‘Swan Song’ Review: Sci-Fi Drama Ponders Grief & Cloning Via A Remarkable Mahershala Ali [AFI Fest]

Michael Nordine authorOurs is an age of nostalgia. Now that the rose-tinted glasses have increasingly turned their gaze toward the 1990s — they’re literally making a “That ’90s Show,” in case you didn’t already feel old enough — “Mixtape” almost feels timely.

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Caretaker boss Michael Carrick has admitted that he was not surprised by Jadon Sancho's impressive performance in Manchester United's 2-0 win over Villarreal on Tuesday evening, insisting he has all of the hallmarks to make a real name for himself.

“Sing,” Illumination Entertainment’s 2016 animated feature, is a breath of fresh air, particularly for a company most closely associated with the screeching, omnipresent minions. A kind of jukebox musical set in a world populated by oddball anthropomorphic animals (released just a few months after “Zootopia”), it is charming and upbeat.

Clayton Davis So have we seen everything yet?AFI Fest, which just wrapped in Los Angeles, is the final prominent film festival to unveil a handful of awards hopefuls.Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut, “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” from Netflix, premiered to strong reviews and plenty of Oscar buzz.

Angelique Jackson AFI Fest announced its 2021 jury and audience award winners, with audience prizes going to “Jockey” and the documentary feature centered on the late rapper Juice WRLD.“Bringing filmmakers and movie fans together to celebrate the moving image is at the heart of AFI FEST. The excitement of all festivalgoers to be together in the theaters, once again, was electric,” Sarah Harris, AFI Festivals’ director of programming said in a statement announcing the winners.

AFI FEST 2021 announced today the films that received this year’s Jury and Audience awards. The Grand Jury Award winners for Live Action and Animated Short will be eligible for the 2021 Best Live Action Short and Best Animated Short Academy Awards®. The Jury was composed of film curator and writer Kiva Reardon; Amanda Salazar, head of programming and acquisitions at Argo; and writer/director Angel Kristi Williams.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticBuster Moon has a dream: to be the most successful koala in showbiz. In “Sing,” he managed to salvage the run-down venue where his musical theater ambitions might thrive, much to the delight of family audiences.

Angelique Jackson Two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali celebrated a major milestone on Friday night with the AFI Fest debut of “Swan Song,” which marks his first film project in a leading role and first narrative feature as a producer.“It was an emotional day, for me, I gotta say,” Ali told Variety on the red carpet outside the TCL Chinese Theatre.

When Cameron (Mahershala Ali) first meets his duplicate—a genetically identical, lab-crafted doppelganger—a wave of visceral bafflement possesses him.

Even since big-name actors such as Robert Redford or Clint Eastwood took their shot at sitting in the director’s chair, numerous others have followed suit with varying degrees of success.

Halle Berry has the support of her man on her big night!

HUDs connected to our contact lenses. Poppy leaves digital post-it notes around the house for Cameron to find, which play back recordings of her voice through the mouths of whimsical cartoons that explode into pixels when opened.

“Street of Dreams,” Bill Charlap Trio (Blue Note Records)Jazz pianist Bill Charlap opens his trio’s latest album with four bars of shifting quarter-note chords, the reliable pulse a compelling contrast to the unpredictable colors he creates.The final tune settles into a slow, stalking rhythm, and after a closing contribution from Charlap’s left hand and a witty hesitation, the combo comes down hard on the final downbeat, sticking the landing with a satisfying splash.From start to finish, “Street