Movies News Desk - Page 15

Bubbling over with a much-needed dose of optimism is Creedmoria, director Alicia Slimmer's feature debut based loosely on her experiences growing up in 1980s-era Queens, New York, in the shadow of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center.

Ed Asner and Valerie Harper, whose careers and links to Mary Tyler Moore helped create lasting memories and historic television, will join colleague and friend Cloris Leachman for a special event at the 23rd annual Sedona International Film Festival at 6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 17.

Rapunzel is back for an all new Disney Channel Original Movie, TANGLED: BEFORE EVER AFTER, featuring the vocal talents of Zachary Levi and MAndy Moore. The movie premieres on Disney Channel Friday, March 10th. Below, check out a brand-new clip featuring the song 'Wind in My Hair,' written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater and performed by Mandy Moore!

Giant screen movie-goers will soar above the world's tallest bridge and travel at speeds approaching 700 mph when MacGillivray Freeman's new 3D film, DREAM BIG: Engineering Our World, produced in partnership with American Society of Civil Engineers and presented by Bechtel Corporation, arrives in the Giant Screen Theatre at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on Feb. 17 as a kick-off to national Engineers Week.

Irving Franco's debut feature flick Cheerleader seamlessly flows into this beloved genre. See the NYC Premiere of Cheerleader on Sunday February 26 at the 2017 Winter Film Awards Indie Film Festival.

According to the Chicago Tribune, film star and Second City alumnus Mike Myers (Austin Powers, Shrek, Wayne's World) will play improv great Del Close in a new biopic produced by the Windy City comedy institution. Myers was, fittingly, one of Close's students.

YOU GOT A PROBLEM, a new short film by Broadway actor (Grand Hotel) turned director Charles Mandracchia, will be screened at 2017 Katra Film Series - February 11.

The Hollywood Reporter just unveiled the official trailer for Kenny Ortega's A CHANGE OF HEART film, starring Jim Belushi and featuring ON YOUR FEET!'s Gloria Estefan. Check it out below!

Usually, with a name like Suicide, one can expect a heavy and perhaps unpleasant affair. However, in Molly Ratermann's short film, we follow best friends Carson and Franny into the desert, where Carson plans to execute her grand death, and laugh along the way. Suicide manages to explore sexuality, friendship, and of course, death, in 20 sharp and refreshing minutes.

Based on one of the most overlooked tragedies of the 20th Century, BITTER HARVEST is a powerful story of love, honor, rebellion and survival as seen through the eyes of two young lovers caught in the ravages of Joseph Stalin's genocidal policies against Ukraine in the 1930s. Featuring LES MISERABLES star Samantha Barks, the film just unveiled a new trailer. Check it out below!

In honor of Women's History Month, NFMLA presents another installment of its InFocus series, InFocus: Female Directors.

Winter Film Awards and the Aftab Committee are proud to present Film, Identity and Space: Indie Iranian Films, a panel discussion moderated by Lila Nazemian with panelists, Rodin Hamidi, Shoja Azari, and Ghasem Ebrahimian.

Sycamore Pictures (BEGIN AGAIN, THE HOLLARS, THE WAY WAY BACK) just announced the theatrical release of Speech & Debate, based on the critically acclaimed comedy by Tony Award winner Stephen Karam (THE HUMANS) and directed by Dan Harris, and we have a peek at stills from the movie below!

The Fourth Annual Adoption at the Movies Awards are coming on February 21, 2017.  Nominees will be announced to the public on Adoption at the Movies' website and social media. 

Audiences have a final chance to 'Seize the Day!' - tickets are now available for 'Disney's Newsies: The Broadway Musical!,' playing in U.S. movie theaters for three days only on Thursday, February 16 at 7:00 p.m., Saturday February 18 at 12:55 p.m. and Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m. (all local times). Leading up to the movie event, the team is giving fans tons of behind-the-scenes moments. Below, check out Tommy Bracco - the original 'Spot Conlon' - re-living his experience in the recording studio with the company of NEWSIES!

Rooftop Films is excited to host their first ever Gala on Tuesday, January 31, 2017 at Saint Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan.

Hussein Hassan, the director of the award-winning Iraqi film Reseba - The Dark Wind, has withdrawn his visa application to the United States Consulate for clearance to attend the North American premiere of his film at the 34th edition of Miami Dade College's Miami Film Festival.

Antonio Saillant will present 'An Intersection Between Film and Sustainability' at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017 at Grinnell College's Joe Rosenfield '25 Center, Room 101.

The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance is set for March 2,3, & 6, 2017 at The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street). The festival's all-day programming is free and open to the public!

The epic journey continues for MOANA fans as Walt Disney Animation Studios introduces an all-new sing-along version of the hit, critically-lauded comedy-adventure MOANA coming to theaters nationwide today, Jan. 27, 2017.