“Shaking Loose The Ropes”: Oscar-Contender ‘The Reason I Jump’ Offers Sensory Glimpse Into Autistic Minds

In a year of pandemic, social unrest and political polarization, one Oscar-contending documentary arrived to lift people’s spirits, not just in the U.S. but around the world.

Loose Women star Denise Welch has savagely slammed Brooklyn Beckham’s latest tattoo, which is a tribute to his fiancée Nicola Peltz. Denise, 62, made it very clear how she felt about Brooklyn’s latest huge inking, which is placed on the back of his neck.

Stacey Solomon, 31, first burst on to our screens in 2009 when she auditioned for The X Factor. She won the nation’s hearts with her adorably goofy demeanour and belter of a singing voice.

Manori Ravindran International EditorGreek filmmaker Christos Nikou marks his directorial debut with “Apples,” an accidentally timely pandemic movie that captured imaginations at the Venice Film Festival, where it opened the respected Orrizonti section, and has since gone on to represent Greece in the international feature film Oscar race.The film wasn’t actually shot during the COVID-19 crisis, but follows a man (Aris Servetalis) struggling to recover his memory amid a pandemic that causes

After publishing his book The Torture Letters in January of 2020, Laurence Ralph decided to adapt it into an animated short—reckoning in both cases with systemic racism in America, in hopes that society at large will address it, and take meaningful action to stop the violence it perpetuates.

Saira Khan quit Loose Women just days into 2021 as it was her time to "bow out", not much longer after Andrea McLean packed her bags following 13 years as another one of the panellists. Since making her departure from the ITV chat show, the 50-year-old presenter has made some pretty brutal digs at her former co-stars along the way, saying she "tolerated them" on the programme for five years.

In the opening scene of Never Gonna Snow Again, Poland's contender for the 2021 international film Oscar, we see a muscular man step out of a mystical forest and make his way to a concrete, Soviet-style government building. He's a foreigner — from Ukraine — and is there to secure a residency permit.There's no love coming from the face of the grey bureaucrat behind the desk but, with a wave of his hands, and some whispered words in Russian, the bureaucrat falls into a deep slumber.

Also Read: 'Quo Vadis Aida' Director Jasmila Zbanic Exposes the Bureaucracy of War From a Female Perspective (Video)Since the three directors previously collaborated and have been working together for years, the directing process wasn’t that different.

Saira Khan has unfollowed former Loose Women co-stars Nadia Sawalha, Jane Moore and Kaye Adams on Instagram after leaving the show recently.The 50 year old TV star, who recently shared a gruesome look at her stitches after having surgery on her broken ankle, is also no longer followed by the three women after she said she “tolerated” some of her fellow panellists on the ITV show. But, Kaye and Jane, both 58, still follow the Instagram page for Saira’s skincare rage.

When Hurricane Maria blew across Puerto Rico in 2017, television news media descended to cover the disaster, filming the requisite scenes: wind lashing the island, infrastructure devastated, people desperate for rescue and relief.

Saira Khan has opened up on her exit from Loose Women.The 50 year old decided to leave the programme after five years, announcing the new earlier this month. However, in a recent interview the media personality has now revealed that she will not be keeping in touch with all of her co-stars.

Abeer, one of the main subjects of Skye Fitzgerald’s short documentary Hunger Ward, is as pretty as a fairytale princess, with eloquent brown eyes and a smile—when it appears—to melt the heart.

Jamie Lang The Mediapro Studio Distribution has closed a deal with Starz that will land South-Pole murder mystery series “The Head” on the broadcaster’s streaming platform Starzplay in the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria and German-speaking regions of Switzerland and Luxembourg on Feb. 7.One of the most significant steps into scripted drama production by Spanish producer The Mediapro Studio, “The Head” was executed in partnership with Hulu Japan and HBO Asia.

There are few international filmmakers working today that have the acclaim and reverence of Naomi Kawase. And with her latest feature, “True Mothers,” selected as the official Japanese entry into the Oscars race, it appears she’s, yet again, in the middle of the awards discussion.

Back in the now-halcyon days of October 2019, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled a revamped streaming service so that its members — an increasingly far-flung group, as more and more international filmmakers have been recruited to join — would have easy access to Oscar contenders without having to search out official screenings or even venture into actual movie theaters.