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Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck and Kate Winslet headline the violent crime caper “Triple 9” (2016, R) from director John Hillcoat. The animated short film “Canvas” (2020, G) explores loss and grieving through the story of a painter searching for inspiration to create again. Streaming TV: New seasons of “Mr. Iglesias” (TV-14), “The Big Show Show” (TV-G) feature Christmas episodes. More true stories: “Giving Voice” (2020, not rated) follows students in the national Augus...

Sofia Carson in Songbird Dir: Adam Mason; Starring: KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Demi Moore, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Craig Robinson, Paul Walter Hauser. 15 cert, 92 mins. Some truly extraordinary films have been made this year during lockdown by such esteemed auteurs as Pedro Almodóvar, Jonathan Glazer, Paolo Sorrentino and Michael Bay. Wait, Michael Bay? Yes, Michael Bay: director of Armageddon, The Rock and five Transformers films; Capra of carnage; Bergman of bombast;...

Whats It Like to Make a Movie During the Pandemic? The people behind a blockbuster thriller, a viral horror hit, and a timely conversation starter – all shot and set during lockdown – let us know how they did it. (Photo by © STX Films) Moviemaking is incredibly… complicated. A million things can – and often do – go wrong, myriad questions and unforeseen problems pop up, and all the while issues like budgeting and scheduling consistently hover around, like annoying flies you just ca...

It was spawned from an idea in March that got the green light in May before a shoot in July and now a digital release in December, a spectacular turnaround helped tremendously, no doubt, by the blockbuster producer and deft string-puller Michael Bay. The British director and co-writer Adam Mason, whose previous credits have been small-scale genre movies, has crafted a rather ingeniously constructed film that tries to tell a big story with little resource, using a locked-down LA as a backdrop. I...