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Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.

Across the River and Into the Trees (Paula Ortiz)

Hemingway’s work across novels and short stories has been adapted for film countless times over, yet Across the River and Into the Trees has never properly been rendered onscreen. Until now. Written by Peter Flannery and directed by Paula Ortiz, here is a handsome film that is decidedly modest in its endeavor. The best thing going for it is Liev Schreiber as Colonel Richard Cantwell, the lead of the picture. Schreiber is one of those actors who has somehow always been underrated, despite being capable of playing nearly any kind of part. A kind boyfriend thrust into an impossible familial situation (The Daytrippers)? Check. Tough-but-fractured fixer living on the edge (Ray Donovan)? Check.

November 2024, Criterion Channel is set to deliver an exceptional lineup of films that will excite cinephiles and casual viewers alike. The month promises a rich exploration of genres, featuring a strong selection of Coen Brothers classics such as Blood Simple (1984) and The Big Lebowski (1998), along with their more recent works like A Serious Man (2009) and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). Noir and crime enthusiasts will revel in an array of titles, including The Maltese Falcon (1941), Gilda (1946), and The Big Heat (1953), showcasing the genre’s iconic narratives and stylistic depth. International cinema also shines through with compelling French dramas like Fat Girl (2001) and Dheepan (2015), highlighting diverse storytelling from around the globe.

The lineup doesn’t shy away from classic drama, featuring timeless films like On the Waterfront (1954) and Seven Samurai (1954), which continue to resonate with contemporary audiences. Additionally, viewers can look forward to a variety of documentary and experimental films, including Wild Wheels...

With Janus possessing the much-needed restorations, Catherine Breillat is getting her biggest-ever spotlight in November’s Criterion Channel series spanning 1976’s A Real Young Girl to 2004’s Anatomy of Hell––just one of numerous retrospectives arriving next month. They’re also spotlighting Ida Lupino, directorial efforts of John Turturro (who also gets an “Adventures In Moviegoing”), the Coen brothers, and Jacques Audiard.

In a slightly more macroscopic view, Columbia Noir and a new edition of “Queersighting” ring in Noirvember. Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse trilogy and Miller’s Crossing get Criterion Editions, while restorations of David Bowie-starrer The Linguini Incident, Med Hondo’s West Indies, and Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue make streaming debuts; and Kevin Jerome Everson’s Tonsler Park arrives just in time for another grim election day.

See the full list of titles arriving in November below:

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Anatomy of Hell, Catherine Breillat,...

Like some of her most memorable films, including 36 Fillette, Romance, Sex is Comedy and Anatomy of Hell, French writer-director Catherine Breillat’s new feature, Last Summer (L’Été dernier), dangerously straddles borders between unnerving drama, dark comedy and erotic exploitation — which is precisely the place the director wants to be.

On the surface, the plot seems to come right out of a softcore stepmom flick, following a successful lawyer, Anne (Léa Drucker), having an illicit affair with her stepson, Théo (Samuel Kircher), a rebellious 17-year-old who looks like a camera stand-in for Timothée Chalamet. But while the film might follow that template at first blush, including a handful of rather direct sex scenes, Breillat is after something other than mere Skinemax fodder, probing the depths of desire among a bourgeoisie constrained to live out dull, cold existences, and the manipulation that can happen between two lovers with a significant age gap.

It began in the son’s room, when the father was away on business. L’enfant thought it was l’amour, but for her, 30-odd years his senior, the sex, lies and audiotape were a mistake. Wild at heart, she’d yielded to the taste of … oh, never mind. Competing for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Catherine Breillat’s “Last Summer” echoes films that have come before — most notably, 2019 Danish drama “Queen of Hearts,” on which it’s based — but it proves most daring in the ways the film departs from its more conventionally moralistic source, and especially in Breillat’s refusal to call either party a parasite.

Yes, the affair between a lawyer and her 17-year-old stepson is a betrayal — of her marriage, of her parental responsibilities, of everything she stands for as an attorney — but that’s nothing compared with how the 50-ish woman deals with it...

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Christophe Honoré (Winter Boy), Florent Gouëlou (Three Nights A Week), Vuk Lungulov-Klotz (Mutt), and Georden West (Playland), will participate in a Rendez-Vous with French Cinema Free Talk: Queer Identities On Screen, moderated by filmmaker and Cuny professor Yoruba Richen (director of The Green Book: Guide to Freedom) on Friday, March 10 at 4:00pm inside the Amphitheater of the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.

