Tag: Film

High & Low: John Galliano – rise and fall of the ‘ignominiously sacked’ fashion genius

“There’s an argument to be made that we have heard everything we ever need to hear from John Galliano,” said Wendy Ide in The Observer. He is the flamboyant British designer who was “ignominiously sacked” as creative director of Dior in 2011, after footage emerged of him “booze-sodden” in a Paris bar, “spewing an antisemitic […]

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‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’: List Of Social Media Influencers Featured In Hulu Docuseries

NewsOne Featured Video Source: NurPhoto / Getty Onyx Collective debuted its upcoming Hulu docuseries, “Black Twitter: A People’s History,” at SXSW Festival over the weekend. The company also announced some of the Black Twitter contributors in the series. Check out a teaser trailer for the upcoming series below. The Prentice Penny-directed docuseries is based upon […]

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Copa 71 review: ‘incendiary account’ of the women’s 1971 World Cup in Mexico

From “raucous crowds” and “widespread television coverage” to a “semi-final ending in a full blown punch-up”, this story “needs to be seen to be believed”. That was how Kathryn Batte described the 1971 Women’s World Cup football tournament in Mexico in the Daily Mail. And Kevin Maher in The Times called it an “incendiary account” […]

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The Oscars’ Spectacle of Seriousness

If there was a common theme to the films featured at this year’s Oscars, it was precisely this sort of psychic slippage, whether expressed through characters catching a glimpse of a broken world beyond their ostensible purview (Poor Things); ones ensnared within contentious cultural heritages (Past Lives, American Fiction); or else trying to reconcile their […]

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Indigenous language film fest returns with 16 submissions

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Indigenous Education Program hosted its Second Annual Indigenous Language Film Festival last Thursday, Feb. 29, featuring 16 films made by 52 people. The film festival, which premiered at three separate showtimes on Thursday, can be streamed on YouTube under the title “2024 Indigenous Language Film Festival – KPBSD Noon […]

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007’s Gorgeous Jaguar C-X75 Gets Street-Legal Makeover By Callum

007’s Gorgeous Jaguar C-X75 Gets Street-Legal Makeover By Callum | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The road-legal version of the Jaguar movie car has been enhanced with numerous improvements 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> The Jaguar C-X75, originally introduced in 2010, has gone down in history as one of the greatest concepts that never reached […]

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007’s Gorgeous Jaguar C-X75 Gets Street-Legal Makeover By Callum

007’s Gorgeous Jaguar C-X75 Gets Street-Legal Makeover By Callum | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> The road-legal version of the Jaguar movie car has been enhanced with numerous improvements 4 hours ago <!––> <!– –> The Jaguar C-X75, originally introduced in 2010, has gone down in history as one of the greatest concepts that never reached […]

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Dune: Part Two – the next Star Wars?

It’s only February and already the movie event of the year is here, with early viewings of “Dune: Part Two” generating impressive reviews. Critics “truly love” the follow-up to 2021’s “Dune”, starring Timothée Chalamet, said Screen Rant, “to the point where comparisons to ‘Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back’ are already being […]

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Dune: Part Two Is a Masterwork of Complexity

Villeneuve is for the most part scrupulously faithful to the source material, which makes his most significant departures interesting and worth lingering on. The biggest is to compress the story chronologically so that Paul’s sister Alia, conceived weeks before the end of Part One, remains in utero at the end of Part Two (Herbert and […]

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Dune: Part Two Unleashes the Terrible Power of Paul

Villeneuve is for the most part scrupulously faithful to the source material, which makes his most significant departures interesting and worth lingering on. The biggest is to compress the story chronologically so that Paul’s sister Alia, conceived weeks before the end of Part One, remains in utero at the end of Part Two (Herbert and […]

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The Taste of Things Is More Than an Ode to Pleasure

