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After more than three decades as a dogged movie reviewer, most recently as chief critic for the U.K.’s Screen International, Fionnuala Halligan stepped inside the film festival machinery earlier this year to accept the role of the Red Sea International Film Festival‘s director of international programs. Halligan began her career in Hong Kong at The…
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Indian director Nerraj Ghaywan’s powerful true-to-life tale of friendship and loss, Homebound, begins with a simple plan that quickly unravels: Two childhood buddies, Shoaib (Ishaan Khatter) and Chandan (Vishal Jetwha), are both applying to become state police officers. But their country’s stilted bureaucracy, along with institutional racism and classism, sends them on diverging career paths…
Paradise is ready to reveal more secrets in season two. The twisty post-apocalyptichit drama from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman ended on a major cliffhanger and made good on a big promise that much more will be revealed when season two returns, which is all part of Fogelman’s three-season master plan. On Saturday, coming…
It’s official: Blumhouse is back in fine form. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, opening two months after Blumhouse hit Black Phone 2 debuted, is on course to win the weekend with a sizeable $56.6 million from 3,412 theaters at the domestic box office to score the top opening ever for the post-Thanksgiving frame, among other…
Tucked down a narrow alleyway off the Sunset Strip lies one of Hollywood’s most enchanting shops. Founded by father and son Harvey and Louis Jason in 1998, Mystery Pier Books is a bookstore specializing in rare first editions, many of them signed. Recognized by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers as one of the world’s…
In 1998 I was an aspiring screenwriter living in a small apartment in Hollywood. The building was across the street from a liquor store with a red neon sign that would blink on and off, reflecting on me in what I imagined to be a film noir-ish way as I sat at the computer, channeling…
Emmy-nominated digital content creator Cleo Abram has signed with UTA for representation. With around 7 million YouTube followers, Abram runs the popular channel Huge If True to bring stories about breakthrough technology and science for a better future to a wider audience. Popular Huge If True episodes on YouTube include “What if I fell into…
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There was a recognizable face inside the walls of Los Angeles City Hall at an Oct. 8 meeting in front of the City Charter Reform Commission, and it wasn’t a local politician, lobbyist or well-placed operative. It was Academy Award winning filmmaker Daniel Kwan. Kwan, one half of the Oscar-winning duo behind Everything Everywhere All…
