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‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Is a Movie for Grown-Ups

‘Can recognise assailants,’ says wife of murdered RSS worker in Palakkad

Palakkad: A day after the shocking murder of an RSS worker at Mambaram here, Arshika, the wife of the deceased while addressing the media claimed that she can recognise the assailants. According to Arshika, the assailants who killed her husband were wearing neither a mask nor any face cover. The crime happened when people were commuting on the road, she said. At that time even a school bus passed through the road, she added.

‘Bachelor’ movie review: A labyrinthine romantic tale that tries to delineate love from lust

Sathish Selvakumar’s debut,
Bachelor , begins with a laugh riot. We see a guy, living in a typically-messy bachelor pad, giving an online interview in formal shirt and boxers. It is night. He sits outside, perhaps not to disturb his sleeping roommates. But one of them, sloshed, wakes up, opens the door and starts unzipping his pants, thinking it is the restroom. The interviewee helplessly tries to send him away. But the roommate continues to unzip, with the shocked friend still watching, and pees on the laptop. This roommate is our protagonist, Darling (GV Prakash Kumar).

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Idle and irresponsible youth is not new to Tamil cinema. But instead of employing a lazy narrator’s voice-over that says something along the lines of “
Ivar dhaanga namma kadhai oda hero; onna number somberi (this is our story’s hero; he’s a number one sloth)” that we have heard in many comedies, Sathish prefers to
show Darling’s idleness and irresponsibility. When his friend laments to the rest of the gang about how he ruined his interview, Darling lazily takes a tumbler of tea and soaks in four biscuits, stirs it with a spoon and slowly eats it as the wet Macbook from the previous night hangs on the clothesline. The laughs are not just in the lines, they are in the visuals as well.

The scenes also move along unhurriedly, reflecting the protagonist’s perspective. The director employs a lot of close-ups and slow-motion shots, for instance, to show the preparation of chicken biryani in one scene and sweet pongal in another. These leisurely paced slice-of-life scenes, accompanied by a delightful background score, also make the film seem more real.

By now, we know that Darling is hardly aware of anything else apart from his own needs. He and his gang of close-knit friends from Coimbatore work at an IT firm in Bangalore. When he meets Subbu (Divyabharathi), a coworker and his friend’s flatmate, he immediately desires her. He coaxes the friend to let him stay in their flat. When the friend and his partner goes abroad, he comes home, with an expectation to sleep with Subbu and, well, a condom.

Subbu, however, does not like him initially. Darling pursues her. It is convenient for him that they both work at the same office and stay in the same flat. He does not have to stalk her. At one point, she asks him if he is in love with her. After a pregnant pause, Darling says no.

But when she falls sick, he takes care of her, which makes her like him… and then at some point, they get physically intimate. The intimacy is not always shown through the perspective of the guy thankfully, and we even get a shot of her kissing his feet (I laughed, thinking about a particular Tamil filmmaker; you know who).

It is also rare and refreshing for women characters in a Tamil film to not be
shy about sex. We witness a game of Never Have I Ever, where a girl casually says, “Never have I ever masturbated four times in a day”. At this point, a male character takes four back-to-back shots. And, the hall I was in, erupted.

Meanwhile, Subbu and Darling continue their relationship for several months… until she gets pregnant. The drama peaks at this juncture. She wants to keep the child. He does not. He calls it an accidental, unnecessary pregnancy, which needs immediate abortion. Even as she tells him in anger that she can take care of it without his support, he insists on abortion.

After this mid-way point, the film transforms from a romantic comedy to a relationship feud. But this quickly turns into a courtroom drama, when she informs her family about the relationship. Her brother-in-law, a criminal lawyer, decides to avenge not just Darling, but also his family (his mother, sister, and brother-in-law) because Darling insults him over a call.

The women in the film, including Subbu, seem like mere pawns in the court case that follows. Subbu is shown to feel bad for dragging Darling’s mother and sister to the court. But she is helpless in front of her aggressive brother-in-law.

Things get more convoluted and the screenplay turns somewhat messy. You also get a feeling that the film’s main characters are pushed to the background; we hardly get to see Subbu in the second half, and don’t know how or what she feels.

By the time we arrive at the climax to all this drama, you feel more relieved at the movie ending than cheer for its female lead’s deserving— yet fleeting — moment of empowerment.

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Alabama-built Hyundai to be featured in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home.’

An Alabama-built Hyundai SUV will be featured in one of the most anticipated movies of the year when “Spider-Man: No Way Home” swings into theaters next month.

Hyundai announced Monday its all-new Hyundai Ioniq 5 and all-new Hyundai Tucson will make their Hollywood debut in the Sony Pictures film.

The Tucson is built at the automaker’s plant in Montgomery. Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama (HMMA) has said it plans to produce electric vehicles starting next year but has not revealed which model or models might be produced there. The Ioniq 5 is currently made in South Korea.

“Hyundai Motor Group has a number of innovative vehicle designs they can place in movies and TV shows to market the Hyundai brand on a global scale,” said Robert Burns, vice president of Human Resources and Administration for HMMA. “Including the all-new Tucson in the latest Spider-Man movie will add another reason for our team members to be proud of the Alabama-built vehicles they help build for the North American market.”

