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For her first feature film, filmmaker Sierra Falconer opted to combine both something comfortable and something a little more bold.

The result is “Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake),” the rare anthology film that not only earns its structure, but uses it to wonderful effect. As our David Ehrlich wrote of the film when it premiered at Sundance this year, “Where most anthologies spotlight each of their stories with the mono-focus of a slide projector, Falconer’s attention drifts with the warm indifference of a roving sunbeam. Her characters don’t really overlap in any literal respect, but they’re so bound together by a shared sense of place — and by the emergent realization that they’re all just passing through it — that it feels like they’re all neatly interwoven together, especially when they struggle to connect with each other.”

After its Sundance debut, the film was picked up...

The Future of Film is Female will release Sunfish (& Other Stories On Green Lake), the feature debut of writer-director Sierra Falconer, on September 12 at the IFC Center in New York with a national expansion to follow.

A wistful, slice of life anthology, which premiered at Sundance to strong reviews, follows intertwined lives around Green Lake in Michigan.

The film, executive produced by acclaimed director Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir), is the second distribution partnership for The Future of Film is Female after The Graduates by Hannah Peterson in 2024. The NYC-based nonprofit founded by Caryn Coleman is dedicated to releasing independent films directed by women and nonbinary filmmakers with a tailored release plan for each project.

Coleman will handle the U.S. theatrical release. Giant Pictures will oversee the U.S. digital, set for late fall. Vortex Media has all rights in Canada to the film staring Maren Heary (She Said), Jim Kaplan...

On Sunday March 16 2025, Paramount broadcasts Bar Rescue!

Pete’s Ruined Tavern Season 9 Episode 26 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Bar Rescue,” titled “Pete’s Ruined Tavern,” promises to be an engaging look at the challenges faced by a struggling bar owner. Chef Jason Santos travels to Chesterfield, Minnesota, where he encounters a difficult situation. The owner, Pete, has been drinking excessively in his own establishment, which has led to problems for both the bar and his family.

As the episode unfolds, viewers will see how Pete’s behavior affects the bar’s atmosphere and the efforts of his children, who are trying hard to make the business successful. The tension between family dynamics and the responsibilities of running a bar will be a central theme. Chef Jason Santos will step in to provide guidance and support, aiming to turn things around for Pete and his family.

Throughout the episode, Chef...

This Sunday on “Bar Rescue,” Jon Taffer isn’t the one slinging tough love and bar wisdom. Instead, Chef Jason Santos steps in to try and save a failing establishment from imminent disaster. In “Pete’s Ruined Tavern,” the team heads to Chesterfield, Minnesota, to confront a situation where the biggest threat to the business isn’t the […]

Bar Rescue: Pete’s Ruined Tavern...

In the upcoming episode of “Bar Rescue,” titled “Pete’s Ruined Tavern,” Chef Jason Santos travels to Chesterfield, Minnesota, to tackle a challenging situation. The episode, airing on Sunday, March 16, 2025, at 9:00 Pm on Paramount, focuses on a bar owner named Pete who finds himself in a tough spot. Instead of running his bar, Pete spends too much time drinking there, leaving his children to pick up the pieces and try to make the business thrive.

Chef Jason is known for his tough love approach, and this episode promises to showcase his skills as he navigates the complex family dynamics at play. With Pete’s drinking problem affecting not just the bar but also his relationship with his kids, the stakes are high. Jason will need to dig deep to help this family find a path to success while addressing Pete’s personal struggles.

Viewers can expect emotional moments as...

A 14-year-old is obliged to stay at her grandparents’ lake home after her impulsive mom elopes and prioritizes her new husband. At the competitive music camp across the water, a determined young violinist pushes himself to be named first chair, sacrificing the personal connections he covets more. Meanwhile, at the local bar, a fisherman finds an unlikely ally in catching the whopper that’ll change his life. And finally, at a family-run bed-and-breakfast, two sisters make the most of their summer before the older one heads off to college.

The location, rather than the characters or their independent narrative strands, serves to unify the four sketches that comprise “Sunfish and Other Stories on Green Lake.” Set in writer-director Sierra Falconer’s old stomping grounds — among the cozy, neighborly community that surrounds a scenic lake in northern Michigan — the pleasantly laconic anthology film debuted in U.S. dramatic competition at Sundance.

The great frustration with anthology films — and the reason I sink a little deeper into my seat every time I sit down to watch a new one — is that even the best of them tend to be wildly uneven, the whole seldom greater than the sum of a few select parts. Enter: Sierra Falconer’s light and languid “Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake),” a collection of wistfully effervescent vignettes that resists the usual highs and lows of its format by drawing a gentle power from the stillness of the water that runs through it.

