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The original Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse TV anime is heading toward a climactic twist with Episode 10 and beyond, and the series released a fifth trailer to hint at things to come. The series currently broadcasts in Japan, and Crunchyroll also streams Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse as part of the summer 2025 anime simulcast lineup. Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse Trailer 5 Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse is based on an original story by Fujiko Sakuno. Hideya Takahashi provides the direction and the original concept for the series at animation studio david production. Hayashi Mori provides the series composition, Kazuaki Morita provides the characters designs and Masahiro Tokuda provides the music. The anime series premiered...

The Bold and the Beautiful spoilers document that Bill Spencer (Don Diamont) deeply regrets using his connections to get Luna Nozawa (Lisa Yamada) pardoned.

However, Bill’s pierced opinion will radically shift if he learns that she’s alive and pregnant with his grandchild.

Luna never gave up hope. She was determined that her comeback, post-prison, would include Will. Sure enough, soapy circumstances allowed a scenario to be presented, and she grabbed it.

Sheila Carter (Kimberlin Brown) laughed when she first learning that her granddaughter claimed to be with Will. That happened after Li Nozawa (Naomi Matsuda) bolted from the room, disgusted with her granddaughter slash niece’s carefree reaction.

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.

Roxy Cinema

Tied to a new 4K release, Jim McBride’s Breathless screens on 35mm this Friday; City Dudes returns on Saturday; a print of Snake Eyes screens throughout the weekend.

Film at Lincoln Center

A career-spanning, 35mm-heavy Gene Hackman retrospective––featuring films by Clint Eastwood, William Friedkin, Francis Ford Coppola, Wes Anderson, and Nicolas Roeg––begins.

Anthology Film Archives

A series on Barbara Loden begins.

Bam

A retrospective of 2000s New York continues, including a print of Birth.

Film Forum

A number of Akira Kurosawa’s most seminal films play, while the 4K restoration of Hearts of Darkness (listen to our interview) continues.

IFC Center

In the Mood for Love and In the Mood for Love 2001 continue; Dogtooth screens daily; Pulse, Cure, Clerks, Koyaanisqatsi, Tenebrae, and Ghost in the Shell show late.

Museum of Modern Art

A retrospective of Mexican actress María Félix continues.

A brand new slate of dubs will head your way soon with the upcoming summer 2025 anime season, and we have the rundown for everything you can look forward to! Crunchyroll will release Englush dubs for titles including Gachiakuta , Clevatess , Lord of Mysteries and much more. Check out an overview of upcoming English dubs below with additional info on launch timing and cast members coming as they're announced. Crunchyroll Summer 2025 English Dubs A Couple of Cuckoos Season 2 Anne Shirley - cast and crew Clevatess Cultural Exchange with a Game Centre Girl Dan Da Dan Season 2 Dealing with Mikadono Sisters Is a Breeze Dekin no Mogura: The Earthbound Mole Dr. Stone Science Future Cour 2 Gachiakuta I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince So I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability Season 2 Kaiji No. 8 Season 2 Lord of Mysteries My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 New Saga Nyaight of the Living Cat Onmyo Kaiten...

Upcoming original isekai fantasy TV anime Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse published a new character trailer and new art focusing on Atsunaga (voiced by Kaito Ishikawa), an elite onmyoji whose serious nature and rigid thinking may actually be his greatest weakness. The series broadcasts in Japan beginning on July 2, 2025, and Crunchyroll will also stream the series as part of the summer 2025 anime simulcast lineup . Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse Atsunaga Character Trailer Atsunaga character art Related: Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse Anime Unveils Kazura and Shino Character Trailer, Visual Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse is based on an original story by Fujiko Sakuno. Hideya Takahashi provides the direction and the original concept for the series at animation studio david production. Hayashi Mori provides the series composition, Kazuaki Morita provides the characters designs and Masahiro Tokuda provides the music. Crunchyroll describes Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth Verse : Naruhira Takeru is a delinquent who often thinks about Tsukimiya,...

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is one of the biggest manga franchises of all time, so the modern anime adaptation has involved a wealth of talented creators. Now, the director of one season is blitzing into a new story with an anime-original isekai series.

Despite the title, which may suggest otherwise, Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth is a brand-new anime that's not based on a preceding manga or series. Combining fast-paced action with a delinquent anime, it's just the kind of thing that the director of JoJo's Bizarre Adventurewould work on. Via Oricon, the anime's official trailer has now been released, as has the initial release window for the upcoming isekai show.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Anime Studio's New Series Is an Anime-Original Isekai Show Image via David Production

Onmyo Kaiten Re:Birth is the next anime from David Production, best known as the studio behind the modern JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime, as well...

Ridley Scott’s pandemic thriller, The Dog Stars, adds some significant star power today with Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin, and Guy Pearce joining Jacob Elordi for an epic that finds a civilian pilot living a lonely life on an abandoned Colorado airbase with his dog and a hard-as-nails ex-marine. When a band of scavengers called The Reapers invades their space, Hig and his compatriots must prepare for battle.

