Is This Thing On?: Bradley Cooper’s Dramedy, Starring Oscar Winner Laura Dern, Set as Closing Night of 2025 N.Y. Film Fest

“Is This Thing On?” is Cooper’s third directorial effort after “A Star Is Born” and “Maestro.”

Odyssey, The: Chris Nolan, Criticized for Filming in Occupied Western Sahara, ‘Unknowingly Contributes to Morocco’s Repression of Sahrawi People’

Home to Indigenous Sahrawi people, the last remaining African colonial state to achieve independence; Morocco still claims control over majority of land.

My Best Friend Wedding: Sequel to 1997 Rom-Com, to be Penned by Director Celine (“Past Lives”) Song

A sequel to the Julia Roberts 1997 romantic comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding is in development at Sony Pictures.

No Other Land: Activist Working on Oscar-Winning Docu Killed in West Bank

Prominent Palestinian activist who had worked on the 2024 Oscar-winning documentary was killed July 28, 2025, during attack by Israeli settlers in West Bank.

No (2012): Pablo Larraín’s Political Satire, Starring Gael García Bernal

One of the Best Films of the 21St Century.