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"One Golden Summer" takes us back to simpler times, when Chicago collectively rejoiced around the winning Little League Jackie Robinson West (JRW) team from the South Side of Chicago, the first all-Black team to rally through the end-of-summer tournament. Like any kid, the only narrative I cared about at that time was the batter's count and runs scored. Despite its overall positive light, we see the shadows more clearly in this production.

In the film's first scene, a young girl is introduced bopping up and down in the backseat of a car, to the beat of a repetitive dance number all but designed to annoy tired moms and dads everywhere. Her father (Ebrahim Azizi) tries to turn down the music, but after some pleading, and a look from Mom, it goes back to full volume.

It's been 16 years since the premiere of Jennifer's Body, the movie in which Megan Fox plays a human-turned-succubus who devours her high school classmates. The horror-comedy's legacy, however, hasn't waned one bit. Over the weekend, days ahead of Halloween, there was a special screening of the cult classic in Los Angeles, attended by Fox herself. Naturally, she gave a nod to her bloodthirsty character via her spicy ensemble. It's method dressing with a horror twist.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

He spent much of the year or so hiatus caring for newborn Iris, but it also marked an unexpected turning point: Apatow began reading more than he ever had in his life. "I think it was the specificity of describing the human condition [in these books] that, through osmosis, reoriented me somehow. I got less dumb," Apatow tells Bustle ahead of the release of his latest book, Comedy Nerd.

There is a literal s**t-ton of movies that carry the name " Frankenstein" in their titles. From the most faithful adaptations of Mary Shelley's original novel to in-name-only, bargain-basement cheapies, there has been no shortage of motion pictures ready to glom onto the property, going back to the earliest days of cinema. But occasionally one emerges that is actually offbeat and decent enough to warrant additional attention.

Mannex, whose interest in the silent film era had already inspired KPAC's annual Silent Film Festival, couldn't wait to see it. So he was delighted to learn that two delicate reels of film -along with the original shooting script and hundreds of still photos from the production -were tucked away in the Idaho Film Collection in the library at Boise State University archives.

I'm quite a fan of Gothic horror movies. As a young teenager, I experienced the gloriously Technicolour-saturated world of the Hammer movies late on Saturday night TV when no one was keeping an eye on me. A star of several of those films, Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell' (with Peter Cushing) and Taste the Blood of Dracula' (with Christopher Lee), was the iconic British actress Madeline Smith.

We're just under a month out from the release of Wicked: For Good but the first reactions giving an indication of whether the musical sequel can live up to all the hype. Wicked: For Good will adapt the second act of the long-running Broadway musical, Wicked. Starring Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba/'The Wicked Witch of the West' and Ariana Grande as Glinda/'Glinda the Good,' the film will follow both characters as they live with the consequences of their choices

A rumor circulating online that Disney World and Disneyland are planning to remove all villainous characters, like the Evil Queen, from the park and only have them appear during the Halloween season moving forward isn't accurate, according to Disney representatives. Earlier this month, people online began sharing clips of the Evil Queen at the Disney parks telling guests to complain to management over her seemingly being removed or replaced.

Autumn is entering the home straight. Winter is coming. We are more than due, therefore, a piece of fantasy/folkloric tomfoolery set in the days of yore which is further back than yesteryear and therefore more forgiving all round stuffed with young actors trying out their talents, and old thesps keeping their alimony/next passion-project funded. Welcome, my friends, to this year's most glorious offering: Robin Hood.

The Defense Department is notoriously picky about films that depict military and national-security issues, and understandably so. Many movies that feature the military get a lot of things wrong, including innocent flaws such as actors who are the wrong age for the rank on their costume, or scripts that invent procedures or terms that don't exist. Sometimes, the Defense Department cooperates with Hollywood and provides advice; other times, it takes a pass, especially if the subject raises touchy issues.

What made these tickets so desirable? The answer is complicated, but a new change means you won't miss out if you're not planning your life a year ahead of time. The tickets sold in July were for 70mm IMAX showings, an ultra-large format used for blockbusters like Oppenheimer and Sinners. It's the largest screen you can possibly see the movie on, and it shows the most of the original image possible while still feeling like real film.

In anticipation of the festive season, Funko recently launched four new Funko Holiday Countdown Calendars for 2025. Each calendar includes an assortment of between 12 - 24 mystery figures based on popular franchises to help you track the final weeks until Christmas. One of the new sets is the Funko Pop Countdown Calendar: The Nightmare Before Christmas, which includes 24 Funko Pocket Pop figures from the classic Tim Burton stop-motion film. The box set is on sale for $42.49 (was $50).

Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl's four-hour 1938 documentary-a purported masterpiece on the Berlin Olympic Games-is impossible to get through in its entirety. You can't do it, not without several thumb leans on "Fast-Forward" to skip the dull parts. Her work has that in common with porn. It shares lots of the same characteristics, actually: an obsession with slick, perfect athletic bodies; monotony; repetitive floggings; manipulated states of arousal.

Truly the tabloids and journalists just created it and kept going," she said. "Even if we were just standing next to each other, it was 'They're standing two inches apart!'

The multiverse could give Pepper Potts a new lease on life. Marvel Studios The MCU will soon bring all its disparate storylines to a head in Avengers: Doomsday and its follow-up, Secret Wars. The film is set to bring the Multiverse Saga to a close, but before it does, it will feature more Marvel characters than any story that's come before it. Some will be familiar characters from other universes, like Fox's X-Men. Others could be takes on new characters played by familiar faces.

'For Bridget to be honoured as a British icon with her own statue alongside Paddington Bear, Mary Poppins and Admiral Lord Nelson (alright, he's down the road a bit!) is a huge thrill,' says Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding, 'and reason for everyone to raise a glass of chardonnay to being "just as you are". I am touched and delighted for Bridget and hope that [her] mummy pants will ensure a sleek silhouette for this exciting statue unveiling.'