Hyundai Motor Company has launched an integrated marketing program leading up to the Dec. 17 release of No Way Home. The campaign includes a global TV commercial and a variety of digital promotional activities. The campaign stems from the global multi-picture promotional partnership Hyundai Motor inked with Sony Pictures in May 2020 to showcase the company’s human-centered mobility vision through product and technological innovations.

“The placement of the all-electric Ioniq 5 and all-new Tucson in ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ marks the first meaningful milestone in the strategic partnership between Hyundai Motor Company and Sony Pictures Entertainment,” said Thomas Schemera, executive vice president, global chief marketing officer and head of the Customer Experience Division of Hyundai Motor Company. “We expect great marketing impact from this collaboration. This exciting film and the two vehicles’ inclusion in key moments of the storyline played by the main characters will exhilarate the minds of millions of viewers around the world.”

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” is the third Spider-Man film created by Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios, starring Tom Holland, who plays the role of high-schooler Peter Parker and his alias, Spider-Man. Its predecessor “Spider-Man: Far from Home” grossed $1.131 billion worldwide as the fourth highest grossing movie of 2019 and the 25th highest grossing movie of all time.

“Hyundai is synonymous with leading technology and visually innovative design. So, it comes as no surprise that they have created a cutting-edge marketing campaign for the Ioniq 5 and the highly anticipated ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ – the foundation of which is customized content made exclusively for this deal. We have no doubt that Spider-Man fans will have a lot of fun with this innovative collaboration,” said Jeffrey Godsick, executive vice president of Global Partnerships and Brand Management and head of Location Based Entertainment at Sony Pictures Entertainment.

In addition to the product-placement, the campaign includes the long-form commercial, “Only Way Home,” which is directed by Jon Watts, the director of all three of the most recent Spider-Man films, and features Tom Holland as Spider-Man and his best friend Ned Leeds played by Jacob Batalon.

In this TV spot, Spider-Man is bent on clearing his name and comes out of hiding, hitching a 300-mile ride to New York with Ned in the all-electric Ioniq 5. The two characters cruise their way through open country inside the sunlight-reflecting, futuristic-looking Ioniq 5, exchanging banter along the way. A 30-second broadcast version will air as part of high-visibility television programs in the U.S., Europe, China, Russia and other global markets through January 2022.

“Advanced technology empowers the extraordinary, and that’s why we think Ioniq 5 is a great fit for the latest Spider-Man movie,” said Angela Zepeda, chief marketing officer of Hyundai Motor America. “Our promotional partnerships with characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been highly effective, and we think Spider-Man fans around the world will enjoy what we’ve created, while learning more about our breakthrough all-electric SUV.”

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Hyundai Motor has also created a 30-second commercial featuring the Tucson. The commercial shows key scenes from the film, including those starring the Tucson and Tom Holland.

On social media, Hyundai will offer fans the opportunity to obtain a “Hyundai Ioniq 5 x Spider-Man: No Way Home” special edition poster, as well as customized digital wallpapers. A behind-the-scenes video of the Ioniq 5 commercial and other unique contents will also be available online.

“We look at these partnerships as an opportunity to bring content to life that celebrates both brands. By putting Spider-Man in a one-story world, where he has only one way home, we were able to seamlessly give Hyundai a chance to save the day,” said Barney Goldberg, executive create director, Innocean USA.

Following Spider-Man: No Way Home, Hyundai will have marketing initiatives related to the upcoming films “Uncharted,” due to premiere in February 2022, and the sequel to the critically acclaimed, Academy Award-winning animated film, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” due to premiere in October 2022.

The 27 best comedy films on Netflix

Are you a Netflix subscriber? Are you in the market for some side-splitting laughs?

If the answer to both those questions is yes, scroll down and feast your eyes on this article, where we’ve compiled our favourite comedy movies from the streaming service’s current crop. From biting satires to heart-warming rom-coms, they’re all here – and be sure to check back regularly for updates, as new films arrive on Netflix all the time.

Oh, and if you’re more interested in funny TV series than funny films, don’t worry: we’ve also got a list of those too: The best comedy TV shows on Netflix.

Zombieland

Somewhat counterintuitively for a zombie film, this slacker comedy hits the ground running with a smartly self-aware opening credits sequence laying out the ground rules for survival in a post-apocalyptic undead-infested world. Jesse Eisenberg’s Columbus is a coward who survives by adhering to these rules like glue; his companion, Woody Harrelson’s Tallahassee, is a ghoul-killing machine on a quest for the last surviving Twinkie in America. Sharp, witty and blessed with one of the best cameo appearances ever, this is a zombie movie with brains.

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We’re the Millers

Jason Sudeikis small-time marijuana dealer, faced with a dangerous ultimatum, assembles a fake family to join him on his drug smuggling trip – the idea is to avoid suspicion from border control. But with his “wife” (Jennifer Aniston) being a penniless exotic dancer, his “daughter” a streetwise homeless teenager and “son” a painfully awkward adolescent, this dysfunctional family is about as good as Kanye West at keeping a low profile. The Millers are capable of inducing a few laughs if cringe-worthy comedy is your thing, though. And they’ll make you feel much better about your own family.