The Dog Stars hails from 20th Century Studios and is based on the 2012 novel by Peter Heller (Burn, The River, The Painter, The Last Ranger). Initially, Scott was reteaming with Gladiator II star Paul Mescal for The Dog Stars, but scheduling conflicts with his part in Sam Mendes’ Beatles anthology kept him from participating. Sources say Mescal plays Paul McCartney in Mendes’ upcoming film, making him essential to the project.

Here’s a synopsis of Heller’s novel:

“Hig’s wife is gone,...

A couple of weeks back, apropos of nothing, a small cadre in the cesspool formerly known as Twitter decided that the most important cultural irritant of the moment was the rise of visible Asl interpreters at press conferences and public events.

It was a brief moment of directionless outrage that offered a reminder of how eager some people are to marginalize even small traces of accommodation and to erase even incremental traces of progress.

Look no further than Nyle Dimarco and Davis Guggenheim’s new Apple documentary Deaf President Now! for an efficient and inspiring primer on how hard-won and important that progress truly was and still is.

A fine entry in the generally prolific “Birth of a Movement” documentary genre, Deaf President Now! illustrates what is and was distinctive about the Deaf rights movement, but also the elements that connect it to many recent campaigns for visibility and recognition.

Nicole Kidman has never been a risk-averse actor. For every commercial notch in her body of work, be it Bewitched or Moulin Rouge!, there’s a Birth or Dogville: films that mine the darker depths of humanity, often to the extreme. Babygirl may not linger in those shadowy corners for quite as long, but is nonetheless a reminder of Kidman’s gutsy choices and no-holds-barred approach to performing.

In this film, directed by actor-turned-filmmaker Halina Reijn (who made 2022’s excellent Gen-z murder-mystery Bodies Bodies Bodies), Kidman plays high-powered tech- executive Romy, who we immediately meet in the final throes of leg-buckling sex with Jacob (Antonio Banderas), her husband of nearly 20 years. Moments later, she steals away to another part of their family home and secretly climaxes to the flickering glow of submissive porn on her laptop.

Dickinson is impeccable; as Samuel he brings an elusive yet calming presence with a slow half-smile.

Nicole Kidman names an "overlooked" horror movie with an 84% Rotten Tomatoes score as the role she would like to revisit the most. The Australian actress is known for her contributions to both film and television across various genres. Kidman's achievements include an Academy Award for The Hours in 2002, two Primetime Emmy Awards for Big Little Lies in 2017, and a whopping six Golden Globe wins for Moulin Rogue! in 2001, Being the Ricardos in 2021, and more.

Known for movies across many genres, Kidman has naturally starred in a few horror films throughout her career. A few of these examples are independent films that often explore dark and tragic themes, such as Lars Van Trier's avant-garde thriller Dogville, Jonathan Glazer's psychological drama Birth, Yorgos Lanthimos' The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Sofia Coppola's gothic thriller The Beguiled. However, one of Kidman's best horror movies has been "overlooked," according to the actress.

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A belated Merry Christmas to you all, and Happy Holidays too. What better way to celebrate than with cinema? After all, the year of 2024 is coming to a close with an array of new releases, as varied as they are curious. For Kidmaniacs, Babygirl is upon us, with the actress's best performance since Birth. The Fire Inside is a crowd-pleasing sports drama of unusual elegance, while A Complete Unknown is essential viewing for those who want to keep up to date with the awards season. Better Man brings some monkey business to the festive box office, while Vermiglio delivers a post-war poem on the changing seasons.

However, if you're like me, a horror hound at heart, the week's most enticing release must surely be Robert Eggers' Nosferatu, an old-fashioned Gothic romance with a nasty streak a mile wide…...

When Harris Dickinson first appears in Halina Reijn’s sexy, slippery “Babygirl,” he’s got a dog treat in his hand and a nervous twinkle in his eye. As he charms an angry pup, a terrified and slightly thrilled Nicole Kidman watches just down the street, now safe from the snapping maw of the previously out-of-control canine. The implication is clear: here is someone who can soothe even the wildest of creatures. Perhaps that can extend to Kidman’s Romy?

She — and the audience — find out the answer soon enough. In Reijn’s erotic thriller, Romy’s tightly controlled existence as both a high-powered CEO and a loving wife and mother is thrown into complete disarray by the arrival of alluring intern Samuel (Dickinson). As the pair embark on a kinky, sex-positive Bdsm relationship, both of them open themselves to just about everything: pleasure, pain, ruin, George Michael dance parties,...

Ring in 2025 with your favorite idol boys! UniteUp! -Uni:Birth- is just around the corner, and we've got a brand new trailer featuring more glimpses of the series to come. Check out the new trailer, featuring a sample of new opening theme "Uni:Birth": Related: UniteUp! -Uni:Birth- TV Anime to Stream on Crunchyroll Shinichiro Ushijima directs the UniteUp! TV anime at animation studio CloverWorks alongside Michiru Itabisashi as assistant director. Maziro provides the character designs with assistance from Hidekazu Yamana and Rebin Aoi, while Yuki Hayashi and Naoyuki Chikatani provide the music. The cast includes: Akira Kiyose voiced by Kikunosuke Toya Banri Naoe voiced by Ryotaro Yamaguchi Chihiro Isuzugawa voiced by Amon Hirai Daiki Takao voiced by Magura Sukegawa Eishiro Nijo voiced by Shinnosuke Morikage Fuga Togo voiced by Ryuichiro Sakata Gakuto Haruka voiced by Masa Homare Katsura voiced by Yuuki Shimomae Izumi Kashii voiced by Takumi Magoshi Jun Wakasa voiced...

