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Dune: Part Two picked up a couple Oscar wins this month and fans are very excited about another movie being added to the franchise in the future.

Aramide Tinubu Tennese Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winner “A Streetcar Named Desire” is still one of Broadway’s most critically acclaimed plays. Written in 1947 and adapted to the big screen in 1951 in the Academy Award-winning film starring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando and Kim Hunter, the themes of desire, illusion, trauma and power remain timely. Now, boasting an exceptional cast and a minimal set, a 21st-century audience is experiencing the tragedy of what happens when delusion and reality come crashing together.

Joe Leydon Film Critic During my interview a while back with a director of small-budget Westerns, he explained to me that if you keep your costs down low enough and, better still, cast a recognizable character actor or country music star — not a superstar, but someone recognizable — to promote in packaging and advertising, you could turn a profit just on DVD and Blu-ray sales. “You do it right,” he said, “and you make your money back from Redbox and big-box stores.

Siddhant Adlakha Zak Hilditch’s Australian disaster feature “We Bury the Dead” wrestles with how much it wants to be a zombie movie. It’s at its most interesting and exciting when it approaches the well-worn subgenre with brand-new spins, resulting in haunting scenes that open a cinematic window into the darkest, most mysterious parts of the human condition.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Gene Winfield, a custom car designer for films such as “Blade Runner” and “Robocop,” died on March 4. He was 97.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic How basic and hipster dumb and derivative is the SXSW slasher movie “Clown in a Cornfield?” Like many a slasher film before it, the movie is trying to launch its own iconic masked killer. But check out if any of this sounds overly familiar. The killer, named Friendo, wears the face of an evil leering clown, like Pennywise from “It,” topped by a small cocked hat like the one worn by Art the Clown in the “Terrifier” films.

Carolyn Giardina The new documentary “Last Take: Rust and the Story of Halyna,” which premieres Tuesday on Hulu, examines the 2021 gun accident that claimed the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of indie film “Rust” and was directed by Hutchins’s friend, Rachel Mason. Hutchins is remembered fondly in the doc as a friend, wife, mother and aspiring cinematographer.

Abigail Lee In 2020, film critic Alissa Wilkinson started working on a book project about Joan Didion. She wanted to explore the iconic essayist, reporter, novelist and playwright through an angle that hadn’t been considered much before — Didion’s connection to the film industry.

Andre Holland stars in the new indie movie The Actor, though the role was originally developed with Ryan Gosling to play the lead role.

The trailer for the upcoming second season of The Valley has finally arrived!

With Tim Robinson‘s first starring film role in writer-director Andrew DeYoung’s A24 debut Friendship, the comedian hits every cringe note with assistance from Paul Rudd and Kate Mara.

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Andrea Bucko (Alpha Gang) and actress Jordan Claire Robbins (The Umbrella Academy) have officially launched film and TV development fund, finance company, and production banner Raised by Wolves.

Anika Noni Rose is breaking her silence over Disney’s decision earlier this month not to move forward with , an animated musical series offshoot of The Princess and the Frog movie set for Disney+.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Ezra Edelman’s Prince project is joining a select list of documentaries with a dubious distinction – fated not to see the light of day. It happened with Lily Tomlin, the 1986 documentary directed by Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill that has rarely been exhibited publicly. And in the 1970s, the Rolling Stones sued to keep director Robert Frank from releasing his documentary C**ksucker Blues, a film that chronicled a drug-fueled Stones concert tour of the U.S.

At a time when California is looking up its tax credits to $750M annually, there’s some serious competition from across the pond, and that’s Ireland.

Anne Hathaway is on the set of her new project in NYC!

Aimee Lou Wood portrays the role of Chelsea on season three of HBO’s The White Lotus and fans are absolutely loving her performance.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Scarlett Johansson is finally talking about that incredibly raunchy “Saturday Night Live” vagina joke that Michael Che forced her husband, Colin Jost, to read live on air as she watched backstage. The Oscar nominee told InStyle magazine that “it was so vulgar” and “I just can’t believe that they went there.” Jost previously said on “The Tonight Show” that Johansson “was genuinely so shocked” by the joke. “I was like — it was so gross.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A crew member on the Netflix film “Me Time” has settled a lawsuit over a near-fatal fall that left him with a traumatic brain injury. Michael Oronoz was working as a grip at Sunset Gower Studios in September 2021, when he fell from the catwalk to the floor 33 feet below. He was in a coma for three weeks, and had to relearn how to talk and how to walk over the course of a long recovery.

Netflix series Toxic Town.Written by Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials), the series follows a group of mothers who are fighting for justice after a link is discovered between toxic waste in the town and their children being born with defects.Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wood lead the cast, alongside Robert Carlyle, Rory Kinnear, Joe Dempsie, Brendan Coyle, Claudia Jessie and Lauren Lyle.Toxic Town is produced by Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’ production company Broke & Bones, with Minkie Spiro serving as director.Netflix has not announced any plans for a second season. The show was originally billed as a miniseries, so it’s highly unlikely a second season will be commissioned.The story of the Corby scandal was also concluded across the show’s four episodes, so there’s little reason for the show to continue unless it tackles another case entirely.The true story behind Toxic Town is often described as the English version of Erin Brockovich, a paralegal who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company in relation to water contamination in Hinkley, California.This case was covered in the 2000 biographical film Erin Brockovich with Julia Roberts in the lead role, who won an Oscar for her performance.As for other similar cases, 2019 film Dark Waters is a dramatised version of Robert Bilott’s case against the chemical manufacturing company DuPont.

J. Kim Murphy “It’s alive!” — as the mad scientists would say.