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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

John Hughes’ iconic tale of a wily suburban teenager ditching school to spend a memorable day with his friends is one of the must-watch 1980s comedies – a movie that seems to represent a whole era. It helps that it’s an entertaining, engaging watch packed with great moments and performances, from Matthew Broderick’s career-best turn as fourth wall-breaking Ferris to Alan Ruck as his morose hypochondriac best friend Cameron, all of which invest it with a appeal that’ll land with free thinkers of all ages.

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Coming to America (1988)

One of the classic big screen comedies of the 1980s, Coming to America stars Eddie Murphy as a pampered African prince seeking a wife in New York – and where better to find a royal consort than the borough of Queens?

The fish-out-of-water setup provides gags aplenty and it’s bolstered by a wonderful supporting cast including James Earl Jones, Arsenio Hall and a pre-superstardom Samuel L Jackson. Even so, this is unmistakably Murphy’s show. Even if his central protagonist is a little less outwardly comedic than some previous roles, his performances as several other characters give him licence to put his prodigious comic talent on display.

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As Good as It Gets

Coming with all the hallmarks of a typical 90s mainstream romantic comedy (a New York setting, an odd-couple matchup, a gay best friend and a protagonist who writes romance novels for a living), As Good as It Gets immediately sets itself apart by making its main character a truly horrible person.

Jack Nicholson plays a reclusive, obsessive writer who goes beyond grouchy. Racist, sexist, homophobic and needlessly cruel to anyone he encounters, he nevertheless finds himself drawn to Helen Hunt’s diner waitress, a struggling single mother and one of the few people who dares to push back against his constant needling. When his artist neighbour (Greg Kinnear) is viciously attacked, he also enters his orbit – and gradually these new forces start to influence our antihero’s misanthropic outlook.

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Babyteeth

This Australian indie movie about the unlikely friendship between a cancer-stricken girl and a boy from the wrong side of the tracks is warm-hearted, moving, funny and served with a fantastic cast: not just Little Women‘s Eliza Scanlen in the lead role, but Ben Mendelsohn and Essie Davis as her protective parents. Far from sentimental or depressing, Shannon Murphy’s film serves as a celebration of life and all that comes with it, good or bad.

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Tremors

The 1980s and 90s were well-served with classic horror-action-comedies, and Tremors is among the finest. Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward play handymen whose plans for a new life are scuppered when their tiny desert town is besieged by mysterious underground monsters.

There’s nothing particularly clever or ground-breaking (no pun intended) about this film, but it’s a brisk creature feature with some great comic moments, tense action scenes and enjoyable cast of characters. We can dig it.

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The Death of Stalin

Armando Iannucci brings his distinctive brand of political satire to one of modern history’s darkest chapters: in the wake of Josef Stalin’s undignified demise, a troupe of self-serving Soviet grandees – Steve Buscemi, Michael Palin, Jason Isaacs and Paul Whitehouse among them – farcically jostle for power.

While it doesn’t hit the breezy highs of Iannucci’s debut movie In The Loop or his TV series Veep and The Thick Of It (being set in a time and place where political rivals were regularly executed, it’s much bleaker even than them) The Death of Stalin skewers the absurdity of politics just as effectively, and raises lots of laughs along the way.

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Bridesmaids

Mistake Bridesmaids as just another so-called chick flick at your peril. Yes, at its core it’s a romantic comedy focused on the awkward interactions between Kristen Wiig and Chris O’Dowd, but it offers so much more. Lewd jokes, masterfully executed toilet humour and offbeat distractions provided by the likes of Matt Lucas and Rebel Wilson make for some genuinely hilarious moments, and the film’s gentle exploration of the themes of friendship, love and marriage are well handled by director Paul Feig.

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Shrek

DreamWorks’ beloved CGI series started 20 years ago with this wonderful fairy tale adventure about a curmudgeonly green ogre (voiced by Mike Myers) who falls in love with a beautiful princess. Sending up various fantasy and fairy tale tropes along the way, Shrek is a children’s movie that gives adults plenty to enjoy too. Packed with clever references and in-jokes, it’s spawned a long-running series – but do yourself a favour and start at the beginning.

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Ghostbusters (1984)

Forget reboots, the upcoming sequel and even the original sequel: if you’re watching a Ghostbusters movie, make it the original. One of the best-loved comedies of the 1980s, it stars Bill Murray as a New York parapsychologist who gives up his academic career to lead a pest control service for spooks – and amid a mysterious rise in supernatural activity, business is booming.

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Dolemite Is My Name

Eddie Murphy shines in this raucous biopic of Rudy Ray Moore, an overweight, middle-aged and professionally directionless musician and stand-up comedian who found fame in the 1970s by creating a smooth-talking and confident stage alter ego: a pimp named Dolemite. As a rags to riches tale it might sound all too familiar, but Murphy’s performance, a fantastic supporting cast packed with familiar faces and a surprising amount of heart and soul make it a truly engaging watch – particularly if you’re learning about Moore and Dolemite for the first time.

