'For Heaven's Sake': TV Review

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. studio veteran Ravi Mehta has been named Head of Physical Production, Post-Production, VFX at 20th Century Studios. Mehta will oversee all aspects of physical production for the Disney-owned 20th Century studios film division.

In an SXSW littered with feature directorial debuts, the runway for new voices to emerge has never been wider. While the opportunity has been there, however, the results have been mixed, at best.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticSlick, unsettling Danish law-enforcement thriller “Shorta” — or as it’s been generically retitled in the United States, “Enforcement” — opens with a familiar “I can’t breathe” moment as a team of police scramble to restrain a 19-year-old Muslim man, suggesting that what happened to Eric Garner in Staten Island, and to George Floyd in Minneapolis, is hardly an America-specific problem.

Joe Leydon Film CriticThe title for “The Fabulous Filipino Brothers” makes it sound like a movie about a now-obscure troupe of singing-dancing siblings who once opened for Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas, and were audience favorites back in the day on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” As it turns out, however, this engagingly freeform comedy has an entirely different sort of showbiz pedigree, being the joint effort of four real-life Filipino-American brothers — Dante, Derek, Dionysio and Darion Basco — with

That the documentary United States vs. Reality Winner achieves its primary goals makes it a fairly successful film.

For the uninitiated, while the late American rocker Tom Petty’s 1994 album Wildflowers may not necessarily be his best record—that’s usually reserved for Full Moon Fever or Damn The Torpedoes— it was his most personal, his most beloved, and a favorite among fans (in a 2013 Rolling Stone fan poll it was ranked #1 among fan favorites).

Dennis Harvey Film CriticA sense of rising U.S. governmental secrecy and punishment of whistleblowers is the primary political takeaway from “United States vs.

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. And now I'm reading Bringing Up Bébé, which is actually fantastic.

For the Haitian-American, West Palm Beach native, Edson Jean, “Ludi” is a personal story. Set in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, the compact drama concerns a Haitian immigrant nurse, Ludi (Shein Mompremier), tirelessly working to supply her daughter’s American dream.

Some films provide such obvious American remake fodder that you just want to draw a protective circle around them to ensure that people experience the unassuming charms of the original. Norwegian director Yngvild Sve Flikke's raucous, rude and ultimately poignant pregnancy comedy is an excellent example.

Cullen Hoback's six-part HBO docuseriesQ: Into the Storm wastes very little time getting to the events of January 6, 2021.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticQAnon — the conspiracy-theory movement that sprung up on the far reaches of the internet — is a force with potentially long-lasting and transformational effects, having already placed untold numbers of Americans in its thrall and overtaken one of our two major political parties. It’s also deeply in line with this nation’s traditions of mutual mistrust of authority and our countrymen, and the American passion for pursuing novelty at the expense of logic.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticBy the time she turned 13, “Punky Brewster” star Soleil Moon Frye had done more to impact pop culture than most Americans will in their lifetime. (“Holy macanoli!” and mismatched high tops, anyone?) But once the show was canceled in 1988, things stalled.

“A little bit of justice being served in a sea of injustice” is how cultural critic and interviewee Naomi Fry describes the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal and why it seized the nation’s attention for a few pre-pandemic weeks. The gap between the myth of American meritocracy and the reality of the have-everythings cheating or gaming the system to hoard even more resources has seldom been more glaring than in this case.

Two members of US Congress are calling for an investigation into the use of conservatorships in the the States, off the back of recent Britney Spears documentary ‘Framing Britney Spears’.Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan are calling on House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler to hold hearings on the subject “to examine whether Americans are trapped unjustly in conservatorships”.

Like a blind date who starts off the evening by making a self-deprecating joke, the sequel to Eddie Murphy's smash hit 1988 comedy Coming to America takes pains to deflect the most obvious criticism that might come its way. "American cinema is the best," a character declares at one point in the unimaginatively titled Coming 2 America.