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Norwegian triple threat Mona Fastvold, with buzz growing around her latest film The Testament of Ann Lee, has signed with the London-based Magna Studios.

The ultimate holiday tradition has commenced for 2025: Oprah’s Favorite Things.

The Glasgow Film Festival has unveiled the first films for its 2026 edition, taking place Feb. 25-March 8, including a retrospective program under the theme “Truth to Power” and a country focus on Sweden.The “Truth to Power” retrospective will feature 10 classics from the 1930s to the present day “that stand as cinematic statements of resistance, or feature characters that rise against the machines of power,” organizers said. Highlights from the program include the Stanley Kubrick-directed satire Dr Strangelove (1964), starring Peter Sellers, Oscar-nominated civil rights epic Selma (2014) from director Ava DuVernay, and the 50th anniversary of political thriller All the President’s Men (1976), following the journalists who broke the Watergate scandal and starring and produced by Robert Redford.The lineup will also include In the Name of the Father (1993), starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Erin Brockovich (2000), and The Battle of Algiers (1966), a recreation of Algeria’s 1950s battle for independence from France. GFF26 will be the 22nd edition of the festival and will also put a spotlight on films from Sweden under the country focus theme “Take a Chance on Me: Swedish Cinema.”

In Second Nature: Gender and Sexuality in the Animal World, director Drew Denny poses a playful question to audiences: Since clownfish can change sex from male to female, after Nemo’s mom died in Finding Nemo, could his dad simply have become another mom?

Celine Song was waiting for it. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker was in London, a few months after her sophomore feature Materialists had bowed to critical and commercial success in the U.S. — and spurred dozens of thinkpieces about its depictions of modern dating, capitalism, and gender roles (okay, and leg-lengthening surgery). She’d noticed a pattern in reactions to her New York-set rom-dramedy’s love triangle that surprised her: Viewers were sympathizing more with Harry (Pedro Pascal), a wealthy financier courting matchmaker Lucy (Dakota Johnson), than John (Chris Evans), Lucy’s old flame still living with roommates while struggling to make it as an actor.

In a packed theater at Nitehawk Prospect Park, MG Evangelista — one of four recipients of Netflix and NewFest’s 2025 New Voices Filmmakers Grants — took a moment to share a message from the co-writer of their film, Anino: “Long live the outsiders, the misfits and the beautiful monsters.”

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Former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger discusses the eight Senate Democrats who struck a deal with Republicans to end the government shutdown, while dropping the critical demand of a guaranteed ...