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DOC NYC: How To Have An American Baby, A Gut-Wrenching Account Of How The Birth Tourism Industry Becomes A Geopolitical Parable

Filmmaker Leslie Tai provides a cinematic peek into the soaring latent economy that addresses Chinese pregnant women who travel to the United States to give birth, to provide a better future for their babies. How To Have An American Baby — part of the 2023 DOC NYC line-up — is a choral piece that intertwines…

Todd Haynes Says New Gay-Themed Film with Joaquin Phoenix Will Be Sexually Explicit

Director Todd Haynes is hinting that there’s going to be a heady dose of explicit sexuality in his upcoming gay-themed feature with Joaquin Phoenix. Interviewed by Variety at the Deauville American Film Festival, Haynes described the film as “a love story between two men set in the 30s that has explicit sexual content that ……

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver Officially Divorced 10 Years After Split

Film star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and broadcast journalist Maria Shriver are officially divorced, now that a complicated property agreement has been settled. The change in the former couple’s status comes about 10 years after they announced they intended to end their marriage. TMZ reported that the divorce was mediated by a private judge,…

Take Out Girl : An Exclusive Interview with Actress/Writer Hedy Wong

Story: Tera Wong(Hedy Wong) delivers Chinese food for her mother’s struggling restaurant located in a territory referred to as the “Low Bottoms” in south central Los Angeles. And everyone around her, including her unpredictable brother Saren(Lorin Alond Ly), are financially trapped in this crime and violence-ridden neighborhood. That is until Tera takes a job from…