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Actor Treat Williams, 71, Dies in Motorcycling Accident

  Actor Treat Williams was killed on Monday in a motorcycling accident in Dorset, Vermont. The veteran performer was 71. After a film career that began in the 1970s with Grease and Hair, Williams later starred in the TV dramas Blue Bloods and Everwood. According to reports by the Vermont State Police, the accident happened…

Quentin Tarantino Reveals New Details on His Next Movie, ‘The Movie Critic’

Quentin Tarantino revealed new details about his next movie, The Movie Critic, during an interview with Deadline this week at the Carlton Hotel in Nice, France during the Cannes Film Festival. The two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter confirmed during the interview that the project will be about a movie critic from the 1970s. Tarantino also noted that…

Film Review: Halle Bailey Swims to New Heights in Breakout Performance as The Little Mermaid

The visual beauty and emotional allure of any classic Disney movie fairytale is that they not only rely on spectacular effects and fantastical traditional mythology, but also find ways to connect their themes to modern audiences. The studio’s latest live-action reimagination of one of its iconic animated films, 1989’s Oscar-winning fantasy musical The Little Mermaid,…

Killers of the Flower Moon — Official Teaser Trailer : Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Directed by Martin Scorsese

Apple Original Films today unveiled the teaser trailer for Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated feature “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, May 20, “Killers of the Flower Moon” will be released exclusively in theaters worldwide, in partnership with Paramount Pictures, limited on Friday, October 6, and wide on Friday,…

Book Club: The Next Chapter, Clichés Exterminate The Promising Debate On Gendered Ageism

Life and art have a vigorous osmosis. Filmmaker Bill Holderman exemplified this with his directorial debut: the 2018 romantic comedy Book Club. The entertaining flick showed how the readings of four friends, during their monthly book club, would affect their personal lives. The success of this cinematic guilty pleasure has lead to a sequel, Book…

Molly Ringwald Passed on Playing Julia Roberts’ Pretty Woman Role Due to Disliking the Story

Molly Ringwald was one of Hollywood’s leading teen actresses of the 1980s, having starred in such hit coming-of-age romantic comedy-dramas as Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club. But at the turn of the decade, the Golden Globe-nominated actress decided to turn down the titular role of the more mature romantic comedy, Pretty…

Andrew Garfield To Play Carl Sagan In Sebastian Lelio’s ‘Voyagers’

@Photo by Michelle Faye – © 2022, FX Networks. Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones have been cast in Voyagers, a biopic about celebrated astronomer Carl Sagan. The narrative movie will tell the real-life love story between the late planetary scientist and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, Ann Druyan, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Oscar winning writer-director-producer Sebastián Lelio…

The 2023 Human Rights Watch Film Festival, May 31-June 11

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival Presents Full Lineup of Cinematic Works in New York Edition, May 31-June 11, 2023 Co-presented by Film at Lincoln Center and IFC Center Seven Winters in Tehran, Photo: Courtesy of Made in Germany New York, April 27, 2023 — The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, now in its 34th…

Harlem International Film Festival 2023 Announces Film Lineup for May with World Premieres and Local Focus

  PRESS RELEASE  THE 2023 HARLEM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL announces line-up for 18th edition(May 18-28) Opening Night features the New York Premiere of Ryan Dickie and Abigail Horton’s Blow Up My Life, with Christina Kallas’ Paris Is In Harlem Friday Spotlight Presentations include World Premiere  of first two episodes from STARZ’ Run the World  second season, and Clayton P Allis and Doug E. Doug’s In…

Peter Pan & Wendy, The Nth Unnecessary Reboot In The Age Of Tokenism

Director and co-writer David Lowery delivers a live-action reimagining of the J.M. Barrie novel and the 1953 animated classic, that is available on Disney+.  Peter Pan & Wendy introduces Wendy Moira Angela Darling (Ever Gabo Anderson), a young girl who does not want to renounce to the playful fun of childhood, whereas her family encourages…