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Online games are taking over the gambling industry rapidly. Little wonder, there is a sudden surge in the number of gaming portals available on the internet. According to Kevin N. Cochran, a gaming expert, it is pertinent to note that while physical factories remain relevant in some parts of the world, security and comfortability are among the vast differences between land-based and online casinos in Canada. Movie producers have also tapped into the rise of the online gaming industry by shooting casino- related movies to entertain punters and educate them on specific gambling lessons....

In most cases, a one-night stand is a rather complicated way to get into a relationship with a stranger, but things are getting easier, especially after so many movies focusing on this relationship dynamic. These movies bring two people together with the lure of a quick, noncommittal casual hookup, and then the story unfolds from there. While some movies talk about one-night-stands leading to doomed love and dire repercussions, others discuss how a casual encounter turns into a life-long commitment....

This is, of course, the sequel to “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” a successful reboot of the webslinger franchise. Director Jon Watts (“Cop Car”) is back at the helm, but, more intriguingly, the film will be set in Europe as Peter and company go on summer vacation. Added to the cast is villain Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), who will be joined by “Homecoming” antagonist Vulture (Michael Keaton). We have no idea if the movie is set before or after the events of ‘Infinity War,’ but, suffice to say, we will know once “Avengers: Endgame” is released next April....

If you’ve been watching Trump’s White House Task Force briefings you would know how entertaining they are to watch. It’s an art form, a high-wire act of Covid-19 updates mixed in with deadpan comedy and babbling absurdity. It really is fascinating counter-programming to the usual doom and gloom coverage we are getting of the Coronavirus. Monday’s briefing drew 12.2 million people on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, those are the type of numbers that shows like “Monday Night Football and season finales for “The Bachelor” usually receive....

The goal is to amass around 300 critics lists. I haven’t set a deadline yet for when the lists have to be submitted by, but the plan is to, hopefully, have the results posted live by 02.01.21. It’s a doable task. As mentioned, between the years 1980-1989, cinema became more and more commercialized, to the point where sequels became an irritant and replaced original stories. People tend to forget that before the ‘80s, original films were mostly being released, but that all changed with “Jaws” in 1975 and the “Star Wars” in 1980, this led to the industry completely changing, and the creative bottom line being compromised by greed....

As I mentioned last month, Alberto Barbera has a beautiful problem in his hands. He usually picks 4-6 American films in competition every year. This year he has more than a dozen A-list filmmakers who want to bring their US films to competition. Theres also a quota of 4-5 Italian films in competition. Which complicates things further for Barbera …Between the Italian and American films, that’s already half the competition....

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This was written before Lukas Dhont’s “Close” was screened last night and, suffice to say, that film has everybody talking this morning. Will the filmmaker-heavy jury go for it? I’m not so sure they will, but absolutely everyone is convinced that it’s this year’s Palme, based purely on the emotional reaction. Critics seem to be mostly positive on it, with only myself, IndieWire and Variety having mixed reactions. A 12 minute standing ovation at the Lumiere has me thinking it’s a contender....

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THR’s resident awards expert, Scott Feinberg, has seen “She Said” and even included it in his Best Picture predictions. It’s been selectively screen in Los Angeles these past few weeks. Maria Schrader’s film needed films to disappoint at the fall fests, and now that that has occurred, I believe this Harvey Weinstein investigative film, à la “Spotlight,” could be a Best Picture nominee. I’m hearing that both Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan will be campaigned as Supporting actress....

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“The limited series chronicles young Cora’s (Mbedu) journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.” Jenkins announced last month that production on “The Underground Railroad” wrapped after a lengthy 116-day shoot....

However, a film as slyly entertaining as “Knives Out” is too hard to resist, even for the haters. It’s a great whodunit, even though we already know who did it at the start. The cast Johnson has assembled for “Knives Out” is also impressive; Chris Evans, Daniel Crag, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Ana de Armas, Toni Collette, Michael Shannon, Lakeith Stanfield and Christopher Plummer. The official synopsis reads like an Agatha Christie novella: “Wealthy crime novelist Harlan Thrombrey invites his extended dysfunctional family to his mansion on his 85th birthday in hopes of reuniting them all....

“Emerald Fennell’s debut feature, “Promising Young Woman” plays like a feminist “Death Wish.” This thought-provoking movie has been the talk of the town ever since its premiere last weekend. Carey Mulligan stars as Cassie a barista and med-school dropout, haunted by her best friend’s dorm-room rape and ensuing suicide. Cassie spends her evenings, however, in clubs and bars, exacting revenge on any man who dares go over the line with her....

“Directed by Riley Stearns, whose underrated 2015 debut “Faults” deserves to be seen by a larger audience, “The Art of Self-Defense” was the best movie I saw at the IFFBoston this year. Casey, a shy bookeeper (played by Jesse Eisenberg), is attacked on the street one night by a masked motorcycle gang, which provokes him to join the local neighborhood karate studio to learn how to protect himself. However, the charismatic Sensei (a darkly hilarious Alessandro Nivola), and his lethal, brown-belt sidekick Anna (the always wonderful Imogen Poots) have secrets that are slowly, but meticulously revealed to us when Casey gets promoted to the mysterious “night classes” at the studio....

The Hate U Give is an urgently gripping and passionate achievement enhanced by a central performance that deserves all the awards attention it will likely receive in the coming months. Starr is played by the incredible Amandla Stenberg, and her range as an actress is nothing short of astounding. The story potently takes advantage of Starr’s “two lives:” “Starr Version 1” being at home in her poor neighborhood, where gangs and violence lurk at every corner, and “Starr Version 2” at the private school that she and her brothers attend, where her speech changes, her friends are all rich, and her boyfriend is white, which her dad has no clue about....

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I’m reminded of the ecstatic reactions that Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation” received at Sundance 2016. It was almost a cinch for a Best Picture nomination according to many people who saw it during that snowy January. The standing ovation the film got at its premiere was unlike any I had seen before at the festival. Then came the allegations against Parker, and the raves his film garnered at Sundance all of a sudden stopped and quickly turned into pans when “The Birth of a Nation” was released in October....