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Three decades after making “Forrest Gump,” director Robert Zemeckis is once again looking back in time and pushing filmmaking boundaries as he reteams with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright for his latest effort, “Here.”  Hanks and Wright play a married couple who are seen at many ages and life stages in the film, thanks to […]

“Waterdrop”Director: Robert BudinCountry: AlbaniaBudina’s feature debut “Agon” was Albania’s 2013 submission. His fourth feature, “Waterdrop,” premiered internationally at Warsaw. It tells the story of a city hall manager, who faces inner turmoil when her teenage son is involved in a rape scandal. “Algiers”Director: Chakib Taleb-BendiabCountry: AlgeriaA thriller in which a psychiatrist and a police inspector […]

Drea de Matteo never was particularly political. Her only partisan statement came via a 2010 music video she directed for Shooter Jenning’s “Summer of Rage” — a not-so-subtle jab at the Bush-Cheney administration’s ever-churning war machine. In 2020, she voted for the first time in her life in the presidential election, casting her ballot for […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the Season 2 finale of “The Diplomat,” now streaming on Netflix. Season 2 of “The Diplomat” has finally dropped, as promised, just days before the most consequential election of our lives. Debora Cahn, the show’s creator, wrote this season way before Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate for president, […]

As Americans prepare to watch the election next week, they seem less inclined to watch the movies. Theaters are seeing a somewhat muted weekend to start November, with the widest new release, Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks’ time-warping drama “Here,” now coming in behind the already slim projections it had going into the weekend.

Returning to Greece with the historical drama “The Return” proved an emotional affair for Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes and director-producer Uberto Pasolini. “Meeting this dream, this need inside Uberto and his passion for the story… We were really moved,” said Binoche before bursting into tears alongside her co-star and director at the film’s press conference […]