'The Dark Divide': Film Review

In Jim Cummings' attention-grabbing 2016 short film Thunder Road, which spawned a 2018 feature by the same name, the writer-director played a grief-struck cop dealing with an angry estranged wife and his responsibilities to their young daughter. His role is nearly identical on paper in The Wolf of Snow Hollow, a bloody mystery that shares some of the previous film's uncategorizable edge but is never quite as compellingly strange.

Familiar psychological thriller tropes are infused with strong doses of social commentary in Lauren Fash's debut feature, which recently received its world premiere at the Frameline Film Festival. Depicting a woman's efforts to find her missing child, Through the Glass Darkly occasionally gets lost in its own murkiness.

The Brooklyn Dodgers, American neo-Nazis and Chicago-area Holocaust survivors all figure prominently in Mighty Ira, a film that pays tribute to a generation of free-speech advocates through one man's story. Now in his 80s, Ira Glasser served as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001, and he took the reins expecting to spend most of his time addressing matters of racial justice.

Silly, overstuffed and as sweet as anything Adam Sandler has done, Hubie Halloween is a full jack-o'-lantern in which the chocolates you hoped for far outnumber the butterscotch tooth-breakers.

There's no doubting why Totally Under Control, a doc about a pandemic whose end is nowhere in sight, would be released —first in drive-ins, then VOD, then on Hulu —in the weeks leading up to the presidential election: Directors Alex Gibney, Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan believe, as all fact-valuing people do, that the current administration has fared so badly in 2020 that a new one must be brought in to clean up the mess.

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The Country Music Association announced Monday that Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker will co-host this year’s 54th annual CMA Awards.The event will be broadcast from the Music City Center in downtown Nashville on Nov.

hereThe dispute has been further fuelled after the charity spent £140,000 to change its name from Addaction earlier this year, according to charity sector publication Civil Society Media.UNISON says the recent rebrand cost the charity more than it would cost to settle the dispute with a pay rise for the 30 members who are now on strike.The staff, who are not allowed to speak to the media without prior permission from their employer, say the dispute over pay has been "soul-destroying".One

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Wins Audience Award at Toronto Film FestivalNikolaj proposes that they test out a theory from Norwegian psychiatrist Finn Skårderud, which suggests that man’s blood-alcohol level is actually 0.5% too low, and that a small but steady intake of alcohol during work hours would help people reach peak performance.

Watch Video: David Oyelowo Chose 'The Water Man' as His Directorial Debut Because of His Love for 'The Goonies'Armed with a map and some intel from mortician Jim (Alfred Molina, having a very good time here), Gunner hires Jo (Amiah Miller, “War for the Planet of the Apes”) to be his guide into the woods.

An arresting feature debut about a man returning home to a community that has been transformed, Merawi Gerima's Residue is honest enough about its protagonist's emotions and motivations that it's likely to cause discomfort in viewers wherever they fall on the socioeconomic spectrum.

Until his death in 1989 at the age of 74, not even his wife or adoptive children knew that jazz pianist Billy Tipton had been anything other than a cisgender man. According to No Ordinary Man — a new documentary about Tipton’s legacy as a transmasculine icon — the musician became fodder for daytime talk shows and supermarket tabloids shortly after his death, with Oprah Winfrey and her also-rans prying into the marriage between Tipton and his common-law widow Kitty Kelly.

Imagine the Pizzagate guy was the main character in a movie. Then imagine that guy was played by Aaron Eckhart, with Tommy Lee Jones playing his conspiracy theorizing, podcasting accomplice.

Two sisters from a Northern Irish town close to the border with Eire, played by Nika McGuigan and Nora-Jane Noone, feel the long shadow of both the Troubles and their own troubled past when they're reunited after a long estrangement in British-Irish co-production Wildfire.

There's a heady, hypnotic interlude midway through Steve McQueen's dreamy celebration of Black community and culture, Lovers Rock, when Janet Kay's 1979 hit "Silly Games" plays out on the turntable and is taken up by the people crammed into the suburban London living room where a house party is being held. For a full five minutes they continue singing a cappella — the women in particular — their voices matched by the ecstasy of their swaying bodies.

Also Read: Sofia Coppola, Pedro Almodovar and Orson Welles Doc Added to New York Film Festival LineupWhile there’s always a sense that Walsh is enough of an innate politician to always be aware of Wiseman’s camera without ever acknowledging it – even in more intimate settings, he always talks like someone making sure he can’t be misquoted – he brings a real personal touch to the job, whether he’s relating to those veterans and their need for counseling and outreach by sharing stories of his own

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.

Veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui, one of Venice’s two Career Golden Lion recipients this year alongside Tilda Swinton, brings prewar Hong Kong to exquisite if restrained life in her latest historical drama, Love After Love (Di Yu Lu Xiang).

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Eight years after making the Oscar-nominated The Hunt together, Mads Mikkelsen and writer-director Thomas Vinterberg have reunited for Another Round, a tragicomic portrait of midlife crisis and alcohol abuse. Since their previous collaboration, both director and star have mostly worked on bigger international features, but they are back on comfortable home ground here with a modestly scaled Danish-language production full of familiar faces.