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Happy Gilmore

Just as Adam Sandler looks set for a second career renaissance courtesy of Uncut Gems (the first being courtesy of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Punch-Drunk Love), let’s rewind right back to the point in his career before he’d sunk so low as to need one: 1996’s Happy Gilmore, in which Sandler’s ability to play “shouty but loveable man-child” felt genuinely fresh and amusing.

Sandler’s eponymous protagonist dreams of making it as an ice hockey pro, but instead finds himself an unlikely golfing prodigy, able to drive the ball further than anyone else on the tour but hopeless at the more technical aspects of the sport’s short game. When his grandmother’s house come under threat, he decides prize money is the solution – and must overcome not only his skill shortcomings but the stuffy golfing establishment.

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The Big Lebowski

Louche, laidback and outwardly lightweight, Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1998 follow-up to the multiple award-winning thriller Fargo rewards the astute viewer. It’s packed to the gills with call-backs, references to classic movies and other clever touches to pick up on.

It’s also an absolute riot, as Jeff Bridges’ ageing hippy sets out to right a wrong (in a case of mistaken identity, two hoodlums broke into his apartment and “soiled” his beloved rug) and ends up drawn headlong into a kidnapping case involving a German electropop group, ruthless pornographers, a paraplegic philanthropist, a sullen teenage car thief, the police chief of Malibu, a (possibly hallucinatory) cowboy… and bowling. With an outstanding script and supporting cast including Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Goodman, The Big Lebowski is a rare cinematic gift: one that keeps on giving with each subsequent viewing.

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Booksmart

Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut is a teen comedy that could be lazily described as “Superbad with girls”, but it stands up more than capably on its own. It’s not hard to pick out the parallels: both centre on two best friends in the final days of high school who fall into a wild night of partying, self-discovery and ungainly attempts to lose their virginities before heading off for college.

The similarities are further focussed by the fact that Superbad’s breakout star Jonah Hill’s younger sister Beanie Feldstein stars. Feldstein and co-star Kaitlyn Dever are charming and hilarious as the bookish BFFs who realise – possibly too late – that they may have squandered some of the best years of their lives in pursuit of those A grades.

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Mean Girls

If you’re old enough, you’ll remember when Lindsay Lohan was known for being an up-and-coming actress instead of an example of what happens when fame goes sour? Mean Girls was one of the movies that propelled her into the limelight – a biting satire of high school cliques which sees new girl Cady (Lohan) ingratiating herself with the cool kids as part of a long-term revenge plot.

The plot thickens as Cady destroys the Queen Bee: starting with her love life, moving on to her figure and eventually to exposing the “Burn Book” – a top secret notebook filled with vicious rumours, secrets, and gossip about all the other girls (and teachers) in their class. Ouch.

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Clueless

One of the classic 1990s teen comedies, Clueless is a high school-set rework of Jane Austen’s Emma. Out go the bodices, in come designer threads as the rich and popular Cher plays matchmaker among her friends – only to realise that she herself knows very little about romance. As with many films of its day, Clueless has aged quite noticeably – but that’s part of its charm. And speaking of aging, we’d love to know Paul Rudd’s secret: he’s barely changed in the 25 years since this film first aired!

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The Other Guys

Before Adam McKay was tackling weighty subjects like big finance, media empires and politics (in The Big Short, Succession and Vice respectively), he was making a bunch of hilarious mainstream comedies with his pal Will Ferrell; The Other Guys is probably the second-best of these after Anchorman. A clever twist on buddy cop movies (albeit one that actually ticks off all the genre’s tropes), the film sees Ferrell’s pen-pushing desk jockey detective partner up with testosterone-fuelled maverick Mark Wahlberg.

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Knocked Up

The film that made Seth Rogen a star and catapulted writer and director Judd Apatow into the comedy A list, Knocked Up remains the very definition of “an enjoyable rom-com romp” well over a decade after its release.

When Katherine Heigl’s uptight TV presenter and Rogen’s directionless stoner have an unlikely one-night stand, things are further complicated by an even more unlikely pregnancy. Deciding to stay together for the benefit of the baby, the pair discover that parenthood is a tougher test than either of them expected.

A fine supporting cast including Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Leslie Mann and Jason Segel help push Knocked Up beyond its romantic comedy boundaries, while Rogen’s loveable everyman qualities shine through.

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Marriage Story

From The Squid and the Whale to The Meyerowitz Stories (the latter of which you’ll also find recommended in this article), Noah Baumbach’s movies have a knack for laying bare the tragi-comic complexities of modern human relationships – and this Netflix original delivers more of the same by digging into the breakdown of a young couple’s (Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson) marriage.

The pair attempt a “conscious uncoupling” for the sake of their young son, but stumble into something far more acrimonious along the way. The setup is there for a depressing tale of love gone sour, but Marriage Story instead blooms into something far more nuanced and bittersweet.

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Always Be My Maybe

Describing a film as “Netflix’s best original romantic comedy” might sound as if we’re damning it with faint praise, but Always Be My Maybe is a genuinely enjoyable, occasionally hilarious riff on the well-worn genre starring (and written by) two likeable leads in Ali Wong and Randall Park.

