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Trailer Watch: “Ziwe” Returns to Tackle Social Issues With Humor & Irreverence in Season 2

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“Ziwe” is back to confront hot-button issues and make celebs cringe. “Diversity training isn’t enough. I’m ready to go to diversity war!” a chainsaw-wielding Ziwe Fumudoh declares in the trailer for the second half off the sophomore season of her talk show. The late-night program is returning in full force with a wide assortment of guests – talk-show host and actress Drew Barrymore, “Glee” alumna Amber Riley, and “Uncut Gems” breakout Julia Fox, to name a few – who must tackle the Ziwe’s heavy-hitting questions about race, gender, politics, and social issues. 

Fain to make her celebrity interviewees more than a little uncomfortable with her discussion topics, Ziwe asks Barrymore,

Trailer Watch: “Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste” Exposes Sexual Abuse and Manipulation

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“We have a pleasure deficit disorder in this country. I think that there is a cure and that cure is female orgasm,” says Nicole Daedone in a new trailer for “Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste.” Sarah Gibson and Sloane Klevin’s Netflix doc pulls the curtain back on OneTaste, a once thriving startup in the health, wellness, and sexuality space that attracted members with promises of sexual education and “exploring orgasm [and] exploring pleasure.”

Founded by Daedone, the company first made headlines for teaching orgasmic medication, or OM, a practice that involved using a gloved and lubricated fingertip to stroke a woman’s clitoris for 15 minutes, culminating in orgasm. But

Pfizer's RSV vaccine for pregnant women protects newborns against severe illness

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Pfizer announced on Tuesday that an experimental RSV vaccine for pregnant women protects newborns against severe illness for at least six months after birth.

In phase III of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, considered the gold standard of epidemiologic studies, the vaccine was found to be about 82% effective at preventing severe cases of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, in infants whose mothers were immunized. This level of protection was observed from birth through 3 months of age. At 6 months of age, there was a reduction in protection, but the Pfizer vaccine was still 69% effective against the illness, according to the company.

In order to assess the safety and

Jocelyn Moorhouse’s Star-Studded “The Fabulous Four” Goes to Bleecker Street

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Bleecker Street has landed North American rights to Jocelyn Moorhouse-directed comedy “The Fabulous Four,” starring Susan Sarandon, Bette Midler, Megan Mullally, and Sissy Spacek. Deadline confirmed that production is scheduled for early next year in Australia and a nationwide theatrical release is planned. 

The wedding comedy follows three women (Sarandon, Mullally, and Spacek) as they travel to Key West, Florida to be bridesmaids at the surprise nuptials of college friend Marilyn (Midler). “Once there, sisterhoods are rekindled, the past rises up again in all its glory, and there’s enough sparks, drinks and romance to change all their lives in ways they never expected,” the source teases.

Moorhouse penned the script

Trailer Watch: Amy Adams Squares Off Against Maya Rudolph in “Disenchanted”

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The long-awaited sequel to 2007’s “Enchanted” is nearly upon us. “I know that change can be scary, but it can also be exciting,” Giselle (Amy Adams) insists in a new trailer for the pic. It’s been 10 years since she tied the knot with Robert (Patrick Dempsey), and their family has decided to move from the city to suburbia. Their new community isn’t quite what they had in mind: Malvina (Maya Rudolph), a local queen bee who makes Giselle feel totally unwelcome. Their new life isn’t the exciting change Giselle had in mind. “Happily ever after, it’s not always that easy,” she’s reminded.

Frustrated with her scenery and circumstances, Giselle

Israeli Oscar Contender “Cinema Sabaya” Acquired by Kino Lorber

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“Cinema Sabaya” may be heading to the Academy Awards and is definitely heading to North America. A press release announced that Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Orit Fouks Rotem’s award-winning feature debut, Israel’s submission to the 2023 International Feature Oscar race. Described as a “richly textured portrait of a group of Arab and Israeli women taking part in a documentary filmmaking workshop,” “Cinema Sabaya” is slated for a 2023 theatrical release with a digital and home video release to follow.

“Cinema Sabaya” is inspired by Rotem’s own experience “teaching filmmaking to groups of women in Acre and Givat Haviva in Northern Israel,” per the release. “Eight women,

Trailer Watch: Tilda Swinton Takes on Dual Roles in Joanna Hogg’s Ghost Story “The Eternal Daughter”

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Tilda Swinton ventures to a haunted house in her latest collaboration with Joanna Hogg. “The Eternal Daughter” sees the Oscar winner taking on two roles, Julie and Rosalind Hart, a mother and daughter who return to a former family home, now operating as a hotel. “Memories flood back in this place, quietly in the evening through the building and on the grounds,” we’re told in a new trailer for the ghost story. Apparently, it’s someone or something’s “way of staying in touch.”

This trip down memory lane isn’t exactly welcome. Besides hearing strange sounds, the women find themselves being pulled back into the past. “The longer we’re here, the more

“Call Jane,” Planned Parenthood, & Abortion Care Network to Host Screenings & Fundraisers at Clinics

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The team behind “Call Jane” is bringing its on-screen activism to the real world. In collaboration with local and national abortion care providers like Planned Parenthood and Abortion Care Network, the Phyllis Nagy-directed pic will screen at clinics across the country to support service providers and increase awareness of the reality of abortion access. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news.

“Though set in 1968, ‘Call Jane’ shows us why we must protect access to abortion,” commented Caren Spruch, Planned Parenthood’s national director of arts and entertainment engagement. “Today, in too many states, archaic and dangerous abortion bans are taking us backward and stripping people of the freedom to make decisions

Emilia Clarke and Sophie Hyde to Bring Constance Lloyd’s Life to the Big Screen in “An Ideal Wife”

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Sophie Hyde will tackle another unconventional relationship in her next pic. The Australian writer-director will follow up Emma Thompson-starrer “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” a comedy about a retired school teacher who hires a sex worker with the hopes of experiencing her first orgasm, with “An Ideal Wife,” the story of Constance Lloyd, an Irish author and feminist activist who was married to Oscar Wilde. “Game of Thrones” alumna Emilia Clarke will star in the title, which will be shopped at this week’s American Film Market. Variety broke the news. 

“An Ideal Wife” will “shed light on Lloyd,” who “took part in the dress reform movement, which campaigned to allow

November 2022 Film Preview

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Awards contenders are making their way to multiplexes this month. Jennifer Lawrence is eyeing a fifth Oscar nomination for “Causeway” (November 4), Lila Neugebauer’s drama about a U.S. soldier struggling to adjust to life back home after suffering a traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan. Laura Poitras, who took home an Academy Award for “Citizenfour,” her 2014 portrait of Edward Snowden, tells the story of artist Nan Goldin’s attempts to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid epidemic in “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (November 23).

Writer-directors Dina Amer and Sally El Hosaini are taking inspiration from the headlines with “You Resemble Me” (November 4) and “The Swimmers” (November