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Cannes 2024: Hu Guan’s ‘Black Dog’ Film is One of the Best of the Fest

This film instantly joins the ranks as one of the best dogs movies ever made. There's usually one or two of these every year, so the "best dog movies ever" subgenre is constantly growing, but that's also totally fine. As a dog lover, I am more than happy to keep adding amazing movies to "best of" list. Especially when there's a new story to tell, especially when the production takes care of the dogs and animals on set, especially when the film makes you feel even more in love with dogs (if that's even possible). Black Dog is a new film from China from a filmmaker named Hu Guan, who has already made plenty of other feature films before this. He's obviously a dog lover, there's no way he could make this film if he wasn't. There's also a title card at the end when the credits come up stating that no animals were harmed in the making of the film, and all of the animals on set were properly taken care of. This is expected nowadays, of course, but ...
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Cannes 2024: Jacques Audiard’s Mexican Cartel Musical ‘Emilia Perez’

One of the best things about being at film festivals is that most of the time you never know what is going to happen in the film you're about to watch. At Cannes, it's usually the first time the film is ever being shown to an audience. Walking into these films without any expectations or any idea what we're all in for can result in some of the most wildly exhilarating experiences when you encounter a truly ambitious, unexpected, one-of-a-kind creation. That's the case with Emilia Perez from French filmmaker Jacques Audiard. I shouldn't be surprised, however, considering my love for Audiard's films goes back all the way to my very first visit to Cannes in 2009 - Un Prophet (A Prophet) is still one of my all-time favorite Cannes films. 15 years later and Audiard has totally blown me away again with Emilia Perez, a full-on Broadway-esque musical about Mexican society and a Mexican cartel kingpin who changes sex and reinvents herself. I did not think we'd see a more ambitious film than Megalopolis at Cannes 2024, but here ...
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Adam Carolla Shreds Schwarzenegger, Stern for Insane COVID Rants

Adam Carolla is doing a victory lap, and it’s hard to blame him. The “Mr. Birchum” star took to X Sunday to remind everyone what he said during the recent pandemic. Don’t believe Dr. Anthony Fauci Airline masking rules make no sense The virus overwhelmingly affects the old and immunocompromised The media wants to scare …

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