LA Times: There was a question at a “Destroyer” Q&A for Nicole Kidman about how her cop character was sort of masculine. How did you feel about the gender stereotype surrounding that?Kusama: There’s also a somewhat casual aside that the role that she’s playing is something that would typically be played by a man. But I actually feel like the strength of the character comes from her vulnerability, her complexity, her irascibility but also a sort of tenderness. And I realize there’s an instinct in me to challenge the people asking that question or making that assumption of the film to offer women as many roles as men get that are as interesting. Like I hope that the progress is that we start not really looking at gender and race and ethnicities and just start having a broader conversation about, like, are we feeling a full humanity (in this character)?

LA Times: With an action movie like “Black Panther,” are you still thinking about it in a political way?Coogler: “Black Panther” is inherently about an African politician in a country that’s fictitious, but what’s fictitious about it is directly pointing a finger at the presence of colonization. It’s a country that escaped colonization and maintained its independence and dominion over their resources. That’s why they’re a superpower. So the film is going to be political. It’s going to deal with colonization. It’s going to deal with what it means to be African. So we were able to lean into those things. I’m actually more impressed when people are able to deftly handle those things that aren’t (so literally in the plot). Like with “Roma,” you know, I’m watching a film about a domestic worker. As soon as the kid tells the maid, “Hey, why do you talk like that?” I’m like, “This is a colonization issue here. These are the indigenous people who at some point or another had been conquered and now she’s speaking another language. So it was almost like the inverse of what we were talking about. For (“Black Panther”) it was easy. It was right there on the surface.

Cuaron: Well it was easier because I was dealing with memories, and it’s the understanding of the person. There are maybe political elements to that understanding. But it was about doing things that made sense or that felt right, not so much about, “OK, here I need this comment.” The fact that you have the characters, by de facto there’s already a comment. When you have a domestic worker who has an indigenous background in a middle-class Mexican white family, there’s already something going on.

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Lanthimos: That’s the great thing about other people speaking about your films, and that’s why I always feel uncomfortable explaining things because I can’t really see the way other people see it. I’ve made it. I’ve spent so much time with it. I can give you a very limited truth about something that I made, but you know it’s going to be much more interesting and insightful if someone else sees the film — what it means for them and what it does to them and how it affects them. I think that’s the reason you’re actually making it, to give it out to the world and each different person will perceive it in a very personal way — hopefully, if it works.An overheated laptop battery is said to have caused a fire that destroyed a Winnipeg farming family’s “dream home.”

Randy and Joyska Tkachyk were leaving church last week when they noticed a series of missed calls from Randy’s mother. When they called back, she shared the devastating news: “Your house is on fire.”The Tkachyks drove for an agonizing hour to get back to their farm in Piney, Man., to find rubble and embers in the place where their self-built home was still under construction.“It was gone,” said Joyska in an interview with CTV Winnipeg. “It was a very tall structure and it was just gone. There was nothing there but rubble and some small flames.”The family’s dog died in the blaze, which fire inspectors said likely started when a laptop with an overheated lithium-ion battery burst into flames. Health Canada says that common lithium-ion batteries are “more susceptible to being damaged than other types of batteries” and users should take precautions when charging them.

The Tkachyks don’t yet have an estimate for damages, but the fire snuffed out a year’s work by Randy, who began building an 1,800-square-foot addition to the original 1,100-square-foot bungalow in 2017.“This was going to be the rest of our dream home,” he said. “It’s difficult. When you build something from scratch, you’re proud of it. But whatever man builds, it doesn’t last forever here.”The Tkachyks have found comfort in their community and their faith during the ordeal. “It was devastating,” said Joyska. “Yet at the same time we looked at it and literally the thought in my head was ‘The Lord gives, the lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord.’”Neighbours immediately began to offer clothes, food and shelter after the news spread. “We have never experienced this kind of outpouring in our lives,” she said.

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Randy was able to easily get back to work on the farm where they raise cattle thanks to neighbours who offered him warm clothing. While they lament the loss of irreplaceable sentimental items and the hard work on the home’s construction, they consider most of that simply material things.“I cannot leave this world with anything,” said Randy. “God is good. The neighbours and everyone -- they’re here and they’re lifting us up when we’re down.”Spectre is HP’s premium consumer laptop line. The Spectre x360 13t Touch sports an aluminum-clad chassis and comes with an infrared camera for facial recognition, a fingerprint sensor, and quad speakers.Like many laptops in 2018, it has a 2-in-1 convertible design with a 360-degree hinge allowing it to switch to tablet and tent modes. It also comes with the latest Intel 8th gen quad-core processor, a 13.3-inch FHD (1,920-by-1,080) touch display, 8 GB of memory, and 256 GB of solid-state storage.

The long-awaited redesign is a marked improvement on the classic MacBook Air, which hadn’t seen a significant design change since 2008 when it was introduced by Steve Jobs.Like the original version, it is light and durable with a 13.3-inch display. But this version comes with modern features like a high-resolution Retina (2,560-by-1,600) display and a Touch ID fingerprint reader. It’s also lighter and smaller than the classic.The China-based computer maker offers a wide range of laptops but this is definitely one of its best, receiving a number of 4- and-5-star reviews.The 2-in-1 convertible (360-degree display) C930 screams premium design and materials. Highlights include a soundbar built into the hinge, a nicely-situated slot for a pen near the back hinge, and all-day battery life. The Yoga C930 also comes with an 8th gen Intel quad-core processor, 13.9-inch FHD (1,920-by-1,080) touch display, 8 GB of memory and a 256 GB solid-state drive.