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Bill Maher recently teased he’ll hang up his stand-up mic by year’s end. If this does mark the final bow for Maher’s stand-up career, it’s safe to say that few in the comedy world will be shedding any tears. Let’s not beat around the bush; Maher’s stand-up has all the appeal of a prolonged visit …

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"So where's the evidence?" Umbrella Ent. has revealed the official trailer for a docu-drama film titled The Speedway Murders, an intriguing true crime project from Australia. This is an Australian production but is about an American murder, capitalizing on the true crime craze (especially in America). It premiered at the 2023 Adelaide Film Festival last year, and is playing at the New Zealand Film Festival this year but no other release dates are set yet. The Speedway Murders is based on the unsolved murders that claimed the lives of four teens working in a burger restaurant in 1978. Discover one of the United States' most baffling unsolved cases of 4 young employees kidnapped and brutally slain following the Friday night closing shift at a burger restaurant known as Burger Chef in Speedway, Indiana in 1978. The film is a gripping, poignant, and visually striking true-crime story from first-time filmmakers Luke Rynderman & Adam Kamien, with an extensive recreation in it starring actors as the teens working at the burger place. Legit! This seems like such a crazy true crime case, ...

Writer-director Ava Duvernay's 2024 biographical movie with a 97% audience score onRotten Tomatoes receives a streaming release date.

"A valentine to British cinema's greatest dreamers." This one is for all the die-hard cinephiles! Mubi has unveiled the official trailer for the cinema history documentary film called Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger, made by filmmaker David Hinton. This originally premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, and it's next screening at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival in NYC coming up this June. The doc is narrated and presented by Martin Scorsese, who explores the history of these two famous filmmakers: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known for their beloved films including Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death, A Canterbury Tale, and Gone to Earth. It is "a love letter to one of cinema's greatest partnerships." Drawing on a rich array of archive material, Scorsese explores in full the collaboration between the Englishman Powell and Hungarian Pressburger who thrived in the face of adversity during World War II but were eventually brought low by the film industry of the 1950s. This is a mesmerizing look back at cinema ...

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"I'm too romantic. Love should be simple." Music Box Films has revealed an official US trailer for an indie romantic comedy called The Nature of Love from Quebec. This French-language Canadian comedy first premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival last year, and is just now getting a summer debut in limited US theaters. The original title is Simple comme Sylvain in French, or Simple as Sylvain, referring to the man she falls for in this film. Sophia's life is turned upside down when she meets Sylvain. She's from a wealthy family, while Sylvain comes from a large family of manual workers. Sophia questions her own values after abandoning herself to her great romantic impulses – she enjoys sleeping with Sylvain much more following 10 years of marriage and can't stop. So what comes next for her? Starring Magalie Lépine-Blondeau as Sophia and Pierre-Yves Cardinal as Sylvain, plus Monia Chokri, Francis-William Rhéaume, Steve Laplante, Marie-Ginette Guay, Micheline Lanctôt, and Guillaume Laurin. I wrote a positive review of this last year, though others seem to enjoy it while some really dislike ...