‘Aftershock’ Review: A Heartbreaking Look At The Grim Maternal Mortality Rate Black Women Face In America’s Hospitals [Sundance]

Sharon Stone took to social media to reveal that she'd had a difficult past couple of weeks after a heartbreaking loss in the family.MORE: Sharon Stone unveils secret project that majorly excites fansShe revealed with her latest Instagram post that she'd lost her dog Joe Stone two weeks ago and finally found the strength to share the news.WATCH: Sharon Stone speaks about recapturing her radiance after her strokeAlongside a picture of her in front of her magnificent staircase in her Los Angeles home sitting with both her dogs, she wrote: "We lost Joe, the brindle, two weeks ago, just ready to share. It's a process."Many of her famous peers took to the comments to pay their condolences, including Kelly Ripa, Debi Mazar, Katie Couric, Melissa Joan Hart, and Naomi Campbell, among others.MORE: Sharon Stone stuns fans with glamorous behind the scenes photoFans also sent their love and support to Sharon, with one writing: "So sorry for your loss.

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Lisa Kennedy The tried and true way to break viewers’ hearts is to make them care deeply. “Aftershock” wastes no time in doing just that. Filmmaking duo Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee begin their emotionally resonant, statistically chilling documentary about the dramatically increased numbers of maternal death and morbidity among Black women in the U.S.

To be young and in love! Drew Barrymore recently reminisced about her past relationships, including a casual romance with Luke Wilson in the ’90s.

Drew Barrymore, 46, reflected on her “young and wild” days which involved being in an open relationship with Luke Wilson, 50. The actress reflected on the good old days with her friend Kate Hudson, 42, on her talk show The Drew Barrymore Show. “When we first met, we were young and wild,” the 50 First Dates star reminisced of her and Kate’s friendship.

poisoned Russian dissident Alexei Navalny premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Tuesday. Called “Navalny,” it’s a no-holds-barred indictment of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin, and insists that Navalny’s close brush with death was the result of a secret state-run operation to assassinate him.“As I became more and more famous guy, I was totally sure that my life became safer and safer because I am kind of famous guy — and it will be problematic for them just to kill me,” Navalny, 45, says in the film. “I was very wrong.” The doc, heading to HBO Max, was added at the last minute to the Sundance slate just as Putin had stationed more than 100,000 troops along the Ukrainian border.

At first glance, actor-writer-director Cooper Raiff’s “Cha Cha Real Smooth” might look like your typical cutesy and whimsical Sundance dramedy, about a twenty-something college graduate learning a valuable life lesson and experiencing a bit of a delayed coming of age. While that’s not an inaccurate description of Raiff’s disarmingly lovely film (programmed in this year’s US Dramatic Competition), what feels miraculous about “Cha Cha” is: it doesn’t come with even an ounce of that cringe-inducing Sundance fancifulness, a brand that many love to hate.

The 2022 Sundance Film Festival obviously has so much to offer. Big premieres from indie auteurs, world cinema, documentaries, films for kids, and movies that are receiving so much acclaim right now, you’ll be hearing more from them later in the year upon regular theatrical release.

Addie Morfoot ContributorThis year at the Sundance Film Festival, three feature documentaries — Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s “Aftershock,” Reid Davenport’s “I Didn’t See You There” and Isabel Castro’s “Mija” — share in common a $10,000 grant provided by the Points North Institute and CNN Films’ American Stories Documentary Fund.Launched in 2020, the fund underwritten by CNN has dispensed a total of $100,000 in grants to emerging U.S. filmmakers working on 10 documentary projects that highlight pivotal moments in America. Eiselt and Lewis Lee’s “Aftershock,” and Davenport’s “I Didn’t See You There” are two of nine films in the Sundance U.S.

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