It’s about a pair of childhood friends who unexpectedly reunite many years after an awkward falling out, their lives having diverged onto very different paths in the mean time. You can probably predict how it turns out, but the route it takes is the fun part – particularly when a certain beloved Matrix megastar proves himself an excellent sport in a scene-stealing cameo.

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Paddleton

Everybody Loves Raymond‘s Ray Romano gives the performance of his life in this quiet and affecting indie comedy. Romano stars as the neighbour and friend of the equally impressive Mark Duplass – the duo’s enjoyably mundane routine of martial arts movies, jigsaw puzzles, pizza and their invented pastime of “paddleton” disrupted by a terrible medical diagnosis.

What might easily have been an overwrought drama instead works as a beautifully understated, unsentimental and utterly convincing depiction of male friendship – and certainly one of the best Netflix-produced movies we’ve seen.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Originally intended to be a series of six individual episodes, the Coen brothers instead combined this collection of tales from the Wild West into a single anthology; over the course of its two hours we meet a cast of typically Coen-esque characters including the singing cowboy of the title, a bank robber who meets his match, and a determined prospector played by Tom Waits.

It certainly comes with its fair share of quirky Coen brothers charm, black humour and memorable lines, but the format means The Ballad of Buster Scruggs never quite gets going – and just as it looks like it might, with the tale of a blossoming romance on a wagon train journey to Oregon, it feels like it’s over too soon. Even so, it’s a must-watch for Coen fans.

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Superbad

Why can’t all teen comedies could be as funny, pacy and ultimately life-affirming as 2007’s Superbad, which manages to juggle all the tropes of the genre (partying, sex, friendship) without feeling hackneyed or bloated?

It’s ninety minutes of proof that parties are sources of never-ending angst. You need someone over the age limit to buy the booze – your high school friend with an ID that reads “McLovin” will do. You’ve got to impress the girls – Seth works out that headbutting them in the face works a charm. And in American movies, there’s always the chance the cops will show up – we just wish all of them were as warped as Bill Hader and Seth Rogen.

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Monty Python’s Life of Brian

“He’s not the Messiah; he’s a very naughty boy!” Falling foul of blasphemy laws in several countries upon its 1979 release (it was banned for eight years in Ireland), Life of Brian is now regarded as one of the greatest comedy films ever made, a British national treasure and a smart satire on the hypocrisy of organised religion. Like pretty much everything else ever made by the Monty Python team, it’s now available to watch on Netflix, bringing this fantastic film – in which a regular, unremarkable Judean man is mistaken for Jesus Christ – to a brand new audience.

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Step Brothers

Will Ferrell’s patchy movie output doesn’t take away from the fact that when he’s good, he’s really good, and Step Brothers is one of his films which – perhaps a little surprisingly, given its premise – illustrates this fact. Ferrell and the superb John C. Reilly play coddled middle-aged men who still live with their respective mother and father – and are forced to live together as step brothers when said parents get married.

If it sounds like the sort of film Adam Sandler would turn down, Step Brothers actually morphs swiftly from standard slapstick fare to, well, superior slapstick buddy comedy fare as the two enemies become allies and unite to combat a greater threat. It won’t change your life, but it will keep you laughing for 90 minutes of it.

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The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Netflix has occasionally sought out real quality with its original movies, as evidenced by this wry, intelligent indie comedy-drama written and directed by Noah Baumbach – one of cinema’s most perceptive chroniclers of modern human relationships.

Starring Adam Sandler (in his best “serious” performance since Punch-Drunk Love), Ben Stiller, Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) examines a dysfunctional New York family through the prism of several of its members, all of whom revolve around Hoffman’s preening, needy and manipulative patriarch.

Watch The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) on Netflix

Nope’s First Teaser Has Us Terrified and Loving It

Though we still don’t know too much about Nope, the next horror film from writer-director Jordan Peele (writer-director of Get Out and Us; co-writer of Candyman) we do know that we’re dying to see it—and a new trailer makes us even more eager to experience its terrors.

Nope stars Daniel Kaluuya—who was also in Peele’s Get Out as well as Marvel’s Black Panther, and recently won an Oscar for Judas and the Black Messiah. He and Keke Palmer (Hustlers) play a pair of ranchers in inland California looking to make it big when suddenly, something begins descending upon their town. After body snatchers in Get Out and Us’ focus on evil doppelgangers, it looks like Nope is going to see Peele tackle aliens of some kind.

The rest of the stellar cast includes Steven Yeun (Minari, Invincible, The Walking Dead), Barbie Ferreira (Euphoria), Brandon Perea (The OA), and Michael Wincott (The Crow). It arrives July 22.

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Cornell Cinema Diversity and Inclusion: CODA Film Review and Deeper Analysis by Cornell CODA Panelists

MINOR SPOILER WARNING

On Nov. 30th, I thankfully had the opportunity to see the film CODA, presented by the Cornell University Deaf Awareness Project and the Department of Linguistics, in Cornell Cinema. I found CODA to be an intriguing and insightful watch, as it made me analyze my own understanding, or lack thereof, of aspects of deaf culture. 