Indeed, the four short episodes that form this affecting debut flow together so fluidly, the camera passing its focus between them like a baton, that it might have been hard to know where one ends and the next begins if not for the title cards that “Sunfish” includes for context. Where most anthologies spotlight each...

Bar Rescue Season 9 hasn’t even premiered yet, and Paramount Network has already renewed the show for Season 10. Jon Taffer hosts the reality TV show. He is an expert in helping transform struggling bars and restaurants into successful businesses. However, his brash and outspoken personality is what most people tune in for.

Here is what you need to know about the renewal of the popular reality TV series.

Bar Rescue Renewed For Season 10

It is unusual for a TV show to get a renewal before the current season even premieres. While a network often does a multi-season renewal, that is not what happened here. Instead, a month before the ninth season hits Paramount Network, the network has renewed it already for another season.

Jon Taffer from Bar Rescue, Paramount, Sourced from YouTube

Bar Rescue Season 9 premieres on Sunday, February 23, at 10 p.m. Est. Now, fans can rest assured that after this season ends,...

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Hells Kitchen is a reality TV cornerstone, but some cast members have tragically passed away after starring in one of the best reality TV shows. Gordon Ramsay's iconic series is gearing up for season 24. While viewers tune into Hell's Kitchen to get a good dose of the incomparable Ramsay, the contestants make the show at the end of the day. Unfortunately, not all the past chefs are alive today. There have been numerous chefs who have passed away since their time on Hell's Kitchen.

Past contestants have gone on to make their mark for various reasons, and some Hell's Kitchen seasons are better than others. Plenty of glorious success stories, like Rock Harper and Christina Wilson, who won season 10, live on in the minds of the fans. Additionally, Hell's Kitchen boasts Jason Santos, season 7's runner-up, who opened four successful Boston-area restaurants and...

There are many more opportunities for aspiring chefs on the way. Fox has renewed Hell's Kitchen for 23rd and 24th seasons, which will take the series to 350 episodes. The 22nd season finished airing in January.

A culinary competition series, the Hell's Kitchen TV show is hosted by Chef Gordon Ramsay. The 22nd season found 18 chef contestants, split up into two teams -- blue (men) and red (women). Season ten winner Christina Wilson returned to serve as the red team sous-chef, while the seventh season runner-up, Jason Santos, returned to serve as the sous-chef for the blue team. Marino Monferrato returned to be the maître d'hôtel. The American Dream-themed season focuses on uniquely American stories to test contestants and push them to their limits. The competition is fierce, as each team is put through rigorous culinary challenges featuring high-stakes...

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It's red versus blue and the American Dream. Has the Hell's Kitchen TV show been cancelled or renewed for a 23rd season on Fox? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Hell's Kitchen, season 23. Bookmark it, or subscribe for the latest updates. Remember, the television vulture is watching your shows. Are you?  

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A culinary competition series airing on the Fox television network, the Hell's Kitchen TV show is hosted by Chef Gordon Ramsay. The 22nd season will have 18 chef contestants, split up into two teams -- blue (men) and red (women). Season ten winner Christina Wilson will return to serve as the red team sous-chef. While the seventh-season runner-up, Jason Santos, will return to serve as blue team...

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A romantic film will never go out of fashion, and the decade of the 2010s, in particular, had some great romance movies with epic love stories that last. Escaping from reality to get swept up in a good love story is a time-honored tradition, and plenty of audiences still yearn to see poignant romances on screens both big and small. A good romance will make a viewer want to fall in love when it goes right and cry their heart out when it goes wrong.

Chef Gordon Ramsay is back for another season of Hell's Kitchen on Fox. The series hasn't been a big draw for the network in a while but it usually draws respectable ratings. Will that be enough to keep it on the air? Will Hell's Kitchen be cancelled or renewed for season 23? Stay tuned.

A culinary competition series, the Hell's Kitchen TV show is hosted by Ramsay. The 22nd season will have 18 chef contestants, split up into two teams -- blue (men) and red (women). Season ten winner Christina Wilson will return to serve as the red team sous-chef. While the seventh season runner-up, Jason Santos, will return to serve as blue team sous-chef, Marino Monferrato will return to serve as maître d'hôtel. The American Dream themed season will focus on uniquely American stories to test contestants and push them to their limits. The...

Gordon Ramsay is back on our TV screens with Hell’s Kitchen premiering tonight at 8 p.m. Et on Fox!

Hell’s Kitchen: The American Dream sees Gordon Ramsay returning as host and head chef, while Season 10 winner Christina Wilson will return to serve as red team sous-chef, Season 7 runner-up Jason Santos will return to serve as blue team sous-chef, and Marino Monferrato will return to serve as maître d’hôtel.

Viewers might be curious to know more about Gordon‘s love life, as well as his relationship status and whether he has children.

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The following contains spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead Season 8, Episode 3, "Odessa," which premiered May 28 on AMC.

