Month: January 2025

TITLE: Bubble & Squeak Section: U.S. Dramatic Competition Director: Evan Twohy Logline: Accused of smuggling cabbages into a nation where cabbages are banned, bickering newlyweds Declan and Delores must confront the fragility of their new marriage while on the run for their lives. Writer-director Evan Twohy’s eccentric debut feature strands Declan (Himesh Patel) and Dolores (Sarah Goldberg)
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In early 2021, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced that it was investigating claims of domestic violence and sexual assault against Marilyn Manson. The case was submitted to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office for review the following year. Now, Los Angeles’ district attorney, Nathan J. Hochman, has announced that Manson will not
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I think it is fair to say that this January has not been kind to any of us. This week especially brought plenty of headlines that made most of us feel queasy. Between the bouts of nausea and anxiety, I realized this week’s streaming guide needed to have a theme that captures these feelings of
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Have We Reached Peak Celebrity Audiobook Narration? I was browsing the finalists for the Audies and was struck
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While the Sundance Film Festival mulls a big move for 2027, the 2025 is under way. The event’s 41st edition kicked off January 23 in Utah, and you can look below for all of Deadline’s reviews from the fest so far. Sundance founder Robert Redford promised that audiences “can expect a 2025 program that showcases varied and vibrant filmmaking
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Candace Cameron Bure and Cameron Mathison are going to be reunited again in another Great American Family movie. Best of all, this will be a sequel. Which movie are they making a sequel for, and when should fans be able to watch this new movie? Here are all the details. Candace Cameron Bure, Cameron Mathison
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Most Americans don’t personally know a transgender person. In that ignorance gap, Republicans have vilified trans people as a bogeyman to the public. Tired of this trend, Imara Jones saw an opportunity to change people’s hearts and minds. She founded TransLash Media, a journalism and narrative non-profit whose content seeks to shift our current culture
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Photo credit: Marcel Zyskind While no-budget splatter-house fairytale reboots like Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, Cinderella’s Curse, and Neverland Nightmare continue to carve out a profitable mini-industry of uninspired schlock, it’s all the more refreshing to encounter an expertly crafted, thoughtfully executed fairytale nightmare-comedy like Emilie Blichfeldt’s The Ugly Stepsister. Set in a fantastical
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There’s a riot going on in Questlove’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning concert doc Summer of Soul, not least in the wardrobe department. Blazing a trail for the funkadelic/glam rock ’70s with metallic, tasseled jumpsuits that often literally tied themselves up with a bow in the middle, Sly Stone is long overdue for a film about
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The Trevor Project, an organization combatting suicide among LGBTQ+ youth, said that it experienced a 33% increase in people seeking help on Monday, the day that President Donald Trump was inaugurated. On that day, Trump signed an executive order instructing the federal government to stop legally recognizing trans people, rolling back numerous civil rights orders
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In writer, director and actor James Sweeney‘s sophomore feature, he navigates loneliness, anxiety, depression and other common millennial pastimes through an equally comedic and heartfelt arc… complete with a few “WTF” moments. Twinless stars Dylan O’Brien as Roman, a young man grieving the loss of his late twin brother Rocky. At a twin bereavement support
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