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Warsaw museum reveals ‘mystery’ behind painting in Oscar-nominated Everywhere All at Once

A copy of the work appears in several scenes on a built-in secret door in the study where Evelyn, played by Michelle Yeoh, cleans. National museum Warsaw

An image hanging on a door in a key scene in the seven-Oscar-winning film Everything Everywhere All at Once had Reddit users scratching their heads about what exactly it was.

Hollywood’s Natalie Portman delights book fans with Olga Tokarczuk interview

Joining the Hollywood A-lister on her online book club, Tokarczuk’s interview was liked 7,000 times by Nat’s Book club followers and over 70,000 times on the actress’s main Instagram platform.

Hollywood A-lister Milla Jovovich falls in love with Kraków’s historical botanical gardens

Currently in Kraków to film In The Lost Lands alongside fellow star Dave Bautista, the actress Instagrammed her experience to her 4.3 million followers in a post that’s since been liked by over 120,000 people.

Cold War director teams up with Hollywood A-listers for new blockbuster

Joining forces with megastars Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara, the new thriller entitled The Island stands to cement Paweł Pawlikowski’s soaring reputation as one of cinema’s great talents.

US movie star Ben Stiller visits Ukrainian refugees at Polish border

Hollywood actor Ben Stiller, on Sunday, visited the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing in Medyka, where he met with Ukrainian refugee families fleeing the Russian invasion.

Hollywood actor Liev Schreiber joins humanitarian effort in Przemyśl

The star visited the border just before Easter where he cooked borscht for 1,500 people before crossing into Ukraine on foot.

Woman who played the ‘girl in the red coat’ in ‘Schindler’s List’ becomes real-life hero

Oliwia Dąbrowska, who shot to fame at the age of three after appearing in the 1993 Oscar-winning epic, wrote on Instagram that she is now leading a group of volunteers providing aid to refugees as they arrive in Korczowa.The woman who played the ‘girl in the red coat’ in Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler's List is now helping Ukrainian refugees on the Polish border.

Harrowing events of 1945 ‘Augustów Roundup’ to be told in powerful new film starring Hollywood stuntman Jacek Jagódka

Entitled simply ‘Augustów’, the English language production is the result of a collaboration between London-based historian Tomasz Muskus, who worked as a consultant on 303 Squadron and Cursed, and Hollywood stuntman Jacek Jagódka known for his work on Spectre and Game of Thrones, as well as being stunt double for Alexander Skarsgard in ‘Tarzan’.

Noted intellectual, multiple world wrestling champ and later Hollywood star - Stanisław Cyganiewicz, born 140 years ago this day, was no April Fool

Billed as the ‘Mighty Son of Poland’, strongman Jan Stanisław Cyganiewicz was wrestling’s first world champion who would later die in poverty despite a glittering career.

The Żyrardów man whose historical tents are taking Hollywood and Netflix by storm

When it comes to historical tents, Michał Siedlecki is the man the film industry turns to first. And now, with a string of blockbuster productions including upcoming viking movie ‘The Northman’, starring Nicole Kidman, William Defoe and Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy behind him, the 37-year-old is already starting work on four other major movies.

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How Warsaw was rebuilt using mountains of post-war rubble illustrated in fascinating new exhibition

The story, which is being told in the 70th year since rebuilding was officially completed, is an important one as perhaps no other city in history has had to handle, process and use as much rubble as Warsaw did in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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