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We still vividly remember the little freckled redhead girl in front of us who was shy but very smart. It was her film debut in Disney’s The Parent Trap, directed and co-written by Nancy Meyers.

The temperatures are high, ice cream drips, and the sound of waves – or the splash of the pool – fills the air. Kids are on vacay and the summer spills endlessly.

Will Smith’s shocking assault of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards not only embarrassed himself, but robbed too his King Richard collaborators of their chance at a special evening, and a lifetime’s worth of associated good memories. It would be a compounded shame if, further down the line, that single act also overshadowed the full and true story of the very complex character Smith portrayed in the film, the father of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams.

“It’s hard for me to do scenes where Eleven is happy,” Millie Bobby Brown told me a few years ago of her character on Stranger Things, “because I’m used to her being so depressed and distraught all the time. ” Fast forward to Season 4 of the super hit on Netflix (2016 - present).

A big surprise at the French box office this week: Top Gun: Maverick is such a success in France that the movie is coming back at number 1. Directed by Joseph Kosinski with Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and Jennifer Connelly, this sequel is about Pete “Maverick” Mitchell who continues to push his limits as a test pilot and in charge of training a detachment of young graduates from the Top Gun school for a special mission that no pilot would have ever imagined.

Growing up between Atlanta and Abuja, Nigeria, Boma Iluma got his first taste of the creative arts as an actor in commercials for the NBA and the Cartoon Network before segueing to plays in the local theater scene. Spreading his creative wings, Boma stepped behind the camera, where he immediately achieved recognition for his 2019 visual art piece Negus, which focused on how Blackness in America involves being actively unseen and violently misunderstood.

A man dives into a pool, its cerulean water glistening against his tanned and toned body under the summer sun. “I’m swimming home!” announces Ned Merrill (Burt Lancaster) after a few laps to the stunned owners, a chic couple, former acquaintances, quite hungover.

The songstress may have her sights set on the big screen. Taylor Alison Swift has fulfilled just about every dream a songwriter could have on her bucket list.

There is a sense of familiarity to the environment in which we find ourselves. Having been educated for sixty years by the James Bond franchise, we know an MI6 operations room when we see one.

Imagine one of my childhood movie-watching experiences when I was a kid growing up in Calasiao, in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines: It is nighttime in a grassy open area beside the town’s church, built in 1588. A projector shows Elvis Presley’s Blue Hawaii on a screen mounted atop a truck.