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A U.S. Army helicopter crashes in North Korea, stranding a group of soldiers and a civilian tech specialist behind enemy lines. With no hope of rescue, the survivors must fight to escape, confronting hostile terrain and soldiers at every turn.

Beneath the surface of this action-driven plot emerges a deeper narrative: a symbolic deconstruction of the order governing military and geopolitical interactions. The crash, appearing as a random accident, serves as a metaphor for systemic breakdown—impacting both the characters and the established frameworks of American global engagement.

What starts as a routine mission transforms into a raw struggle for survival in an environment where technological superiority offers no guaranteed protection.

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Chase Stokes portrays Edward Brockman as a reluctant hero—a character who shifts not from innate greatness, but script-driven necessity. Initially, Brockman represents a desk-bound tech officer dreaming of Silicon Valley,...

Lifetime ventures into true-crime territory with “Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story,” a dramatization of a family’s harrowing home invasion. Dascha Polanco stars as Marcela Borges, whose quiet Florida weekend is shattered by masked gunmen demanding an exorbitant sum of money. The fact that the Borges family doesn’t have the $200,000 they’re after doesn’t […]

Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story Lifetime Premiere, Saturday, January 11...

The Montreal Critics’ Week has unveiled the lineup for its inaugural festival, which will feature 19 films across a week of programming. The first-ever edition, an initiative of the Montreal-based online magazine Panorama-cinéma, will be held at the Cinémathèque québécoise and Cinéma Moderne from Jan. 13 to Jan. 19. Along with Q&As with select filmmakers and talent, more guest speakers will be announced at a later date.

The program includes the world premiere of “Two Cuckolds Go Swimming,” a Canadian production that marks the sophomore feature of director Winston DeGiobbi. The film follows an adult film star who re-examines her life during a visit to her mother.

The festival will close with a double feature of Matthew Rankin’s Farsi-language fantasia “Universal Language,” which was recently featured on the Oscars shortlist of potential nominees for the best international feature film category, followed by the North American premiere of Abdolreza Kahani’s “A Shrine,...

Exclusive: Lifetime has greenlit two new original ‘Ripped from the Headlines’ movies for 2025 including the Dascha Polanco-led thriller Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story and Girl in the Garage: The Laura Cowan Story starring Paige Hurd (Power Book II: Ghost), Brad James (Shirley) and Stephen Bishop (Moneyball).

In Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story, Marcela Borges (Polanco) and her growing family’s idyllic weekend quickly turn into every family’s worst nightmare when masked gunmen barge into their Florida suburban home. With gunshots piercing their walls, a newly pregnant Marcela, her husband, and their young son are left with no choice but to comply with their captors’ demands: surrender $200,000 or their lives.

But with no means of accessing that sort of money, Marcela faces insurmountable odds to protect her family from their violent captors and must make the life and...

Timothy and Stephen Quay have developed an entirely unique style in the world of stop-motion animation: vigorously kinetic yet meticulously controlled; balletic in its interweaving of aural and visual rhythms; full of the sort of trivia and esoterica that fascinated Borges and Pessoa; and given to looped sequences of pure, sensual, cinematographic abstraction. Their latest production, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, which draws generously from Bruno Schulz’s novel of the same name, adds yet more stylistic oddities to the foregoing list, albeit in a more conventional, narrativized context.

The precise details of this context are hard to elaborate completely, but we can be sure of a few things. The protagonist is Jozef, a lithe, ruddy man who is visiting his father at a sanatorium in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains. In the real world his father is dead; but at the sanatorium, where the clocks have...

Brazil has selected Walter Salles’ well-received comeback feature I’m Still Here to represent it in the Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.

The picture stars Fernanda Torres as the real-life figure of Eunice Paiva, whose husband Rubens Paiva disappeared in the early years of the 1964-1985 Brazilian military dictatorship.

Torres’ mother Fernanda Montenegro, who is considered one of the greatest Brazilian actresses of all time, also briefly shares the Eunice Paiva role, appearing as the protagonist in her final years. They are joined in the cast by Selton Mello as Rubens Paiva.

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The project also reunites Salles with his regular collaborator, the director Daniela Thomas, who takes an artistic producer credit.

The picture enjoyed a buzzy world premiere in Venice in Competition, receiving a 10-minute ovation and going on to win Best Screenplay for Heitor Lorega and Murilo Hauser.

Good Deed Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Hangdog, a comedy movie starring Desmin Borges and Kelly O’Sullivan.

Director Matt Cascella’s feature is scheduled for release via digital platforms on Oct. 25, which will be preceded by advance theatrical screenings in select cities. Rounding out the cast are Barbara Rosenblat, Steve Coulter, Catherine Curtin and rescue dog-turned-performer Mr. Tibbs.

