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Tom Cruise’s Outer-Space Film On Hold Over Reluctance To Deal With Trump

Photo by Scott Garfield/Scott Garfield – © 2019 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved.     It’s unlikely that Tom Cruise’s proposed outer-space movie will be lifting off from the launching pad anytime soon, due to the actor’s reluctance to get involved with President Trump in the permissions process. The film, which Cruise hoped to make…

Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft – The Tour (Live in 3D) Trailer

©Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Billie Eilish shared a trailer for the concert film, “Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft – The Tour (Live in 3D)” which she directed with director James Cameron during her last album tour, 2024’s “Hit Me Hard and Soft.” “No one’s shot a concert film on this scale before,” Cameron says…

Online 2025 International Film Festival Manhattan Commences Today!

©Courtesy of the International Film Festival Manhattan Season’s Greetings & Happy Holidays!!!!!! We are thrilled to announce that Our writer and the festival founder, Luis Pedron is having the Online 2025 International Film Festival Manhattan NYC commences today, December 12, and runs through December 20th, 2025. Support these exceptional Indie Films from around the world,…

DOC NYC : Steal This Story, Please! Review

©Courtesy of DOC NYC Making sense of the world by finding emotion and meaning in unexpected places is a vital trait of two of the leading, powerful pillars of truth-seekers – documentary filmmakers and journalists. Reporter Amy Goodman shares her fearless reporting on global injustices, media consolidation and the fight for independent journalism in the…

“Supergirl” Trailer Presentation: Q&A with James Gunn, Star Milly Alcock and Director Craig Gillespie

@Courtesy of Warner Bros. Supergirl : The further adventures of Supergirl. Director : Craig Gillespie Producer : James Gunn, Peter Safran Screenwriter : Ana Nogueira Distributor : Warner Bros. Pictures Production Co : DC Entertainment, DC Studios, Warner Bros. Discovery Genre : Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy Original Language :English Release Date (Theaters) : Jun 26,…

Left-Handed Girl : Exclusive Interview with Co-Writer/Director Shih-Ching Tsou

©Courtesy of Netflix Check out more of our YouTube Channel  Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s…

‘”Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” : Press Conference With Actor Josh O’Connor and Director Rian Johnson

@Courtesy of Netflix Wake Up Dead Man : A Knives Out Mystery / Detective Benoit Blanc sifts through a series of suspects when a monsignor turns up dead. Director : Rian Johnson Producer : Rian Johnson, Ram Bergman Screenwriter : Rian Johnson Distributor : Netflix Production Co : T-Street Rating : PG-13 (Some Crude Sexual…

2026 Sundance Film Festival Features & Episodic Lineup Announcement!

2026 Sundance Film Festival Unveils 97 Projects Selected for the Feature Film and Episodic Program In-Person and Online Ticket Packages and Passes Currently on Sale; Individual Tickets on Sale Starting January 14   Top L–R: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!, Hanging by a Wire, Broken English, Buddy Center Row L–R: Cookie Queens, The Moment, The Weight, The Gallerist Bottom L–R: American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez, BAIT, LADY, The…

‘Oh. What. Fun.’ : Cookies and Milk from a Disgruntled Santa

©Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios Fear not, It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street, you’re not in danger of being toppled from your thrones this Christmas. Though Amazon/MGM’s Oh. What. Fun. boasts a competent director (Michael Showalter) and an equally competent cast headed by Michelle Pfeiffer and Denis Leary, the movie seems more…

Documentary Filmmaker Christine Choy Dies at 73

©Courtesy of the Museum of Chinese in America Shanghai-born documentary filmmaker Christine Choy, whose 1987 Oscar-nominated film Who Killed Vincent Chin? galvanized the Asian-American community, died on December 7 in Manhattan. She was 73. In a career spanning fifty years, the outspoken Choy made more than eighty films and received dozens of awards, including a…

Mercy : Featurette / Starring Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson

©Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios Watch Amazon MGM Studios’ distribution of “Mercy,” a sci-fi crime thriller with a ‘First Look’ Behind-the-Scesces Featurette. Follow a man’s journey to convince a super-intelligent AI judge of his innocence in the death of his wife in Mercy, in theaters on January 23, 2026. A detective (Chris Prattwill) will face…