Fear the Walking Dead Season 7 made a point of slimming its oversized cast, which has allowed for a more-narrowed focus to start Season 8, but it also made room for a few new faces. Morgan's daughter, Mo, was center stage in the premiere; Finch was introduced in "Blue Jay," and Dove learned that her real name was Odessa in the latest episode. As Judith Grimes did for The Walking Dead, those newer characters are poised to make a huge difference in Ftwd's final season.

Some fans believed that Finch was set to take on a major role in finding the cure to walker bites. While that's not exactly the case, there's still a chance that a cure will come eventually -- thanks to "Odessa" subtly mentioning Twd's biggest Rick Grimes theory. Here's everything we know about Ftwd's potential cure,...

The following contains spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead Season 8, Episode 3, "Odessa," which premiered Sunday, May 28 on AMC.

After most of Season 7 moved at a snail's pace, Fear the Walking Dead's Season 8 quickly jumped into the action. The premiere explained the series' time jump and how Morgan had returned his daughter to Padre. "Blue Jay" showed how June had joined and later deserted Padre. However, the episode pulled her back into the fold with a horrifying scene that pushed The Walking Dead's franchise's limits.

"Odessa" continued that fast-moving pace and actually revealed Padre's shocking identity. Along the way, it made a point of referencing some of the series' older characters. Charlie and Luciana were mentioned in "Odessa" and appeared to be dead, though it's possible that they could be alive somewhere. More importantly, the episode mentioned Alicia on two separate occasions. That had fans wondering if there was still a...

The following contains spoilers for Fear the Walking Dead Season 8, Episode 2, "Blue Jay," which premiered Sunday, May 21 on AMC.

After an abysmal Season 7, Fear the Walking Dead implemented a time jump during its Season 8 premiere. The time jump didn't fix all Ftwd's issues because there were still too many things happening off-camera, and the plot armor was still too thick. However, the time jump did offer the series a little bit of a storytelling reset. "Remember What They Took From You" showed that Padre was still the big-bad, but during the past seven years, everything had changed.

The premiere really didn't answer a lot of questions. For some reason, Morgan believed that Padre could protect his daughter better than he could. So, he returned Mo to Padre's island and joined on as a Child Collector. In fact, except for a missing Victor Strand, everyone in Morgan's group joined Padre. "Blue Jay...

Exclusive: Neal McDonough (Yellowstone), Sean Astin (Stranger Things) and Rose Reid (Finding You) will join Kristoffer Polaha, John Billingsley, Jason Marsden, Nolan North, Emily Rose and more in the sci-fi thriller The Shift, which has entered production in Birmingham, Al.

The film written and directed by Brock Heasley marks the first original theatrical effort from Angel Studios, the studio behind the crowdfunded streaming series The Chosen. Plot details are under wraps. But Liz Tabish, Paras Patel and Jordan Walker Ross will also feature in the cast of the pic from Ken Carpenter’s Nook Lane Entertainment.

McDonough is repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman; Astin by Luber Roklin, Stewart Talent and Brecheen Feldman Breimer; and Reid by Innovative Artists and attorney Jared Bloch.

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Exclusive: Brainstorm Media has acquired U.S. rights to the sci-fi drama Acidman, starring Dianna Agron...

The screaming, yelling, and heat of Hell's Kitchen is legendary, and it's time to let fans know what Jean-Philippe Susilovic is up to following season 12. Gordon Ramsay brought that long-awaited season to fans from Las Vegas. That was a big change from a converted warehouse in Los Angeles. After a hiatus that lasted for more than two years, the series finally returned, and chefs were battling it out for 250k, plus an executive chef position at the Hell's Kitchen Lake Tahoe Restaurant. That installment's contestants were top-notch talents, who delivered pure entertainment. Chef Ramsay's support staff was also exciting. Chef Christina Wilson was back for her fourth season as the Red Team's sous chef, and Jason Santos (season 7's runner-up) returned with his blue hair, as the Blue Team's sous chef.

After seeing so many fun and familiar Hell's Kitchen faces, viewers are wondering what happened to some...

Heading into Monday’s two-hour finale of “Hell’s Kitchen” Season 20, only the Top 3 chef-testants remained in the running to win: Trenton Garvey, Megan Gill and Kiya Willhelm. In the first hour, the players were treated to a helicopter ride around Las Vegas before having to cook a five-course meal in front of a live audience. Later, the two finalists competed head-to-head, with former contestants serving in their kitchen brigades. A lot is at stake this year for the ultimate “HK20” winner, as they’ll claim a head chef position at Gordon Ramsay‘s steakhouse at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas.

