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Another record-breaking, history-making week in America has managed to squeeze in a bit of movie news as well. Specifically, festival news. Bong Joon Ho, whose
Parasite won the Palme d’Or in 2019 and four Oscars last year, will preside over the jury in Venice. The seventy-eighth edition is set to run from September 1 through 11.
Sundance, whose hybrid 2021 edition opens on January 28, has added two films to its lineup. Shaka King’s
Judas and the Black Messiah stars Daniel Kaluuya as Black Panther party leader Fred Hampton and Lakeith Stanfield as the man the FBI has sent in to track his every move. And Ali El Arabi’s documentary
Why Kyler From Cobra Kai Looks So Familiar
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A television series spin-off of the beloved
The Karate Kid film franchise that began in 1984,
Cobra Kai premiered its first season on YouTube Red in 2018. After receiving a ton of praise from critics and audiences alike, the show continued for another season on YouTube before Netflix acquired it. A long wait later, and the third season of
Cobra Kai finally dropped on the streamer on January 1, 2021, and a fourth is already on its way.
With Ralph Macchio and William Zabka reprising their roles as Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, respectively,
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Pass The Remote For January 1-6: Soothing, Fun, Sly And Thoughtful Films To Ring In The New Year
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Since gatherings are a big no-no this season, how about uncorking the bubbly (alcoholic or nonalcoholic) at home and ring in 2021 by watching a film available to stream from Bay Area indie theaters?
There s much to choose from. Here are five of your best bets. Driveways : Andrew Ahn s sophomore feature is my favorite film of 2020, an emotional salve for the rage-filled times in which we live. The late Brian Dennehy hits a career high as a lonely Korean War vet who befriends an ostracized and shy Korean American boy (Lucas Jaye) who just moved with his mother (Hong Chau) into his dead aunt s hoarder house. Ahn s film is a quiet, beautiful piece of transcendental art, a rewarding experience that says so much through its characters actions rather than their words. (Available t
The 25 best movies of 2020 you didn’t see in theaters
Updated Jan 02, 2021;
Posted Jan 02, 2021
Micheal Ward as Franklyn (center left) and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn as Martha (purple dress) in Lovers Rock.Photo Credit: Parisa Taghizedeh/Amazon Prime Video.
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Despite what you may have heard, movies were released in 2020. In fact, plenty of them were.
While many movie theaters big and small closed in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the film industry soldiered on, determined to release its bevy of content to the masses.
Not all of it, of course. Many of the big tent items a new James Bond film, Marvel’s “Black Widow,” a “Top Gun” sequel and much more were pushed to 2021 or taken off the release calendar entirely. And for some, that means there may as well have been zero movies released last year. And that’s fine, if those kinds of movies are your thing. But I’m here to tell you that 2020, against all odds, was a damn good year for film.