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2024 September


Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga Bring Gotham to Venice, Electrify Fest With Ambitious ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’

Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga Bring Gotham to Venice, Electrify Fest With Ambitious ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’

Sophie Dumond (Zazie Beetz), Arthur’s neighbor in Joker, makes a brief appearance when the character is brought in as a witness for the prosecution team led by young assistant district attorney Harvey Dent (Harry Lawtey) before his villainous alter ego Two-Face shows up.


James McAvoy’s Directorial Debut About Hip Hop Hoax Sells to Studiocanal for U.K.

James McAvoy’s Directorial Debut About Hip Hop Hoax Sells to Studiocanal for U.K.

The movie is based on the true story of Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, two friends from Dundee, Scotland, who conned the music industry by using American accents and pretending to be a Californian rap duo called Silibil N’ Brains.


The Lockdown (2024) Movie Ending Explained: Can Charlie and Jack Escape the Prison?

The Lockdown (2024) Movie Ending Explained: Can Charlie and Jack Escape the Prison?

While on this enforced break from work, she meets her brother, Jack (Leo Howard) at their father, Max Hightower’s (Michael Biehn) gym for a fight.


‘¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!’ Review: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Bite Off More Than Expected Restoring a Bad-Taste Restaurant

‘¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!’ Review: Trey Parker and Matt Stone Bite Off More Than Expected Restoring a Bad-Taste Restaurant

For folks who’ve never heard of Casa Bonita, half the fun comes from discovering this low-quality, medium-concept, high-kitsch fantasyland that had so impressed Parker as a kid — an ersatz old-timey Mexican town conceived of equal parts imagination and bad taste.


Linda Deutsch, AP Trial Writer Who Had Front Row to Courtroom History, Dies at 80

Linda Deutsch, AP Trial Writer Who Had Front Row to Courtroom History, Dies at 80

She went on to cover a who’s who of criminal defendants — Manson, Simpson, Jackson, Patty Hearst, Phil Spector, the Menendez Brothers, “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez, “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski and the police officers charged in the beating of motorist Rodney King.


London Film Fest Unveils Full Program, Including Doc and First Feature Competition Lineups, Series

London Film Fest Unveils Full Program, Including Doc and First Feature Competition Lineups, Series

The BFI London Film Festival (LFF) 2024 will screen documentaries about “witches,” and zoos and animal rescue centers in Argentina, as well as first features from directors of varied backgrounds, organizers said on Wednesday as they unveiled the full program for this year’s event.


‘Short N’ Sweet’ Is Officially Sabrina Carpenter’s First No. 1 Album

‘Short N’ Sweet’ Is Officially Sabrina Carpenter’s First No. 1 Album

The artful yet gory music video kicks off with a content warning before showing Carpenter choosing from an assortment of weapons, hauntingly singing “Rock-a-bye baby, snug in your bed / Right now you are sleeping / And soon you’ll be
 dead.” The pop star then takes a moment to apply lipstick in the reflection of a large knife.


Didi (2024) Movie Ending Explained & Themes Analyzed: What Does the Ending of ‘Didi’ Mean in Chris’s Journey?

Didi (2024) Movie Ending Explained & Themes Analyzed: What Does the Ending of ‘Didi’ Mean in Chris’s Journey?

Be it “Sing Street,” “The Last Picture Show,” or “Dazed and Confused,” coming-of-age films often capture the essence of the time they are set in.


The 10 Best Pedro AlmodĂłvar Movies, Ranked

The 10 Best Pedro AlmodĂłvar Movies, Ranked

Drawn in part from his own upbringing in an abusive religious school, “Bad Education” anchors itself by way of Gael García Bernal in what may arguably be his best performance, slipping into the chameleonic requirements of a story that explores the hardships of childhood and the comforts that we can provide each other, and those that are lost when we’re pulled apart.


‘The Brutalist’ Review: Director Brady Corbet Breaks Through in His Third Feature, an Engrossing Epic Starring Adrien Brody as a Visionary Architect

‘The Brutalist’ Review: Director Brady Corbet Breaks Through in His Third Feature, an Engrossing Epic Starring Adrien Brody as a Visionary Architect

It’s three hours and 15 minutes long, it’s paced with a pleasing stateliness and overflows with incident and emotion — and it spins out the story of László Tóth (Adrien Brody), a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who journeys from Budapest to America after World War II, as if Corbet were making a biopic about a real person.


‘I’m Still Here’ Review: Walter Salles’ Profoundly Moving Sense-Memory Portrait of a Family — and a Nation — Ruptured

‘I’m Still Here’ Review: Walter Salles’ Profoundly Moving Sense-Memory Portrait of a Family — and a Nation — Ruptured

But on a day like this, amongst people like the Paiva family – Eunice, her engineer husband Rubens (Selton Mello) their five volleyball-playing, Coke-tanning, dog-adopting children and their live-in housekeeper Zeze (Pri Helena) — its presence is mostly felt only in radio reports of kidnapped diplomats and in the occasional army convoy that trundles down the road separating the beach from their large, airy home.


Summer Box Office Dilemma: Domestic Revenue Falls 10 Percent, But It Could Have Been Far Worse

Summer Box Office Dilemma: Domestic Revenue Falls 10 Percent, But It Could Have Been Far Worse

Sony’s June offering Bad Boys: Ride or Die set into motion a major reset and a two-month box office recovery that made the “sins of the past disappear quickly in the rear-view mirror,” says Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian.