Tag: Love
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Why ‘Love, Victor’ Star Michael Cimino Took a Gay Role Against Industry Advice
There are more LGBTQ stories and characters on TV than ever before, but some pesky Hollywood belief systems die hard. When 20th Century Fox released “Love, Simon” in 2018, it was the first major studio blockbuster to center around a gay teen character coming out. What had been an almost too common trope in queer…
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‘Love, Simon’ TV Series Moves from Disney+ to Hulu Over “Adult Themes”
The Love, Simon TV series has a new streaming home and a new name. The half-hour comedy series based on the 2018 teen Lgbtq romantic-comedy has now been moved from Disney+ to Hulu, with the new title Love, Victor, named after the show’s new protagonist. Love, Victor, which will premiere on Hulu during Pride Month…
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‘Ordinary Love’ Directors on Celebrating Everyday Moments in Trying Circumstances
2020 has only just begun, but directors Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn (Good Vibrations) have already delivered my favorite film of the year. Ordinary Love, playing in theaters now, tells the story of a perfectly ordinary couple (Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville) undergoing extraordinary circumstances — a diagnosis of breast cancer. The two actors,…
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Sundance 2020 adds tech giants doc, brings back ‘High Art’, ‘Born Into Brothels’
Love Fraud promoted to Day One screening.In a programming addition, Sundance Film Festival 2020 has slotted in the world premiere of Jeff Orlowski’s documentary The Social Dilemma, and added Born Into Brothels and High Art to its From The Collection strand.The Social Dilemma explores how tech giants like Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube are…
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Idfa Film Review: ‘Love Child’
The tendency to apply the label “narrative film” to non-documentary cinema is a convenience, but also a misnomer: Documentaries can be as narratively driven as any fiction feature, as “Love Child” proves in entirely engrossing fashion. Spanning six years in the lives of two Iranian refugees — and their out-of-wedlock son — as they seek…
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‘Leaving Neverland’ Wins Emmy for Top Documentary Special
Adding to an acclaim-filled 2019, “Leaving Neverland” took home the top award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special at Saturday night’s Creative Arts Emmys.The two-part series chronicles the accounts of James Safechuck and Wade Robson, who each allege that as children they were victims of sexual abuse by Michael Jackson. Each of them recount their…
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‘Love, Simon’ TV Series For Disney+ Announces Lead Role
It was previously revealed that the upcoming Disney streaming service Disney+ would be adapting Love, Simon into a new TV series. Now, as the show begins production, the lead role has been revealed, along with some new story details. Michael Cimino will star in the show, which […]The post ‘Love, Simon’ TV Series For Disney+…
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David Fincher to Direct Netflix Biopic ‘Mank,’ His Long-Awaited First Movie Since ‘Gone Girl’
David Fincher is at long last readying his return to feature filmmaking with the Netflix biopic “Mank,” Variety reports. The drama will star Oscar-winner Gary Oldman as “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz in a story that focuses on the Hollywood legend’s tumultuous development of Orson Welles’ iconic 1941 movie. Mankiewicz won an Oscar for “Citizen…
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Film Review: ‘Chained’
Judging from the first two installments of Yaron Shani’s “Love” trilogy, it’s safe to say the Israeli director has a fatalistic approach when it comes to matters of the heart. In “Stripped,” he juxtaposed a woman suffering the aftereffects of rape and a teenage boy discovering the social signifiers of masculinity. Now, with “Chained,” he…
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‘Room For Rent’ Exclusive Trailer: Brett Gelman Is The World’s Creepiest Roommate In This New Comedy
Comedian Brett Gelman is one of those actors that you’ve seen in a million different films and TV shows, who always seems to steal every scene he’s in, but has yet to break out in a big, deserving way. He has this ability to play the funniest guy in the room and instantly change into…