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On their first day sixth grade, the students of Jose Urbina Lopez Elementary School in the Mexican border city of Matamoros find their new teacher rolling on the floor surrounded by overturned desks. They’re not desks, he exclaims. They’re lifeboats.

Nature provides much of the soundtrack to “ All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt ,” a poised and occasionally transcendent debut from writer-director Raven Jackson.

The 1963 March on Washington drew an estimated 250,000 people from across the country — the largest march at that point in American history — and was the place where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic ”I Have a Dream″ speech.

In her 25 years of making films, Sofia Coppola has always found the poetry behind the headlines, the banality in the glamour, the soul in the superficial.

A horror comedy set in Montreal telling the coming-of-age story of a teenage vampire is the winner of this year's Windsor International Film Festival prize for Canadian film.

It hardly mattered that “Five Nights at Freddy’s” was released simultaneously in theaters and on streaming this weekend.

NEW YORK (AP) — The fallout from the actors strike , now past 100 days, has been widespread throughout the film industry. Movies large and small have postponed . Sound stages remain shuttered. Adjacent industries have been devastated.

The wife of a man who nearly died of an opioid overdose comes bursting into the office of the sleazy doctor who prescribed it, wrongly, in exchange for personal gain. She slugs the doctor, in her agony.

TORONTO — How do you get people to pay attention to the opioid epidemic? For English director David Yates and Canadian producer Lawrence Grey, the answer was simple: make it funny.

Just in time for Halloween comes “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a video game adaptation with the potential treat of demented Chuck E. Cheese-like animatronic creatures running amok. But the trick turns out to be on us.