January 2025 could mark a bleak month for very specific reasons, but in that month one can watch a nicely curated collection of David Bowie’s best performances. Nearly a decade since he passed, the iconic actor (who had some other trades) is celebrated with The Man Who Fell to Earth, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, The Linguini Incident, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and Basquiat. (Note: watch The Missing Pieces under Fire Walk with Me‘s Criterion edition for about three times as much Phillip Jeffries.) It’s a retrospective-heavy month: Nicole Kidman, Cameron Crowe, Ethan Hawke, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, Paolo Sorrentino, and Sean Baker are given spotlights; the first and last bring with them To Die For and Take Out‘s Criterion Editions, joining Still Walking, Hunger, and A Face in the Crowd.

“Surveillance Cinema” brings Thx 1138, Body Double, Minority Report, and others, while “Love in Disguise” offers films by Lubitsch,...

Nicole Kidman could make Golden Globes history come nominations morning, Dec. 9. If she gets in for both the A24 film “Babygirl” and the Netflix miniseries “The Perfect Couple,” that would put her at 21 career citations and set the record for having the second-most noms for an actor. This would tie her with Jack Lemmon who’s also at 21, and put her behind Meryl Streep with the record of 33.

As it stands, Kidman is sitting on an impressive 19 total Golden Globe nominations, a number shared with Shirley MacLaine and Al Pacino. Below are all of the projects and categories Kidman has been recognized for at the Golden Globes. The six in gold are her wins.

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Best Film Drama Actress (7)

“The Others” (2001), “The Hours” (2002), “Cold Mountain” (2003), “Birth” (2004), “Rabbit Hole” (2010), “Destroyer” (2018), “Being the Ricardos” (2021).

Best Film Comedy/Musical Actress (2)

“To Die For” (1995), “Moulin Rouge” (2001).

Best Film Supporting Actress (3)

“Billy Bathgate” (1991), “The Paperboy...

Nicole Kidman transcended the physical realm for her critically acclaimed turn in “Babygirl,” according to writer/director Halina Reijn.

Kidman, who also produces the feature, stars as a CEO who begins a psychosexual relationship with an intern (Harris Dickinson). Reijn told GQ UK that Kidman’s performance changed her mind, body, and soul.

“Seeing her act for me is like an exorcism,” Reijn said. “She goes beyond ego, beyond sanity and beyond fear… It’s not that she’s not afraid, you know, she’s super afraid, but she still goes there.”

Kidman added that she didn’t want to hold anything back when literally baring herself naked onscreen.

“I’m in the whole film [in ‘Babygirl’],” Kidman said. “There are so many close-ups. It’s a full stripping of me.”

She continued, “You can absolutely tell when people are phoning something in. For me, that doesn’t work. I’m not moved by that.

The director’s fantastical drama, starring a never-better Nicole Kidman, was booed and criticised in 2004 but its fans have grown over time

It’s the score that hooks you first in Birth: that light, sprightly, slightly anxious jitter of woodwind that trills over the film’s opening shot, as the camera tracks a man’s morning run through a snow-carpeted Central Park. For a while, the music follows the pace of his movement, lending this ordinary activity an otherworldly lilt – the whitened trees and paths of New York’s great green lung taking on the air of Grimm Brothers woodland.

But heavier orchestral intrusions threaten this rhythmic coordination between sound and image. Battering brass and percussion take over as the runner stalls, collapses and dies under Greyshot Arch; as we discordantly cut to shimmery footage of a water birth, the flute section picks up where it left off. Just...

Australian actress Nicole Kidman began her professional career in 1983 with an appearance in the holiday film "Bush Christmas," and followed it immediately with Brian Trenchard-Smith's very watchable teens-rule actioner "BMX Bandits." She was 16 at the time. Kidman was a striking screen presence, however, and she immediately began a busy career that hasn't slowed since. For six years, Kidman was all over Aussie TV and cinema, with the actress finally breaking into Hollywood in 1989 with her role in the taut thriller "Dead Calm." In 1990, she was cast opposite Tom Cruise in Tony Scott's "Days of Thunder," and her superstar status was cemented. She also began dating Cruise that year, and they married in 1990, staying one of Hollywood's most visible power couples for a decade. 

Kidman was drawn to a great variety of projects, appearing in costume dramas, comedies, FX-based blockbusters, Oscar bait nonsense, and bonkers experiments like "Dogville," "Fur,...

