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A man who on Sunday evening suspended himself from the side of Trump Tower in Chicago, sparking a 14-hour standoff with a SWAT team, has escaped from an ambulance, police told Fox News on Tuesday. The man escaped just before 5:30 p.m.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

In the last few years, Thom Zimny has released top-notch, personal portraits of two icons of American music, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. For around two decades, he's made a more varied series of projects with Bruce Springsteen, which range in nature from simple concert footage to deep examinations of the songwriter's early albums.

Tom Morello has soundtracked a short film on what would have been George Floyd‘s 47th birthday.The film entitled No Justice, No Peace, sees the Rage Against The Machine guitarist’s track ‘Marching On Ferguson’ over footage of Floyd’s murder, imagery of protests and news footage surrounding the deaths of Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, and Breonna Taylor.The short film spotlights the contrast between the racial injustice in the US and the Trump administration’s position on it.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Oscar-nominated Mexican thesp Yalitza Aparicio (“Roma”) and Chile’s Daniela Vega, who starred in the Academy Award-winning 2017 drama “A Fantastic Woman,” have signed on to host a four-part documentary series about Latin American women who have survived state and gender violence, “Peace Peace Now Now,” which Vega has spearheaded and executive produces.Aparicio, as the first indigenous Latina to be nominated for an acting performance and Vega, for her show-stopping role

here.Film Life Foundation is the festival organizer, with Coalition Partners to include ABFF Ventures, Endeavor Content, One Community, and Outlier Society.

The Brooklyn Dodgers, American neo-Nazis and Chicago-area Holocaust survivors all figure prominently in Mighty Ira, a film that pays tribute to a generation of free-speech advocates through one man's story. Now in his 80s, Ira Glasser served as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001, and he took the reins expecting to spend most of his time addressing matters of racial justice.

Perez Hilton has expressed regret for his past habit of outing celebrities who were keeping their sexuality private.The US blogger has released a new memoir titled TMI: My Life in Scandal, which details his 16 years as a celebrity gossip writer.  Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, was notorious in the Noughties for his practise of outing stars including singer Clay Aiken, and N’Sync member Lance Bass.

Festival season continues to ebb and flow with the AFI Festival hitting in just a few weeks, making for the discourse around film to stray from the persistent doom and gloom of all of the rescheduling and push backs of previously scheduled releases for theaters.

American Idol alum and influencer Casey “Quigley” Goode is in the pediatric intensive care unit with her two-week-old son, Max, after the newborn contracted coronavirus. “Max tested positive for COVID-19 early Saturday am,” Casey captioned an October 4 Instagram post. “We took him into the ER after he was running a fever in the middle of the night. We had confirmation that he was exposed from direct contact with a medical professional who had cared for him earlier in the week.”

Heartbreaking news.

“American Idol” star Casey Goode and her husband Alex’s newborn son has tested positive for COVID-19.

Move over Kris Jenner — there’s a new host in the KarJenner clan! True Thompson, 2, hosted the cutest get together ever with cousins Chicago West, 2, and Psalm West, 1, dubbed “Tutu’s Pumpkin Patch.” Her mom Khloe Kardashian, 36, captured the whole thing via Instagram story on Saturday, Oct. 3 and True looked like she was having a blast! “We’re gonna carve pumpkins! Go look!” the Good American founder said as her daughter ran towards a white table with pumpkins.

Emily in Paris -- and with just 10 30-minute episodes, it won't take much time to devour the first season — but while the Darren Star-created series about an American expatriate living in Paris has its moments, we've also seen it before. The series, which is now streaming on Netflix, stars Lily Collins as Emily Cooper, an ambitious millennial from Chicago with a master's degree in marketing who is exceptionally skilled at social media and is meant to bring an American perspective to the French

may be just what the (fashion) doctor ordered for a much-needed quarantine escape. In the 10-episode series, plays ambitious 20-something marketing assistant and social media maven Emily Cooper, who unexpectedly gets the dream of a lifetime when she uproots her life in Chicago for a job in Paris, France.

Emily in Paris -- and with just 10 30-minute episodes, it won't take much time to devour the first season — but while the Darren Star-created series about an American expatriate living in Paris has its moments, we've also seen it before. The series stars Lily Collins as Emily Cooper, an ambitious millennial from Chicago with a master's degree in marketing who is exceptionally skilled at social media and is meant to bring an American perspective to the French firm her company recently acquired.

The 64th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express on Tuesday unveiled its lineup of Screen Talks and events that will be available for free via YouTube and the fest's social channels, including sessions withLetitia Wright and Riz Ahmed. Among filmmakers, this year's virtual event will feature the likes of Michel Franco, Miranda July, Tsai Ming-liang, Christian Petzold, musician and performer David Byrne and artist Es Devlin discussing their careers.

Throughout his career writing for film, television and the stage, from The West Wing, Charlie Wilson's War and The Newsroom to A Few Good Men and To Kill a Mockingbird, Aaron Sorkin has shown a consuming fascination with the trembling institutions of American politics and justice.

Kaleem Aftab At the San Sebastian Film Festival, American screenwriter and director Aaron Sorkin talked about the making of his upcoming Netflix original film, “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” how he always sees himself first and foremost as a playwright and why he is just like a puppy.Speaking via a video link in the Conversations section of the Basque festival’s industry program, Sorkin called himself, “A playwright faking my way through screenplays and teleplays.”He argues that his background