Allen Iverson driving to the basket for a layup. Steph Curry draining a deep 3-pointer. To RaMell Ross, this is basketball at its best. Speed, motion and athleticism all on display. Roughly a decade ago, a professional basketball career would have been the highlight of his life. Ross played pro ball in the United Kingdom
“I’m Still Here” — the Oscar best picture nominee about the murder of a Brazilian congressman by the country’s military dictatorship — concludes with a single sentence that delivers a gut punch of historical reality: The five soldiers charged in the killing were never punished because of laws granting them amnesty. Now the film could
A slate-gray cat hops aboard a sailboat in an effort to avoid a great flood in Flow. Janus Films hide caption toggle caption Janus Films Perhaps the most famous line in ancient Greek thought comes from the philosopher Heraclitus, who said, You cannot step into the same river twice. That’s because reality is not a
Just to apply for the visa, he has to travel to another country, in Jordan, because the U.S. has no way for Palestinians who are living under occupation in the West Bank to apply. It’s like two weeks left and we don’t know will he even be able to travel. And if he travels to
The five Oscar-nominated live-action short films each tackle urgent sociopolitical issues. By placing us in the shoes of people on the front lines of them — even in a sci-fi pseudo-comedy — they promise to shake viewers. ‘A Lien’ Sophie and Oscar have been together for years. They’re married, they have a young daughter. But
Dogwoof/Yabayay Media/Antipode Films Basel Adra with his camera in his West Bank home, an Israeli army bulldozer behind him A Palestinian and an Israeli sit in a West Bank village at night. They wonder aloud whether Basel will ever be able to freely visit Yuval’s home in Israel, whether Basel’s village will get building permits,
An Oscar-nominated actor has joked about wanting to punch a ‘snobby’ actress who looked down on him. Guy Pearce, 57, rose to fame in the 1980s in a recurring role as Mike Young on the Australian soap opera Neighbours. He went on to enjoy a huge career in Hollywood, earning acclaim for his roles in
No Other Land documents the Israeli government’s demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. Cinetic Media hide caption toggle caption Cinetic Media No Other Land isn’t just the most powerful nonfiction film I saw in 2024; it also had one of the year’s more remarkable off-screen narratives. The movie brings us into Masafer
We listen back to a 1994 interview with Lynch, who died Jan. 14. His credits include Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. Plus, Isabella Rossellini and Nicolas Cage remember the director.
This year’s crop of Oscar nominated films and actors have been revealed after the Academy announced the films which will be recognised for the 97th ceremony. While some of the contenders are only exclusively playing in theatres at the moment, including The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown, others are available to stream. The biggest and