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Dennis Harvey Film Critic The urge to dazzle can be its own straitjacket, and it’s one that weighs heavily on Meshal Aljaser’s feature debut “Naga.” He aims for a hurtling virtuosity, à la “Run Lola Run,” in depicting a disobedient young Saudi woman’s extreme travails in trying to get home before her strict curfew. But that quarter-century-old German thriller’s simplicity of plot supported its hyperbolic style, while here the writer-director is so preoccupied with camera and editorial calisthenics, nothing else has a chance to come into focus.

The full list of nominations for the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards has been announced!

Dennis Harvey Film Critic We’ve had genies of the playful, wish-granting “Thief of Baghdad” type, and more recently quite a number of evil djinn in horror movies. But it’s hard to recall a prior screen portrait of the same malleable Arabic mythological creatures quite like “HWJN,” which takes the cuddlesome, anthropomorphic “They’re just like us, only magical!” view of Pixar animations and such in depicting modern-day jinn (the term’s more accurate translation) who invisibly live alongside humans. Yasir Alyasiri’s visually appealing fantasy, which kicked off the Red Sea Film Fest, is at times too innocuous in tone and pedestrian in story ideas.

Naman Ramachandran Sandeep Vanga Reddy’s blood-soaked Bollywood epic “Animal,” starring Ranbir Kapoor, emerged as the No. 1 film globally with $42.1 million, according to data published by ComScore. “Animal” released across 38 global territories.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic A movie directed by the berserk “Muppet Show” character known as Animal couldn’t be any more unruly than Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s new film of that title. This sporadically fun but exhausting hot mess provides 202 minutes of hyperventilating overkill for star Ranbir Kapoor as a tycoon’s favorite son whose anger-management (as well as daddy) issues are off the charts.

John F. Kennedy’s assassination day and the events that followed have been displayed in museums; however, Jackie Kennedy’s iconic pink pillbox hat and pink suit with navy blue lapels, which was stained with her husband’s blood, hasn’t been seen anymore.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Feel-good stories out of Gaza are not exactly plentiful at present, making “Life Is Beautiful” something of an anomaly. Though the predicament depicted — Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly’s unplanned long exile due to closed borders and political shifts — is hardly upbeat in outline, his ebullient personality insists on emphasizing humor and warmth. Thus this chronicle of a one-month visit to Norway that drags on for seven years ends up an incongruously charming footnote to a much larger conflict that just keeps escalating.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic War onscreen, whether fictive or documentary, is often a sort of highlight reel: the excitement and terror of battle, cities in flames, the devastated aftermath. It’s infrequent that a film dedicate itself to the disorientation of civilian survival in a long-term war zone, when everyday life goes on to an extent despite a surreal atmosphere of constant threat, and the uncertainty of any future at all. That largely interior state is what director Olga Chernykh seeks to capture in “A Picture to Remember,” which opened the 2023 International Documentary Film Festival.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic The struggle to keep movie theaters alive gets very personal in “Showdown at the Grand,” an enjoyable tribute to retro exploitation pictures with Terrance Howard as a movie palace proprietor besieged by diminishing receipts and violent goons. Dolph Lundgren plays the former action star who shows up for a personal appearance, then stays to help save the joint from those agents of unscrupulous developers.

Rocky Cotton’s (Brian Conley) insurance plan backfires when his wife, Kathy Cotton (Gillian Taylforth) is arrested for the arson in EastEnders spoilers. The Beales are distraught after the fire and Cindy Beale (Michelle Collins) is quick to blame Kathy for the incident. George Knight (Colin Salmon) comforts Cindy in The Vic and encourages her to go back to the hospital where it appears Cindy has forgiven Kathy.

As Made In Chelsea returned to our screens last month, after a dramatic summer away in Corsica, the new series hasn't only brought a fresh batch of drama but also new cast members, including Lauren Sintès. So far on the latest series, Lauren has caught the eye of a few boys and sparked a row with Willow Day over Harvey Armstrong. Harvey and Willow appeared to be building a stronger connection while away in Corsica, but upon returning to Chelsea, Harvey seemed to lose interest in Willow and it wasn’t long before he set his sights on Lauren.

Katie Price is reportedly eyeing up a fourth marriage after being spotted modelling wedding dresses in West Sussex.Two years since her and ex-husband Kieran Hayler's divorce, The Sun has revealed that the 45-year-old was "glowing" as she twirled around in a strapless ceremonial gown and posed for the camera. Atop her head was a sparkling tiara, too. As for the lucky man, Katie, who has five children in Harvey, Princess, Junior, Jett and Bunny, is currently in an on-off relationship with car salesman Carl Woods.

