Sisters Daisy (Elizabeth Rodriguez) and Ida (Liza Colón-Zayas), along with their sister-in-law Serene (Daphne Rubin-Vega) all have their own troubles. After years of struggling with IVF, Daisy hopes her baby dreams will come true after taking in a pregnant girl named Nina (Mackenzie Lansing) she met on Craigslist. Ida, the fixer of the family, puts her friends first at the expense of her relationship with partner Ray (Michael Rispoli). Serene, a former singer, can’t seem to get through to her teenage daughter, Constance (Shyrley Rodriguez) who is trying to break into modeling....

On September 9, 1971, over 1,200 inmates at the Attica correctional facility in upstate New York seized control of the maximum-security prison, took over three dozen hostages, and demanded humane treatment and better conditions. Negotiations stalled, and law enforcement was ordered by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to retake Attica, resulting in a massacre that left 29 inmates and 10 hostages dead. On its 50th anniversary, the new documentary “Attica,” directed by Stanley Nelson with co-director Traci A....

James Cameron’s long-awaited “Avatar” sequel, “Avatar: The Way of Water,” splashes into theaters December 16. The follow-up feature focuses on the Sully family — Jake (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and their children — as their land becomes torn apart. Per an official synopsis, the Sully family endures danger, battles to the death, and tragedy throughout the film. The couple is displaced from their homes and flees to the Metkayina’s waterworld, which disrupts tribal politics....

Here’s the synopsis courtesy of Magnolia Pictures: “Emi (Katia Pascariu), a schoolteacher, finds her reputation under threat after a personal sex tape is uploaded onto the internet. Forced to meet the parents demanding her dismissal, Emi refuses to surrender. ‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ is a film in three loosely connected parts: a walk in the city of Bucharest, then a playful essay on obscenities, all culminating, in the third part, in an incendiary comic confrontation....

The opening hour of “Bad Sisters” introduces us to them all in clear, efficient fashion. There’s Eva (Sharon Horgan), the confident businesswoman who’s served as the mother figure to the rest since the death of their parents. Ursula (Eva Birthistle) is raising her own kids while juggling a hospital job and various other outside interests. Though many of them are resolute and inclined toward defending the group, Bibi (Sarah Greene) is the Garvey sister who most follows both those instincts....

“More than a mental journey, I think this is a state of mind, which is a quite different thing,” Hernandez told IndieWire Crafts and Animation Editor Bill Desowitz at IndieWire’s Consider This FYC Brunch. “A state of mind is something that lingers in your memory. It’s something that is in you a long time ago, and it transforms you. Alejandro has this idea that we are not exactly the ones in the picture of you when you were a kid....

On August 2, IndieWire confirmed that “Batgirl” would be shelved indefinitely after originally being set for an HBO Max release. The film had a reported budget of $90 million due to COVID protocols and shutdowns piling onto the already-$80-million movie. Leslie Grace (“In the Heights”) starred in the title role, with J.K. Simmons, Michael Keaton, and Brendan Fraser rounding out the cast. Co-directors El Arbi and Fallah are still determined, however, for “Batgirl” to eventually see the light of day, and they also shut down rumors that poor test screenings led to Warner Bros....

Goodbyes are hard, unless you’re Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler. In the closing moments of “Better Call Saul,” the pair of former spouses and current confidants share one last on-screen cigarette in a peeling prison visitation room. They don’t say much, but Kim (Seehorn) and Jimmy (Odenkirk) arrive at an unspoken understanding of where the two stand in each other’s lives going forward. The day after the “Better Call Saul” finale aired, Odenkirk, Seehorn, and series co-creator/showrunner Peter Gould spoke with press about what went into that final scene....

“The last time I saw Luca was before [filming] began, in New York, when I still believed I was co-directing with him; we joked about what might happen if we got into an argument on set, and laughed about it,” Ivory writes. “I made plans to go to Crema after the Cannes Film Festival in May, where the restored ‘Howards End’ was to be shown.” “And then I was dropped....

“We are as good as our last performance,” he says in an acceptance speech at the 1989 Bessie Awards, less than a year after his partner Arnie Zane had surrendered to complications from AIDS. “We are all going to die. I am a Black man. I obsess. My mother lives alone. Arnie is dead. The company is with me. I am scared.” Someone in the crowd shouts something incoherent, words of support no doubt, and the arresting tension is pierced with applause....