Following the conclusion of the film, Cornell’s Children of Deaf Adults members held a panel where they discussed their views on the film and answered questions; below is a snippet of some of the topics that were explored. Phrasing is adjusted slightly for grammatical and brevity/length purposes, but nothing related to experiences shared was altered.

Hollywood Movies Come Back in 2021, But Will It Last?





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Goodbye, 2021.

A year ago we reported about the “strong” opening of the movie Wonder Woman 1984. That movie received much praise and made about $17 million on its opening weekend. Sounds small for a Hollywood production, right? But in January 2021, it was considered quite a hit.

So much was still closed.

Twelve months later, the new coronavirus continues to create big problems for moviemaking, live theater and much more in the world of arts and culture. But, the industry also saw major recovery in 2021.

Experts say the future looks good, especially for film and live music.

The success of the Marvel Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home is a hopeful sign, says Associated Press entertainment reporter Lindsey Bahr.

The latest in the Spiderman series, the movie was just released December 17. Theatergoers around the world have since spent a total of more than $1 billion dollars to see the film.

“The movie theater is probably going to come roaring back because we have a lot of really, really massive movies,” Bahr said, naming projects including Avatar 2; Top Gun 2 and Black Panther 2.

“Hollywood is certainly delivering their big guns or are planning to in 2022,” she added.

Experts also expect live music shows to be very popular this year.

Steve Baltin is a podcaster and arts reporter for Forbes magazine. He said the two most interesting tours, or series of performances, of 2022 will be from music groups Rage Against the Machine and My Chemical Romance.

Rage Against the Machine had planned to tour in 2020 but postponed the shows because of the pandemic. Now the band is set to launch the tour in the spring of 2022 starting in El Paso, Texas.

But the public’s interest in My Chemical Romance’s tour is surprising, Baltin said. He compared the two bands.

“They (Rage Against the Machine) were already headlining festivals and arenas. My Chemical Romance never reached that point. They sold out 70,000 tickets in L.A.,” he said.

FILE – In a Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020 file photo, Elton John performs “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” nominated for the award for best original song from “Rocketman” at the Oscars, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

But Baltin suggests spending your money on another performance for a better experience.

“If there’s one show in 2022 that you would like, sell a kidney to be at, it’s Elton John’s final North American show at Dodger Stadium, in November of 2022. So, when you see something like that, that is just one of those shows that 25, 50 years from now, you’re going to tell everybody you were at,” he said.

The #EltonFarewellTour is to open in New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 22.

Of course, as the Omicron version of the new coronavirus continues to spread, film and music fans can only wait and hope the “show will go on” in the new year.

I’m Caty Weaver.

Caty Weaver wrote this story from materials including those of the Associated Press. Mario Ritter Jr. was the editor.

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18 films on Hallmark’s Christmas movie schedule that have famous pop culture faces

Like that meme of Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at the TV, we watch the Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas movie series every year and at some point find ourselves shouting at the screen saying, “Hey, I know that actor!” Then we scramble to pull up IMDB on our phone, potentially missing a delicious cookie-driven plot point or an awkward encounter with an ex’s sweet golden retriever.

We’re saving you some brainpower with our guide to some of this year’s Hallmark Christmas movies featuring stars you know from somewhere!

Scouring the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas movie lineup for 2021, we’ve boiled down the plots of 18 of the 31 new original movies and remind you how you know that guy who is running a down-on-its-luck hot cocoa stand at the town’s Christmas festival (probably a CW show) but then gets help from a kindly drifter who is actually an angel (and was very possibly a star of a major network drama in the early ’90s).

This year’s crop includes multiple actors from titles as varied as “Back to the Future,” “Mean Girls” and “One Tree Hill.”

The premieres started well before Halloween, so if you missed them, be aware that there’s an app with a checklist and schedule information where you can set reminders to catch up. (Ask us how we know.) You can find information about all of the movies at hallmarkchannel.com.

After seeing the opening of her town’s time capsule and meeting a charming chef, Lou, played by singer Jordin Sparks, questions whether or not she should move away from her hometown. (Luba Popovic, Crown Media)

“A Christmas Treasure”

Plot: A writer opens a 100-year-old time capsule and things heat up with a local chef. Somehow, this derails her plans to make a name for herself in New York after the holidays.

Hey, I recognize them: Our writer soon to be in love is singer Jordin Sparks, who became famous after season six of “American Idol,” you know, back when Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson were still around.

“A Kiss Before Christmas”

Plot: Hallmark believes in the ethos that you can never have too many “It’s A Wonderful Life”-style alternate universe Christmas movies. In this one, a real estate exec turns his wish for a different life, one without his two teenagers and his wife, into reality.

Hey, I recognize them: It’s a “Desperate Housewives” reunion up in here with James Denton and Teri Hatcher. Throw in Marilu Henner, of “Taxi” and “Evening Shade” fame, and you have some TV hall of famers in this one.

“An Unexpected Christmas”

Plot: Exes have to pretend to be back together for the holidays — probably because someone didn’t tell a frail grandparent about the breakup that happened 4 years ago.

