'The 40-Year-Old Version': Film Review | Sundance 2020

Hollywood producer Jon Peters feels like an “old fool” after calling off an engagement to wed Pamela Anderson.

Hollywood producer Jon Peters feels like an “old fool” after calling off an engagement to wed Pamela Anderson.

Hollywood producer Jon Peters feels like an “old fool” after calling off an engagement to wed Pamela Anderson.

Tom Paul can finally exhale. At the end of each November, for more than 20 years, the New York-based sound designer turns nocturnal. Forgoing sleep means he’ll have just enough time to complete the sound edit and mix for the multitude of films he was hired to work on that are premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, the most recent edition of which wrapped on Sunday.

Radha Blank's The 40-Year-Old Version, which counts Lena Waithe as a producer, has been picked up by Netflix.A theatrical release for the title is planned ahead of its streaming debut later this year.Blank, a New York-based writer with credits onEmpire and She's Gotta Have It, wrote, directed and stars in the feature about a once-promising playwright that is now a struggling artist at the age of 40.

When Tim Bell died in London last summer, the media response was largely, somewhat sheepishly, polite: It was hard not to envision the ruthless political spin doctor still massaging his legacy from from beyond the grave. “Irrepressible” was the first adjective chosen in the New York Times obituary.

Eva Mendes is unconcerned about other people’s opinions — especially when it comes to her age.

Netflix is in negotiations to buy the worldwide rights to Radha Blank’s semi-autobiographical comedy “The 40-Year-Old Version,” sources have confirmed.

By Bruce Haring

Michael Strahan is neither confirming nor denying the existence of a feud between him and his Live with Kelly and Michael co-host Kelly Ripa.

Nearly four years later, Michael Strahan, 48, is opening up about his abrupt departure from Live! With Kelly and Michael. Amid rumors that his and co-host Kelly Ripa‘s relationship was souring behind the scenes, Michael announced on air during an April 2016 episode that he would be leaving for Good Morning America — without telling Kelly first.

It's been nearly four years since Michael Strahan reportedly blindsided Kelly Ripa by abruptly exiting "Live! With Kelly and Michael" to begin a hosting gig at "Good Morning America."

Inventor Nikolai Tesla is more popular today than when he died penniless in a New York hotel in 1943. Back then, he was the futurist who swore he could summon unlimited, clean, wireless electromagnetic energy from the earth — a neat idea, but surely coal and oil were fine.

He was first arrested and charged back in 2015.

Brooklyn couple Su (Sunita Mani) and Jack (John Reynolds) have several plans to salvage their lives. Go vegetarian, plant a garden, make sourdough bread, and above all, quit the internet addiction that’s become their relationship’s third wheel, distracting them from make-outs and barging into their fights until Su yells, “Alexa stop!” To detox, the couple embarks on a phone-free week in upstate New York.

A knack for creepy atmospherics and individual scares goes a long way in the horror genre, and it takes “The Night House” pretty far. Though this tale of a new widow’s apparent haunting gets progressively lost in a narrative maze that’s complicated without being particularly rewarding, director David Bruckner suffuses the action with enough dread and unpleasant goosings to make this an above-average genre exercise.

In “The Glorias,” Julie Taymor’s pinpoint timely yet rousingly old-fashioned biopic about the life and times of Gloria Steinem, the legendary feminist leader is portrayed by four different actresses at four different stages of her life.

Two years ago, American Civil Liberties Union executive director Anthony D. Romero told The New York Times Magazinethat “most of our support came from people who have been with us since we challenged Nixon.

By Mike Fleming Jr