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No matter what your political stripe, Americans don’t like cheaters. Con artists (or “confidence tricksters” as the Brits say) take unfair advantage of the system and ruin other people’s lives. So in this ‘Hollywood Behaving Badly’ a couple of interesting cases have come up. Hollywood Stars, Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman Caught in a College Cheating Scandal “There can ...
THELMA & LOUISE is being revisited in a new documentary film. In twenty-five years, as a woman and as an artist, Jennifer Townsend has lived and grown with the undeniably powerful, effective piece of cinema that has imprinted its lasting effects on many Americans, lovers of film, and supporters of social change. Her new documentary ...
This weekend, one of the most talked about international films of 2018 opens in Los Angeles. DOGMAN directed by Matteo Garrone (Winner Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes for REALITY and GOMORRA), starring Marcello Fonte (Winner Best Actor Palm Springs 2019 and Cannes 2018) will have its limited theatrical run in Los Angeles and ...
From feminist filmmaker Michal Aviad, known for her numerous documentary films, comes her second feature film, WORKING WOMAN, focusing on the lasting effects and the destructiveness of sexual harassment at the workplace. This moving, effective film which takes an honest, mature look at the subject without preaching to its audience is a timely piece now ...
Take the clever and stylish production values of DISTRICT 9 and the over-used sci-fi tropes of a life intrusively monetized -- think everything from THX-1138 to THE RUNNING MAN to THE TRUMAN SHOW -- and you get the well-intentioned DIVISION 19. Set in the not too distant future, the movie is about a dystopian society ...
Maybe when Elton John met Taron Egerton on the set of KINGSMEN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE, the two concocted a plan to make a musical biopic of the legendary piano man? Who knows? The upcoming ROCKETMAN has a pedigree that guarantees a worldwide hit. Witness the success of A STAR IS BORN and the critics-proof BOHEMIAN ...
IFC Midnight has acquired the distribution rights to director Emma Tammi's period, horror film, THE WIND, starring Caitlin Gerard, Julia Goldani Telles, Miles Anderson, and Dylan McTee. THE WIND also marks the filmmaker's feature film debut and so far the word is good. THE WIND premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in its Midnight ...
French Canadian director, Denis Villeneuve, fresh off the acclaim for his BLADE RUNNER sequel and the cerebral sci-fi pix, ARRIVAL, is helming what is shaping up to be the most anticipated science fiction film, his take on DUNE. For science fiction fans, the 1984 version of DUNE was a broken masterpiece, made all the more frustrating ...
Unlike the Oscars, the SAG Awards have categories which recognize outstanding ensemble performances in television and motion pictures in drama, comedy, and stuntwork. Although a relatively new award since its debut in 1995, the SAG Awards are revered as the acting community recognizes successful chemistry is more than just one lead, one performance. Additionally, in this ...
If you can sit through a film tackling “gay conversion therapy,” also known by its other given names “ex-gay” or “repetitive therapy,” a practice rejected by every major medical organization then you are in for a long, grueling, and heartbreaking look into the bizarre and abusive process that has tricked many gay men into believing ...
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