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Mar122025 by cineverseNo Comments

September 5’ to Open India’s Red Lorry Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)

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By Naman Ramachandran According To The variety BookMyShow India’s Red Lorry Film Festival has landed a prestigious opening night selection with “September 5,” the Oscar-nominated drama that recreates ABC’s live coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympics terrorist attack. The announcement comes as the festival, now in its second year, expands to include screenings in both Mumbai and Hyderabad from March 21-23. Directed by Tim Fehlbaum and distributed by Paramount Pictures, “September 5” immerses viewers in the claustrophobic confines of ABC Sports’ broadcasting station during the infamous hostage crisis, where journalists found themselves just hundreds of feet from the unfolding tragedy. BookMyShow India’s Red Lorry Film Festival has landed a prestigious ope...

Mar122025 by cineverseNo Comments

Netflix Crew Member Settles Suit After Near-Fatal Fall at Sunset Gower Studios

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By Gene Maddaus According To The variety A crew member on the Netflix film “Me Time” has settled a lawsuit over a near-fatal fall that left him with a traumatic brain injury. Michael Oronoz was working as a grip at Sunset Gower Studios in September 2021, when he fell from the catwalk to the floor 33 feet below. He was in a coma for three weeks, and had to relearn how to talk and how to walk over the course of a long recovery. He sued Hudson Pacific Properties, the facility owner, in 2023, alleging that the company had failed to properly maintain the 1957 building. The suit was dismissed on Monday. Attorneys on both sides declined to comment on the resolution, and terms were not disclosed. Netflix, which was not a party to the suit, also declined to comm...

Mar112025 by cineverseNo Comments

Joburg Film Festival Pays Tribute to ‘Art of Storytelling’ While Looking to Amplify African Voices, ‘Unearth New Talent

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By Christopher Vourlias According To The variety The Joburg Film Festival returns to the heart of South Africa’s entertainment industry from March 11 – 16, with a seventh edition that organizers say is designed to celebrate “the shared experiences and emotions that unite us through the art of storytelling.” Building on Johannesburg’s reputation as the “city of gold,” the festival is organized around the theme of a “golden thread” running through its selection of nearly 100 feature-length and short films and documentaries. Among them is a mix that includes festival hits from the likes of Sundance, Berlin and Cannes, alongside films from the host nation and the African continent that will be reaching audiences for the first time. I wanted to find films that would resonate ...

Mar112025 by cineverseNo Comments

How Trans Coming-of-Age Comedy ‘She’s the He’ Plays on Locker Room Hysteria to Tackle the ‘Fear Around Every Corner’ of the Trump Era

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By Adam B. Vary According To The variety In the indie comedy “She’s the He,” which premiered at SXSW on Sunday, high school seniors Alex and Ethan decide during the last week of school to pretend they’re trans so they can sneak into the women’s locker room. If that sounds like a premise lifted right out of MAGA-era attacks on trans rights, it’s because it is — that’s the point. First-time writer-director Siobhan McCarthy dreamed up the idea just over a year ago, in February 2024, after discovering online that the one high school comedy that spoke to them as a teenager — the 2006 Amanda Bynes comedy “She’s the Man” — was just as formative for many other trans kids. That led to a conversation with their friend, Will Geare (who co-edited “She’s the He” with McCarthy)...

Mar112025 by cineverseNo Comments

Drop’ Review: A Paranoid Tech Thriller Set During a Nerve-Wracking First Date

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By Siddhant Adlakha According To The variety A silly, pulpy mystery entirely sure of its own conceit, “Drop” combines tech paranoia and the looming specter of abuse to create something surprisingly taut and entertaining. Directed by Christopher Landon — best known for his involvement in the “Happy Death Day” and “Paranormal Activity” movies — the film’s complicated setups are executed with a deft and capable hand. Although set in a fine dining establishment, it’s a junk-food thriller fried to near-perfection, balancing the tensions of kidnapping, conspiracy and murder with those of a nerve-wracking first date. It’s crisp and delicious. After a hair-raising prologue involving a couple pointing guns at one another (a scene whose purpose clicks into place much later), “Drop” g...

Mar102025 by cineverseNo Comments

Hallow Road’ Review: A Confined Car Ride Transforms in Head-Spinning Ways

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By Siddhant Adlakha According To The variety Set almost entirely during an urgent car ride, Babak Anvari’s “Hallow Road” begins as an intensely performed, deftly minimalist family thriller about two parents driving to the scene of their daughter’s accident while keeping her on the phone. That’s all you need to know going in, and all you should really learn beforehand, given how this race-against-the-clock premise unfolds, before swerving in completely unpredictable ways. Few films have ever induced such immense tonal whiplash while exhibiting such tight formal control over their transformations. There’s a very clear boundary separating the kind of movie “Hallow Road” starts out as from what it eventually becomes, which all but cements its place as a fascinating artifact of this ...

Mar102025 by cineverseNo Comments

The Age of Disclosure’ Review: A Documentary Claims to Offer Proof that Alien Spaceships Are Visiting Us. But Does It Really?

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By Owen Gleiberman According To The variety The Age of Disclosure,” which premiered today at SXSW, is a documentary that millions of people are going to want to see. It’s a movie that purports to offer incontrovertible evidence that spaceships from other worlds are visiting us. And if you attempt to argue — as I will do in this review — that what you’re seeing in the film isn’t what you think you’re seeing, you’re likely to be attacked as a heretic and a denier of reality, someone who turns a blind eye to the proof that’s sitting right in front of them. The evidence, if you truly look at it, isn’t all that compelling: blurry black-and-white U.S. government video footage that shows tiny objects zipping forward over the surface of the water. It’s the footage of aerial phenomena wi...