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The 2014 French drama La Famille Bélier centered on a young woman growing up in a family with deaf parents, but for the most part the filmmakers cast hearing actors to play the deaf roles. Writer-director Siân Heder was determined not to take that same approach when she set about making CODA, her award-winning…

When Cobra Kai was first announced as a new series based on the iconic The Karate Kid films, fans were immediately skeptical if the iteration would match up to the legendary status of the original. But creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg made the smart move by not only bringing back the…

In Rebel, creator Krista Vernoff has finally found a winning combination of a compelling central character, loosely inspired by activist Erin Brockovich, and lead actress Katey Sagal, who seems like she was born to play the role of Annie "Rebel" Bello. At times overbearing but always with the plight of the underdog at…

After nearly 30 years collaborating with Spike Lee to compose the music on his films, Terence Blanchard's soaring compositions are finally getting noticed. He got his first Oscar nomination for BlacKkKlansman, a Best Picture nominee which brought Lee his first Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. And the morning they…

It has been 11 years since Sophia Loren, the great Italian star and one of the only surviving icons of Hollywood's Golden Age, last graced the screen. And longer still since she last took a leading role. After her Oscar-winning heyday in the '50s and '60s, Loren turned to the only passion that could match her love for…

In Minari, writer/director Lee Isaac Chung and Steven Yeun tell the story of a Korean immigrant family risking everything in pursuit of the American dream. Jacob (Yeun) uproots his family from 1980s Los Angeles, determined to start a farm in Arkansas, while his wife Monica (Yeri Han) grows weary of his optimism in the…

Hillary Clinton and Nanette Burstein first met in 2018, two years after the presidential election that shook the world. Burstein (American Teen, The Kid Stays in the Picture) was chosen to make a documentary based on behind-the-scenes footage captured in 2016 by Clinton's staff. Hillary, a four-part series, premiered…

Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe had never worked together before they found themselves in a remote part of Nova Scotia being battered by wind, rain and sea on the shoot for Robert Eggers' Lovecraftian horror The Lighthouse. They came from different worlds to create the movie's only two characters; Pattinson, a…

Awkwafina and Zhao Shuzhen are the duo at the heart of Lulu Wang's The Farewell. Awkwafina is Billi, an Asian-American New Yorker returning to China for one last chance to see Nai Nai, her terminally-ill grandmother, played by Shuzhen. But there's a catch: the family have decided Nai Nai must not be told her diagnosis…

Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas have made eight movies together, and their latest, Pain & Glory, may represent the high point of their collaboration. In perhaps Almodóvar's most directly autobiographical film to date, Banderas literally wears the auteur director's clothes to play a Spanish filmmaker named…