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In Monument, directed by Bryan Singer, the Israelis are still in Lebanon after the invasion that began in 1982 with Operation Peace for Galilee. The South Lebanon Army commissions Israeli architect Yacov Rechter, who works together with his son Amnon, to build a monument honoring Lebanese soldiers. While Yacov accepts the deal, Amnon decides to…
Building on the foundation laid by ESPN’s excellent “30 for 30” series, Netflix launched its own franchise of films about unusual sports stories in 2021 under the banner “Untold.” With an intent to tell unique sports stories with the insight and visual language of documentary filmmaking instead of just a basic cable TV special, the…
Forget all the bad stuff you ever knew about Michael Jackson. Wipe it from your mind. If you happen to be thinking back to the tabloid circus, the PR own-goals and all those eccentric court appearances where he was turning up in his jimmy-jams – those moments that engulfed his later life and tarnished his…
Netflix will never run out of juicy material for its “Untold” sports documentary series, which over the years has tackled scandals and controversies such as the “Malice at the Palace” brawl between the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons; the Manti Te’o catfishing saga; the rise and crash of Johnny Manziel; and the Michigan football sign-stealing…
Netflix will never run out of juicy material for its “Untold” sports documentary series, which over the years has tackled scandals and controversies such as the “Malice at the Palace” brawl between the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons; the Manti Te’o catfishing saga; the rise and crash of Johnny Manziel; and the Michigan football sign-stealing…
Eighty years ago, the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the second-oldest festival in the world, screened its first films. Originally organized by two spa towns—Mariánské Lázně and Karlovy Vary—the festival ran from August 1-15 in 1946. Since that modest edition, which showed 13 feature films, the festival has grown permanently in Karlovy Vary, beginning in…
Swedish filmmaker Ragnhild Ekner is a diehard IFK Göteborg fan and was partly driven to make a documentary about ultras, a subculture of diehard football fans, following the suicide of her close friend (explored in her previous film, The Traffic Lights Turn Blue Tomorrow). Going to football matches and the people she found there helped her through the…
“Are you sexy, beautiful and fast?” An advertisement in a 1977 edition of Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times asked. “Beautiful, sexy and equally fast with hands and brains – if you think you fit this description, the title role in a spy thriller movie awaits you.” The promise of explosive action intrigued 17-year-old Doris Young, who answered…
“What if animals acted like people, and those people were sad and horny?” It’s an old chestnut at this point in the realm of adult animated comedies; after all, sometimes it’s novel, and even cathartic, to see our very human foibles reflected in the furry friends we love so unconditionally. Prime Video’s “Kevin,” to its…
“What if animals acted like people, and those people were sad and horny?” It’s an old chestnut at this point in the realm of adult animated comedies; after all, sometimes it’s novel, and even cathartic, to see our very human foibles reflected in the furry friends we love so unconditionally. Prime Video’s “Kevin,” to its…