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After ten years of being retired from acting, Cameron Diaz is back and better than ever in her new Netflix action movie, Back in Action, which is most definitely worth coming out of retirement for. Diaz's career first began in 1994 when she made her feature film debut in The Mask, at just 21-years-old. From there, Diaz continued earning greater and greater roles, ranging from romantic comedies like There's Something About Mary to more serious projects like Being John Malkovich. These days, Diaz is also remembered for her franchise films like Charlie's Angels and Shrek.

To say the least, Diaz boasts an impressive career, which is why many were so disappointed when the actress decided to leave her profession. After starring in three successive movies in 2014 - The Other Woman, Sex Tape and Annie - Diaz announced that she would be retiring from acting in order to focus on her family.

The following contains spoilers for Back in Action, premiering Jan. 17, 2025 on Netflix.

Spy movies and TV shows never seem to go out of style -- it's just how the story gets told that changes. The Mr. & Mrs. Smith remake from Prime Video hit the right notes, with its grounded story about two spies playing house. Netflix's movie Back in Action has the same idea but adds children into the equation. The results are mixed, as Jamie Foxx and a returning Cameron Diaz deliver endearing performances held back by the limits of the script.

Directed by Seth Gordon, who also serves as co-writer with Brendan O'Brien, the film ticks all the right boxes for a Netflix movie. It has action, family-friendly humor, and a touch of sentimentality to make it perfect for a casual weekend watch. The only thing that the viewer has to manage while watching is their expectations. Back in Action...

The Marvel Cinematic Universe used to be at the apex of the world of Cinema at one time, especially thanks to the massive hit of the Avengers films. Since 2008’s Iron Man, fans were immediately drawn into the world created by several talented people, as it was evident they were planning something incredible. Interestingly enough, The Matrix was also inspired by a rare 1993 Marvel comic.

The Avengers

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has undergone numerous changes and developments over the years, getting mixed responses from fans and critics alike. After all, fans still fondly remember the heydays of Marvel, especially when The Avengers came out in 2012. That film pretty much changed the course of superhero movies forever.

The Matrix Drew Inspiration From A Rare 1993 Marvel Comic Ectokid’s Dex Mungo

According to People, Lily and Lana Wachowski were born in the mid-’60s and raised in Chicago. During their high school years,...

Italian directors Marco and Antonio Manetti, a.k.a. the Manetti Bros. and best known for the “Diabolik” franchise, are producing the next film by “Orlando” filmmaker Daniele Vicari. The film, titled “You Get Tired of Killing,” is based on the life of a real-life gangster who grew tired of being in charge of running the Mafia’s dirty business.

Speaking exclusively with Variety at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, where they are the subject of a career-spanning retrospective, the directing duo confirmed “You Get Tired of Killing” is in pre-production. The film is being produced by Mompracem, the production company run by the Manettis alongside German sales company Beta Film and actor/producer Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, the son of Italian director Marco Bellocchio.

Vicari, whose previous work includes “Diaz — Don’t Clean Up This Blood,” “Velocità Massima” and Venice Film Festival award-winning “The Human Cargo,” joins a growing talent roster at Mompracem.

Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, has picked up North American theatrical and VOD rights to “America’s Family.”

The immigrant docudrama, written, directed by and starring Anike Tourse, follows the events of an Ice raid of the Diaz family on Thanksgiving day.

“As each family member braves their way through the crisis, they discover unexpected reserves of love, faith, and the restorative resilience of community. The Diaz family discovers supporters on both sides of the border, standing by their side and championing their quest to be together,” reads a description of the film provided to Variety.

“I’m pleased that this collaboration of professional artists, community members and activists has created a story that inspires people to connect emotionally across race, across nationality, and across borders. It’s exciting to me that ‘America’s Family is doing that with audiences everywhere,...

Zero Dark Thirty | Chasing Ice | A Good Day To Die Hard | Diaz: Don't Clean Up The Blood | Devil Girld From Mars

Zero Dark Thirty

Whether or not this film should have been made is moot. There was always going to be a movie about the hunting and killing of Osama bin Laden: it's just too huge an event to ignore. This one came quickly after it actually happened. Thankfully, it's not too gung-ho. Rather, we get a film that doesn't paint anyone in a particularly good light, and gets the job done efficiently without much in the way of showboating or bragging so we can all move on.

How accurate it is we may never know, but Jessica Chastain is very good as the obsessive CIA operative who has spent the entirety of her short career tracking down Bin Laden. She's great at sussing which clues are worth following and which are dead ends,...

