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Screener, The: Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe’s Satirical Series of Hollywood

March 23, 2026 By

In the Sundance Fest series The Screener, Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe satirize major talent agencies and obsession with getting early access viewing.

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Screener, The: Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe’s Satirical Series of Hollywood

In the Sundance Fest series The Screener, Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe satirize major talent agencies and obsession with getting early access viewing.

Virtue (1932): Edward Buzzell’s Pre-Code Romantic Melodrama, Starring Carole Lombard

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Viva Verdi! (2026): Yvonne Russo’s Docu about a Unique Music Home, Founded by Verdi

The feature follows residents, aged 77 to 107, as they continue to perform, teach, and mentor international young music students who live among them.

New Book about Cannes Film Fest, Camera d’Or (2008): Steve McQueen’s “Hunger”

Tough to watch due to the brutal treatment of prisoners in the Maze camp, and concluding with the graphic depiction of Sands’ starvation to death with all the details of such traumatic event, Hunger is an uncompromisingly harrowing and audacious film in the best sense of these terms.