The Bath Tub Scene

We spent the first half of September with discussions of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice (listen) and Colm McCarthy’s The Girl With All the Gifts (listen) before celebrating our 300th episode (and the start of a six-week theme on Divas/Anniversaries) with a revisit of Karyn Kusama’s Jennifer’s Body (listen). Next up: Nicole Kidman in Jonathan Glazer‘s unfairly controversial 2004 sophomore feature, Birth.

Kidman stars as Anna, a widow who is still grieving her husband’s sudden death ten years later. Despite being newly engaged to Joseph (Danny Huston), Anna upends her entire life when 10-year-old Sean (Cameron Bright) appears in her apartment, claiming to be her dead husband.

As her concerned family, including matriarch Eleanor (Lauren Bacall) and brother-in-law Bob (Arliss Howard) question the boy, new details about Anna’s marriage emerge courtesy of dead Sean’s brother Clifford (Peter Stormare) and his wife,...

“Needs moar bewbs.”

After kicking September off with discussions of Tim Burton’s classic Beetlejuice (listen) and the modern zombie film The Girl With All the Gifts (listen), we’ve finally reached our 300th episode! To celebrate this milestone, we’re doing a 6-week theme month of Diva/Anniversary worship (running all the way through Halloween), and we’re starting by revisiting a film we covered in one of our earliest episodes so that we can give it the proper, modern HQ treatment: Karyn Kusama‘s Jennifer’s Body (2009)!

In Jennifer’s Body, When popular girl Jennifer (Megan Fox) is possessed by a demon after a botched ritual, she turns a hungry eye on guys who never stood a chance with her before. While Jennifer satisfies her appetite for human flesh with the school’s male population, her best friend Needy (Amanda Seyfried) learns what’s happening and vows to put an end to the carnage.

Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall made her feature debut with Howard Hawks‘ adventure yarn “To Have and Have Not” (1945). The film was a landmark for the actress in both her career and her life, since it was how she met her future husband Humphrey Bogart. The two would become a legendary couple off-screen and on, making three subsequent features together: “The Big Sleep” (1946), “Dark Passage” (1947) and “Key Largo” (1948).

Despite her hefty filmography, Bacall received just one Oscar nomination in her career: Best Supporting Actress for “The Mirror Has Two Faces” (1996), in which she played Barbra Streisand‘s domineering mother. After victories at the Golden Globes and SAG, Bacall looked like a shoo-in to finally clinch an Academy Award, yet lost to Juliette Binoche (“The English Patient”).

Bacall also had a successful stage career, winning two Tonys as Best Actress in a Musical (“Applause” in 1970 and “Woman of the Year” in 1981″). Her...

Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson brought sexy back to Venice Friday night at the premiere of Halina Reijn’s kinky, sex-filled “Babygirl.”

In the A24 movie, Kidman plays a high-powered CEO who starts a secret affair with her new intern (Dickinson).

While not a conventional art house movie, “Babygirl” stimulated the Venice audience. As the end credits rolled on the film at the Sala Grande Theatre, the crowd erupted into a 6.5-minute standing ovation.

As the audience cheered, Kidman hugged Reijn and beamed and blushed at all the attention.

It was a sweaty night in Italy — in more ways than one. “It’s so hot,” Kidman said as she waved to fans before entering the theater earlier, on a day when temperatures crept up to 90 degrees. But “Babygirl” seemed to crank up the heat even more as the movie got underway. Kidman’s character Romy pushes the envelope in a...

Like a sheep in wolf’s clothing, Halina Reijn’s surprisingly genteel “Babygirl” might bare the occasional fang, but it doesn’t have much bite. For all the superficial similarities to “50 Shades of Grey” — here too setting a lightly sadomasochistic relationship within a world of affluence, all while tacking on a much dreaded age-gap imbalance to send social media’s most ardent moralists into a tizzy — this dom-com plays more like an outré spin on “Working Girl,” updating Reagan-era wishcasting for the social set that has decided Kamala Is Brat.

Premiering at this year’s Venice Film Festival and set for release this December, “Babygirl” could easily emerge as a holiday season guilty pleasure, a sexy-but-never-dangerous star romp that streamlines kink for maximum commercial play. Teasing out fantasies of power exchange in the safest possible space, audiences can have their cake and eat it too — even if the...

[Editor’s note: this list was originally published in April 2024. It has since been updated with new performances from Kidman.]

Nicole Kidman is the rare actress in the 21st century who, like the stars of Hollywood’s golden years, doesn’t disappear into roles so much as elevate films by her mere presence.

She’s certainly swung big at mainstream blockbusters (think: the “Aquaman” films) that might feel out of her step with her character-driven work elsewhere (like most of the films on the list that follows). But that’s because the Australian icon is unafraid of any role, whether stripping down her post-Oscar, A-lister veneer to film Lars von Trier’s Brechtian “Dogville” in Sweden, slipping into a bathtub with the 10-year-old possible reincarnation of her dead husband in Jonathan Glazer’s “Birth,” or, yes, donning a fake nose to play a suicidal Virginia Woolf for her Oscar-winning turn in “The Hours.”

On April 27 in Los Angeles, Nicole Kidman received the 49th AFI Life Achievement Award, joining the ranks of Jane Fonda,...

