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You could hardly ask for a better movie debut than Chase Infiniti's in One Battle After Another, even if the 24-year-old actor was very much thrown in at the deep end. As Willa, the teenage daughter of former revolutionaries, she was called on to do shoot-outs, car chases, karate, and to hold her own against heavyweights like Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and Regina King.

Josh Safdie's hectic new film Marty Supreme, set in 1952, mainly in New York, is, essentially, Uncut Gems but with a happy ending. That recklessly exuberant 2019 drama, which Safdie co-directed with his brother, Benny, stars Adam Sandler as a jewelry dealer in Manhattan and a compulsive gambler who takes thrilling risks to pay off his creditors and learns that the house always wins. With Marty SupremeSafdie's first feature directed without Benny since 2008the happy ending follows logically from a happy beginning, so to speak.

First, Culkin pointed out that his sons can watch Disney Channel classic sitcom, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, which starred his now-wife, Brenda Song, and the kids totally get it. "I'll put it on. Brenda hates it, but I'll put it on ... They're like, 'Yeah, that's mama.' So they get that. But when they see Kevin, they always just call him Kevin. Because the illusion's still there," Culkin began.

The record also features a a duet from Andy Shauf and Madi Diaz, a pair of tracks from the bird and the bee (Inara George and Greg Kurstin, who also appear in the film), and a rendition of "The 12 Days Of Christmas" from cast member Dominic Sessa. Released by Mutant along with Sony Music Soundtracks, the special vinyl edition arrives on 140-gram candy cane color vinyl with exclusive artwork, plus liner notes written by Oh. What. Fun. director and co-writer Michael Showalter.

Laura Dern's starred in stories of marital disaster before - from her portrayal of a no-holds-barreddivorce lawyer in Marriage Story to her turn as a woman on the brink of a marriage breakdown in Big Little Lies. But her new film, Is This Thing On? (out Dec. 19), offers a brighter take on splitsville. Directed and co-written by Bradley Cooper, the movie follows Tess (Dern) and Alex (Will Arnett, also the film's co-writer), parents navigating the beginning of a separation.

For most, filmmaking isn't a lucrative profession. But for a select few, it can really pay off. In an industry where few want to be a part of failures and seemingly everyone wants a piece of the successes, these five directors have risen above the fray to not just be master storytellers, but get paid like them. James Cameron, who has made the highest-grossing movies of all time on numerous occasions, is the latest to join the three-comma club.

In the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan, Tom Hanks played Captain John H. Miller, a citizen-soldier willing to die for his country.

"It is a movie where you have to be careful not to rush anything because the silences are important, and the time that passes is important," editor Affonso Goncalves said of the film, which he co-edited with director Chloe Zhao. "Chloe's first tendency is toward the wide shots and the masters, and we talk about when to keep some of that silence that exists in a master, not to go in but just to keep it that way, and when to stretch silences and pauses."

For 25 years, we've been drawn to new forms of creative expression and the artists pushing those boundaries. Today's creators are among the most inventive storytellers working in any medium. Expanding Tribeca NOW honors how audiences experience stories today - on every screen, in every form. That spirit of reinvention is what Tribeca was built on.

"Resurrection," a magnificent intoxicant of a movie from the thirty-six-year-old Chinese director Bi Gan, is no ordinary love letter to cinema. It's more like a love labyrinth-a multi-tiered maze, full of secret passages, shadowy rooms, and winding staircases, with a giant movie theatre, sculpted from candle wax, waiting at the incandescent finish. It's an ecstatic, extravagant work of artifice and imagination, and, from the start, Bi and his collaborators (they include the director of photography Dong Jingsong and the production designers Liu Qiang and Tu Nan) embrace their craft with a childlike sense of wonder and play.

Ten years ago, Star Warsstill felt like magic. Some people remember where they were for the Moon landing; I remember where I was when the first teaser for The Force Awakens launched online (at an old girlfriend's house after Black Friday brunch). Every frame was scrutinized: the cross-guarded saber, X-Wings roaring planetside, BB-8's anxious roll. The plot, shrouded in another J.J. Abrams mystery, was teased in marketing and merch, where posters and action figures of Kylo Ren doubled as conduits of hype and intrigue.

After a varied career in which he has played a psychopath, a romcom heart-throb, an intergalactic warlord and a plucky newspaper editor among others, Domhnall Gleeson has won his first Hollywood award. The US-Ireland Alliance announced that Gleeson will receive the Oscar Wilde award at the event's 20th anniversary in Los Angeles in March in the run-up to the Oscars. It honours a body of work rather than a particular performance.

The Lawrence Hall of Science's planetarium is playing Traditions of the Winter Sun, a short film about Ohlone and other cultures' traditions surrounding the cosmos, from now to Feb. 27. Photo credit: Lawrence Hall of Science Learn about Ohlone and other cultural traditions for the sun, moon, planets and stars in the 30-minute planetarium show, Traditions in the Winter Sky. Show runs from now to Feb. 27 at the Lawrence Hall of Science. $5 plus admission fee

WALKER-SILVERMAN: This is a story about a wildfire only in the most basic sense. What I mean by that is that it's a story about all the things that happen afterwards to recover and reimagine and move on. And the film tells a story of a group of people who all wind up thrown together in a FEMA camp sharing very little but that they've all lost everything.

These past couple of weeks have been pretty exciting for all of us! Prepping and planning for Christmas and also watching Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery after it dropped last week-that's what I've been doing. I'm not sure about everyone else, but I've been pretty obsessed with Josh O'Connor ever since Challengers, and after watching this film, my obsession has only peaked.