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The Secret Art Of Human Flight (2022 Film)
''The Secret Art of Human Flight'' is a 2023 American fantasy comedy drama film written by Jesse Orenshein, directed by H.P. Mendoza and starring Grant Rosenmeyer. Plot Cast *Grant Rosenmeyer as Ben Grady * Paul Raci as Mealworm *Lucy DeVito as Gloria *Nican Robinson as Tom *Reina Hardesty as Sarah *Rosa Arredondo as Detective Reyes * Maggie Grace as Wendy *Sendhil Ramamurthy as Roger Release The film premiered at the Tribeca Festival on June 8, 2023. In March 2024, it was announced that Level 33 Entertainment acquired the distribution rights to the film, which will be released in theaters in July 3, 2024. Reception The film has a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 19 reviews. Peter Debruge of '' Variety'' gave the film a positive review and wrote, "This high-concept, lo-fi indie drama could have gone spiraling off into insufferably eccentric territory, but instead remains grounded in its focus on a young creative type coping with the loss off his soulmate." Matt Zoller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Rosenmeyer
Grant Mandel Rosenmeyer (born July 3, 1991) is an American actor and screenwriter best known for his roles in ''The Royal Tenenbaums'' and on the FOX television sitcom ''Oliver Beene''. Early life and education Rosenmeyer was born in Manhasset, New York, the son of Jewish parents Debra and Colin Rosenmeyer. He grew up in Ridgefield, Connecticut and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2012. Career Rosenmeyer first acted on Broadway as Macduff's son in ''Macbeth'' and as Gavroche in ''Les Misérables''. In 2001, he made his feature film debut as Ari Tenenbaum, Ben Stiller's son, in Wes Anderson's ''The Royal Tenenbaums'', for which he received a Young Artist Award nomination. From 2003 to 2004, Rosenmeyer played the title character in the FOX television sitcom ''Oliver Beene'', produced by Steven Levitan. He has made guest appearances on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'', ''Monk'', ''Jonny Zero'', '' Blue Bloods'' and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Raci
Paul Raci (; born April 7, 1948) is an American character actor. A veteran of stage, film and television, he has appeared in a variety of projects, including small roles in ''Baskets'' and ''Parks and Recreation''. In 2021, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''Sound of Metal'' (2019). In the same year, he was selected by BJ Sam the Nigerian international singer and producer to represent the United States in the first universal Christmas music project with other global music icons including Bollywood playback singer Jaspinder Narula, Swiss actress Christina Zurbrügg, and Ghanaian singer Diana Hopeson. Life and career Raci was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Laurel and Mitchell Raci. His family is of Polish descent, originally surnamed Racibożyński. He was raised as the hearing son of deaf parents, and is fluent in American Sign Language. Raci was a Hospital Corpsman in the United States Navy, attaining the rank of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy DeVito
Lucy Chet DeVito (born March 11, 1983) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Stephanie in '' Melissa and Joey'' (2010–2012). Early life DeVito was born on March 11, 1983, in Los Angeles, the daughter of actors Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman. She also has two younger siblings, a sister, Grace Fan DeVito, and a brother Jacob Daniel DeVito. Her father is Catholic and her mother is Jewish. She graduated from Brown University in 2007 with a degree in theater. Career In 2008, DeVito starred as Anne Frank in a production of ''Anne Frank'' at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle, Washington. In 2009, she starred as La Piccola in the play ''The Miracle at Naples'' at the Huntington Theatre. Her first major movie role was the 2009 film ''Leaves of Grass;'' later that year DeVito starred alongside her mother in the off-Broadway play ''Love, Loss, and What I Wore'', adapted by Nora and Delia Ephron, at the Westside Theatre. She portrayed the daughter of Danny DeVito's c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Grace
Margaret Grace Denig (born ) is an American actress and model. She is known for playing Shannon Rutherford on the ABC television series ''Lost'' (2004–2006; 2010), Kim Mills in the '' Taken'' trilogy (2008–2014), Irina in ''The Twilight Saga'' (2011–2012), and Althea Szewczyk-Przygocki in '' Fear the Walking Dead'' (2018–2021). Grace earned a Young Artist Award nomination in 2002 with her portrayal of 15-year-old murder victim Martha Moxley in the television movie '' Murder in Greenwich''. In 2004, she was cast as Shannon Rutherford in the television series ''Lost'', on which she was a main cast member for the first two seasons, winning a Screen Actors Guild Award shared with the ensemble cast. Leaving the series, Grace was keen to work more prominently in film. She appeared in ''The Jane Austen Book Club'' (2007), and opposite Liam Neeson as Kim Mills in '' Taken'' in 2008. She reprised the role of Kim in ''Taken 2'' (2012) and ''Taken 3'' (2014). She played the lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sendhil Ramamurthy