Dodin’s buddies, with their high-flown allusions to politics, art, and literature—i.e., the fact that baked Alaska was invented by a Frenchman named Balzac of no relation to the novelist—are good company, for him and for us, and The Taste of Things has a gently rollicking comic tone whenever they’re around: They’re like professional appreciators (as […]

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The Messy Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

In Albee, strong emotions and dissatisfactions emerged from the marrow of intelligent, passionate, sometimes monstrous (and very often hilarious) men and women. Albee’s upbringing made him the perfect person to write about the deep pathological weirdness of American family relationships. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1928, Albee never knew the identity of his biological parents […]

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The Drama of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Spilled Into Real Life

In Albee, strong emotions and dissatisfactions emerged from the marrow of intelligent, passionate, sometimes monstrous (and very often hilarious) men and women. Albee’s upbringing made him the perfect person to write about the deep pathological weirdness of American family relationships. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1928, Albee never knew the identity of his biological parents […]

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Valentine’s Day rom-coms to watch on 14 February

Pretty Woman The only reason this “Cinderella story for sex workers” works, said Caroline Madden on Slashfilm.com, is because of Julia Roberts’ “enchanting performance”, for which she earned an Oscar nomination. The 1990 movie could have tipped into “misogynistic stereotype” but Roberts gives the character of Vivian “many dimensions”. It is no “nuanced exploration of sex […]

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Watch The Trailer For Drive To Survive, Season 6 Premieres February 23

Watch The Trailer For Drive To Survive, Season 6 Premieres February 23 | Carscoops <!—-><!– –><!– –><!—-><!—-> Despite Max Verstappen’s dominance, the 2023 F1 season was full of intrigue and drama, and Netflix is ready to remind you of it all 2 hours ago <!––> <!– –> Netflix’s much-loved documentary series following Formula One’s biggest […]

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The Zone of Interest Confronts the Act of Looking Away

Such was Höss’s moral stupor and mental denial that he claimed to not have mistreated a single prisoner, let alone killed one. He simply went about carrying out orders, “a cog in the wheel of the great extermination machine created by the Third Reich,” he said. In the film, we see him welcoming two gentlemen […]

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The Zone of Interest Is Not a Film About Auschwitz

Such was Höss’s moral stupor and mental denial that he claimed to not have mistreated a single prisoner, let alone killed one. He simply went about carrying out orders, “a cog in the wheel of the great extermination machine created by the Third Reich,” he said. In the film, we see him welcoming two gentlemen […]

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On the screen: Anticipated spy flick falls flat in unmemorable ‘Argylle’

Perhaps the only person I can blame for my disappointment with “Argylle” is myself. From the first trailer, something about “Argylle” captured my imagination — it came in highly anticipated — but when credits rolled, I was left far from satisfied. “Argylle” is the latest film by director Matthew Vaughn — who previously helmed the […]

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The Color Purple review: Alice Walker’s epistolary novel gets the musical treatment

“It’s been two weeks since ‘Mean Girls’, and here we go again,” said Kevin Maher in The Times: another “film adaptation of a stage musical adaptation of an original, much-adored movie”. And beneath it all, there is Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. But in this version, “Walker’s poetic prose, religious themes and epistolary structure” have […]

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Movies to watch in February, from ‘Argylle’ to ‘Drive-Away Dolls’

Just in time for Valentine’s movie dates, February brings everything from a controversial spy flick, a Sony Spider-verse entry, and a musical experience from J.Lo. Here are some movies to look forward to this February.  ‘Argylle’ (Feb. 2) The buzz around Matthew Vaughn’s forthcoming spy adventure has largely surrounded one still unanswered question: Who wrote […]

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2024 Best Picture nominees back when they were books

Reverse-engineer half of 2024’s Oscars Best Picture nominees and you wind up with a handful of eminently readable fiction and nonfiction from more than 200 years of English-language writing. Ready to get flipping? ‘American Fiction’: ‘Erasure,’ Percival Everett Percival Everett, in the world of writers’ writers, is a kingpin. His fans read his work repeatedly […]

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