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Soccer Drama ‘Forza’ Lands at EST N8 Ahead of Tokyo Market

“Forza,” Marco Balsamo’s soccer drama shot between Bali and Milan, has been picked up for international sales by EST N8, which will take the film to the Tokyo International Film Festival‘s TIFFCOM market (Oct. 28–30). Before that, it gets its first public screening on Oct. 25 at Jakarta Film Week. Balsamo’s first feature as director centers on Bima, an 11-year-old from Bali who hopes...

ESMO 2026 news: The presentation everyone’s been waiting for

Andrew covers the biopharma industry, scientific research, and public health across the continent. You can reach Andrew confidentially on Signal at drewqjoseph.71. Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard....

Ripped Off | Gavin Francis, Chandler Fritz

Among the bodybuilders Gavin Francis discusses in his essay from the October 22 issue of the Review, the most surprising is surely Leopold Bloom, the hero of Ulysses, who keeps in a drawer (along with his stash of pornographic postcards) a chart measuring his progress with “Sandow-Whiteley’s pulley exerciser,” a real device invented by the man who organized the first strongman competitions in Great Britain....

Did Yachty Send You His New Nikes?

Did you get your hands on Yachty’s yellow Air Force 1 Mid in Opti Yellow? If so, there’s a good chance you’re one of his favorite people. Or he at least cares about you a little bit. No, this isn’t a parasocial tirade. These words of affection come straight from the Boat’s mouth. For the release of his new vivid yellow Air Force 1...

The ‘homicidal empathy’ of the Islamo-left

The concept of ‘suicidal empathy’ is having a moment right now. Coined by Gad Saad in his book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to be Kind, it’s defined by Wikipedia as ‘a purported phenomenon in which excessive, misdirected and pathological forms of empathy are destructive for the party that exhibits them’. We see it in Western countries, whose leaders tell their shivering populations that they’re not...