History is full of shocking events the world never really woke up to. So it's saying something when Amnesty International called the real life story behind Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood "the most serious suspension of democratic rights in a Western country since the Second World War." The film focuses on the storming of a Genoan school by police shortly after the 2001 G8 summit, and the injustices that occured within. Watch the trailer below and let us know what you think.  

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I can't remember a time I went to the Seattle International Film Festival (Siff) press launch and looked over the list of films and saw so many I was interested in seeing. The claim to fame for over the years is to call it the largest and most-highly attended festival in the United States. This is a fact I've often taken issue with as I don't equate quantity with quality. Granted, there has been a large number of quality features to play the fest over the years, including Golden Space Needle (Best Film) winners such as Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), My Life as a Dog (1987), Trainspotting (1996), Run Lola Run (1999), Whale Rider (2003) and even recent Best Director winner, Michel Hazanavicius's Oss 117: Nest of Spies in 2006. That said, looking over this year's crop of films I see a lot of films I will be doing my absolute best to see.

The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the Berlinale, is one of the world’s leading film festivals and most reputable media events. 2012 marks the first year Sound On Sight was present to attend. Merle has been posting her recaps while the rest of us have been paying close attention to the films receiving the most buzz.

Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978. With 274,000 tickets sold and 487,000 admissions it is considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, but only a select twenty compete for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears. This year the Italian film Caesar Must Die took home the Berlin International Film Festival’s top honour as best film. The film is set in Rome’s high-security Rebibbia prison and centres on the rehearsal, staging, and performing of Shakespeare’s...

Berlinale is, on the whole, a quieter festival than your really “big” outings — Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, even Nyff or Venice — but my interest is nevertheless piqued by this year’s winners, a list which comes to us from IndieWIRE. The top prize, that being the Golden Bear, went to Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (pictured above) for Caesar Must Die, their “documentary about criminals performing Shakespeare.” Adopt Films will be giving that a United States release later this year; reviews make me think it’s worth some of this early hype, thankfully.

Otherwise Bence Fliegauf‘s Just the Wind was bestowed with a Silver Bear for the Grand Jury Prize, while Barbara brought home a Silver Bear, Best Director for Christian Petzold. As with the main victors, the rest of the selections are far more devoid of “names” (and could more easily be considered esoteric) than any of the winners you...

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die has won the Golden Bear at this year's Berlinale. The other awards, presented by Mike Leigh and his International Jury (Anton Corbijn, Asghar Farhadi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jake Gyllenhaal, François Ozon, Boualem Sansal and Barbara Sukowa):

The first Silver Bear, the Jury Grand Prix, goes to Bence Fliegauf's Just the Wind. (Last year, this prize went to a Hungarian as well, to Béla Tarr for The Turin Horse.)

Silver Bear for Best Director: Christian Petzold for Barbara.

Silver Bear for Best Actress: Rachel Mwanza for her performance in War Witch.

Silver Bear for Best Actor: Mikkel Følsgaard for A Royal Affair.

The Silver Bear for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution goes to Director of Photography Lutz Reitemeier for his work on White Deer Plain.

Silver Bear for Best Screenplay: Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg for A Royal Affair.

The Alfred Bauer Award...

Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood: London activist tells how film brings it all back, but his fight to bring his attackers to justice is still going on

It was with understandable trepidation that Mark Covell travelled from his council flat to Rome last week for a preview of the film that dramatises the night he was savagely beaten and left in a coma by Italian police.

The film, Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood, which premieres on Sunday at the Berlin film festival – is the first portrayal of the horrific assault by police on activists attending the Genoa G8 summit in 2001 and comes as the Italian government finally negotiates damages for Covell, who was left with eight broken ribs, a mouthful of smashed teeth and a damaged lung.

"It was surreal and emotional to see myself in a coma, splattered with blood," said Covell, 44, who has ceaselessly campaigned for his aggressors to be jailed.

Another day, another trio of announcements from the Berlin International Film Festival (February 9 through 19). First off, this year's Berlinale Camera has been presented to Haro Senft, "one of the pioneers of New German Cinema as well as a tireless advocate of German children films... He was the initiator of Doc 59, a group based in Munich at the end of the 1950s; many of its members went on to sign the Oberhausen Manifesto in 1962." His 1961 documentary short Kahl was nominated for an Oscar and Bruno Ganz gave his first performance in a major role in Senft's first narrative feature, Der sanfte Lauf (1967).

"In 1971 he resigned from all his positions related to film policy and devoted himself unlike anyone else to developing a culture of children's films. With his films Ein Tag mit dem Wind (1978) and Jacob hinter der blauen Tür (1987) he set the standard for the genre." Because Senft can no longer travel,...