Autofiction at Work: An Intimate Portrait of Christophe Honoré at Metrograph

Christophe is also presenting Dans Paris and Sorry Angel, Alain Resnais’s Providence, Catherine Breillat’s 36 Fillette, and Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea in Autofiction at Work: An Intimate Portrait of Christophe Honoré at Metrograph this weekend, curated by Uptown Flicks Adeline Monzier with the support of Unifrance and Villa Albertine.

“As a queer auteur and a...

The upcoming CBS pilot Matlock has cast East New York star Skye P. Marshall in a lead role opposite Kathy Bates for a modern take on the classic legal drama. According to Deadline, Marshall will play Olympia, a formidable attorney with a thirst for justice and a key rainmaker at New York’s most prestigious law firm. As she juggles her work and home life, Olympia remains laser-focused and not easily impressed, which becomes apparent when she’s tasked with overseeing a third junior associate. The revival, which comes from Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman and NCIS: Los Angeles star Eric Christian Olsen, revolves around Madeline Matlock (Bates), a brilliant septuagenarian who rejoins the world of law where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within. Matlock, created by Dean Hargrove, originally premiered in 1986 on NBC and aired for nine seasons,...

Not all of the original Virgin River book storylines made it to the Netflix show, but one deleted Lizzie storyline might improve Lizzie and Connie’s relationship in the show. Based on Robyn Carr’s romance novels of the same name, Netflix’s Virgin River follows Mel Monroe, a nurse practitioner who moves to the small town of Virgin River for a new start after the death of her husband. As a nurse practitioner, Mel has many interactions with the townsfolk of Virgin River, although the town’s exploits are likely beyond what Mel expected when she took the job.

Virgin River has an ever-changing and expanding cast of characters. In Virgin River season 2, 19-year-old Lizzie, the niece of Connie, arrives to stay in the titular town. Though Lizzie remains a featured character in the subsequent seasons of Netflix’s Virgin River, she and Connie often appear to be at odds with each other,...

Matlock is getting a brand-new reboot at CBS, with Kathy Bates set for the gender-swapped lead role. The original Matlock originally ran on NBC from 1986 to 1992 before moving to ABC until it went off the air in 1995, overall running for a total of 193 episodes plus a feature-length pilot. The series followed Andy Griffith as Ben Matlock, a skilled attorney who hides his cutthroat nature behind a folksy exterior.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman is developing a reboot of Matlock that has received a pilot order. The series will star Bates in the Griffith role, with the character now renamed Madeline Matlock. The premise will be similar, with Matlock - a former Da who is now in her 70s - un-retiring and coming to a prestigious law firm where she conquers a variety of cases using her supposed guilelessness to her advantage.

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CBS is adding two famed attorneys to its roster.

Matlock, one of television’s most iconic crime dramas, is getting a new life at CBS. The Paramount Global-backed broadcast network has handed out a pilot order for a new take on the former defense attorney formerly played by Andy Griffith. Kathy Bates will take on the role of Madeline Matlock.

Additionally, The Good Wife/The Good Fight creators Robert and Michelle King are returning to CBS with the third series in the franchise, Elsbeth, with star Carrie Preston set to reprise her role in the drama that has also received a pilot order at the broadcast network. These are the first two drama pilot orders for CBS and are being eyed for the 2023-24 broadcast season.

Additionally, CBS is looking toward the 2024-25 broadcast season with dramas The Pact (which stems from its overall deal with the NAACP) and Sherlock Holmes entry Watson.

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Before his Hollywood career as a screenwriter and CEO of the Latino Film Institute, Rafael Agustin was a Southern California teenager just trying to get his driver’s license.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t drive; rather, it turned out that he wasn’t legally permitted to. Although Agustin had clear and fond memories of an early childhood in his native Ecuador before immigrating to Los Angeles with his parents, he had had no idea that the three had been living without papers ever since. That meant no driving, no four-year university and no international travel — although, as the former Jane the Virgin writer details in his recent memoir, that didn’t stop him from doing two of those things well before he secured his green card and, eventually, citizenship.

Illegally Yours, which was released July 12, debunks many of the caricatures — both...

The newest season of Virgin River just dropped on July 20th, and audiences have been given more drama, romance, and intrigue to keep them loving the show. The scenery included is beautiful and makes one want to pack up and move to a cabin in the middle of nowhere, but what's even more attractive is the feeling of belonging and community Virgin River does so well.

