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Bringing the Manic Pixie Male Best Friend to Life in Sacramento

Friendship, adulthood, anxiety, parenthood, relationships, death…Michael Angarano covers it all and more in Sacramento. Co-written by, starring, and directed by Angarano, this new film which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival found ways to tell a familiar story through a new light. Along with Michael Cera, Kristen Stewart, and Maya Erskine, Sacramento treats its…

Kristen Stewart to Portray Astronaut Sally Ride in TV Series ‘The Challenger’

©Seberg, courtesy of Amazon Studios Kristen Stewart will play astronaut and physicist Sally Ride in The Challenger, an upcoming TV series about the space race of the 1970s. Ride was the first woman and the first member of the LGBTQ+ community to be launched into space at a time when astronauts were typically heterosexual white…

Sundance Review / Love Lies Bleeding: An Extreme Yet Romantic Horror Film Noir

Compulsive love and the intense crimes that accompany it are two of the leading signs that a relationship is toxic in real life. But in a film noir piece like the new romantic drama, Love Lies Bleeding, those characteristics make such a connection titillating and exciting. The action-adventure movie is an intense, unconventional queer love…

Sundance Review / Love Me: Romance at the End of Time

What does it mean to be alive? That’s the central question posed in the sci-fi drama Love Me, which is set thousands of years in the future long after Earth is no longer inhabited. A satellite launched by NASA to scan for lifeforms to welcome them to what used to be the planet locates a…

Sundance Opening Night Gala : Christopher Nolan and Kristen Stewart Speaks!

@Credit Sundance Last night, the Sundance Institute kicked off the 40th annual Sundance Film Festival with Opening Night Gala: Celebrating 40 Years Presented by Chase Sapphire, held at the DeJoria Center in Utah. The annual event honored inspiring and breakout storytellers whose journeys have been connected to Sundance. The event raised funds to enable Sundance…

Love Lies Bleeding : Kristen Stewart Seduces a Bodybuilder in Queer Romance Thriller

Photo by A24 – © Anna Kooris A24 has dropped a new trailer for its crime/drama thriller “Love Lies Bleeding” starring Oscar nominee Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian and Ed Harris. The film centers around Lou payed by Stewart, a reclusive gym manager who gets romantically entangled with a bisexual O’Brian’s Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town…

Lionsgate Reportedly Developing Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight Saga’ Into a TV Series

Twilight, the acclaimed vampire romance saga, will soon be dawning on your TV screens, thanks to Lionsgate Television, which is developing Stephenie Meyer’s five-part book series known as The Twilight Saga. The news was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter and confirmed by other sources. According to press reports, Sinead Daly will be writing the…

Berlin International Film Festival : French Documentary ‘On the Adamant’ Wins Golden Bear for Best Film

As the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival drew to a close, “On the Adamant,” a documentary by French director Nicolas Philibert, Ann intimate look at the patients and caregivers in mental health centre located on the Seine River, has won the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival’s Golden Bear for best film.  This year’s Berlin jury…

Kristen Stewart Cast as Writer Susan Sontag In Director Kirsten Johnson’s Biographical Meta Documentary, ‘Sontag’

Kristen Stewart has signed on to portray feminist writer-political activist, Susan Sontag in Sontag, an upcoming narrative biopic that will feature a metafictional twist. The film will be directed by Kirsten Johnson, who’s known for helming the Emmy-winning documentary, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Variety is reporting. Sontag is based on the 2019 biographical book, Sontag:…

Kristen Stewart Selected as a President of Jury at Berlin Film Festival

Kristen Stewart will serve as the president of the jury at the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in February. Stewart has been in the spotlight for almost two decades. She landed her breakout role opposite Jodie Foster in David Fincher’s “Panic Room“ and achieved worldwide recognition with a leading role in the “Twilight“ saga, More recent credits like “Clouds of Sils…

Crimes of the Future : Q&A with Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Scott Speedman

Synopsis : As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an investigator from the National Organ Registry, obsessively tracks their movements,…