bone, though. “I have friends who I went to college with who were shocked when I immediately started working in drama,” he tells me. “They’re like, ‘Whoa, what’s happening?’” […]

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Jim Jarmusch gets dark: Indie filmmaker reveals his latest artistic turn in L.A. show

Jim Jarmusch can’t stop collaging. The celebrated independent filmmaker, known for movies such as Cannes Grand Prix winner “Broken Flowers” and “Stranger Than Paradise,” has been dabbling in the art form for decades, amassing hundreds of works. Creating collages is almost a compulsion, a way for Jarmusch to escape from the world and nestle into

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Trump executive order targets the Smithsonian over 'divisive, race-centered ideology'

President Trump accused the Smithsonian Institution of propagating “divisive, race-based ideology” and issued an executive order Thursday demanding an end to federal funding for exhibitions and programs based on racial themes that “divide Americans.” The order, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” directs Vice President JD Vance to remove “improper ideology” from the

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Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox are parents to a baby girl: 'Our little celestial seed'

Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are the parents of a new baby girl, the singer announced Thursday on social media. “She’s finally here!! our little celestial seed,” he wrote, posting black-and-white video of the child’s tiny hands grasping at his fingers, painted nails and all. He added emojis representing the zodiac signs Aries, Pisces

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Horses gallop uneasily into less-than-mythic filmmaking in 'Death of a Unicorn'

Imbuing everyone’s favorite mythical horned horse with bloodlust is such a ready-to-rock concept that it keeps your grindhouse hopes alive for the horror-comedy “Death of a Unicorn,” even as your wandering attention betrays the reality of a wannabe cult movie that mostly gallops in place. Writer-director Alex Scharfman, doing his best to channel the playful

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In 'A Working Man,' Jason Statham's tools are hammers, guns and fists

“A Working Man” opens with a batty pastiche of bullets and buzz saws, parachutes and cranes. A soldier’s corpse rests under an American flag. A cement mixer trundles toward a construction site. There’s something modestly affecting (and complicated) about the career arc of a contractor named Levon Cade (Jason Statham) who once blew up buildings

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In 'Selena y Los Dinos,' we see the Tejano queen through the eyes of her sister

Featuring home movies shot by Suzette Quintanilla, the new documentary ‘Selena y Los Dinos’ made waves at Sundance and SXSW. It was a full house at the Library Center Theatre in Park City, Utah, where hundreds of Sundance Film Festival-goers trudged through the snow and filed into their seats to watch “Selena y Los Dinos,”

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'The Ballad of Wallis Island' is a crowd-pleasing folk-music comedy worth crowing about

At this year’s Sundance, I blushed every time someone asked about my favorite movies of the fest. I knew I’d have to include James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a twee-sounding British comedy about a folk musician named Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) who plays a gig on a remote Welsh island for his No.

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