In the lead-up to Saturday night’s win, “Cheer” had already nabbed Emmys for Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality Program and Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program in the Creative Arts prizes unveiled throughout the week. The series also contended for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera), Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction or Reality Program (Single or Multi-Camera), and Outstanding Cinematography for a Reality Program....

For screenwriter Paul Rudnick, he wrote the “Coastal Elites” script a year ago before the pandemic started, “when I realized everyone I knew was angry and heartbroken on every side of the political divide,” he said during the show’s Summer Television Critics Association virtual panel on Wednesday. He’d been following how some entertainment entities were utilizing Zoom, whether that be for unscripted television or dramatic readings, but hadn’t witnessed it in a scripted show....

“I was just sent a script and I was asked to audition, but I was filming at the time and so I asked for an extension,” she recalled. “I got this extension, and then I was sick and I was like, ‘Oh, my goodness, not only am I 17 years old, I’m British, I don’t know sign language, I’ve never had a singing lesson, and now I’m also ill.’ But I loved the script....

In the original Japanese anime series that ran 1997 through 1998, the arc Grencia Mars Elijah Guo Eckener, as they’re known fully, was explored in the two-part episode “Jupiter Jazz.” An aspiring saxophone player at the club known as the Rooster House and a veteran of the Titan War, Gren was subjected to experimental drugs that increased their estrogen and caused them to grow breasts. Gen’s fluid sexual identity ascended the character to a rare LGBTQ representation in anime....

“Crimes of the Future” appears, in both the teaser and the official description the distributor released, to be a full-on return for Cronenberg to his body horror roots in movies like “Shivers,” “Rabid,” “The Brood,” and “The Fly.” There’s an image of a man with ears on the top of his forehead rather than where they should be. One’s lips are sewn shut with thread. “Crimes of the Future” is Cronenberg’s first film in eight years, and it definitely appears to be a departure from recent work such as “A Dangerous Method” and “Maps to the Stars....

Dalí is a more sympathetic character than either Manson or Andy Warhol, for starters — as low of a bar as that may be to clear. He’s self-indulgent and allergic to work, but what famous artist isn’t? That just necessitates the insertion of handlers like James (Christopher Briney), a recent art school graduate with an eye for detail and the face of an angel in a Renaissance painting. The former is what draws James towards the Dufresne Gallery, where he gets a job as an assistant....

And it might break the show. The scene in question centers on the titular protagonist, the young poetess about whom little is known and much is theorized, and it appears that Emily (Hailee Steinfeld) has finally gotten her comeuppance. Often described as moody and eccentric, her actions have finally crossed the line into creepy and those whose boundaries she trampled feel violated. It’s harsh, but necessary, as the series spends so much time in Emily’s head and with her loved ones that it’s sometimes hard to remember that her passion can be misplaced and her romanticism, well, romanticized to an extremely uncool degree....

“Denis wanted the sound to be gritty and realistic, and if you landed on Arrakis this is what you’d hear or what a documentary crew might’ve captured,” said supervising sound editor/designer Mark Mangini, who reunited with the Oscar-nominated “Blade Runner 2049” team of supervising sound editor/designer Theo Green and re-recording mixers Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett. “That initial framing of his goals informed everything that we subsequently designed and created and that Ron and Doug would mix....

This is Walker’s fourth collaboration with Luhrmann, after Australia and two Chanel shorts; a native of Melbourne, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2021. Walker was the DP on the 2020 version of “Mulan,” and is currently shooting another animation-to-live-action adapation for Disney: “Snow White.” Walker spoke with IndieWire about “dress rehearsals” for The King, flying cameras, and whether or not she can say anything about “Snow White” yet....

At first blush, the charges against DeHart are straightforward enough. In 2010, agents burst into the Indiana home he shared with his parents, Paul and Leann, arresting him for allegedly coaxing underage victims into sharing videos of themselves online. DeHart, whom documents claimed to have found victims through World of Warcraft, posed as the son of a crime boss. But DeHart and his parents claim those accusations were invented, that the FBI actually accused him of leaking information to the Russians, and the classified documents he discovered were so incriminating that agents actually injected him with a crude truth serum to get him to talk....