The 2024 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner, All We Imagine as Light (2024), written and directed by Payal Kapadia, will be released in UK and Irish cinemas on 29 November 2024. A BFI Blu-ray and BFI Player release will follow in early 2025.

Featuring Kani Kusruti (Prabha), Divya Prabha (Anu) and Chhaya Kadam (Parvaty) in the lead roles, All We Imagine as Light was the first Indian film to be selected in an Official Competition at Cannes in three decades. Payal Kapadia also made history as the first female Indian filmmaker ever to have a film in this prestigious section of the festival. After dancing down the red carpet, the director and her cast saw the film receive an eight-minute standing ovation; worldwide critical acclaim and 5-star reviews followed.

An Indian feature with the look and feel of a European arthouse classic, exploring the complexities of female friendship, this beautiful, sweeping, emotional film brilliantly captures the frantic pace,...

Major entertainment company Aniplex, which produces the Solo Leveling anime series, has revealed the date and list of participating titles for the upcoming Aniplex Online Fest 2024, promising an "overwhelming amount of news" next month.

Via Aniplex Events' official X (formerly Twitter) account, Aniplex Online Fest 2024 will be held this year on Monday, Sep. 16, 2024, at noon (Jst). The event will reveal "an overwhelming amount of news" about over 20 anime and other works, including Wind Breaker, Blue Exorcist, Solo Leveling Season 2 and more. The stream will be available for free on Aniplex's YouTube channel. Below, fans can check out the teaser trailer and official Aniplex Fest 2024 event visual, drawn by Wind Breaker's character designer and chief animation director, Taishi Kawakami.

Related "The Real Hunt Begins": Solo Leveling Announces Worldwide Release of Stylish Hoodie & T-Shirt

Solo Leveling receives a new hoodie and t-shirt release, referencing its sixth episode, "The Real Hunt Begins,...

Ichirō Ōkouchi’s Code Geass is one of the most renowned anime series that has taken the world by storm. The series made the viewers ardent followers of the show, as it featured strategic brilliance along with complex motivation that will keep the audience at the edge of their seats, making them anticipate the next move of the characters.

Lelouch Lamperouge. Credits: Studio Sunrise

Naturally, the series was praised for having a well-planned and intricate plot that added to the dynamics of the characters and its thought-provoking themes. At the same time, Zero and C.C. had gained immense praise as the main characters of the show.

However, to the fans’ surprise, Ōkouchi-San had not planned either of the two to be the protagonists of the show. The plans for the anime were different, as Kallen Kōzuki was initially meant to be the Og protagonist, mainly for being one of...

After their romance sparked on the set of Days of Thunder and culminated in a Christmas Eve wedding a year later, Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise gave Hollywood another sensational couple. Despite their subsequent separation, their relationship has continued to be a topic of discussion, due to its high-profile nature and eventual breakdown.

Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise in Eyes Wide Shut | Credit: Warner Bros.

Their on-screen collaborations, notably in the 1999 erotic thriller, Eyes Wide Shut, further cemented their legacy together in film. And Kidman recently reflected on starring in the film as she revealed how her daughter’s feedback has given her a newfound appreciation for her own work.

Nicole Kidman’s Renewed Appreciation For Her Work

Nicole Kidman has been one of the actresses who find it uncomfortable to celebrate her own performances. However, the actress made one exception after she received the feedback from her daughter, Sunday Rose.

In honor of her receiving this year’s AFI Life Achievement Award, Nicole Kidman is being celebrated with a career retrospective at Nashville’s non-profit film center, The Belcourt, starting next week. Having undergone extensive renovations and preservations in 2016, The Belcourt is now one of Nashville’s most beloved homes for the arts, attracting audiences from all over Tennessee and the Southeast region, as well as visitors from across the country and globe. The theater programs over 300 films a year across 4,500 screenings, some of which feature Q&As with filmmakers and scholars.

Born in Hawaii, but raised in Australia, Kidman made her feature acting debut at the age of 16 and has been working steadily ever since. During her speech at the AFI ceremony, Kidman said, “It is a privilege to make films. And glorious to have made films and television with these storytellers who allowed me to run wild and...

Lulu Wang remembers Nicole Kidman spiraling down a psychological rabbit hole in Jonathan Glazer’s 2004 dream-like masterpiece Birth where a woman believes that a 10-year-old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband. “That’s my favorite,” Wang declares, much to Kidman’s delight — and surprise. During the making of Prime Video’s Expats drama series, based on Janice Y.K. Lee’s second novel, The Expatriates published in early 2016, they both discovered that they had the same ‘get up and do it’ sensibility. As Kidman put it: “You’ve got to roll up your sleeves and do it.” Followed by a cry of “Don’t just sit there, let’s do it, let’s do it.” Wang says it’s “super rare” to meet someone like Kidman. “It feels pretty rare because there are a lot of people who talk about meeting more female directors. But I think that the evidence is in the resume.

BFI Distribution has acquired Payal Kapadia’s acclaimed Cannes Competition title All We Imagine As Light for UK and Ireland theatrical release.

