Thousand

The deserving winner of the grand jury prize at Sundance this year, the directorial debut from AV Rockwell is rather special. Set in Harlem, New York, and spanning from 1994 to 2005, it’s a dual coming-of-age story, simultaneously following a mother – firecracker Inez (an incendiary Teyana Taylor), at the start of the film an impulsive ex-con recently released from Rikers Island prison – and a son, Terry (played by Aaron Kingsley Adetola as a six-year-old, Aven Courtney at 13, Josiah Cross at 17). When Inez reconnects by…

The quintessential California fog of Northern California has “only” defined its coastline for about 4,000 years, a UC Davis study found. This shot was taken off the coast of Bodega Bay, California. Credit: Karin Higgins/UC DavisThe climate that is commonly perceived as being characteristic of the West Coast is a relatively recent phenomenon, existing for only a few thousand years.It is often said that cities such as Phoenix are always dry, Seattle is always wet, and San Francisco is always foggy. However, the use of the…

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.Beth B up from the underground. Filmmaker Beth B has been a part of the New York City underground art and film scene going back to the 1970s, making works that convey a sense of time and place with vitality. The American Cinematheque and the UCLA Film and Television Archive are putting on a joint retrospective April 1-8. Titles include “Exposed,” “Two Small Bodies” and “Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over” at the…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press There is a dread that hovers over “ A Thousand and One,” writer-director A.V. Rockwell’s remarkably vivid and tender debut feature about a mother and son in New York in the 1990s. The film does not play out like a mystery or a thriller — it’s about the mundanities and trials of life with a kid in a city that has always been the most hostile to its most loyal. But it does begin with a crime and from that point on, you’re on edge waiting for the other shoe to drop. “A Thousand and One”…

Two Sundance Film Festival favorites debut this week along with Apple TV+’s “Tetris.” So does a Netflix spy series and a surreal art-house flick. Are they worth watching? Read on. “A Thousand and One”: New York in the ’90s, with its broken-down foster care system and gentrification run amok, plays a critical role in A.V. Rockwell’s award-winning feature debut, a gritty, shattering portrait of a tight bond born out of a desperate act. A fiery ex-con Inez (Teyana Taylor, a force throughout) occupies her time shadowing and…

As I paced the weathered lighthouse hallways, anxiously fidgeting at each and every doorknob in an attempt to find one that might give me both passage and a false sense of security, I could feel the ocean spray on my skin. I could smell the sea salt, the dampened wood, and the smoke sent billowing from blown out lanterns. In time, these sensations would pass, as walls became flesh and the sound of crashing waves, a widow's wail.In short, Layers of Fear (2023) is an intensely atmospheric game--the depths…

From left, Xintao Yan and Haojie Zhu, both civil engineering PhD students, conduct a test run of one of the autonomous vehicles at Mcity on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Credit: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing The push toward truly autonomous vehicles has been hindered by the cost and time associated with…

The cryptocurrency market has regularly had investors’ hearts in their throats because of its volatility. The market has previously crashed many times due to its correlation with the stock market, a lack of liquidity in the market, or regulations that were passed on cryptocurrency. In these situations, the market is flooded with a sea of red, with many coins dropping in value in the blink of an eye, and this is what occurred in the first week of March. However, despite the crash, the market is stabilising, which can be…

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Perth (Australia), January 28 There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our Solar System, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means close encounters between asteroids and Earth are fairly common. Some of these close encounters end up with the asteroid impacting Earth, occasionally with severe consequences. A recently discovered asteroid, named 2023 BU, has made the news because today it passed very close to Earth. Discovered on January…