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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Locarno coverage. Drowning Dry opens in theaters on July 18.

Memories can be slippery things. Take what happens around the halfway point of Laurynas Bareiša’s beguiling second feature: two women––more specifically Ernesta (Gelminė Glemžaitė) and Juste (Agnė Kaktaitė), sisters on holiday with their respective families––start dancing to Donna Lewis with what looks like an old routine, part half-remembered movements, part muscle memory. This entrancing sequence is cut short when their kids ask to go swimming, where one of the children appears to drown. The film then jumps forward in time, where Ernesta is visiting a man whose life was saved by one of her late husband’s organs. Before finding out how he died, we jump back again: same holiday, same sisters, same dance, only this time it’s Lighthouse Family. “When you’re close to tears, remember,...

Winner of Locarno’s Best Director and Best Performance awards last year, Laurynas Bareiša’s Drowning Dry went on to be selected as Lithuania’s entry for the Best International Feature Academy Award. Now, following a stop at New Directors/New Films, the beguiling drama is set for a release on beginning July 18th at NYC’s IFC Center. Ahead of Dekanalog’s the new U.S. trailer and poster have arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “It starts with a kick to the head. Mixed martial arts competitor Lukas (Paulius Markevičius) has just handily defeated his opponent and celebrates with his wife, child, and friends backstage, setting the scene for a nimble combination of communal bonding and looming horrors.”

Rory O’Connor said in his review, “Memories can be slippery things. Take what happens around the halfway point of Laurynas Bareiša’s beguiling second feature: two women––more specifically Ernesta (Gelminė Glemžaitė...

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Christopher Nolan, Spike Lee, Chantal Akerman, Theo Angelopoulos, Lynne Ramsay, Tsai Ming-liang, Michael Haneke, Lee Chang-dong, Terence Davies, Shōhei Imamura, Bi Gan, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhangke, Wong Kar-wai, Yorgos Lanthimos, Denis Villleneuve, Céline Sciamma, Guillermo del Toro, Kelly Reichardt, and RaMell Ross––those are just a few of the filmmakers introduced to New York audiences at New Directors/New Films over the last half-century.

Now returning for its 54th edition at Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art from April 2-13, this year’s lineup features 33 new films, presenting acclaimed titles from Berlinale, Cannes, Locarno, Sundance, Rotterdam, and more. Ahead of the festival kicking off next week, we’ve gathered our recommended films to see, and one can explore the full lineup and schedule here.

Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang)

Shot largely on location in Queens, Blue Sun Palace explores a hidden culture and milieu.

Only 1 in 5 people have dyslexia, yet nearly half of everyone incarcerated suffers from the learning disability. Those ratios don’t match, and a new documentary, “Left Behind,” aims to address the dyslexia problem at its source: the public school system.

IndieWire can exclusively share the trailer for “Left Behind,” which Abramorama is releasing in theaters on January 17, 2025. The film follows a group of New York City mothers who band together to try and form a school dedicated to helping kids specifically struggling with dyslexia. It shows the journey of the moms who established the The South Bronx Literacy Academy in NYC, which helps open additional schools and programs for kids struggling to read, as well as testing for students to diagnose dyslexia.

One such concerned parent who has been moved by the work of the Literacy Academy is Larry Mullen Jr., the drummer from U2. His child also suffers from dyslexia,...

Jessie Ware and Romy have teamed up for “Lift You Up,” a new duet produced by disco-pop whisperer Stuart Price.

Jessie Ware debuted the song with Romy during her concluding set on the West Holt Stage at Glastonbury Festival last weekend. “Lift You Up” is littered with rich harmonies from both Ware and Romy, whose friendship was cemented when Romy’s band The xx invited Ware to perform at their Night & Day Festival in Berlin. Across a euphoric, nostalgia-driven house beat — complete with keyboard stabs and tinny crash cymbals — Ware and Romy vow to lift each other up and give each other “something to believe in.” Stream “Lift You Up” below.