Despite Mel just moving to Virgin River a couple of months back, she's already made an enviable number of friends, or at the very least people who are willing to help her with anything she needs. People in smaller communities are just wired differently, and this show portrays that to perfection.

First International Film Festival (First Iff) is dedicated to preserving the diverse voice of young filmmakers in Chinese-language cinema and offering an effective and fair evaluation standard. From the perspective of industry and art, First Iff aspires to provide the explorers of cinematic art with forward-looking guidance, encouragement and companionship.

The Official Selections for Xining’s Competition 2022 can be found here and three curated programmes are presented: Narrative, Short Films and Documentary.

Competition Selected – Narrative

Summer Diary (World Premiere)

Wu Shuang | 2022 | China | 90min | Fiction

During a summer holiday, Xiaohai, who lives alone in the desert with his father, becomes sick of his monotonous lifestyle and decides to go into town to find his mother and finish his composition. However, the road into town is not very smooth and the traffic is a nightmare, making his hometown a forgotten place in the world. A strange encounter with Yuanyuan reveals Xiaohai’s...

Picturestart has acquired the rights to the Mary H.K. Choi novel “Yolk” to adapt as a television series, Variety has learned exclusively.

“Yolk” is about two twenty-something Korean sisters in New York — Jayne and June. One has cancer, the other has health insurance, so they swap identities based on the oldest gag in the racism book: All Look Same. By “swap,” June means stealing her little sister’s identity without her knowing because they’re long estranged. And when Jayne finds out, she extorts her big sister for a room in her baller Manhattan apartment. Tit for tat. Of course, deep down they need each other, though they’d sooner die than admit this. And now June might really die, especially if Jayne flunks out of fashion school and loses “their” health insurance. As they struggle to understand each other, the one thing they can agree on? Mom and Dad...

British Comedy Legend Billy Connolly To Be Given BAFTA Fellowship

Pioneering Scottish comedian Billy Connolly is to be given the BAFTA Fellowship at this year’s Virgin Media BAFTA TV Awards. Connolly, who has been active on the British TV and standup circuit for almost 50 years, will be handed the highest achievement bestowed by BAFTA at Sunday’s ceremony, an award that has previously been given to the likes of Judi Dench, David Attenborough and Joanna Lumley. The award comes almost 30 years after Connolly won his first BAFTA in the BAFTA Scotland Entertainment category. Having left school at 15 to become a Welder, he was catapulted to fame in 1975 after a particularly outrageous appearance on BBC chatshow Parkinson and went on to make a variety of comedy shows, films and docs including the likes of the legendary An Audience with Billy Connolly standup, and he is still active today. Connolly said: “I am deeply honoured.

Good Sam is staging a One Tree Hill reunion this month, and TVLine has your exclusive first look at the upcoming event.

Hilarie Burton and Bethany Joy Lenz join Sophia Bush in the Wednesday, March 23 episode (CBS, 10/9c), titled “Keep Talking.”

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“When Amy Taylor (played by Lenz) is admitted to the hospital accompanied by her sister, Gretchen (Burton), with signs of premature heart disease, Dr. Sam Griffith...

It's that time again!

For all you Christmas buffs who adore those cheesy, fuzzy flicks that put you in the holiday spirit , you'll be pleased to know from Lifetime, to Hallmark, Netflix, Freeform, and more, everyone is getting in on spreading the holiday cheer!

Lifetime continues to up its game with an ambitious pledge of 30 in 30. That's right; once Thanksgiving hits, Lifetime will air 30 brand-new Christmas movies in 30 days, every single day between Nov. 26 and Dec. 25.

But the even better news is that you will not need to wait until then for new Christmas flicks. It's a Wonderful Lifetime officially kicks off November. 12, with new movies airing every Saturday and Sunday from then until Thanksgiving hits us with the daily fun and festivities.

It's the network's largest holiday movie slate to date, and they're doing it in style with musical superstars, icons, and legends, fan-favorite TV stars, Holiday and Lifetime favorites.

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Halloween party planning can be overwhelming, but we’re here to help you keep things on track. There’s a lot to remember: Costumes, candy, decorations, fun activities, and a spooky music playlist should all be on your list of essentials. But deciding on the perfect food and drink options might be one of the most important components to throwing a successful party.

