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THE STORY – A debt-ridden grandson travels to Thailand to find the grandfather he believes abandoned their family, hoping the man behind years of qiaopi letters and remittances can help pay his debts. Instead, he uncovers a lifelong act of love...

THE STORY – A modest family on the outskirts of Tehran faces the imminent destruction of their home as part of a vast redevelopment project. While Rashid, the father and a prison guard, is being accused of corruption, he discovers...

THE STORY – An intimate portrait of two people bound by love, ambition, and the pursuit of the impossible. Elite ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson fall deeply in love while reaching the pinnacle of their sport: Everest’s north...

THE STORY – When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it’s home to an enormous weed empire — and its proprietors aren’t going anywhere. THE CAST – Theo James, Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones,...

The Next Best Series Podcast is back with Episode 65 as we discuss the latest television shows and, more importantly, for this free episode, we reveal our final winner predictions for the 78th Annual Emmy Primetime Awards on Monday, September 14th (with a...

The 83rd Venice Film Festival officially began today, with our very own Ema Sasic and Josh Parham covering it in person. Starting Friday, the 53rd Telluride Film Festival will start and run until September 7th. As always, there’s much speculation...

“Fjord,” “La Bola Negra,” “All of a Sudden,” “Minotaur,” “Fatherland” and “Coward” all won big prizes at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with Cristian Mungiu taking home his second Palme d’Or, extending NEON’s streak that, for many years, has successfully...

THE STORY – Paris, July 14, 1937. Gerda Taro spends her final day before returning to the Spanish front with Robert Capa and the friends with whom she fled Nazi Germany. As past and present intertwine, the key moments of...

THE STORY – In 1969, as rising media tycoon Rupert Murdoch acquires the daily newspaper “The Sun,” his partnership with editor Larry Lamb turns the paper into Britain’s most influential tabloid. THE CAST – Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce & Claire...

THE STORY – When a U.S. Navy pilot on a top-secret mission during the Cold War gets trapped behind enemy lines, his only chance at survival is to ally with an eccentric ex-KGB agent. THE CAST – Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh,...