Set in Portland, Maine, Hangdog centers on Walt (Borges), who deals with anxiety while attempting to retrieve his stolen dog before his girlfriend, Wendy (O’Sullivan), returns from a business trip.

The film earned audience awards at the Woods Hole and New Hampshire Film Festivals. It has also screened at the Provincetown International Film Festival, the Berkshire International Film Festival and the Calgary International Film Festival.

Cascella helmed the film from a script by Jen Cordery. Cascella, Borges, Alyssa Roehrenbeck and Patrick White serve as producers.

“Matt and Jen have crafted...

Much has been said of the overwhelming ingenuity of Jean-Luc Godard’s early films, but less so about just how well the director knew how to work around budgetary limitations. Alphaville, a dystopian sci-fi noir set in an Orwellian world of omnipresent surveillance run by a malevolent artificial intelligence, sounds at first blush like a large-scale work filled with the sort of macro world-building one typically sees in blockbusters. But Godard, working with next to no resources, captures the oppressiveness of totalitarian government through the claustrophobic conditions of repressed citizens. Ordinary Parisian streets and buildings are captured as they are, though in inky shadow, so that a certain kind of present-day dilapidation comes to suggest futuristic social decay.

Godard takes private detective Lemmy Caution and illustrates Alphaville’s themes of social tension and incipient fascism by demolishing the man’s image. Godard secured Eddie Constantine, who had already played Caution...

José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night is a monument of vulgarity and erudition, perfused by an eerie air of alluring, unsettling ambiguity. An intensely oneiric work, it was originally published in 1970 and is now being released in a new unabridged translation by Megan McDowell for New Directions that constitutes a major literary event.

Donoso’s novel attempts to give decisive language to the ineffable. It’s the progeny of Borges, its language as technically adroit and stunning as Gabriel García Márquez’s. But instead of lovely, tragic lyricism, Donoso spins wicked sentences, suggesting a corruption of Marquez’s romanticism.

The Obscene Bird of Night is defined by its unexpected swoops into surrealism and litany of exciting developments and imagery. The ridiculous isn’t rendered believable, as Donoso’s prose is governed by the logic of a realm that exists only in the mind of our ever-ruminating, ever-rambling, and quite unreliable narrator,...

Exclusive: Only Murders in the Building is expanding its recurring cast with Desmin Borges (You’re The Worst), Siena Werber (Brand New Cherry Flavor) and newcomer Lilian Rebelo (Our Dear Drug Lord).

They join stars/executive producers Steve Martin, who also co-created the hit Hulu series, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as well as new recurring players Zach Galifianakis, Molly Shannon, Eva Longoria and Eugene Levy and returning Meryl Streep in the upcoming fourth season.

All new characters will be integral to the twists and turns of the investigation into the murder of Sazz Pataki (Jane Lynch), Charles-Haden Savage’s (Martin) stunt double from his years on the series Brazzos and its 2020 revival.

Disney Television Group President Craig Erwich revealed in a recent Deadline interview that the Only Murders In the Building trio, Charles, Oliver (Short) and Mabel (Gomez), will kick off the new season with a trip to Los Angeles...

Warning! This article contains spoilers for A Murder At The End Of The World.

The main characters of A Murder at the End of the World and The Oa are both misfits who defy societal expectations and prove their worth in dire situations. A Murder at the End of the World draws visual and narrative parallels to The Oa, including similarities in character appearances and key dialogue. Both shows reference various cultural works, such as the writings of Borges and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, adding depth and intertextuality to their storytelling.

A Murder at the End of the World may not be The Oa's season 3, but it does draw some subtle references to Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij's Netflix series. Netflix's The Oa was initially planned for a five-season run by creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij. Unfortunately, the streaming giant canceled The Oa before its storyline could reach its natural closure.

Set within the confines of a juice factory in Thailand, Tulapop Saenjaroen films the eponymous fruit’s journey through its many stages from tree to bottle, bestowing it with a strangely horrific appearance, its pulpy, fleshy, gloopy shape looking increasingly grotesque.

It hints a little at what lies ahead, but until that mid-point turn, the film is compellingly, playfully wayward, a documentary-leaning piece so sincere you might not entirely believe it to be a fictional construction until the credits roll. Following factory worker Earth, who returns to the area to reunite with his sister Ink, as told by a narrator who makes pointed references to Borges, the film wanders from factory goings-on to sudden, disturbingly graphic declarations of violence, and Ink’s desires to disappear in a fashion that recalls Han Kang’s The Vegetarian.

It could easily be wacky, but the film’s firm tonal balance of deadpan sincerity.

