Advent began yesterday. "O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!" the prophet Isaiah told us at Mass yesterday. Jesus urged us to be wakeful in Matthew's Gospel: "So too, you ...
During a dark moment in Bing Liu’s “Preparation for the Next Life,” our protagonist, Aishe (Sebiye Behtiyar), seeks guidance in a place she did not think she’d return to: a mosque. An undocumented ...
The director says it would be challenging to recreate the conditions behind his Oscar-nominated skating doc, which nobody could have anticipated would become such a success. By Brian Davids Writer ...
Credits: Directed by Ming Liu, starring Fred Hechinger, Lynn Hung and Joshua De Jesus. Rating/runtime: R for language and brief sexuality; 115 minutes. How to watch: In theaters Friday. Note: In ...
A young immigrant woman falls for a troubled U.S. soldier in this sensitive and sweetly melancholic drama. Sebiye Behtiyar, left, with Fred Hechinger in “Preparation for the Next Life.” By Jeannette ...
Bing Liu makes his fiction debut with a superbly acted drama chronicling the unstable relationship between an undocumented woman and a U.S. Army vet with mental health issues. The spark between two ...
Every once in a while a film comes along starring an actor you have never seen before, who beguiles the screen and blows an audience away. Bonus points if they can do this without even raising their ...
Exclusive: The Oscar-nominated docmaker follows in the footsteps of RaMell Ross: Adapting a novel as his first narrative feature for Plan B, Orion Pictures, and Amazon/MGM Studios. With a screenplay ...
No matter where you live, extreme weather can hit your area and change your life. Whether it’s a hurricane, winter storm, flash flood, tornado, wildfire, or heat wave, disasters can damage or destroy ...
This year, I led one of the most complex and multifaceted campaigns of my life—the #empowHER50 initiative. We had no budget. No media team. No marketing spend. Just a bold vision: to spotlight the ...
During my two decades in medical device sales, I witnessed a stark reality that fundamentally changed my perspective on human behavior. Day after day, I observed patients receiving treatments for ...
Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is a type of injection therapy that uses growth factors found in blood platelets. These cells play a key role in blood clotting, wound healing, injury recovery, and skin ...