See‘Hell’s Kitchen: Young Guns’ cast: Meet the 18 chefs for Season 20

Below, read our minute-by-minute “Hell’s Kitchen: Young Guns” recap of the two-hour Season 20 finale, Episode 15 (“What the Hell”) and Episode 16 (“Two Young Guns Shoot It Out”), to find out what happened Monday, September 13 at 8:00 p.

“Hell’s Kitchen” served up shrimp, shrimp and more shrimp during Thursday’s second episode of Season 19. The winner of the first individual challenge was awarded with the Punishment Pass prize that allows them to skip out on a future punishment should they lose. So who prevailed and who faltered in the shrimp extravaganza? After last week’s introductory episode in which none of the 18 new chef-testants were sent home, this week Chef Gordon Ramsay made up for lost time with a shocking double elimination. Which two contestants said goodbye before the end of the episode?

See‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Season 19 cast: Meet the 18 chefs for Las Vegas edition

Below, read our minute-by-minute “Hell’s Kitchen: Las Vegas” recap of Season 19, Episode 2, titled “Shrimply Spectacular,” to find out what happened Thursday, January 14 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Then be sure to sound off in the comments section about your favorite...

For the first time ever, “Hell’s Kitchen” has left its longtime home in Hollywood to film its 19th season in Las Vegas. Don’t worry — this cycle was produced long before the Covid-19 pandemic began raging across the globe. That’s why the 18 new chef-testants aren’t social distancing or wearing masks as they compete in Sin City. Once again all the power belongs to host Gordon Ramsay, who will eliminate one person every week until only one remains as the winner of the head chef position at his new restaurant in Lake Tahoe. So who was the first person eliminated from “Hell’s Kitchen: Las Vegas”?

See‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Season 19 cast: Meet the 18 chefs for Las Vegas edition

Below, read our minute-by-minute “Hell’s Kitchen” recap of the Season 19 premiere, titled “Welcome to Vegas,” to find out what happened Thursday, January 7 at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt. Then be...

A new season of “Hell’s Kitchen” is underway with the winner slated to be revealed on February 1 of next year. This edition of the reality competition series hosted by Gordon Ramsay pits eight rookies against eight veterans. Three of those returning contestants came tantalizing close to winning a chance to be a chef at one of Ramsay’s restaurants.

Last season “Hell’s Kitchen” featured only players who had appeared on a previous season. The winner was Michelle Tribble, who had competed on season 14 and came in third behind winner Meghan Gill and runner-up Torrece Gregoire. How does Tribble stack up against the chefs who claimed the title in the first 16 seasons of this Fox reality series? Cast your vote in our poll below as to your favorite and we will report back on how you rank the “Hell’s Kitchen” winners from best to worst.

One of her...

Michelle Tribble may have been Gordon Ramsay‘s pick for winner of “Hell’s Kitchen” on Feb. 2 but how does she stack up against the chefs who claimed the title in the first 16 seasons of this Fox reality series? Cast your vote in our poll below as to your favorite and we will report back on how you rank the “Hell’s Kitchen” winners from best to worst.

This 17th season was called “All-Stars” but none of the contestants, including Tribble, had won their previous appearance on the cooking show. When Tribble competed on season 14, she came in third behind winner Meghan Gill and runner-up Torrece Gregoire. One of her rivals on this season’s final was Nick Peters Bond who also contended in season 14; he made it to fifth then and third now. The “All-Star” runner-up was Benjamin Knack. Back on season 7, he placed third behind Holli Ulgade and...

Gordon Ramsay made history when he chose Michelle Tribble as the winner of “Hell’s Kitchen” on Feb. 2. At 24, she is the youngest woman to take the title since Holli Ulgade in season 7 back in 2010. Danny Veltri remains the youngest-ever champ; he was just 23 when he won season 5 in 2009.

We asked if you thought that Tribble deserved to win over rival finalists Nick Peters Bond and Benjamin Knack and a whopping 50% of you said she did. If you haven’t voted in the poll yet, be sure to do so at the bottom of this post and then sound off in the comments section.

Our exclusive odds had predicted that Bond would win and get to be the executive chef of the new Hell’s Kitchen restaurant at the Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. That job comes with a jaw-dropping salary of $250,000.

See ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ winners: Where are they now,...

The first edition of “Hell’s Kitchen All Stars” ended on Feb. 2 when Gordon Ramsay crowned Michelle Tribble the winner over finalists Nick Peters Bond and Benjamin Knack. Do you think he made the right choice? Read our recap of the results and then vote in our poll at the bottom of this post. And be sure to sound off in the comments section.

Our exclusive odds had predicted that Bond would win the grand prize: the position of executive chef of the new Hell’s Kitchen restaurant at the Caesars Palace casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Do you think he was robbed of this job that comes with a whopping salary of $250,000 when he placed only third?

We should have seen that Ramsay would go with Tribble. While she was the only one of the three finalists to be nominated for elimination (in episode 11), she was also the only...