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Asa Butterfield’s new film, the animated movie <a href="https://stitchheadmovie2025.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stitch Head</a>, is out now in theaters. The British is arguably best known for his roles in the Netflix hit Sex Education, playing the title roles in Martin Scorsese’s adventure film Hugo and the 2008 Holocaust drama The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and starring in one of the lead roles in Miss Peregrine&#8217;s Home For Peculiar Children. Acting on screen since the age of eight, he has starred in numerous notable films, including Son of Rambow, A Brilliant Young Mind, The House Of Tomorrow, The Space Between Us, 10,000 Saints, Ender’s Game, The Wolfman and Nanny McPhee Returns. (Photograph by Pip.)

Asa Butterfield

Film

Three Great Things: Asa Butterfield

Greta Lee is currently starring opposite Teo Yoo and John Magaro in Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song’s acclaimed romantic drama which is out now in theaters through A24. She was recently seen in Apple TV+’s The Morning Show and the critically acclaimed Netflix comedy Russian Doll, written and executive produced by Natasha Lyonne and Amy Poehler. Greta is also currently adapting Cathy Park Hong&#8217;s book Minor Feelings for FX/Hulu with A24 and Onyx. She will star, write and executive produce the comedy series. Her other TV credits include recurring as Homeless Heidi on HBO’s High Maintenance,” and she has made memorable appearances on Girls, Inside Amy Schumer and Broad City.

Greta Lee

Three Great Things: Greta Lee

Rebecca Hall is an acclaimed British-American actress whose career encompasses the multiplex, the art house cinema, and the world’s most respected theaters. She can currently be seen in The Night House, a psychological horror film also starring Sarah Goldberg and Evan Jonigkeit, and her debut feature as writer-director, Passing – an adaptation based on Nella Larsen’s 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel starring Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson – is out later this fall. Hall was recently seen in Godzilla vs. Kong, opposite Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown and Brian Tyree Henry. Her other memorable films include Antonio Campos’ Christine, Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Steven Spielberg’s The BFG, Ben Affleck&#8217;s The Town, Shane Black&#8217;s Iron Man 3, Stephen Frears&#8217; Lay the Favorite, Nicole Holfcener’s Please Give and Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige. Her TV credits include Mark Romanek’s Tales from the Loop, Susanna White’s miniseries Parade’s End , Julian Jarrold’s Red Riding: 1974 (for which she won a BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress), Stephen Poliakoff’s Joe’s Palace and Peter Hall’s The Camomile Lawn. (Photo via Todd Williamson / January Images.)

Rebecca Hall

Three Great Things: Rebecca Hall

Eli Saslow is an author and a journalist for The Washington Post. He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing three times. He is the author of three books, including the bestselling Rising Out of Hatred, which was published in 2018 by Doubleday and won the Dayton International Peace Prize. Several of his projects have been optioned for television or film. He wrote the screenplay for Four Good Days (based on his 2016 article “How’s Amanda?”) and the film, starring Glenn Close and Mila Kunis, is out now in theaters through Vertical Entertainment. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and three children. (Photo by Joanna Ceciliani.)

Eli Saslow

Three Great Things: Eli Saslow

Jim Gaffigan is a four-time Grammy nominated comedian, actor, writer, producer, two-time New York Times best-selling author, two-time Emmy-winning top touring performer, and multi-platinum-selling recording artist. His latest film, Most Wanted, in which he stars as Glen Picker, is now in theaters and on demand. Gaffigan’s many film credits include Three Kings, Super Troopers, Super Troopers 2, and Chappaquiddick, and his recent movies include Troop Zero, Them That Follow, Light From Light, Being Frank, Drunk Parents and American Dreamer. He released his seventh stand-up special, Quality Time, in 2019 through Amazon, which also the home for his latest special, Jim Gaffigan: The Pale Tourist. In addition to two seasons of the critically acclaimed semi-autobiographical The Jim Gaffigan Show, which he wrote and produced with his wife Jeannie, and his widely popular stand-up comedy specials, Gaffigan has guest starred on many television comedies and dramas, ranging from Portlandia and Bob’s Burgers to the HBO cult hits Flight of the Concords to dramatic roles in Law &amp; Order. Gaffigan and his wife currently live in Manhattan with their five loud and expensive children. (Picture by Robyn Von Swank.)

Jim Gaffigan

Revisited: The Way We Get By: Jim Gaffigan is Getting Back to His Gardening Roots

The Way We Get By: Jim Gaffigan is Getting Back to His Gardening Roots

As with so many artistic endeavors, Ada Lea’s debut album began as one thing and ended up as something else. The commonality of that process doesn’t make the story any less interesting, however, especially in the case of what we say in private — a beautifully colorful collection of profound pop songs that will be released later this summer via her new Saddle Creek home.
The Montreal, Quebec-based Alexandra Levy — who records and performs as Ada Lea — is also a painter and visual artist, and traces of her many creative abilities run throughout what we say in private. To her, music and visual art are different vessels for communicating similar ideas. Levy’s appreciation of female artists — including the writer Sylvia Plath, visual artists Frida Kahlo and Eva Hesse, and musicians Karen Dalton and Nina Simone — provides inspiration and guidance, informing her use of multiple artforms as tools for self-expression. Through all her work, Levy explores the concept of womanhood as it feels and looks to her, as well as love and how it transforms over time. She doesn’t shy away from exploring uncomfortable and painful emotions, either. With the brightness of love, strength, and hope contrasted with the darkness of loss, suffering, isolation, and abandonment, what we say in private is a varied and vivid record that constantly seems to shift in the light, bringing together all the intricate influences she’s collected over the years.
Levy delivers something very special on what we say in private. Bold and daring, but also gentle and vulnerable, the album finds new ways of presenting its vision from one inspired idea to the next, a big leap into the wider world with passion and exuberance.
(Photo Credit: Bao Ngo)

Ada Lea

Music

Three Great Things: Ada Lea

Carlos Reygadas is a Mexican film director, writer and producer whose latest film, <a href="https://www.monumentreleasing.com/our-time" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Our Time</a> (Nuestro Tiempo) is currently in theaters through Monument Releasing. He studied law in Mexico City and later specialized in armed conflict law and the use of force in London. After quitting the Mexican foreign service, he made four short films in Belgium before filming Japón, which was presented at the Rotterdam and the Cannes Film Festivals in 2002, where it received a special mention for the Camera d&#8217;Or. In 2005, Reygadas premiered at the Cannes Film Festival his second film, Battle in Heaven, in competition. Also at Cannes, he was awarded the Jury Prize in 2007 for Silent Light and the Best Director award for Post Tenebras Lux in 2012.

Carlos Reygadas

Three Great Things: Carlos Reygadas

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