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“I was so excited to be in the room with my friend and to see how she works and to hear her beautiful voice,” Jessie Ware said of the song and collaborating with Romy. “I...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Hulu's Under the Bridge

Hip-hop and rap music in Hulu's Under the Bridge plays a crucial role in setting the tone, personality, and culture of the Victoria teenagers. Inspired by a true story, Under the Bridge uses music, clothing, and dialogue to effectively set the scene and immerse viewers in the plot. The soundtrack of Under the Bridge blends diegetic hip-hop and rap with non-diegetic ambiance music to shape the characters and enhance the storytelling.

Hulu's Under the Bridge includes a soundtrack of mostly hip-hop and rap music that helps establish the world of the Victoria teenagers. Inspired by the book by Rebecca Godfrey, Under the Bridge dramatizes the story of the 1997 attack and murder of a 14-year-old girl named Reena Virk in the town of Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The entire show is available to stream now. Because Under the Bridge is based on a true story,...

As Romy gears up for a string of summer festivals and headlining tour stops in the coming months, she’s released her latest single, “Always Forever.” The glittery dance track is centered on an interpolation of the Donna Lewis classic, “I Love You Always Forever.”

The song arrives with a music video directed by the Oscar-nominated Charlotte Wells, who made waves with her confident, tender 2022 directorial debut, After Sun. “Always Forever” marks Wells’ first-ever music video, and she takes the opportunity to play with reflections, light, and movement, all of which were pivotal hallmarks in her feature film, too.

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“Always Forever” is Romy’s first release since her solo album, Mid Air, arrived last September. She worked with buzzy producer Fred again… on the song, which she initially debuted live at Mexico City’s Ceremonia Festival.

While Romy continues her work as a soloist, the xx...

Earlier this month, Uber released a 30-second preview of their Super Bowl commercial, which featured Sean Combs, aka Diddy, being asked to record a song for Uber One.

While the preview shows Diddy refusing to do a jingle, he does agree to record a hit for the company and invited the viewers to “meet me at the studio.”

With the help of Diddy, Uber did indeed deliver “one hit for Uber One” – or rather multiple versions of multiple hits for Uber One – in their Super Bowl Lvii commercial.

With throwbacks to classic songs like “This is How We Do It,” “Milkshake” and “I Love You Always Forever,” the ad shows Diddy recording in the studio with strategically placed Uber Eats deliveries, and includes cameos of artists Montell Jordan, Kelis, Donna Lewis and even “What Does the Fox Say” Norwegian comedy duo, Ylvis.

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For football fans, the Super Bowl is a time to see how the end of the NFL season plays out, with extra pressure if your team made it to the big game. For non-football fans, the Super Bowl is a time to gather together, eat lots of food and hush everyone around you during the commercial breaks.

For decades, the Super Bowl has been the most-watched television event of the year, and for that reason it usually plays host to the best-produced commercials around. There are literally whole TV specials dedicated to showcasing just Super Bowl commercials, packed with everything from celebrity cameos to surprisingly heartwarming messages.

2023 was not lacking for big talent or showstopping ads, and we’ve rounded up the best Super Bowl commercials that aired during this year’s game below.

Alicia Silverstone reprised her iconic role as Cher in a “Clueless”-inspired ad for Rakuten,...

The Super Bowl is almost here, and the ads are as big as ever.

As usual, brands have been getting the jump on the Big Game, releasing and teasing their ads online ahead of time, and some are already going viral with big stars and bigger laughs.

Perhaps the biggest ad so far features the reunion of “Breaking Bad” star Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, in-character as Walt and Jesse, recreating moments from the show, but with PopCorners instead of crystal meth.

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In one of the night’s funniest ads, well known Dunkin’ Donuts fan Ben Affleck gets behind the drive-thru window at one of the coffee chain’s locations to surprise fans, taking selfies and more, only to get a browbeating from wife Jennifer Lopez.

