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The horror-tinged fertility thriller False Positive really 'delivers,' in more ways than one. Ilana Glazer and Justin Theroux star in the film premiering tonight at the Tribeca Festival, playing a couple struggling to have a baby. Seeking an expert's assistance, they go to a world-renowned reproductive specialist, Dr…

There's not much question the U.S. Women's soccer team is the best in the world. They've proven that in competition. On Thursday, the team won its latest match, an "international friendly" against Nigeria, as it ramps up for the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo. Next up, on July 1, is another friendly against Mexico. The…

The feature film Creation Stories, a fictionalized account of real-life Scottish musician and Creation Records founder Alan McGee, contains a slew of memorable lines of dialogue. Examples: "L.A.: The land of the backstabbers, the vacuous and the soulless." "I'm a nihilist, man. There's nothing to it." "I ordered a…

"Werewolves always really got me, from the fellow in Monster Squad — you could always really feel his pain," said director Josh Ruben of the 1987 film. But he was wary of a script based on a videogame, until he read this one. "Videogame movies don't have a great rep, but from the beginning it felt like Arachnophobia…

During the Texas shoot for 12 Mighty Orphans, Martin Sheen was reunited onscreen for the first time with his Apocalypse Now co-star Robert Duvall. Since working together on that 1979 classic, Sheen had stayed in touch with the Oscar winner to some extent. But they hadn't spoken, prior to their time together on the…

Mystery surrounds the Salvator Mundi, an artwork depicting Jesus as the savior of the world painted by Leonardo da Vinci. The painting on wood panel, made over 500 years ago, once belonged to the British monarchs Charles II and James II. Then it went missing for centuries. In 2005 it purportedly surfaced at a New…

For Lauren Hadaway "write what you know" was the best advice for her first screenplay and the former college rower did just that. "The Novice" is about obsession set in a very specific, watery world. "Of course it's drama, but everything you see — the injuries, the breakdown, all of these things, they happened to me…

Austria has produced a couple of amazing Wolfgangs: in the 1700s, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and, much more recently, Wolfgang Puck, who might be described as a Mozart of the kitchen. Puck, who rose to become America's first celebrity chef after opening his restaurant Spago in Hollywood, is the subject of the documentary…

The late chef and writer Anthony Bourdain dazzled the world, first with his cooking and then with his prose. His death by his own hand in 2018, while he was on location in France shooting his CNN series Parts Unknown, remains deeply upsetting to his friends and fans. "Up close I saw the kind of cratering effect his…

Writer and director Geeta Malik began work on India Sweets and Spices a decade ago and saw the script evolve, shaped by time and the birth of two children from a classic coming of age story to a moving exploration of a mother-daughter relationship with a feminist slant and a surprising reveal. Much of the action…

When the movie Kids came out in 1995 some people mistakenly thought it was a documentary. The misimpression came from the urgent, visceral presentation of a tribe of teenagers in New York's lower east side who lived marginal lives built around sex, drugs and skateboarding. There were other reasons for the shock of…

When Elijah Wood first met with director Amber Sealey about No Man of God, the pair hit on a very clear vision for the drama they had in mind. "Early on, just sort of anecdotally to each other, we'd talk about it as like the serial killer Frost/Nixon," says Wood, who starred in and produced the Tribeca feature. "You…