NRCC calls Michigan gay congressional candidate a “pedo sex poet”

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios sells Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe”; ZDF commissions natural history series “Africa From Above”; “Married at First Sight” gets live wedding; ITV orders game-show format “Game of Talents”; travel format “Heads and Tails” goes to Spain; Jellyfish promotes Natalie Llewellyn; German Film Office opens in New York; and Monte-Carlo TV Festival sets 2021 dates.BBC Studios has secured several global pre-sales for Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen‘

Todd McCarthy If Lovers Rock provided a sensuous, feel-good vibe to the opening night of this year’s unusual New York Film Festival, Mangrove supplies a follow-up thwack to the head and punch to the gut.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSaturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels “doubts” that the longrunning sketch show has seen the last of Kate McKinnon’s popular Ruth Bader Ginsburg character.In a New York Times interview today, Michaels was asked whether the death of the beloved Supreme Court Justice will mean the end of McKinnon’s recurring impersonation. “I doubt it,” was Michael’s cryptic response.The NBC sketch show returns Oct.

will soon be live from New York once again!The legendary sketch show announced the lineup for its season 46 premiere on Thursday.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorPeter McGuigan, who co-created the New York literary agency Foundry Literary + Media with Yfat Reiss Gendell, has launched a new agency dubbed Ultra Literary.The move comes after the news last week that Gendell exited Foundry to form YRG Partners, taking Foundry agents Tanusri Prasanna, Peter Steinberg and Adriann Ranta Zurhellen and their clients with her.

Leah McSweeney is keeping it real about her new look!

“If you are the big tree, we are the small axe,” this is the Jamaican proverb that has inspired filmmaker Steve McQueen‘s, “Small Axe,” a collection of five films inspired by real-life events about ordinary people showing courage, belief, and resilience to overcome injustice and achieve something transformative in their West Indian community.

Earlier in the week, the 2020 incarnation of the New York Film Festival got underway officially, with one part of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, Lovers Rock, serving as the Opening Night Selection. Having seen it, the movie serves as both a strong start for NYFF this year, as well as a smaller and far less awards friendly selection.

Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore sounded the alarm for Democrats about his home state of Michigan ahead of the November election. During an interview on The Hill TV's "Rising," Moore began by citing a recent Detroit Free Press poll that showed President Trump cutting Joe Biden's lead "in half" since June, when the Democrat previously held a whopping 16-point lead against the GOP incumbent.

Like most aspects of life, the New York Film Festival looks a little different this year, switching to a mostly virtual format in light of the pandemic.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticIn the most transporting scene of Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” we’re at a London house party that has just hit its smoky seductive dirty-dancing groove. It’s 1980, and most of the revelers have West Indian roots.

Todd McCarthy Watching Lovers Rock is akin to going to see Romeo and Juliet and only staying through the first act, to departing a basketball game after the first quarter, to sipping the soup and skipping the rest of the meal. A mere wisp of a thing, Steve McQueen’s 68-minute feature, the only fictional section of a five-film anthology called Small Axe about London’s West Indian community between the late 1960s and 1980, steeps you in the atmosphere and music of the latter date.

Also Read: Steve McQueen's 'Lovers Rock' Set as New York Film Festival Opening Night FilmCinematographer Shabier Kirchner (“Skate Kitchen”) gets us so close to the action that we’re reminded of why students at Catholic high-school dances are always admonished to leave room for the Holy Spirit.This is very much an ensemble piece, introducing us to various members of London’s West Indian community, but our protagonist is Martha (Amarah-Jae St.

As his “Lover’s Rock” opens the New York Film Festival, Steve McQueen says he’s delighted to return to the festival seven years after “12 Years A Slave”.

Ashley Petta and Anthony D’Amico used powder cannons to reveal the sex of their second child in Us Weekly’s exclusive clip.“Anthony is a nervous wreck,” the pregnant Illinois native, 33, said in Married at First Sight: Couples Cam on Thursday, September 17.When her husband, 37, chimed in, “I just want everything to go perfectly,” Petta explained, “By perfectly, he means he wants a boy.”After the Michigan native set up multiple cameras and a drone, the couple shot pink powder cannons with their

Kid Rock will be headlining a Donald Trump rally taking place tonight (September 14) in his home state of Michigan.The campaign event for the president’s re-election will be held in Clinton Township at Bumpers Landing Boat Club, just outside of Detroit. It is due to kick-off at 7pm local time.While Trump himself won’t be in attendance, his son Donald Trump Jr.

stated support for nondiscrimination bills, like the Equality Act, would somehow “force” certain medical treatments on transgender or gender-nonconforming youth.In one of the ads, Whitt says children “need time” to develop a sense of gender, saying: “As a young teen, I thought I should be a woman. And 17 years later, I felt I should be a man again.” In a third ad — which recycles an attack used against Gov.

Duke of Sussex Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle are heading to Netflix with a big new deal. The couple, who recently relocated to California, founded a still-unnamed production company and signed a multiyear deal with the streaming platform, according to the New York Times on Wednesday (September 2).

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have signed on the dotted line in a multiyear deal with Netflix.The Sussexes will produce documentaries, docu-series, feature films, scripted shows and children's programming all through their unnamed production company, reports The New York Times. In a statement, Harry, 35, and Meghan, 38, said: "Our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope.