‘Bread and Roses’ Review: Righteously Angry Doc Draws Attention to Human Rights Abuses

“Do you understand why I love this movie so much?” asks Sav Rodgers, the director whose adoration of Kevin Smith’s 1997 romcom Chasing Amy has led them on a pilgrimage to parts of New Jersey so ungentrified that, 25 years later, they’re — seriously — almost all still there. “No,” says Shana Lory. Which is a bit of a shock, given that she was the casting director.

Murtada Elfadl A ponderous voiceover narration sets the stage for this monster tale. The voice belongs to Vicaria, determinedly played by Laya DeLeon Hayes, who in short order tells the story of how death has befallen her family many times. Her mother died of a stray bullet, her brother a victim of street violence and her father might be on his way due to substance abuse. She hypothesizes that death is a disease and like any disease it can be cured. With that introduction, writer-director Bomani J. Story lays the thesis for this new take on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” But “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” has more on its mind than just adapting that horror classic once more. It infuses a contemporary American social critique onto the familiar plot and characters.

a lawsuit last year, the band argued that the gun seller’s trading name was “confusingly similar” to their name, and that confusion was causing “irreparable damage” to their brand. All of which, they reckoned, constituted infringement of the Guns N Roses trademark.The “irreparable damage” was partly because the band simply don’t want to be associated with the sale of guns.

reunion is getting even more explosive.Ahead of the third and final part of the season 10 reunion, which airs Wednesday night, Bravo released the dramatic first seven minutes as Raquel Leviss joins Ariana Madix, Tom Sandoval and the other cast members with Andy Cohen to air out #Scandoval. When Leviss finally joins the rest of the cast onstage, Cohen asks her how she's been doing. «I'm holding up.

That’s her man. Jill Duggar gushed over husband Derick Dillard following the release of Prime Video’s docuseries, Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.

Water under the bridge! Andy Cohen revealed that he and Howie Mandel have exchanged messages since the latter’s bombshell Tom Sandoval interview — and everything is copacetic again.

Chicago rapper Saba and producer No I.D. have been teasing fans with the prospect of a joint project for some time now, with Saba first revealing the existence of the mixtape over a year ago.

, the Investigation Discovery (ID) docuseries recounting the unbelievably true story surrounding Michael Barnett and Kristine Barnett's adoption of an adult who was accused of pretending to be a 6-year-old Ukrainian orphan, Natalia Grace is opening up in the all-new two-hour documentary, .«This is my side of the story, and I'm going to say what happened because I never got a chance to say what happened,» Natalia says. Ahead of its premiere later this summer, ET has an exclusive, extended preview at what Natalia has to say about what really happened to her after being adopted by the Barnetts and addresses the allegations the family made against her while she was still living with them.   «The things that Kristine and Michael have said that I have done is a lie.

The Missouri native reunited with Raquel during a filming break where she reacted to the footage she saw so far.

EXCLUSIVE: Ming-Na Wen yesterday received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and today she’s teamed with Compelling Pictures on a doc series about Asian-American food culture.

Lisa Vanderpump is putting rumors to rest. The Vanderpump Rules star is denying that she knew about Tom Sandoval cheating on Ariana Madix with Raquel Leviss before the news broke back in March. “Ok ..no I didn’t know…until a minute before you all did…I wish I would’ve tho.#pumprules,” the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum shared via Twitter on Saturday, May 27. Ok ..no I didn’t know…until a minute before you all did…I wish I would’ve tho.

Rita Ora has been hailed as 'the Queen of the gym' after posting about her gruelling workout. The pop star, 32, showed off her incredible toned figure as she posed in the gym in a skintight green romper. She paired her look with a light green crop top, bright red socks and monochrome black and white trainers.

Not over yet. The drama was front and center as the Vanderpump Rules cast reunited to discuss season 10 amid Tom Sandoval and Raquel Leviss‘ cheating scandal.

Alison Herman TV Critic The Apple TV+ comedy “Platonic” is a reunion of the 2014 movie “Neighbors” (and its 2016 sequel “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising”), again pairing stars Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne with the writer and director Nicholas Stoller. But “Platonic” also models itself after another, more enduring classic: Nora Ephron’s “When Harry Met Sally,” a film explicitly referenced in the pilot of “Platonic” and the greatest work of art drawn from the essentially trite question of whether (straight) men and women can be friends. In “Neighbors,” Rogen and Byrne played spouses. In “Platonic,” they’re long-estranged besties who rekindle their codependent bond. As premises go, it’s a thin one. Ephron’s opus is now 34 years old, and even “When Harry Met Sally” was less seriously engaged with the idea of friendship between the sexes than using the setup as a showcase for Ephron’s wit, Meg Ryan’s charm and Ryan’s chemistry with Billy Crystal. “Men and women don’t really hang out with each other at our age,” says Sylvia (Byrne), a former lawyer who’s now a stay-at-home mother of three. Her argument is half-hearted, unconvincing and immediately dismissed by her husband Charlie (Luke Macfarlane), who encourages Sylvia to get in touch with craft brewer Will (Rogen) in the wake of his divorce. 

Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne are used to playing a married couple on screen, but how did they feel about starring as friends in their latest TV series “Platonic”?

Jennifer Lawrence steps out in a woven dress with a detailed back for the Bread and Roses photocall during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival over the weekend.

Lise Pedersen Newcomer Docs-by-the-Sea, the international documentary Labs and Forum for creative doc projects from Asia, will present and works-in-progress showcase for the first time at the Marché du Film’s Cannes Docs.  Featuring four films in late production stage, the showcase is highly necessary, argues its curator, Gugi Gumilang, the executive director of In-Docs, the non-profit org behind Docs by the Sea.   A member of last year’s Docs-in-Progress jury, he said this gave him a chance to see what people are looking for. “There’s a lack of Asian representation [in documentaries],” he tells Variety, adding: “It’s really tough for documentary filmmakers in Asia, few countries have film funds,” he said, citing Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, the Philippines and, more recently, Hong Kong. “There are few dedicated festivals, the biggest being South Korea’s DMZ. Other international film festivals like Busan, Singapore and Jeonju cater for documentary film, but the competition is tough as they don’t just focus on Asian projects.”

A Thousand Girls Like Me looked at a sexually abused woman’s quest for justice, the film aimed to show how the lives of women changed overnight under Taliban rule. “This film has a message from women in Afghanistan, a soft message: please be their voice who are voiceless under Taliban dictatorship,” said Mani at the premiere.

Late last month the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to condemn the Taliban for systematically depriving Afghan women of their rights, demanding the country’s fundamentalist Islamic rulers provide “full, equal, meaningful and safe participation of women and girls” in Afghan society.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence and her producing partner Justine Ciarrocchi touched down at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday to promote their label’s first ever documentary feature, “Bread and Roses” — a harrowing and emotional look at the lives of women in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. After two decades of American occupation, the nation fell once again to the insurgent group, which moved quickly to strip women of basic rights — simple freedoms like the ability to work, appear in public without a male chaperone and receive an education. “It all just collapsed and a matter of days,” Lawrence recalled to Variety. “I was watching this from America, where Roe v. Wade was about to be overturned. We felt helpless and frustrated with how to get these stories off of the news cycle and into people’s psyches. To help people be galvanized and care about the plight of these women.”