Hey, I recognize them: The ex-girlfriend is played by Bethany Joy Lenz, who was one of the lead actors in the CW teen drama “One Tree Hill.”

“Christmas at Castle Hart”

Plot: In recent years, Hallmark has upped production values and given some films exotic international locales — real ones, not the vaguely European kingdoms with appallingly fake names that produce all of those eligible Christmas princes. This one takes place in Ireland, where the female lead is searching for her family’s roots and then she’s mistaken for a party planner.

Hey, I recognize them: Hallmark pulled out the big guns beyond the location for this one, which stars Stuart Townsend as the Irish earl. He played Lestat in the film version of “Queen of the Damned” and Dorian Gray in “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.”

And before Lacey Chabert became one of the queens of Hallmark’s holiday offerings, she was known for her role in TV’s “Party of Five,” for providing the voice of Eliza Thornberry in the animated show “The Wild Thornberrys” and for playing Gretchen Weiners, who kept trying to make “fetch” happen, in snarky teen satire “Mean Girls.”

Michelle Williams, Ashleigh Murray and Luke James star in “Christmas in Harmony.” Harmony is tricked into auditioning for the annual Holiday Hallelujah Chorus — directed by an ex-boyfriend. But by Christmas Eve, they could be harmonizing in the key of love. (Seth Johnson, Crown Media)

“Christmas in Harmony”

Plot: Exes reunite in a holiday chorus. They could have called it “A Christmas Love Song” but we’re pretty sure there’s already a Hallmark movie with that title.

Hey, I recognize them: Ashley Murray, from The CW’s “Riverdale” and “Katy Keene” is the leading lady, named…Harmony. Her ex is played by Luke James, who is on Showtime’s “The Chi.” However, only one of the cast members was in Destiny’s Child. While Hallmark doesn’t have a Beyoncé-sized budget just yet, they did get Michelle Williams, whose character is seriously named Melo D Star.

“Christmas in Tahoe”

Plot: A woman’s family owns a hotel and they’re in a bind for the annual Christmas show — because no holiday production can go off without a hitch in Hallmark land — and she has to ask her ex, who is now in a famous band, to help out. Oh, and she used to be the band’s manager until she was fired years ago. What are the odds?

Hey, I recognize them: They aren’t getting top billing, but comedian George Lopez and Pat Monahan, singer for the band Train, appear in this one. Monahan’s involvement makes me think that all of the adult contemporary Christmas songs for this year’s batch of movies will be coming from the pop band in the form of originals and covers of yuletide chestnuts. And it’s entirely not outside the realm of possibilities that the band’s heavenly hit “Calling All Angels” makes an appearance. Angels are totally a Christmas thing.

Terry O’Quinn, Katee Sackhoff, Patrick Sabongui, Emma Oliver star in “ Christmas Sail.” (Kailey Schwerman, Crown Media)

“Christmas Sail”

Plot: A woman reconnects with her BFF after she returns home to care for her estranged father. Oh, and she has a daughter and wants to make it the Best Christmas Ever. And there’s a sailboat.

Hey, I recognize them: The woman with daddy issues is played by Katee Sackhoff, best known for her role as Lieutenant Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on the 21st-century version of TV’s “Battlestar Galactica.” You’ll also see actor Terry O’Quinn, who should be recognized for his role as the rich, borderline-obsessive father of a gold medal-seeking figure skater in ’90s big-screen rom-com “The Cutting Edge,” but is likely better known for his role as John Locke on ABC fantasy drama “Lost.”

“Eight Gifts of Hanukkah”

Plot: “A woman journeys to find her secret admirer during Hanukkah,” is the only description on the Hallmark website at the time of publication. We’re going to assume he’s not a serial killer since this isn’t Lifetime. (Kidding. Lifetime goes more traditional, less psycho killers for the holidays. They even have multiple members of “The Brady Bunch” in a movie this year.)

Hey, I recognize them: The woman is Inbar Lavi, who starred in TV shows such as “Lucifer” and “Prison Break.” The male star, who must be the secret admirer, is Jake Epstein, from “Degrassi: The Next Generation.”

“Nantucket Noel”

Plot: A New England Christmas movie is a yearly must and so is the trope of the evil developer trying to ruin something that’s sentimental and Christmasy but sadly run-down. This time, our heroine has a toy store on a wharf that’s marked for demolition. But wait, she falls in love with the developer’s son.

Hey, I recognize them: The aforementioned developer’s son is Trevor Donovan, who starred as Teddy Montgomery on the CW reboot of “90210” and is a Hallmark Channel Christmas romance regular.

Christopher Lloyd, Lyndsy Fonseca star in “Next Stop, Christmas.” Angie wonders what her life would be like if she had married a former boyfriend who became successful and famous. She takes the train home to spend Christmas with her family and inexplicably finds herself 10 years in the past. With the guidance of the train’s enigmatic train conductor, Angie has the chance to revisit that Christmas and learn what – and who – is truly important to her. (Robert Clark, Crown Media)

“Next Stop, Christmas”

Plot: We have another entry in the trope of somehow ending up in the past and getting a do-over — this time, with a famous sportscaster boyfriend. Our heroine boards some kind of special time-traveling train to her hometown to make this happen. (Maybe it’s kind of like the train to get to Hogwarts?)