For the festive foodies out there who want to cook up dangerously delectable treats this Halloween, we rounded up seven, easy-to-follow cookbooks that you can order today so they’ll arrive well before Hallow’s Eve. Keep reading for a list of some of the best cookbooks, and cocktail books...

The best cozy TV shows are uplifting and put a smile on the viewers' faces while watching. They're the perfect shows to watch while snuggling up with a blanket and drinking some hot chocolate. There are many shows like this, including Jane The Virgin or The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

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Even though many shows can be inspiring and uplifting, they may not have the autumn atmosphere viewers are looking for now. There's something enticing about watching a Christmas movie in winter, or a scary movie on Halloween. And even if a show doesn't take place in autumn, its tone or themes can give any series that cozy autumn feeling.

Ordinarily, when relaying an interview with you in Q & A style, I cut the chitchat.

But when someone as talented and, well, handsome as Martin Henderson can make a person blush via a Zoom call, it seems like something you might want to know. His persuasive characteristics on-screen are in full view off-screen, as well.

He's a very busy man, with a fun role on My Life Is Murder coinciding with his work on Virgin River. If you like him on one, you should watch the other. Martin doesn't pick shabby roles. Check out our full conversation below, and let us know your favorite Martin Henderson roles in the comments!

Nice to meet you, Martin.

You too, Carissa. Where are you? Where are you located?

I'm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh. And how's it over there? Is it gloomy and sort of fall weather?

Half of the day today was gloomy,...

The romantic entanglements of Virgin River are set to continue as Netflix has renewed the series for a fourth and fifth season, TV Insider can confirm. The show has seen huge popularity on Netflix, with the third season landing on the streamer’s Top 10 list in 81 countries within a month following its July 2021 release. It even ended the run of the soon-to-revived Manifest, which had spent four consecutive weeks at the No. 1 spot. Based on the Virgin River novels by Robyn Carr, the drama was adapted for television by Sue Tenney and premiered on Netflix in December 2019. The series stars Alexandra Breckenridge as Mel Monroe, a nurse practitioner and midwife who moves from Los Angeles to the remote Northern California town of Virgin River. In addition to Breckenridge, the show features Martin Henderson as Mel’s love interest Jack Sheridan, Colin Lawrence as Preacher Middleton, Lauren Hammersley as Charmaine Roberts,...

The waters of Virgin River will continue to flow at Netflix. The streamer (tee hee!) has renewed the romantic drama for Seasons 4 and 5, USA Today reports.

Based on Robyn Carr’s book series of the same name, Virgin River first premiered in December 2019, followed by its sophomore season in November 2020, then returned for Season 3 in July 2021. For the week of July 12 — its first full week with all three seasons streaming — Virgin River topped Nielsen’s U.S. streaming rankings by amassing 2.1 billion minutes viewed across 30 episodes. In doing so, it ended summertime standout Manifest’s four-week run in the No.

Outer Banks topped the Nielsen U.S. streaming chart for the week of August 2-8 with nearly twice the viewing of its closest competitor.

The Netflix original was in its first full week of streaming after its second season hit Netflix in late July. It delivered 2.1 billion minutes of viewing across its 20 episodes, joining an elite club of shows north of the 2 billion mark in a single week since Nielsen began reporting streaming numbers in mid-2020.

All American, which wound down its linear season on the CW just before hitting Netflix in July, finished No. 2 for the week, with 1.16 billion minutes of viewing of its 51 episodes.

Nielsen measures only viewing via a TV screen, meaning mobile viewing — a major source for young-skewing shows — is not counted. It tracks only Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Disney+. For the second consecutive week, all of the top 10 titles are on Netflix.

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At the conclusion of Dexter‘s Comic-Con @ Home panel on Sunday, Showtime released the first trailer for the series’ forthcoming revival (Aka Season 9), which will premiere Sunday, Nov. 7 at 9 pm.

It comes roughly a month after the premium cabler released the first footage from the 10-episode limited series, which finds Michael C. Hall’s titular vigilante living in the fictional Upstate New York small town of Iron Lake under the assumed name Jimmy Lindsay.

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The last few minutes of Virgin River‘s third season are, quite frankly, insane.

