Competition is intense for the role of Madonna in an upcoming biopic that the singer and actress herself is directing. According to The Hollywood Reporter, casting director Carmen Cuba’s search for the perfect star has at least five stars left in contention for the part. Among them are Black Widow’s Florence Pugh, Inventing Anna’s Julia…
After being sidelined for the last two years by the coronavirus pandemic, Austin’s prestigious SXSW Film Festival plans a hybrid comeback for its 29th season on March 11-20 this year, with some of its offerings available online. This year’s hybrid lineup includes 99 features, of which 76 will be world premieres. Also screened will be…
It’s horrifying to think that the institution of slavery was widely accepted within a good portion of American society just over one hundred and fifty years ago. Those born into slavery may not have known what the rest of the world looked like and were likely taught that they were serving their rightful place, not…
The Sundance Institute announced today the showcase of new independent work that it has selected to play in the Feature Film, Indie Episodic and New Frontier categories for the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The festival is set to take place in a hybrid format, including in-person in Park City, Salt Lake City and the Sundance…
What is our collective fascination with watching the suffering of others? Has a global pandemic that has endured for more than a year not been motivation enough to prefer pleasant, lighthearted fare, at least for the time being? Yet, somehow, even in this current moment, the number one show on Netflix in an astounding ninety…
The Twentieth Century Studios movie Free Guy, uses video games to create an existentialist parable about humans’ ability to make choices against society’s expectations. Guy is a bank employee (Ryan Reynolds) who discovers he is an NCP (non-player character) in an open world video game, who decides to become the hero of his own story…
The upcoming next installment in the popular The Exorcist franchise is set to be a direct sequel to, and not a reboot of the original 1973 Academy Award-winning horror movie. Filmmaker David Gordon Green, who first garnered widespread success in the genre when he wrote, directed and produced the 2018 Halloween, shared the news about…
Japan Society Announces Full Lineup for Hybrid Presentation of the 15th Edition of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film August 20–September 2 at Japan Society North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema presents a dynamic slate of 38 films streaming online throughout the U.S. and screening in-theater at Japan Society in…
Actor Don Cheadle stars in No Sudden Move, director Steven Soderbergh’s latest film that premieres this Thursday on HBO Max. Cheadle has worked with Soderbergh before, first on Out of Sight and Traffic and then on the three Ocean’s Eleven movies that were initially based on the classic 1960 Rat Pack caper. Speaking to Entertainment…
In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural…
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