EXCLUSIVE: Production is gearing up on Fruit of the Poisonous Tree, a true crime action-drama set to star Scott Haze (Horizon: An American Saga), Willa Fitzgerald (The Fall Of The House of Usher), Joel Courtney (Kissing Booth), Tait Fletcher (The Mandalorian) and British singer HRVY in his feature film debut.

Rocky Cotton (Brian Conley) starts a fire at the Kathy's Café in the hope of clearing his debts in EastEnders spoilers. But what he doesn’t realise is that Bobby Beale (Clay Milner Russell) is trapped inside. Rocky searches for a way of paying back the money he borrowed from Nish Panesar (Navin Chowdhry) without his wife Kathy Cotton (Gillian Taylforth) finding out exactly how much debt he’s in.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic “Suitable Flesh” bears a parting dedication to Stuart Gordon, who passed away in 2020 and is certainly missed, especially after watching this campy concoction, which revisits his beloved H.P. Lovecraft territory minus the late screen genre specialist’s knack for welding grotesque horror content to a black comedy tone. There are some yuks (and yucks) to be had in his frequent writing collaborator Dennis Paoli’s very loose, gender-reversed riff on the cult fantasist’s lesser-regarded 1933 short story “The Thing on the Doorstep.” But director Joe Lynch haplessly plays much of this supernatural tale as an erotic thriller, the uncertainty of satirical intent leaving his actors looking silly.

Jordan Moreau Halloween is nearly here, and one of this fall’s scariest movies will arrive on streaming just in time for the spooky holiday. Warner Bros.’ “The Nun II” will begin streaming on Max on Oct.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic As if paying penance for starring in all five “After” films to date — a series that’s been criticized for glamorizing toxic, controlling relationships à la “Twilight” and “50 Shades” before it — Josephine Langford now dallies on the decidedly wholesome side of romantic complication in “The Other Zoey.” This innocuous comedy, hinging on a gimmicky plot contrivance, doesn’t transcend formula even when it’s winking at the clichés it caves to. Still, it’s a pleasant enough diversion for those who want familiar genre beats sounded by the usual attractive actors in the customary attractive settings.

A mum was left ‘upset’ and ‘shocked’ when her son, who has learning difficulties, was given a place at a school rated ‘inadequate’ by Ofsted. Rachael Brown has blasted council education bosses and claimed the school said they cannot meet his needs.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic The future looks more purgatorial than paradisiacal in “Divinity,” Eddie Alcazar’s second feature as writer-director. Like the first, 2018’s “Perfect,” this is a cryptic sci-fi body horror allegory where undeniably arresting aesthetics are nonetheless more a symptom of shallow lookism-based values than the intended critique.

Michael B. Jordan and Steve Harvey are catching up again over a year after the Black Panther actor and the Family Feud star’s daughter Lori Harvey split up.

Brian Conley's EastEnders character Ricky Cotton will feature in a storyline that could be the beginning of the end of his time in Albert Square – after the actor confirmed he was leaving the show. Rocky, who is married to Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth) on the show, is set to start making money in questionable ways again in next week's episodes.The couple recently married and are facing financial troubles after paying off Rocky's ex-wife Jo, who claimed Rocky had committed bigamy and blackmailed them. Things are likely to keep getting worse when it comes to his money issues as it looks like Brian's character develops a gambling addiction.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic The other demonic possession movie opening this week, “When Evil Lurks” is unlikely to steal major box-office thunder from “The Exorcist: Believer.” But Argentine genre specialist Demian Rugna’s latest is no mere opportunistic cash-in, either, with its own distinctive and non-formulaic take on the notion of an evil spirit that strikes like a malignant disease. IFC Films is releasing this uneven but engrossing, sometimes startling horror thriller to several hundred U.S. theaters on October 6.

Reality star Katie Price has slammed her ex Dwight Yorke and said he turns down the chance to see their shared son Harvey on his birthday every year. Katie gave birth to Harvey in 2002 after she had a short relationship with foodballer Dwight, who later admitted to being unfaithful to the glamour model. Harvey suffers from complex medical needs due to the rare genetic condition Prader-Willi Syndrome and has also been diagnosed with ADHD, autism and septo-optic dysplasia, which causes blindness.

Jay Brown’s (Jamie Borthwick) drug problem worsens in EastEnders scenes set to air in October and Sharon Watts (Letitia Dean) is offered the opportunity of a lifetime. Jay wakes up at Nadine’s (Jazzy Phoenix) and finds a bag of drugs on her bedside table. At first Jay is horrified, but when Nadine tells him it will help him cope with the loss of Lola.