Following a brief-yet-still-too-long separation, Mel and Jack celebrate their rekindled romance with an invigorating mountain hike, unaware that they’re both concealing explosive secrets from one another. Jack throws his grenade first, getting down on one knee and asking Mel to marry him, which prompts her to retaliate in kind: “I’m pregnant,” she tells him. “And I don’t know if you’re the father.” Boom. No survivors.

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Warning: The following contains spoilers for Sunday’s Season 5 premiere of Animal Kingdom. If you’d rather watch first, read later, move away from this recap as quickly as a Cody from the straight life.

Almost two years (!) after the Season 4 finale of Animal Kingdom (refresh your memory here), the criminally addictive TNT drama came back with a vengeance Sunday night, teeing up a Season 5 premiere that left three characters dead and ushered in what might just be a whole new Pope. Or at least a somewhat different Pope. Read on, and I’ll explain…

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Are there actual Lumberjack Games somewhere? Because they look like So much fun!

It's not a season of Virgin River unless they give us one of those fun town events that make you want to pack all of your belongings and hightail it to the nearest scenic small town that can deliver anything close to it.

The Lumberjack Games of Virgin River Season 3 Episode 6 were top-tier small town goodness.

Finally, a girl has an excuse to wear all her finest flannel and best boots. And there are plenty of both around these parts.

It's never a dull moment at one of these events, so naturally, it led to Sheridan sibling tension, Mel and Jack having some more relationship challenges and bickering, Doc worrying about his vision, and Lilly's cancer news spreading around town.

And that's only a handful of things that the hour tackled.

As predicted, Brie made the...

Stacie and Charmaine would probably be the best of friends. They're both brilliant at effing with Mel and Jack's heads, and I hate them for it.

Seriously, when will Mel and Jack have a moment of bliss without all of Virgin River's colorful characters and issues coming to marsh their mellow?

But if Virgin River Season 3 Episode 3 didn't do anything, it introduced us to some new characters, brought some drama, sadness, and a new 'ship.

So let's get it out of the way. Maybe this reviewer jumped the gun on hating Brady and Brie. Sure, it'll be hell to pay when Jack finds out about this, but damn it if the chemistry between Brady and Brie isn't enticing.

Brie is adamant about it not going anywhere serious. But she's into him more than she's willing to verbalize, and if that morning after scene didn't tell us anything, it suggested that Brady is genuinely smitten.

The big mystery of Virgin River‘s upcoming third season just got a lot more interesting.

In TVLine’s exclusive sneak peek of the Netflix drama’s July 9 return, Calvin confronts Brady about snitching to the authorities, casually threatening to murder him “in time.” And that’s not even the part of their unnerving conversation that has our interest piqued.

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Look out, Mayberry — there’s a killer in your midst.

The latest teaser for Showtime’s 10-episode Dexter revival offers up a first look at Michael C. Hall’s titular vigilante in his new small town setting — and, suffice it to say, the townsfolk have not been briefed on their new neighbor’s origin story.

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“Here’s your first glimpse of the little, snowy Northeastern town [Dexter]’s in,” Dexter scribe Warren Hsu Leonard enthused on Twitter.

CBS is betting on a couple of familiar faces next season: The Eye network has handed series orders to medical drama Good Sam, starring Sophia Bush, and bowling comedy Smallwood, starring Pete Holmes, TVLine has learned.

Good Sam stars Bush (Chicago P.D.) as a talented but stifled surgeon who “embraces her leadership role after her renowned and pompous boss falls into a coma,” per the official description. “When he awakens and wants to resume surgery, however, it falls to her to supervise this overbearing blowhard who never acknowledged her talents — and also happens to be her father.”

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While being lauded by critics’ bodies for visual effects, film editing and original score, Universal’s “The Invisible Man” continues the industry’s trend of snubbing horror films and performances. It left empty-handed when the Golden Globes and SAG Awards released their nominations; its only other chances remain at the Oscars in a list of 15 shortlist nominees for Best Original Score and at the Critics Choice Awards for Best Visual Effects. Elisabeth Moss’ searing absence follows after Lupita Nyong’o in “Us,” Toni Collette in “Hereditary” and many others including the entire production of “The Shining.” The main exception to this rule was when “The Silence of the Lambs,” which celebrated its 30th anniversary on Valentine’s Day, won all Big Five awards at the 1992 Oscars.

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If you watched Virgin River Season 2, there's a good chance you have many thoughts about Charmaine.

The character has proven to be controversial with fans of Mel and Jack, the pair at the wheel of the most complicated relationship on the series.

