'Vivos': Film Review | Sundance 2020

Watching “The Photograph” is like looking through a friend’s old photo album — it’s not as exciting as your friend thinks it is.

Winner of both prizes awarded in the Next category of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, “I Carry You With Me” tells the true story of an undocumented gay couple from Mexico who risk their lives for love, liberty and the American Dream.

One of the things that excite Salma Hayek the most about the upcoming Oscars is she will reunite with great friends from the world of cinema. The Mexican actress took to social media to express how excited she is about reuniting with her friend, Penélope Cruz. In honor of Throwback Thursday, Salma shared a photo from 15 years ago in which the two appear at the Oscars. On Sunday, February 9, the 92nd annual Academy Awards will celebrate Hollywood’s greatest.

An immersive political documentary that might be useful as a glass half-full/half-empty personality test, Ramona S.

Nicky Jam, Ricky Martin, Greeicy, Mau y Ricky, Natti Natasha, Reykon, Ricardo Montaner, Willie Colón, Yennis and Zion & Lennox have been added as performers for Premio Lo Nuestro 2020, Univision has announced.

Lyrical and provocative,Acasă, My Homebrings an intimate slant to age-old questions about the value of conformity, the pleasures and challenges of the natural world versus the comforts and distractions of modernity, and the amorphous but essential matter of what constitutes a good life.

The way religious law penetrates every aspect of Iranian life, from a murder case to how a TV show is run, is probably the most striking aspect of Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness. The perverse logic of temporary marriage, inheritance laws favoring boys and homicide laws stacked against wives, not to mention the practice of paying one’s way out of a hanging with “bloody money” to the victim’s relatives, become casual plot elements in this well-shot, cleverly scripted melodrama.

It's the little indignities that get you. Not that the inciting incident in writer-director Visar Morina's very fine Exil is in any way trivial.

Netflix seriously raised the bar on the true-crime police procedural with Unbelievable, its shattering, forensically detailed miniseries about the hunt for a serial rapist. That standard of excellence does no favors to this poorly scripted feature from the streaming platform, based on the unsolved Long Island Serial Killer case in which more than a dozen sex workers were murdered over a period of almost 20 years.

Playing a security worker (like a TSA agent) at London's Stansted airport whose simmering mental unease finally comes to a rolling boil one day, Ben Whishaw contributes a scalding performance in Surge.This feature debut for director Aneil Karia, who has directed episodes of edgier TV shows such as Top Boy and Pure in the U.K., grew out of an earlier collaboration between Karia, Whishaw and movement coach Laura Williamson Biggson, the short filmBeat.

Everyone has a favorite book that we long to see adapted into a film so more people will know about the book and read it too. At the same time, we also dread the filmmakers will ruin it by misrepresenting or diluting the essence of what makes that book so special.For many people living with autism, their most beloved tome on the subject is The Reason I Jump.

It's easy to see why documentary and TV director Andrew Cohn's first narrative feature, The Last Shift, was at one time considered as a project for Alexander Payne, who remains on board as executive producer. Empathy for aging men navigating complicated crossroads in their unfulfilled lives has often shaped Payne's films and very much applies to the terminal under-achiever played here with characteristic dimension and heart by the ever-reliable Richard Jenkins.

Sony Pictures Classic is partnering with Stage 6 Films for worldwide rights to the immigration love story I Carry You With Me, which is set to be released later this year.Based on a true story, I Carry You With Me is a decades-spanning romance that begins in Mexico between two young men, an aspiring chef and a teacher.

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K-pop girl group (G)I-dle are set to take on the U.S. with the North American leg of their I-Land 2020 world tour.The six-member team will tour the world between April and July with dates across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

The battle lines of territorial masculinity are drawn with compelling psychological complexity in Summer White, in which a 13-year-old boy impatient to become a man grows increasingly hostile to the presence of his single mother's new partner in their lives. Mexican director Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson establishes a domestic situation of almost unhealthy mutual emotional dependency and then ruptures it with the arrival of an outsider whose kindness and generosity make him even more of a threat.

The faces in Saudi Runaway are blurred, with one exception: the documentary's subject and (cameraphone) cinematographer.

To the individual enduring it, sorrow seems a lonely, defenseless emotion, one from which others are too quick to look away. Shared and felt en masse, however, it can become something different: a galvanizing force, a wall, not diminished in pain but not diminished by it either.