Category Archives: Variety

‘Zurawski v Texas’ Review: A Disquieting Documentary on the First Patient-Plaintiffs Seeking Abortion Rights Since Roe v. Wade
If, before 2022, you were ever called "hysterical" for voicing your concerns that a U.S.-based woman's constitutionally protected right to have an abortion was actually hanging by a thread, you'll fin...
Tomilaffly Aug 31, 2024

Jude Law Is Officially Back After 7-Minute Standing Ovation at Venice for Fighting White Supremacy in ‘The Order’
Jude Law lit up the Lido with his powerful performance as an FBI agent fighting neo-Nazi terrorists in Justin Kurzel’s timely crime thriller “The Order” that elicited a 7-minute stan...
Alex Ritman Aug 31, 2024

‘The Order’ Review: Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in an Explosive Crime Drama About the White-Supremacist Cult of the 1980s
"The Order," while scrupulously true to the events of 1983 and 1984, presents itself as a cautionary allegory of what's happening today: the entwined rise of MAGA and Christian nationalism and the rac...
Owen Gleiberman Aug 31, 2024

Fatman Scoop, ‘Be Faithful’ Rapper, Dies After Collapsing on Stage
Fatman Scoop, the rapper known for his 1999 hit “Be Faithful” and who worked with artists such as Missy Elliott and Mariah Carey, has died. He was 53. Fatman Scoop, real name Isaac Freeman...
Michaela Zee Aug 31, 2024

It Takes Time to Become a Hero in Venice Days Feature ‘To Kill a Mongolian Horse’
In Mongolian Venice premiere "To Kill a Mongolian Horse," it takes time to become a hero. Especially the kind that impresses the audience at popular horse shows. "I am a local - I grew up on this land...
Carolehorst Aug 31, 2024

Voice Actor Jennifer Hale on Video Game Strike and AI Fears: ‘You’re Using Technology to Take Away Our Ability to Feed Our Kids’
Jennifer Hale has been a fumbling alien, a screaming six-year-old and a superhero who saves the world. The voice actor, whose work in animation and video games includes "Avatar: The Last Airbender," "...
Andrés Buenahora Aug 31, 2024

Telluride Doc ‘The White House Effect’ Reveals How George H.W. Bush Administration Deliberately Destroyed an Opportunity to Stop Climate Change
In “The White House Effect,” directors Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk’s document how a chance to take real action on global warming was not just squandered but deliberately und...
Addie Morfoot Aug 31, 2024

Ghosts of Germany’s Past Evoked in Venice Films ‘Riefenstahl,’ ‘September 5’
Andres Veiel’s documentary "Riefenstahl," which challenges the carefully crafted public persona of one of Germany's most controversial directors, who was forever tainted by working with the Nazi...
Leo Barraclough Aug 31, 2024

‘Battleground’ Review: The Cure is Often Worse Than the Disease in a Turgid WWI Medical Drama
1918 in Italy was, a title reminds us, “the year of victory.” Yet the first images in Gianni Amelio’s WWI-set “Battleground” are anything but triumphal: a pile of bloodie...
Jessica Kiang Aug 31, 2024

‘The White House Effect’ Review: How the U.S. Government’s Global Warming Fight Went Cold
Most people probably can't remember "global warming" or whatever you want to call it being a significant issue - let alone a political football - before the last decade or two. But as "The White House...
Dharv2014 Aug 31, 2024