EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off starring in Toronto Film Festival drama North Of Normal, Sarah Gadon is set to make her directorial debut on feature Lullabies For Little Criminals, based on Heather O’Neill’s 2007 novel which won the Canada Reads competition.
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EXCLUSIVE: Canadian actress, filmmaker and producer Caitlyn Sponheimer’s feature directorial debut Wild Goat Surf has begun shooting in the Okanagan region of British Columbia.
Set in a rundown RV park during the summer of 2003, the drama follows Goat, a 12-year-old, surfing-obsessed, prodigal skater girl over the unstructured days of the summer as she dreams of becoming a surfer like her deceased father, even though she lives 700km from the ocean.
Sponheimer also appears in front of the camera alongside freshly announced young cast members Shayelin Martin (American Gods, Morkin’ Moms) as Goat as well as Leandro Guedes (Lost Ollie, A Million Little Things) and Dyllón Burnside (Pose, Thoughts of a Colored Man) in supporting roles.
“I am so thrilled to be back in the stunning Okanagan Valley where I spent my summers as a youth; it’s wild not many people know about it. The perfect backdrop to paint a portrait of a young girl chasing her dreams as she confronts a great loss,” said Sponheimer.
The production marks her feature directorial debut after a series of short-form works including The Ugliest Of Them All for 20th Digital Studio’s Bite Size Holiday short film collection which garnered close to three million views in less than a week during its 2021 online release.
Sponheimer’s acting credits include Amazon’s The Boys, NBC’s Transplant, and Supermassive’s horror video game from the Dark Pictures Anthology Little Hope starring opposite Will Poulter.
Wild Goat Surf is produced by studio 104 Entertainment and Raging River Films, with Mike Johnston (The Beehive, N’xaxaitkw) and Abubakar Salim (HBO Max’s Raised by Wolves) producing and Warren Sulatycky (Jasmine Road) on board as executive producer.
The film will premiere in Canada
EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off starring in Toronto Film Festival drama North Of Normal, Sarah Gadon is set to make her directorial debut on feature Lullabies For Little Criminals, based on Heather O’Neill’s 2007 novel which won the Canada Reads competition.
Guy Lodge Film Critic At the 1987 Conservative Party Conference in Britain, then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher issued one of the most grimly memorable quotes of her career: “Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.” For many of us, it’s a line that now sounds so archaically out of step with contemporary life as to be comical — that “inalienable right” wording ironically appropriated by many a queer-rights cause — though you need only look at Florida’s recent Don’t Say Gay bill to know that Thatcher’s sentiments live among us still. A frank, piercing debut from British writer-director Georgia Oakley, “Blue Jean” is a Thatcher-era period piece that crisply evokes that climate of politically propagated homophobia without preserving it in amber: It effectively puts the past in tacit dialogue with the present.
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“Shortcomings,” adapted from the graphic novel by Adrian Tomine.The film, which has been described as a comedic drama, will also feature Tavi Gevinson (HBO’s “Gossip Girl”), Debby Ryan (“The Resort”) and Jacob Batalon (“Spider-Man: No Way Home”). Sonoya Mizuno (“House of the Dragon”) and Timothy Simons (“Veep”) round out the supporting cast.The film, which is currently in post-production, is described as “a hilariously irreverent examination of racial politics, sexual mores, and pop culture.” Min stars as Ben, the cynical manager of a Bay Area movie theater, while Cola plays his best friend Alice.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Randall Park has cast Justin H. Min, Sherry Cola and Ally Maki to star in his directorial debut “Shortcomings.” The film, a comedic drama, will also feature Tavi Gevinson (“Gossip Girl”), Debby Ryan (“The Suite Life on Deck,” “Insatiable”), Sonoya Mizuno (“House of The Dragon”), Timothy Simons (“Veep”) and Jacob Batalon (“Spider-Man: No Way Home”). Described as a “hilariously irreverent examination of racial politics, sexual mores and pop culture,” “Shortcomings” follows a cynical movie theater manager Ben (Min) and his irrepressible best friend Alice (Cola). Together, the Bay Area urbanites navigate Ben’s disintegrating relationship with his girlfriend Miko (Maki), Alice’s serial-dating habits and other obstacles in the way of their personal growth.
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, has died. She was 97. Mathews Funeral Home in Albany, Georgia, confirmed the death on Monday, writing in an obituary that she «passed peacefully of natural causes» on Aug. 18. Patton Moss was best known for her role as Ruth Dakin Bailey in Frank Capra's , the wife of Todd Karns' Harry Bailey and sister-in-law of protagonist George Bailey, played by James Stewart.
mullet mania slowly takes the nation by storm, there’s one man that knows a good mullet: David Spade, the actor who played Joe Dirt in the 2001 cult classic of the same name.Spade gave his stamp of approval on the contestant’s stylish mullets with voting for this year’s 2022 USA Mullet Championships coming to a close on Friday.“They all look like winners to me” Spade replied to a fan on Twitter.Spade took it a step further on his TikTok account, rating each of the four contestants that were mentioned in the tweet. “Rustin, this cute little goat roper.” Spade said while reviewing Rustin Alphin’s Mullet competition photo. “Pretty studly.”“Landry, Flag carved in.
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lost 80 pounds for his role as Jim Hopper on the popular Netflix series.However, the road to health and fitness wasn’t an easy one for the 47-year-old, and there was a particularly pivotal moment in his life that forced him to reevaluate his wellness.It was the time when he realized he couldn’t run across the street without feeling pain.“There was a moment where I was crossing the street in New York and there was a car coming and I thought, ‘Oh, I gotta sprint a little bit across the street,’ and I just couldn’t sprint,” the “Suicide Squad” star recently told People.“And I was like, ‘Oh I guess that’s gone. I guess I’ll just never sort of run across the street.’ I mean, at this point I was like 270 pounds and my knees were kind of shot,” he continued.“And I just sort of thought that that’s the way life was, that was the trajectory of your body,” Harbour said.Losing weight also “opened up a whole new world” for the New York native.