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By Owen Gleiberman According To The variety Conspiracies and cover-ups are a dime a dozen in fictional movies (thrillers, political dramas, you name it). But when a documentary unravels a conspiracy, it can take on the kind of hushed suspense those films used to have and rarely do anymore. (The heyday of conspiracy cinema, the ’70s era of “All the President’s Men” and “Chinatown” and “The Conversation” and “The Parallax View,” was about 10,000 conspiracy movies ago.) The Stringer” is a documentary mystery about a deadly serious subject: the true authorship of the famous Vietnam War photograph, taken on June 8, 1972, in the town of Trảng Bàng, that showed the aftermath of a napalm attack — a 9-year-old girl named Phan Thį Kim Phúc running, naked, toward the camera, her arms outstretched ...

cineversedaily reporter Ali Atshani’s latest feature film, *My Little Moon*, has been officially selected for the competition section of the 24th Santa Fe International Film Festival, one of the most prominent celebrations of independent cinema in the United States. The festival will take place from February 21 to 23 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, bringing together filmmakers, industry professionals, and cinephiles from around the world.   Shot in Los Angeles last year, *My Little Moon* is a powerful and thought-provoking drama that explores the events of 2022 in Iran, focusing on the tragic deaths of young protesters during the *Woman, Life, Freedom* movement. The film provides a gripping and emotional portrayal of the struggles faced by Iranian youth during that time, shedd...

By Jack Dunn According To The variety After Lin-Manuel Miranda collaborated with director Jon M. Chu on the 2021 movie musical “In The Heights,” the pair almost worked together on 2024’s biggest Broadway adaptation: “Wicked.” During a recent appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Miranda explained that he had his eye on the role of a munchkin who delivers a critical line in the opening scene of “Wicked.” “In the opening number of the show, this one munchkin runs out and goes, ‘Is it true you were her friend?’ Because, man, I don’t know if you’ve seen a live production of ‘Wicked,’ but sometimes they really put some sauce on the ball when they deliver that line,” Miranda said. He continued, “It’s where the story starts. So I was like, ‘I really w...