‘Frybread Face And Me’ Review: Billy Luther’s Memoir Turns His Authentic Experience As An Indigenous American Into An Evocative, All-Inclusive Meditation On Childhood – SXSW

Jamie Foxx sits front row as he cheers on USA’s rising tennis star Christopher Eubanks at the Miami Open tournament held at the Hard Rock Stadium on Thursday (March 30) in Miami Gardens Fla.

Quentin Tarantino turns 60 today, and to celebrate the fact he was ambushed with cake by Jamie Foxx in front of 2,000 people at the London Palladium last night. Don’t go looking online for photographs of the occasion, though: the surprise came at the end of a two-night event promoting the director’s recent memoir Cinema Speculation, for which all in attendance had to turn off their mobile phones and put them into lockable pouches for the duration. Phones are famously forbidden on Tarantino’s sets, and his live appearances are no exception.

Lisa Kennedy In “Frybread Face and Me,” Benny Lovell might be a few years away from the edge of 17, but the 12-year-old Indian kid has a passion for Fleetwood Mac. It’s his fondness for the band, its witchy vocalist Stevie Nicks as well as for dolls (“action figures,” he corrects) that has his parents sending him from San Diego to his maternal grandmother on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona. But before he gets on the bus headed east, adult Benny in voice-over offers a caveat: “If you think no one does dysfunction like Fleetwood Mac, then you haven’t met my family.” It’s 1990 and a summer that initially smacks of exile and punishment becomes one of discovery — self-discovery to be sure, but also cultural and familial.

Tristyn Bailey‘s family is speaking out days before Aiden Fucci is expected to receive his sentencing in the teenager’s murder trial. As you may know, Tristyn was killed on

Cameron Diaz is having a Tom Brady moment. The actress may go back into retirement after her Netflix action-comedy Back in Action. Diaz retired in 2018 and came out of retirement in 2022 for the Jamie Foxx film.A source told DailyMail, she’s ready to enjoy her time as a mother.

After he had an alleged meltdown on the set of their upcoming movie Back in Action which dragged her out of retirement, many people are wondering what all this Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx drama is about.

from acting to co-star with Jamie Foxx in a big-budget Netflix flick called , movie lovers rejoiced. Must be some script to coax the wine-maker back to set! But it seems like may already regretting her decision, with multiple reports of on-set chaos.While shooting in London, Foxx reportedly stopped production and fired four staffers, according to , just days after firing multiple producers in a “furious rage.” Later, it emerged that at least one staffer was involved in some kind of scam and was trying to swindle Foxx out of $40,000.

told the Sun that the film has been nothing short of a “nightmare” and “there have been a lot of delays” with “an investigation into everything going on.“It sounds as though they tried to offer up a Rolex watch as part of the deal,” the insider said of the alleged scam against Foxx.“People will be glad when this thing finally wraps,” they added about the investigation.The chilly weather in London — where the cast has been filming in recent weeks — has also become a big issue, the insider explained, while adding that the recent alleged con was “a bit more sinister.” The Netflix film is Diaz’s first project since the 2014 musical-comedy “Annie,” which also starred Foxx.The 50-year-old actress announced her retirement from Hollywood in 2018 and opted to focus on raising her family.According to the Sun report, Netflix bosses reached out to authorities after learning of similar attempts at swindling actors out of cash. “The Holiday” star Diaz is married to Good Charlotte frontman Benji Madden, and they have a 3-year-old daughter, Raddix.Aside from the comedy film being plagued with issues, Diaz still may not come back to the entertainment biz following the movie’s conclusion.The long hours of shooting keep her away from her family and she is having a difficult time getting back into the acting groove, a source told the Daily Mail on Monday.“Cameron loves being a mom more than anything in the world,” the insider noted.

How do people, even members of the same family, deal with their grief differently? That’s the question that The CW‘s All American is seeking to tackle in the episodes following the death of Coach Billy Baker (Taye Diggs).

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has closed a deal to develop the 2022 bestselling Riley Sager novel The House Across The Lake, developing as a potential directing vehicle for Paul Feig. Pic will be produced by Berlanti Productions and Feigco, with Sarah Schechter, Greg Berlanti and Mike McGrath producing for Berlnti, and Feig and Laura Fischer for Feigco.

Veteran entertainment attorneys Eric Feig and Harry Finkel are joining forces to form Feig Finkel LLP, a new firm focused in film (including film financing and production legal), television, new media, licensing, merchandising, podcasts, and publishing. 