The first Indian film to be selected in Official Competition at Cannes in three decades, All We Imagine As Light was strongly received at its premiere last night and currently sits in joint first place on Screen’s closely-watched Cannes jury grid.

The film centres on two nurses with troubled relationships in Mumbai who go on a road trip to a beach town — a welcome refuge that gives them the space to grow. It stars Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha,...

Julio Torres is stepping into a very literal and gender-swapped “Girl With a Pearl Earring” rendition for HBO.

The “Los Espookys” creator is back at the network with new surreal series “Fantasmas,” which he created, directed, and stars in. The series debuted at the Atx TV Festival earlier this year.

Torres plays a fictionalized version of himself as he tries to uncover a lost gold oyster earring. In his search to find the precious object, Torres’ character Julio reflects on the offbeat folks he encounters in introspective, eerie, and comedic vignettes set in a dreamy, alternate version of New York City. The surreal series is billed as a “fantastical six-part tale” that is a “kaleidoscope of color” to “weave together stories of people looking for meaning, purpose, and connection in an increasingly isolating world.”

In addition to Torres, the cast includes Martine Gutierrez, Tomas Matos, and Joe Rumrill as the voice of Bibo.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is getting another shot at finding an audience. Lionsgate has revealed that the Henry Cavill-led action movie is heading to Premium Video on Demand and Premium Electronic Sell-Through this Friday.

Although The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare has been in theaters for less than a month, the movie has drastically underperformed at the box office. At the time of writing, Ungentlemanly Warfare has only grossed $19.3 million worldwide off a budget of $60 million, meaning that the movie is destined to be a financial failure, at least during its theatrical run. This is likely why Lionsgate is releasing The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare on PVOD on Friday, May 10, hoping that those who don't frequent the theater will buy or rent the movie at home. Digital platforms that Ungentlemanly Warfare will be available on include, but are not limited to, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, and Vudu.

Ever wonder what it'd look like if a World War II drama was filtered through director Guy Ritchie's sensibilities? There isn't a single piece of generative AI tech out there that could possibly have come up with the result of "Casablanca" by way of "Inglourious Basterds," with a scene-stealing performance from Alan Ritchson, to boot. "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" perhaps wasn't the most Guy Ritchie film we've ever received, but it certainly was an entertaining enough way to spend an afternoon at the movies as the ensemble cast of stars pummeled Nazis for a solid two hours. Based on true historical events as depicted in the book "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops," the action-comedy took a much more irreverent tone to the overall story of the first black ops mission in modern warfare.

After...

Julio Torres is crediting Ryan Gosling for being a “world-builder” of a comedic actor.

The “Problemista” writer/director/star told Entertainment Weekly that Gosling had more than a few sketch ideas when he returned to host “SNL.” Torres previously worked as a “Saturday Night Live” writer, and also returned with a skit per Gosling’s request to follow-up their viral “Papyrus” sequence parodying the font used in James Cameron’s “Avatar.” And much like the “Avatar” franchise itself, Gosling had a vision for making multiple installments of the “Papyrus” sketch.

“With no Ryan Gosling, there’s no ‘Papyrus 1,’ and there’s no ‘Papyrus 2,’” Torres said. “The first one was this sort of throwaway joke I made that he really latched on to. He was like, ‘Oh, I think maybe there’s an idea there,’ and I was like, ‘I really don’t think so.’ I didn’t tell him that,...

The Leviathan arc in Season 7 failed to impress audiences, as the monsters proved to be more of an inconvenience than a real threat. Sam's forced marriage to Becky in Season 7 was played for laughs but left fans feeling uncomfortable and insulted by the show. Bobby Singer's death in Season 7, followed by his return as a ghost, undermined the emotional impact and disappointed viewers.

Warning: This article contains mentions of extreme violence.

The hit drama Supernatural had many fantastic storylines and interesting characters, but some moments made viewers give up on the show altogether. Supernatural ran for 15 seasons from 2005 to 2020, and after season 11 aired, the show earned the title of the longest-running American live-action fantasy TV series ever. Supernatural followed the lives of Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) Winchester, two demon hunters who were later joined by angel Castiel (Misha Collins). In 2020, the Supernatural finale aired and brought...

Nicole Kidman has captivated audiences with her spellbinding acting for over 40 years and has excelled in theatre, film, and television. Not only is she an accomplished producer but a five-time Academy Award nominee. Her role as Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002) earned her the Oscar for Best Actress in 2002.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1967, she began her career in Australia as a teenager with roles in Bush Christmas (1983) and BMX Bandits (1983). Her performance in Dead Calm (1989) would grab the attention of Hollywood, and Tom Cruise, casting her in her breakout role as neurologist Dr. Claire Lewicki, in Days of Thunder (1990).

Her trajectory to establishing herself among Hollywood’s A-List continued as she starred alongside Cruise again in Far and Away (1992), mastered her comedic acting chops as an aspiring television personality in Gus Van Sant’s black comedy, To Die For (1995), and portrayed another doctor in the superhero film Batman Forever (1995), opposite Val Kilmer.

