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Variety’s annual brunch, held today, January 6th, 2023, shone a spotlight on ten directors to watch, while presenting its Creative Impact Awards, following the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala. Variety’s Ramin Setoodeh hosted the event at the Parker Palm Springs Resort, the official hotel of the festival. In the past, Variety has paid tribute to…

Just a few months after releasing their TV version of “Interview with the Vampire,” AMC continues its investment in the Anne Rice business with a new show, focused on a new supernatural lineage. Instead of the Vampire Lestat, this new series from creators Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford is about the women of the wealthy and…

The marketing for “M3gan” has leaned into the uncanny spectacle of the title character, a four-foot-tall cyborg with big doe eyes, a ratty wig, and the wardrobe of a closeted lesbian headmistress in a ’50s melodrama. And it seems to be working: A well-placed GIF here, an activation with a half-dozen women in M3gan drag…

Following a few static shots to convey the rustic beauty of its farmland setting, Spanish director Carla Simón opens her delicate second feature, “Alcarràs” with a moment that later on will read like a premonition of the beginning of the end for her characters’ way of life.  Iris (Ainet Jounou), the youngest daughter in a…

When the film “Butcher’s Crossing” began making its way along the festival circuit last year, it was promoted as being the first time that its star, Nicolas Cage, had ever done a Western. This revelation seemed so unlikely that I immediately went to IMDb to see if it was true or not. After all, considering…