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Australians own more guns today than they did in 1996. That year, the country’s largest mass shooting — the Port Arthur Massacre — led the government to swiftly adopt landmark gun control legislation, recalling and destroying 650,000 guns from residents. That rise in Australian gun ownership is the catalyst behind director Justin Kurzel’s latest film, “Nitram.” The film, which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, was greeted with controversy when Kurzel firs...

This week, the Cannes Film Festival secretly added a last-minute film to its lineup: “Revolution of Our Times,” a fiery and gripping account of Hong Kong’s 2019 pro-democracy protests. The “surprise documentary,” which was first screened confidentially to a small group of journalists on July 15, follows seven distinct groups made up of student protesters (like the Valiants, a vigilante group of pro-democracy revolutionaries), journalists, and others who have led the way...

I met Timothée Chalamet. The author with Timothée Chalamet. By On the twelfth of July, in the year of our Lord two-thousand-twenty-one, I met Timothée Chalamet. He was on the red carpet for his very first Cannes premiere, the Wes Anderson-directed “The French Dispatch,” the gold of his metallic Tom Ford suit dazzling under the bright Cannes sunlight. I was right behind the barricade, sweaty and tired after waiting in line for five-plus hours in the brutal heat. By all accoun...

In the Heights tells the story of a bodega owner who hopes, imagines, and sings about a better life.

Internationally, the Latinx punk movement only continues to grow. Across Latin America and the United States, new scenes continue to crop up in places where the genre was once overlooked (such as Toledo, Ohio) and to expand in places where punk has long been a cultural mainstay (like Bogotá, Colombia). Once a genre reserved mainly for white, cis, heterosexual men, punk has more readily embraced the idea that its community should be a refuge for those who don’t fit in with or who want an...

The feminist punk movement in the Pacific Northwest was catalyzed by a Latina. Mia Zapata, a Mexican-American punk rocker living in Seattle in the early 1990s, played a key role in shaping the nascent grunge movement with her band, The Gits. Known for their aggressive live performances and their straightforward, melodic punk music, the band, fronted by Zapata, quickly became popular among the feminist echelons of the Seattle punk movement. Their debut studio album, “Frenching the Bully,â�...

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Sion Sono, often regarded as Japanese cinema’s most subversive filmmaker, has made 57 films in a colorful, three decades-long career. On Jan. 31, he premiered his first and only English language feature at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival — the very festival he always dreamed of premiering his first English film in. In “Prisoners of the Ghostland,” the prolific director joined one of the U.S.’s most prolific actors, Nicolas Cage, to create a wild but compelling mash-up o...

Dir. Maisie Crow — 4 Stars A still from "At The Ready" (2021), directed by Maisie Crow. In Texas, there are over 900 high schools with law enforcement education and recruitment programs. One of those schools, Horizon High School, is 10 miles from the Mexico-United States border border in El Paso, Texas — the largest city on the border and the city with the highest immigration rates in the country. At the school, which is the setting of Maisie Crow’s latest documentary, students h...