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Save Share This year’s Academy Awards is shaping up as an unusually open event. From the eight nominees for Best Picture there are three by female directors and three others made for streaming platforms, with only a limited theatrical release. The directors are French, English, African-American, Korean-American and Chinese-American, with only three fitting the standard white male template. Does this heterogenous list indicate the members of the Academy are making a conscious effort to be m...

HULU David Wnendt directs Rebecca Dinersteins screenplay based on her novel about Frances (Jenny Slate), an aspiring painter who takes a job helping Nils (Fridtjov Såheim), a famous artist, create a barn installation in Norway. Frances is tired of her everyday life. Her parents are separating, and theyre all stuck together in a cramped New York apartment. Her art professors find her work uninspiring, and she cant seem to catch a break, so when this apprenticeship with Nils pops up, she has...

Jake Coyle This image released by Focus Features shows Carey Mulligan, left, Emerald Fennell and Laverne Cox on the set of "Promising Young Woman." (Focus Features via AP) March 15, 2021 - 4:34 PM NEW YORK - After a pandemic year that shuttered movie theatres and upended the movie business, Academy Awards nominations on Monday went to two female filmmakers for the first time, to a historically diverse slate of actors and to David Finchers lead-nominee “Mank,â€...

The 2021 Academy Award nominations have been announced. Get a list of all the films nominated for Best Picture and learn how to watch them.

The True Story Behind Aaron Sorkins Golden Globe-Winning Movie The Trial of the Chicago 7 People 3/1/2021 Aaron Sorkin took home the Golden Globe for best screenplay — motion picture for The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Sunday, over 50 years after the events that inspired the film transpired. With a star-studded cast including Eddie Redmayne, Frank Langella, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Sacha Baron Cohen, Sorkin delivers his take on the real-life trial that shook the U.S. in 1969. The Netflix fi...

Netflix Streaming The Trial of the Chicago 7 For Anniversary Netflix Is Streaming The Trial of the Chicago 7 For Free in Honor of the Verdicts Anniversary 3 Shares The Trial of the Chicago 7, and in honor of the milestone, Netflix is streaming the 2020 film for free on their YouTube for 48 hours starting at midnight. Starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, and Eddie Redmayne, the Aaron Sorkin-directed film follows the infamous case of eight men — Abbie Hoffman, Jerry...

“It was there that I learned about the Democratic National Convention,” he said. “It was there that I made the decision: I am going to Chicago.”

The protest was organised outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention Some 3,000 anti-war demonstrators clashed with police and National Guards  Because of TV coverage of convention, the following riots were widely viewed Davies was a longtime peace activist and national director of the community organizing program for the anti-war Students for a Democratic Society He died of lymphoma at his home in Colorado, aged 80, on Tuesday But Davis wife said his legacy goes well beyond his pacifist ...

Beyond Green Power: New Frontiers in Data Center Sustainability Large pipes sporting Googles logo colors move water throughout the cooling plant at the Google data center in Douglas County, Georgia. (Photo: Google) As the drive for data center sustainability enters a new and more urgent phase, what are the next frontiers beyond efficiency and renewable energy sourcing? Here’s a look at the technologies, strategies and best practices we are watching at Data Center Frontier.  Sustainable Cons...

Another â€˜Game of Thrones’ spin-off show is in the works ‘Tales of Dunk and Egg’ is a prequel to the events of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ – the books the fantasy drama series was adapted from - and would be based on the three fantasy novellas by the saga’s author George R. R. Martin 27 January 2021 The one-hour show would follow the adventures of Ser Duncan the Tall and a young Aegon V. Targaryen, over 90 years before the events of ‘Game of Thrones�...