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Maggie Gyllenhaal gives a career best performance in The Kindergarten Teacher, a drama about, yep, a kindergarten teacher. Lisa is dissatisfied with her own life, which leads her to make some questionable decisions regarding one of her young students. When Jimmy exhibits child prodigy levels of poetry writing talent, Lisa may or may not take credit for it. The Kindergarten Teacher's slightly disturbing character study might leave you feeling conflicted, but there's no question about Gyllenhaal's mesmerizing performance.

Teaching is hard work. Don't believe me? You try keeping the attention of two dozen or more kids -- second graders, high school sophomores, doesn't matter -- and guiding them through the lesson plans you crafted and refined, through five or six classes a day, without much real break time, working pretty much solo. Oh yeah: The pay's lousy.

The president, who has battled Twitter and other tech companies over alleged censorship of conservative voices on social media platforms, said in late May he would propose legislation to potentially scrap or weaken the law shielding internet companies, in an extraordinary attempt to regulate outlets where he has been criticized.

The comic, whose mother appeared regularly in his BBC travel series Asian Provocateur, was previously a maths teacher and head of sixth form at Hazelwick school in Crawley, where he had also been a pupil.

If you liked The Haunting of Hill House, then check out Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Stephen King novel Gerald's Game. Carla Gugino is immense as Jessie, who goes on holiday with her husband at an isolated lake house in Alabama. Largely sticking to a bedroom setting, we see the couple's troubles go from bad to worse, with Jessie ending up in the impossible situation of being handcuffed to the bed with no one to help her escape. Gerald's Game leads to narratively and emotionally satisfying conclusions, with Flanagan's melancholy-suffused horror that surges into quiet triumph for its haunted characters.

That's not even factoring in the strangeness of pandemic teaching, from Zoom lessons to ever-shifting health guidelines, which has taken a toll. "I don't know how much longer we will have teachers who will put up with the pressures coming from all different angles," a middle school teacher from Austin, Texas, told CNET's Antonio Ruiz-Camacho. In a feature story this week, Ruiz-Camacho digs into how the teaching profession can hold it together and maybe not get rocked by the Great Resignation that's swept through other fields.

World number one Belgian-Dutch racing driver Max Verstappen, 24, was pictured arriving at the paddock with girlfriend Kelly Piquet, 33 ahead of the third practice session of the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix

Mexican Formula One driver Sergio Perez of Red Bull Racing drives through the pitlane during the qualifying of the Formula One Grand Prix of Bahrain at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain on Saturday

Lewis Hamilton stepped out in a kooky floral print outfit as he arrived at the Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying before putting in a below average performance to qualify in fifth position for the race tomorrow - with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc on pole for the first race of the season.

The 33-year-old Brazillian model and columnist is the daughter of three-time F1 world champion Nelson Piquet and ex-girlfriend of former-F1 driver Daniil Kvyat, who she shares a two-year-old daughter with, Penelope Kvyat. 

Speaking ahead of the new Formula One season which starts in Bahrain on Sunday, Hamilton (above) said: 'It would mean the world to my family [to win an eighth title]. It would mean a lot to me knowing that, for example, I'm really proud of my family's name: Hamilton

The 33-year-old Brazillian model and columnist is the daughter of three-time F1 world champion Nelson Piquet and ex-girlfriend of former-F1 driver Daniil Kvyat, who she shares a two-year-old daughter with, Penelope Kvyat. 

How Online Shopping Adds to the Global Problem of Abandoned Clothes  Your used clothes might go straight in the dump, or they might travel the world before being burned in an open fire. Here's why.   

World champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull completes the front row as he launches his campaign for a second consecutive championship after the controversy surrounding his narrow victory at last season's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix which clinched his maiden win.

Speaking ahead of the new Formula One season which starts in Bahrain on Sunday, he said: 'It would mean the world to my family [to win an eighth title]. It would mean a lot to me knowing that, for example, I'm really proud of my family's name: Hamilton. 

"We may label Tweets containing synthetic and manipulated media to help people understand their authenticity and to provide additional context," Twitter says in an explanation of its policies posted on its website website Twitter has been under fierce scrutiny from the Trump administration since it fact-checked Trump's tweets about unsubstantiated claims of mail-in voting fraud.