The men and women who control television series behind the scenes are explored in the documentary Showrunners: The Art of Running a TV Show. Every television series is run by the chief writer and producer, known as the showrunner. Considered to be one of the complex roles in the entertainment industry, showrunners work hard to […]
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From Academy Award nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (The Invisible War) comes this examination of the epidemic of sexual assault on college and university campuses all across the United States. One in five women on U.S. college campuses experience sexual assaults, however very few are willing to report them, due to inaction and
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From director Neill Blomkamp (District 9) comes this story about a police robot, which becomes a sentient being. To combat the high crime rate, the police force in Johannesburg has been replaced by artificially intelligent robotic scouts, who were designed by Deon Wilson (Dev Patel) for the weapons manufacturer Tetravaal. Tetravaal CEO Michelle Bradley (Sigourney
The theft of FBI documents and the backlash is the topic of the documentary 1971. On March 8, 1971, a group of activists broke into the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania and took off with hundreds of files. The documents, which were later leaked to the media, revealed illegal surveillance activities that were being performed
The creation of a ballet from rehearsal to premiere is documented in Ballet 422. The New York City Ballet is one of the foremost dance companies in the world, with a roster of more than 90 fulltime dancers. 25 year old dancer Justin Peck emerges as a promising choreographer and he is commissioned to create
A mysterious pop-up book results in terror for a single mother and her child in the Australian horror film The Babadook. Amelia (Essie Davis) is a single mother, who struggles to care for her six year old son Samuel (Noah Wiseman). Suffering from apparent behavioural problems, Samuel is obsessed with finding and killing monsters, which
From Academy Award nominated filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering (The Invisible War) comes this examination of the epidemic of sexual assault on college and university campuses all across the United States. One in five women on U.S. college campuses experience sexual assaults, however very few are willing to report them, due to inaction and
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Will Smith plays an expert con-man with an attractive young protégé in the comedy Focus. Nicky Spurgeon (Smith) is a seasoned grifter, who learned everything that he knows from his father, with the key to his cons being to never lose focus of the mark. One night Nicky meets an attractive young woman named Jess
From filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson (Force of Nature) comes this meditation on the torrential rains of India. Beginning around June of every year, the annual monsoons decent upon India. This incomparably vast weather system affects the country in multiple different ways, including being India’s primary source of water for drinking and farming. Over the course of
Ryan Reynolds plays a man struggling with his schizophrenia in the dark comedy The Voices. Jerry (Reynolds) is a good natured guy, who works in a factory and has a crush on his co-worker Fiona (Gemma Arterton). However, the problem is that Jerry hears voices, which he perceives as coming from his cat Mr. Whiskers
