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In his new HBO Max series Raised by Wolves, Ridley Scott leaps forward in time to the end of humanity on Earth and shoots off to a faraway planet where humanity is to be restarted. He explores themes that are familiar from his previous work: androids, religion versus science, the fallibility of both human and non-human nature.

Melbourne-born model-turned-actress Abbey Lee (33) steps into the world of 1950s racist America, in Jordan Peele’s horror drama series, Lovecraft Country. She first appeared on the big screen in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), which led to a slew of movies including Gods of Egypt, Neon Demon (2016), The Dark Tower, and Welcome the Stranger (2017), Elizabeth Harvest (2018), and last year’s Lux/Eterna.

He is a young Swedish writer, cinematographer, and documentarian who had a few projects in the pipeline when he heard about a 15-year old schoolgirl who was staging a lone protest in Stockholm. Intrigued, he took his gear and his cameraman and went down to see what it was all about.

It is indeed a strange year when one of the biggest movies at the Venice Festival is a little British comedy with a title that misleads some theatergoers into expecting a typical period piece. The Duke is neither typical nor a costume drama.

Beginning in 1952 when the Cecil B.  deMille Award was presented to its namesake visionary director, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has awarded its most prestigious prize 66 times.

During this time of the coronavirus pandemic and death, it seems frivolous to focus on fashion. However, because of the dire world state, it is good to find something beautiful, creative, and artistic to remind us that despite the dire months, optimism and a new normal may rise again.

The highly-anticipated documentary about climate activist Greta Thunberg premiered to what would be deafening applause in a year of social closeness not distancing. Still, the atmosphere in the half-empty theater was filled with cheers and appreciation and rightfully so.

On October 30, 1968, two young hustlers rang the doorbell of a house in Laurel Canyon. They were invited in by a 69-year-old man dressed in a robe.

What if 15 years from now, a dating service called Soulmates had a scientific method to find your true soul mate? What would you do? Would you take the test and then what? That is what the AMC TV show Soulmates explores in several different ways in an episodic anthology where Malin Akerman plays the lead as Martha. The 42-year old Swedish American actress plays a woman who has had bad luck in love and marriage and decides to take extreme measures to meet her soul mate.

No screaming fans line the red carpet. No one has camped out for days to get a glimpse of a superstar.