Quick Links Rei's "Birth" and the "Children" Naming Convention The First Half of Rei is Lilith The Second Half of Rei is Yui Ikari What Happened to The First Rei? The Second and Third Reis Are the Most Familiar to Fans Rei's Fate at the End of Neon Genesis Evangelion and End of Evangelion Rei Ayanami is a synthetic being created using the blood of a God-like entity called Lilith and the DNA of Shinji's mother, Yui Ikari. There are three incarnations of Rei shown throughout Nge, and with each rebirth she becomes increasingly uncertain of her purpose and reason for living. At the end of the original Evangelion series, Rei merges with Adam and Lilith, jump-starting the Human Instrumentality Project and forcing humanity into the singularity.

In Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rei Ayanami is, ironically, both the series' most well-known and most enigmatic figure. She is one of the most recognizable characters in anime,...

Released in 2004, Jonathan Glazer’s second feature Birth refused to spoon-feed answers to the audience, which might’ve unfortunately added to its box-office failure at the time. However, decades later, the highly polarizing film, which saw Nicole Kidman delivering her best performance since Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, continues to resonate with fans.

While the visionary director was initially conflicted about starring Kidman, following her celebrity stature, it didn’t take long for the filmmaker to be convinced she was ready for the role. Reflecting on her character, Glazer revealed that they initially talked about de-s-xualizing Kidman’s image, but at the end of the day, he couldn’t differentiate her from herself.

Jonathan Glazer Wanted to Push Nicole Kidman Far Away From Her Usual Self in Birth

Jonathan Glazer’s Birth | New Line Cinema

Co-written by Jean-Claude Carriere, Birth follows the story of Anna, who is approached by...

Goku and Vegeta arguably have the greatest rivalry in anime history. From Dragon Ball Z to Super, the two have been locked in a constant back-and-forth to see who comes out on top, with Goku usually ending up the stronger of the two. Now that Vegeta has begun to focus more on his own personal development and has become more like a training partner to Goku than an outright rival, it may be time for Goku to move on and find a new rival in the near future.

Goku has a way of bringing out the best in others, making him the ideal person to be anyone's source of friendly competition. There are plenty of new, interesting villains in Dragon Ball Super just waiting to have a redemption arc like Vegeta did, and they all have far greater power than either Goku or Vegeta did in Dragon Ball Z.

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Filmmaker Jonathan Glazer's speech at the Oscars sparked controversy, and now more than 500 Jewish filmmakers, artists, and producers in Hollywood have written a letter denouncing him. Famous signatories, including Eli Roth and Jennifer Jason Leigh, denounce Glazer for equating Nazism with Israeli actions. Glazer's film, The Zone of Interest, won the Oscars for Best International Film and Best Sound and is considered a masterpiece. His speech called for peace and criticized the dehumanization of any group.

It's been eight days since MovieWeb was at the 96th Academy Awards, and there are still thunderous rumbles in Hollywood over the Best International Film acceptance speech given by Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest. While the speech (which was misleadingly misquoted by Variety and other outlets) may seem harmless to many people, decrying any act of dehumanization and murder, be they committed by Nazi or Hamas, Israeli or Houthi, American or Iranian.

Receiving accolades such as the Citizen Critics' Award at the 27th Busan International Film Festival and the Festival Choice at the 48th Seoul Independent Film Festival, “Birth” goes somewhat unnoticed, but proves to be truly impactful. Delving into themes of personal choice, societal expectations, and the inherent struggle for autonomy, it emerges as a poignant reflection on the complexities of contemporary womanhood.

Birth is screening at Helsinki Cine Aasia

Jae (Han Hae-in), a promising young writer, is about to publish her new book. Geon-woo (Lee Ju-han), her roommate and lover, works as an English teacher at a private institute. Content with their lives and determined to avoid traditional commitments, their world is shattered by the unexpected news of Jae's unplanned pregnancy. While Geon-woo, on the verge of a promotion, sees this as an opportunity to fulfill his desire for a family, Jae struggles with the fear of how motherhood might affect her career aspirations.

It isn't always true that a cacophonous work of cinema takes home the Academy Award for Best Sound (or what used to be "Oscars" before Design and Mixing were combined into one category), but I can't think of the last time a genuinely quiet movie won this award.

Then again, Jonathan Glazer's "The Zone of Interest" might've been, in terms of subject matter, the loudest movie of 2023. It shouldn't have been. 80 years after Allied forces began liberating Axis-operated concentration camps at the end of World War II, we should be crystal clear on the topic of genocide. We should've been clear on it then. But rather than learn from history, we remain determined to repeat its most despicable mistakes.

And as "The Zone of Interest" makes abundantly clear throughout its harrowingly placid 104-minute runtime, these really aren't mistakes. The monsters who executed the Third Reich's Final Solution were...

“The Zone of Interest” writer/director Jonathan Glazer addressed the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict head-on during the 2024 Oscars.

“Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst. It’s shaped all of our past and present,” Glazer said in his acceptance speech for Best International Feature. “Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”

Glazer was joined on stage by fellow producer on the film James Wilson and its financial backer Leonard Blavatnik.

