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Exclusive Video Interview: ‘Bad Axe’ Director David Siev Documents His Family’s Struggles during 2020

Check out more video interviews on our YouTube channel. You can’t get much more personal than David Siev’s documentary, Bad Axe, named after the small town in Michigan where his family lived and ran the popular community restaurant, Rachel’s. Things took a drastic turn in 2020 when COVID-19 hit the country, and then-President Donald Trump…

Will Danny Boyle’s ’28 Days Later’ Rise from the Crypt with a Sequel?

Danny Boyle’s classic horror film 28 Days Later may be rising from the crypt. The industry is abuzz with speculation that Boyle is now planning another sequel, 20 years later (the original film debuted in 2002). In a recent interview with NME, Boyle joined with actor Cillian Murphy to reminisce about making the film two…

Exclusive Video Interview: Himesh Patel on Entering the World of ‘Station Eleven’

Check out more of our video interviews on our YouTube channel. The HBO Max limited series Station Eleven, based on the book of the same name by Emily St. John Mandel, opens with a devastating pandemic that forever changes the world. online pharmacy buy cipro with best prices today in the USA As Jeevan (Himesh…

NYAFF: Ribbon, Restores Dignity To The Creative Fields That Were Deemed Non-Essential During The Pandemic

The diverse selection of motion pictures of the 2022 New York Asian Film Festival allows audiences to look back on the years we’ve recently traversed. The Japanese film Ribbon is an excellent example, bringing to the screen a whimsically inspiring coming-of-age story about a young art student in the midst of the Covid crisis. What…

Tribeca Festival Review – ‘Alone Together’ is an Expected Early Pandemic Romance

The number of films being made about the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be increasing, and for good reason: what many thought was going to be a two-week break from normalcy has become, two years in, a new reality where some restrictions are still in place in parts of the country, some people continue to wear…

In-Person Sundance Film Festival Cancelled

With just over two weeks before the 2022 Sundance Film Festival was scheduled to begin, the decision has been made to cancel all in-person activities in Utah. A press release put out by Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival stressed the level of work put in by staff to try to create a safe…

DOC NYC Film Review – ‘The First Wave’ Shows How COVID Transformed New York City

It’s difficult to be able to fully process the impact of something while still in it. As time goes on and cases continue to spread, the reality continues to set in that COVID-19 is here to stay, and society will need to evolve to account for its existence. Early on, however, that wasn’t as apparent,…

Freida Pinto And Cory Tran Are Married, Expecting Baby

Slumdog Millionaire and Intrusion actress Freida Pinto revealed on Wednesday’s edition of The Kelly Clarkson Show that she has married her longtime beau, photographer Cory Tran, and they are expecting their first child. The New York Post said Clarkson asked Pinto on the air about how her wedding planning was going and Pinto exclaimed with…

Film Review – ‘Together’ is a Formidable Expression of the Pandemic Reality

Any major event in society has an impact on the media created during and after that time. The coronavirus pandemic happens to be a particularly long-running and all-encompassing feature of the present time that doesn’t seem to be going away anytime soon. It has already produced numerous shows about social distancing and remote connection, as…

Netflix’s “Awake” Video Interview: Director Mark Raso on Sleep and Survival in “Awake”

Everyone could use a little more sleep. Those who have pulled all-nighters in college or been woken up by young children in the middle of the night know that not getting enough sleep can have detrimental effects and lead to lapses in judgment. But what if no one was able to sleep at all, and…

Phil Lord and Chris Miller Embark on the Latest Work from “Moneyball”, “The Big Short” Author, Michael Lewis

COVID-19 is not yet a thing of the past, but it’s already making its way into the movies. According to Deadline, Universal Pictures has secured rights to adapt Michael Lewis’ book The Premonition: A Pandemic Story. The book was just published earlier this month, and follows a biochemist, public health worker, and federal government employee…