Sendhil Amithab Ramamurthy (born May 17, 1974) is an American actor. A native of San Antonio, Texas, Ramamurthy is best known for his roles as geneticist Mohinder Suresh in the NBC sci-fi drama ''Heroes'', Gabriel "Gabe" Lowan in ''Beauty and the Beast'', and Jai Wilcox in ''Covert Affairs''. Early life and education Ramamurthy was born in Chicago to a Hindu family who had emigrated from India; his father is a Kannadiga and mother is a Tamil from the Pillai community. He grew up speaking English and a little Kannada. His parents are physicians. He has one sister who is also a physician. He and his sister were raised in San Antonio. There, he went to Keystone School and graduated in 1991. Ramamurthy attended Tufts University initially as a pre-med major to follow in his parents' footsteps. He was also a member of the Kappa Charge of Theta Delta Chi. He became interested in acting when he took an "Intro to Acting" class during his junior year as part of his graduation requirement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribeca Festival
The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Productions. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. Tribeca was founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2002 to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of Lower Manhattan following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Until 2020, the festival was known as the Tribeca Film Festival. Each year, the festival hosts over 600 screenings with approximately 150,000 attendees, and awards independent artists in 23 juried competitive categories. History The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, and Craig Hatkoff, in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the Tribeca neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. The inaugural festival launched after 120 days of planning with the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Zoller Seitz
Matt Zoller Seitz (born December 26, 1968) is an American film and television critic, author and film-maker. Career Matt Zoller Seitz is editor-at-large at RogerEbert.com, and the television critic for '' New York'' magazine and Vulture.com, as well as a member of the George Foster Peabody Awards board of jurors. He was previously a television critic at Salon.com and ''The Newark Star Ledger'', and a film critic for ''The New York Times''. Prior to this he was a regular media columnist for the ''Dallas Observer''. He founded the film and media criticism blog ''The House Next Door''. Seitz is known as a leader in the creation of video essays, frequently featured on ''Moving Image Source'' and ''The L Magazine'', and served as the publisher of ''PressPlay'', a site for video-based film and television criticism. He was a finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Seitz's second book, ''The Wes Anderson Collection'', was published by Abrams Books in 2013. In February 2015, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RogerEbert
''RogerEbert.com'' is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' and also shares other critics' reviews and essays. The website, underwritten by the ''Chicago Sun-Times'', was launched in 2002. Ebert handpicked writers from around the world to contribute to the website. After Ebert died in 2013, the website was relaunched under Ebert Digital, a partnership founded between Ebert, his wife Chaz, and friend Josh Golden. Background Two months after Ebert's death, Chaz Ebert hired film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz as editor-in-chief for the website because his IndieWire blog PressPlay shared multiple contributors with RogerEbert.com, and because both websites promoted each other's content. ''The Dissolve''s Noel Murray described the website's collection of Ebert reviews as "an invaluable resource, both for getting some front-line perspective on older movies, and for getting a better sense of who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound Of Metal
''Sound of Metal'' is a 2019 American drama film directed and co-written by Darius Marder. It stars Riz Ahmed as a metal drummer who loses his hearing, and also features Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff, and Mathieu Amalric. ''Sound of Metal'' had its world premiere in the Platform Prize program at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2019. Amazon Studios released the film in theaters on November 20, 2020, and on Amazon Prime Video on December 4. The film was critically acclaimed, with particular praise for the performances of Ahmed and Raci, the sound design, the editing and Marder's direction and screenplay. It was listed on 52 film critics' top-ten lists for 2020. At the 93rd Academy Awards, it was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor (Ahmed) and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor (Raci) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Fantasy Comedy-drama Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
