Month: March 2023

As the new crop of 2023 festival favorites roll out, Focus Features presents A Thousand And One in over 900 carefully curated theaters, testing the appetite for specialty fare at a challenging moment. Short film and video director A.V. Rockwell’s feature-length debut stars Teyana Taylor as free-spirited Inez, who kidnaps her six-year-old son Terry from
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Arianna Bocco, IFC Films President, is out at the distributor, Deadline has confirmed. Bocco is a 17 year vet at the indie label. She was named President in December 2020 after being the only distributor to give those few theaters bravely scrapping by during Covid, product including Dave Franco’s directorial, The Rental. Bocco will be
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Don’t. Sit. On the furniture. Horror movies have turned all sorts of inanimate objects into sadistic killers over the years and up next it’s a seemingly harmless sofa that becomes a monster in Killer Sofa! From director Bernardo Rao, Killer Sofa is now streaming on SCREAMBOX. “Electric Dreams meets Christine in the heart-warmingly horrific chronicle of a killer Lazy Boy that
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News UK Media Platform Gal-Dem to Close After 8 Years The independent culture and politics publication, which centred people of color from marginalized genders, cited financial difficulties in its decision to shutter By Jazz Monroe March 31, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Gal-Dem, an insurgent culture and politics platform that posed an alternative to the
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Most American history buffs have seen the terrifying photograph of the Ku Klux Klan’s parade on Pennsylvania Avenue in 1925, with the U.S. Capitol visible in the background. Sadly, that’s just a minor glimpse of the klan’s sway during what we prefer to remember as the Jazz Age. But in fact, there are more white
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Dean Cain, who famously played Superman in the ’90s, is selling his super snazzy Malibu pad … TMZ has learned. The 3,302-sq-ft. home has been listed with a $7.25 million price tag … and by L.A. standards it’s well worth the price. The single-level 4-bedroom, 5-bathroom pad sits along the Malibu coastline and has an
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This month’s installment of Deep Cuts Rising features a variety of horror movies. Some selections reflect a specific day or event in April, and others were chosen at random. Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown. This month’s offerings include
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Arooj Aftab, Vijay Ayer, and Shahzad Ismaily, photo by Karishma Dev Dube News Arooj Aftab, Vijay Ayer, and Shahzad Ismaily Share New “Shadow Forces” Video: Watch The Karishma Dev Dube–directed video for the trio’s 14-minute Love in Exile collaboration By Evan Minsker March 31, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad
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Eb didn’t mean to mess up Flow’s brand-new shoes, and Flow would never hit a girl, but in Kelly J. Baptist’s Eb & Flow, an accident leads to angry words, then a fistfight and then a 10-day suspension from school for seventh graders Ebony (Eb) and De’Kari (Flow). As they stare down two weeks at
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A martini dirtied with the last of the caper juice. Egg salad sizzled into fried rice. Sauce for noodles born inside a scraped-out nut-butter jar. Sad greens sorted with a “bullish, unwavering practicality.” The encyclopedic array that Tamar Adler presents in The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A–Z, a follow-up to her poetically instructive 2012 book,
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First-person storytelling has existed since the very dawn of cinema, but it’s only with the rise of video games that it became commonplace. Sure, there were first-person thrillers before the digital age, such as 1947’s Lady in the Lake, but the visceral thrills of looking through someone else’s eyes are much easier to accomplish when
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Tekashi 6ix9ine should be sleeping a little easier tonight ’cause cops say they have the three men who beat the crap out of him in custody! A rep for the Palm Beach Sheriff Office tells TMZ … detectives rounded up Rafael Medina, Jr., Octavious Medina and Anthony Maldonado for assaulting and robbing the New York
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The 2023 Audie Award winners were announced Tuesday by the Audio Publishers Association. The award ceremony, in its 28th year, honors audiobooks in 26 categories, including Audiobook of the Year, Autobiography, Memoir, Best Female Narrator, Best Male Narrator, and more. 2023 Audie Award Winners AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR Finding Me, written and narrated by Viola
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