The first season of MCS Media’s recent podcast explores one director’s quest to make a cool movie. Completing its first season with Tuesday’s episode, MCS Media’s documentary-style podcast “Make Cool Sh!t” focuses on director Josh Ruben’s filmmaking journey of his horror-comedy feature, “Scare Me.” Donny Dykowsky said he and the podcast series’s other co-founder Mike Bulger originally set out to tell the stories of artists executing their different creative processes. Read more...

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This year’s Academy Awards nominees are a testament to the artists’ and the greater industry’s perseverance during a year of unprecedented challenges. Even through the COVID-19 pandemic, many incredible films made their way to select theaters and homes across the world. Read more...

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It takes more than a little magic to bring a story to life. Arriving more than two decades after the original film, Disney’s live-action remake of “Mulan” has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Visual Effects category. Read more...

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Loneliness is a daunting feeling, and “The Mole Agent” perfectly depicts the emotions it comes with all inside a gloomy nursing home. The latest documentary produced by UCLA alumna Marcela Santibañez features an elder private investigator, Sergio Chamy, exploring the living conditions of a nursing home resident – but it soon reconfigures into a film that gives heartfelt insight into life at a small yet tightly knit home in Chile. Read more...

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Even with an absence of dialogue, Shaun the Sheep still manages to speak. The second installment in the “Shaun the Sheep Movie” franchise, “A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon” is nominated for Best Animated Feature film at the 93rd Academy Awards. Read more...

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Fueled by an out-of-this-world storyline, the message of loss and healing in “Over the Moon” remains pertinent and grounded. A modern retelling of the Chinese Chang’e myth, the film frames the story of the immortal moon goddess longing for her lover who was left on earth through the eyes of Fei Fei, a 14-year-old girl whose mother recently died. Read more...

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