Film Review: ‘Dating Amber’

The timing couldn't be more fortuitous for the release of Mary Mazzio's uplifting documentary about the nation's first African American high school rowing team, which feels almost like a tonic for these troubled times. Narrated by Common and including NBA greats Grant Hill and Dwyane Wade among its executive producers, A Most Beautiful Thing, scheduled to open in theaters, powerfully demonstrates the healing potential of sports and the ways it can help bridge societal divides.

Where did the universe, humanity, our planet and chocolate ice cream come from? They were all created by a giant, all-powerful being made of spaghetti, with two googly-eyes on raised stalks and a pair of meatballs where cheeks would bulge. This is the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), and if there were any justice in the world, His story would stand as good a chance of being taught as fact in American schools as the anti-evolution narrative called Intelligent Design.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticTom Hanks shows what a commanding actor he can be from the first taut combat sequence of “Greyhound,” when the title warship, leading a convoy through the North Atlantic in the early months of World War II, spies a U-boat speeding toward it from a dozen miles away. As the German sub approaches, we hear a lot of rapid-fire military and navigational jargon shooting back and forth between the sailors (“Hydrophone effects slow rev, sounds like 60 RPM, sir!”).

Maggie Lee Chief Asia Film CriticEye-popping action steals the show in “Lupin III: The First,” the first computer-animated feature entry in the classic franchise about the French gentleman thief and master of disguise.

Richard Kuipers There’s a bit of everything and most of it works in “Chasing Dream,” the first feature directed by Hong Kong ace Johnnie To since “Three” in 2016.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIn “17 Blocks,” Cheryl Sanford, matriarch of a low-income African American household in southeast Washington, D.C., talks wistfully of a “parallel universe” where she and her family enjoy cookouts, vacations and gift-filled Christmas mornings. This melancholy confession comes moments after a closeup of her casually snorting cocaine.

Ruth Negga was raised in Limerick, Ireland before moving to London to study and then onward to Los Angeles. However, it wasn’t until London that the actress said she really experienced racism.

A persuasive argument, not that one should still be required, for handing women directors the reins more often on big-canvas action movies, The Old Guard represents a boldly assured step for Gina Prince-Bythewood away from the intimate romantic drama of strong previous work like Love & Basketball and Beyond the Lights.

A post shared by RTÉ2 (@rte2) on Jun 30, 2020 at 12:01pm PDTIt’s hard to envision how this it’s going to be possible to get a ‘cosy date’ vibe going when people are sitting two metres apart.Though if you were paired with someone like last season’s Barry John who ‘completed Tinder twice’ you might be glad of some PPE while you’re at it.And with the echo of a half empty room amplifying those raunchy ‘have you ever…’ questions, Mateo will just have to turn up the music, or other daters will be too

Well, here’s a thing I’ve got out of the habit of writing about. Someone’s announced some tour dates.

Ellie Goulding has announced the dates for her Brightest Blue tour in Spring 2021.

on the new date of April 25 2021.Laura took to Instagram to share the good news, posting a promo image of the film where she looks almost unrecognisable having swapped her signature beach blonde looks for wild red.‘So @sadhbhfilm will make its Irish premiere next month as part of @galwayfilm‘s 2020 programme.

Green Day, Fall Out Boy, and Weezer have confirmed the rescheduled dates for their postponed ‘Hella Mega Tour’ in the UK and Ireland – you can see the full schedule below.The trio of US bands were forced to cancel the inaugural European leg of the stint in April due to the coronavirus outbreak, and they told fans last month that it would be taking place instead at some point across summer 2021.Today (June 10), it has been announced that the ‘Hella Mega Tour’ in UK and Ireland run will now kick

Dates for the 2020 International Film Festival & Awards Macao (IFFAM) have been announced, with the fifth edition of the event set to take place Dec. 3-8.

Early in “Judy & Punch,” a wife who’s just helped her husband perform a vigorously slap-happy puppet show in a desultory corner of 17th century England poses the question, “Do you think the show really needs to be that punchy?”

More than a PSA or cinematic call to arms, this indie documentary is a compassionate, sincere manifesto on suicide prevention.

A hijacked drug deal's messy aftermath ensnares an entire family in Christian Sparkes' effective if overloaded crime drama.

Pushed over a metaphorical cliff, the two nonconformists in Josephine Decker’s “Shirley” — her follow-up to the mind-bending “Madeline’s Madeline” — bond over the maddening submissiveness expected of them, which they both come to furiously abhor. Their strange alliance makes for a psychologically layered portrait of unapologetic womanhood that’s dangerously sensual and sumptuously rebellious.