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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.

“Even a year before the autumn afternoon in October 1952 when I started shooting Pather Panthali in a field of white kaash* flowers, the thought of taking up filmmaking as a career hadn’t occurred to me at all. ” So writes legendary director Satyajit Ray, in the opening paragraph of “My Years with Apu: A Memoir.

Mary Louise Brooks was born on November 14, 1906, in Cherryvale, Kansas. She described her hometown as “a typical Midwestern community where the inhabitants prayed in the parlor and practiced incest in the barn.

Eve’s Bayou is the film that introduced the then 36-year-old Kasi Lemmons to audiences as a director. It is also the film that Ebert once rated “number one on the forgotten list”.

A Sun is the latest film from Taiwanese director, writer, and cinematographer Chung Mong-Hong. In 2019, the film won Taiwan’s most prestigious Golden Horse Awards including Best Film and Best Director.

While certain countries claim their royal families in politics, Sweden seems to have bestowed their royalty on an acting dynasty, the Skarsgård’s. It is led by patriarch Stellan, four of whose eight children, sons, Alexander, Gustaf, Valter, and Bill, have followed in his theatrical footsteps.

Two-time Golden Globe winner Hilary Swank plays an astronaut bound to Mars on the Netflix series Away. “Emma Green is an astronaut commanding a mission to Mars.