‘Adulthood’ Review: Alex Winter’s Dark Family Satire Is Not Exactly an Excellent Adventure

‘Adulthood’ Review: Alex Winter’s Dark Family Satire Is Not Exactly an Excellent Adventure

Taking the notion of skeletons in the family closet quite literally, Alex Winter‘s Adulthood sets out to expose something sinister lurking just beneath suburbia’s fake wood-paneled veneer of respectability. In the case of adult siblings, Megan and Noah, it’s the discovery of a seriously decomposed cadaver stuffed behind one of the basement walls of their…

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‘California Schemin” Review: James McAvoy’s Assured Directorial Debut Makes for an Engaging if Familiar Underdog Story

‘California Schemin” Review: James McAvoy’s Assured Directorial Debut Makes for an Engaging if Familiar Underdog Story

Back in the early 2000s, a pair of blue-eyed Scottish lads with dreams of becoming the next Eminem — but dismissed as sounding like “the rapping Proclaimers” — proceeded to pass themselves off as Southern California hip-hoppers, remarkably managing to pull off a hoax that gets them signed by a major record label. It’s the…

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‘Memory of Princess Mumbi’ Director on AI and Writing His African Sci-Fi Romance in Editing Stage

‘Memory of Princess Mumbi’ Director on AI and Writing His African Sci-Fi Romance in Editing Stage

Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser‘s (After the Long Rains, Blind Love) new feature, Memory of Princess Mumbi, world premiered in the Giornate Degli Autori, or Venice Days, program, the independent parallel section of the Venice Film Festival. The sci-fi romance mockumentary, which is set in a futuristic Africa and explores such themes as memory, finding happiness in a tragic world and…

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