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Perhaps one is doomed to be eclipsed when playing Princess Margaret, but Vanessa Kirby more than held her own in the first two seasons of The Crown. The perfect foil for Claire Foys prissy and dutiful young queen, Kirbys Margaret fulminated on the sidelines, craving the spotlight she managed to attract all too often with her rock n roll lifestyle and her appalling taste in men. She has been replaced in recent seasons by Helena Bonham-Carter as Margaret moves through a painful middle age, but Th...

David Osits documentary, Mayor   89 min. Dir: David Osit Local government is a fraught juggling act in the city of Ramallah, once the headquarters of Yasser Arafat and now de facto capital of what’s officially known as Palestine. This is different, of course, from their claimed but contested capital, Jerusalem, barely more than 10 miles to the south – a place Ramallah’s residents can only see, without being permitted to visit, just like the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. The fine do...

▶︎  Mayor is available in UK cinemas and online on 1 January 2021. Over a blanket of plush strings on the soundtrack, seasonal decoration glitters at the Café de la Paix. Inside, a neatly-coiffed, besuited middle-aged man sips a single espresso at his table. We could be in any suave European capital, except that the preceding sequence has outlined the post-1967 geo-political conundrum that is Ramallah – so here we are in Palestinian territory on the West Bank, now cowed ...

‘Antigone’ and ‘Stand!’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque Updated Dec 30, 2020; Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cinematheque -- beginning Jan. 1 -- will be screening a powerful and apt modern adaptation of Sophocles’ “Antigone.” The tragedy is set in Montreal, where an Algerian refugee family’s 17-year-old daughter fights against law and authority. Sophie Deraspe’s film was the winner of five 2020 Can...

‘10 Days with Dad’ and ‘Kill It and Leave This Town’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque Updated Dec 23, 2020; Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In the spirit of “Mr. Mom,” director Ludovic Bernard’s new comedy “10 Days with Dad” finds a corporate dad over his head when his wife goes on holiday leaving him responsible for the house and their four kids. Beginning on Dec. 25, Cleveland Cinemas (Cedar Lee, the Capitol and Chagrin Cinemas) is ...

The Vow, which brought the sprawl and sensationalism of podcasts to the small screen. Those kinds of docs can certainly be enlightening and entertaining, but they aren’t really representative of the artform at its best. The movies below deal with some of the same kinds of grabby subjects as the new wave of podcast-esque TV: scandals, politics, addiction, sex and death. But the filmmakers behind them have honed their stories finely, finding just the right images and characters to say somethin...

‘Louis Van Beethoven’ and ‘Assassins’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque Updated Dec 16, 2020; Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It’s been 250 years since the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, and director Niki Stein marks the occasion with deep dive into the nearly deaf composer’s life. The lavish new biographical drama “Louis Van Beethoven,” which starts streaming Dec. 18 via the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cinematheque, details...

A very good year for documentaries, if an annus horribilis otherwise By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated December 15, 2020, 8:02 p.m. Email to a Friend Mayor Marty Walsh at the Greater Boston Food Bank, from "City Hall."Courtesy of Zipporah Films Inc. While the big studios struggle under the restrictions of the pandemic, documentary films thrive. Over 140 have been released in 2020 according to Wikipedia, and with difficulty I have picked 10 favorites. They range from “City Hall,â...

SBS VICELAND will be the new home of the long-running and hugely popular Kiwi TV soap, Shortland Street. Premiering Monday, 11 January, and airing weeknights at 5:40pm AEDT, Australians will be treated to season 29, which will be fast tracked from New Zealand. The final forty episodes of season 28 will drop on SBS On Demand on January 1, ahead of the season 29 premiere. New SBS VICELAND programs premiering in 2021 will explore contemporary global issues including: Wet Markets Exposed which look...

Tweet Share Living Room Film Club, our partnership with the Becourt for virtual discussions about films, has been a bright spot in a dark year. In these one-hour, free sessions, Scene staffers and contributors talk with filmmakers, scholars, critics and authors about films that are available to stream. It’s how we’ve continued those Belcourt lobby conversations while the theater was closed due to the pandemic. The success and sheer joy of our programming encouraged us...