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Dek: Wade Wofford’s Urban Ed turns the American education crisis into an intimate portrait of children navigating poverty, race, family, adolescence, and institutional failure in Springfield, Massachusetts. Kayla Staley, Dalen Davis, Keaton McLachlan and Ace M Small star in Urban Ed. ] Photo credit: [Photographer/Studio name]. Before the Bush Administration enacted the NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND act into US federal law, American cinema has long treated the classroom as a secular

Nearly three hours, shot entirely on IMAX 70mm, and built on a poem composed roughly 2,700 years ago. Here's what actually lands, what doesn't, and why the sound alone is worth the ticket. Matt Damon and Zendaya in ‘The Odyssey.' Credit : Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Studios Somewhere, presumably, Homer is watching his own 2,700-year-old poem cross $1.3 billion at the global box office, get a Travis Scott cameo, and spawn a Spider-Man salary comparison, and he hasn't seen a

Review: Olive Nwosu's Sundance 2026 debut Lady explores sisterhood and sex work in Lagos with spirited ambition but uneven execution. Jerry Chiemeke reports Image Credit: Sundance Nigerian-born filmmaker Olive Nwosu 's feature debut Lady (2026) announces itself with ambition as it wafts on an intriguing backdrop: an inverted view of the Lagos lagoon, two childhood friends perched on a dilapidated shack, and the shadow of trauma that will reverberate through the film's 92-min