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Set in the world of haute cuisine, The Menu is a delicious combination of satire, horror, and comedy starring Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy, with a supporting cast which includes Judith Light and Nicholas Hoult. The Menu is in some ways representative of our current foodie culture, which entered the zeitgeist some decades ago when waiters began to spout the origin story of each ingredient, culminating in the all-important phrase ‘farm to table.

Directed by Jamie Roberts, the new documentary Escape from Kabul puts an emotional human face on the harrowing events of its title — a humanitarian disaster that unfolded in August 2021, during the last two weeks of American military forces on the ground in the Afghanistan capital. Premiering September 21 on HBO and HBO Max, the movie assays the largest non-combatant evacuation airlift in modern history, with by some counts an estimated 124,000 panicked Afghan civilians eventually escaping, as one puts it, the impending “hell of judgment day” set to be imposed by a retributive and repressive regime returning to power two decades after having been driven out, in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

  As the world is slowly returning to a pre-Covid normal, one place where this was never more obvious was the annual Toronto Film Festival, which had been mostly online since 2020. The popular Canadian festival returned with a hugely ambitious and diverse program offering many films we will hear more about going into the height of awards season - like People’s Choice winner, The Fabelmans – as well as panels with everyone from Taylor Swift to Hilary Clinton.

After 15 years and 5 films as James Bond, Daniel Craig has already earned his place in cinema history as one of the most iconic characters of all time. But with his second appearance in the TIFF-premiered Glass Onion: A Knives Out as famed Southern detective, Benoit Blanc, the English actor may be creating another even more memorable new character; a cinematic cousin to Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot.

According to the Indian publication Business India, there is a juggernaut of movies from South India that has taken over the Indian box office as Bollywood films are turning out to be a “feeble competitor. ” Quoting a CII South Media & Entertainment report, Business India reports that 62% of the all-India box office collections of movies in 2021 came from South Indian films and the trend is getting stronger.

Screened out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, Quel posto nel tempo (That Place in Time), by Italian director Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo, is the most notable of a slate of films exploring the subject of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The film will be released theatrically in Italy on September 21, 2022, World Alzheimer's Day.

La Asociación de la Prensa Extranjera de Hollywood (HFPA ® por sus siglas en inglés), la productora dick clark productions (dcp) y la cadena NBC anunciaron hoy que los Globos de Oro se transmitirán en vivo de costa a costa por NBC y Peacock el martes 10 de enero, 2023, a las 8 p. m.

The human need for social connection and an acceptance of basic personal expression is universal. When societies make certain groups feel unwelcome or unsafe in expressing themselves — or, indeed, simply existing — people will eventually create spaces that affirm their identity.

“The Phantom of the Opera,” the longest-running Broadway musical in New York, will finally close on February 18, 2023. The famed musical adored by many worldwide, written by British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, will have had a 35-year run on the Great White Way.

Catherine Called Birdy is director Lena Dunham’s comedy about just turned thirteen-year-old Catherine (Bella Ramsey), who becomes available for marriage with the arrival of her menstrual period, to any prosperous suitor her father chooses – most of them old and undesirable – in order to rescue her family’s dire economic position, brought about by her father’s poor management of the household finances. The film amusingly documents Catherine’s willful attempts to escape the role to which she has been assigned.