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Attica! is a riveting documentary that revisits an American tragedy exactly 50 years after the prisoners’ rebellion at the Attica correctional facility in upstate New York which would become infamous in American prison history. On this anniversary the revolt has spawned several retrospectives, such as HBO Max’s Betrayal at Attica.

When a fire broke out at the site of the El Gouna film festival a day before it was due to start its 5th edition, many Egyptians celebrated on social media, describing the fire as divine intervention. The organizers refused to resign to God’s will and embarked on a renovation project that entailed employing 3,000 workers around the clock.

Tim Burton, Joel Schumacher, Christopher Nolan, and Zack Snyder are just four of the notable movie directors that have brought the comic book character of Batman to life on the big screen. In 2022, Matt Reeves takes over the hot seat as director of the Warner Bros’ release, The Batman.

Gal Gadot, Dwayne Johnson, Pierce Brosnan, James Gunn, and Jason Momoa delighted fans across the globe with virtual interviews, on-set discussions and highly anticipated trailer launches at the 2021 DC FanDome event. The 4-hour presentation from Warner Bros.

John Carpenter's Starman, David Cronenberg's The Fly, George Romero's  Dawn of the Dead, and Roberto Rossellini’s Voyage to Italy have something in common according to Italian director Luca Guadagnino: they are among his favorite films ever. An odd aesthetic choice for the acclaimed author of the 2017 delicate gay romance and intimate portrait Call Me by Your Name, nominated for three Golden Globes, including Best Picture Drama, and one Oscar nominee for Best Picture, and the film that launched the career of Timothée Chalamet among its many values.

Timothée Chalamet ruled the weekend box office with two disparate films, Denis Villeneuve’s epic Dune and Wes Anderson’s esoteric The French Dispatch. Dune, led by Timothée as Paul Atreides, the duke heir of the House Atreides, scored several record bests.

Ewan McGregor spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 1999 about playing a young Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode One-The Phantom Menace directed by George Lucas. “I was six when I saw the first Star Wars, and I was blown away by seeing the film the first time when I was that age, it’s a great age to see it at.

The film Blondie: Vivir en la Habana recently premiered at the Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF), where Debbie Harry was an honorary guest. The 18-minute documentary directed by Rob Roth was part of the RIFF music films program and was filmed during a 2019 tour by the band in Cuba.

Arriving less than 10 months after Donald Trump’s supporters ransacked the United States of America’s seat of government in an attempt to forestall the certification of the country’s presidential election results, the new documentary Four Hours at the Capitol lands somewhat understandably as more of a rough first draft of history than a wholly refined, polished overview of the events of January 6, 2021. And yet, within that framework and context, it’s still a gut-punch work — a movie which, by way of its telling, grapples with the question of whether the alternate political and social realities in which Americans are seemingly living can coexist with the foundational principles of democracy, and in the end, sadly, affords no easy answer.

New Zealand's early film industry was small and mostly focused on documentaries. The government made films featuring the country’s stunning landscapes to promote tourism.