‘A Love Song’ Review: Max Walker-Silverman’s Debut Is A Beautiful, Overdue Showcase For Dale Dickey [Sundance]

Star-crossed lovers? Liam Neeson confessed that he nearly sparked a romance while filming his new action film, Blacklight, in Australia.

Liam Neeson had quite the time in Melbourne, Australia, while shooting his new film “Blacklight” in 2020.

EXCLUSIVE: Cop Out writer Robb Cullen is working on a dark comedy drama inspired by his own life for BET+.

Ally Sheedy’s most recent role hits close to home. The actress stars in Freeform’s "Single Drunk Female" where she plays a mother whose adult daughter moves back home after a stint in rehab. Sheedy  sought help for her own addiction battle in 1989.

Yungblud’s show in North Carolina earlier this week (February 1), with the star inviting the pair to join him on stage – watch footage of the moment below.The couple got engaged as Yungblud (real name Dominic Harrison) performed ‘Love Song’ at The Fillmore in Charlotte.“That was fucking beautiful,” Harrison said, before inviting them to jump over the barrier. “Hello guys, I know you’re having a moment, but do you want to get on stage?“Guys, I just want to wish you the most fucking happy life together,” Harrison continued once the couple had joined him.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe small and powerful Sundance drama “A Love Song” has found worldwide distribution in Sony’s Stage 6 Films and Bleecker Street, Variety has learned exclusively.The acclaimed two-hander about love, loss and loneliness is led by Dale Dickey (“Winter’s Bone,” “Hell or High Water”) and honorary Academy Award winner Wes Studi (“Hostiles,” “The Last of the Mohicans”).The film, sitting at 93% Fresh on critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, marks the writer-director debut of Max Walker-Sliverman. Bleecker Street will release the film to domestic theaters this summer, while Stage 6 is currently charting the international release strategy.Dickey plays Faye, a wanderer who stations herself at an idyllic \ campsite in the Colorado Mountains – cooking simple meals, retrieving crawfish from a trap, and scanning her old box radio for a station.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic“Catch the Fair One” is activist filmmaking at its most compelling. Before you run away from the notion, consider this: It doesn’t feel like this tough, relentlessly dark thriller is trying to push some kind of political point, even if so many of its creative choices succeed in doing exactly that.Collaborating with Native boxing champ Kali “KO” Reis on the script, director Josef Kubota Wladyka has made a riveting vigilante story that can hold its own alongside Paul Schrader’s most punishing payback fantasies.

Casa Amor all to keep an eye out for, it’s safe to say that looking for love in the Love Island villa isn’t the easiest task. But it also seems dating on the outside world is just as difficult for one 2021 Islander who has opened up about their chronic illness.Priya Gopaldas, who joined last year’s series of the ITV2 as a late entrant and coupled up with Brett Staniland before they were dumped as a couple, has candidly opened up about suffering from a lung condition called non-CF bronchiectasis and how it affects her love life.The trainee doctor was diagnosed with the chronic condition – which occurs when the lung's airways are damaged and inflamed by large quantities of mucus – when she was 15 years old after being hospitalised with pneumonia a year earlier.Priya explained, “I had this dreadful cough for about 18 months afterwards and I kept bringing up so much phlegm.

EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Pictures has closed a deal around $7.5 million for U.S. rights to Good Luck To You, Leo Grande. the Sophie Hyde-directed film that stars Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack (The Wheel of Time & Peaky Blinders). Deadline reported yesterday  that Searchlight was poised to win the film that was bid on by several distributors, and the plan is to wage an awards season campaign for Thompson in a standout turn. Searchlight will release through Hulu, in a deal similar to the preemptive one it made for another Sundance film, Fresh. Hyde directed 52 Tuesdays and Animals. The film is scripted by Katy Brand, whose credits include Nanny McPhee Returns, which starred Thompson, and Walking On Sunshine.

Love Island's 2021 contestants have been divided down the middle, with the girls supporting Liberty Poole as she made her Dancing on Ice debut while the boys rallied around Jake Cornish. Liberty took to the ice in front of an audience for the first time on Sunday 23 January, and was supported by fellow Love Islanders Faye Winter and Kaz Kamwi, who were in the audience watching the 22 year old. For her first performance, Liberty skated to Little Mix’s Shout Out To My Ex alongside partner Joe Johnson, causing Dancing on Ice viewers to presume it was a dig at Jake.

Playing in the Premieres section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “Sharp Stick,” produced during lockdown, was conceived by Lena Dunham and the film’s director of photography, Ashley Connor, starting from the base elements that were already available to them — namely a set of actors and locations. But while many quarantine-made films have appeared to embrace a “will this do?” aesthetic, implicitly relying on the audience’s sympathy and compassionate understanding to fill gaps and forgive compromises in production value, Dunham has instead created a work of art that comfortably fits within and plays with the limitations imposed by the pandemic.

Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead work in such a specific, sui generis key and style, producing such exciting results on a small scale, that it’s genuinely shocking they haven’t been swooped up by the Tentpole Industrial Complex and asked to feed their gifts into the content machine. The conglomerates’ loss is our gain; their latest fusion of science fiction, character drama, dark comedy, and overwhelming paranoia, “Something in the Dirt,” feels like their most personal film – and not just because they wear so many hats, directing and writing and producing and editing and starring.

Sometimes you commit to a decision because it’s the one in your head, the one on the page, and it’s the north star you are aiming for. In filmmaker Riley Stearns‘ latest Sundance picture, the darkly comedic, intentionally strange, and off-kilter doppelgänger film, “Dual,” the intention is to be askew, left of center, and bizarrely funny.

NEW YORK -- Dale Dickey tends to get “those crusty roles,” as she heard someone once call them. A familiar, craggy face from films like “Winter’s Bone” and “Hell or High Water,” Dickey has long been a riveting supporting player in rural dramas.But in the Sundance entry “A Love Song,” Dickey, long a standout character actor, finally takes the lead. Even for her, it felt a little strange.“I don’t do leads in films.

Films can be a form of escapism. Sitting down in a dark cinema with a big screen and great sound immerses you in the action playing out in front of you.

“Mom, do you think I can be political?” asks teenage YouTube musician Ziggy Katz (a wide-eyed Finn Wolfhard) to his uptight mom Evelyn (the consistently stellar Julianne Moore). There’s no shortcut to sounding smart, she replies, you have to do the work.

“Ghost Stories,” The Whitmore Sisters (Red House Records)Sibling harmony can be a contradiction in terms.It also makes for lovely music, and that’s the case here.The sisterly sonorities of Eleanor and Bonnie Whitmore mesh beautifully on their duo debut, the voices are easy to differentiate but complementary as they explore a range of styles.“Ghost Stories” is an album of loss, with death and grief recurring themes, but the Whitmores also sing about too much fun. The set benefits from the guidance and guitar work of producer Chris Masterson, Eleanor’s husband and partner in the duo the Mastersons.

“Mom, do you think I can be political?” asks teenage YouTube musician Ziggy Katz (a wide-eyed Finn Wolfhard) to his uptight mom Evelyn (the consistently stellar Julianne Moore). There’s no shortcut to sounding smart, she replies, you have to do the work.