Fitness influencer Larissa Borges died on Wednesday after suffering a double cardiac arrest. The Brazilian social media star was 33 years old.

“The pain of losing someone so young… and so kind is overwhelming,” her family wrote in a statement. “Our hearts are broken, and the longing we will feel is indescribable.”

According to officials, Borges entered a coma before suffering a second cardiac arrest. Deputy Gustavo Barcellos said, “There is a report of possible ingestion of narcotic substances accumulated with alcoholic beverages.”

Barcellos confirmed that Borges’ body had been sent for an autopsy. The cause of death will hopefully be uncovered in the coming days.

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“May her soul rest in peace and may her memory always be remembered with affection and gratitude,” Borges’ family continued. “We ask everyone to wait for information about the burial, which will be announced shortly.”...

Guwahati, Aug 8 (Ians) Top Indian Super League (Isl) club Fc Goa began their Durand Cup 2023 group stage campaign on a rousing note on Tuesday, beating Shillong Lajong Fc 6-0 at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium here.

Rowllin Borges, Victor Rodriguez and Carlos Martinez scored a goal each on their debut for the Men in Orange, while Noah Sadaoui picked up from where he left off last season by notching a hat-trick.

Assistant coach Benito Montalvo led the Gaurs’ charge on Tuesday, in the absence of head coach Manolo Marquez who is serving a red-card suspension from the last season.

The Argentinian tactician handed Sandesh Jhingan, Odei Onaindia and Rowllin Borges their first starts for the Club, while Carlos Martinez, Victor Rodriguez and Raynier Fernandes also made their debuts in the second half.

It took Fc Goa just 15 minutes after kick-off to break the deadlock. Brandon found Devendra Murgaokar in the six-yard box with a free-kick,...

New Delhi, June 12 (Ians) Indian international midfielder Rowllin Borges has joined Fc Goa on loan from Mumbai City Fc, the two clubs announced.

The 31-year-old, who is currently with the Indian national team competing in the Intercontinental Cup is set to add more firepower to the Fc Goa midfield and will look to revitalise his career under Manolo Marquez.

He returns to his home state after having won the Indian Super League (Isl) once, the League Winners’ Shield twice in the last three years and with 33 Indian national caps to his name at the time of writing.

“I always felt that I would play for Fc Goa one day – like it was my destiny. Something or the other, though, wasn’t aligned for me to play for my home club, but finally, it has come true. I am very happy,” said Borges, after he had signed on the dotted lines.

Bhubaneswar, June 5 (Ians) Rowlin Borges, who scored his first-ever international goal for the senior men’s national team in the 2015 Saff Championship in Thiruvananthapuram, is back in national camp after a two-year hiatus and is now looking for more success with the team.

India had found itself a goal down after just three minutes against Nepal in the 2015 Saff Championship. With the hosts’ attack not being able to do the needful in the first half, 23-year-old Rowllin Borges emerged as the unlikely hero, rifling a loose ball in the area straight into the roof of the net, bringing India level.

As he gears up for the Indian team’s next assignment in the Intercontinental Cup, Borges is reminded of that day when he started the turnaround for India.

“It was an amazing, amazing feeling,” says Borges, reminiscing that night in a chat with Aiff. “It’s one of the memories...

There are movies that grab you by the throat and refuse to let go until the story ends. And there are others that playfully take your hand, guiding you into stories that blossom and fold in on themselves several times over, leading to endings that are more like beginnings.

For the past five years, a crop of films from Argentina has been specializing in the latter type, telling long, winding, labyrinthine stories inspired by the French Nouvelle Vague — especially Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating and his serial epic, Out 1 — as well as Latin American postmodernists like Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar and Roberto Bolaño.

With mammoth running times and multiple characters, Mariano Llinás’ six-part, 13-hour La Flor (2018) and Laura Citarella’s two-part, six-hour Trenque Lauquen (2022), are the best-known examples of the genre. Enigmatic and absorbing, they have found a fanbase at festivals and on specialty streaming sites,...

For fans of “Weekend,” “Before Sunrise” and other regret-tinged romances about what-might-have-beens and what-were-nots, “Of an Age” just might be the devastating cinematic kick you need — and a reason to rue the one who’ll never get away.

Its director, Goran Stolevski, made a modest splash at Sundance and in theaters last year with his directorial debut, the witchy, body-jumping folk horror tale “You Might Be Alone” for Focus Features. He reteams with the prestige distributor for “Of an Age,” which finds the director switching up genres but still laying down a throughline: The sexy Aussie-set gay romance is about bodies, after all, and the way they bend toward time and desire.

