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Exclusive: The UK Jewish Film Festival (November 9 – 22) has revealed its lineup of 2023 gala screenings and premieres, including special presentations of the Anthony Hopkins pic One Life and Mario Bellochi’s Cannes competition title Kidnapped.

One Life, directed by James Hawes, will open the festival. The pic tells the true-life story of Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker and son of German-Jewish parents, who, after being horrified by tales of refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied Sudetenland, sets off for Prague and begins to find ways to bring out as many refugee children as possible. Aided by his formidable mother, Barbara (Helena Bonham Carter), and a coterie of dedicated activists, their seemingly impossible mission faces daunting obstacles in this inspiring true story of hope and determination. James Hawes will be present on the night to introduce his film.

Mario Bellochi’s Kidnapped will screen at the festival’s centerpiece gala. The film tells the true...

Film from ‘The Amazing Maurice’ producers Cantilever Productions.

International sales firm Pink Parrot Media has secured key sales on animated musical comedy Unstable, including a US distribution deal with Viva Pictures.

The film has also sold to Cis and Baltics (Volga), Scandinavia (Mis Label), Bulgaria (Pro Films), Romania (Idea Films), Spain (Flins y Piniculas), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Poland (Monolith), Middle East (Front Row), former Yugoslavia (Blitz) and Ukraine and Baltics (Adastra Cinema).

Unstable follows a disillusioned police horse who undergoes a dramatic makeover and seeks justice with a new friend, 7-year-old dressage enthusiast Luna. Directed by Benoit Godbout and co-written...

Years in the making! The glory of MGM on parade! Enough studio resources to film twenty pictures were expended on this paean to showman Florenz Ziegfeld. It’s really Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s Technicolor valentine to itself, showing off the studio’s enormous stable of musical talent, along with various of its comic performers. Arthur Freed and Louis B. Mayer’s notion of ‘something for everyone’ results in weird stack of grandiose musical numbers and mostly weak comedy. The biggest draw is the incredible color cinematography that peeks through in three or four jaw-droppingly elaborate musical spectacles. The picture is a workout to find the artistic limits of the Technicolor system.

Ziegfeld Follies

Blu-ray

Warner Archive Collection

1945 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 117 110 min. / Street Date June 15, 2021 / 21.99

Starring: (alphabetically): Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams. Also...

Features the voices of: Ruby Barnhill, Jim Broadbent, Ewen Bremner, Lynda Baron, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Morwenna Banks, Teresa Gallagher, Rasmus Hardiker, Rebecca Kidd, Kate Winslet | Written by Riko Sakaguchi, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, David Freedman, Lynda Freedman | Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Now I’ve already reviewed Mary and the Witch’s Flower earlier this year. That first review is on Nerdly for you to check out and goes into a little more detail about things like the dubbing. However, it’s not very often I give the movies I review a second opinion but how does Mary and the Witch’s Flower hold up after a second glance?Well, honestly, there isn’t much else I can add that I didn’t already mention in my first review of the Studio Ponoc film.

The story of Mary and the Witch’s Flower is based on the children’s classic, My Little Broomstick by Mary Stewart.

A former FBI agent and his daughter are speaking out about the night they killed the woman’s husband with a baseball bat, alleging that they acted in self-defense.

A North Carolina jury on Wednesday found Thomas Martens, 67, and 33-year-old Molly Corbett guilty of second-degree murder in Jason Corbett’s death in August 2015.

Officials argued that Molly’s desire to adopt Jason’s two children from a previous marriage was part of the motive for the killing, according to the Winston-Salem Journal.

Authorities also suspect Jason’s $600,000 life insurance policy may have been a factor, and they alleged that Martens hated his son-in-law,...

A North Carolina jury found a former FBI agent and his daughter guilty of killing the woman’s husband with a baseball bat after years of alleged abuse, reports say.

Thomas Martens, 67, and Molly Corbett, 33, were convicted of second-degree murder on Wednesday in the death of 39-year-old Jason Corbett, who was found naked on the floor of his bedroom with his head bashed in on Aug. 2, 2015, according to multiple reports.

Martens, who worked as an FBI agent for more than 30 years, has long maintained he was defending his daughter that night after Jason allegedly attacked her, ABC News reports. He...