While they haven't officially gotten together, the sparks have been flying ever since Mel first arrived in Virgin River.

Unfortunately, Charmaine is stuck in the middle, having revealed her pregnancy with Jack's child, a development that has divided fans.

Lauren Hammersley, who plays Charmaine, spoke out about the role to TV Line and said that while fans voice their disdain for her character, they "still like me, and they think I play her well."

However, there are "some people who don't recognize that the character is not the actor," leading to some "weird interactions," the actress noted.

Charmaine appears to be the person preventing Jack and Mel from...

The CW's critically acclaimed telenovela concluded its fifth season in 2019, rounding out the series with 100 episodes. Over its five years on air, the cast of well-rounded characters evolved significantly, losing some familiar faces and gaining new ones. However, at the heart of the story remain the three Villaneuva women: Jane, Xiomara, and Alba.

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Jane The Virgin is known for its compelling comedic and dramatic storylines, but also for its depth of character and heart. Jane is a writer who sticks very strictly to plans and schedules, and she's also studying to be a teacher. Her mother and grandmother are always there to offer her advice, but they often leave Jane confused about who to listen to. Here are the characters of Jane The Virgin, ranked by their intelligence.

Virgin River ended the run of The Crown in the top spot in Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings, racking up almost 1.8 billion minutes of viewing from November 30 to December 6.

The show’s 10-episode second season debuted in the latter weeks of 2020 and has risen steadily through the ranks. (See the full top 10 below.)

Netflix said in December it had renewed the romantic drama for a third season, with Zibby Allen and Stacey Farber joining the cast. The series is based on the bestselling Harlequin book series by Robyn Carr. It centers on a nurse practitioner played by Alexandra Breckenridge, who moves to the remote California town of Virgin River and finds that life there isn’t as simple as she expected.

The Crown, whose fourth season had a splashy debut in November, is still piling up significant viewing, with almost 1.5 billion total minutes of viewing. Nielsen’s streaming rankings — which come with a lengthy delay,...

While Netflix's Virgin River focuses primarily on Jack and Mel, there are many other characters worthy of a critique. Virgin River, as a small and quirky town, boasts some unusual and quirky characters, including Hope McCrae.

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In a sense, Hope is the mover and shaker of this small town. She's the mayor and she cares about her community. However, there have been occasions where the fans have been a little put off by her personality as she can be meddlesome. Fans aren't even sure where they truly stand with her as she can be endearing one minute and irritating the next. Just look at these for examples...

Netflix's new series Dash & Lily is a heartfelt adaptation of David Levithan and Rachel Cohn's young-adult book series, but it also features a wonderful idea for a Pixar movie. The series, which premiered on Nov. 10, follows two teens named Dash and Lily living in NYC who form a special bond by communicating through a red notebook. As the two correspond back and forth, Lily makes a few references to a Pixar movie named Collation, which is about a stapler and a piece of paper that fall in love. While the movie pops up multiple times throughout the season, it's actually completely made up for the series.

"There was so much Collation stuff that got cut for time," executive producer Joe Tracz told TVLine. "Our favorite writers' room parlor game was figuring out which celebrities would voice which office supplies. 'What punny catchphrases do they all have?' At one point,...

Exclusive: There soon will be a new face in Riverdale. Erinn Westbrook (The Resident) has joined the cast of the CW’s Riverdale as a new series regular for the upcoming fifth season.

Westbrook will play Tabitha Tate, the ambitious, entrepreneurial granddaughter of Pop Tate, who has come to Riverdale to take over Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe in the hopes of franchising the iconic diner, even as the town around it struggles to survive.

Riverdale resumed production September 14 in Vancouver amid strict Covid-19 safety guidelines. The series shut down production in mid-March in the middle of the fourth season, which was cut short due to the pandemic.

Kj Apa, Cole Sprouse Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Casey Cott and Madelaine Petsch star in the CW series based on the characters from Archie Comics. Riverdale is produced by Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios, in association with Berlanti Productions.

Westbrook...

Tangerine Dream will finally officially release their score for the 1983 film The Keep as part of a 10-cd box set collecting the electronic music group’s early Eighties releases.

Pilots of Purple Twilight: The Virgin Recordings 1980 – 1983 collects five Tangerine Dream albums — Tangram, Exit, White Eagle, Logos Live and Hyperbore — plus a pair of beloved soundtracks the group made for Michael Mann’s films Thief and The Keep; the latter score, although oft-bootlegged, has never been officially been released, making it a “holy grail” among fans of Tangerine Dream.