Glazer continued, “Whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel or the ongoing attack on Gaza — all the victims of this dehumanization, how do we resist?”

The World War II period piece is set against the backdrop of Auschwitz as a German Nazi commandant (Christian Friedel) and his emotionless wife (Sandra Hüller) condone the mass-murders of Jews.

Long-working British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer celebrated his first Academy Award win at the 96th Oscars, taking home the Best International Feature Film prize for “The Zone of Interest.”

The Holocaust drama, starring Christian Friedel and “Anatomy of a Fall” Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller as the German Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss and his sociopathic wife Hedwig, has been steadily wending its way through the awards season since earning the Grand Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. Glazer loosely adapts a Martin Amis novel for this searing story about the Höss’ indifference to the Auschwitz horrors happening on the other side of their bucolic garden; the family lives with their three children in an emotionless bubble while Jews are exterminated en masse.

“Zone of Interest” never shows those horrors on screen, instead relying on Johnnie Burn’s Oscar-nominated sound design to convey the horrifying reality as screams and shots and roiling furnaces...

The Casting Society (CSA) announced its 39th Annual Artios Awards winners in film, television, theatre, commercials, short form and short form series on Thursday night, honoring Oscar Best Picture nominees “Barbie,” “The Holdovers,” “Past Lives” and “Killers of the Flower Moon” (which beat out “Oppenheimer”) along with Academy Award animation frontrunner “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.”

In addition to the film victors, television winners included “The Bear,” “Succession.” “Reservation Dogs,” “The Last of Us” and “Beef,” while the theatre winners spotlighted “Leopoldstadt,” “Into the Woods,” “Downstate,” “Merrily We Roll Along” and “The Inheritance.”

The awards were held in three-pronged ceremonies in Los Angeles (hosted by Niecy Nash-Betts), New York (hosted by Alex Edelman) and London (hosted by Samantha Morton). The award ceremonies hosted more than 1,500 attendees combined.

SEEArtios Awards: Presenters to include Rachel Brosnahan, David Oweloyo, Alfred Molina, James Marsden, Sarah Hyland…

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Indie Spanish film studio Filmax has picked up international sales rights to “Alumbramiento” (‘Birth’), the sophomore feature by Pau Teixidor (“Purgatorio”), set up at Aquí y Allí Films, the production house run by Pedro Hernández Santos and behind “Something is About to Happen,” and “Life and Nothing More.”

Co-written by Teixidor and Lorena Iglesias (“Towards Bruce Lee’s Tomb”), and inspired by real events, the feature narrates the moving story of Lucia, a teenager sent to a centre for young, pregnant girls in Spain, in 1982.

In her feature length debut, Spanish actress Sofía Milán (“Love in Difficult Times”) plays Lucía, who’s been taken to Madrid by her mother Marisa to find a solution for an unwanted pregnancy.

Lucía ends up in Peñagrande, a reformatory for teen mothers-to-be where she will forge strong friendships with the other girls and discover the awful truth that her not yet born child is...

Greta Lee and Teo Yoo in ‘Past Lives’ (Photo Credit: Jon Pack / Courtesy of A24)

Past Lives took home top film honors at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards, held on February 25th in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica. The film also earned Celine Song the Best Director award, with American Fiction‘s Cord Jefferson and May December‘s Samy Burch earning screenplay honors.

On the television side, The Last of Us collected two awards: Nick Offerman for Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series and Keivonn Montreal Woodard for Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series. Beef also netted two wins, with Ali Wong awarded Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series and the show earning the Best New Scripted Series award.

2024 Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations

Best Feature (Award given to the producer.)

All of Us Strangers

Producers: Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin,...

Another big award show took place this weekend (in addition to the SAG Awards), the Film Independent Spirit Awards, which celebrates indie film and TV. One thing about this awards show is that their idea of independent sometimes makes me scratch my head a bit, with HBO’s big-budget The Last of Us nominated a whole bunch in the TV category, along with Netflix’s Beef and several other streaming shows, which I’m not sure one could call independent. For films, there’s a $30 million budget cap. For TV, I’m honestly not sure what the benchmark is because Last of Us was notoriously an expensive show to shoot, costing at least $100 million.

Indeed, The Last of Us won some key awards on the TV side, winning Best Supporting Performance (for Nick Offerman) and Best Breakthrough Performance (for Keivonn Montreal Woodard). Over on the film side, American Fiction and...

The best in independent film and television were honored at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards!

Plenty of A-List stars were in attendance at the event on Sunday afternoon (February 25) at the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, Calif.

Movies are only eligible for a Spirit Award if they have a budget of less than $30 million, so there are some awards favorites like Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Killers of the Flower Moon that are not nominated.

American Fiction, May December, and Past Lives lead the pack this year with five nominations each.

Make sure to check out our post with photos of Every celeb who attended the event! Also check out our best dressed list.

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Best Feature (Award given to the producer)

All of Us Strangers

Producers: Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Sarah Harvey

American Fiction

Producers: Cord Jefferson,...