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Hollywood has enjoyed a long tradition of casting animals in the starring role of big-budget and indie productions going as far back as 1905 with the silent movie, Rescued by Rover.   Other heroes followed such as Rin Tin Tin in 1923 (with a re-imagined version in 2007), as well as Old Yeller in 1957.

If you go strictly by the calendar, the June solstice on June 21 marks the first official day of summer, astronomically speaking. But July is, of course, the month most North Americans associate with summer — a glorious season of kicking back, enjoying trips or vacations, and savoring time off while unwinding and relaxing with good food, cold drinks, and old friends.

The onslaught of COVID has already birthed a big surge of nonfiction cinematic pandemic offerings, and future waves are as reliably guaranteed as are real-world spikes in highly transmissible omicron offshoot variant infections. Many such films will, unfortunately, trade largely in carbon-copied tragedy, with only a few details changed.

There is something insistent in John Carpenter's film, The Thing (1982), that tells us our worst enemy is the one sitting in front of us. With its themes of paranoia, group psychosis, and the presence of an entity whose alien cells run, undetected, through the protagonists’ veins, the film, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this summer, is the perfect metaphor in these times of COVID-19.

Vedette de Conversations with Friends, sur Hulu, qui est la série écrite par Sally Rooney, auteur également de l’ouvrage adapté à la célèbre série Normal People, Sasha Lane est la nouvelle étoile montante d’Hollywood. Dans Conversations with Friends, Sasha Lane crève l’écran.

    In 2019, Marvel President Kevin Feige sat down with HFPA journalist Anke Hofmann to talk about one of the biggest years in the company’s history following the success of Black Panther, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Avengers: End Game. Three years later, Marvel has reached even greater heights with blockbusters including Black Widow (2021), Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), Eternals (2021), Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), Eternals (2021) and the recent release, Dr.

Has it really been 44 years since John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, as Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson, respectively, sang You’re the One That I Want to each other in Grease? The critically and commercially successful romantic comedy, set in the summer of 1958, stole our hearts and brought out our dancing shoes. Generations have been dancing and singing – some costumed as Danny and Sandy – to such songs as Greased Lightning, Summer Nights, and Hopelessly Devoted to You.

Thor: Love and Thunder, brings Golden Globe winner Christian Bale into the Marvel Universe as Gorr, the God Butcher. Anyone who is a Harry Potter fan will be a tiny bit distracted by how closely the Butcher resembles Voldemort.

The 56th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) took place from July 1 - 9, 2022, ending on Saturday evening with a Closing Night ceremony at the Grand Hall of the spa town’s Hotel Thermal.  Although canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic, with a scaled-down physical event taking place in 2021, the Festival returned on a grand scale, bigger and better than ever.

A bar that reportedly hosted Richard Nixon and Robert F. Kennedy, even gangster Mickey Cohen.