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Life is harsh in Charcoal, the feature debut of veteran Brazilian director of commercials Carolina Markowicz, which had its international premiere at the Toronto Film Festival this year and later won 3 awards at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival, including Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Aline Marta Maia. In the film, Irene, a middle-aged woman (Maeve Jinkins) carries on with a complicated life in a desolated rural area in Brazil.

It’s only rock ’n’ roll – but we liked it. Especially in 1985, when we had the pleasure of choosing between heavyweights such as Prince, Stevie Wonder, Phil Collins, Kenny Loggins, Paul McCartney, and Ray Parker Jr.

What could possibly have ended the tight knit 30 year long friendship of Tully (Katherine Heigl) and Kate (Sarah Chalke) in the Netflix series Firefly Lane? Will Tully learn who her father is? Will Johnny (Ben Lawson) survive his war correspondent stint in Iraq and save his marriage to Kate? The poignant drama series, based on Kristin Hannah’s best-selling novel of the same name, returns with part one of a two-part second season on December 2. Australian actor Ben Lawson sat down with us at a Hollywood coffee shop to talk about what to expect in the new season and, of course, the memorable hair and clothing from each decade that are featured in the flashbacks!   Does the second season depart from the book? There is definitely a departure from the book, and the biggest change is the reason Tully and Kate have their falling out.

All the Sins is a Finnish crime drama television series created and written by film director Mika Ronkainen and journalist Merja Aakko. The series, in Finnish Kaikki synnit, is set in a deeply religious Laestadian Lutheran community in northern Finland.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever remains at number 1 at the French box office.  Directed by Ryan Coogler with Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, and Danai Gurira, the movie is about the people of Wakanda fighting to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T’Challa.

Films, food, friendship, family, and future: Last Film Show has it all. Nothing gives us as many emotional highs and lows when one is mesmerized by cinema.

Il Boemo tells the life story of an 18th century composer who traveled from Prague to Venice, Italy in 1763 at the age of 25 to pursue his dream of creating music and succeeded. His name being Josef Mysliveček, which was difficult to pronounce, he was nicknamed “il Boemo” by the Italians, meaning a man from Bohemia, a historical kingdom now part of the Czech Republic.

Barbra Streisand has always been a trailblazer: as a singer, an actress, and a filmmaker. So it’s not surprising she also became the first female filmmaker to win the Golden Globe for Best Director, for the musical Yentl in 1984.

“My friend and I thought, why are there no movies about an action grandma?”That’s how Martika Ramirez Escobar conceived Leonor Will Never Die, her audacious feature directing debut which won a special jury prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the Amplify Voices Award at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival, and just recently earned a best international feature nomination for Film Independent’s Spirit Awards. Escobar, in our interview via email, said that the absence of an “action star grandma” in Philippine cinema propelled her to write Leonor Will Never Die.

The new hit TV drama, Fire Country, explores the world of firefighting from the unique point of view of the inmates who fight alongside local firefighters in a special California camp program.   While the Northern California town where the show is set is fictional, the California Conservation Camp Program is very real.