New Orleans Film Festival Sets First Wave of Titles Including Opening Night...
The New Orleans Film Society has announced the first wave of titles for the 2024 New Orleans Film Festival, and it includes opening night film A King Like Me. Taking place from October 16 – 22 in New...
View ArticleChild Labor Short ‘Anuja’ Wins Best Live Action Short at HollyShorts
Husband and wife team Adam J. Graves and Suchitra Mattai’s “Anuja”, a short film about a little girl growing up in child labor, won Best Live Action Short at HollyShorts Film Festival on Sunday in Los...
View ArticleA Prom Night Fantasy and a Unibrow Highlight NFMLA’s InFocus: Canadian Cinema...
The unibrow connecting a girl to her Irani heritage and a prom night fantasy were at the center of the films highlighting NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA)’s July Monthly Film Festival and its annual...
View ArticleMiddlebury New Filmmakers Festival Goes Back to Its Roots for 10th Anniversary
In celebration of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival’s 10th anniversary this year, founders Lloyd Komesar and Jay Craven curated an extra special program to take the festival back to roots as a...
View Article7 Chilling Details From Phil Spector’s Murder of Lana Clarkson
The first episode of Netflix’s Homicide: Los Angeles covers the story of Lana Clarkson, the 40-year-old actress who was murdered by famous music producer Phil Spector, then 63, in 2003. Clarkson, who...
View ArticleLos Frikis Tells the True Story of Cuban Punk Rockers Who Intentionally...
The directing duo behind the 2019 indie hit Peanut Butter Falcon have returned with their sophomore feature, Los Frikis. It’s a jaw-dropping historical drama that tells the true story of hundreds of...
View ArticleIn A Photographic Memory, Rachel Elizabeth Seed Searches for the Mother She...
Rachel Elizabeth Seed was only 18 months old when she lost her mother, journalist Sheila Turner Seed. In her new documentary and feature directorial debut A Photographic Memory, Seed gets to know her...
View ArticleEmily Reeves Revisits Her Old High School Amid School Shooting Fears in...
Emily Reeves was on the phone with her mom getting all the local gossip about her hometown of East Lansing, Michigan, when she first heard the story that would turn into her new podcast, Violence Week....
View ArticleMediha: A Teenage Girl Abducted by ISIS Comes of Age in the Foothills of Iraq
When director Hasan Oswald first met Iraqi-Yazidi teenager Mediha Ibrahim Alhamad, it had been one year since she was rescued from ISIS. The terrorist group had held her captive from the ages of 10 to...
View ArticleMoonstruck Screenwriter Says Lawrence Kasdan Almost Directed 1987 Rom-Com
Moonstruck screenwriter John Patrick Shanley remembers a brief tug-of-war between Norman Jewison and Lawrence Kasdan over who would get to direct the beloved 1987 romantic comedy starring Cher and...
View ArticleSidewalk Film Festival 2024 Winners Include Exhibiting Forgiveness and Secret...
The winners of the 26th annual Sidewalk Film Festival have been announced, and they include Exhibiting Forgiveness and Secret Mall Apartment. Exhibiting Forgiveness, written and directed by Titus...
View ArticleMiddlebury New Filmmakers Festival 2024 Award Winners Include Los Frikis and...
The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival has released its list of winners at the 10th annual festival, and they includes Los Frikis and Porcelain War. The festival, which is dedicated to first and...
View ArticleJessica Michael Davis’ Escaping Ohio Scores Distribution Deal With Gravitas...
Jessica Michael Davis’ heartwarming directorial debut Escaping Ohio has landed a distribution deal with Gravitas Ventures. The Cleveland-based distributor is a fitting choice for the coming-of-age...
View ArticleNashville Film Festival Sets Program for 2024 Creators Conference
The Nashville Film Festival has announced the program for the 2024 Creators Conference, including panels with film industry professionals and a pitch competition. The 55th annual Nashville Film...
View ArticleUntold: Sign Stealer Director Didn’t Get the Big Deal About Connor Stalions —...
Netflix’s Untold: Sign Stealer director Micah Brown didn’t understand why everyone was so fascinated with Connor Stalions, the man who came under fire for a sign-stealing scandal involving the...
View ArticleGeorge R. R. Martin Hints at ‘Everything That’s Gone Wrong’ With House of the...
George R. R. Martin appears to be getting ready to share some criticisms about HBO’s House of the Dragon, the Game of Thrones spinoff prequel series based on Martin’s book Fire & Blood. In a new...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie Says Her Kids Saw Her Cry Openly for ‘First Time’ on Maria...
Angelina Jolie usually doesn’t like to cry in front of her kids. But on the set of Maria, the upcoming Pablo Larraín biopic about famed opera singer Maria Callas, Jolie let it all hang out. “That was...
View Article12 Classic Movies Beloved by Baby Boomers
Here are 12 movies that Baby Boomers absolutely love, from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to The Big Chill and The Graduate The post 12 Classic Movies Beloved by Baby Boomers appeared first on...
View Article30 Baby Boomers We Absolutely Love
"Okay, boomer" doesn't apply to these magnificent humans. Here are our favorite Baby Boomers of the movie industry, from Dolly Parton to Eddie Murphy The post 30 Baby Boomers We Absolutely Love...
View ArticleTikTok Users Are More Likely to Visit Movie Theaters, Study Finds
TikTok users are more likely to visit movie theaters than people who don’t use TikTok, according to new statistics released by the short video app. Specifically, TikTok users are 44% more likely to go...
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