The Brunch round-up: The week and how it made us feel

Musician? Not just. He’s debuting a collection of poems: Titles Ruin Everything, A Stream of Consciousness. Gotta love the title! Drake is also reviving Luna Luna, an avant garde amusement park from the 1980s. It will have a Ferris wheel designed by Jean-Michael Basquiat, a Keith Haring carousel and a fun-house designed by Salvador Dali, among other things. Its first stop, LA.

stars Shefali Shah as a woman with early-onset dementia who visits her hometown with her husband (Swanand Kirkire). They relive old memories, she looks for closure with an old flame (Jaideep Ahlawat). It’s bittersweet and unsettling. Kirkire is the non-toxic man every single woman is probably looking for. Ahlawat is the quietly powerful love every single woman deserves. Go watch.

Back in 2003, Russian president Vladimir Putin and his no-doubt sinister lawyers planned to sue Warner Bros over the resemblance between Dobby, the elf from Harry Potter, and him. Mr President, nobody thought this before you said it. And now that’s all anybody can see.

But only Nicole Richie’s version. In an interview with The Cut, she mentioned that she often bails on plans: “I love to cancel. I do it all the time, which is crazy. And I’m happy with people cancelling on me. I would love nothing more than to have an extra night on the couch with my dogs and cats watching ’90s erotic thrillers. What a dream.” These are our 2024 goals now.

Brazilian courts banned male spectators from attending a match between Athletico Paranaense and Coritiba, as a punishment for a fan brawl that took place in 2022. For the next match, there were 37,000 women and children in the seats. No men. Women who attended said it was their best experience at a match. Can we have this for more sports?

Sandra Oh’s 2022 Korean film Umma is now on Netflix. Oh is explosive in the supernatural horror story about pasts, cultural pulls and the power of a mother’s ashes. Another great look at mother-daughter traumas and triumphs is Turning Red (2022), in which a hereditary curse causes 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian student Meilin “Mei” Lee to turn into a giant red panda when she experiences any strong emotion. Avoid Sarah Paulson’s Run (2020). What a weak ending.