Hey, I recognize them: Our leading couple isn’t made up of seasoned screen stars, but we do get multiple members of the “Back to the Future” cast supporting them. Lea Thompson, who played Marty’s mom Lorraine McFly, is in this one. So is Christopher Lloyd, aka Doc Brown, who plays the enigmatic train conductor. Wait, time travel, casting people from “Back to the Future,” and didn’t “Back to the Future Part III” include a train? I get it now. Very clever, Hallmark.

“Sister Swap: Christmas in the City” and “Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday”

Plot: Two sisters are super close, but one lives in the city and the other lives in their hometown, so we get a pair of new movies. And there might be a ghost of a favorite uncle played by a former “Saturday Night Live” star — or at least flashbacks,.

Hey, I recognize them: Real-life sisters Kimberly Williams-Paisley (“Father of the Bride” and “Father of the Bride, Part II”) and Ashley Williams (“How I Met Your Mother,” “Something Borrowed”)  star in this series. Comedian Kevin Nealon also appears as their late Uncle Dave.

“The Christmas Contest”

Plot: Only in the world of Hallmark do so many communities have Christmas contests that seem to pit exes or long-feuding families against each other. In this film, it’s the former.

Hey, I recognize them: Can you even have a new crop of Hallmark Christmas movies without Candace Cameron Bure? She became famous as D.J. Tanner on the sitcom “Full House,” a role she reprised for the Netflix reboot “Fuller House.” And joining her for this Christmas competition is “Fuller House” co-star John Brotherton.

“The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls”

Plot: This is a sequel to last year’s “The Christmas House,” Hallmark’s first movie to feature an LGBTQ couple prominently. Now the brothers from the first movie are battling over who has better decorations.

Hey, I recognize them: This is among the most star-studded casts in Hallmark Christmas movie pantheon. You have Emmy nominees Sharon Lawrence, from “NYPD Blue,” and Treat Williams, who was nominated for the TV movie “The Late Shift,” but who also starred in the CW’s “Everwood,” and the 1970s movie musical “Hair.” Then there’s Robert Buckley from the CW’s “iZombie” and “One Tree Hill,” and Jonathan Bennett, who is our second “Mean Girls” star of the season.

“The Nine Kittens of Christmas”

Plot: A couple has to find homes for a litter of kittens. Another holiday sequel, this one is the follow-up to 2014’s “The Nine Lives of Christmas.” The original was still better than the movie version of “Cats.”

Hey, I recognize them: Zachary, the male lead, is played by Brandon Routh, who played Superman on the big screen. His fire chief boss is played by Gregory Harrison, perhaps best known as Gonzo on “Trapper John, M.D.”

Joe Pantoliano, Paul Campbell and Tamera Mowry-Housley star in “The Santa Stakeout.” When two police detectives pose as newlyweds to solve a string of recent holiday party heists they’re swept up by Christmas while observing the prime suspect and start to fall in love. (Allister Foster, Crown Media)

“The Santa Stakeout”

Plot: Odd couple police detectives pose as newlyweds to crack the case of heists happening during holiday parties. Their charade becomes real and the community’s Christmas committee chair may be the one fleecing everybody.

Hey, I recognize them: One of our detectives is Tamera Mowry-Housley, who starred in the ABC sitcom “Sister, Sister” with her twin Tia in the ’90s. They also shared the screen in a reality show called “Tia Tamera” in the ’10s. You’ll also spot Joe Pantoliano on screen in this crime caper. He’s better known for playing Ralphie on “The Sopranos,” a role that snagged him an Emmy, Cypher in “The Matrix” and one of the villainous Fratelli family members in “The Goonies.”

“‘Tis the Season to be Merry”

Plot: A writer named Merry heads to Vermont for a “fresh angle to her book on relationships,” according to the Hallmark site.

Hey, I recognize them: Our main character is Rachael Leigh Cook, who played Laney Boggs in the 1999 teen rom-com “She’s All That” and Josie in the underrated live-action movie version of “Josie and the Pussycats.”

Benjamin Ayres, Danica McKellar and Jason Hervey star in “You, Me and the Christmas Trees.” In the movie, an arborist helps a fourth generation Christmas tree farmer whose evergreens are dying just before the holiday. (Ryan Plummer, Crown Media)

“You, Me the Christmas Trees”

Plot: A Connecticut Christmas tree farmer can’t figure out what’s happening to the trees on his 100-year-old family farm. Enter a tree expert and there’s more than the pines that are full of sap.

Hey, I recognize them: This movie features a reunion of stars of “The Wonder Years,” the original, not the current remake. Danica McKellar, a perennial Hallmark Christmas leading lady, is best known for her role of Winnie Cooper on “The Wonder Years.” Joining her in this winter wonderland is Jason Hervey, who played Wayne Arnold, the annoying older brother of series protagonist (and Winnie’s love interest) Kevin Arnold. Sadly, there’s no Fred Savage to be found — but his younger brother Ben DID star in a Hallmark Hanukkah movie in 2020.


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