Katie Price has slammed critics who questioned her for using her son's disabled parking badge at a store.The 45-year-old mum of five, Harvey, 21, Junior, 18, Princess, 16, nine-year-old Jett and eight-year-old Bunny, said she was "livid" when she was approached by people in the car park. Harvey, whose parents are model Katie and former footballer Dwight Yorke, has multiple developmental disabilities, including autism Prader-Willi syndrome and, a condition that causes extreme hunger and can lead to weight gain. Katie has a blue badge that she can use for parking in disabled bays when she's picking up her eldest son, Harvey, or out and about with him.

Brent Lang Executive Editor New Works Provincetown, a developmental theatre lab founded by producer Mark Cortale with Jonathan Murray and Harvey Reese to create and develop new theatrical works, has commissioned its next slate of projects, including new shows about F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s tumultuous marriage and an adaptation of Ira Sachs’ “Love Is Strange.” The shows are from creators like Mona Mansour, Hannah Corneau, Douglas Lyons, Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé, Nathan Tysen, Mindi Dickstein and Carmel Dean. Among the shows is “Beautiful Little Fool,” which is a new musical inspired by the Fitzgeralds’ relationship.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic There’s a rather simplistic, retro “don’t forget where you came from” message lurking within “It Lives Inside,” suggesting that people who leave their native culture behind might well attract — or even deserve — torment from its ancient mythological spirits. But that faintly reactionary finger-wagging is subsumed by the moment-to-moment effectiveness of writer-director Bishal Dutta’s debut feature. Repping one of the better PG-13 horrors of late, it ekes sufficient menace from the familiar story gist of a consuming demonic presence passed from one beleaguered victim to another.

AB 1078, passed the Assembly in May by a 61-17 margin, and the Senate last week by a 31-9 margin. Under the bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Corey Jackson (D-Moreno), school boards will be financially penalized if they vote to ban books or educational materials related to Black, Latino, Asian, Native American, and LGBTQ topics — provided those topics are part of the school’s approved curriculum, reports Los Angeles-based CW affiliate KTLA.The bill was sparked by a controversy in the Temecula Valley Unified School District, in which the board’s conservative members rejected an elementary school social studies curriculum over supplemental materials that mentioned Harvey Milk as the state’s first openly gay elected official, with the board president dubbing the former San Francisco Supervisor a “pedophile.”State officials blasted the board and threatened legal actions and fines, prompting the board to backtrack and adopt the approved state curriculum.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic Now on its ninth feature entry in just a decade, the “Conjuring” franchise has proved something of a powerhouse in the continued growth of horror as one of the most reliably popular (not to mention cost-effective) mainstream film genres. Their mythologies may be garbled and silly, the scares mostly “jump” ones, yet these movies provide a kind of creepy comfort food — familiarly formulaic jolts unlikely to trouble any non-child viewer’s sleep later on — whose satisfactions are amplified by the good actors and superior atmospherics deployed.

It’s a sad day for ’90s kids!

Dennis Harvey Film Critic “Based on a true story” has become one of the most overused (and misleading) labels of our time. Still, its application to “Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose” is duly warranted — and no less ridiculous for being so. The “true events” drawn on here remain dumbfounding: In the 1930s, a family living in a farmhouse on the Isle of Main claimed they played frequent host to an octogenarian mongoose from New Delhi whose mysterious powers were hardly limited to human speech.

Emmerdale ended on a cliffhanger tonight (Tuesday) with fans believing that a relatively new character has died. Earlier, the episode centred around a jewellery theft, with June arrival Victor Anderson (Eddie Osei) set to be the main name in the guilty frame.

Dennis Harvey Film Critic One briny-deep thriller that does not have sharks, other aquatic predators or even human ones, German director Max Erlenwein’s English-language “The Dive” manages to work up considerable tension nonetheless. It’s closer in gist to “127 Hours” than most other underwater suspense films, hinging on a similar type of physical entrapment — only the survivable timespan here is of course much reduced, because the imperiled characters have a limited oxygen supply. While perhaps not quite striking enough in style or incident to leave a lasting impression, this very well-crafted remake of co-writer Joachim Heden’s 2020 Norwegian feature “Breaking Surface” should particularly impress with its underwater photography on the big screen.

Jennifer Aniston isn’t a fan of cancel culture.

Jennifer Aniston has criticised the idea of “cancel culture”, saying she doesn’t “put everybody in the Harvey Weinstein basket”.The Friends actor reflected on her encounters with the disgraced producer in a Wall Street Journal profile interview, which led to the topic of cancel culture.“I’m so over cancel culture,” Aniston said. “I probably just got cancelled by saying that.

be more done with cancel culture?In a new interview with WSJ Magazine, Jennifer Aniston, 54, says she refuses to hold people who make mistakes in the same regard as former Hollywood mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, 71. “I’m so over cancel culture,” the “Morning Show” star told the outlet. “I probably just got canceled by saying that.