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Tribeca Festival/A Second Life Review: Chaos Meets Claude Monet When Titane Star Agathe Rousselle Crosses Paris on the Verge of the Olympics

Life was dark when French painter Claude Monet, regarded as the father of impressionism, took on the grand scale Water Lilies at the age of 74, a series of around 250 paintings depicting the water garden at his Giverny home. The year was 1914. His son had recently died, World War 1 had just begun,…

Pietro Valsecchi Developing Biopic on Luciano Pavarotti

©Courtesy of The Best of Luciano Pavalotti, The Millennium Collection A biopic about the late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti is being developed by Pietro Valsecchi, the renowned producer known for the 2016 comedy film Quo Vado, which became Italy’s all-time blockbuster. Valsecchi said he will soon be announcing an actor to play the lead, as…

DUAF(Downtown Urban Arts Festival) NYC : “Letter” / Playwright Momo Akashi, Director Saki Kawamura, Performer Viet Vo

Photo credit “Campaign design by Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez (@MrEdgardoNYC)” for 2025 DUAF All Playwrights and 2025 DUAF MomoAkashi.  Title: Letter  https://www.duafnyc.com/schedule-tickets Date: Wednesday, June 25 at 8PM Location: Theatre Row 410W42th Street, New York, NY Price: $32.50 (inc. service charge)  Content warning: Sexual Assault Running time: Around 30 minutes Synopsis: On the way from Tokyo to…

Tatami : Exclusive Interview with Actress Arienne Mandi

  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 program called “Morning Satellite”…

‘The Life of Chuck’ : Press Conference with Cast & Director

@Courtesy of Neon “The Life of Chuck” : Charles “Chuck” Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us. Director : Mike Flanagan Producer :  Trevor Macy, Mike Flanagan Screenwriter : Mike Flanagan Distributor : NEON Production Co : Intrepid Pictures, Red Room Pictures Rating :…

Jonathan Daviss to Star as Snoop Dogg in Universal’s Biopic

Courtesy of Netflix  Jonathan Daviss, the star of ‘Outer Banks‘, will be playing the role of Snoop Dogg in Universal’s upcoming biopic about the legendary rap star. Snoop Dogg himself will be producing the film, which is described by Universal as the “definitive biopic about the entertainment mogul and icon. In addition to his role…

Eddington | Official Trailer HD | A24 :  Joaquin Phoenix & Pedro Pascal

©Courtesy of A24 A24 has dropped the trailer for “Eddington,” Ari Aster‘s modern western which divided critics’ opinions at the Cannes Film Festival after its Croisette premiere. COVID conspiracy theories abound in the first full trailer for Ari Aster’s latest film, “Eddington.” Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, the Western goes back to the politically charged summer of 2020,…

Tribeca Festival Review – ‘Long Live the State’ Documentary

In 2024, I was sitting in a packed theater in Times Square full of a few thousand people who were there for one thing and one thing only – a rare reunion by 8 or 9 of the original cast members of the MTV sketch comedy show, The State. I knew that they had sold…

‘Materialists’ Review: It’s So Different from ‘Past Lives’ But It’s Still So Genuine…

@Courtesy of A24 After the surprising (but totally deserved) success of Past Lives, Celine Song returns with another movie that confirms how she is capable of talking about our present days and their contradictions, even if she decided to go in a (almost) completely different direction. If her first feature film (Academy Award nominations for…

Warner Bros. Discovery To Split Into Two Companies In 2026

©Courtesy of Warner Brothers Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that it will be splitting into two public companies next year, separating its cable operations from its streaming services. The new companies will be known as Streaming & Studios and Global Linear Networks when the restructuring is completed in the middle of 2026. In announcing…

Wicked: For Good | Official Trailer : Starring Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande

©Courtesy of Universal Pictures Universal Pictures has unveiled the teaser trailer for “Wicked: For Good,” the upcoming second “Wicked” movie, which adapts the back half of the musical. Both films were shot back-to-back, but the second film begins years after the events of the first. Elphaba, now an enemy of the state of Oz and…