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Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Utopia releases “The Accidental Getaway Driver” in theaters on Friday, February 28, 2025.

In the first third of “The Accidental Getaway Driver” you might think you’re in for the film of the festival at Sundance 2023. The setup is simple and suspenseful: Long (Hiệp Trần Nghĩa), an elderly Vietnamese immigrant who works as a driver is paid double for a late night assignment that turns out to be about keeping three escaped prisoners ahead of the law. When Tây (Dustin Nguyen), one of the convicts, points a gun at him to prevent him from bailing when he wants to get out, the tension ratchets up to the breaking point.

But “The Accidental Getaway Driver” is not the film of the festival. And though the tension ratchets up there near the beginning, that’s as high as it goes for the whole movie.

Nabhaan Rizwan is terrific as he faces the depressing realities and prejudices of trying to break into films in Naqqash Khalid’s brilliantly confident debut

A director is talking to a young British Asian actor. “You’re like the brown version of … what was his name again …?” By the end of the movie, this encounter feels familiar. We’ve watched the young actor grit his teeth through humiliating auditions. In Camera operates partly as a depressingly funny satire of box-ticking, quota-filling diversity in film and television, but with his brilliantly confident debut, film-maker Naqqash Khalid goes beyond exposing the stupid and cynical. With its dreamlike logic, looping around ideas and themes, In Camera is a disorientating film for disorienting times; opaque and enigmatic, scratching to get under the skin.

Newish-comer Nabhaan Rizwan is terrific as Aden, the actor trying to crack the industry. As a person, Aden seems lost. He...

His new film lampoons performative representation in showbusiness – and if it rubs people up the wrong way and ends up being his first, and last, movie? Well, he says, he’s Ok with that

“I want to do Scooby-Doo. I will interview for that job. I would love to make a Scooby-Doo movie.” Sitting opposite me eating a watermelon salad and pitching for the (at the time of writing) theoretical gig of directing a new Scooby-Doo movie is Naqqash Khalid, film director and sometime academic. His new feature, In Camera, is one of the most original debuts in years, a sharp piece of work that satirises the film industry at the same time as being formally inventive and playful. But it’s not exactly an audition for a big studio gig, and though the Scooby-Doo pitch is probably 98% ironic, it’s hard not to wonder what Khalid’s arthouse version would look like,...

Why isn’t a new episode of Unexpected on tonight, Monday, September 2nd? Holidays are not that big over at TLC so it does not have anything to do with Labor Day. Plus, the season ended with no real resolution therefore many fans may be wondering where the tell-all is. So, when will a new episode air, and what is on in its place instead? Keep reading for more details.

Why Isn’t A New Episode Of Unexpected On Tonight?

The last episode of Unexpected ended on a happy note but with very little resolve. Especially since the show was filmed a year and a half ago. Kayleigh and Graham were finally home from the hospital with their baby boy, Easton, after her emergency C-section. Yet, he seemed more worn out than she was. Her friends came by to say hi and meet Easton which was a reality check about being a teen mother.

Has Unexpected been renewed for Season 7 after an open-ended Season 6 finale? There was a lot left unsaid and many fans had no idea it was even the finale. So, what is next for the hit TLC reality series and more so, when will it be returning? Keep reading for what is known thus far.

Unexpected Ends With Loose Ends

Season 6 of Unexpected brought back two familiar faces, Lilly Bennett and Jenna Ronan. Lilly was planning her wedding to Lawrence Bishop though he wanted to wait some due to the exorbitant expenses. Jenna Ronan had moved to Myrtle Beach with her best friend, Dalanie though they had been estranged due to Aden Albright. Now, they are broken up so Jenna and Dalanie are reunited but Jenna has a new man, JJ Della. He is not fond of Dalanie so that caused a wedge while Jenna has to deal with custody issues...

Jenna Ronan has opened up to fans about her opinions on the fathers of Unexpected. Fans have been dying to know what a cast member truly thinks about the dads who are on the show. Viewers have their own opinions. However, it is nice to hear from someone who is also on the show. She was not shy with her opinions on the boys. Keep reading to find out what she has to say.

Jenna Ronan And Her Journey

Jenna Ronan has had quite the journey on the show. She was originally on the show with her ex, Aden. However, he was toxic and did not show her the love she needed. The two of them ended up separating. Jenna even moved states away from her ex. They have a son, Luca, together. However, she is now on the show with her new boyfriend and baby daddy, JJ. Fans have...

“You’re it. Whatever it is. That’s you,” someone tells aspiring actor Aden (Nabhaan Rizwan). It’s a thought that echoes throughout a film that will present an increasingly slippery sense of ‘self’. By the end you might not only ask yourself if someone is losing their marbles but whose marbles, in fact, are the ones that are being lost.

Aden - or No 2408 as he is frequently referenced - is, as all actors must be, something of a blank slate. We see him performing a ‘reflection’ exercise with another wannabe, as he mirrors back her words, echoing her, “I’m embarrassed” with “You’re embarrassed” repeatedly. But what starts as a film with strong ties to the acting world, soon slips into a consideration of modern societal roles more generally, what they might or might not mean and who is responsible for their construction.

Aden is low on the pecking order.

The thing Aden likes about acting, he tells someone who cares enough to ask, is “how organized it is.” You know where you stand, quite literally, because someone tells you; you’re given things to say, and told how to say them. Order and certainty aren’t typically seen as benefits of the thespian calling, and even Aden doesn’t sound entirely convinced of his own words. But then Aden — played, in a performance of brilliant, diamantine versatility, by Nabhaan Rizwan — is never entirely convinced of himself, period, when he hasn’t a script to follow or a character to inhabit. A simultaneously playful and savagely pointed satire from first-time feature director Naqqash Khalid, “In Camera” traces how its young British-Asian protagonist’s sense of identity is progressively diminished by the cynicism and tokenism of the industry he’s trying to crack — though as it turns out, when you lose yourself entirely,...

“Prince Aden,” a new drama by Italian directing duo Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, known internationally for their immigration-themed “Seven Acts of Mercy,” is among projects selected by Locarno’s Alliance for Development initiative.

The platform, now in its 8th year, is geared towards fostering co-productions between France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

Inspired by the book “Partigiani d’Oltremare,” by Italian historian Matteo Petracci, the De Serio twins’ new colonial-era film follows the vicissitudes of a 16-year-old Somali named Aden Sicré who in 1935 becomes a soldier in the Italian army that invaded Ethiopia on Mussolini’s orders. In an unexpected turn, he becomes hailed as a war hero by the Fascist regime. Then a few years later Aden and other African fighters play a pivotal role in the partisan struggle against fascism in Europe.

The Aug. 4-6 Alliance 4 Development goes beyond being a mere co-production platform since it allows for...

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David Davis, the Emmy-winning writer and producer whose heyday in the 1970s included invaluable work on the enduring network sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show and Taxi, has died. He was 86.

Davis died Friday in Los Angeles, his daughter Samantha Davis-Friedman told The Hollywood Reporter.

Survivors include his wife, actress Julie Kavner, best known as the voice of Marge Simpson on The Simpsons. Davis recommended her for the part of Brenda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper‘s insecure sister on Rhoda — it was her first paying job as an actress — and they were together since 1976.

Rhoda “gave me my life, it gave me my career, it gave me the love of my life, David Davis,” Kavner said in a 2009 interview.

A member of the Mtm Enterprises production company founded by Grant Tinker and Mary Tyler Moore, Davis started out on Mtm’s inaugural series,...