US President Joe Biden and Pope Francis µUS President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis the prestigious Presidential “Medal of Freedom with Distinction”. This is the only time Biden has presented the award at its highest level of distinction, highlighting the Pope's exceptional global contributions...
Yuxuan Ethan Wu‘s Sundance 2025 short DEATH EDUCATION has no soundtrack. Wu’s cinematography andTairui Zhu‘s location sound set the tone for the entire film. This pensive piece opens in quiet stillness, then transitions into jarring images of things the public never sees — a sterile metal...
I’m also pleased to announce thatMagnified (2012)has been re-released onto the major streaming platforms. It’s very complicated how these songs are put up and then later disappear, but that’s a reality of the modern mp3 streaming market. Platforms for upload & distribution change their po...
Jim Cummings, who writes, directs, and stars in his self created horror-comedy offering about a killer werewolf, delivers a film named The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020) which has sprinklings of both Fargo (1996) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991) mixed in with an appropriate amount of ...
written, and not a simple drama or comedy. The cast was even nominally diverse — or, at least, should be remembered for having cast a very young (28!) Denzel Washington before he was, well,Denzel Washington. (His role as Stephen Biko inCry Freedomwould come on the strength of this ...
One of the reasons I named my podcast Deviate (as opposed to, say, Vagabonding) is that I wanted the creative freedom to veer away from the travel issues I’ve covered as a journalist for the past two decades, and explore other intellectual themes. Since my interest in cinema and screenwr...
On the technical side of things, the editing and soundtrack are award-worthy. The film exemplifies the power of human connection when it was not possible in the physical world. It is a light in the ongoing darkness that often feels all-consuming. Sam’s plea from the film’s audition rec...
Streaming on MaxApril 7. Arcadian World Premiere Narrative Feature 2024 In the near future, normal life on Earth has been decimated. Paul and his two sons, Thomas and Joseph, live in tranquility by day and torment by night. After the sun sets, they face the unrelenting attacks of a myster...
at East China Normal University, said in a video post on the livestreaming platform Bilibili that YOLO surpasses 100 Yen Love in the final five minutes of the film as the protagonist finds the courage to live life to the fullest, regardless of risks, and embraces her newfound freedom. ...