Frank Rizzo Traveling from the relative calm of the Clinton era to more perilous, contemporary times of mobs, mendacity and political mayhem, the much-admired but short-lived musical “Parade” has now found its moment in a brilliant Broadway revival. A decade after its Broadway bow in 1998 under the direction of Harold Prince, when the show received awards but not a lengthy run, a significant re-do directed by Rob Ashford at London’s Donmar Warehouse in 2007 gave the challenging show and its dark subject matter a stronger structure and new life. Last fall’s acclaimed gala presentation at New York City Center built on that work, offering a stark and searing passion play of a production, complete with broad strokes, moral lessons and harsh indictments. It also revealed the work as an essential American epic that resoundingly speaks to our times. Now on Broadway, it boldly fills in a vast national canvas, from its Civil War prologue to its modern-times coda.

heads for the press this week! Prime Video's beloved-but-troubled bandmates try to keep up a united front while taking questions from reporters in ET's exclusive first look at this week’s episodes. Last week's installments ended just before the band released their album,, which Daisy (Riley Keough) and Billy (Sam Claflin) cowrote amid their contentious collaboration. The tension between them peaked when Billy kissed Daisy in the parking lot outside their recording studio and now carries into this week's release as well. «Why are you asking me about my clothes, man?» Daisy tells a reporter who inquires about the designers behind her coat and shoes.

Cameron Diaz's return to acting hit a major speed bump after her Oscar-winning co-star's on-set "meltdown."Jamie Foxx has been increasingly upset with production issues on the "Back In Action" set, which resulted in the firing of several crew members, The Sun reported, adding that the film is "in chaos.""There have been some issues on set and Jamie has had a major meltdown over it all," a source said. "He demanded the problems be sorted immediately and [fired] four of the production staff — as if that would magically improve the situation."Those supposedly canned included an executive producer, an assistant director, a unit director and Jamie's driver. "Some people working on it are totally fed up with how this has played out and Jamie has become pretty unpopular," the source added. The movie, which is being filmed in London, is set to be Cameron's return to acting after essentially retiring.

More than three decades later, Brooke Shields is opening up about being sexually assaulted and explains why she’s ready to share her story. "It’s taken me this long to process it… I was never ready prior. I had to process it in my own way and on my own terms," Shields said during an interview with People magazine.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Filmmaker Billy Luther makes his narrative feature debut at SXSW on Saturday with “Frybead Face and Me,” executive produced by Taika Waititi. Inspired by his childhood, the film follows a young boy, Benny (Keir Tallman), who has to spend the summer with his grandma on the reservation. Luther, whose past work includes the documentary “Miss Navajo” and AMC’s “Dark Winds,” feels Benny’s story of learning about rez life and bonding with his cousin Frybread (Charley Hogan) has universal appeal in that it’s ultimately about being somewhere new and feeling alone. “You don’t have to be Native to connect to the story because everyone remembers being dropped off somewhere, and the story brings that familiarity,” Luther says.

EXCLUSIVE: “I’ve told stories about my community and stuff, but this is, this is my story,” declares Frybread Face and Me director Billy Luther of his Taika Waititi executive produced feature debut.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the trampy heroine of any modern female-slanted romcom must make Bridget Jones look like Grace Kelly by comparison. And while Leah McKendrick’s feature debut offers more caustic com than rom, it leans hard into the legacy of Helen Fielding’s famously underachieving singleton. Since then, we’ve had Paul Feig’s Bridesmaids and Sophie Hyde’s Animals, and Scrambled certainly belongs in that more riotous subgenre of movies about women behaving badly.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Native filmmaker Billy Luther heads to SXSW this weekend to premiere his narrative feature debut, “Frybread Face and Me” on March 11. Set in the ‘90s, the coming-of-age story follows Benny (Keir Tallman), a young Native American boy who plays with dolls, sports a Fleetwood Mac t-shirt and watches soap operas. Forced to spend his summer on the reservation with his grandmother, Benny finds himself impressed by his cousin “Frybread” (Charley Hogan) who opens his eyes to life on the rez. Featuring an entirely Native cast and predominantly Native crew, Luther says it was important to cast Navajo kids at the core of his film. He says, “With the help of Midthunder Casting, which also worked on FX ‘Reservation Dogs,’ we were able to find these incredible kids. The amount of Indigenous talent – Martin Sensmeier, MorningStar Angeline, and Jeremiah Bitsui came on. And we also brought on some amazing new faces from Indian country that are making their feature debut.”

Billie Shepherd is a proud mum as she shared a sweet tribute to her son Arthur on his sixth birthday.The former TOWIE star, 33, posted two snaps to Instagram of her little boy – one as he celebrated turning six, and one of him as a baby on the day he was born. She gushed: "Happy 6th Birthday to our Darling boy Arthur. "You are the funniest, kind, caring, fearless, loving little boy.