South African filmmakers are sounding an S.O.S. over the country’s beleaguered cash rebate system, with leading industry bodies demanding answers over unpaid claims and calling for greater transparency from the officials overseeing the cashback scheme. The country’s 25% cash rebate system has effectively been crippled
Curtis Mayfield was short, and with his rabbity grin and small rectangular-wire-framed glasses hanging halfway down his nose, he looked cute and brainy, like a soul-brother version of Bob Balaban, rather than sexy and swaggery. His look, in a funny way, didn’t match the voice
In the decades since its release to critical acclaim and record-setting grosses, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s “Amélie,” the whimsical dramedy about a quirky Parisian woman finding love through random acts kindness, has endured in pop culture and influenced a generation of filmmakers, both for better and certainly
Seth Rogen took a studio note personally on “Superbad,” when Sony objected to Jonah Hill’s character using a PlayStation 2 in a scene because he was too “reprehensible.” “They were like, ‘We can’t have him interact with our products as a character, because it’s too
There are certainly strategies worse than going all-in on New York City neighborhood flavor to sustain a crowd-pleaser. It isn’t just the power of location shooting, but also the access to a vast array of untapped, scruffy actors living in the area. Put a bunch
In “I Really Love My Husband,” GG Hawkins’ undercooked feature debut as a writer-director, Teresa (Madison Lanesey) tells others that she really loves her husband every chance that she gets. But by saying it out loud, it often looks and sounds like she is first
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for the Season 3 finale of “Invincible,” now streaming on Prime Video, and minor spoilers for the “Invincible” comics. Invincible can’t catch a break. In the aftermath of the Invincible War, where Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) had to
After teasing the song for weeks, and months after its live debut, Chappell Roan has released her new country single “The Giver.” The lesbian country anthem is all fiddles and kickin’ up dirt, a hoedown about how it takes a real woman to please another