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Train Dreams to A Thousand and One: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Joel Edgerton stars in an epic American tale, and Teyana Taylor is a total scene-stealer in AV Rockwell’s tender story of a mum abducting her child from care

The Guardian - UK · Nov 14, 2025

Woman Sentenced To 35 Years For Killing Social Justice Advocate

Jameelah Michl sentenced for the murder of Michael Latt, a social justice advocate in Hollywood. The case reflects on the impact of violence and the pursui...

Top News · Jul 11, 2024

Woman sentenced to 35 years to life for slaying of Hollywood consultant in Los Angeles

A woman who pleaded guilty to the killing of entertainment consultant and social justice advocate Michael Latt last November has been sentenced to 35 years to life in prison

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2024

Entertainment consultant killed by woman who stalked his film director friend, prosecutors say

Prosecutors say a high-profile entertainment marketing consultant was targeted by a woman who had been stalking one of his friends, a film director, before she fatally shot him inside his Los Angeles home

The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2023

'Past Lives,' Lily Gladstone win at Gotham Awards, while Robert De Niro says his speech was edited

Celine Song’s wistful romance “Past Lives” has earned top honors at the Gotham Awards at an award-season kickoff where the night’s biggest drama came in a political speech by Robert De Niro that the actor claimed had been edited

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2023

Sacrifice needed in "A Thousand and One"

Our broken systems – whether it's foster care or prison – set up this bittersweet story starring Teyana Taylor

Salon · Apr 17, 2023

‘A Thousand and One’ is Teyana Taylor's answered prayer

Teyana Taylor says the praise she’s received for her new film, “A Thousand and One” is “everything I prayed for.”

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2023

Gentrification can suck the 'vitality' out of a city. This new film captures how

New York City, once heralded as the "city of dreams," where grit alone was enough to make it, is now a place like any other major American city, increasingly made from steel and glass — and also prohibitively expensive. That changing landscape and the dwindling opportunities therein, whether euphemized as…

Los Angeles Times · Mar 31, 2023

Movie review: 'A Thousand and One' a fascinating portrait of maternal instinct caught in unforgiving world

Mothers are often the keepers of secrets, borne from a primal instinct for survival. But secrets fester, grow bigger and inevitably burst with the resonance of truth, as they do in “A Thousand and One,” the debut feature of writer/director A.V. Rockwell. The film, which won the U.S. dramatic grand…

Tribune News Service · Mar 29, 2023

For film lovers, Sundance matters as much as ever. Here are 19 (more) reasons why

PARK CITY, Utah — The 2023 Sundance Film Festival came to a close Sunday, capping the festival’s first in-person edition since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in early 2020. Los Angeles Times film reporter Mark Olsen and film critic Justin Chang sat down to discuss what they saw and liked…

Los Angeles Times · Jan 30, 2023