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Matt Minton mminton@variety.com With a Steven Spielberg film currently filming in the area, the Made in Huntington Film & TV Festival is officially launching with the goal of supporting emerging filmmakers. Starting Thursday and running through April 6, the festival is hosting 14 public screenings, with a total of 35 titles chosen from 100 submissions. For festival executive producer and Huntington’s director of film and television Joe Schramm, the festival is a unique opportunity to highlight production opportunities in Long Island.

Selome Hailu Jack Black, Kenan Thompson and Ego Nwodim smashed together a reggae track with a parody of the My Chemical Romance song “Welcome to the Black Parade” on “Saturday Night Live” to joke about how goth kids act on vacation. Dressed in exaggerated goth attire, complete with bold eyeliner and a black wig, Black sang, “When I was a young boy / My parents took me down to Jamaica / For my high school spring break / They said, ‘Come to the pool’ but / I stayed in the room with my graphic novels / So I could masturbate.” The song started with the reggae beat alone, with Thompson and Nwodim playing Jamaicans and singing, “When there is war and struggle and pain / How do we fill our souls with joy again? / We look and we laugh at / Goth kid on vacation.” Michael Longfellow played the song’s titular goth kid, sticking out from his happy family in photos, wearing combat boots on the beach, getting his long coat stuck in a hammock, painting his nails black and screaming after getting hit in the head with a beach ball.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic A school shooting is such a cataclysmic event that any attempt to dramatize the aftermath of one is, by definition, a film to take seriously. That said, there’s a right way to make one of these. “Mass,” the 2021 Sundance drama in which four parents gathered in a church antechamber for a painfully cathartic encounter session (two of them were the parents of a victim; two were the parents of the shooter), was a movie that walked a delicate tightrope.

Scrubs is one of the most beloved TV shows of the early ’00s.

Jonelle Matthews vanished just five days before Christmas 1984 in an American mystery that lasted nearly four decades.The schoolgirl disappeared on the evening of 20 December after being dropped off at her house by her school friend Deanna and Deanna’s dad Russell Ross. Police in small town Greeley, Colorado, feared she had been abducted but were unable to find a lead. 130 days after she went missing, the case prompted prompted President Ronald Reagan to make Jonelle one of the first missing children to be featured on milk cartons in his campaign to find lost children and bring them home.

The Easter holidays have arrived, along with the fresh bloom of spring. If you've been on a quest for adorable yet fashionable children's clothing to usher your little ones into the new season, you're in the right spot. Children's fashion has seriously upped its game in recent years, boasting hundreds of stylish and practical options at fairly reasonable prices.

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor Michael Shannon and Judy Greer first collaborated when they were cast in the sweet homage to small town living “Pottersville” in 2017. They would meet up in an episode of the Duplass brothers’ anthology series “Room 104” again as actors. But in Shannon’s feature film directorial debut, “Eric LaRue,” Shannon is stepping behind the camera to guide Greer.Brett Neveu adapted his 2002 stage play for the film, which centers on Janice (Greer), the mother of a school shooter, in the aftermath of the act.

Elton John spends a lot of his time these days contemplating his mortality. As the music icon’s health declines, the Rocketman hitmaker fears his time on earth is growing short. When his time comes, he wants to ensure things are as easy on his family as possible.

Kiss of Life‘s agency is apologizing.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer An official trailer for “The Naked Gun” reboot is here, and brings with it a special set of skills: absurdist comedy, glossy action aesthetics, Liam Neeson in polkadot briefs and school girl uniform and, naturally, an O.J. Simpson joke. Neeson stars as Frank Drebin Jr., the son of legendary goofball cop and franchise father Leslie Nielsen.

fantasies, in which we fling open the windows and flit about with a feather duster, sweeping a winter’s worth of build-up particles off the baseboards. The problem is, along with dust, clutter also tends to pile up during hibernation season, making it challenging to deep-clean or air-out much of anything. Decluttering is the obvious answer, but the declutter-verse itself is now such a cluttered space—with so many methods and so much #CleanTok content, it can be hard to decide where to start.That’s why we’re loving a cleanse-like approach that’s like a 7-day declutter-your-home countdown, only you’re actually counting up.

Growing up between the late '90s and early noughties, Amanda Bynes was a household name. She began her career as a bright young talent on Nickelodeon's All That from 1996 to 2000 and quickly became the star of her spin-off show The Amanda Show from 1999 to 2002. Her teen years saw her land roles in movies like Big Fat Liar (2002) and What a Girl Wants (2003).

Weak Hero Class 2, starring Park Ji-hoon, Ryeo Un and more. Here’s everything you need to know about the new series.The Weak Hero series is based on the popular webtoon series of the same name, following high school student Yeon Si-eun.

Selome Hailu Reese Witherspoon has shared a first look at Lexi Minetree as Elle Woods in “Elle,” Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming “Legally Blonde” prequel series. The series recently began filming, Witherspoon announced on Instagram.

Celebrities are paying tribute to Val Kilmer.

Slauson Rec, named after the Slauson Recreation Center in Los Angeles where LaBeouf held his school from 2018 until 2020. Director Leo Lewis O’Neil told Vanity Fair that the film was made from 800 hours of footage, claiming the Transformers star gave him a camera when he joined the class told him to film everything that happened.The Vanity Fair piece said: “O’Neil captured multiple instances of LaBeouf initiating physical altercations, several of which made the final cut of his movie””.

Naman Ramachandran Legendary Japanese director Takeshi Kitano‘s samurai epic “Kubi” will open the sixth edition of London’s Queer East Festival on April 23 at BFI Southbank. The festival, running through May 18, will showcase over 100 titles exploring LGBTQ+ experiences across East and Southeast Asia. Highlights include “Rookie,” about a teenager joining an all-girls volleyball team in the Philippines; “Under the Moonlight,” documenting an Islamic boarding school for transgender women in Indonesia; and the 1968 Japanese underground film “Crazy Love,” shot in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer “Barbarian” mastermind Zach Cregger is officially back, bringing a deeply unsettling look at his latest film, “Weapons,” to CinemaCon 2025. During a robust Warner Bros. presentation at the Las Vegas gathering, Cregger proved why he’s one of the most coveted directors currently working in the lucrative genre.

Shia LaBeouf is standing by a documentary that depicts him allegedly initiating physical altercations against some of his acting students.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Leo Lewis O’Neil’s documentary “Slauson Rec” chronicles the rise and fall of a free acting school Shia LaBeouf started at the Slauson Recreation Center in Los Angeles in 2018. O’Neil spoke for the first time to Vanity Fair about the project, which was pulled together from 800 hours of footage and reportedly includes scenes of LaBeouf’s physical violence towards members of the experimental theater collective. LaBeouf announced the theater collective to the public on Twitter in a September 2018 video post: “You don’t have to be an actor; you don’t have to ever have thought about being an actor.

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