“All my films could really be called ‘You Won’t Be Alone,’” the Macedonian-born, Australian-based filmmaker told IndieWire over a recent Zoom interview. “It’s just that I’ve already used that title.” The out-gay director is charmingly self-effacing.

The simple yet effective title “Of an Age” plays a few tricks with its double entendre; the peppy romance about a young queer man’s first brush with love captures a certain glowing youthful nostalgia. But it’s also a story split across two decades, essentially bifurcated in two recent but now solidly bygone eras. The film opens in 1999, though the boxy cars harken even further back, and ends in 2010, performing some impressive movie magic to make the actors look age-appropriate. That the entire thing is set in Melbourne, Australia, adds another layer of distance to the whole affair, coating it in a kind of dewy faraway melodrama.

While “Of an Age” leans a little heavily toward sentimentality at times, a sharp wit and a few wild shifts in tone keep things afloat. It’s As writer/director on his second feature, the Macedonian-born, Austalian-raised filmmaker Goran Stolevski firmly plants...

Focus Features was behind such memorable gay movies as Brokeback Mountain and Milk. They keep their tradition alive with a new Australian film from director Goran Stolevski. Of an Age will not match those landmark films in terms of either box office or awards glory, but it could touch audiences that seek it out. In the tradition of an earlier gay indie movie, Weekend, which unfolded over the course of just a couple of days, this new picture proves that economy can be a virtue.

The film opens strikingly with a young woman, Ebony (newcomer Hattie Hook), waking up on a beach outside Melbourne as waves crash over her. The time is 1999, so she has to find a pay phone to call for help. She reaches Kolya (Elias Anton), a fellow teenager who was supposed to compete with her in a dance contest that morning. He is dressed in a...

In “On Exactitude in Science,” a 1946 short story from the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, a fictional 17th century chronicler describes a guild of cartographers who make ever-bigger maps until, eventually, they create a “Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it.” As tastes change, later generations declare the map “Useless” and leave the great work to wither in the desert sun, where “Animals and Beggars” live within the map’s “Tattered Ruins.” The brief tale manages to probe the nature of inquiry and spoof the history of empire, quite a feat for a piece that’s only a paragraph long.

Watching the films of Alejandro González Iñárritu, the multi-Oscar-winning writer-director behind The Revenant, Birdman, and Babel, can feel like watching both Borges and the cartographers work at the same time. He’s a man who often seems to...

Laura Paredes in Trenque Lauquen.Fittingly for a film tracking a botanist along her quest for an ultra-rare flower, Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen unfurls like the network of a rose, each of its myriad tales unveiling and spilling into the next. Stretched across 250 minutes, split into twelve chapters, and divided into two parts, the film is a maze of forking paths, the cinematic equivalent of a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, who hovers above it as an essential touchstone. This is, after all, a Pampero Cine production, the Buenos Aires collective that spawned Mariano Llinás’s 2018 epic La Flor, another sprawling multi-genre pastiche that looked to the rhizomatic writings by Borges and other Río de la Plata scribes for inspiration. Back in 1969, together with director Hugo Santiago and fellow writer Adolfo Bioy Casares, Borges co-wrote Invasión, a portrait of a fictional city, Aquileia, under an endless siege. Modeled on Buenos Aires,...

Exclusive: Lana Condor (To All the Boys films), Desmin Borges (The Time Traveler’s Wife) and Callan Mulvey (The Gray Man) have signed on to star alongside Chase Stokes in Monarch Media’s thriller Valiant One, which goes into production in Vancouver this month.

The first feature directed by Monarch’s Steve Barnett watches as a U.S. helicopter crashes on the North Korean side of the Dmz. With tensions between the North and South already on the verge of war, the surviving U.S. Army non-combat tech soldiers must work together to protect a civilian tech specialist and find their way across the Dmz, without the possibility of U.S. military support.

Condor will play Selby, a hard-as-nails and highly capable but very inexperienced Medic Specialist who joined the U.S. military after becoming a citizen to give back to her new homeland. Borges is set for the role of Josh Weaver,...

Ainhoa Rodríguez's Destello bravío is showing exclusively on Mubi in most countries starting September 14, 2022, in the series Debuts.I approached the development of Destello bravío by going back to my origins, working from the place where I come from and where my paternal family comes from, the region of Tierra de Barros in Extremadura. I went to live in a small town in the area for nine months to be part of the community and do my field work and build the script from meetings, castings, rehearsals, and locations, with a cast of natural actresses that could have been my grandmothers, aunts, or cousins. And that activity that mixes film creation with the ointments of authorial roots is done instinctively, in a search that is full of enigmas. We do not know why that territory, that journey, those people, that orography or that idiosyncrasy makes so much sense to us,...