“What are you doing here?” she...

We can already tell that Netflix's final To All the Boys film, Always and Forever, is going to be an absolute delight. On Wednesday, the romantic trailer dropped, and it's giving us all the feels. Not only does it feature some adorable moments between Lara Jean (Lana Condor) and Peter (Noah Centineo), but it's also set to the perfect song. As the couple live out some of their final high-school moments, Betty Who's 2016 cover of "I Love You Always Forever" plays in the background. The singer even reacted to the trailer on Twitter, writing, "The Noah Centineo stan in me is *squealing*."

The track was originally sung by Donna Lewis in 1996 and has been featured in a handful of romantic comedies ever since. Interestingly enough, the song was actually inspired by H.E. Bates's 1977 novel Love for Lydia. The lyric "I love you always forever, near and far...

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Plenty of the quasi mainstream queer movies are quickly labeled as not queer enough, the queer intelligencia (however rightfully) upset if gay life is reduced for the straight masses. Yeah, Diamantino has never heard of any of them, nor is it all that interested in your intellectual approval either.

And still it delivers something batty enough (and honestly flat out sweet enough) to knock potential naysayers off of their pretentious perch while delivering something foaming with queerness to fill all of its corners. Get ready for a fantasia of giddy gender confusion to glitterbomb the square conformity delusion, all set to Donna Lewis' "I Love You Always Forever". Diamantino is an absolute gas.

Super Dark Times? How about Super Fuckin’ Dark Kick-Your-Teeth-In Stressful No Good Very Bad Times. Writers Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski construct a backyard crime drama – like if Brick followed a cover-up instead of investigation – while debut filmmaker Kevin Phillips acts as visionary/our soul’s executioner. You know what’s going to happen. It’s obvious. That still doesn’t keep this maliciously pitch-black thriller from ripping your guts out, locked eye-to-eye all the while. Tension is tighter than a leather gag and adolescent unpreparedness heightens reaction. Choke on your fancy words, because there’s only one phrase that captures our reaction – holy shit. Savage, sincere and so very unsettling.

Collins and Piotrowski open on death – a dear carcass that’s been dragged into a school cafeteria. It’s a short intro that leads into Zach (Owen Campbell) and Josh (Charlie Tahan) sitting on a basement sofa, discussing boyhood pleasantries.

Australian pop singer/songwriter Betty Who is gearing up to finally release a brand new single. Following up her one-off cover of “I Love You Always Forever,” the fresh track, titled “Human Touch,” is expected to be the first taste of a new album due out next year.

Her last record, Take Me When You Go, only released two years ago, but the need for new Who was strong. Despite being in the studio working on new music for a while, there was a bit of disappointment when the first new song that dropped was the aforementioned cover – a take on the 1996 Donna Lewis classic. Though the cover was fine in its own right, fans and the mainstream alike were itching for something original, and now, “Human Touch” is going to give that to them.

There’s no word on what the song is expected to sound like, but it...

Fox hasn’t officially confirmed it, but sources close to American Idol are buzzing that Season 12 Top 4 week will be a two-theme kind of party: One-Hit Wonders and Contestant’s Choice.

The former — which topped an At&T “fan’s choice” vote — has the potential to be fantastic, as long as producers don’t try to force the contestants toward novelty hits or tired old songs that have been covered on Idol a million times before (and simply happen to qualify under the one-hit wonder header).

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There are at least three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Jukebox The Ghost winning your heart.We recently had the pleasure of watching the Philly-based band play an acoustic set here at Paste. Consequently, we were swept off our feet. But with their infectious pop melodies and easy-breezy vibe, who wouldn't be?The charming three-piece piano rock band played four songs off their upcoming sophomore record, Everything Under the Sun, out September 7. They ended their set with a ridiculously catchy, feel-good rendition of Donna Lewis' "I Love You Always Forever."But don't just take our word for it. Click the image...