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Catherine Breillat is no stranger to controversy. If the French novelist and director has spent a career confronting censorship and social taboos, that has not prevented her from developing a reputation as one of the world’s most iconoclastic and widely acclaimed authorial voices.

From her 1976 directorial debut, “A Real Young Girl,” through to 2013’s “Abuse of Weakness,” Breillat has continually sought to examine and reframe conventional depictions of femininity, more often than not twisting them towards provocative ends. This year she heads the Locarno Film Festival jury – which marks a fitting choice for both a festival finding new footing under the leadership of artistic director Lili Hinstin, and for a larger film culture still wrestling with many of the questions Breillat has regularly explored.

Variety spoke with this year’s jury president shortly before she packed her bags for Locarno. [Note: This conversation has been edited for clarity and length.]

Do you have any history with Locarno?

Locarno was...

When Greta Gerwig’s already-lauded “Lady Bird” hits limited release later this week, the actress-writer-director will join a long line of other female filmmakers who used their directorial debut (this one is Gerwig’s solo directorial debut, just for clarity’s sake) to not only launch their careers, but make a huge mark while doing it. Gerwig’s Saoirse Ronan-starring coming-of-age tale is an instant classic, and one that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to anyone who has enjoyed Gerwig’s charming work as a screenwriter in recent years, bolstered by her ear for dialogue and her love of complicated and complex leading ladies.

While Hollywood still lags when it comes to offering up opportunities to its most talented female filmmakers, many of them have overcome the dismal stats to deliver compelling, interesting, and unique first features. In short, they’re good filmmakers who made good movies,...

Mubi will be showing the retrospective Philippe Garrel: Fight for Eternity from May 1 - July 5, 2017 in most countries around the world.Les enfants désaccordésQuestion: I must ask you here about one concept you discuss in your book, one that also might be thought of, next to the structural work, as another way to break from the story in the film. The concept is muzan, and I find it quite difficult to think of a proper translation of it into English. How do you employ this concept into your films, and does it, in fact, have anything to do with the way you wish to break away from the story?

Yoshishige Yoshida: I understand the word in itself, as you would understand the literal meaning of the kanji: something which expresses the impossibility of attaining stability or change for the better. Yes, I believe this is the meaning of the concept that I use.

Hovering around the twenty-one to twenty-four feature film mark with at least a quarter of those films belonging to first time filmmakers, the Quinzaine des Realisateurs (a.k.a Directors’ Fortnight) has in the past couple of years, counted on a healthy supply of French, Spanish and Belgium produced film items, and has been geared towards the offbeat genre items as with last year’s edition curated by Edouard Waintrop and co. To be unveiled on the 22nd, as we attempted with our Critics’ Week predix, Blake Williams, Nicholas Bell and I (Eric Lavallee) are thinking out loud and hedging our bets on what the section might look like or what the programmers might be looking at for 2014. Here is our predictions overview:

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Six years after presenting Vinyan at the Venice Film Festival, Fabrice Du Welz finally returns with potentially not one, but a pair of works for the ’14 campaign.

The trend these days is to have controllers be a seamless part of the game playing experience, to the point that they're virtually transparent. The Kinect and other purely motion based solutions is perhaps the best, most extreme example of this increasingly popular train of thought.

So thank goodness that some folks out there are willing to go against the norm, and create controllers that both bold and absurd. Like the "Doom Piano", which as the name implies, is a piano that's been modified to play "Doom".

The following, which Gamasutra was the very first to report on such a bizarre yet wonderful interface, was presented at the Virgin Media Game Space in London. It's the lovechild of organizer David Hayward, developer Sos Sosowski, Ricky Haggett of Honeyslug and George Buckenham of Die Gute Fabrik:

Basically, the white keys are for actions that mostly related to movement, while the black...

We doubt that it’ll be as populated as Sundance was, but if this year’s Cannes Film Festival should be remembered for anything, it will surely be noted as one of the most female friendly lineups in years, surpassing even that glorious 2009 program. Since that year, however, a female presence has been largely absent, particularly from the main competition. Announced almost to prophesize this year’s lineup was the earlier briefing that director Jane Campion, who will be serving as president of this year’s Cinefondation and the short film jury at the festival, will also be awarded the Carrosse d’Or, to be presented during the opening ceremony of the 45th Directors’ Fortnight. Campion is still the only woman to win the coveted Palme D’or (The Piano, 1993), and the third to claim the Carrosse d’Or since 2002 (Agnes Varda was the first to receive it back in...

