‘Totally Under Control’ Film Review: The Horror Film of the Year Is a Documentary About COVID-19

Set against the majestic backdrop of Ireland's wild west coast, Pixie is a trigger-happy comedy road movie that relies more on boorish energy than wit or charm. It marks the self-produced solo directing debut of veteran British producer Barnaby Thompson, whose long lost of credits includes the Wayne's World movies, working here from a screenplay by his son Preston.

The macabre humor of Roald Dahl survived even a sweetened ending that irked the famed British children’s author in Nicolas Roeg's delectable 1990 film of The Witches, thanks in large part to the glorious villainy of Anjelica Huston.

Documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi says that the purpose of her latest film was to "take the temperature of how people feel about America today." Judging by the alarming footage on display in American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself —premiering Friday on Showtime — the country is suffering from a high-grade fever.

Former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn endorsed Republican Rep. Doug Collins in his campaign for U.S.

Johnny Flynn, who stars as David Bowie in the forthcoming biopic Stardust, has said that the film might not please all fans of the late singer.Flynn lost two and a half stone for the film, which follows Bowie travelling across the USA in 1971, shortly before he saw widespread acclaim by reinventing himself as Ziggy Stardust.The film does not contain any original David Bowie songs, which Flynn told The Guardian will mean “we’re potentially going to get a lot of flak from the Bowie army.”Flynn,

Courteney Cox reveals she has been separated from her fiancé for over 200 days.

Oscar-winning actor Eddie Redmayne recently appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote his latest release The Trial of the Chicago 7. Jimmy Fallon couldn't help but ask the 38-year-old actor about Fantastic Beasts 3, which recently resumed filming in the UK in September, after being shut down in March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In the last few years, Thom Zimny has released top-notch, personal portraits of two icons of American music, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. For around two decades, he's made a more varied series of projects with Bruce Springsteen, which range in nature from simple concert footage to deep examinations of the songwriter's early albums.

The mother at the centre of Amazon’s acclaimed documentary film exploring the impact of the US criminal justice system said it was “love” that allowed her family to survive.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the border with the United States will remain closed to non-essential travel until the U.S. gets coronavirus under control.  "We have committed to keeping Canadians safe and we keep extending the border closures because the United States is not in a place where we would feel comfortable reopening those borders," he told the hosts of "The Start" in a radio interview Wednesday.

Long before the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others helped galvanize the Black Lives Matter movement, people of color had been dying at the hands of white law enforcement officers for centuries. The British filmmaker and political activist Ken Fero has been documenting U.K.

Having tied up her term on Britain’s Got Talent last week, Amanda Holden is wasting no time getting back in the saddle and intends to keep her seat warm. Her latest role will see her star in BBC One’s brand-new mystery music game show I Can See Your Voice.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorDonald Trump’s recent COVID-19 diagnosis brought all the chaos and contradictions of the pandemic into sharp focus.

American Pie debuted when I was in fifth grade, and like Blink-182 and South Park before it, the high school sex comedy quickly ascended to the pantheon of raunchy, outrageous and forbidden content that was immediately gobbled up and then regurgitated ad nauseum by every tween in my elementary school.

Amazon corporate synergy pays off in Evil Eye, a suspenseful thriller adapted by playwright Madhuri Shekar from her audio drama, which was a hit for the streaming giant's Audible platform of spoken-word entertainment. This new iteration fits smoothly into Welcome to the Blumhouse, a series of original genre films by culturally diverse emerging talents, in this case marking a confident feature co-directing debut for Indian American twin brothers Elan and Rajeev Dassani.

Also Read: Pixar's 'Soul' to Skip US Theaters for Christmas Day Disney+ DebutJoe Gardener (voiced by Jamie Foxx) is a middle school band teacher in Queens, New York.

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.

Given that it lays out in unsparing terms the extent of a staggering American failure that ranks up there with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, “Totally Under Control” is a surprisingly calm piece of work. A damning account of how the greatest technological, scientific, and military power on the planet laid down and allowed a pandemic to march right over it, the documentary is filled with eyewitnesses to the clown show who still don’t appear able to process what they saw.

For many westerners who keep up with current events, Jamal Khashoggi is remembered mostly as a victim, a name from headlines two years back. The Saudi-born journalist, at the time of his death a columnist for The Washington Post and an American resident, walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, to collect some documents related to his upcoming marriage.