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A cross-cultural tale of grief and dance, Josef Kubota Wladyka’s “Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty!” stems from an intimate place, but ends up emotionally inert thanks to its style. Its key…
A tale of withdrawal that feels withdrawn in its telling, Lilian T. Mehrel’s debut “Honeyjoon” traces familial relationships in the wake of loss as a mother and daughter find their way…
Mackey confirms that Ella McCay is a study of the "human condition", and tells us that's partly what drew her to the role. "The film is very much about cycles and cycles being broken, or…
During the film, Jake says to Quaritch, "You've got new eyes, Colonel, and all you've got to do is open them" Is there anything that the making of the Avatar films opened your eyes to?…
The day after the world premiere of “Avatar: Fire and Ash” in Los Angeles, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver — who wrote the third film in the multibillion-dollar movie series with director…
Zhao’s first three features were steeped in documentary realism, shot with a sturdy, windswept lyricism and abounding in nonprofessional actors. Then came her fourth picture, the clunky…
In September, my mom died after a short battle with colon cancer. She was 83 and lived a full life in which she had a fulfilling career in education, traveled the world visiting 100-plus…
With cruel ease, human error can transform normal life into a living purgatory. A sudden car collision or a bad fall can drastically upend one’s existence with swift force. Inspired by…
Busan’s Asian Project Market is showcasing “Arrival of Water,” the latest feature from Korean director Jo Heeyoung, produced by Park Sejin. The project delves into grief, language, and…
“Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don’t get to say when or how,” writes Helen Macdonald in “H Is for Hawk,” a book I picked up by accident…
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 1 of “Long Story Short,” now streaming on Netflix. The adult animated sitcom “Long Story Short” begins with a family grieving the…
In the early morning hours of high summer’s holiday, July 4, a Southern summer camp became the site of tragedy: At Camp Mystic in Central Texas, flash flooding from a rapidly rising…
Ahead of “Gen V‘s” second season, Jaz Sinclair confirms: fans will get to see a new side of Marie Moreau. “Thinking about Marie in Season 1 versus Marie in Season 2, she does change. She…
The plot of “John Wick 5″ may not be exactly what fans expect. In a recent discussion with Empire, franchise director Chad Stahelski said the fifth “John Wick” installment will be “really…
For many of us, periods of intense grieving don’t leave clear, linear memories. Time stretches, compresses and fragments, words and faces and gestures emerge irregularly from an…
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong expressed his profound sadness at the December 29 Jeju Air jet tragedy in South Korea, which claimed 179 lives. On Monday, December 30, PM Wong shared his…
In 2019, I got an Italian grandmother for Christmas. Her name is Maria Volontà and she’ll be 100 years old in February. We’re not related by blood; and were strangers the day she first…
Jotted down on paper, this playful story about a lazy lion is now a memento of a young life lost. Chidera Onovo, 15, was a caring boy who loved to draw and was his mother’s unabashed…
