‘Extracurricular’ Director Made School Shooting Film as ‘Warning’ to Society (Video)

When the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, the city’s largest film festival, gets underway February 17, it will look a little different from previous seasons. It’s a virtual event, save for some drive-in screenings, but the LGBTQ content is still abundant.

Following in the footsteps of acclaimed Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro, AlfonsoCuarón and Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Fernando Fríasde la Parra has entered the awards conversation this year with his featureI'm No Longer Here,Mexico's official submission for the best international feature Oscar.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Tatiana Siegel sat down with director Bryan Fogel to discuss his new documentary The Dissident in a THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media. Fogel, whose 2017 film Icarus won the Oscar for best documentary feature, has delivered another shocking exposé into the murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi.

Also Read: How 'R#J' Cast and Filmmakers Brought Shakespeare Into the Diverse, Digital Age (Video)Khoosat has gained a reputation in Pakistan for being a writer of many interests, penning scripts for sitcoms, soap operas and even Agatha Christie adaptations among other genres. But “Circus of Life” is one of his most serious stories yet, collaborating with screenwriter Nirmal Bano to explore social media’s impact on modern Muslim life.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“Mass,” a drama that consists of two couples seated across a table from each other in a placidly sterile church antechamber, discussing the unthinkable (two of them are the parents of a teenage boy who was killed in a school shooting; the other two are the parents of the shooter), is a movie you could easily imagine having been a stage play. I don’t say that just for the obvious reasons (spare contained setting, characters who do nothing but talk, etc.).

Also Read: 'Night of the Kings' Trailer Shows a Mythical Fairy Tale Inside an African Prison (Video)Ameen said her fascination with mermaids came when she imagined the image of a girl seeing a mermaid being chopped in half and what could come of that.

It’s been almost a year and a half since Saint Maud became one of the hottest films to emerge from the 2019 Toronto Film Festival. British filmmaker Rose Glass’ debut feature —a deeply unsettling psychological horror following a troubled and devout palliative carer (played to perfection by Morfydd Clark) who believes she’s been sent to nurse her terminally ill client (the equally superb Jennifer Ehle) with a God-given purpose —was an instant hit among critics.

Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey made “The Wedding Planner” the beloved rom-com it is today, but two other actors were originally set to star in the film.

Human Traffic director Justin Kerrigan has confirmed that the long-awaited sequel to the cult classic is “ready to go.”The original Human Traffic film was released in 1999 and was set over the course of a drug-fuelled weekend in Cardiff. The film starred Danny Dyer, John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Shaun Parkes and Nicola Reynolds.A sequel has been hinted at for years and in 2019, Human Traffic: The Revolution was announced by Kerrigan at Cardiff’s Tramshead (April 6) where a 20th anniversary

EXCLUSIVE: LD Entertainment has greenlit the contained space thriller ISS, and is reuniting with director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, who will direct the film with Chris Messina starring. The two previously partnered together on Megan Leavey. The ensemble cast also includes Chris Messina, Pilou Asbæk, John Gallagher Jr., Costa Ronin and Masha Mashkova.

Irish actress Clare Dunne stars in Herself, a harrowing drama about a single mother who, after escaping an abusive partner, aims to rebuild her life in a unique manner. After months of struggling with the welfare and housing systems, she comes upon the idea of self-building an affordable home and, with the help of friends and neighbors, rebuilds her life and theirs from the ground up.

I was lucky enough to be among the very first people, particularly among journalists, to see The Assistant, even before its world premiere at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival which was before it had been sold to a distributor. I did the first interview with its writer and director Kitty Green, previously best known for her work in the nonfiction field.

You can always tell what the newest buzzwords around Hollywood are based on what films get greenlit. After “Bohemian Rhapsody,” won Oscars and earned nearly $1 billion at the box office, you saw a bunch of “rock biopics” getting put into production.

It’s not every day that a short film resonates across the globe, managing to connect emotionally with people of all different ages and backgrounds. But in the case of If Anything Happens I Love You, from directors Will McCormack and Michael Govier, this is precisely what happened.

The first night that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert beat The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in total viewers after his opening night, the bespectacled host sprung for pizza for his crew.

Angelique Jackson “WandaVision” is here and it’s weird.

Annika Pham Running fully online over Feb.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is teaming up with The Batman writer-director Matt Reeves’ 6th & Idaho and Burn director Mike Gan on the Black List survival thriller previously known in industry circles as Dead Of Winter.