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  The task for U.S. women’s national team head coach Vlatko Andonovski seems simple: start the best possible line-up and begin the Women’s World Cup with a strong statement of intent. But once the squad to take on Vietnam in their tournament opener was announced, it became clear Andonovski was not playing it safe or simple. The question, which will be answered once this World Cup is said and done: is Andonovski overthinking it, or just being shrewd? The answer certainly didn’t come Saturday at Eden Park Stadium against Vietnam (a Friday night start for fans in the U.S.), nor was it expected to. The talent differential between the two sides is large enough that a fully second-choice U.S. squad would still have been expected to win. In the end, the USWNT won 3-0, missing a slew of quality scoring chances in the process — 28 shots in all — and it almost didn’t matter who Andonovski put on the field. But the U.S. coach appeared to be setting the stage for a tournament where the USWNT w...

The filmmakers will be joined by Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri (Wajib); Italian director Gabriele Mainetti, who was in Competition at the festival in 2021 with Freaks Out; Argentinian writer/director Santiago Mitre, whose Argentina, 1985 premiered in Competition at Venice last year; and Chinese actress Shu Qi, known for her performances in Hou Hsiao-Hsien films Millennium Mambo, Three Times and The Assassin. US director Poitras won the Golden Lion at last year’s festival with All The Beauty And The Bloodshed while New Zealand filmmaker won the Silver Lion for best director with The Power Of The Dog in 2021, having previously been awarded the grand special jury prize at Venice in 1990 with An Angel at My Table. Hansen- Løve is the French writer/director eight features including Things To Come, for which she won the Silver Bear for best director at the Berlinale in 2016, and more recently One Fine Morning, which screened in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes 2022. Irish filmmaker McDonagh...

Marvel star Anthony Mackie has revealed what it’s like working alongside Hollywood icon Harrison Ford in the upcoming MCU sequel, Captain America: Brave New World. Speaking with Inverse, Mackie’s description of Ford once again confirms the Indiana Jones star’s delightfully grumpy outlook, as well as teasing the close relationship between Mackie’s Captain America and Ford’s Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross. The image of Ford loudly belittling Captain America: Brave New World and the rest of the cast and crew either missing what he said or intentionally missing out a few words to turn his negative into a positive before heading to filming is almost too perfect. Aside from this magical moment of real-life comedy, Mackie reveals that Ford’s role in Captain America: Brave New World will perhaps be bigger than many expected. According to Mackie, the two actors spent a lot of time together, with Captain America and Thunderbolt Ross butting heads a lot as they take different approaches...