Journey, the visual and emotive game that evokes in the player a sense of smallness and wonder to forge an emotional connection between themself and the anonymous players they meet on the way, collected the Artistic Achievement, Audio Achievement, Game Design, Online Multiplayer and Original Music Awards at the British Academy Games Awards, hosted by Dara O’ Briain and supported by official partner Game.

Danny Wallace was awarded with his first BAFTA winning the Performer category for his work as the narrator in Thomas was Alone, the indie puzzle game. The Walking Dead, the episodic point-and-click adventure role-playing game, picked up the Mobile and Handheld and Story BAFTAs. The Unfinished Swan, a game which explores the unknown, collected the Awards for Game Innovation and Debut Game.

Dishonored, the stealth action adventure game saw off stiff competition to collect the Award for Best Game. The Award for British Game was presented to The Room,...

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Bright Star, Jane Campion

Orlando, Sally Potter

Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis

Cleo 5 a 7, Agnes Varda

A New Leaf, Elaine May

The Night Porter, Liliana Cavani

American Psycho, Mary Harron

Anatomy of Hell, Catherine Breillat

Point Break, Kathryn Bigelow

Everyone Else, Maren Ade

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Connection, Shirley Clarke

Wuthering Heights, Andrea Arnold

35 Shots of Rhum, Claire Denis

Meshes of the Afternoon, Maya Derin

Seven Beauties, Lina Wertmuller

The Hitch-Hiker, Ida Lupino

Lina Wertmuller- Swept Away

Meek’s Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt

Headless Woman, Lucrecia Martel

Xxy, Lucía Puenzo

Special mention:

Skyscraper – Shirley Clarke

Wasp – Andrea Arnold

On Dangerous Ground – Ida Lupino (uncredited)

Wanda

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Little Miss Sunshine, Valerie Faris

American Psycho, Mary Harron

Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola

We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lynne Ramsay

Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold

Monster, Patty Jenkins

A League of Their Own, Penny Marshall

Wayne’s World, Penelope Spheeris

Clueless, Amy Heckerling

Point Break,...

Scott, Emmet and I decided to put together a list of our favorite films that screened at this year’s Fantastic Fest. We should be posting some more reviews this weekend so do check back for more coverage. In the meantime, here are our lists. Enjoy.

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Note: I don’t want to include Take Shelter nor Malancholia on this list, since I’ve aleady given them too much love and attention from screenings at previous film festivals.

Snowtown

Snowtown is unrelentingly grim and terrifying. Director Justin Kurzel delivers a slow effective burn, examining how one man’s harmful beliefs spread through a community in the most horrific way possible. Snowtown is an instant classic, showing great promise for an first time filmmaker. Kurzel, for the most part. avoids sensationalistic, gruesome or exploitative techniques, and very little actual onscreen violence, yet Snowtown may just be one of...

Ah, the zany comedy - where would we be without your nonsensical, childish humour? I understand it's not an easy life; for many of you, your emergence is met by a cynical press, one seemingly unable to understand the broad appeal of your broad comedy. Too often are you made to suffer at the hands of patronising critics, individuals who are so wrapped up in their ideals and pretentious ways that they feel obliged to criticise and bad-mouth your production. Anchorman; Step Brothers; Talladega Nights - all examples of misunderstood cult favourites.

However, we here at Shadowlocked understand the importance of objectivity when reviewing a release and are more than happy to give credit where credit is due. So, without further ado, we present you with our ten most memorable comedy movie scenes...

10. Step Brothers - "Hey, are you awake?"

When Step Brothers was released back in 2008, its two protagonists...

Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.

Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, August 4, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last-minute additions and deletions.

Note: Clickable links lead to Amazon.com

Alien Uprising

A suspected prisoner uprising brings Marines to the prison planet of Rove 12, but nothing is what it seems. The few surviving prisoners are hiding from a ruthless, blood thirsty creature. Now the prisoners and the marines must fight together to get off the planet Alive!

Art Of The Devil 3

Panor, a seductive rural teacher, longs to live a normal, peaceful life like everyone else in her village. But her beauty becomes her biggest curse as she becomes the object...