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Better Man Featurette : Why the Monkey? – Robbie Williams, Michael Gracey

Paramount Pictures has dropped a new trailer for a highly anticipated film, Better Man. Better Man is based on the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams, one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Under the visionary direction of Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman), the film…

Bread & Roses : Exclusive Interview with a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai & Director Sahra Mani

©Courtesy of Apple Original Films “Bread & Roses” offers a powerful window into the seismic impact on women’s rights and livelihoods after Kabul fell to the Taliban in 2021. The film follows three women, in real time, as they fight to recover their autonomy. Mani captures the spirit and resilience of Afghan women through a…

‘Ghost Cat Anzu’ : An Anime Feature for the Whole Family

©Courtesy of GKIDS  By feline standards, Anzu is unusually lively. This might sound ironic, since he is a “ghost cat.” However, in this context, instead of denoting an undead state, his “ghostliness” means the thirty-seven-year-old will probably continue to live forever in his current roly-poly state of arrested emotional maturity. However, a pre-teen girl stands…

‘Godzilla Minus One’s’ Takashi Yamazaki To Direct ‘Grandgear’ for Sony

Takashi Yamazaki, the acclaimed director of Godzilla Minus One, will next be directing, writing, and producing Grandgear, his first English-language feature for Sony Pictures. Sony, which won a competitive bidding war for the project, has not released details or a release date about the upcoming film. J. J. Abrams, who directed Star Wars: The Rise…

KRAVEN THE HUNTER FEATURETTE – Making a Villain : Aaron Taylor-Johnson

©Courtesy of Sony Pictures It’s impossible to find a comic book where Kraven, the Spider-Man foe, is portrayed in a heroic light. So it’s evident that he won’t be receiving the heroic treatment in Sony Pictures’ Kraven the Hunter movie this December. Sony Pictures released a newly released featurette which shows his sinister side as…

The World According to Allee Willis : Exclusive Interview with Director Alexis Spraic and Allee Willis’ Partner Prudence Fenton

©Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures  The World According to Allee Willis : Take one look at award-winning songwriter / artist Allee Willis and you see someone unafraid to be themselves. Dressed in a cacophony of prints and colors, her signature asymmetrical haircut and famed parties at her real-life Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Allee didn’t waste any opportunity to…

‘Bogart: Life Comes In Flashes,’ A Riveting Doc Driven By Women

NBCUniversal brings to the silver screen the first doc about legendary Hollywood icon Humphrey Bogart endorsed by his estate. Bogart: Life Comes In Flashes, is the latest work by BIFA-winning, IDA-nominated, and BAFTA Breakthrough-selected filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson. The motion picture provides an inside look at the icon of Hollywood’s Golden Age, narrated in Bogart’s own words. We retrace…

Conan O’Brien to Host 97th Academy Awards

© 2020 Team Coco   Comedian and late-night television host Conan O’Brien will be emceeing the 97th Oscar ceremonies scheduled for Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. He will replace Jimmy Kimmell, who had hosted the program for the past two years as well as in 2017 and 2018. Over…

Surveilled | Official Trailer | HBO : Investigated by Ronan Farrow

©Courtesy of HBO Documentary The new trailer for HBO’s Serveilled shows a disturbing aspect: your cell phone is being used to spy on you without your knowledge. An Israeli cyber-intelligence firm’s software, which created a disturbing scenario, is being investigated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow in the new HBO documentary Surveilled. Here’s the synopsis…

DOC-NYC: ‘Gaucho Gaucho’ Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw (Video Interview)

Filmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw received a lot of attention for their 2020 documentary, The Truffle Hunters, which took a look at a number of men in their 70s and 80s in Piedmont, Italy, who (as the title implies) spend their time trying to find rare and valuable white truffles. It premiered at that…

Lady Gaga Reportedly Will Appear in Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’

©A Star is Born Lady Gaga will reportedly be appearing in the second season of Wednesday, a horror-inflected TV show starring Jenna Ortega in the title role. Launched on Netflix in 2022, Wednesday focuses on the character of Wednesday Addams of The Addams Family, the offbeat television show from the 1960s. Back in January of…