Ready to show off your spooky side? Halloween is a precursor to the holiday season and a chance to get festive. If you plan to decorate this Halloween, we searched the web to find awesomely scary decorations that will look great in your home or workplace. Whether you’re decorating a huge office space or a small desk, cubicle, or counter space, any one of the items on our list will bring an eerie vibe to the room....
That line from Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru” sums up a lot of feelings people seem to have about nudity in film as well. The history of painting and sculpture is full of nude portraiture, which is easily classified as art. But the nude scene in movies is rarely discussed alongside a Canova marble statue or Manet’s “Olympia.” Movies blur the boundaries between “real life” and artistic indirection so thoroughly that people discuss nude scenes in movies as practically everything but art....
The fest opens on Thursday night with the world premiere of Julia Hart’s “I’m Your Woman” and, over the course of the next week, will also play new films from filmmakers Errol Morris, Heidi Ewing, Mira Nair, Florian Zeller, Werner Herzog, and many more. This year’s complete AFI FEST program includes 124 titles (54 features, 3 episodic, 33 shorts, 19 Meet the Press Film Festival at AFI FEST shorts, and 15 AFI Conservatory Showcase shorts) of which 53 percent are directed by women, 39 percent are directed by BIPOC, and 17 percent are directed by LBGTQ+....
So, who can expect a cheery wake-up call? Anne Thompson has already posted IndieWire’s Golden Globe predictions on the film front, and below you can find our expectations for TV. The pandemic continues to cause disarray, as many perennial contenders saw production delays that pushed them out of eligibility. That means “Succession” won’t defend its Best Drama Series title, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” won’t be back in the Comedy mix, and Apple TV+ will have to find a contender outside “The Morning Show” to keep its hot hand with the HFPA afire....
As it turns out, the SAG Awards and Oscars may not sync up as easily as last year, when all the Ensemble nominees went on to win Oscars, along with all the SAG acting winners — Renée Zellweger (“Judy”), Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”), Brad Pitt (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”), and Laura Dern (“Marriage Story”). This time, SAG was full of surprises that will shake up the Oscar race. The evening’s big shocker was the double-whammy SAG Awards for not only the expected Best Male in a Leading Role winner Chadwick Boseman — but also his costar Viola Davis in the bigger-than-life, dazzling title role in Netflix’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom....
The latest film from the revered and much-decorated director of “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence,” “You, the Living,” and “Songs From the Second Floor,” “About Endlessness” weaves together multiple, visually arresting segments to construct a larger narrative about mankind’s lack of awareness. This one is a reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality. We wander, dreamlike, guided by a female voice, who occupies the role of Scheherazade from “Arabian Nights,” guiding us from one skit to another along the periphery of a war....
Cineworld’s lenders and AMC held discussions “focused on the acquisition of certain strategic theatre assets of Cineworld in the United States and Europe,” including Regal Cinemas, the 8-K reads. The purchase would have been partially financed through the issuance of AMC’s APEs and other debt financings. (Of course it would have been through APEs. More on those in a moment.) A “definitive agreement” between AMC Entertainment and Cineworld’s lenders “has not been reached,” and “at this time negotiations are not continuing,” the filing read....
